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Speaker 1: Dr Edwards? Vet over and Rehobeth. Why is a vet
Speaker 1: calling you? There's been an attack? What kind of attack?
Speaker 1: Farmer over there? He's got a dozen or so cows
Speaker 1: on his property and woke up this morning to find
Speaker 1: them all eviscerated, just like the last time. You don't
Speaker 1: have any pets, I mean, you've never had any pets.
Speaker 1: Why is this guy calling you? Dr Edwards? He's still alive.
Speaker 1: I was like, no, no, no, it's his son. He
Speaker 1: took over his practice a while ago. I told him
Speaker 1: to call me if he ever saw anything strange. And
Speaker 1: he saw something strange, we should probably head over there
Speaker 1: Oakley Farms, he said, so Vipping Olivia, you two should
Speaker 1: stay here. Get yourself cleaned up. Now, hold on, both
Speaker 1: of you look like you've been through the ring. No ship.
Speaker 1: We were attacked by a giant dog three hours ago.
Speaker 1: And I just found out I have a grandfather who
Speaker 1: suddenly back from the dead. So I think I look
Speaker 1: pretty good considering back up giant dog. That's what we
Speaker 1: were trying to tell you before when we were attacked,
Speaker 1: leaving the words it it attacked us, Jeremy, it was.
Speaker 1: It was real. Yeah, I swear it was real. I
Speaker 1: believe you. I'm sorry I didn't before I get it.
Speaker 1: I barely believe it now myself. I wonder. I wonder
Speaker 1: if the dog is wount attack the cows and the
Speaker 1: horses from last year. Last year, I don't remember finding
Speaker 1: anything about animal attacks from last year. He means nine.
Speaker 1: That's gonna take some getting used to. Yeah, well we
Speaker 1: all have to just so. Yeah, how are we supposed
Speaker 1: to do that? Nana? You've had what at forty years,
Speaker 1: forty years during what you could have told any of
Speaker 1: us the truth? You know what? Just don't Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go home and try to forget that monsters are
Speaker 1: real apparently, and then everything I thought I knew about
Speaker 1: my family is wrong. Olivia, Please, just shit. I need
Speaker 1: to deal with this, of course, but we need to
Speaker 1: go to Oakley Farms, see what happened before, the evidence
Speaker 1: the case more. Who cares, it's it's just a couple
Speaker 1: of cows. It's hardly more important than this. It's just
Speaker 1: a couple of cows for now. If it's the same
Speaker 1: dog that attacked us in Freetown, it already made its
Speaker 1: way through Rehobeth. Who knows where it could be by now?
Speaker 1: It could do a lot of damage very quickly. Are
Speaker 1: we never going to get a fucking break? I think
Speaker 1: we should go check it out. If it's really the
Speaker 1: same dog. We know it doesn't just attack other animals,
Speaker 1: and if it's not, then you've got more than one
Speaker 1: monster on our hands. Hey, there, your live. I'm going
Speaker 1: to leave in a second, Okay, I just I needed
Speaker 1: to catch my breath or something. I'm already fucking exhausted,
Speaker 1: and I really don't want to crash my car. Why
Speaker 1: don't you come inside? And is it really him? Is
Speaker 1: it really him? Is that man really Thomas Bradshot? It's him? How?
Speaker 1: How well we're still trying to figure that out? He
Speaker 1: was trapped in some kind of in between place, in
Speaker 1: between what this world and another one? Oh? Come on,
Speaker 1: I'm serious. Live You know when Vippen and I were
Speaker 1: driving over here, I kept talking about how all the
Speaker 1: stories you told me were real, that I couldn't believe it,
Speaker 1: and you were never lying to me. With any of
Speaker 1: that stuff. I never had any solid proof until now,
Speaker 1: just a feeling. But you were always honest with me
Speaker 1: about that feeling, about about there being something dangerous out there.
Speaker 1: I wanted to keep you safe. Then why lie about him?
Speaker 1: I didn't If you knew he was still alive, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I swear I didn't, but I hoped. But that's all
Speaker 1: it ever was until yesterday. You knew he was my grandfather.
