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Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to tell you three stories that all
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Speaker 1: in their own way, fall into the category of ghost stories.
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Speaker 1: get into today's stories. One night in April of nineteen nineteen,
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Speaker 1: a middle aged man named Eric Marth woke up in
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Speaker 1: his bedroom in the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, because his
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Speaker 1: entire bed was He saw his wife, Margaret, was lying
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Speaker 1: next to him, and she was thrashing around and gasping
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Speaker 1: for air. But Eric didn't panic because he knew exactly
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Speaker 1: what was happening. So Eric and Margaret had moved into
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Speaker 1: this house just a few weeks ago, but pretty much
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Speaker 1: right away after moving in, Margaret had begun having these
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Speaker 1: very intense nightmares that would wake her up almost violently,
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Speaker 1: like what was happening right now? Now? From Eric's perspective,
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Speaker 1: these nightmares she was having looked horrifying, but there really
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Speaker 1: was not any physical risk to Margaret. I mean, she
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Speaker 1: would just have these horrible visceral dreams and it kind
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Speaker 1: of shake around, but that was it. And so, like
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Speaker 1: he had been doing the past couple of weeks, Eric
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Speaker 1: just reached over and gently put his hands on his
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Speaker 1: wife's shoulders and began repeating her name very gently, over
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Speaker 1: and over again to try to kind of get her
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Speaker 1: out of this trance she was in. And sure enough,
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Speaker 1: a moment later, Margaret who kind of stopped flailing. She
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Speaker 1: let out this huge gasp and then she sat up
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Speaker 1: straight and panted for air, and she turned to her
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Speaker 1: husband and she said, I saw the ghost again. And
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Speaker 1: whenever heard this, he wasn't like, oh my goodness, there's
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Speaker 1: a ghost. Instead, he was just kind of annoyed, and
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Speaker 1: so he did his best to comfort her, but he's
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Speaker 1: just thinking, what in the world is going on here?
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Speaker 1: So a few years ago, Margaret had joined the spiritualism movement,
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Speaker 1: which was a very popular religious movement at the time,
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Speaker 1: and spiritualists thought they could contact the dead. Now, Eric
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Speaker 1: absolutely did not believe in ghosts, and he was pretty
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Speaker 1: sure that Margaret's staunch belief in spiritualism was now effectively
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Speaker 1: causing these nightmares. That it was not the house, it
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Speaker 1: was just her belief system. It was kind of manifesting
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Speaker 1: in these nightmares. However, Margaret felt the opposite. She felt
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Speaker 1: like it was the house itself that was haunted, and
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Speaker 1: it was haunted by avengeful spirit that attacked her every
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Speaker 1: night in these dreams. Now, Eric, you know, it's the
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Speaker 1: middle of the night. He's tired, he's annoyed. He didn't
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Speaker 1: feel like discussing whatever she believed about this ghost right now.
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Speaker 1: So after she said, you know, I saw the ghost.
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Speaker 1: I saw the spirit again, he just told her to,
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Speaker 1: you know, calm down, go back to sleep. But on
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Speaker 1: this night, Margaret didn't lie down. She actually turned to
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Speaker 1: Eric and she said, no, I have to figure out
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Speaker 1: what's going on. I have to figure out who this
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Speaker 1: ghost is and why they're haunting me. A week later,
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Speaker 1: a very resigned Eric sat at his kitchen table next
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Speaker 1: to Margaret, and across from them sat a medium, which
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Speaker 1: is a person who's spiritualists believed could talk directly to
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Speaker 1: the dead by conducting a ritual called a seance. The
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Speaker 1: medium began to light some candles, and as they did,
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Speaker 1: they told Eric and Margaret to close their eyes because
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Speaker 1: she was ready to begin the seance where she would
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Speaker 1: ask the spirit haunting their house what it wanted, and
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Speaker 1: they needed, you know, silence in their eyes closed to
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Speaker 1: do that. So Eric fully believed that this seance would
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Speaker 1: be a waste of time and money. He didn't believe
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Speaker 1: in this stuff at all, but he knew his wife
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Speaker 1: did and it meant a lot to her, and so
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Speaker 1: he's thinking, you know, maybe this can help my wife
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Speaker 1: sleep through the night again. And so Margaret and Eric
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Speaker 1: did as they were told, and Eric he closed his
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Speaker 1: eyes and he listened as the medium began clearly rocking
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Speaker 1: back and forth in her chair and began sort of
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Speaker 1: dramatically calling out to the ghost and telling him to
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Speaker 1: reveal himself. And at first nothing happened, which was exactly
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Speaker 1: what Eric had expected. But after a minute, Margaret suddenly
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Speaker 1: jumped up from the table and ran out of the
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Speaker 1: kitchen across the living room, and Eric, not knowing any better,
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Speaker 1: just got up and followed her, and Margaret she ran
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Speaker 1: down the hallway and she threw open a door that
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Speaker 1: led down to their cellar, and she raced down the steps.
