1 00:00:01,760 --> 00:00:05,319 Speaker 1: Thirteen days of Halloween is from grim and mild blumhouse 2 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:10,640 Speaker 1: and I heart free d audio headphones recommended. Listener discretion advised. 3 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:29,160 Speaker 1: How is your head still swimming? It comes in and out, 4 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:34,840 Speaker 1: M HMM. And the visions. Every few steps, the sun 5 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:39,560 Speaker 1: goes dark, as if I'm looking at the world from underwater. 6 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 1: And shadows, they seem to move around me. Arch shadows, 7 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 1: like clouds, like like mountains, are floating overhead. I can't 8 00:00:52,720 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 1: almost make out shapes, but someone is telling me something. 9 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 1: We're trying, you know, one of the side effects of 10 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:08,319 Speaker 1: the tincture that you were given by the pastor some 11 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:12,959 Speaker 1: call it hallucination. What do you call it? Just another 12 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,679 Speaker 1: way of seeing the world. There's more on heaven and 13 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 1: earth and all I can almost where are you going? 14 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:27,319 Speaker 1: I can hear a voice, a voice, and what is 15 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:33,959 Speaker 1: its saying? I can't quite tell. It's or a smile. Names, names, what? 16 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:41,640 Speaker 1: What names? Flit silver, Horace Smith, Jorgan Benson, Jorgan Benson. Ah, 17 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 1: I see what's happening. Sean Whaland Augus UNCUS, Caroline Burgesse 18 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 1: it's it's the well, Oh, well, in front of you. 19 00:01:56,480 --> 00:02:01,480 Speaker 1: Can't you see it? or Yes, H May I have 20 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 1: a coin to throw in it. Take this, but be 21 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:14,520 Speaker 1: very careful what you wish for. It works. Throw it. 22 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 1: Don't worry about a coin. You can throw a pebble 23 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:22,720 Speaker 1: or a stick or whatever you have in your pocket, 24 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:28,919 Speaker 1: anything really. People used to throw children down there. That's 25 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 1: the same either way. They're watch like this. H can 26 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 1: you hear it? M H spooky right. The sound and 27 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 1: makes falling in is mm HMM. It's haunting. And I'll 28 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 1: say it, you're not wrong. There aren't just coins at 29 00:02:55,480 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 1: the bottom. I'm down there too. I'm not alone. Every 30 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:05,920 Speaker 1: year someone else moves in, you could say, whether they 31 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 1: want to or not, and it's unfair. I was human, 32 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 1: you know. I grew up in this town. I was 33 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 1: down on my luck, a single mom, when being a 34 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 1: single mom Madi an enemy of the moral crowd. Of course, 35 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 1: this was a long, long time ago, but do you 36 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 1: know what they say about small towns? One Century is 37 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 1: the same as the next, and if you could travel 38 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 1: back in time to when I was alive, you'd think 39 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 1: it was the modern day. Nothing has changed, except maybe 40 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:45,160 Speaker 1: a few goats of paint. Still, this well would be there, 41 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 1: whether a hundred years ago or a thousand and it works. 42 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 1: You just need to be very careful what you wish 43 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 1: for and how m take me, for example. I remember 44 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:10,880 Speaker 1: exactly how it happened. I was young, just finishing high school. 45 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 1: My head falls books and stories and boredom and loneliness. 46 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:21,240 Speaker 1: I worked at the town store. I would walk over 47 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:24,640 Speaker 1: here at lunchtime when the weather was nice. I never 48 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:32,359 Speaker 1: threw anything in. It felt silly, you know, like leaving 49 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 1: cookies out for Santa or hiding a tooth beneath a pillow. 50 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:40,760 Speaker 1: High School was almost over and it was time to 51 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 1: put away childish things. But still, as I looked out 52 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 1: at the endless empty days ahead, my thoughts would drift. 