Speaker 1: I mean, unless, of course, you had a very active
Speaker 1: dating life in nineteen I'm assuming you knew. I knew,
Speaker 1: I knew we were. We were together for over a
Speaker 1: year by the time I found out I was pregnant Nanna.
Speaker 1: Wasn't he married? Yeah, he was, but it had been
Speaker 1: rocky for a while. And when we found out about
Speaker 1: the baby, he told his wife and they were getting
Speaker 1: divorced and we were going to be a family, and
Speaker 1: then he went missing. So so what you decided just
Speaker 1: to act like he never existed, Like like mom just
Speaker 1: came out of nowhere, and he always told her and
Speaker 1: to ask that he was dead. I thought he was.
Speaker 1: I thought he was, But why keep his identity a secret.
Speaker 1: He wasn't just some guy, he was someone you loved
Speaker 1: someone who had a son. That's why. That's why, Olivia
Speaker 1: Jeremy is why I kept it a secret. It was
Speaker 1: a big case Thomas go and missing, a huge local
Speaker 1: news story. They talked about it for months and months,
Speaker 1: and the circumstances around it brought all kinds of folks
Speaker 1: from around the country to report on it or do
Speaker 1: their amateur investigations, and well it, uh, you know, it
Speaker 1: put a lot of attention on the Bradshaws, and you know,
Speaker 1: the wife and son who got left behind. And I
Speaker 1: I couldn't. I couldn't let Thomas's name get dragged through
Speaker 1: the mud. And I couldn't bring that chaos into your
Speaker 1: mom's life when she was just a baby. So I
Speaker 1: just told everybody was an old flame in Boston who
Speaker 1: I had reconnected with, and if I had honest about it,
Speaker 1: it would have become part of the story and we
Speaker 1: would have had to leave Bridgewater entirely and find any
Speaker 1: kind of peace, and and you'd never leave, right, not
Speaker 1: until you found out what really happened. Yeah, So, so
Speaker 1: what did really happen? He just got like Captain America
Speaker 1: Frozen in Time? Who's that? God? Nancy? A movie for once?
Speaker 1: In your life. I mean he looks like he's thirty. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a time it passed differently wherever he was. And the
Speaker 1: truth is, we don't really understand that place yet. But
Speaker 1: Celeste and the gathering they had a better idea, some
Speaker 1: kind of doorway or like a pass through to the
Speaker 1: other side. And then the children of Titchuba wanted to
Speaker 1: open it, but Celeste and her people they were trying
Speaker 1: to keep it closed, keep it closed, and and and
Speaker 1: and trapped Thomas. No, no, no, I think Celeste was
Speaker 1: trying to get him out and close whatever gate he
Speaker 1: had come through. We think that dog came in the
Speaker 1: same way. Okay, so okay, okay, okay, let me get
Speaker 1: with the street. You're old boyfriend was pushed into a
Speaker 1: paranormal waiting room for some other side by a bunch
Speaker 1: of goth babies and and then pulled out of that
Speaker 1: place with a giant black dog that might be going
Speaker 1: around to vice rating cows. Pretty much though, based on
Speaker 1: what happened to Vippen, the dog may have been here first.
Speaker 1: How why Because the veil is getting thinner. That's what's
Speaker 1: a less said, which means I think it means whatever
Speaker 1: wall has been protecting us from what's on the other
Speaker 1: side might not be standing anymore. Are we sure this
Speaker 1: is right? An said, the east edge of the property.
Speaker 1: It looks like the fence line is down in that field.
Speaker 1: Are you sure you're okay? I'm fine? I think. Are
Speaker 1: you okay? Okay is the kind of relative term at
Speaker 1: this particular juncture. So you said, Um, something like this
Speaker 1: has happened before over at Shiner Farms. One side of
Speaker 1: their property ran along Freetown forest and a few horses
Speaker 1: were torn into I remember and telling me about that.
Speaker 1: It was seventy nine, you said, honestly, I'm not sure
Speaker 1: it could have been this year. Uh, it was hot
Speaker 1: when we went from the farm. I know that much August. Second,
Speaker 1: how did you know? I think I remember reading that
Speaker 1: file one of several animal mutilations that happened that summer
Speaker 1: in fall. Jeremy, You've got yourself quite a partner here
Speaker 1: that I do. Oh, we never actually got to the
Speaker 1: introduction party. Hipp In Corona, Jeremy's t a. Thomas Bradshaw,
Speaker 1: Jeremy's dad. Yeah, it's good to meet you. Hippin's been
Speaker 1: helping me out with this book that I've been writing.
