1 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:07,320 Speaker 1: Hello friends. If this is your first time, welcome to 2 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:10,280 Speaker 1: the family. My name is mister Jim and I love 3 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 1: telling stories. We love listening to these stories in the car, 4 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:18,439 Speaker 1: or getting ready for bed, or maybe during quiet time. 5 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:20,960 Speaker 1: And this has been a really great way to help 6 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 1: reduce our screen time in our household, and I hope 7 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:27,280 Speaker 1: it does for you as well. Well. Yesterday I was 8 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 1: getting my haircut and I heard a crazy story about 9 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 1: raccoon sneaking into someone's house. Are you guys ready for 10 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: today's adventure? Me too, Let's go. It was getting very 11 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 1: late this Thursday evening and it was time for a 12 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:57,640 Speaker 1: Veya to get ready for bed. Well, but I'm not 13 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 1: even tired, she said, as she tried to hide her 14 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 1: yawn behind her hands. A Veya, it is very late 15 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 1: and it's time for bed, okay mom. She raced over 16 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:14,679 Speaker 1: to the bathroom and brushed her teeth, combed her hair, 17 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:19,760 Speaker 1: and got ready for bed. And she curled up in 18 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 1: bed under some nice, warm, comfy blankets and her special pillow. 19 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 1: Holy smokes. I don't know about you, but I love 20 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:34,039 Speaker 1: comfy blankets and pillows. What is your favorite comfy thing 21 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 1: to curl up within bed? I think I need. I 22 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 1: have this special blanket that's nice and heavy, and I 23 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:44,760 Speaker 1: just oh, I love getting underneath that heavy blanket in 24 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 1: it gives me a big hug. Well, as she was 25 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 1: curled up in bed about to fall asleep, she all 26 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 1: of a sudden heard a sound. She sat right up. 27 00:01:56,040 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 1: What was that sound? She said, sounded like something in 28 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 1: my closet. She jumped out of bed and wait a second. 29 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 1: Could that be a monster, she thought to herself. She 30 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:15,960 Speaker 1: jumped back in bed and dove underneath her covers. Mom, Mom, 31 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:20,519 Speaker 1: She shouted, what, well, wait, what's wrong, Avea? Her mom 32 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 1: came rushing into the room. There's a monster in my closet, Avea. 33 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:29,799 Speaker 1: Have you been watching those scary movies again? No? No, no, 34 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:32,839 Speaker 1: I promise, I promise, But I really heard something in there. 35 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 1: Please look. Her mom opened the closet door and look, Avea, 36 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 1: there's nothing here. Avea didn't believe her mom and looked inside, 37 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 1: and sure enough, the only thing was a jacket was 38 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:50,200 Speaker 1: laying on the floor. Look under the jacket, baby, it's 39 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 1: under there, she said. Her mom lifted up the jacket 40 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 1: and said, see, no, monsters. Monsters are not real, Aveya. 41 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 1: It's time to go to bed. You need to lay down, 42 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 1: close your eyes. I love you, good night, okay. Avea 43 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:12,120 Speaker 1: closed her eyes and fell asleep. Over the next two nights, 44 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 1: it happened each time she would get ready for bed, 45 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 1: lay down, crawl under her covers in her bed, and 46 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:23,360 Speaker 1: then she would hear that same sound again. She would 47 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:25,359 Speaker 1: call her mom up, and her mom would check the 48 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:31,320 Speaker 1: closet and still nothing, an empty closet. But the other 49 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:34,639 Speaker 1: strange thing that was going on is that over the 50 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:39,040 Speaker 1: past couple days, in the mornings, something was strange in 51 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: the kitchen, like there the next morning there was a 52 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 1: box of cereal that had fallen over onto the floor, 53 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 1: or there were a few apples on the counter that 54 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 1: had a bite taken out of it, and nobody knew 55 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 1: who took the bite. Aveya thought she was losing her 56 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 1: mind because she was really hearing this sound in her closet, 57 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 1: and she thought that it must be connected. She thought 58 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:09,760 Speaker 1: to herself, I'm gonna stay up all night tonight because 59 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:13,000 Speaker 1: I'm positive that there really is really some kind of 60 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 1: monster in the closet and then he must come out 61 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:17,599 Speaker 1: and go over to the kitchen and eat her food. 62 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 1: And I have got to do this. I have to 63 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:27,600 Speaker 1: choose to be brave let go. As she brushed her 64 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 1: teeth and got ready for bed, Avea was ready and 65 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:34,720 Speaker 1: prepared to not fall asleep. She had to stay awake 66 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:37,400 Speaker 1: as long as she could, just to make sure that 67 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 1: her family was safe. She laid her head down. She 68 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 1: waited and waited to hear the sound. And there it was. 69 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 1: It was a sound that sounded like something was was 70 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:54,279 Speaker 1: scratching at something. But she wasn't going to scream for 71 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:57,159 Speaker 1: her mom because it seemed to scare the creature away. 72 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:02,719 Speaker 1: And she sat there and waited, waited. Pretty soon several 73 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:11,359 Speaker 1: minutes had passed and she I can't fall asleep. She 74 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:16,480 Speaker 1: couldn't help but yawn. Her eyes were getting very heavy. 