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Speaker 1: Now Eric was doing his best not to ridicule what
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Speaker 1: was happening here and just to play along, but it's like,
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Speaker 1: what is his wife doing? What's happening here? And so
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Speaker 1: as he's chasing after his wife, he starts saying like, honey,
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Speaker 1: what's going on here? Where are you going? What is this?
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Speaker 1: But she didn't respond. It was like she was on
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Speaker 1: a mission. And then finally when Eric got down the
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Speaker 1: steps and he's in the cellar, he saw his wife,
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Speaker 1: who was now standing in the middle of the cellar
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Speaker 1: with her arms out wide and slowly she began to
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Speaker 1: point to a spot on the floor and in this
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Speaker 1: really weird and hollow voice, with the sort of vacant
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Speaker 1: expression on her face, she told Eric to dig. Now,
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Speaker 1: at this point, Eric was totally freaked out, not because
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Speaker 1: he believed that the seance had worked or that there
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Speaker 1: was a ghost here, but because his wife genuinely was
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Speaker 1: acting totally bizarre. I mean, she was acting possessed. And
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Speaker 1: even if that wasn't act, it was a terrifying one.
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Speaker 1: And so he just said, no, there was no way.
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Speaker 1: He was just going to start digging up the cellar floor,
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Speaker 1: like what is going on here? But then the medium
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Speaker 1: came rushing down the stairs as well, and they said
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Speaker 1: that Margaret was in a trance, that the ghost in
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Speaker 1: this house was channeling her, and that basically Eric had
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Speaker 1: to do whatever the ghost said. Suddenly, Margaret's voice cut
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Speaker 1: across the room again and she said to Eric to
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Speaker 1: dig dig up the floor, and this time she was
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Speaker 1: more forceful and almost desperate, like you must do this.
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Speaker 1: And so Eric he's looking at his wife, he's looking
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Speaker 1: at the medium like what in the world is happening here?
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Speaker 1: But he's like, you know what, I don't know what's happening.
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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna dig. I'm gonna do what they tell
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Speaker 1: me to. So he grabbed a shovel and just began
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Speaker 1: digging up the cellar and after just a few minutes,
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Speaker 1: Eric's shovel hit something in the ground, something hard. He
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Speaker 1: thought it was just maybe like a big rock or something.
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Speaker 1: But a few minutes later, after he and the medium
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Speaker 1: and also Margaret, who's now come over at this point,
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Speaker 1: they'd kind of cleared off whatever it was they saw
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Speaker 1: in the ground. You know what had previously been covered
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Speaker 1: by the earth, was this rotten wooden box. And so
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Speaker 1: he and Margaret and the medium they pulled it out
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Speaker 1: of the hole and they opened up the lid, and
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Speaker 1: all three of them immediately recoiled because inside of the
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Speaker 1: box was a human skeleton. And so, after a minute
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Speaker 1: of just again stunned silence, Eric just looked up at Margaret,
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Speaker 1: who did not seem shocked by what she was looking at.
