Speaker 1: iHeart three d are ye.
Speaker 2: For full exposure listen with headphones.
Speaker 3: Havoctown is a production of iHeart Podcasts and Grimm and
Speaker 3: Mild from Aaron Mankey Headphones Recommended listener discretion advised.
Speaker 4: Your TSI was Christine CHAVOTIPOKOI sloge Bogar yurre.
Speaker 1: Rhonda, Hallelujah, the.
Speaker 5: Eleventh of October sixteen fifty six, kringa hysteria. This is
Speaker 5: Father Ivan, my elder father Josef refuses to write another entreaty.
Speaker 5: He has seen the church is in action, and so
Speaker 5: it is left to me to appeal to the Holy
Speaker 5: Council and to beg once more for our lives. The
Speaker 5: village is ravaged with the blood fever. Entire families have
Speaker 5: been consumed and perer the Cardinal's instructions. The bodies have
Speaker 5: been burned as soon.
Speaker 2: As they succumb. It has come in waves.
Speaker 5: There are nights when you can see the bonfires far
Speaker 5: up into the hills, smell the flesh burning, the stars
Speaker 5: in the sky blotted out by the smoke. But it
Speaker 5: is the quiet night that bring me true dread. We
Speaker 5: had one such night earlier this week. No one reported dead,
Speaker 5: no bonfires lighting up the night. I stood on the
Speaker 5: steps of the church and looked out over the town,
Speaker 5: and it was not hard to imagine that I was
Speaker 5: the light, best living man in hysteria. We are a
Speaker 5: small ship in a great storm, and I fear the
Speaker 5: next wave will extinguish us. If you do not hear
Speaker 5: from me again, assume that I too, am smoke in
Speaker 5: the night sky.
Speaker 2: M h m hmm.
Speaker 1: Come on. I have nightmares all my life. I've had them,
Speaker 1: so it really never had anything to do with this
Speaker 1: particular day. That is to say, if I look back
Speaker 1: on this particular day and you ask, hey, Grin, would
Speaker 1: anything have tipped you off about how badly this day
Speaker 1: was going to go off the rails, say a premonition
Speaker 1: in the form of a dream, I'd say, yeah, no, dummy,
Speaker 1: that's stupid. Dreams are our way of sifting through our
Speaker 1: impressions of the day and making sense of them, fitting
Speaker 1: them in a neat little narrative. They don't tell you
Speaker 1: ahead of time that the world is getting ready to
Speaker 1: burn down. My name is Korean ABIs. I own a bar.
Speaker 1: It's a family bar that my dad owned, and his
Speaker 1: dad before him. I'm not sure that's important to the story.
Speaker 1: But I spend most of my time there, so hey,
Speaker 1: how was the treatment not fully covered? But the hospital
Speaker 1: is in network, so you're you're telling me that the
Speaker 1: specialist was not in network. Uh huh, well, what the
Speaker 1: hell does that mean for us? Yes, I'll hold morning
Speaker 1: Pop Insurance. Yeah, on hold, I'll call him later. No, No,
Speaker 1: I hello? Uh huh uh okay, So can you just
Speaker 1: transfer me? Let me get a pen, dad, sid Okay,
Speaker 1: give me the number. M all right, thank you? Damn it.
Speaker 6: You know I'm a big boy who can handle the
Speaker 6: insurance people myself.
Speaker 1: No, you always get pissed off and lose it on them.
Speaker 1: Look exhausted rough night.
Speaker 2: I haven't slept through a night in months.
Speaker 1: Coffee?
Speaker 6: Uh please? So what's on your agenda today?
Speaker 1: I gotta deal with the liquor license.
Speaker 6: Did it lapse?
Speaker 1: Yes, second year in a row. I've forgotten. I'm an idiot.
Speaker 6: Listen, kiddo. When I was in charge, we almost lost
Speaker 6: the damn business. You're in good company, Oh.
Speaker 1: Jesus Pop, I'm okay, you sure?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 8: I got an appointment with doctor Culver Friday.
Speaker 6: If I make it till.
Speaker 1: Then you're gonna be okay on your own today.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I should.
Speaker 6: Be able to manage.
Speaker 8: Okay, but we got to talk tonight.
Speaker 1: Is this the talk?
Speaker 7: Well, no, not.
Speaker 6: That talk, but it is that talk, Jason.
Speaker 8: Okay, we'll time.
Speaker 6: Are you home.
Speaker 1: Sylvie's closing, so it'll probably be around eight or so.
Speaker 6: Okay, we'll talk.
Speaker 8: Love you, Love you, kiddo.
Speaker 6: I have a good one.
