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Speaker 2: Do you mind if I smoke? We called him the
Speaker 2: dark Man. We were told he would come through the
Speaker 2: shadows and make bad kids disappear. I was eight years
Speaker 2: old when Jimmy vanished. James Mooring he was sixteen or seventeen,
Speaker 2: and boy was he a trouble maker. He draws all
Speaker 2: of the kids at the McDonald the old middle school.
Speaker 2: I was looking for a fight would have gone pro
Speaker 2: in the ring. I suspect if only he hadn't been
Speaker 2: pushed so hard by his father. That son of a
Speaker 2: bit strength enough for the whole town. And we knew
Speaker 2: when Jimmy came around with a black eye it wasn't
Speaker 2: because he lost a fight. He never lost a fight
Speaker 2: or fell down the stairs. No one bought it, but
Speaker 2: he never said it out loud. You didn't back then.
Speaker 2: It was nineteen sixty. Twelve year old smoked a pack
Speaker 2: of luck. He's a day for fun. You just let
Speaker 2: Jimmy terrorize you, as if it was a way to
Speaker 2: give him a small win in his otherwise miserable life. Now,
Speaker 2: I don't know how much of this ended up being
Speaker 2: legend versus fact, but I was eight or nine, and
Speaker 2: remember that one day Jimmy was picking on us down
Speaker 2: behind the Anderson and the next day he was gone.
Speaker 2: Old Man Brooder, grandpa who ran the grocer, told us
Speaker 2: Jimmy had gone off to some prep school. I think
Speaker 2: your kids call it the Governor's Academy nowadays. Now look,
Speaker 2: there's no way in hell Jimmy Mooring would have let
Speaker 2: himself go to a prep school. Kid was smart, but
Speaker 2: he wasn't a suit and tie kind of guy. But
Speaker 2: we didn't question, not until well, it wasn't until we
Speaker 2: heard what happened to missus Shaw one night in nineteen
Speaker 2: sixty three. We didn't see it, but rumors said that
Speaker 2: she showed up the Mooring house, who were clearly still grieving,
Speaker 2: and she just started pounding on the door, yelling things
Speaker 2: like the dark Man took our children. They let him
Speaker 2: take them. And that's how it started and grew into
Speaker 2: an urban legend. Everyone wrote off Missus Shaw and Missus
Speaker 2: Mooring is coop, especially when mister Moring drunk himself into
Speaker 2: the ground a year later. But when you're sixteen years old,
Speaker 2: you start to worry about other things, like girls and Vietnam,
Speaker 2: wondering if you'd end up going if the US got involved,
Speaker 2: did you.
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah. Only thing I ever won that wasn't Sandy's affection
Speaker 2: was the lottery. But this was the world's worst lottery,
Speaker 2: and I spent eighteen months there, barely survived Kese Song,
Speaker 2: only thinking I'd never see her nor Danville again. I
Speaker 2: suppose that's why we had little Joshua so fast when
Speaker 2: I got back.
Speaker 4: And he's the boy that disappeared in nineteen ninety one
Speaker 4: at the rock concert in Boston.
Speaker 2: That's what the paper said. But Joshua never made it
Speaker 2: down to Boston.
Speaker 5: How do you know what happened?
Speaker 2: I could see it in their eyes, the Shaws, the Bruders,
Speaker 2: the McDonald's. What the guilt? They knew? What happened?
Speaker 5: What was it? What happened to your son, Rudy?
Speaker 6: They happened, this town, happened, sat hides and you should
Speaker 6: in your house.
Speaker 7: So was it the dark Man?
Speaker 5: Because believe me.
Speaker 7: We took care of that.
Speaker 8: We stopped it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you didn't stop anything, just like I didn't thirty
Speaker 2: one years ago or this year what do you mean, Oshi, Manitou.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Manitou. It's everything to the Algonquin. It is
Speaker 2: the spirit of life, omnipresent and found everywhere animals, earth, trees, plants, food,
Speaker 2: even at birth and death.
Speaker 5: Okay, And like.
Speaker 2: Many spiritual cultures, there's a duality to it, the good
Speaker 2: and the bad.
Speaker 5: No ugly Gordon, Sorry.
