Speaker 1: Hello, it's Richard mc lean smith here. Due to the
Speaker 1: recent arrival of another Minnie mc lean Smith, there'll be
Speaker 1: a slight pause on new episodes, so for the next
Speaker 1: two weeks will be dipping back into the vaults, before
Speaker 1: continuing rather aptly with the next episode of season eight
Speaker 1: on Friday, the thirteenth of June. This week, we're heading
Speaker 1: back to season one, episode ten. The world of Horror
Speaker 1: is littered with unnerving locations, places that both draw from
Speaker 1: and have in turn seeped into the public imagination. For many.
Speaker 1: There is one place in particular that continues to fascinate
Speaker 1: like no other in the UK. With its combination of mystery,
Speaker 1: intrigue and its atmospheric location. You couldn't make up a
Speaker 1: better setting the place Burleskin House. This is unexplained Season
Speaker 1: one episode ten, The Spaces that Linger. The world of
Speaker 1: Horror is littered with unnerving locations, places that both draw
Speaker 1: from and have in turn seeped into the public imagination.
Speaker 1: Perhaps the most symbolic of them all being the forest,
Speaker 1: the archetypal liminal space of what Joseph Campbell termed the
Speaker 1: hero's journey. Not only is the forest dark and mysterious,
Speaker 1: but it is of course profoundly symbolic, being as it
Speaker 1: is a manifestation of our deep unconscious. As we venture
Speaker 1: deeper into the forest, so too do we journey deeper
Speaker 1: into ourselves in our quest to confront our greatest fears,
Speaker 1: before with any luck, ultimately emerging victorious and changed. But
Speaker 1: for all the creatures and the hidden and unknoble fears
Speaker 1: we might discover along the way, the forest, in a
Speaker 1: sense remains a space that is our own, those fears
Speaker 1: within our own to decipher and overcome. Far more chilling, therefore,
Speaker 1: are the places that, when entering, we find ourselves crossing
Speaker 1: a threshold into a world that is very much not
Speaker 1: our own, Places where no longer are we at the
Speaker 1: whim of our darkest unconscious, but rather that of somebody else's.
Speaker 1: God forbid you ever find yourself checking into the Bates Motel,
Speaker 1: as found in Robert Box's Psycho, or stumbling into the
Speaker 1: family home of leather Face, so disturbingly depicted in Toby
Speaker 1: Hooper's mesmerizingly deranged Texas Chainsaw Massacre. What both stories have
Speaker 1: in common is a location so inextricably linked to the
Speaker 1: bad guys as to be almost inseparable from them. There
Speaker 1: is the sense that even when empty, the locations will
Speaker 1: somehow incubate the things that have happened inside. Both stories, incidentally,
Speaker 1: were partly based on the life of murderer ed Gean,
Speaker 1: whose proclivity for manufacturing ornaments and furniture from human bone
Speaker 1: and skin continues to shock the world almost sixty years
Speaker 1: after the event. After Gene's conviction, it was decided that
Speaker 1: his house should be torn down. So incapable with the
Speaker 1: local community from separating the location from the events that
Speaker 1: had taken place inside, there was no other option but
Speaker 1: to remove it entirely. A similar theme emerges in many
Speaker 1: cases of alleged domestic supernatural disturbances, such as those that
Speaker 1: took place at thirty East Drive in Pontefract or at
Speaker 1: number two eight four Green Street in Enfield. In these
Speaker 1: stories we find the recurring notion that any new resident
Speaker 1: of the property is merely an invader occupying a space
Speaker 1: that isn't theirs to occupy. At times, it might it
Speaker 1: seems that in some way or another the property has
Speaker 1: developed a soul all of its own. For many there
Speaker 1: is one place in particular that continues to fascinate like
Speaker 1: no other in the UK for its combination of mystery,
Speaker 1: intrigue and atmospheric location. You couldn't concoct a better setting
Speaker 1: the name Burleskin House you're listening to unexplained in dime
Speaker 1: Richard MacLean Smith. The story of Bileskin House is inseparable
Speaker 1: from that of its most infamous former resident, Alister Crowley.
