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Speaker 3: I borrowed Jimmy's bike so I could ride back to
Speaker 3: the Fowler State to get my car. The breeze was
Speaker 3: cool and the air smells sweet like the cane apple.
Speaker 3: Stark shadows cut across the road, and I felt like
Speaker 3: a teenager again, racing with the moon across Maniwauc County.
Speaker 3: When I got to the driveway, it was taped off.
Speaker 3: The house was still smoldering up at the top to
Speaker 3: the driveway. It was completely good about fire, but my
Speaker 3: car was still there parts in the yard halfway up.
Speaker 3: I popped up in my laptop and then I saw
Speaker 3: amongst the floody emails, there was one from Tyler. The
Speaker 3: subject just said good luck, and there was one file
Speaker 3: attached with the label play me, So I did.
Speaker 4: It's August six, twenty twenty one. My name is Tyler Wilson.
Speaker 4: I'm recording this so that there'll be a record. I
Speaker 4: was going to leave the letter, but that's not how
Speaker 4: it works. How it works is you have to listen.
Speaker 4: I need you to hear this, all right, especially you, Julian,
Speaker 4: not just my voice. I got the idea from you.
Speaker 4: So when I took you back to the caves last week,
Speaker 4: you were recording everything on that micro cassette, because of
Speaker 4: course you were, because the devil's into details. That's what
Speaker 4: they say. Ry the noise and all the noises I've
Speaker 4: been hearing, they're all from the caves, from the evil
Speaker 4: one that inhabits the caves. He fears the light of
Speaker 4: the world, so he hides inside the caves or in
Speaker 4: the fog. If you ever stood at the mouth of
Speaker 4: the caves and hollered, you hear your voice bounce back.
Speaker 4: It's a natural echo chamber, and so one second to
Speaker 4: lay I've timed it, and when your voice bounced back
Speaker 4: to you, it's different. It's like it's been processed or replaced. No,
Speaker 4: it ain't your voice that bounces back. It's his, the
Speaker 4: devil calling from inside the caves, calling your name. The
Speaker 4: caves run deep, they go for centuries. They operate with
Speaker 4: their own logic, dream logic, and infinite kind of clockwork
Speaker 4: of invisible gears, driven by a mainspring that stretches across dimensions,
Speaker 4: wound up by forces unseen. I'm only human sea, I
Speaker 4: mean flesh and blood, pretty good brain and a nervous
Speaker 4: system hardwired to pick up data points collected through five senses,
Speaker 4: observable phenomenas, signs. But I've been studying it, this clockwork,
Speaker 4: charting mechanics, formulating proofs.
Speaker 5: I figured out a few things.
Speaker 6: I know that.
Speaker 4: There were rules, and if you break them, that's when
Speaker 4: he comes for you.
Speaker 7: I feel like it's all here somehow in this recording
Speaker 7: I made at Tyler's place, Maybe Tyler himself holds the
Speaker 7: key to unlocked.
Speaker 5: The truth, the piece of tim.
Speaker 8: The true good blood, like the suit.
Speaker 5: To leave behid.
Speaker 3: Sure if I want to follow a missing persons support
Speaker 3: for Tyler Wilson.
Speaker 4: AHw People disappear all the time, Julian, what makes you
Speaker 4: think Tyler is missing?
Speaker 6: Side of the struggle at his house? And what were
Speaker 6: you doing in his house?
Speaker 4: Like me from all will be?
Speaker 8: What's broken?
Speaker 9: Wouldn't Julian Tyler was seen on Friday, Good Morning after
Speaker 9: you went to his place where Riverbend Maximum Security Institution
Speaker 9: in Nashville apparently paid a visit to James.
Speaker 4: I'm remembering things, moving images, just like impressions. At first,
Speaker 4: like from a dream or maybe one of those old
Speaker 4: horror movies they put out on public access in the
Speaker 4: middle of night. Thought maybe I passed out in my
Speaker 4: chair to the sound of screams and butcher knives. But
Speaker 4: these images would repeat my mind over and over and
Speaker 4: over and over and over, like a fever dream. Then
Speaker 4: one morning, I'm in the shower and the hot water
Speaker 4: did suddenly like it was ice cold on my back,
Speaker 4: kind of like shock therapy, And just like that, an
Speaker 4: image locked into focus, like I found it again after
Speaker 4: it had been lost and the recesses of my brain
Speaker 4: for like fifteen years a memory Deacon Hadley screaming his
Speaker 4: final words. But the image was low resolution, of grainy
Speaker 4: and interlaced like a home movie. And there was blood,
Speaker 4: blood on the lens and that right there, that's when
Speaker 4: I remembered.