Speaker 2: The good Manitou is the asha the bad Oatshee. Back
Speaker 2: in the seventeenth century, when the colonizers found Danville, they
Speaker 2: found a thriving community.
Speaker 8: Holy shit, Gordon, the whispers.
Speaker 2: They were welcomed by a tribe settled up top what
Speaker 2: you know is Anderson Hill, where this very library was
Speaker 2: eventually built. The chief of the tribe was convinced everyone
Speaker 2: could get along, but the colonizers had guns and greed.
Speaker 8: Some things never change.
Speaker 2: Still, this chief thought he could make things work, but
Speaker 2: little by little, the colonizers kept taking and he kept
Speaker 2: making deals. It wasn't until the deals ran out and
Speaker 2: he was forced to lock up his remaining tribespeople in
Speaker 2: a crypt built somewhere in town that they burned them
Speaker 2: all alive while making him watch. Then, because they were bored,
Speaker 2: brutally skinned, and murdered him. Oh Jesus, And do you
Speaker 2: want to know how old the chief was when he
Speaker 2: had everything, his children, his wife, his family, his tribe,
Speaker 2: his land, his entire village taken away from him.
Speaker 8: Thirty one years old.
Speaker 2: Thirty one years old.
Speaker 4: But how does that explain that they got rid of
Speaker 4: the good spirits, leaving this area unbalanced?
Speaker 2: Correct? Without Asha Manitou, only Oshi Manitou remained, and it
Speaker 2: laid upon Danville a curse that had to be fed
Speaker 2: every thirty one years.
Speaker 7: A sacrifice like what they did to the chief.
Speaker 2: Every thirty one years, someone from the town had to
Speaker 2: be consumed in order to keep the manner to it. Bay,
Speaker 2: I didn't believe any of the dark man or until
Speaker 2: it happened to my boy.
Speaker 9: But what about the monster? We definitely ended something down
Speaker 9: by the old drain.
Speaker 2: You ended a physical manifestation of what happens when the
Speaker 2: curse is ignored. The sacrificing of a resident has to
Speaker 2: be fulfilled.
Speaker 9: Okay, supposing there's sillivandet out there, why did you leave
Speaker 9: and take the internet with you?
Speaker 2: I shut down the grid because well, because I was angry.
Speaker 2: They took Joshua and you saw her they took my
Speaker 2: Sandy away twenty eight years. She tried to process, but
Speaker 2: it eats at you. All she wanted to talk about
Speaker 2: was the dark Man. No one else existed, myself included.
Speaker 2: I knew I'd have to work just to keep her
Speaker 2: in a safe place. I'd already developed the area's first
Speaker 2: computer network, so it was only natural that I create
Speaker 2: our rural isp framework as well. That's when I noticed
Speaker 2: this year that they could hear us, and some of
Speaker 2: us could hear.
Speaker 8: Them through technology.
Speaker 10: Through the waves are man made spirits, so they've been
Speaker 10: listening this whole time. But from where, from everywhere, radios, phones, speakers.
Speaker 7: That does sound a bit crazy, though.
Speaker 2: As crazy as the monster you say you incinerated, Well yeah,
Speaker 2: let me ask you. Did you ever see it.
Speaker 5: The windy go?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Well no, but I heard it.
Speaker 2: You heard what you're scared of. You heard your deepest fears,
Speaker 2: and it terrified you.
Speaker 7: But why did you let it come back this year revenge?
Speaker 2: What with Sandy at the home and Joshua gone. Once
Speaker 2: I saw that the patriarchs of the town were planning
Speaker 2: on defying the curse, I knew they'd pay for it,
Speaker 2: And my only regret is that the spirits haven't taken
Speaker 2: more of them.
Speaker 11: Okay, but hold on, Alfonso had nothing to do with.
Speaker 2: Any of this Wrong town, wrong time.
Speaker 8: So how do we stop it?
Speaker 2: Unless you can find a way to satiate the spirits,
Speaker 2: you can't. You should just pack a bag and never
Speaker 2: turn around.
Speaker 5: Worry, But why did you come back?
Speaker 2: I'm going to bury my wife next to the empty
Speaker 2: grave of my son, and by this time next week
Speaker 2: I'll be somewhere in Europe. Who knows?
Speaker 9: Is there any way you can help us before someone
Speaker 9: else dies?