Speaker 1: It was a very particular journey that brought Crowley to Buleskin,
Speaker 1: and it begins a short time before midnight on the
Speaker 1: twelfth of October eighteen seventy five with his birth in
Speaker 1: Royal Leamington, Spa, England. Crowley, who was christened Edward Alexander,
Speaker 1: was the first of two children born to Edward and
Speaker 1: Emily Crowley. Their second, a baby girl, would arrive five
Speaker 1: years later, but would tragically die after only five hours
Speaker 1: of life. The family was devoutly religious and belonged to
Speaker 1: a Christian sect known as the Plymouth Brethren. The sect
Speaker 1: were renowned for their belief in the literal truth of
Speaker 1: the Bible and their puritanical attitude toward sin and the
Speaker 1: dangers of temptation. It was into this deeply rigid and
Speaker 1: conservative environment that Crowley was brought up, an environment which
Speaker 1: many believe contributed to his utter rejection of all such
Speaker 1: beliefs in later life. Owing to his share in the
Speaker 1: lucrative family brewing business, Crowley's father, Edward, had been able
Speaker 1: to take an early retirement, and as such divided most
Speaker 1: of his time between his family and volunteering as a
Speaker 1: traveling preacher for the Sect. Despite the socially claustrophobic upbringing
Speaker 1: and unhappy childhood, Crowley was utterly devoted to Edward. In
Speaker 1: March eighteen eighty seven, Crowley was devastated when his father
Speaker 1: died after a short battle with cancer. The young Allister
Speaker 1: was only eleven years old, and the death would prove
Speaker 1: to be a significant turning point in his life. Crowley's
Speaker 1: sorrow at the loss of his father soon morphed into anger,
Speaker 1: as Crowley began attacking the very thing that had made
Speaker 1: his life such a misery, rejecting what he saw as
Speaker 1: the zealous and authoritarian scourge of Christianity. In the years
Speaker 1: that followed, it would seem that Crowley had developed a
Speaker 1: pathological yearning to commit the sins he had so studiously
Speaker 1: been warned against. He started to experiment sexually, dabbled with debauchery,
Speaker 1: and took any opportunity to point out what he considered
Speaker 1: to be the many inconsistencies in the Bible to anyone
Speaker 1: who would listen. Crowley had the sense that he was
Speaker 1: searching for something, but it wasn't until he arrived at
Speaker 1: Cambridge University that the pieces began to shift into place.
Speaker 1: At some point, Crowley had become interested in the occult,
Speaker 1: in particular the study of ritual magic, an enthusiasm that
Speaker 1: was piqued after he read A. E. Waits's The Book
Speaker 1: of Black Magic and Pacts. An acute interest in alchemy
Speaker 1: brought him into contact with British chemist and occultist George
Speaker 1: Cecil Jones, who in turn introduced Crowley to the Hermetic
Speaker 1: Order of the Golden Dawn. The Order had been established
Speaker 1: in eighteen eighty eight and was led by the charismatic
Speaker 1: Samuel Liddell mac Gregor Mathers. Some of you may remember
Speaker 1: that it was to Maths that the Alpha and Omega
Speaker 1: group had stayed faithful, the same group to which Nettafornario
Speaker 1: had belonged before her death under mysterious circumstances in nineteen
Speaker 1: twenty nine. As we explored in Episode one, After graduation
Speaker 1: and with the luxury of his family's brewing dynasty inheritance,
Speaker 1: Crowley was able to untether himself from the usual constraints
Speaker 1: of life. As such, he was free to throw himself
Speaker 1: into his new and burgeoning obsession of ritual magic. A
Speaker 1: year after leaving Cambridge, Crowley had moved into a luxury
Speaker 1: London flat in Chancery Lane and had hired fellow Golden
Speaker 1: Dawn member Alan Bennett to become his personal magic tutor.
Speaker 1: It was Bennett who formerly introduced Crowley to ceremonial magic
Speaker 1: and the ritual use of drugs, but most importantly to
Speaker 1: the rituals of the goetia, the practice of invoking what
Speaker 1: are commonly known as angels and demons, in particular the
Speaker 1: AARs goetia, as found in the opening section of the
Speaker 1: seventeenth century Grimoire The Lesser Key of Solomon, a Grimoire
Speaker 1: being another term for a book of magic spells. Mathers
Speaker 1: was impressed by Crowley's dedication and rapid rise through the
Speaker 1: various grades of the Golden Dawn, and the two became
Speaker 1: close friends, but Crowley was growing increasingly frustrated with the movement.
Speaker 1: His frustration was in part due to the reticence that
Speaker 1: some of the more established members had about Crowley's membership.