Speaker 5: The camera. I remembered the camera.
Speaker 4: I remember the weight of it in my hands and
Speaker 4: how it made my shoulder hurting after an hour, pulling
Speaker 4: it out in front of me. And that's how I
Speaker 4: was able to confirm that it wasn't a dream because
Speaker 4: I found it. I found the fucking camera, and now
Speaker 4: now I know what happened. I know, but I ain't
Speaker 4: supposed to say. That's rule number one. Never speak about it.
Speaker 4: Never talk about what you saw in the caves or
Speaker 4: think you saw or ever fucking dreamed, And never.
Speaker 5: Ever talk about him, because he knows.
Speaker 4: Sometimes he uses spies, other people and animals, uses their
Speaker 4: eyes and ears. And if you tell that's when it
Speaker 4: comes for you, That's that's when he comes, just like
Speaker 4: he's coming for me. Now. I didn't used to know
Speaker 4: when he was close, lurking in the shadows, working working well,
Speaker 4: I slept, But now I know. I know when he's coming,
Speaker 4: and I can feel him moving through the fog, closer
Speaker 4: and closer to me. I used to freeze and try
Speaker 4: and stay still and not call any attention to myself.
Speaker 4: It don't matter, don't help, nothing helps. Eventually he finds me.
Speaker 4: I tried everything everything I could think of to elude
Speaker 4: or repel him. I've covered my tracks, I've tried to
Speaker 4: mask my sin tried everything from garlic to God, damn
Speaker 4: Roman therapy, Jews, cleansing to Jesus. Nothing helps. Can't hide,
Speaker 4: can't run. He always hunts me. Now, So under normal circumstances,
Speaker 4: as best I just keep myself out here in the woods.
Speaker 4: But these ain't normal circumstances, all right, observable phenomenon. The
Speaker 4: temperature drops to exactly fifty eight grades when he's coming.
Speaker 4: It's sixty eight now and dropping was seventy one before.
Speaker 4: When I hit record, the woods get quiet too, wind stops,
Speaker 4: the mosquitoes vanish. It's like all of God's creatures simultaneously
Speaker 4: get the fuck out of his way. Then the fox
Speaker 4: sets in heavy like it is now. It rolled in
Speaker 4: thick the day you came home, Julian.
Speaker 5: Fuck.
Speaker 4: But in a few minutes, I I'm not gonna be
Speaker 4: able to see three feet unnatural forces working on the
Speaker 4: physical world disguised as natural phenomena. Am I scared?
Speaker 6: Hell?
Speaker 4: Yes, I'm scared.
Speaker 5: I can't soft shaken.
Speaker 4: But at least I finally know what to do, what
Speaker 4: has to be done.
Speaker 5: So here we go. I'm starting to clock for the record.
Speaker 4: It is one eleven am.
Speaker 5: It's only a matter of time.
Speaker 4: Before it comes for me, before he gets in and
Speaker 4: raises my head again, or worse, he's already on his way.
Speaker 4: I'm praying you get this message to land, and I
Speaker 4: hope to hell that you listen.
Speaker 6: Good.
Speaker 4: All right, best get started. I know it won't be
Speaker 4: long now, I know. I know because I know the signs.
Speaker 4: I know your rules, your son of a bitch, fuck it.
Speaker 10: I've never been much one for rules anyway.
Speaker 4: Lock time time, Hey finch, what's it like? What waiting
Speaker 4: to die?
Speaker 6: Know?
Speaker 4: And you only have one week left?
Speaker 11: M All of a sudden, they're serving decent food, French
Speaker 11: toast and shit. I got no appetite though, knowing there's
Speaker 11: only so many heart beats living.
