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Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented twenty twelve Camra. It's ready.

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Speaker 1: Are you welcome to stuff you should know from HowStuffWorks

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Speaker 2: Heyden, Welcome to the podcast. A very special podcast, right, Chuck,

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Speaker 2: A spectacular if you will. Happy Halloween to all of

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Speaker 2: you out there. This should come out a couple of

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Speaker 2: days before it before, but we wanted to make sure

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Speaker 2: that we weren't going to miss it, and so we're

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Speaker 2: releasing a special Halloween podcast that's right for this year.

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Speaker 3: Little something new.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and what we're doing is not in any way,

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Speaker 2: shape or form scientific. It is, in fact pure fiction

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Speaker 2: or is it it is? Okay, we're going to read

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Speaker 2: just to make sure we scare you guys, good and proper.

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Speaker 2: This Halloween and HP Lovecraft short story that was published

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Speaker 2: in nineteen twenty two, and it's entitled The Tomb, Right.

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Speaker 4: That's right.

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Speaker 3: Did you like this?

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Speaker 4: It was? It was good.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a great short story. It's one of

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Speaker 2: my faves.

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Speaker 4: Awesome.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I should probably preface this with Chuck is uncertain

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Speaker 2: about how this is gonna go. So if it goes good,

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Speaker 2: that means you're hearing it. If not, it'll be locked

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Speaker 2: away forever in a vault of some sort, possibly a tomb.

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Speaker 3: Right, tomb?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so, Chuck, are you ready? I am, I'm spooky,

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Speaker 2: I'm loose, I'm a little nervous, am I said?

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Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, right, all right.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna start. Okay, okay, all right, ready, I'm ready

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Speaker 2: the tomb by HP Lovecraft, in relating the circumstances which

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Speaker 2: have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented,

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Speaker 2: I am aware that my present position will create a

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Speaker 2: natural doubt of the authenticity of my narrative. It is

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Speaker 2: an unfortunate fact that the bulk of humanity is too

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Speaker 2: limited in its mental vision to weigh with patience and

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Speaker 2: intelligence those isolated phenomena seen and felt only by a

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Speaker 2: psychologically sensitive few, which lie outside its common experience. Men

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Speaker 2: of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction

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Speaker 2: betwixt the real and the unreal, that all things reappear

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Speaker 2: as they do only by virtue of the delicate individual

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Speaker 2: of them. But the prosaic materialism of the majority condemns

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Speaker 2: his madness. The flashes of supersight which penetrate the common

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Speaker 2: veil of obvious empiricism, so I should probably say right here, Chuck,

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Speaker 2: that it.

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Speaker 3: Gets a lot better. Okay, Okay.

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Speaker 2: My name is Jervis Dudley, and from earliest childhood I

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Speaker 2: have been a dreamer and a visionary, wealthy beyond the

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Speaker 2: necessity of a commercial life, and temperamentally unfitted for the

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Speaker 2: formal studies and social recreations of my acquaintances. I have

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Speaker 2: dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world, spending

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Speaker 2: my youth and adolescence in ancient and life little known books,

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Speaker 2: and in roaming the fields and groves of the region

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Speaker 2: near my ancestral home. I do not think that what

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Speaker 2: and groves was exactly what other boys read and saw there.

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Speaker 2: But of this I must say little, since detailed speech

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Speaker 2: would but confirm those cruel slanders upon my intellect, which

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Speaker 2: I sometimes overhear from the whispers of the stealthy attendants

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Speaker 2: without analyzing causes. I have said that I dwelt apart

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Speaker 2: I dwelt alone. This no human creature may do for

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Speaker 2: lacking the fellowship of the living, he inevitably draws upon

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Speaker 2: the companionship of the things that are not or are

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Speaker 2: no longer living. Close by my home there lies a

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Speaker 2: I spent most of my time, reading, thinking, and dreaming.

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Speaker 2: Down its moss covered slopes, my first steps of infancy

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Speaker 2: fancies of boyhood were woven. Did I come to know

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Speaker 2: the presiding dry heads of those trees? And often have

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Speaker 2: darkest of the hillside thickets, the deserted tomb of the Hides,

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Speaker 4: Take it, chuck, So there's a family called the Hides. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: and there's a tomb.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's where the Hides are, gotcha?