Speaker 1: And he is also an encyclopedia of we your Bridgewater
Speaker 1: happening is you're writing a book? I yeah, he's me.
Speaker 1: Can I help you? Are you Dr Edwards? I am.
Speaker 1: I'm a friend of Anne Becker's. She had to take
Speaker 1: care of some other business, but she wanted me to come. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I see, Come on over, Come on over. Um, yep,
Speaker 1: just just hop right over. There's not a break in
Speaker 1: the fence for another half mile. Okay, not bad for
Speaker 1: an old man. Hopped a lot of fences in my day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that part of your job, the stories for another time ship.
Speaker 1: Are you okay? Yep, I'm fine. What did you say
Speaker 1: your name was? I'm Jeremy Bradshaw. This is my assistant
Speaker 1: fipp In, and this is my friend Tom and really
Speaker 1: sent the cavalry. Uh well, she said, things sounded pretty serious. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you know, take a look yourself. Randall came out this
Speaker 1: morning to check in his stock and found this. Oh god,
Speaker 1: oh my god, Jesus, God, Jesus. Do you think the
Speaker 1: smell is bad? Now? I gotta figure out how to
Speaker 1: get these guys out of here before the noon sun hits,
Speaker 1: or things are gonna get really ugly. Do you know
Speaker 1: when this happened. Based on the level of rigor mortis,
Speaker 1: I would guess six or so hours ago. But that
Speaker 1: would mean are you sure it wasn't more recently, maybe
Speaker 1: in the last hour or two. That's pretty unlikely. Um,
Speaker 1: definitely would have to be at least four hours ago. Why. Um,
Speaker 1: we heard about another potential attack last night a little
Speaker 1: after that and thought maybe maybe it was the same animal. Oh,
Speaker 1: did you get a look at what it was? No shame.
Speaker 1: I'd really like to know what could have done this.
Speaker 1: What exactly is the nature of the wounds? Well? Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: come over here. Uh, it seems the first and fatal
Speaker 1: injury happened here along the neck. That normally when a
Speaker 1: predator attacks like that, we'd see teeth marks all around
Speaker 1: the animal biting down on its praise throat. And do
Speaker 1: you think that there's something out there without a job
Speaker 1: big enough to get around a cow's neck. No, See,
Speaker 1: that's what's strange. This laceration isn't from teeth, so look
Speaker 1: at it. It's clean and long, almost decapitation, which makes
Speaker 1: me think, Okay, it's a person, some sort of sicko
Speaker 1: who's going around trying to chop the heads off of cows.
Speaker 1: A person did this. No, again, there's this big cut here,
Speaker 1: but then if you look closely, there's four more lines
Speaker 1: running alongside it, one cut on one side of the
Speaker 1: main laceration and three on the other. So I thought
Speaker 1: maybe somebody has a very sharp, very uneven pitchfork or
Speaker 1: some kind of I don't know, penteddont but you know
Speaker 1: that feels unlikely, especially when you consider the to the corpses.
Speaker 1: Yeah and um and mentioned evisceration. Yep, and you're looking
Speaker 1: at it now, so you know. I've seen a lot
Speaker 1: of this kind of stuff in my day, wolves getting
Speaker 1: a dog's or house cats. Hell, even foxes can do
Speaker 1: a number and a rabbit. But this this is something else.