Speaker 4: You know, of all the people who have ever been alive,
Speaker 4: only in tiny fraction of them ever knew the exact
Speaker 4: minute they were gonna die.
Speaker 6: I guess that's true.
Speaker 4: Schedule. Death is not a thing our brains are wired
Speaker 4: to work with. So what happens next?
Speaker 12: They'll move me off the road to when isolated sales.
Speaker 12: Soon they don't let you out at all.
Speaker 6: The last couple of.
Speaker 4: Days they let you read.
Speaker 12: Depends on what custodian is for now, I got a radio,
Speaker 12: some paper, no shop objects.
Speaker 6: So they gave me crayns.
Speaker 4: What you're listening to?
Speaker 6: Mostly, I just listened to the stuff between static. Guess
Speaker 6: who comes to see me? Fucking Reverend Perkins.
Speaker 12: Can you believe that he's been in here every day
Speaker 12: this week? Now?
Speaker 4: Shit, hell's he wont.
Speaker 6: It's not to save my soul, that's for damn sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, fucker.
Speaker 12: He wants a confession, something shining to take back to
Speaker 12: his flock. Maybe my repentance too, but only so he
Speaker 12: can be right. He asked me to pray with him
Speaker 12: every time.
Speaker 4: What do you say?
Speaker 6: I tell him he's not the one that gets to
Speaker 6: right the end of my story.
Speaker 5: What did he say to that?
Speaker 6: Who is the author?
Speaker 2: James?
Speaker 12: Your life may be in the hands of the state,
Speaker 12: but God is in charge of your salvation. It's not
Speaker 12: too late to accept Jesus.
Speaker 6: Accept Jesus as your.
Speaker 12: Lord and savior, and you can free your soul. I
Speaker 12: told him it was best for me to stay. The
Speaker 12: monster told him he had his part to.
Speaker 6: Play, and I got mine. Then he says his part
Speaker 6: is to offer me salvation.
Speaker 4: His parts keep fair alive.
Speaker 6: He'll be back too tomorrow and the next day and
Speaker 6: the day after that till.
Speaker 12: There ain't nothing to come back to anymore.
Speaker 4: I almost killed somebody last night.
Speaker 6: Wait what Yeah?
Speaker 4: I woke up to the sounds fourth entry, someone breaking up.
Speaker 4: Oh the fuck out of bed. Peeked out of the
Speaker 4: bedroom door and saw this male figure moving in the dark.
Speaker 4: I mean, I thought it was Julian Julie. I was
Speaker 4: about to say something when the guy took a seat
Speaker 4: in my recliner and pulled out a gun. And then
Speaker 4: some bit just started firing, blank, playing, playing, bland playing,
Speaker 4: just shooting up the place, blew the glass, coffee table
Speaker 4: to beds, my back to held away from the bedroom door,
Speaker 4: and I slipped into the closet where I keep my shotgun.
Speaker 5: I grabbed it, waited then he started tearing the.
Speaker 4: Place, part ripped the bookshelves down, shattered glass everywhere. Once
Speaker 4: he settled down bed, I heard the fridge open. Fucks.
Speaker 4: Then he came in my room, opened the door.
Speaker 5: And just stood there.
Speaker 4: Breathing, slowly, real calm like. I told him I had
Speaker 4: a gun and to back the fuck out because I
Speaker 4: didn't want to have to kill anyone.
Speaker 5: You don't get out of here, right, fucking airfucker just laughed.
Speaker 4: You hear me? And uh, it surprised me that laugh.
Speaker 4: It was high, like a teenager's laugh. Reminded me of
Speaker 4: Thomas Hadley's laugh. Anyway, I lost my nerve. I ain't
Speaker 4: shooting no kid. But he he retreated, backed up into
Speaker 4: the moonlight, and then I saw him, and what the fuck?
Speaker 4: You wouldn't believe that the fuck?
Speaker 6: It was Finch, my nephew, Jimmy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right, little Jimmy. Well he ain't so little
Speaker 4: no more. He's got a lot bigger than when I
Speaker 4: last seen him. It's head shaped too, all that red
Speaker 4: hair gone. Yeah, fucking Jimmy. I think he's in danger.