Speaker 2: I've told you everything I know.
Speaker 5: No, but for.
Speaker 4: Real there, thank you for your time, Rudy, Sorry for
Speaker 4: your loss, says.
Speaker 8: I hope you find some peace wherever you end up.
Speaker 2: It's too late for peace or revenge for me, but
Speaker 2: perhaps not for you.
Speaker 7: Was that helpful?
Speaker 8: Dude has seen shit?
Speaker 5: Yeah? But was it all shit?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 5: I don't mean his suffering? No, no, no, I.
Speaker 9: Mean we could be talking big fish here. Memories makes
Speaker 9: with dreams as you get older, and it all becomes
Speaker 9: real in one's head.
Speaker 8: Shut up for a second.
Speaker 5: Listen you hear that the wind draft's gotta draft?
Speaker 7: No, no, no.
Speaker 5: No, it can't be. What the fuck we wrote that
Speaker 5: that demon from hell.
Speaker 6: We did.
Speaker 8: Listen, listen, Holy shit?
Speaker 5: Was that English? That's not supposed to be this shit.
Speaker 4: It's okay, listen, pray, remember Gordon, don't you get it?
Speaker 8: What it's here, It's been here the whole time.
Speaker 4: Sheriff, Sheriff, Hey, hey, I was just coming to it's
Speaker 4: the library.
Speaker 12: What it's the library. That's the source of all of it.
Speaker 12: And if you don't come with us and help us
Speaker 12: try to stop it right now, I think we'll be
Speaker 12: in for a very massive fucking realization that things are
Speaker 12: nowhere near done.
Speaker 11: Can someone just listen to us right now.
Speaker 13: We need to get the.
Speaker 4: Guns, the cups, the tactical whatever, and just get back
Speaker 4: to the tunnel tunnels.
Speaker 11: I'm sorry, I'm a bit busy right now. I've that
Speaker 11: wasn't everything.
Speaker 13: And the longer we wait here.
Speaker 2: What the.
Speaker 7: What's going on?
Speaker 8: What's that smell?
Speaker 11: I think it's wherever those fire trucks are going.
Speaker 14: Oh my god, it's the library.
Speaker 7: Get the ladder off on the side.
Speaker 1: We need more water.
Speaker 7: We don't have any more water.
Speaker 5: What do you mean the hydrant is dream?
Speaker 6: What the fuck?
Speaker 7: A nott a fucking night?
Speaker 5: Good job, boys and girls, we contained it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but the entire villain is basically turned to ash.
Speaker 13: What's important is that it didn't spread and no one
Speaker 13: was hurt.
Speaker 5: It took fourteen.
Speaker 2: Hours, but we did it.
Speaker 7: Let's get out of here. Thanks Max, Thanks guys.
Speaker 14: Hello, officer, have you seen a woman named Sarah Simmons?
Speaker 8: Lex Sarah? Oh, Jesus Christ, you're okay? Of course?
Speaker 13: How did you find us?
Speaker 14: You'll find my iPhone pings late last night after a
Speaker 14: day and a half of calling you and it going
Speaker 14: straight to voicemail, which we'll have to talk about later.
Speaker 4: And you drove up here. Of course, I drove up
Speaker 4: here to chastise me. I suppose to make sure.
Speaker 14: You were okay, Sis, talk of murders and then radio silence.
Speaker 14: I'll do a number on someone. So you're not here
Speaker 14: to I'm here for my sister, and that's all that matters.
Speaker 14: I'm relieved beyond measure that you're alive and well. And
Speaker 14: I'm not even going to ask what happened there.
Speaker 7: That used to be my playground.
Speaker 3: Hi?
Speaker 7: Gordon Morales, you must be alex Sis.
Speaker 4: This is Gordon literally just said that, Yeah, sorry, it's
Speaker 4: been what day is there? It's been a few days.
Speaker 14: Nice to meet you, Gordon.
Speaker 8: You used to live here.
Speaker 7: Yeah, a lot of history. Just went up and smoke, Alex.
Speaker 11: I'll explain everything, but I gotta Yeah, No.
Speaker 13: I get it.