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Speaker 1: This was like confirmation in some ways, and he says
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Speaker 1: to Margaret, is this the skeleton of the ghost that's
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Speaker 1: been haunting you? And Margaret, with that same hollow voice
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Speaker 1: like it wasn't her voice, looked at Eric and just
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Speaker 1: said no. It would turn out, according to the story
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Speaker 1: that has been passed down about whatever happened in this house,
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Speaker 1: that the ghost was a doctor who used to live
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Speaker 1: in the house that Eric and Margaret moved into, and
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Speaker 1: eighteen years earlier, this doctor had performed an illegal surgery
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Speaker 1: on a young woman, and this woman had died during
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Speaker 1: this procedure. But again, because this surgery had been illegal,
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Speaker 1: the doctor knew if word of what happened here got out,
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Speaker 1: he would be arrested. So what did he do? He
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Speaker 1: dismembered the girl's body and shoved it into this wooden box,
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Speaker 1: filled the box with quicklime, and then he buried it
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Speaker 1: in his basement. And amazingly, the doctor never got caught
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Speaker 1: for what he did, and so he basically spent the
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Speaker 1: rest of his life feeling very ashamed and guilty, and
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Speaker 1: finally when he did die, it was like his spirit
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Speaker 1: couldn't actually rest until he confessed, and so this haunting
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Speaker 1: in April of nineteen twenty five, a wealthy teenager named
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Speaker 1: lived in eastern Hungary and took in all the land
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Speaker 1: that he knew he would inherit someday. He stopped when
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Speaker 1: he reached the gardens on the far side of the estate,
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Speaker 1: but before he could ride his horse into the gardens
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Speaker 1: as he wanted to, a field worker ran up to
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Speaker 1: Lacey and asked him to stop and turn around. The
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Speaker 1: field worker, who was about Lacey's age, explained that Lacey
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Speaker 1: was not allowed to ride his horse through the garden
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Speaker 1: anymore because the last time he had rode through some
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Speaker 1: flower beds and Lacey's father was really mad about it,
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Speaker 1: and at this Lacey felt totally exasperated, beca tired of
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Speaker 1: his father always bossing him around, and it embarrassed him
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Speaker 1: to be reminded of this by someone as low class
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Speaker 1: as a field worker. So Lacey's family was part of
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Speaker 1: the noble class. His dad was a baron and his
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Speaker 1: mother was a baroness, and they lived together in an
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Speaker 1: old castle on this beautiful estate, and for the most part,
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Speaker 1: Lacey loved his noble life, but his father could be
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Speaker 1: harsh and really controlling, and sometimes Lacey dreamed of the
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Speaker 1: day that he would inherit his dad's title, because then
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Speaker 1: he Lacey, would be in charge of the estate and
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Speaker 1: he could finally run things the way he wanted. And
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Speaker 1: so Lacey decided he wanted to show his father and
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Speaker 1: this field worker and the other field workers that they
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Speaker 1: couldn't order him around all the time, and so he
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Speaker 1: rode his horse right into the gardens and intentionally rode
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Speaker 1: all over their prized flower beds. Lacey's plan was to
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Speaker 1: head back home and go into the castle and talk
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Speaker 1: to his father about that field worker's rudeness. But when
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Speaker 1: Lacey got back to the castle, he didn't have a
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Speaker 1: chance to even speak to his father because that whole
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Speaker 1: his dad was very busy with the state matters. And
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Speaker 1: then that night his father died of a heart attack.
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Speaker 1: A week after his father's death, Lacey walked through the
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Speaker 1: crowded banquet hall in his family's castle, looking for his
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Speaker 1: mother because he wanted to make sure that she was okay.
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Speaker 1: He and his mom had just gotten home from his
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Speaker 1: dad's funeral and now they were hosting a reception for
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Speaker 1: everyone who had attended. But Lacey couldn't find his mother
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Speaker 1: anywhere inside of this banquet hall, and with a sinking feeling,
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Speaker 1: he realized that there was only one place she could be.