Speaker 4: Maybe he's just a misguided youth, or maybe he's spent
Speaker 4: spending too much time in the caves. So tell me, Finch,
Speaker 4: how do you know? How'd you know it was him?
Speaker 6: I was talking about Dennis said he's been sneaking out
Speaker 6: at night. But I already knew him. I dreamed it,
Speaker 6: dreamed it.
Speaker 4: Well, I'll be goddamned. You always were special, like that.
Speaker 5: Crazy shit.
Speaker 4: Anyway, I know Tom is precious for both of us.
Speaker 4: So why do you ask me here, Finch?
Speaker 6: Just that my dreams?
Speaker 4: What about you're in them, and.
Speaker 6: And that ain't usually a good sign. Tie. The thing
Speaker 6: is my dreams they don't lie.
Speaker 4: Okay, then what'd you dream.
Speaker 6: That you was in the caves? Well, some of you
Speaker 6: was in the cave and some of you was outside.
Speaker 4: Sounds about right.
Speaker 6: Hey, Look, whatever you're trying to do right now, you
Speaker 6: can't win.
Speaker 4: Maybe it ain't about winning. And what about you? Huh
Speaker 4: think you have a chance?
Speaker 6: I mean it depends.
Speaker 12: They're working on the last appeal, all right, Dina and
Speaker 12: miss Campbell. They got this attorney named LeBlanc and they
Speaker 12: are working on the last minute of appeal, the appeal.
Speaker 12: Mister Hadley, he may be asking for clemency for me himself,
Speaker 12: all right, So yeah, that that is something that's not
Speaker 12: And Julie.
Speaker 6: Is gonna take back what he said his testimony. You're
Speaker 6: gonna say it was recording.
Speaker 5: Julie's not the fucking point, man.
Speaker 6: It says that sentences have been commuted for far less
Speaker 6: than that.
Speaker 5: Not talking about that.
Speaker 6: Man, Wait the fuck is wrong with two? I'm trying
Speaker 6: to stand around the fucking subject here.
Speaker 13: Okay, you can't just see that.
Speaker 6: What it's the wool time He's keep your trap shot.
Speaker 5: We never speak about it, Okay, we never.
Speaker 13: Talk about the caves, right because you don't like it
Speaker 13: we talk about the caves.
Speaker 4: I am well aware.
Speaker 6: I haven't all right.
Speaker 12: I haven't said a word. Man. I couldn't be right here,
Speaker 12: locked inside of me all these years, all these fucking years.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 6: So yeah, I think I've got a fucking chance here.
Speaker 12: And a week out before my execution ain't exactly the
Speaker 12: best goddamn time to try to tell me otherwise.
Speaker 4: Going up against the state is one thing. Finch, going
Speaker 4: up against the cave against him, that's something else.
Speaker 5: So I'm afraid, and.
Speaker 4: I'm just afraid it's too late if we.
Speaker 13: Don't tell right. God right, I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Feels an awful hot like it don't matter regardless of
Speaker 4: what we do or what we don't. I know you
Speaker 4: feel it too, man, And Julian. I mean, that's why
Speaker 4: I come home Julian, and he's losing his ship right now.
Speaker 4: It's only a matter of time.
Speaker 6: It's a bribe.
Speaker 7: What is.
Speaker 12: Reverend Perkins my confession said if I did it, if
Speaker 12: I confess to the murders, he would make sure Diana
Speaker 12: and Jimmy were well cared for.
Speaker 6: Said the church would become a.
Speaker 12: Beacon a lot and he'd see to it himself, personally,
Speaker 12: see to it that Jimmy had.
Speaker 6: A proper Baptist.
Speaker 12: He'd also have the church set up in five to
Speaker 12: nine investment fund for Jimmy's education. He wants to make
Speaker 12: Dina and Jimmy an example of how the Lord's goodness
Speaker 12: is mightier than the devil's eve.
Speaker 4: I see. So if you confess the thing you didn't do,
Speaker 4: your dead and your name would be associated forever with evil,
Speaker 4: and Perkins gets what he wanted all along, proof that
Speaker 4: the Almighty is more powerful than the devil. You just
Speaker 4: give him his wins save your family from what the
Speaker 4: clutches of poverty, right, Okay? Well, on the other hand,
Speaker 4: if instead of confessing to a crime that you didn't commit,
Speaker 4: if instead you tell the truth, truth about what you
Speaker 4: saw in the cave, saying I wel you, you might
Speaker 4: walk away free man, maybe, but you be breaking.