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Speaker 4: The vault to which I refers in ancient granite, weathered

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Speaker 4: uneasy voices alluding to what they call divine wrath, in

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Speaker 4: One man only had perished in the fire when the

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Speaker 4: last of the hides was buried. In this place of

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Speaker 4: shade and stillness. The sad urnful of ashes had come

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Speaker 4: from a distant land to which the family had repaired.

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Speaker 4: When the mansion burned down. No one remains to lay

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Speaker 4: It was in midsummer, when the alchemy of nature transmutes

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Speaker 4: seen and heard many wonders unknown to the throng, and

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Speaker 4: But in that instant of curiosity was borne the madly

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Speaker 4: Spurred on by a voice which must have come from

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Speaker 4: The physician with the iron gray beard who comes each

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Speaker 4: decision marked the beginnings of a pitiful monomania. But I

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Speaker 2: So, basically where we're at right, Chuck, is that we

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Speaker 2: that's been abandoned, yes in a grove. Tried to get in,

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Speaker 2: Yet he's drawn to it so much like his ex caliber.

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Speaker 2: Getting into this tomb is like something he's sworn to do.

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Speaker 4: Well, little Jervis Dudley, Little.

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Speaker 3: Jervis Dudley, I'm going to take over now. Okay, okay.

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Speaker 2: The months following my discovery were spent in feudal attempts

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Speaker 2: It is perhaps worth mentioning that I was not at

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Speaker 2: My rather original ideas regarding life and death had caused

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Speaker 2: with ease. But until till then, I would do better

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Speaker 2: by conforming to what seemed the will of fate. Accordingly,

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Speaker 2: much of my time was spent in other, though equally

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Speaker 2: What I did there I may not say, for I

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Speaker 2: But I know that on the day after such a

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Speaker 3: For many generations.

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Speaker 2: It was after a night like this that I shocked

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Speaker 4: Have knowledge that Jervis Dudley surely should not have.

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Speaker 4: I'd like to, Okay, okay, but the idea of entering

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Speaker 3: After this big nut.

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Speaker 2: So this guy is totally off his night at this point,

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Speaker 2: You're good at this, Chuck, Thanks, you're good.

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Speaker 3: So you get what's going on here? Right? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: I think audible dot Com was gonna be calling us

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Speaker 3: Now and say please stop.

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Speaker 4: what's going on? Is this kid is lying down in

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Speaker 3: He's twenty one? Now?

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Speaker 2: one night is changed. When he wakes up, he goes

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and people are looking at him like he's weird,

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Speaker 2: All right, you ready, May I please do? Henceforward? I

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Speaker 2: Despite my lifelong seclusion. My former silent tongue waxed voluble

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Speaker 2: I displayed a peculiar erudition, utterly unlike the fantastic Monkish

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Speaker 2: I came close to de z by declaiming impalpably licorice accents,

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Speaker 2: even though he's like a very sober, solitary, kind of

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Speaker 2: Now here, there's a few passages that we're not going

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Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, the poetry.

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Speaker 2: We're actually editing Lovecraft right now. Yeah, about this time

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Speaker 2: I conceived my present fear of fire and thunderstorms. Previously

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's above the tomb, and in fancy I

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Speaker 2: I never carried out of the sepulcher any of the

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Speaker 4: So what's going on here?

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Speaker 3: Kids?

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Speaker 4: Fraid of lightning and thunder?

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Speaker 2: Remember that house? Yeah, this cellar of which he's visiting

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Speaker 4: Right, okay, okay, Cherry's in there laughing. You ready my turn?

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Speaker 4: One morning, as I emerged from the damp tomb and

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Speaker 4: See that's creepy.

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Speaker 3: Damn.

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Speaker 4: Surely the end was near, for my bower was discovered

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Speaker 4: had the watcher thus deluded? I was now convinced that

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Speaker 4: since circumstance, I began to resume perfect openness in going

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Speaker 4: For a week, I tasted to the full the joys

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Speaker 3: So did you get what just happened? Uh?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? He basically the guy said, this kid hasn't been going.

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Speaker 3: In there, he's just been sleeping outside of it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but he feels like he's going in there. Sure

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Speaker 4: he's losing it or has he lost it? Or is he?

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Speaker 4: Or will he.

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Speaker 3: Find out? Right now?