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Speaker 1: So after Lacey's father had died, his mother had gone
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Speaker 1: a little bit crazy. She refused to believe that her
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Speaker 1: husband had died of a heart attack, and instead kept
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Speaker 1: insisting that he had been murdered. More specifically, she thought
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Speaker 1: he had been scared to death because when she had
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Speaker 1: seen his body for the first time, his facial expression
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Speaker 1: looked horrified, like he was actually scared as he died. Now,
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Speaker 1: the doctor had explained to her that, you know, it
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Speaker 1: was entirely possible that his heart attack came on suddenly,
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Speaker 1: and he was scared about what was happening to him,
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Speaker 1: and so you know, was scared when he died. But
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Speaker 1: the Baroness wouldn't listen. She said this was intentional. Somebody
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Speaker 1: did this to him, and so ever since she had
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Speaker 1: basically spent all of her time in Lacey's father's bedroom
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Speaker 1: searching for clues about her husband's supposed killer. So now
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Speaker 1: Lacey left the banquet hall and climbed the stairs up
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Speaker 1: the castle up to his father's bedroom, and just as
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Speaker 1: he suspected, when he knocked on the door, his mom answered,
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Speaker 1: looking totally frantic. Lacey told her to come downstairs and
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Speaker 1: say hello to their guests, but she said no, that
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Speaker 1: she was too busy looking for evidence. Then before Lacey
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Speaker 1: could say anything, his mom just shut the door in
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Speaker 1: his face. The next six months went by basically the
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Speaker 1: same way. Lacey's mother spent all her time locked up
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Speaker 1: in the baron's bedroom around the clock, and Lacey spent
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Speaker 1: most of his time riding his horse, including in the
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Speaker 1: garden because he didn't like going home anymore. His mother
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Speaker 1: was now technically in charge of the family estate, but
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Speaker 1: she had really let things go since her husband had died.
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Speaker 1: She basically had not taken up any of the responsibilit
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Speaker 1: that she was now in charge of, and so at
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Speaker 1: this point Lacey really couldn't wait until he was on
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Speaker 1: his own and in charge of the castle. In the
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Speaker 1: estate himself. One night in mid October, so this is
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Speaker 1: at the six month mark from when Lacey's father had died.
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Speaker 1: Lacey ate dinner alone, which was common at this point
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Speaker 1: since his mom basically still refused to come downstairs at all.
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Speaker 1: And then after he ate dinner, Lacey began making his
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Speaker 1: way upstairs to get ready for bed, and as he
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Speaker 1: walked upstairs, Lacey just felt overcome with anger and desperation
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Speaker 1: and just kind of general angst about the current situation.
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Speaker 1: He longed so desperately to just be alone and in
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Speaker 1: charge of the estate. He hated the current setup with
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Speaker 1: his mother in charge but not really doing anything. I mean,
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Speaker 1: the whole estate was just falling apart here. But eventually,
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Speaker 1: you know, despite feeling kind of riled up, Lacey got
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Speaker 1: into bed and closed his eyes and did eventually begin
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Speaker 1: to drift off to sleep. But right after he had
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Speaker 1: fallen asleep, he was suddenly awoken by this piercing scream
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Speaker 1: that was echoing down the hallway, and he realized it
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Speaker 1: was his mother and she was screaming for help, and
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Speaker 1: so Lacey jumped out of bed and he raced down
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Speaker 1: the hallway to his father's bedroom and as he ran,
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Speaker 1: other servants were flooding the hallway, racing towards the room
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Speaker 1: as well, and Lacey he got to the door, he
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Speaker 1: unlocked it and he rushed inside, and when he got
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Speaker 1: in there, he saw his mother pointing at the foot
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Speaker 1: of the baron's bed. Then she was saying that a
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Speaker 1: demon had appeared in the bedroom and had loomed over
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Speaker 1: her like it wanted to kill her, and so she
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Speaker 1: told Lacey that the demon had to be what scared
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Speaker 1: his father to death. The demon was the murderer. Lacey's
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Speaker 1: mother looked absolutely convinced here, but Lacey and really all
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Speaker 1: the servants as well, just kind of collectively sighed because
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Speaker 1: there was obviously no demon at the foot of the
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Speaker 1: bed here, and his mom clearly had just had a
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Speaker 1: bad dream or you know, it was just basically acting crazy.