Speaker 1: Are those ribs uh huh? Cracked like a walnut? This
Speaker 1: is where we do see some teeth marks. Something bit
Speaker 1: into the torsoes of the cows and had themselves quite
Speaker 1: the midnight snack. It ate the ribs. No, I don't
Speaker 1: think that was the goal, but it broke the rib
Speaker 1: cage to get to the heart and lungs. You see
Speaker 1: eating all the way to the trick. You right, The
Speaker 1: lugs are just gone and the hearts took a big
Speaker 1: chunk out of two of them. The other two are
Speaker 1: completely gone. So what does any of this mean? Well,
Speaker 1: if I was going by the evidence alone, I'd say
Speaker 1: some kind of predator with five claws sharp enough to
Speaker 1: make those cuts on the neck, strong jaw, with sharp canines,
Speaker 1: and an appetite for bovine insides? Is there is there
Speaker 1: any evidence of more teeth than you'd expect? How do
Speaker 1: you mean? Well, if you have to guess what kind
Speaker 1: of like teeth pattern you're looking at. Honestly, I did
Speaker 1: a residency at the Maryland Zoo for a year, and
Speaker 1: if it wasn't for the size of it, this would
Speaker 1: look pretty similar to a chimpanzee's jaw, certainly comparable in strength.
Speaker 1: Why what what? What? What were you expecting? Um? Doctor?
Speaker 1: Do you mind? Would be okay? If I took some
Speaker 1: photos so we can show Anne. Yeah, go for it,
Speaker 1: as long as you don't sell them to the paper
Speaker 1: or anything. I know Randall won't mind. He just wants
Speaker 1: to know what happened to his cows. Speaking of which
Speaker 1: I should go up to the house and tell him
Speaker 1: when I've got so far. Poor man couldn't stand a
Speaker 1: look at them very long, Thank you for your time.
Speaker 1: Dr Edwards. Sure sure, I just called the office. If
Speaker 1: you got any more questions or some answers of your own,
Speaker 1: I'll let you know if I'm able to find and
Speaker 1: anything else. Thank you, Thank you, This very good of you. Um. Look,
Speaker 1: I don't know what interest Anne Becker has in livestock killings,
Speaker 1: but if this really is a person, I would certainly
Speaker 1: feel better knowing someone's looking into it. If someone did this,
Speaker 1: we'll find them. Are you a cop to I'm a
Speaker 1: private investigator? And then I worked together a lot. Well,
Speaker 1: take your time here. I'll be back after I talked
Speaker 1: to Randall to clear the bodies out. How similar is
Speaker 1: this to what happened to the horses? It's pretty similar.
Speaker 1: I don't remember all the specifics. It feels like it
Speaker 1: was two months ago and also forty years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I won't forget what those horses look like anytime soon.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Dipen. What is that? Is that another one
Speaker 1: of those phones you were telling me about, Jeremy, Oh boy? Um? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a smartphone. You didn't have those smart phones? Yeah?
Speaker 1: It can. It calls, but honestly, people don't want to
Speaker 1: use them for that anymore. You can send messages, go online.
Speaker 1: You can find someone to marry on photos. That little
Speaker 1: thing is a camera. It has a camera, yep, and
Speaker 1: it can take video to how Why did you ask
Speaker 1: about the teeth? Oh? Um, the dog it had three
Speaker 1: rows of teeth that we could see. At least we
Speaker 1: were kind of in a hurry. Maybe you should go home,
Speaker 1: vipp and you have had a long night. No, I
Speaker 1: want to be helpful. You are, you are. It doesn't
Speaker 1: mean you can't take care of yourself. Okay, you're one
Speaker 1: to talk. Hey, I'm fine. If anything, this is is
Speaker 1: the most normal thing that I've done in days. I'm
Speaker 1: just researching this are happening in the Bridgewater Triangle. I
Speaker 1: mean sure in this instance, it's not a stoner who
Speaker 1: thought that they were abducted by aliens or someone driving
Speaker 1: down the road late at night convinced that they saw
Speaker 1: a ghost. It's a little tiny bit more substantial than that. Hey, hey, Jeremy,
Speaker 1: it's looking at a bunch of cows who have had
Speaker 1: their lungs eaten by something apparently with huge claws and
Speaker 1: a jaw strong enough to bite through bone. And I
Speaker 1: am here sidebar with my dad who was dead until
Speaker 1: twelve hours ago, and he's not looking at a cell
Speaker 1: phone like it's a fucking flying car, which I guess
Speaker 1: it sort of is. There aren't flying cars, are there? No? Sorry,
Speaker 1: Welcome to the shittier version of the future where we
Speaker 1: have climate change and no flying cars. But apparently we
Speaker 1: have lung eating monsters. But but but silver lining. You
Speaker 1: can carry a computer in your pocket, so it's not
Speaker 1: all bad. Oh, you know, maybe we should all go home.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no, no no. We have to
Speaker 1: investigate a monster attack, Vippen, because that's what we do now.
