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Speaker 1: opening scene of Joseph Ruben's nineteen eighty seventh film The

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Speaker 1: Stepfather is widely considered one of the most effective and

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Speaker 1: shocking in cinematic history. Sadly, it is also loosely based

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Speaker 1: on a true story. In nineteen seventy one, John Liszt

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Speaker 1: violent reminder that all is never quite as it seems,

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Speaker 1: The events were eventually expunged from the collective memory and

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Speaker 1: to change. You're listening to Unexplained and I'm Richard McClane Smith.

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Speaker 1: Located just twenty miles west of Manhattan, the leafy town

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Speaker 1: first founded by English settlers in sixteen sixty four. Today, Westfield,

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Speaker 1: the perfect location for Derrick and Maria Broadus, who a

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Speaker 1: of the house had even been made public. Dearest new

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Speaker 1: neighbor at six five seven Boulevard, it began, allow me

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Speaker 1: to welcome you to the neighborhood. How did you end

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Speaker 1: Do you know what lies within the walls? Why are

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Speaker 1: The boulevard used to be the street to live on.

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Speaker 1: Let the party begin, signed the watcher. Derek stood for

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Speaker 1: if Derek had any idea why anyone would do such

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Speaker 1: there would be no hiding this from her. That night,

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Speaker 1: Westfield Police Department. Detective Leonard Lugo, who was assigned to

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Speaker 1: speculated that the culprit could well be one of their

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Speaker 1: Under any normal circumstances, receiving an invitation to a neighbor's

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Speaker 1: to a mister and missus Braddyth. It read welcome again

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Speaker 1: to your new home at six five seven Boulevard. The

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Speaker 1: your names now, and the names of the young blood

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Speaker 1: Will the young blood play in the basement or are

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Speaker 1: You know I will be watching. The following day, Derek

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Speaker 1: What spell did you cast on it? It used to

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Speaker 1: Two weeks after the renters moved in, Derek arrived at

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Speaker 1: Turn around, idiots. Maybe you even spoke to me, one

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