Speaker 1: In what was quite a rarity for the time, Crowley
Speaker 1: was openly bisexual, a state of affairs that many members
Speaker 1: sadly found uncomfortable. But what irked Crowley more than anything
Speaker 1: was what he considered to be the inherent phoniness of
Speaker 1: the group, peopled as it was by many esteemed intellects
Speaker 1: of the day such as W. B. Yates and Brown Stoker.
Speaker 1: Crowley felt that they were merely playing at magic and
Speaker 1: treated the organization as a glorified salon. In what would
Speaker 1: later become a feature of Crowley's life, he wanted more
Speaker 1: and to go further than anyone had gone before. In
Speaker 1: eighteen ninety eight, Mathers introduced Crowley to a strange and
Speaker 1: a mystical text called The Secret Book of Abramelen Magic.
Speaker 1: The book, which is said to date back to the
Speaker 1: fifteenth century, recounts the story of an Egyptian carbalistic magician
Speaker 1: known as abrameln the Mage and his pupil, Abraham of
Speaker 1: Vorms in Germany. As the story goes, Abraham found the
Speaker 1: maid living in the desert outside Aratchi, an Egyptian town
Speaker 1: near the River Nile. After agreeing to serve and fear
Speaker 1: the Lord, and to live and die in his most
Speaker 1: Holy Law, Abraham was instructed by Abramelen in the divine
Speaker 1: science and true magic embedded within the two manuscripts. Abraham
Speaker 1: was warned only to pass this knowledge on to those
Speaker 1: he knew well and trusted. But now it was in
Speaker 1: the hands of Alistair Crowley. Crucially, the book describes an
Speaker 1: elaborate ritual known as the Abremellin operation, designed to conjure
Speaker 1: up the magician's guardian angel. It became clear to Crowley
Speaker 1: that this was the next step that he must take
Speaker 1: in his path to complete enlightenment. It is a path
Speaker 1: that many believe to have led to fatal consequences. Not
Speaker 1: wanting to leave anything to chance, the well heeled Crowley
Speaker 1: embarked on a lengthy undertaking to find the ideal location
Speaker 1: for the operation. As Crowley later wrote, the house must
Speaker 1: be in a more or less secluded situation. There should
Speaker 1: be a door opening to the north from the room
Speaker 1: of which you make your oratory. Outside this door you
Speaker 1: construct a terrace covered with fine river sand. This ends
Speaker 1: in a lodge where the spirits may congregate. A year
Speaker 1: after searching, Crowley had failed to find the perfect location.
Speaker 1: That was until he found himself traveling into the highlands
Speaker 1: of Scotland along the haunting shores of the majestic Loch Ness.
Speaker 1: A short time later, Crowley arrived at a small grave
Speaker 1: site by the side of the road overlooking the loch. There,
Speaker 1: perched a short distance up the hill overlooking the graveyard,
Speaker 1: he saw it for the first time, the house that
Speaker 1: would forever become synonymous with his name, Buleskin. The single
Speaker 1: floored mansion, located on the eastern shore of Loch Ness,
Speaker 1: was built in the late eighteenth century by a Colonel
Speaker 1: Archibald Fraser. It is not clear what exactly brought Crowley
Speaker 1: to Buleskin, though the filmmaker and Croley ficionado Kenneth Anger
Speaker 1: has pointed out that he may have been drawn to
Speaker 1: the name and its similarity to Baal, the can and
Speaker 1: god of Gods, later remodeled as the Lord of flies.
Speaker 1: In the Old Testament, Barull is represented by the symbol
Speaker 1: of the bull, the word boll from Boleskin, being an
Speaker 1: ancient Scottish form of the same animal. Others believe, however,
Speaker 1: that Crowley had in some way been preternaturally drawn to
Speaker 1: the house. It was said that a medieval church had
Speaker 1: once stood on the same site. One morning, with the
Speaker 1: congregation inside, the church mysteriously caught fire. As the congregation
Speaker 1: rushed to escape, they found themselves inexplicably trapped inside. Unable
Speaker 1: to escape, they perished as the church burnt steadily to
Speaker 1: the ground. Had something of the event remained something that
Speaker 1: Crowley was eager to tap into. It is also said
Speaker 1: that the graveyard itself was once a meeting point for witches.
