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Speaker 2: There's a place beyond this place, a middle ground between

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Speaker 2: the light and the darkness, the natire and the zenith.

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Speaker 2: For some, it's a bridge between the living and the dead.

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Speaker 2: Yet for others, it's something else. Entirely, it's the place

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Speaker 2: where our nightmares dwell. Each one of us has touched

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Speaker 2: the other side and felt the presence of something beyond

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Speaker 2: this world. We now venture into a realm where the

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Speaker 2: Boogieyman are real. And this tale ripped from the darkest

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Speaker 2: corners of urban life, a story that unfolds in a

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Speaker 2: West Toronto neighborhood where the vulnerability of.

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Speaker 3: Youth collides with the terrors of the adult world.

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Speaker 2: Smiley unpacks his haunting encounter with this man, seemingly possessed

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Speaker 2: and one among the army of drug addicted zombies roaming

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Speaker 2: the streets. Brace yourselves for a heroin journey into a

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Speaker 2: nightmarish underworld that exists in the shadows have been all

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Speaker 4: My name is Smiley and this is my hip hot

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Speaker 4: horror story. So as a kid, I used to watch

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Speaker 4: Krela de Ville and then I always used to dream

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Speaker 4: of her. I have scary nightmares of her coming in

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Speaker 4: like in my basement, and she would come out the

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Speaker 4: furnace room and I how to wake up. And that

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Speaker 4: was the scariest thing to you as a kid. My

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Speaker 4: last dream I had of her, she came in the

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Speaker 4: in the dream and like my I for some reason,

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Speaker 4: she was walking towards me, and I see my friends

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Speaker 4: pass me, but like for some reason, the words couldn't

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Speaker 4: Then she was walking towards me in the dream, and

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Speaker 4: she wasn't scary when I watched the movie, but in

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Speaker 4: You and the it's one on one in the dream,

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Speaker 4: it's say, everything's scary in the dream. I would always

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Speaker 5: That's where she came from. So I think that's where.

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Speaker 4: She was trying to drag me in there and I

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Speaker 4: wanted to take me to you know, Narnia. I think

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Speaker 4: there was a secret thing, all right. So when I

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Speaker 5: That's the type of neighborhood, like you know in the wire.

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Speaker 4: There was a something happened like around my neighborhood. It

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Speaker 4: she got murdered around our neighborhood. Some pedophile guy kidnapped

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Speaker 4: So then once they said the police kicked the door everything,

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Speaker 5: He's seen this tall black scary man. He was huge.

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Speaker 4: He's doing like this exorcist, look like he's getting possessed,

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Speaker 4: Scared because I'm like, oh fuck, these guys are gonna

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Speaker 4: He looked like he was ready to kidnap me and

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Speaker 5: There'll be in those Sphinx, in.

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Speaker 2: The world where the monsters of our imagination vie for

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Speaker 2: Smiley's story is a testament to the resilience of the

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Speaker 2: the scariest tales are those that lurk just outside our

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Speaker 2: his gauntlet of youth. In this next story, we grapple

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Speaker 2: As they proceed with their production, Narsy and his crew

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Speaker 2: the essence of the Greatest himself, reaching across realms to

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Speaker 1: So in like twenty seventeen, I had the opportunity to

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Speaker 1: the time, they call the Hallucination Now and we got

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Speaker 1: Next day we go and location scout and as I'm

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Speaker 1: So that's one of the stories.

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Speaker 2: The spirit of the greatest reaching across realms to touch

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Speaker 2: an artist's life. The line between the mortal and the

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Speaker 3: We'll let you decide what's up everybody.

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Speaker 2: This is Belly and this is my hip hop horror story.

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Speaker 2: So this story is kind of like a two part story.

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Speaker 2: Starts off with something that affected me when I was

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Speaker 2: That I think people should know is me and my grandfather,

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Speaker 2: You know, I still feel like, you know, his presence

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Speaker 2: The following summer, we end up going to Jordan to

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Speaker 2: We're playing cards every night, We're staying up and sneaking out,

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Speaker 2: probably wouldn't even understand in Arabic. She's given her grandmother

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Speaker 2: They were like, nah, you're too young. So we having

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Speaker 2: So there's somebody praying, and the prayer keeps getting louder

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Speaker 3: So we had to post up in.

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Speaker 3: It was like screws. So we're literally having to sit.

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Speaker 2: the walls, and we're listening to what I believe to

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Speaker 2: be a live exorcism. So we decide to not tell anybody.

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Speaker 2: We decided to keep it kind of like a pack

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Speaker 2: between us, and probably like five days later, we're outside,

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Speaker 2: you know, we're like shooting marbles or something, and the

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Speaker 2: grandma walks out with the little girl, and like it

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Speaker 2: was like it was like any story that they had

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Speaker 2: told before about craziness wasn't there. It was just a

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Speaker 2: grandma her granddaughter walking to the store. I don't know,

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Speaker 2: if memory serves me right, I think she was even skipping,

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Speaker 2: you know. So I don't know what I witnessed that night.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure, but it was definitely a night that

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Speaker 2: that I always remember in a sound that I'll never forget.

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