Speaker 1: We are bovine murder detectives. Wait, the cows, what about them? Not? No,
Speaker 1: not these ones, the ones in nineteen forty What what
Speaker 1: do you mean the cows in nineteen four Alden told
Speaker 1: me a few weeks before he got lost, his neighbor's
Speaker 1: cows got torn apart. He was just a kid, of course,
Speaker 1: so it's not like he saw them, but it was
Speaker 1: a big deal in the brohood. I'd forgotten about that.
Speaker 1: It feels like he told me so long ago. Who
Speaker 1: is a boy who was trapped in the in between
Speaker 1: space with my dad? What he's still trapped Jeremy with
Speaker 1: god knows what kind of monsters roaming around and there
Speaker 1: with him. I thought you said you never actually saw
Speaker 1: anything in there, just shadow. But now he's in there
Speaker 1: alone with Celeste dead. I don't know what could happen.
Speaker 1: We'll figure it out. But what if we're already running
Speaker 1: out of time. We're looking at two potential monsters now,
Speaker 1: and it's only been eight or so hours since the
Speaker 1: veil opened and I came out. What if he's already dead?
Speaker 1: We have no reason to believe that. Look, maybe Vippen
Speaker 1: is right. Maybe we're all of it. You just got back.
Speaker 1: You should be resting arrest when we have a plan
Speaker 1: to get Alden. Dad, Dad, Dad? Are you okay? So
Speaker 1: I'm fine, I'm fine. Come on, let's get away from
Speaker 1: the smell. It's clearly not I can handle some dead animals.
Speaker 1: I'm not new to this. Ah, I just haven't had
Speaker 1: anything to eat in forty years. Parogies may have been ambusious. Guys,
Speaker 1: someone's coming. Ship. It's Haddock, Haddock, Officer Haddock, Captain Haddock.
Speaker 1: Now good for him. We should get out. Ship ship
Speaker 1: ship ship okay, uh, Dad, you need to get out
Speaker 1: of here. I told you, I'm fine, you might recognize you,
Speaker 1: but hey, they haven't take my car. Get get back
Speaker 1: to Anne's. I'll meet you there. Dad. We cannot explain this,
Speaker 1: not right now, Pip. I'll take care of him. I
Speaker 1: really appreciate you staying to help Outlive. I don't know
Speaker 1: what's happening nowhere. Any of this is going to lead.
Speaker 1: But this kid that Amas was with, he seems to
Speaker 1: be really important to him. Well, I found him, you did.
Speaker 1: It wasn't that hard. Honestly, there are only so many
Speaker 1: missing kids stories from nineteen and obviously it was a
Speaker 1: pretty big deal. So what does it say? All then,
Speaker 1: age seven goes missing one day from his own backyard
Speaker 1: and it is never found again. There's a town wide
Speaker 1: search for him for weeks but nothing. Christ Yeah, well
Speaker 1: we found Ethan Olivia. He's okay, Yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm happy he's getting out of here. He is.
Speaker 1: Dad's taking him to his parents. It's just for a
Speaker 1: little while. That's good. It's good. Part of me feels
Speaker 1: like I should go with them. Maybe you No, No,
Speaker 1: I am in this now, and and someone has to
Speaker 1: stick around to tell mom about all of this. Live.
Speaker 1: You can't get what tell my mom that her dad
Speaker 1: is alively. I'm not keeping this from her, especially not
Speaker 1: when she when any of us could still be in danger.
Speaker 1: Ethan safe. That doesn't mean whatever tried to take him
Speaker 1: isn't going to try and take someone else. Your mom
Speaker 1: is not going to get taken. How do you know
Speaker 1: there's clearly a pattern here, I'm looking at it. You
Speaker 1: think that's what happened aldn Sure seems like it. And
Speaker 1: Alden wasn't even in the woods, so this could happen
Speaker 1: to anyone. Was his house near Freetown or Ham? He
Speaker 1: lived in Rehobeth. There's probably woods there, I guess, and
Speaker 1: probably even more in the forties, but nothing to the
Speaker 1: extent of Freetown. And he just vanished from his backyard,
Speaker 1: no evidence left behind. I mean, the article isn't exactly
Speaker 1: the same as a police report. But no, there weren't
Speaker 1: any witnesses except his sister. She didn't see anything, but
Speaker 1: she heard bells and when she went outside, her brother
Speaker 1: was gone. How old was she? So she could have
Speaker 1: been making this up? But why would she? And why bills?