Speaker 1: You too. You stay out of trouble.
Speaker 7: Shit.
Speaker 1: Our house has been in the family for one hundred years.
Speaker 1: The family has been in this town a lot longer
Speaker 1: than that. Beautiful Havoc, New Hampshire population three eight hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty six, located in the foothills of the White
Speaker 1: Mountains and once a prosperous farming town before becoming a
Speaker 1: prosperous mill town. Before all that went away. We survive
Speaker 1: now in various and sundry ways, not the least of
Speaker 1: which is tourism. During the fall. The countryside around here
Speaker 1: is littered with apple orchards, pumpkin patches, all matter of
Speaker 1: picturesque colonial barns and gristmills that pop when the leaves turn.
Speaker 1: But more than that, it's the vampires, well not real vampires. See,
Speaker 1: we have a sort of history of religious zealots in
Speaker 1: this town. For instance, brother can here.
Speaker 3: Who go abroad to the kings of the whole world.
Speaker 1: Morning, ken Ah.
Speaker 7: A good morning.
Speaker 1: Indeed, Miss abbys How's business.
Speaker 9: There's no end to the work of salvation, ma'am.
Speaker 1: Don't I know it? Have a good one, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 7: Demonic spirits performing signs who go abroad to the kings
Speaker 7: of the whole world.
Speaker 1: To susions of the classic Fire and Brimstone school of preaching,
Speaker 1: more than their share have called Havoc home one in
Speaker 1: particular kind of bloody swath through the heart of the town.
Speaker 1: See Salem's got their witch trials, while we have.
Speaker 10: The Abbesstown vampire panic of eighteen seventeen.
Speaker 1: This is Sarah Beth Spalding, head of the Havoc Historical Society,
Speaker 1: their only tour guide, and a huge fan of my family.
Speaker 10: Over the course of a bloody fortnight, Josiah Abbess, the
Speaker 10: mad Preacher, led a mob of religious zealots to dig
Speaker 10: up numerous bodies of plague victims that they claim to
Speaker 10: be vampires, desecrating their corpses and scandalizing the community until
Speaker 10: that fateful night that he went too far. Hello Sarabeth Ah,
Speaker 10: ladies and gentlemen, A true stroke of luck we have here.
Speaker 10: Corinne abbis the last living descendant of the mad Preacher.
Speaker 1: It's not luck. You're standing in front of my bar
Speaker 1: and my dad is still kicking. Thanks. Hey, folks, if
Speaker 1: this dry tour you're on makes you thirsty, matt ABIs
Speaker 1: bloody Mary's are half off all day long here at Dottie's.
Speaker 1: Moving on, y'all come back now, Jimbo. If you're gonna
Speaker 1: sit here and wait out front for me to open
Speaker 1: the bar, I'd love it if you do your job
Speaker 1: and clear the looky lose away before they scare off
Speaker 1: my pain customers.
Speaker 7: Hey, they're not breaking any las Karn. The sidewalk is
Speaker 7: a public thoroughfare.
Speaker 1: There are my tax dollars at work. I'll put some
Speaker 1: coffee on.
Speaker 7: Thanks, kid, You're not half the monster they make you
Speaker 7: out to be.
Speaker 1: Well, you don't know me, have as well as you'd think, Jimbo.
Speaker 1: That's the thing about living in a small town. Everyone
Speaker 1: knows your business and your father's and his father's all
Speaker 1: the way back, so you get painted with the same brush,
Speaker 1: especially if those ancestors of yours up in to be
Speaker 1: insane and led the charge on the most macabre event
Speaker 1: in your town's history. Once held in such high esteem
Speaker 1: that our fair city was literally named Abbystown, the Abbes's
Speaker 1: bloodline was forever laid low by the actions of the
Speaker 1: good Reverend Josiah Abbess. The town's name Pavoc now unronically.
Speaker 7: So the man says, I founded this town.
Speaker 1: I know this one, Jimbo.
Speaker 7: Just wait, he says, built her up, made sure she
Speaker 7: was good and stable, set up the local constabulary, you know.
Speaker 7: But do they call me the town founder?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Have you read Sarah Lynd's colin today morning, Sylvie?
Speaker 11: Have you read it?
Speaker 7: Sylvie? I'm telling a djokhiah oh.
Speaker 11: Jimo, I swear to God.
Speaker 1: Well no, no, I've been slammed, first with Dad's insurance
Speaker 1: and then the inventory. Who reads their paper?
Speaker 7: How's old Johnny doing anyhow?
Speaker 1: Not great? Jim corin focus? Okay, why don't you give
Speaker 1: me the highlights?