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Speaker 1: And so as the servants kind of you know, went
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Speaker 1: back to their rooms to allow the family to deal
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Speaker 1: with this, Lacey told her to just go back to
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Speaker 1: sleep here, and then he turned and walked back down
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Speaker 1: to his room, feeling completely defeated because to Lacey, his
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Speaker 1: mom was basically losing her mind here and he had
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Speaker 1: no idea how he was gonna help, or really how
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Speaker 1: much longer this current setup was going to last? But
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Speaker 1: this was awful. On both of the next two nights,
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Speaker 1: Lacey woke up yet again to the sound of his
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Speaker 1: mother screaming about a demon inside of the baron's bedroom,
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Speaker 1: and so by the third morning, Lacey had just had enough.
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Speaker 1: He decided he was going to force his mother out
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Speaker 1: of that bedroom and insist that she come downstairs and
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Speaker 1: eat breakfast with him and just act normal for once. However,
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Speaker 1: when he walked to the baron's bedroom and knocked on
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Speaker 1: the door to speak to his mother, it was not
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Speaker 1: his mom who answered, it was a police detective. Lacey
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Speaker 1: was stunned, and he walked into the bedroom and saw
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Speaker 1: his mother, who was standing there with two more detectives,
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Speaker 1: and Lacey asked, like, what's going on here? Lacey's mother
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Speaker 1: explained that she had called the police to help her
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Speaker 1: catch the demon that was haunting her at night and
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Speaker 1: very likely was responsible for killing her husband. And at
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Speaker 1: this point Lacey thought he might die of embarrassment. I mean,
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Speaker 1: this was unbelievable that now the police were involved. But
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Speaker 1: instead of talking about that, he just begged his mother
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Speaker 1: to please send the police home, they do not need
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Speaker 1: to be here, but his mother refused. She was fully
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Speaker 1: committed to the idea that there was a demon here
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Speaker 1: and the police were going to help her find it.
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Speaker 1: And the police, to be honest, looked like they didn't
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Speaker 1: really know what was going on. They were just kind
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Speaker 1: of trying to figure out if this was serious or not,
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Speaker 1: or if there was some sort of intruder. But they
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Speaker 1: were just kind of like, man, we'll see, And so
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Speaker 1: Lacey finally just turned left, hopped in his horse, and
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Speaker 1: went for his daily ride. That night, as Lacey crawled
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Speaker 1: into his own bed, he knew that down the hallway
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Speaker 1: his mom was already in bed, and that three detectives
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Speaker 1: were watching over her room in case a demon appeared again.
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Speaker 1: Lacey felt unbelievably embarrassed by this. To even be affiliated
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Speaker 1: with this was just excruciating, but he managed to close
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Speaker 1: his eyes and go to sleep. But like normal, at
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Speaker 1: some point in the middle of the night, he woke
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Speaker 1: up because his mother was screaming, and Lacey, I mean,
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Speaker 1: he's like, oh my gosh, this is so embarrassing. It's
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Speaker 1: only getting worse. But he got out of bed, he
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Speaker 1: went into the hallway and he began walking down towards
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Speaker 1: where his mother was, where she was screaming inside of
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Speaker 1: the baron's bedroom, expecting that, you know, once again the
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Speaker 1: room would be empty and the police would see. You know,
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Speaker 1: this is just complete delusion. Here, there's no demon, there's
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Speaker 1: no problem. However, when Lacy got to the doorway and
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Speaker 1: looked inside, he saw one of the detectives running across
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Speaker 1: the room and then tackle something that really did look
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Speaker 1: like a demon to the floor, and then Lacey's mother
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Speaker 1: turned on the light. It would turn out that even
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Speaker 1: though Lacey fully expected to inherit his father's title, he
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Speaker 1: was actually not the baron's firstborn son. Before the baron
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Speaker 1: had met the Baroness Lacey's mother, he'd had a relationship
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Speaker 1: with a local peasant woman and they had had a
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Speaker 1: son together, and the baron had given that peasant woman
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Speaker 1: a plot of land on the edge of the estate
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Speaker 1: to raise their son in secret, and then the baron
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Speaker 1: had basically abandoned them both. He had given them the
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Speaker 1: opportunity to, you know, work on the estate and sort
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Speaker 1: of make a living for themselves, but functionally he didn't
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Speaker 1: interact with them at all. He didn't recognize them at all,
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Speaker 1: they were on their own now. The peasant woman, the
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Speaker 1: mother of this child, had sort of accepted that this
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Speaker 1: was their reality, but the secret Son had sort of
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Speaker 1: buried that feeling forever until Lacey rode his horse through
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Speaker 1: the gardens despite being told not to and destroyed those
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Speaker 1: flower beds. Because the secret Son was that field worker,
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Speaker 1: his job was looking out for the gardens, and it
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Speaker 1: just felt like a step too far. And so the
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Speaker 1: secret son, the field worker, decided he was going to
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Speaker 1: teach this family a lesson. He was going to kill
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Speaker 1: the baron and the baroness by scaring them to death.