Speaker 1: Reports of a tunnel leading from the house to the
Speaker 1: grave site, which some claim to have been used by
Speaker 1: Crowley to conduct his own nighttime rituals, remain unsubstantiated. So
Speaker 1: convinced was Crowley of the house's suitability that in August
Speaker 1: eighteen ninety nine, he paid more than twice its value
Speaker 1: to secure the property. A short time later, he relocated
Speaker 1: his possessions and began preparing for the great Operation. It
Speaker 1: is important at this point to draw the distinction between
Speaker 1: what many see as Crowley's unhealthy obsession with black magic
Speaker 1: and satanism and what, in reality it was that Crowley
Speaker 1: hoped to achieve whether there is a truth to it
Speaker 1: or not. Crowley's intention and the sole purpose of the
Speaker 1: ritual was to seek knowledge and conversation with his own
Speaker 1: personal guardian angel. It is, by all accounts, a ritual
Speaker 1: to invoke positive change, a force for good, But there
Speaker 1: was one glaringly large catch. In order to do this,
Speaker 1: Crowley would have to invoke and then bring under his
Speaker 1: control the twelve Kings of Hell before beginning the ritual,
Speaker 1: which required him to start in Easter. Crowley spent the
Speaker 1: intervening months entertaining guests and readying the property in preparation
Speaker 1: for the ceremony. The final stage was to cover the
Speaker 1: outdoor terrace in a fine river sand. The reason was simple.
Speaker 1: It was so Crowley could see the feet marks of
Speaker 1: the spirits and demons he was about to invoke. The
Speaker 1: ritual was to last six months and required the utmost conviction.
Speaker 1: It would require him to live off little more than
Speaker 1: bread and water, and to wake regularly at three a m.
Speaker 1: To begin the invocations. Chastity had to be observed at
Speaker 1: all times, and complete abstinence was paramount for the free
Speaker 1: spirited Crowley. That in itself would have proved a tall order. However,
Speaker 1: As the winter snow of eighteen ninety nine began to thaw,
Speaker 1: and with it past the season of death, new life
Speaker 1: was bursting forth throughout the surrounding hills. Spring had finally arrived,
Speaker 1: and Crowley's dedication had not faltered. The time had come
Speaker 1: to begin the ritual. Crowley began by preparing the talismans
Speaker 1: that were essential for the operation. The talismans, which can
Speaker 1: be found at the back of the Book of Abremelen,
Speaker 1: are a set of magic word squares required to bring
Speaker 1: the twelve kings of Hell into order. Crowley had moved
Speaker 1: to the brightest room in the house to best complete
Speaker 1: the task. The room, located at the front of the house,
Speaker 1: overlooked the terrace and down to the dark and still
Speaker 1: loch ness beyond. Crowley cut the squares from the material vellum,
Speaker 1: and as a bright sun flooded the room with light,
Speaker 1: he began to inscribe the squares with Indian ink. When
Speaker 1: something strange happened despite the clear skies, the room began
Speaker 1: to darken until the light had been almost entirely extinguished.
Speaker 1: From this point on, Crowley was required to use a
Speaker 1: large array of candles to keep the room alight. Even
Speaker 1: during the brightest times of day. With everything in order,
Speaker 1: Crowley embarked on his six month odyssey. Almost immediately he
Speaker 1: received confirmation that he was on the right path as
Speaker 1: he began to chant in the room. Even with all
Speaker 1: its artificial light, it again began to darken, while all
Speaker 1: around the lodge in Terrace became peopled with shadowy shapes, or,
Speaker 1: as Crowley writes, the demons and evil forces had congregated
Speaker 1: round me so thickly that they were shutting off the light.
Speaker 1: A number of friends had declined to visit Crowley, believing
Speaker 1: he was going too far meddling with things he couldn't understand,
Speaker 1: let alone control. The Grimoire itself begins with the warning
Speaker 1: not to attempt any of the magic contained. Within only
Speaker 1: a few weeks into the opera, already there were ominous stirrings.