Speaker 6: The rule.
Speaker 4: His rules.
Speaker 6: It's something like that.
Speaker 4: That's a hell of a predicament. Finch your life for
Speaker 4: your soul state may let you off the think of
Speaker 4: the truth, but the devil never will. That's damn interesting. Though,
Speaker 4: what is only a timey fraction of all the people
Speaker 4: who ever lived knew the exact minute that they were
Speaker 4: gonna die. And that's something you and I have in common.
Speaker 6: What are you saying?
Speaker 4: What I'm saying is I'm done. I'm done playing by
Speaker 4: his rules. Maybe you should stop too, Finch, because there's
Speaker 4: no way to win here and the game is almost over.
Speaker 4: But at least you can write your own into man.
Speaker 6: It's the less time of the Moe.
Speaker 4: Who knows, maybe you'll see me in your dreams.
Speaker 2: The Ghost The Man Walk Caves stars Jonathan Tucker as
Speaker 2: Julian Sallace, Eddie Gatheggy as James Fincher, Clark Peters as
Speaker 2: Detective Solomon Smith, Nick Cercy as Sheriff Kirby Hooper, Justin
Speaker 2: Welborn as Tyler Wilson, Jill Jane Clements as Jill Campbell,
Speaker 2: Brad Carter as Dooleye Tappert, Scott Poethrus as Reverend Perkins,
Speaker 2: Samantha Ashley as Dina Fincher, Justin Matthew Smith as Paul Sawace,
Speaker 2: Tara Oaks says Laura Sawas, Jonathan Horn as Deacon Hadley,
Speaker 2: Alden Karanovich as Thomas Hadley, Mike w Anderson as Griff Washington, Body,
Speaker 2: Walter Off as Jimmy Fincher, Brian McClure as Ian Spinks,
Speaker 2: Larry Clark as Bobby Hadley, Paydon Fallis as ed leablanc
Speaker 2: Vic Palisis as William Fowler, Nick Takosky as Richard Rydell,
Speaker 2: and Aileen Loyd as The Darkness, with additional performances by
Speaker 2: Clint McGowan, Dina Dill, Edward Howard, Henry Foster Brown, Jamie Joseph,
Speaker 2: Juan Monsalvez, Christopher Curry, Bailey Hineman, David Mitchell, and Bernard
Speaker 2: Sataro Clark. Created by Connell Byrne and Dan Bush. Written
Speaker 2: by Dan Bush, Zoe Cooper and Nicholas Dakosky, featuring our
Speaker 2: theme song Killer Inside, written produced and performed by Lera Lynn.
Speaker 2: Our executive producers are Matt Frederick, Alexander Williams, Michael Monty,
Speaker 2: and Courtney du Frees. Our executive producers at Blumhouse Televis
Speaker 2: are Jeremy Gold, Chris Dickey, and Noah Feinberg. Produced by
Speaker 2: Dan Bush, music by Ben Lovett, Additional music by Alexander Rodriguez,
Speaker 2: edited by Dan Bush, Chris Childs, Stephen Perez, and David Chen.
Speaker 2: Sound design by Benjamin Malcolm. Additional sound design by Alexander Rodriguez.
Speaker 2: Dialogue editing and sound mixing by Jan Campos. Recorded at
Speaker 2: Studio Awesome in Los Angeles, Sound by Studio in Atlanta
Speaker 2: and Echo Mountain in Ashville. Casting by Sunday Bowling, Kennedy
Speaker 2: and Meg Mormon. Our dialect coach is Linda Bessesti, Assistant
Speaker 2: director Michael Monty, second Assistant director, script supervisor and production
Speaker 2: coordinator Sarah Klein. Supervising producer Josh Thain. Special thanks to
Speaker 2: Mary Ellen and Jason Davis, Jonathan Dieter, and Joe Rickman.
Speaker 2: The Manowalk Caves is a production of iHeart Radio, Blumhouse
Speaker 2: Television and Psycopia Pictures.
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