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Speaker 1: Hello friends. If this is your first time, welcome to

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Speaker 1: the family. My name is Mr Jim and I love

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Speaker 1: telling stories. We love listening to these stories, uh in

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Speaker 1: the car or getting ready for bed, or maybe during

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Speaker 1: quiet time. And this has been a really great way

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Speaker 1: to help reduce our screen time in our household, and

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Speaker 1: I hope it does for you as well. Well. Yesterday

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Speaker 1: I was getting my hair cut and I heard a

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Speaker 1: crazy story about a raccoon sneaking into someone's house. Are

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Speaker 1: you guys ready for today's adventure? Me too, Let's go.

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Speaker 1: It was getting very late this Thursday evening and it

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Speaker 1: was time for Avea to get ready for bed. Well,

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Speaker 1: but I'm not even tired, oh, she said, as she

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Speaker 1: tried to hide her yawn behind her hands. It is

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Speaker 1: very late and it's time for bed. Okay mom. She

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Speaker 1: raced over to the bathroom and brushed her teeth, combed

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Speaker 1: her hair, and got ready for bed. And she curled

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Speaker 1: up in bed under some nice, warm, comfy blankets and

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Speaker 1: her special pillow. Holy smokes, I I love. I don't

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Speaker 1: know about you, but I love comfy blankets and pillows.

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Speaker 1: What is your favorite comfy thing to curl up within bed?

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Speaker 1: I think I need. I have this special blanket that's

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Speaker 1: nice and heavy, and I just oh, I love getting

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Speaker 1: underneath that heavy blanket in it gives me a big hug. Well,

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Speaker 1: as she was curled up in bed about to fall asleep,

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Speaker 1: she all of a sudden heard a sound. She sat

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Speaker 1: right up. What was that sound, she said, It sounds

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Speaker 1: like something sached in my closet. She jumped out of

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Speaker 1: bed and wait a second. Could that be a monster,

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Speaker 1: she thought to herself. She jumped back in bed and

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Speaker 1: dove underneath her covers. Mom, Mom, She shouted, what well

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Speaker 1: the way, what's wrong of Her? Mom came rushing into

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Speaker 1: the room. There's a monster in my closet. Have you

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Speaker 1: been watching those scary movies again? No? No, no, I promise,

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Speaker 1: I promise, But I really heard something in there. Please look.

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Speaker 1: Her mom opened the closet door and look, of a,

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Speaker 1: there's nothing here. Of AA didn't believe her mom and

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Speaker 1: looked inside, and sure enough, the only thing was her

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Speaker 1: jacket was laying on the floor. Look under the jacket, baby,

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Speaker 1: it's under the air, she said. Her mom lifted up

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Speaker 1: the jacket and said, see, no, monsters, monsters are not real.

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Speaker 1: It's time to go to you need to lay down,

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Speaker 1: close your eyes. I love you, good night, okay. Avea

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Speaker 1: closed her eyes and fell asleep. Over the next two nights,

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Speaker 1: it happened each time she would get ready for bed,

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Speaker 1: lay down, crawl under her covers in her bed, and

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Speaker 1: then she would hear that same sound again. She would

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Speaker 1: call her mom up, and her mom would check the

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Speaker 1: closet and still nothing, an empty closet. But the other

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Speaker 1: strange thing that was going on is that for the

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Speaker 1: past couple of days, in the mornings, something was strange

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Speaker 1: in the kitchen, like there the next morning there was

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Speaker 1: a box of cereal that had fallen over onto the floor,

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Speaker 1: or there were a few apples on the counter that

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Speaker 1: had a bite taken out of it, and nobody knew

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Speaker 1: who took the bite. Avea thought she was losing her

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Speaker 1: mind because she was really hearing this sound in her closet,

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Speaker 1: and she thought that it must be connected. She thought

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Speaker 1: I'm positive that there really is really some kind of

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Speaker 1: monster in the closet, and then he must come out

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Speaker 1: and go over to the kitchen and eat her food.