Speaker 11: Okay? It reads and I quote a Havoc homecoming emphasis mine.
Speaker 11: For the first time in two generations, a flurry of
Speaker 11: activity has been noted at the long dormant jury Havoc
Speaker 11: House on the north side of town. Witnesses have reported
Speaker 11: workmen milling about the place, and a large moving truck
Speaker 11: was seen on the seventh. Built in seventeen ninety eighth,
Speaker 11: this federal style double house was the country home of
Speaker 11: industrialist Jury Havoc the eighth Exkippy skibby skipping boring history. Shit,
Speaker 11: Oh Jesus, Sarahbeth Oh, Okay, Okay, Here, this reporter has
Speaker 11: it on good authority that scion to the Havoc Empire,
Speaker 11: Jury Havoc the fourteenth himself will be coming to town
Speaker 11: to continue on the industry of his forebearer, Jury the eighth.
Speaker 11: Will this mean new business in the town named for
Speaker 11: the only time will tell?
Speaker 12: So?
Speaker 6: So what?
Speaker 7: So?
Speaker 11: What do you think of that?
Speaker 1: Uh? I mean neat.
Speaker 9: Neate Nate Jerry Havoc, the famous reclose billionaire is coming home.
Speaker 1: Isn't that at least interesting to you?
Speaker 11: As I don't know the last of a bloodline cursed
Speaker 11: by his great great great great.
Speaker 1: Grandfather, there's no curse.
Speaker 11: Okay, yeah, sure, Well, maybe this is your chance to
Speaker 11: march up the hill ring his doorbell, bury the hatchet,
Speaker 11: apologize for your great great great grandfather, terrorizing his great
Speaker 11: great great grandfather, and finally get rid of your family.
Speaker 11: Totally not a curse. Once and for all.
Speaker 1: That's insane.
Speaker 3: You are hopeless.
Speaker 1: What do you expect me to say, Sylvie? We're understaffed.
Speaker 1: I've got to renew the liquor license today or we'll
Speaker 1: lose it. I spend half the morning on the line
Speaker 1: with Dad's insurance because for some reason, they're not covering
Speaker 1: his most recent round of testing.
Speaker 11: Oh honey, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: And on top of that, my head waitress was running late.
Speaker 11: I was doing recon.
Speaker 1: And I deeply appreciate it. But we're under a time
Speaker 1: crunch today, okay, and I need you by my side.
Speaker 1: I got you, so we let go.
Speaker 11: I will never ever ever leave you, and you will
Speaker 11: never leave me.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, Mama's got Aaron's to run. Okay, hold down
Speaker 1: the fort?
Speaker 7: Well, do you didn't let me finish my joke?
Speaker 1: Screw your joke quick.
Speaker 7: So the guy says, I founded the town, But do
Speaker 7: they call me the town founder? No? No, I built
Speaker 7: the g I built the church brick by brick, preached
Speaker 7: the gospel there every Sunday. But do they call me
Speaker 7: the town preacher? No?
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 7: I planted the very first apple tree in town?
Speaker 11: But did they call me, ibis that no?
Speaker 7: So you've heard it?
Speaker 1: Then, coffee's on the house, jims, Sylvie. I'll be back
Speaker 1: in a couple hours. Don't let my bar burn down, gotcha, hun?
Speaker 1: That right? There was the entirety of my day to
Speaker 1: day life. Dad, Aaron's labar and a cycle. Days become weeks,
Speaker 1: become months, become years, and you know what, it was? Fine, dependable, quiet.
Speaker 1: Maybe I got bored from time to time. Maybe I
Speaker 1: sometimes remember the dreams of my youth. Maybe being caretaker
Speaker 1: to Dad and the ragtag group of eccentric drunks that
Speaker 1: made Dotti's hideaway home occasionally bore on me. I'd become
Speaker 1: accustomed to the steadiness of things, comforted, lulled. And this
Speaker 1: is the moment it all ended, the hell When the
Speaker 1: forest Green two thousand Toyota Corolla came barreling through the
Speaker 1: intersection and onto Maine, slamming into a garbage can. I
Speaker 1: froze when its driver steered directly toward me. All I
Speaker 1: could do was let out a quiet sigh of resignation.
Speaker 8: Hey you're right.
Speaker 1: Uh oh shit? You are you bleeding?
Speaker 2: Uh? Sorry not? I think that's.
Speaker 1: You write your suit?
Speaker 12: Oh suits me, it's actually a bit all quite shabby.
Speaker 12: I was thinking donating it to charity.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, what what's happening?