75 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 1: Pretty soon she fell asleep. Shhh, waited, what did I 76 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:31,920 Speaker 1: fall asleep? She sat back up. I don't know how 77 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 1: much time has passed, but she did fall asleep for 78 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 1: a little bit. And her closet door was now open. 79 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:41,839 Speaker 1: She reached underneath her pillow where her flashlight was hiding 80 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 1: that she had hid there earlier. She turned it on 81 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:47,839 Speaker 1: and shone the light in the closet and it was empty. 82 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:52,760 Speaker 1: Oh no, it must be in the kitchen. And just 83 00:05:52,839 --> 00:05:58,280 Speaker 1: then she heard a sound in the kitchen. Posh, oh, no, 84 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 1: it sounds like this cerial box fell over again. It's 85 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 1: gotta be in there. Avea carefully and quietly tiptoed over 86 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:12,599 Speaker 1: to the kitchen. She held her flashlight out strongly in 87 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:16,279 Speaker 1: her hand, almost like a sword, but unfortunately it was 88 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:19,279 Speaker 1: not a sword. It was only a flashlight. But hopefully 89 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:22,640 Speaker 1: the light would scare that creature away. She rounded the 90 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 1: corner and looked in the kitchen. She didn't see anything, 91 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:29,080 Speaker 1: but she scanned her kitchen with a flashlight and all 92 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:31,279 Speaker 1: of a sudden, it reflected on something. What was that 93 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:35,560 Speaker 1: hau two eyeballs. She moved the flashlight back over to 94 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 1: where the eyeballs were glaring and Ah, a raccoon screamed 95 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:47,599 Speaker 1: out of terror. Ah, and then Aveya screamed too, there 96 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 1: was a real raccoon in their kitchen. All of a sudden, 97 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:55,479 Speaker 1: the raccoons started scurring around the kitchen. He was so 98 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 1: scared that he had been caught stealing cereal. He didn't 99 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 1: know what to do or where to go. Avea's mom 100 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 1: came racing out of the bedroom and AH, a raccoon. 101 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 1: She shouted and instantly jumped on top of the counter 102 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 1: in the kitchen. She was too afraid to stand on 103 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 1: the floor where the raccoon was racing around. A Veya 104 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:20,320 Speaker 1: ran as fast as she could towards the front door, 105 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 1: and she opened the front door, and the raccoon saw 106 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:27,400 Speaker 1: it and ran as fast as he could out the door. 107 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 1: Avea took a big sigh of relief and turned around 108 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 1: and looked at her mom. I told you I was 109 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 1: hearing something, she said. Her mom laughed as she hopped 110 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 1: down from the counter in the kitchen, gave Avea a 111 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:50,400 Speaker 1: big hug and said, I'm so sorry. I didn't believe you. 112 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 1: I really didn't know that there was a real creature 113 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 1: somehow sneaking through your closet. As they went back to 114 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 1: her room and walked in the clock, there was a 115 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:05,320 Speaker 1: small hole in the corner that led to the attic. 116 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 1: I think that was the door that the raccoon was 117 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 1: using to sneak through. They covered up the hole to 118 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:20,080 Speaker 1: stop their serial thief from ever coming back. Oh my goodness, 119 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 1: that was a crazy story. Have you ever heard a 120 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:26,760 Speaker 1: sound like that and wonder what it was? Well, it's 121 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 1: probably not a raccoon. I've never heard of that happening before. 122 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:32,520 Speaker 1: But I heard that story while I was getting my 123 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:34,960 Speaker 1: haircut and I knew I had to share it with you, 124 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:38,520 Speaker 1: my friends. Well, that is the end of our story 125 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:42,120 Speaker 1: and also the end of all those noises in a 126 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:53,240 Speaker 1: Veya's closet. The end. Great job, you listened all the 127 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 1: way to the end, and you know what tim it is. 128 00:08:55,559 --> 00:09:00,199 Speaker 1: It's time for kid shout out. I would say hey 129 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:04,439 Speaker 1: to Leo from Michigan, Bentley from Utah, Sammy from Maryland, 130 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 1: Palmer and Bennett from California, Hunt from Franklin, Tennessee, and 131 00:09:10,559 --> 00:09:14,120 Speaker 1: Graham and Walker from Clemson, South Carolina. I'm so glad 132 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 1: that you're all in the Kid Short Stories family and 133 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:20,080 Speaker 1: on our spy team. We could not stop Doctor Stinky 134 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:23,800 Speaker 1: Breath and his crew without you, my friends. Will you 135 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:27,880 Speaker 1: have a super duper day and I will see you 136 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:32,480 Speaker 1: on our next adventure. Bye.