1 00:00:01,760 --> 00:00:05,279 Speaker 1: Thirteen days of Halloween is from grim and mild blumhouse 2 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:25,680 Speaker 1: and I heart free d audio headphones recommended. Listener discretion advised. Up, 3 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:32,280 Speaker 1: are you all right? I just felt a wave of Vertigo, 4 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:36,159 Speaker 1: I think, like I was falling for a moment or 5 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:43,519 Speaker 1: being pulled down. MM Hmmm, it is likely still the 6 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:49,520 Speaker 1: tinxture the pastor gave you working its way through your system. 7 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 1: My eyesight keeps growing dark for just a moment and 8 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:57,880 Speaker 1: then it's gone. It's just gone. Do you see anything 9 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: when your sight dimps? Yes, yes, sort of swimmy shadows, 10 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 1: but it feels like my eyes playing tricks on me. 11 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 1: I feel as though I need to sit. Well, here, 12 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:19,759 Speaker 1: take my arm. We're almost at the butcher's shop and 13 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:30,760 Speaker 1: you can sit down inside here, this bench. Sit It's 14 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 1: freezing in here. It has to be so that the 15 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 1: meat doesn't spoil. Hello, hello, this meat looks off. It's 16 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 1: it's all the wrong color. Gray, green, it is. Well, 17 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 1: what kind of meat is it? It's apparently all kinds. 18 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:12,400 Speaker 1: Does it taste good? I'm Vegan. Hold on, hold on, Oh, mother, hello, 19 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 1: who is that? That is the question of the hour. Sir, 20 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:21,160 Speaker 1: are you here for the gathering? I am will it 21 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 1: be the same order as last year? M Hm, yes, 22 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 1: maybe three quarters of what we had last year. It's 23 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 1: fewer mouths, I suppose. I'll deliver it myself down, please 24 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 1: at sunset, of course. Excuse me, but what kind of 25 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:46,119 Speaker 1: meats are these? I haven't really seen anything like them 26 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 1: that I can think of. Did you notice any animals? 27 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:55,240 Speaker 1: Did you see any cows or chickens, or goats or sheep? No, 28 00:02:56,120 --> 00:03:00,120 Speaker 1: that's because there aren't any. No trucks in or out either, 29 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 1: not to my shop at least. So you're probably wondering 30 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:08,920 Speaker 1: where it all comes from. I remember the day I 31 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,640 Speaker 1: first walked in. I hitchhiked and walked my way across 32 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:16,080 Speaker 1: who knows where until I found myself wandering here into 33 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:20,040 Speaker 1: this turn. There was a cardboard sign in the corner 34 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 1: of the window advertising help needed. The windows were dirty 35 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 1: and dark and whole animal sides hung from tarnished hooks. 36 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:33,920 Speaker 1: Paid no attention to Caucasus, but maybe I should have. 37 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 1: The smell was the first thing to hit me. It 38 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 1: wasn't exactly the smell of decay or the Tang of blood, 39 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 1: but I couldn't quite place it. The cold case was 40 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 1: half empty with the occasional scattered tray of what looked 41 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 1: like liver and awful, but the glass was as old 42 00:03:55,560 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 1: and dirty as the windows. There was a gaunt, tall 43 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 1: man behind the counter, a few days unshaven in the 44 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 1: cloudy left eye and his apron was stained with crusted fluids, 45 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 1: not all blood, some yellow, some green and an odd 46 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:18,039 Speaker 1: purple smear I couldn't place as anything natural. He studied 47 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: me with his one good eye and as I started 48 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:24,719 Speaker 1: to speak, he cut me off. I know why you're here. 49 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:28,440 Speaker 1: I tried to explain that I had no experience, but 50 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:31,800 Speaker 1: that I was an eager apprentice and quick to learn. 51 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 1: It doesn't matter, you're here now, was all he said 52 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:40,679 Speaker 1: and handed me a dusty used apron. The back room 53 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:45,960 Speaker 1: was not unlike an old morgue. The walls were subway tiled, 54 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:50,760 Speaker 1: yellowed with age, and several dark stains led to a 55 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:54,440 Speaker 1: large rusted drain in the middle of the smooth concrete 56 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 1: floor in a row of dim old bulbs that hung overhead. 57 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 1: He grabbed a knife from the collection of them that 58 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 1: were all spread out on one of the countertops and 59 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,960 Speaker 1: placed it in my hand. There was a group of 60 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:11,039 Speaker 1: symbols carved into the handle and a strange shimmer to 61 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:16,839 Speaker 1: the blade. No wait. We stood there for a minute. 