Speaker 12: What looks like the man that was driving that car
Speaker 12: tried to mow you down and he missed, luckily decided
Speaker 12: to hit the courthouse instead.
Speaker 2: Looks like he's murdered the front axle.
Speaker 1: Is he okay?
Speaker 2: Oh yes, he's Oh actually he's he's bleeding, leaving quite
Speaker 2: a lot.
Speaker 7: Oh shit, get back everyone, he's gone axe.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. The driver was covered in blood from
Speaker 1: head to toe and in his hands an old axe.
Speaker 1: I don't know what I was expecting from him, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't for him to start swinging. The first couple
Speaker 1: of onlookers managed to duck his swings, but poor old
Speaker 1: mister Shelton took the blade to the shoulder and collapsed.
Speaker 2: Maybe you should get out the past. The blood to
Speaker 2: the Master.
Speaker 8: That's the blood of the Master.
Speaker 10: That's the blood of the Master, the Master.
Speaker 1: The plot.
Speaker 13: Jesus, Jesus Christ, call nine one one, but I don't
Speaker 13: have my radio. It's okay, j Jesus, I ain't never
Speaker 13: shot any one, Corin.
Speaker 7: I need to stop his bleeding.
Speaker 1: God, he's covered with where where is it all coming from?
Speaker 12: Uh maybe you shouldn't touch him, No nonsense.
Speaker 7: I got to keep him alive. Hey, hey, buddy, it's
Speaker 7: all right. Uh, calm down and let me God damn animal,
Speaker 7: they put me Jesus sit still?
Speaker 8: They all right?
Speaker 2: I mean you get a pretty scraped up hm.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I'm okay, sore, little little shell shocked.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well and good company. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: What's your name, Oh Krinn, I'm Krinn.
Speaker 2: Well, nice to meet you, Chrinn.
Speaker 12: Under the circumstances, yeah shit.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you for pushing me out of the way.
Speaker 1: You saved my life.
Speaker 2: I don't mention it.
Speaker 12: It's just lucky.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 8: Jimbo got an ambulance.
Speaker 7: What. Wow, that's a lot of blood. What the hell happened?
Speaker 7: Crazy son of a bitch?
Speaker 2: Bit me?
Speaker 7: What's up? At Dotty's? And I heard the car burned
Speaker 7: by slam it to the courthouse. The guy came out
Speaker 7: swinging people, scattering.
Speaker 1: It was a blur after that. The Havoc police hadn't
Speaker 1: had anything resembling homicide in a decade, and they'd never
Speaker 1: seen anything like this man dressed in chinos and a
Speaker 1: pole low shirt, covered in blood and slamming into the
Speaker 1: courthouse steps. Mister Shelton didn't make it. He was dead
Speaker 1: before he hit the ground. His poor wife, his poor kids,
Speaker 1: and his grandkids. I got questioned by Jimbo before they
Speaker 1: sent him off to the hospital to get his hand
Speaker 1: checked out by Jay Campbell, the first on the scene
Speaker 1: and then the second on the scene, all the way up,
Speaker 1: repeat questions, disbelief. They weren't accustomed to this sort of thing.
Speaker 1: I was four officers deep before anybody saw my scrapes
Speaker 1: and thought to have someone look at them. It was
Speaker 1: sunset before they let me go. You know how waking
Speaker 1: up from a dream, a familiar place can look suddenly
Speaker 1: completely alien. Well, Main Street, Havoc, New Hampshire may as
Speaker 1: well have been the surface of the moon to me
Speaker 1: that night, with the mobs of concerned citizens crowding the
Speaker 1: streets and the flickering blue lights bouncing off the walls
Speaker 1: of the buildings. I didn't know where to go and
Speaker 1: what to do until.
Speaker 9: Couren Karen, Oh my god, sweet. They wouldn't tell me
Speaker 9: what happened. I thought i'd lost you. There's so much chaos.
Speaker 9: Are you Are you okay? Your dad called, he is
Speaker 9: worried sick.
Speaker 1: Oh shit, yeah, I think I dropped my phone when
Speaker 1: I hit the pavement. They didn't get you a doctor.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I'm fine. I'm fine, Sylvie. Just let's just
Speaker 1: go to Dotty's and let me have a drink and
Speaker 1: call my father of course. Honey, okay, come on.
Speaker 8: Side, and just aamed for the crowd.
Speaker 1: Did you see him? Just dive b mister Shelton.
Speaker 6: You sit.
Speaker 1: What can I get for you? Whiskey? Yeah, get me
Speaker 1: my dad's bottle? You got it? And the phone. I'm
Speaker 1: sure Dad's worried sick.