Speaker 14: I saw a diner on the way in I can
Speaker 14: Uh no, I wouldn't go there.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'd avoid that place. They got to see you
Speaker 9: on their latest health inspection. But there's a great motel
Speaker 9: in Lumington just down the road. We'll make sure to
Speaker 9: get Sarah there once we uh.
Speaker 14: Yeah, no, I get it.
Speaker 8: I'm just happy you're okay.
Speaker 11: Thanks, Lex. So, so where are you going to stay tonight?
Speaker 5: I have no idea none.
Speaker 7: I mean, this all kind of happened really quick. Yeah,
Speaker 7: one minute or researching centuries of history, and.
Speaker 11: The next it's all gone without.
Speaker 5: So much as a warning.
Speaker 4: Shame the books, I guess. I guess when books are burned,
Speaker 4: things like this tend to happen.
Speaker 9: Colonial cartnage, the terrorizing escapegoating of certain people's minorities if
Speaker 9: you're being nasty, theft, death, destruction lies to blink the
Speaker 9: public into thinking.
Speaker 11: Feels like a New Hampshire primary.
Speaker 9: Well less detrimental to the country as a whole, I suppose,
Speaker 9: But I'll still miss them.
Speaker 11: And the newspapers. Oh, the old computer, the Tom Brady poster,
Speaker 11: all gone.
Speaker 7: Well, almost all gone. For some reason.
Speaker 9: I brought a little bag with me when we left
Speaker 9: the Gotell Maxwell's.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I can see that. It's a beautiful bag, stunning.
Speaker 11: Did you want to describe it to me? Even though
Speaker 11: I'm standing here looking at it.
Speaker 7: It's not the bag so much, but this.
Speaker 11: Whoa is this the real thing?
Speaker 9: The playbill for Man of Wamoncha's Broadway debut.
Speaker 4: I mean one would have assumed it would have burned
Speaker 4: with everything else. And if I were a betting man,
Speaker 4: I would assume that if someone had time to get
Speaker 4: something out of a burning building, perhaps they had something.
Speaker 11: To do with it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we can just keep on assuming it.
Speaker 11: I like, just wait, which part?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 13: Which part?
Speaker 4: Are we assuming that it would have burned with everything else?
Speaker 4: Or that someone might assume we had something to.
Speaker 13: Do with this?
Speaker 9: I do you think anyone is going to figure out that?
Speaker 13: Think?
Speaker 7: Sorry?
Speaker 5: Think what?
Speaker 13: I wouldn't want to risk it.
Speaker 9: Well, lucky for us us, this beautiful bag has an
Speaker 9: inside zipper.
Speaker 7: So I'll just put it back here, just.
Speaker 11: For us, just for us, huh.
Speaker 9: I mean until the rom com prophecy is fulfilled, and
Speaker 9: I find out you're building high rise luxury housing right
Speaker 9: here with my bank account.
Speaker 11: Until I have a job, I won't be doing much
Speaker 11: of anything.
Speaker 5: I don't think that will be an issue.
Speaker 9: This story will open up a million doors for you.
Speaker 13: What story?
Speaker 5: What story? You mean the last four days of stories.
Speaker 5: Happy to remind.
Speaker 11: You, I have no idea what you're talking about. Seems
Speaker 11: like some people.
Speaker 4: Got mulled by woodland creatures and an unfortunate fire took
Speaker 4: a creaky, drafty, shaky building that really shouldn't have been
Speaker 4: there in the first place.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Yeah, that's exactly what I was gonna say.
Speaker 5: A real talk.
Speaker 9: Wouldn't another version help you get one of those big
Speaker 9: fancy jobs?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Maybe, but at what cost?
Speaker 4: Also, I think you're overestimating what a media job pays
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 11: And besides, I think I found the job that I want.
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, you want to get out of here?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 3: The on Me.
Speaker 4: Starve.
Speaker 15: That was the impossible dream from that doozy man of
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Speaker 3: What a show.
Speaker 15: And let me tell you, if you haven't seen the
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Speaker 5: Some kind of international number.
Speaker 7: Hello Max, Max, put on speaker.
Speaker 11: Max, you're on speaker with Gordon and I al.
Speaker 5: Uh ola.
Speaker 16: First off, relax, not calling about anything having to do
Speaker 16: with Danville.
Speaker 5: Oh, I mean yeah cool? Like well would you yeah?