Speaker 1: There was a sound with the floating lights and home
Speaker 1: from Dighton Rock, but I don't remember hearing any bell.
Speaker 1: Maybe you couldn't, and maybe it's one of those things
Speaker 1: only young people can hear. Well live. We will tell
Speaker 1: your mom at some point, but this is all gonna
Speaker 1: be so hard to explain that. Well, it's not going
Speaker 1: to get any easier the more you wait. And I
Speaker 1: can't keep this from her. I don't want to, So
Speaker 1: you have to tell her, like extremely soon, or I will. Okay,
Speaker 1: I understand. Wait, what what's wrong? I remember reading something
Speaker 1: in Vippin's notebook last night. He's got notes upon notes
Speaker 1: about every weird thing that's ever happened in Bridgewater and more.
Speaker 1: And I think I remember something about bells. Well, what
Speaker 1: was it? I don't know, but his notebook is still
Speaker 1: in my car. Mr Bradshaw, I thought that was Captain
Speaker 1: and Haddock. What are you doing here? I could ask
Speaker 1: you the same thing. Dead cows are hardly urgent police business,
Speaker 1: are they? Especially not for Captain Randall is the owner,
Speaker 1: and he's an old friend. He called me in a
Speaker 1: panic this morning, worry that someone's trying to destroy his livelihood.
Speaker 1: But it's an animal attack, now, I mean most likely, yeah,
Speaker 1: it almost always is. But you know how it is
Speaker 1: with favorites. Your friends. Yeah, sure, what about you? Are
Speaker 1: you taking a class outside? Uh? No, no, no, I
Speaker 1: just I thought it could be some interesting color for
Speaker 1: a book that I'm working on about the area. Oh why,
Speaker 1: I look forward to reading that. We're friends. Um, those
Speaker 1: are just some colleagues who wanted to come along with
Speaker 1: they had they had to run off to get to
Speaker 1: their classes, which I, uh should also be doing too.
Speaker 1: So okay, take care. It's weird stuff in it. Mm
Speaker 1: hmm all of this, uh this animal mutilation business, it's weird. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's very strange. I'm surprised An Becker's not with you.
Speaker 1: It seems right up her street. I guess she's focused
Speaker 1: on other things. Yeah, I must be. I was glad
Speaker 1: to hear her grandson have been released from the hospital. Yeah,
Speaker 1: me too. Be careful, Mr Bradshaw, excuse me. Becker likes
Speaker 1: getting tangled up in all this weird stuff. It doesn't
Speaker 1: mean you have to. It might not be good for
Speaker 1: a person of your stature. Why are you telling me this.
Speaker 1: I have seen a lot of good people fall under
Speaker 1: her spell. H She has polluted the healthy skepticism of
Speaker 1: more than one officer. Okay, ah, thank you for your concern. Anytime, Randall,
Speaker 1: I'll be right there. So long, Mr Bradshaw, take care now,
Speaker 1: take care, Randall. Have a couple of questions, of course,
Speaker 1: still haven't charged it? Well, I guess I'm walking. We're
Speaker 1: almost there. Great. So is it weird being back? No? Yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: that's definitely one way to describe it. It's still feels
Speaker 1: not quite real. I know what you mean. I mean no, obviously,
Speaker 1: I don't. I can't imagine what you've been through, what
Speaker 1: it's like to be lost for forty years and then
Speaker 1: come back and everything is smartphones, you know. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: good that you had company at least. Well, no, it's
Speaker 1: not good that a little boy is trapped in there, obviously,
Speaker 1: But you know you weren't alone. That's true. I wasn't alone.