Speaker 1: One acquaintance named Russia, lasted only two weeks before terror
Speaker 1: forced him to flee, Crowley coming down to breakfast one
Speaker 1: day only to be informed that Russia had taken the
Speaker 1: first boat in Vernesse that morning. At one point, Crowley
Speaker 1: returned to Buleskin one afternoon to find a Catholic priest
Speaker 1: waiting for him, in his study. The priest informed him
Speaker 1: that the day before, his lodge keeper, who had not
Speaker 1: touched alcohol for twenty years, had come home raving drunk
Speaker 1: and attempted to murder his wife and children. Already, it
Speaker 1: would seem that the ritual, despite being a very personal pursuit,
Speaker 1: was provoking forces beyond Crowley's control. Although it may not
Speaker 1: have been going well for those around him, the ritual
Speaker 1: seemed to be working for Crowley, but all that was
Speaker 1: about to change. Barely two months in, Crowley received a
Speaker 1: letter from Samuel Mathers requesting Crowley's immediate assistance. In Crowley's absence,
Speaker 1: the Order of the Golden Dawn had fractured into two
Speaker 1: opposing schools of thought, with Mathers believing he was in
Speaker 1: great danger of being usurped despite only being part way
Speaker 1: through the ritual. Crowley felt compelled to offer his assistance immediately.
Speaker 1: He packed his bags and headed straight to London, and
Speaker 1: with that the magic ritual was broken. It had been
Speaker 1: Croley's intention to return and complete the spell, but with
Speaker 1: one thing leading to another in the summer of nineteen hundred,
Speaker 1: Crowley instead moved to Mexico. The ritual remained incomplete as
Speaker 1: Kenneth Anger notes, if you invoke spirits to help you
Speaker 1: or teach you, there is something that has to be
Speaker 1: done afterwards, they must be bad. But Crowley never did that.
Speaker 1: It is said that soon after a dark cloud appeared
Speaker 1: over the house that failed to disperse for many months.
Speaker 1: Locals refused to go by the house, instead preferring to
Speaker 1: travel the entire circumference of the loch rather than pass it.
Speaker 1: As for Crowley, there are some who believe that failure
Speaker 1: to complete the ritual left him dangerously open to demonic possession,
Speaker 1: that the twelve kings of Hell may well have somehow
Speaker 1: found their way inside him, using him for their own purpose.
Speaker 1: Some consider what later became of Crowley to be directly
Speaker 1: linked to this moment, and for those that came to
Speaker 1: Boleskin after Crowley, it is hard to resist the temptation
Speaker 1: to think that some strange gateway had indeed been opened
Speaker 1: that has never since been closed. Some time after nineteen thirteen,
Speaker 1: the property came into the possession of Major Edward Grant.
Speaker 1: Not a lot is known about Grant's period of ownership,
Speaker 1: except that one morning, while his housekeeper, Anna McLaren, had
Speaker 1: been working in the garden, the family dog had come
Speaker 1: running up to her playing with something in its mouth.
Speaker 1: It looked like some kind of bone, but knowing there
Speaker 1: was nothing of that sort in the house, Missus McLaren
Speaker 1: grabbed it from the dog and threw it away. A
Speaker 1: short time later, Anna called in on the Major, only
Speaker 1: to make a horrific discovery. There, slumped in front of
Speaker 1: a large bedroom mirror was the body of Major Grant,
Speaker 1: lying next to a recently discharged shotgun. His head had
Speaker 1: been completely removed by the blast. The dog had indeed
Speaker 1: been chewing on a bone. It was a piece of
Speaker 1: Major Grant's skull. In nineteen seventy, the house was bought
Speaker 1: by Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page. Page had for a
Speaker 1: long time been fascinated by the occult, and in particular
Speaker 1: the life of Aleister Crowley. However, due to his rigorous
Speaker 1: touring schedule and other commitments, rarely visited the house and
Speaker 1: had invited his friend Malcolm Dent to look after the
Speaker 1: property in his absence. Dent and his family moved into
Speaker 1: the property soon after, and it wasn't long before they
Speaker 1: realized something in the house wasn't quite right. Despite Bileskin's reputation.
Speaker 1: Dent was a confirmed skeptic and had little time for
Speaker 1: what he considered to be nothing but superstitious nonsense. Before long,
Speaker 1: Dent and his family became plagued by a series of
Speaker 1: inexplicable noises moving throughout the house. Doors would slam mysteriously
Speaker 1: all through the night, and carpets and rugs would be
Speaker 1: mischievously pulled up. Another regular occurrence was that the doors
Speaker 1: would suddenly spring open, as if someone was running through them,
Speaker 1: even on a calm day. Dent recalled sitting in bed
Speaker 1: late at night when something outside the room began snuffling
Speaker 1: under the door. It sounded at first like a dog,
Speaker 1: before growing in intensity, becoming louder and louder. He snapped
Speaker 1: on the light, only for the noise to become even
Speaker 1: more intense. As the door began to rattle violently. He
Speaker 1: had the sudden feeling that something huge and evil was
Speaker 1: trying to get in. Then, as quickly as it had begun,
Speaker 1: it stopped. Was this one of the twelve Kings of
Speaker 1: Hell that Crowley had failed to banish, or something else
Speaker 1: that had entered through a strange gateway he had failed
Speaker 1: to close. Dent later discovered that the room he was
Speaker 1: in at the time had been the same room that
Speaker 1: Crowley conducted his ritual. In nineteen ninety one, the house
Speaker 1: was sold again to a Ronald and Annette mac gillivray,
Speaker 1: who stayed in the property event free for almost ten years.