62 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:23,799 Speaker 1: Lights flickered and it happened. A wisp of black smoke 63 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:26,839 Speaker 1: appeared from nothing and the air split and more black 64 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 1: smoke poured up, like something had just opened up, and 65 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:36,320 Speaker 1: this thing fell out of it. It stood on four 66 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:38,920 Speaker 1: legs like an animal about the size of a goat, 67 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 1: but it wasn't it. It wasn't anything, just some perverted abomination. 68 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:53,240 Speaker 1: It let out a screech that almost sounded human, now killing, 69 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 1: but I hesitated. It just gazed at me with solid 70 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 1: black eyes and then it lunged inches from my throat. 71 00:06:03,839 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 1: It froze in mid air and just sort of hung 72 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:09,760 Speaker 1: there and stared. Even with those solid black eyes, you 73 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 1: can still see the life fade away. The old man 74 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:17,080 Speaker 1: has stuck it through the neck. Black and green sludge 75 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:19,680 Speaker 1: poured down over his hands from the wound and my 76 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:23,120 Speaker 1: eyes started to burn. Without a word, he slung the 77 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:25,480 Speaker 1: thing onto the table and just started breaking it down. 78 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 1: Never know it will come. He took ahold of one 79 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 1: of the feet and sliced right through the hide and 80 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 1: stretched and pulled it off like a wet sock. You've 81 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:39,560 Speaker 1: got to take all the mess out and as quickly 82 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 1: as he said it, I sliced down the middle and 83 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:46,120 Speaker 1: out came the inside. Makes Sausage if you want, but 84 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 1: usually they just take it as it is, cut the 85 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:53,120 Speaker 1: rest in a familiar way, or don't do come and 86 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:56,240 Speaker 1: do'll eat it just the same. He hung the sides 87 00:06:56,400 --> 00:07:00,080 Speaker 1: and filled the case and sure enough they came m 88 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:06,400 Speaker 1: they just point, not a word spoken. And so it 89 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 1: was every day, at the same time, things would appear, 90 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 1: summon from who knows where, by who knows what, but 91 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 1: slaughtered all the same. We tossed the bones and whatever 92 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 1: else we couldn't process into the pit. You see our 93 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:27,000 Speaker 1: back there's a big hole in the dirt that never 94 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:30,000 Speaker 1: seems to feel the first time I stood there and 95 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 1: dumped in the slot bucket, I looked down and saw 96 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 1: horns and rows of teeth attached to long pieces of 97 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:40,280 Speaker 1: jaw and severed claws and things I still don't have 98 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:43,760 Speaker 1: no words to describe. One day I stood in the 99 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 1: back and counted backwards under my breath. I tied it 100 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:51,640 Speaker 1: down to the second, just so I'd always be ready, 101 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 1: or at least I thought so. The lights flickered like usual, 102 00:07:56,640 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 1: and then outstepped this whoking monstrosity with the gaping mall 103 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 1: full of rows and rows of teeth that looked like 104 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 1: ivory colored roof nails, and the next thing I knew 105 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 1: I was pinned down and it was all I could 106 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 1: do to keep it pushed away. While the jaws snapped 107 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 1: and flex of slobber covered my face. The thing ejected 108 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:25,920 Speaker 1: something from its body and it wrapped around me. I 109 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,520 Speaker 1: felt one of my ribs crack and my vision started 110 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 1: to go dark. With everything I had left, I pushed 111 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 1: my hands up into what I think was its neck 112 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:36,480 Speaker 1: and grabbed a hunk of skin and fur and just 113 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 1: ripped it. The thing let out a promise thring so 114 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:42,240 Speaker 1: loud my ears started the ring. My vision was almost black, 115 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:44,640 Speaker 1: but I reached into the hall I just readded and 116 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:47,400 Speaker 1: found a handful of what I can only guess was 117 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:52,080 Speaker 1: a windpipe toward out. The thing gas and finally collapsed 118 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 1: on top of me. The old man walked over and 119 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 1: kicked the lifeless mass off of me with one shove 120 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:03,400 Speaker 1: of his boot. Good it was. That afternoon a young 121 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:09,240 Speaker 1: woman appeared, shivering and afraid. She spoke quietly. I couldn't 122 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:12,480 Speaker 1: understand her, but I could see that she was terrified 123 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:19,319 Speaker 1: and it was beautiful, ethereal crystal Blue Eyes. All of 124 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:23,800 Speaker 1: a sudden that fear of hers vanished