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Speaker 4: I should not have ventured out that night, for the

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Speaker 4: The call of the dead, too was different. Instead of

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Speaker 4: a thing I had always vaguely expected. The mansion, gone

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Speaker 4: for a century, once more reared its stately height to

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Speaker 4: of powdered exquisites from the neighboring mansions. With this throng

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Speaker 4: I mingled, though I knew I belong with the hosts

434
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Speaker 4: rather than the guests. Inside the hall were music, laughter,

435
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Speaker 4: and wine on every hand. Several faces I reckoned eyes,

436
00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:02,840
Speaker 4: though I should have known them better, had they been

437
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:06,679
Speaker 4: shriveled or eaten away by death and decomposition. Amidst a

438
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,760
Speaker 4: wild and reckless throng. I was the wildest and most abandoned.

439
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:14,119
Speaker 4: Gay blasphemy poured in torrents from my lips and in

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Speaker 4: my shocking sallies. I heeded no law of God, man

441
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Speaker 4: or nature. Suddenly a peal of thunder resonant even above

442
00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:26,280
Speaker 4: the din of the Swinish revelry clave the very roof,

443
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Speaker 4: and laid a hush fear upon the boisterous company. Red

444
00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:31,320
Speaker 4: tongues of flame and searing gust of heat and gulf

445
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:34,600
Speaker 4: the house, and the roisterers struck with terror. The descent

446
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,040
Speaker 4: of a calamity, which seemed to transcend the bounds of

447
00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:41,199
Speaker 4: un guided nature, fled shrieking into the night. I alone

448
00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:44,600
Speaker 4: remained josh riveted to my seat by a groveling fear

449
00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,359
Speaker 4: which I had never felt before. And then a second

450
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,480
Speaker 4: horror took possession of my soul. Burnt alive, the ashes

451
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Speaker 4: my body dispersed by the four winds. I might never

452
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Speaker 4: lie in the tomb of the hides. Was not my

453
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Speaker 4: coffin prepared for me? Had I not a right arrest

454
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Speaker 4: till eternity amongst the descendants of Sir Jeoffrey Hyde, I

455
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Speaker 4: I would claim my heritage of death, even though my

456
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Speaker 4: soul would go seeking through the ages for another corporeal

457
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:13,879
Speaker 4: tenement to represent it on that vacant slab and the

458
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Speaker 4: alcove of the vault. Jervis Hide should never share the

459
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:20,199
Speaker 4: sad fate of Palarinus.

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Speaker 3: Nice.

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00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,480
Speaker 4: He's Scottish. All of a sudden, yeah or whatever that was?

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Speaker 3: You ready?

463
00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:28,119
Speaker 4: Well, what's going on here? Is he clearly saw the

464
00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:31,840
Speaker 4: mansion and yeah, I mean it was rebuilt. There were guests,

465
00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:34,840
Speaker 4: ghostly guest and he went and partied as a host.

466
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:36,960
Speaker 4: He felt like as a hide, Yeah, as a hide.

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00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:37,480
Speaker 3: Yeah.

468
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Speaker 4: And then what lightning came and took care of business

469
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Speaker 4: all over again.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he was at the party on the night that

471
00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:48,080
Speaker 2: it went down, that whole sad, ghastly business went down.

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Speaker 4: Is he mad?

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Speaker 3: Oh, let's find out all right? You ready? Yeah? May

474
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:53,160
Speaker 3: I take it home?

475
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:56,040
Speaker 4: Yeah? The exciting conclusion of the tomb.

476
00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:59,080
Speaker 2: As the phantom of the Burning House faded, I found

477
00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:02,520
Speaker 2: myself screaming and struggling madly in the arms of two men,

478
00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 2: one of whom was the spy who had followed me

479
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:07,679
Speaker 2: to the tomb. Rain was pouring down in Torrents, and

480
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 2: upon the southern horizon were flashes of the lightning that

481
00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:13,879
Speaker 2: had so lately passed over our heads. My father, his

482
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:16,879
Speaker 2: face lined with sorrow, stood by as I shouted my

483
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:20,119
Speaker 2: demands to be laid within the tomb, frequently admonishing my

484
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 2: captors to treat me as gently as they could. A

485
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,640
Speaker 2: blackened circle on the floor of the ruined cellar told

486
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:28,359
Speaker 2: of a violent stroke from the heavens, and from this

487
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:32,000
Speaker 2: spot a group of curious villagers with lanterns were prying

488
00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:35,479
Speaker 2: a small box of antique workmanship, which the thunderbolt had

489
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:39,240
Speaker 2: brought to light, ceasing my futile and now objectless writhing.