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Speaker 1: That was his plan, and it sort of worked. He
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Speaker 1: went into the castle and pretended to be a dear
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Speaker 1: demon in the middle of the night, and he scared
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Speaker 1: the father the baron so badly he literally had a
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Speaker 1: heart attack and died. However, the secret Son continued pretending
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Speaker 1: to be a demon around the baroness after killing the baron,
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Speaker 1: and the baroness would get really really scared and would
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Speaker 1: scream and claim there's a demon in here. But she
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Speaker 1: didn't die from this, she did not have a heart attack,
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Speaker 1: and so ultimately the plan was foiled, and so in
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Speaker 1: the end, there was no demon. It was just Lacey's
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Speaker 1: half brother wrapped in a cloak wearing a horrifying mask.
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Speaker 1: One morning in early August of nineteen twenty seven, a
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Speaker 1: twenty four year old woman named Dinez Perry walked in
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Speaker 1: the back door of the farmhouse where her parents lived
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Speaker 1: in rural Vermont, And as soon as she walked in,
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Speaker 1: she went into the kitchen where her father was at
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Speaker 1: the kitchen table with a man she had never seen before,
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Speaker 1: and the two were shaking hands, and she heard her
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Speaker 1: father say we have a deal. And then right after that,
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Speaker 1: Inez's father looked over and saw her, and he explained
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Speaker 1: that this man's name was Clarence Sinclair and that he
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Speaker 1: and Clarence had just agreed to swap houses. And for
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Speaker 1: a second, Inez was confused, but then it all clicked
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Speaker 1: into place. So Inez's parents had raised her and her
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Speaker 1: other three siblings in this farmhouse, but Inez and her
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Speaker 1: siblings had all moved away and her parents were getting older.
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Speaker 1: Her dad's health in particular, was starting to fail and
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Speaker 1: keeping up the farmhouse was getting to be too much
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Speaker 1: for him, and so her father had been trying to
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Speaker 1: sell the property for a while, but nobody seemed to
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Speaker 1: want it. However, now it seemed like he had finally
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Speaker 1: found a solution. Her dad explained to her that Clarence
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Speaker 1: and his family would move into this farmhouse and take
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Speaker 1: over the farm, and in exchange, he and Inez's mom
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Speaker 1: would move into Clarence's house just a few towns over. Now.