Speaker 16: Well we'll get into that over some mezcal.
Speaker 13: When I see you, I'm sorry.
Speaker 11: When you see us.
Speaker 3: Well, unless you're dying to staying. Where even are you.
Speaker 7: Indiana, Missouri?
Speaker 3: Sorry? I don't even know where that is really? North
Speaker 3: of Texas, south of Canada.
Speaker 13: I presume hold on Mescal s Amigos.
Speaker 16: In good old CDMX, or as we call it down
Speaker 16: here aks, but usually without my atrocious accent butchering it.
Speaker 11: You're in Mexico City.
Speaker 5: Indeed, how why when it dust.
Speaker 16: Settled after that mysterious fire, I tried to tie up
Speaker 16: some LuSE enns And when I looked around, everyone that's
Speaker 16: had lost someone had family to lean on, except.
Speaker 8: For Alfonso's mother.
Speaker 16: Correct, So I decided that my time in America had
Speaker 16: come to a pause.
Speaker 3: And that someone had to get consoled reunited with her relatives.
Speaker 5: So you stayed down there.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't you. It's gorgeous and the people are wonderful, but.
Speaker 9: They're kind of getting annoyed with expats moving down there,
Speaker 9: aren't they Americans?
Speaker 3: They're annoyed with Americans.
Speaker 16: But that's a worldwide phenomena.
Speaker 11: You're not wrong.
Speaker 4: That's wonderful, But I think we're a bit confused as
Speaker 4: to why you're calling.
Speaker 16: I guess what do you know about Elbosque, the Chapultepec.
Speaker 7: The forest of Chapultepec.
Speaker 16: Besides knowing what Bosque is in English, Google tells me
Speaker 16: it's like Mexico City Central Park.
Speaker 3: Sure, but hundreds of years older.
Speaker 7: As most things are.
Speaker 9: So you're calling about a forest laden park in the
Speaker 9: middle of Mexico City.
Speaker 16: I'm calling about a series of evidence that have been
Speaker 16: happening in and near the castle that overlooks the entire park.
Speaker 11: What kind of incidents?
Speaker 3: That's where I need your help.
Speaker 16: Us You came together and solved a five hundred year
Speaker 16: old mystery, no matter your priory methods.
Speaker 5: We don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 16: I know you've been searching out similar occurrences, looking to
Speaker 16: offer closure, and I'm offering you the chance to find
Speaker 16: closure for six boys who passed away.
Speaker 11: Oh I'm sorry to hear that. When did they pass?
Speaker 3: Eighteen forty seven?
Speaker 13: We're on our way.
Speaker 1: Consumed Episode twelve, The Reachable Star written by Carlos Folia,
Speaker 1: editing and sound design by Trevor Young, Starring Rachel Rosenbloom
Speaker 1: and Arturo Castro, with Ruth Connell, Sam Rod, Genevieve Padillaki,
Speaker 1: Benjamin Stockholm, Charlie, David Newell, Mike Korich, Anna East Fairweather, Junior, Alabby,
Speaker 1: Alma Martinez, Tracy Martin, Laura Shin, George Vincent, and Rafael Corkil.
Speaker 1: Guest starring Time Winters as Rudy. Directed by Alexander Williams,
Speaker 1: Assistant director Trevor Young, Casting by Sunday Bowling CSA and
Speaker 1: Meg Mormon CSA. Production coordinator Wayna Calderai. Music by Carlos
Speaker 1: Folio Consumed The season one score available now on Apple Music, Spotify,
Speaker 1: or wherever music is streamed. Executive producers Aaron Mankey, Carlos Folia,
Speaker 1: Matt Frederick, and Alexander Williams. Supervising producers Trevor Young and
Speaker 1: Josh Thain. Producers Noah, Ammy Griffin, Jesse Funk, and Rima Ilkali.
Speaker 1: Recorded at This Is Sound Design Studios, Burbank, California, engineered
Speaker 1: by Ross Erroneout east Side Studios, Austin, Texas, engineered by
Speaker 1: Austin Sisler and Aras Creative and Sound o Hi, California,
Speaker 1: engineered by Ken Aros. Consumed was created by Carlos Folia,
Speaker 1: inspired by the novel by Aaron Manky. Consumed is the
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