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Speaker 1: And I have got to do this I have to

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Speaker 1: choose to be brave. Let's go. As she brushed her

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Speaker 1: teeth and got ready for bed, Ava was ready and

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Speaker 1: prepared to not fall asleep. She had to stay awake

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Speaker 1: her family was safe. She laid her head down. She

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Speaker 1: waited and waited to hear the sound. And there it was.

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Speaker 1: It was a sound that sounded like something was I

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Speaker 1: was scratching at something. But she wasn't going to scream

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Speaker 1: for her mom because it seemed to scare the creature away.

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Speaker 1: And she sat there and waited and waited. Pretty soon

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Speaker 1: several minutes had passed and she I can't fall asleep.

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Speaker 1: She couldn't help, but her eyes we're getting very heavy.

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Speaker 1: Pretty soon she fell asleep. Wait did I fall asleep?

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Speaker 1: She sat back up. I don't know how much time

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Speaker 1: And her closet door was now open. She reached underneath

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Speaker 1: her pillow where her flashlight was hiding that she had

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Speaker 1: light in the closet and it was empty. Oh no,

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Speaker 1: it must be in the kitchen. And just then she

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Speaker 1: heard a sound in the kitchen. Oh no, it sounds

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Speaker 1: be in there. Avella carefully and quietly tiptoed over to

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Speaker 1: almost like a sword, but unfortunately it was not a sword.

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Speaker 1: It was only a flashlight. But hopefully the light would

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Speaker 1: in the kitchen. She didn't see anything, but she scanned

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Speaker 1: her kitchen with a flashlight, and all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: it reflected on something. What was that two eyeballs. She

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Speaker 1: moved the flashlight back over to where the eyeballs were glaring,

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Speaker 1: and a raccoon screamed out of terror. Ah, and then

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Speaker 1: a veya screamed too. There was a real raccoon in

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Speaker 1: their kitchen. All of a sudden, the raccoons started stirring

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Speaker 1: of the bedroom and a raccoon. She shouted and instantly

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Speaker 1: raccoon was racing around, ran as fast as she could

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Speaker 1: and the raccoon saw it and ran as fast as

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Speaker 1: I told you I was hearing something, she said. Her

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Speaker 1: mom laughed as she hopped down from the counter in

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Speaker 1: the kitchen, gave Avella a big hug and said, I'm

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Speaker 1: so sorry. I didn't believe you. I really didn't know

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Speaker 1: that there was a real creature somehow sneaking through your closet.

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Speaker 1: As they went back to her room and walked in

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Speaker 1: the cloth is it there was a small hole in

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Speaker 1: the corner that led to the attic. I think that

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Speaker 1: They covered up the hole to stop they're serial thief

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Speaker 1: from ever coming back. Oh my goodness, that was a

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Speaker 1: crazy story. Have you ever heard a sound like that

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Speaker 1: and wonder what it was? Well, it's probably not a raccoon.

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Speaker 1: I've never heard of that happening before, but I heard

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Speaker 1: that story while I was getting my hair cut, and

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Speaker 1: I knew I had to share it with you, my friends. Well,

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Speaker 1: that is the end of our story and also the

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Speaker 1: end of all those noises in as closet. The end.

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Speaker 1: Great job, you listened all the way to the end,

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Speaker 1: and you know what time it is. It's time for

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Speaker 1: kid shout out. I would have say, aid to Leo

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Speaker 1: from Michigan, Bentley from Utah, Sammy from Maryland, Palmer and

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Speaker 1: Bennett from California, Hunt from Franklin, Tennessee, and Graham and

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Speaker 1: Walker from Clemson, South Carolina. I'm so glad that you're

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Speaker 1: all in the kids, your stories, family, and on our

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Speaker 1: spy team. We could not stop Doctor Stinky Breath and

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Speaker 1: his crew without you, my friends. Well you have a

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Speaker 1: super duper day and I will see you on our

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Speaker 1: next adventure. By