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Speaker 1: To Inyez, this arrangement did seem a little strange, but
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Speaker 1: it also did solve her parents problem, and so even
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Speaker 1: though she was going to be sad to say goodbye
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Speaker 1: to her childhood home, she decided that this had to
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Speaker 1: be the right move for her parents, and so she
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Speaker 1: said that's great. A few weeks later, Inez was inside
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Speaker 1: of her parents new house, helping to get them settled
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Speaker 1: in and organize their living room, when she heard the
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Speaker 1: clattering sound of a horse drawn wagon coming down the
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Speaker 1: street and coming to a stop right outside. So she
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Speaker 1: walked to the door and she opened it up, but
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Speaker 1: the second she saw who it was that was getting
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Speaker 1: out of the carriage, she slammed the door and locked
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Speaker 1: it because the person getting out of that carriage was
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Speaker 1: Clarence Sinclair, the man who Inez's dad had swapped homes with,
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Speaker 1: and the home swap had not gone how Inez and
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Speaker 1: her family had hoped. Inez's parents were thrilled with their
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Speaker 1: new house, so everything on their side was good. But
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Speaker 1: pretty much immediately after actually doing the swap, Clarence had
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Speaker 1: started acting totally unhinged. He had come back to his
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Speaker 1: old home repeatedly without being invited, and he would beg
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Speaker 1: Inez's dad to switch houses back, that he had made
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Speaker 1: a horrible mistake. Clarence would never elaborate, he would never
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Speaker 1: really explain why he felt this way. He would just,
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Speaker 1: you know, demand please, you know, I've made a horrible mistake.
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Speaker 1: We have to switch back. But and as his dad
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Speaker 1: had said, no, you know, a deal was a deal,
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Speaker 1: and he just had too many health issues to live
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Speaker 1: at that farmhouse anymore. And Clarence couldn't actually cite any
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Speaker 1: real problems with the farmhouse that he so desperately wanted to,
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Speaker 1: you know, give back. And so as far as he
22:23
Speaker 1: and as his dad was concerned, you know, the subject
22:25
Speaker 1: here was closed. You know, he he had not given
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Speaker 1: him a faulty property, and there was no real reason
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Speaker 1: here to go back to the way it was, and
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Speaker 1: so it was an So now Inez and her parents
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Speaker 1: watched from the window as Clarence hopped out of his
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Speaker 1: wagon and came rushing onto the porch, and he looked
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Speaker 1: absolutely crazy. His hair was messed up and greasy, and
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Speaker 1: there were dark circles under his eyes, and he really
22:47
Speaker 1: looked like he hadn't slept in weeks. And Clarence promptly
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Speaker 1: began pounding on the front door, shouting that his family
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Speaker 1: could not live in their farmhouse and that this was
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Speaker 1: now a matter of life and death. Eventually, when Enes
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Speaker 1: and her family refused to come out, Clarence finally gave up,
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Speaker 1: turned around, got in his wagon, and drove away. Now
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Speaker 1: that was the last time that Clarence came to their house,
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Speaker 1: but it was not the last time that Ines and
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Speaker 1: her family would hear about their old farmhouse. A few
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Speaker 1: weeks later, on November fourth, after several days of very
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Speaker 1: heavy rainfall, Ines picked up the newspaper and saw that
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Speaker 1: their old neighborhood had been basically washed away by historic flooding,
23:30
Speaker 1: and that included their old farmhouse that had literally been
23:33
Speaker 1: carried off, and the family that had been living in
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Speaker 1: the farmhouse were dead. But that family was not Clarence
23:41
Speaker 1: Sinclair's family. It would turn out that after Clarence and
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Speaker 1: his family had moved into said farmhouse, Clarence began having
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Speaker 1: these horrible dreams where his dead mother would appear to
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Speaker 1: him and tell him to move out of this farmhouse
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Speaker 1: right now because something terrible is going to happen here now.
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Speaker 1: At first, Clarence ignored this and chalked it up to
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Speaker 1: a bad dream, you know, But the dream kept happening
24:06
Speaker 1: over and over and over again. Then it was driving
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Speaker 1: him mad, and so eventually he did go to Inez
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Speaker 1: and Z's parents and tried to switch it back because
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Speaker 1: he just he felt like this dream really meant something,
24:18
Speaker 1: but Hez's father just kept saying no and said, no,
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Speaker 1: that's your house now. So Clarence never elaborated to the
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Speaker 1: family about why he wanted this back, because it made
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Speaker 1: no sense to him either. But he ultimately listened to
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Speaker 1: his dead mother in his dream, and he wound up
24:33
Speaker 1: just selling the farmhouse just to not live there anymore.
24:36
Speaker 1: And so that decision would ultimately save Clarence and his family,
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Speaker 1: but it would also condemn to death the family who
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