Speaker 1: Do you have kids with me? No, I am twenty
Speaker 1: five years old. That's the hr I was when I
Speaker 1: had Jeremy. Really, yeah, I guess that makes sense. Actually,
Speaker 1: you still look. I know I should have expected, and
Speaker 1: I watched Olden stay seven for well for a long time.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. That must have been really hard. I guess
Speaker 1: stuff just kind of becomes normal after a while. Humans
Speaker 1: can be capable of enormous amounts of adaptation. Did Alton adapt?
Speaker 1: I mean to be that young? Almost all he's ever known.
Speaker 1: He doesn't remember much from his disappearance, just that he
Speaker 1: was standing in his backyard and the next moment he
Speaker 1: was in the in between. Did all didn't see any
Speaker 1: lights or hear any voices? Not not that he remembers.
Speaker 1: He remembers there being mushrooms in his backyard, which he
Speaker 1: thought was strange. She'd never seen them before. Mushrooms. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he didn't eat them, trust me, that was a theory
Speaker 1: for a while. Does he remember how they were growing?
Speaker 1: What were the mushrooms in bunches or in a line?
Speaker 1: Or I think he said, in a circle? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: what my god? Of course what what? Of course? We're here?
Speaker 1: Come on, wait, phipp him Thomas, you're back, good hip.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I think I figured something else. Okay,
Speaker 1: what's got the kids all worked out? I could ask
Speaker 1: you the same thing. Okay, there were bells when the
Speaker 1: boy in nineteen went missing? Bells? Wait what his sister
Speaker 1: heard bells? And I looked in your notebook and well,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I totally get it all, but it's
Speaker 1: a farealm. Yes, how there was a circle of mushrooms
Speaker 1: in his backyard. That's what the boy, that's what Alden saw,
Speaker 1: and that's another sign. Yeah, so that's what we're dealing with,
Speaker 1: the fayrealm, like like the actual faarrealm, I think. So
Speaker 1: whoa can someone please explained to me what the hell
Speaker 1: you two are talking about? The pharrealm, the fairy realm,
Speaker 1: the other world, whatever you want to call it. It's
Speaker 1: another world us magical supernatural ones separate from ours, but
Speaker 1: accessible through portals like fairy rings, like circles of mushrooms.
Speaker 1: Though if it really is real, I guess that begs
Speaker 1: the question of it. The fairy rings or wormholes is
Speaker 1: the pharom in other dimension, Time and spaces have to
Speaker 1: be weird in the other world, that's all controlled by
Speaker 1: the fake wort and they're very capricious. But that still
Speaker 1: doesn't explain how the rings VI focus up kids, right, yeah, focus.
Speaker 1: It is where the fairies live, basically, and a whole
Speaker 1: other host of supernatural creatures. Jeremy really is the one
Speaker 1: who wait, where is Jeremy? Wait? Wait hey hey ah
Speaker 1: shit bad luck man? Uh yeah, yeah, life is really
Speaker 1: just one thing after another. Sorry, I would have held
Speaker 1: it for you if I had seen you. No, that's
Speaker 1: all right, it's just it's been one of those mornings,
Speaker 1: um or weeks months. Really sorry. Sorry, my weird day
Speaker 1: is not your problem. Did you just come from Oakley Farm? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I did. That's where I'm headed. Yeah did you? Oh?