490
00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:42,439
Speaker 2: I watched the spectators as they viewed the treasure trove,

491
00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:45,840
Speaker 2: and was permitted to share in their discoveries. The box,

492
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:49,200
Speaker 2: whose fastenings were broken by the stroke which unearthed it

493
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,520
Speaker 2: contained many papers and objects of value, but I had

494
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 2: eyes for one thing alone. It was the porcelain miniature

495
00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,280
Speaker 2: of a young man in a smartly curled bag wig

496
00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:01,800
Speaker 2: and bore the initials J H. The face was such

497
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,120
Speaker 2: that as I gazed, I might as well have been

498
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 2: studying my mirror.

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Speaker 3: You got the a's messed up.

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00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:10,680
Speaker 2: On the following day, I was brought to this room

501
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,480
Speaker 2: with the barred windows but I have been kept informed

502
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 2: of certain things through an aged and simple minded servitor,

503
00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 2: for whom I bore a fondness in infancy, and who,

504
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,200
Speaker 2: like me, loves the churchyard. What I have dared relate

505
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 2: of my experiences within the vault has brought me only

506
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:30,480
Speaker 2: pitying smiles. My father, who visits me frequently, declares that

507
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 2: at no time did I pass the chained portal, and

508
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 2: swears that the rusted padlock had not been touched for

509
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 2: fifty years.

510
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 3: When he examined it.

511
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:40,199
Speaker 2: He even says that all the village knew of my

512
00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:42,639
Speaker 2: journeys to the tomb, and that I was often watched

513
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 2: as I slept in the bower outside the grim facade,

514
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 2: my half open eyes fixed on the crevice that leads

515
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:52,200
Speaker 2: to the interior. Against these insertions, I have no tangible

516
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:54,920
Speaker 2: proof to offer, since my key to the padlock was

517
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 2: lost in the struggle on that night of horrors. The

518
00:27:57,840 --> 00:27:59,840
Speaker 2: strange things of the past which I learned during the

519
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,439
Speaker 2: nocturnal meetings with the dead, he dismisses as the fruits

520
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:07,360
Speaker 2: of my lifelong and omnivorous browsing amongst the ancient volumes

521
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:10,359
Speaker 2: of the family library. Had it not been for my

522
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 2: old servant, Hiram. I should have by this time become

523
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:17,439
Speaker 2: quite convinced of my madness. But Hiram, loyal to the last,

524
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:20,240
Speaker 2: has held faith in me and has done that which

525
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 2: impels me to make public at least part of my story.

526
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,399
Speaker 2: A week ago he burst open the lock which changed

527
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 2: the door of the tomb perpetually Ajar, and descended with

528
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:32,920
Speaker 2: a lantern into the murky depths. On a slab in

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Speaker 2: an alcove, he found an old but empty coffin, whose

530
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Speaker 2: tarnished plate bears the single word jervis. In that coffin

531
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Speaker 2: and in that vault, they have promised me I shall

532
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Speaker 2: be buried.

533
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Speaker 4: The end and scene.

534
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 2: Wow, the tomb HP Lovecraft.

535
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Speaker 4: Pretty good, huh, i'd very creepy. Yeah, absolutely different time

536
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 4: back then, well much creepier obviously.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

538
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this might have been in Amazing Stories

539
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 2: at first.

540
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:07,720
Speaker 3: You're Weird Stories, one of the two.

541
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 4: In the TV show Amazing Stories.

542
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 2: No, No, the old pulp comic book. Oh okay, yeah,

543
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 2: so hopefully that creeped.

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Speaker 4: Everybody out right, Chuck, I'm creeped out.

545
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 2: I'm creeped out too. What are you going to be

546
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 2: for Halloween?

547
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:22,840
Speaker 4: I don't know. The band is playing a gig and

548
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 4: we're all gonna dress alike, so something I'm lobbing for

549
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 4: something with mustaches, okay? Or maybe the taint of the thundercloud?

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Speaker 3: Yes, which took?

551
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Speaker 4: What are you going to be?

552
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 3: Eight times? Eight takes for.

553
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 4: Me to read that? Or are you laughing or Jerry laughing?

554
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 3: Yeah? It was something messed that up.

555
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:47,400
Speaker 4: We should release the outtakes of the begin so U

556
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Speaker 4: I guess that's it. I got nothing.

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Speaker 2: Be careful of cars if you're a kid. And have

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Speaker 2: a happy, happy Halloween. And ta linus sitting in the

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