Speaker 1: Following the death of Ronald in two thousand two, the
Speaker 1: house was again put up for sale and was later
Speaker 1: bought by a Dutch family, who also reported nothing unusual
Speaker 1: in all their time staying at the house. The demons,
Speaker 1: it would seem, had finally taken leave, or had they.
Speaker 1: In December twenty fifteen, the owner's daughter and partner arrived
Speaker 1: at Burleskin House intent on staying for the Christmas holidays.
Speaker 1: Shortly after one pm on Wednesday, the twenty third, the
Speaker 1: couple had left the house to get some much needed
Speaker 1: supplies for the days ahead. At approximately one forty pm,
Speaker 1: a motorist on the A eighty two road on the
Speaker 1: opposite side of the lock reported seeing flames and smoke
Speaker 1: coming from the direction of Burleskin House. By the time
Speaker 1: the couple had returned, half the building was on fire,
Speaker 1: with the flames rising over twenty feet into the air.
Speaker 1: Multiple crews of firemen battled the blaze until the early
Speaker 1: hours of the following day. By the next morning, sixty
Speaker 1: percent of the house had been incinerated, as it remains
Speaker 1: to this day. After an extensive investigation, the fire was
Speaker 1: found not to have been started deliberately. The precise cause
Speaker 1: of the fire is a mystery that remains to this
Speaker 1: day unexplained. For more on the story of that greatly
Speaker 1: misunderstood Aleister Crowley, please listen out of episode ten extra,
Speaker 1: where we'll be delving a little deeper into the beliefs
Speaker 1: and magic of the man once described as the wickedest
Speaker 1: man in the world. As for Burleskin House, whether you
Speaker 1: care to believe all the stories or not, the will
Speaker 1: forever remain something compelling about this most beguiling of places.
Speaker 1: Whether that is because of what we have projected onto
Speaker 1: it or due to something perhaps a little more unearthly,
Speaker 1: is anyone's guess. In fact, there is something of this
Speaker 1: in all buildings, even those without such ominous connotations. We
Speaker 1: feel it in our fascinae with ruined and abandoned places,
Speaker 1: because although they may be empty, it is impossible not
Speaker 1: to sense something of those that had come before, and
Speaker 1: perhaps in some way still remain. I will leave you
Speaker 1: with a passage from Thomas Pinchon's Gravity's Rainbow. In the
Speaker 1: novel pinch and Rights of a place known as the Zone,
Speaker 1: a sort of liminal space metaphorically caught somewhere between life
Speaker 1: and death. The novel's protagonist Slothrop, is traveling through the
Speaker 1: Zone in the aftermath of the Second World War when
Speaker 1: he finds himself inside an abandoned factory, once a throbbing
Speaker 1: heart of industry, now quiet and stilled, though found adrift
Speaker 1: and haunted, full of signs of recent human tenancy. This
Speaker 1: is not the legendary ship marries Celeste. It isn't bounded
Speaker 1: so neatly. These tracks under foot run away fore and
Speaker 1: aft into all stilled Europe, And our flesh doesn't sweat
Speaker 1: and pimple here for the domestic mysteries, the attic horror
Speaker 1: of what might have happened, so much as for our
Speaker 1: knowledge of what likely did happen. It was always easy
Speaker 1: in open and lonely places to be visited by panic, wilderness, fear.
Speaker 1: But these are the urban fantods here that come to
Speaker 1: get you when you are lost or isolate inside the way.
Speaker 1: Time is passing when there is no more history, no
Speaker 1: time traveling capsule to find your way back to, only
Speaker 1: the lateness and the absence that fill a great railway
Speaker 1: shed after the capital has been evacuated, and the goat
Speaker 1: God's city cousins wait for you at the edges of
Speaker 1: the light, playing the tunes they always played, but more
Speaker 1: audible now because everything else has gone away or fallen Silent.
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