Speaker 1: Did you see it? See what the cows? How do
Speaker 1: you know about the cows? I'm being so weird. I'm
Speaker 1: a legend tripper too. It's nice to meet you. I
Speaker 1: nice to meet you. I'm I'm actually a professor. Oh,
Speaker 1: oh gosh, I'm I just assumed that's that's fine. Uh,
Speaker 1: you are a legend tripper. You've heard of the Bridgewater
Speaker 1: Triangle of course. Yeah, that's what I teach. Oh, so
Speaker 1: you're a cool professor. I'm pretty sure there's no such thing. Well,
Speaker 1: then I don't need to explain why animal eviscerations are interesting,
Speaker 1: especially here. No, you don't. So your legend tripping involves
Speaker 1: going to look at dead farm animals. I know it
Speaker 1: sounds a little deranged, but anything's a clue. You never
Speaker 1: know what's part of the weird Bridgewater Triangle stuff. So
Speaker 1: are you a ghost hunter? I wouldn't say that exactly.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, I believe in ghosts. So what then,
Speaker 1: do you think is going around killing livestock? Is it's
Speaker 1: a vengeful spirit or look, well, I'm still at the
Speaker 1: discovery stage. What about you. I teach a folklore class
Speaker 1: and I'm writing a book on the triangle, so this
Speaker 1: all just makes very interesting thought her. You know that
Speaker 1: didn't answer my question though it didn't. Do you believe
Speaker 1: in this stuff? Mmm? I think I'm still at the
Speaker 1: discovery stage. Two hm. Well, if you ever want someone
Speaker 1: to discover things with, you should look us up. Paranormal
Speaker 1: Seekers is the name of the forum. Oh yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: familiar you are ye uh. You know, if there's a
Speaker 1: website out there that talks about cryptozoology, then I've been
Speaker 1: on it. It sounds like you might not hold the
Speaker 1: highest opinion of us. In my experience, those kinds of
Speaker 1: places are often where urban legends start, which is interesting
Speaker 1: in its own way. The stories that people make up
Speaker 1: and share can tell us a lot about the role
Speaker 1: of folklore and socialization. But it's you know, it's just
Speaker 1: it's hardly reliable historical text. Wow, you really are a professor. Hum,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. You know you shouldn't write it off entirely.
Speaker 1: There's been a lot of posting from Bridgewater people recently.
Speaker 1: Apparently something's been happening here. Yeah, have have you experienced anything?
Speaker 1: I just got here, but a bunch of us from
Speaker 1: the form have made the pilgrimage over the last few weeks.
Speaker 1: So you traveled here for this. There's been a rash
Speaker 1: of sightings seemed worth looking into. Hey, you should give
Speaker 1: the form another try. I get why you'd want to
Speaker 1: write those kind of people off, but they can be
Speaker 1: a good source of information, definitely more forthcoming than the gathering.
Speaker 1: You know about the gathering. The paranormal seekers are a
Speaker 1: pretty well informed group. How do you think I found
Speaker 1: out about the cows hate? I don't know how. How
Speaker 1: did you question? Okay, I'm just gonna tell you. The
Speaker 1: receptionist at the VETS office is a frequent poster. Lots
Speaker 1: of folks in Bridgewater keep their eyes and ears open
Speaker 1: for anything strange, and some of them don't even make
Speaker 1: this stuff up. Wow, it sounds like I need to
Speaker 1: find those people. Then, yes, you do, but don't take
Speaker 1: too long. Who knows how much time we've got, right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he looks like you're right? Is here? Um? Wait? One second,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be an in person meet up soon. Check
Speaker 1: it out, Okay, I will um so nice to meet you,
Speaker 1: you two, Jeremy. This episode of Bridgewater was written by
Speaker 1: Lauren Shippen and directed by Brendan Patrick Hughes Assistant director
Speaker 1: Sarah Klein. Sound designed by Vincent the Johnny rema Il Kayali,
Speaker 1: Josh Thane, and Trevor Young, with music by Chad Lawson,
Speaker 1: starring Misha Collins as Jeremy Bradshaw, Melissa Ponzio as Anne Becker,
Speaker 1: Alan Tutick as Thomas Bradshaw, Karen Sony as Vipen Corrana,
Speaker 1: Sabra May as Olivia Hoskins, Cheryl Umania as Officer Bautista,
Speaker 1: Will Wheaton as Captain Haddock, Tricia Helfer as the Legend Tripper,
Speaker 1: Stephen Guarino as Dr Ed words Nandamisu Dumb as Peyton Blake,
Speaker 1: Hillary Burton Morgan as Shelley Hoskins, Nicki McCauley as Celeste, Then,
Speaker 1: Victoria Grace as Katie Frank's, with additional voice acting by
Speaker 1: Greta Gould, Shelby Young, Adam oh Burn, Monty Markham, Charlie Bergman,
Speaker 1: and Tern Westbrook. Executive producers Aaron Manky, Misha Collins, Lauren Shippin,
Speaker 1: Matt Frederick and Alexander Williams. Supervising producers Josh Thane and
Speaker 1: Trevor Young. Bridgewater was created by me Aaron Mankey and
Speaker 1: is a production of Grim and Mild and I Heeart
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Speaker 1: and as always, thanks for listening.