Speaker 2: Got it?
Speaker 1: And Sylvie, you're still hiding that pack of cigarettes behind
Speaker 1: the absent.
Speaker 11: I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Just hand them to me. That bad huh, yeah, that bad?
Speaker 7: Hey, this is John Abbot. What do you want?
Speaker 1: Hey, Pop, I'm sure Sylvie told you about all the chaos.
Speaker 1: Well I'm okay, I mean well not okay, but alive
Speaker 1: and only sort of scuffed up anyway. I guess you're asleep.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I didn't call it earlier. We can have
Speaker 1: that talk in the morning. I guess okay. I love you.
Speaker 11: We never used the absence, right.
Speaker 1: Uh huh?
Speaker 8: Still oh?
Speaker 1: Shit, Sylvie, are you o?
Speaker 11: Kihun?
Speaker 1: The TV? What turn up the TV?
Speaker 3: Oh oh.
Speaker 4: Driver continued on to the have A courthouse, where he
Speaker 4: crashed his car into the courthouse steps. As bystanders attempted
Speaker 4: to assist him, he brutally attacked and killed one on
Speaker 4: the spot as others fled on foot. In total, two
Speaker 4: were killed and seven injured before he was apprehended by
Speaker 4: local police. The suspect has been identified as Raymond Bachman
Speaker 4: of Banger Main, who is currently being treated for injuries
Speaker 4: at Havoc Memorial Hospital. More on this story as details emerge.
Speaker 4: A new Hampshi State senator has found that is insane.
Speaker 2: You could have been killed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, here's to mister Shelton. He was a good guy.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 11: I always tipped well, never got grabby.
Speaker 1: He'll be missed to mister Shelton. Sorry, we're well.
Speaker 11: Hello handsome, you've got to be lost.
Speaker 2: Hello.
Speaker 12: I I hope I'm not disturbing you. Is this bad time?
Speaker 1: No, sir?
Speaker 8: Now, I come in by all means.
Speaker 11: Can I get you something?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 7: Hi?
Speaker 6: Hi?
Speaker 12: Sorry we sort of got separated with all the questioning,
Speaker 12: and I just wanted to make sure that they took
Speaker 12: care of all those scrapes.
Speaker 1: Oh uh yeah, yes, of course.
Speaker 2: And I found your phone at least I think it's yours.
Speaker 12: God, I hope it's yours or else I stolen somebody's phone.
Speaker 1: It's mine, Thank you, and you're right. Yeah.
Speaker 11: Hello, I am Sylvie. I work here and I.
Speaker 1: Am friends with Corrinne. Oh God, I'm sorry. This is Sylvie, Sylvie.
Speaker 1: This nicely dressed man pushed me out of the way
Speaker 1: of a moving car and saved my life. And I
Speaker 1: never got his name.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm jury, Jurry, havec well.
Speaker 7: Shit.
Speaker 3: Havoctown was created by me Aaron Mankey. The show was
Speaker 3: written and directed by Nicholas Takowski. This episode was edited
Speaker 3: and sound designed by Nomes Griffin. Starring Jewels State as
Speaker 3: Corene Avis, James Callus as Jerry Havoc, Felicia Day as
Speaker 3: Sylvie Harris, Robin Bloodworth as Jim Bohorn, David Calhoun as
Speaker 3: Jonathan abbas Charlie, David Newell as Brother Ken, Gina Rikeikey
Speaker 3: as Sarah Beth Spaulding, with additional voice acting from Kanisha Johnson,
Speaker 3: Gabriel Menak, Julian Graham, Eric Td Beverly Bremers, Jay Jones,
Speaker 3: Darren Heemes, Daniel Avi Sarkis, David Davrees, and Aaron Mankey.
Speaker 3: This season is directed by Nicholas Takowski with assistant directors
Speaker 3: Sarah Klein and Jake Diamond, casting by Sunday Bowling CSA
Speaker 3: and Meg Mormon CSA. Production coordinator Wayna Calderon. Our theme
Speaker 3: song was created by Chris Childs, executive producers Aaron Mankey,
Speaker 3: Trevor Young, and Matt Frederick, with supervising producer Rima Elkali
Speaker 3: and producers Nomes Griffin and Jesse f Havoctown is set
Speaker 3: in the Bridgewater Audio universe, which includes the hit fiction
Speaker 3: podcasts Bridgewater and Consumed. Learn more about both shows, as
Speaker 3: well as Havoctown at grimandmild dot com, and find more
Speaker 3: podcasts from iHeartRadio by visiting the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
Speaker 3: or wherever you listen to your favorite shows