and she stood 125 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 1: up and walked towards me. I thought maybe she could 126 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:31,520 Speaker 1: see that I was safe. The old man grabbed her 127 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 1: by the hair and snatched her head back and cut 128 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 1: her throat open with one quick motion. Her skin faded 129 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:39,959 Speaker 1: to gray, and then two scales, and then whatever the 130 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:44,040 Speaker 1: thing was fell to the floor, all twisted and ugly 131 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:48,200 Speaker 1: and warped. He put his hand on my shoulder. For 132 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:52,600 Speaker 1: everything that appears, know this, no matter what it looks 133 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:55,880 Speaker 1: like or how much begs and pleads, even if it 134 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,599 Speaker 1: looks like someone you know there's nothing there but a 135 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:04,600 Speaker 1: whole the evil and death, no matter what, even if 136 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:08,559 Speaker 1: everything inside of you struggles with him, even if it's 137 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 1: a job. The old man lifted his shirt up through 138 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:15,679 Speaker 1: the side of his apron and displayed the scars from 139 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:18,080 Speaker 1: where a small chunk of flesh had been torn away. 140 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:23,240 Speaker 1: And never ever bargain with one of them, no matter 141 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 1: what they promise you. It's only meat and there must 142 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 1: always be meat. And then the next day he was gone. 143 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:39,480 Speaker 1: The shop was mine, my burden and I knew these 144 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:45,160 Speaker 1: things would never stop coming. Sometimes it's easy and quick 145 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:55,880 Speaker 1: and sometimes it's not, but there must always be me h. Yes, 146 00:10:55,960 --> 00:11:00,240 Speaker 1: well then, I suppose we should be moving on. How 147 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:07,960 Speaker 1: is your head? Your eyesight? It's more shadows, any shapes? 148 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:15,679 Speaker 1: None that I can decipher. Well, let's go get we 149 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:20,199 Speaker 1: will see you at sundown. That you will father be 150 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:31,320 Speaker 1: with you. Everything returns to him. Everyone here seems very religious. Well, 151 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:35,320 Speaker 1: we are a tight community held together by our shared faith. 152 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:43,559 Speaker 1: It's a very rare thing, I'd imagine. The wider world 153 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 1: is scary, dangerous. You never know what's hiding behind your 154 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:54,520 Speaker 1: neighbor's door, but here our secrets are all out in 155 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:59,040 Speaker 1: the open. You know that Sarah over there accidentally killed 156 00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:05,920 Speaker 1: her husband in asleep, accidentally, or that James on the bench, 157 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:09,400 Speaker 1: the short one with the reddish hair that underneath his 158 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:14,000 Speaker 1: janitor's jumpsuit he's covered, had to tow con Cigarette Burns. 159 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:20,520 Speaker 1: What we know each other, and that familiarity brings comfort. 160 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:25,160 Speaker 1: And we have the familiarity because the father in the 161 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 1: sea has gifted it. We accept his gift with love 162 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 1: and faith. Bad things happen everywhere. At least here we 163 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:41,079 Speaker 1: know how we know why they happened. The knowledge is strength. 164 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:49,320 Speaker 1: It's a bond that's unbreakable. Come we have lots to 165 00:12:49,360 --> 00:13:07,200 Speaker 1: do tomorrow. On thirteen days of Halloween, the wishing well, 166 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:13,640 Speaker 1: I'd find myself lost, staring out the window of the 167 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:18,120 Speaker 1: store in the direction of this old well. What harm 168 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:22,880 Speaker 1: could it do? I thought to make a wish. I 169 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:30,000 Speaker 1: started as an errant thought, then the most inside of jokes, 170 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:35,080 Speaker 1: something I shared only with myself, until one day I 171 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:40,040 Speaker 1: stood right where you are now and looked down deep 172 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:47,120 Speaker 1: into the well. I made a wish. I've thought about 173 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:54,560 Speaker 1: this carefully. I wished, after days of deliberation, to never 174 00:13:55,000 --> 00:14:01,079 Speaker 1: be alone. At first I thought nothing happened, just the 175 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:13,840 Speaker 1: clink of a coin against the stone. Thirteen days of Halloween. 176 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:17,800 Speaker 1: The butcher shop starring Cathey to Jimmy Bethany and Lynde 177 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:22,120 Speaker 1: and Rachelle James. Written by Matt Riddle, with additional material 178 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:26,360 Speaker 1: by Nicholas Takowski. Sound Design and mixing by Josh Thane, 179 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:31,240 Speaker 1: engineering by violent Ferton, DUBWAY STUDIOS NEW YORK. Casting by 180 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:35,200 Speaker 1: Jessica Losa. Created by Matt Frederick and Alex Williams, with 181 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:39,040 Speaker 1: executive producer Aaron Manky. A production of I heart radio, 182 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 1: grim and mild and Blumhouse Television