53 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 1: I'd find myself lost, staring out the window of the 54 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:01,679 Speaker 1: store in the direction of this old well. What harm 55 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:06,480 Speaker 1: could it do? I thought to make a wish. It 56 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:13,600 Speaker 1: started as an errant thought, then the most inside of jokes, 57 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 1: something I shared only with myself, until one day I 58 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:23,599 Speaker 1: stood right where you are now and looked down deep 59 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:30,679 Speaker 1: into the well. I made a wish. I've thought about 60 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 1: this carefully. I wished, after days of deliberation, to never 61 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 1: be alone. At first I thought nothing happened, just the 62 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:51,159 Speaker 1: blink of a coin against the stone. I looked around 63 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 1: at the low gray sky. Raven stared at me as 64 00:05:57,680 --> 00:05:59,360 Speaker 1: though it knew I was a fool in a dying 65 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 1: core for being so naive. The very next day my 66 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:11,080 Speaker 1: men are traveling encyclopedia salesman. It's funny I forget his name. 67 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:18,040 Speaker 1: Even his face has faded, as if someone rubbed a 68 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:24,600 Speaker 1: wet finger across a charcoal drawing. He rolled through hopelessly 69 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:29,040 Speaker 1: lost on the back roads. When he stopped for supplies, 70 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:33,720 Speaker 1: his hand lingered on mine. When I gave him his change. 71 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:39,160 Speaker 1: I swear I could hear our heart gets bumping in 72 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:44,800 Speaker 1: perfect unrehearsed unison. There was an electricity to the air 73 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:52,279 Speaker 1: I wanted to drown in. His eyes, dark and deep 74 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:57,360 Speaker 1: as a well. The next thing you know we've stolen 75 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 1: away to Hay loft. Even now I remember that sweet 76 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:11,520 Speaker 1: damn smell of the Hay decomposing gently beneath us, the 77 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 1: gentle throb of rain pattering along the roof of the bar. Oh, 78 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 1: I thought he was my ticket out. That's how it 79 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 1: was when you were young. That's how it is when 80 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:35,040 Speaker 1: you're young. I remember hearing radio shows about far away places. 81 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 1: Surely He'd take me right. After all, the well and 82 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 1: I had a deal. But when this salesman traveled on, 83 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 1: he did so in the dead old night. All I 84 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 1: had left of him was a crumpled up re seat 85 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:57,640 Speaker 1: for lucky blue cigarettes and a ghost of drug store 86 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 1: after shape. I wonder if you ever made it to 87 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 1: the Pacific. I wonder how he died. But I've gotten 88 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:15,240 Speaker 1: my wish, just not the way. I don't. I was pregnant. 89 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 1: I would never be alone again, but I was also ruined, unmarriageable, 90 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:30,120 Speaker 1: scraping by and living with my parents for months. I 91 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:35,440 Speaker 1: was the talk of the town, a Jezebel, a lowe woman. 92 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 1: I know what they said. I can hear them now 93 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 1: through time if I'd listen. They never tell you that. 94 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:49,320 Speaker 1: The religious and the PSYCHICS and all those other selling 95 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 1: stories about the afterlife, they never tell you the dead 96 00:08:53,679 --> 00:09:01,400 Speaker 1: here everything, each and every word the living said about them, 97 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 1: each whisper of condemnation, each declaration of love, all of it. 98 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 1: No wonder so many of us end up sticking around, 99 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:18,920 Speaker 1: and no wonder I ended up in the well. It's 100 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:23,360 Speaker 1: one person each year when the stars are right, but 101 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:26,280 Speaker 1: it's never the mayor or the members of what passes 102 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:35,520 Speaker 1: for high society and direbrook drifters, ruined women, orphans, out 103 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:43,640 Speaker 1: of towners, people like me, people like you. My disappearance 104 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:47,480 Speaker 1: was in the local paper. The Headline Read Tragic Death 105 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:53,720 Speaker 1: Marks End of harvest. It's a short article. Beneath the fold, 106 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:57,720 Speaker 1: news about the war took up most of the front page. 107 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:04,200 Speaker 1: That's funny. I can't remember which war. The last thing 108 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:10,680 Speaker 1: I can remember the real me is how, tied up 109 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 1: and painted with all those weird symbols on my face, 110 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:20,080 Speaker 1: I asked if I could see my kid one last time. 111 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:26,360 Speaker 1: Then up and over I went, the sounds of everyone 112 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:29,600 Speaker 1: chanting as my head hit the pick of stones lighting 113 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 1: the well. Then darkness. Why did they choose me? Did 114 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 1: someone make a wish? Did I win some Arcane dark lottery? 115 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:49,440 Speaker 1: Either way, down I went, just like all the countless 116 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 1: others before me. Then, after a time, I found myself here, 117 00:10:55,840 --> 00:11:02,520 Speaker 1: bound to the well. I'm not always here, I'm somewhere 118 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:09,040 Speaker 1: else sometimes, but every so often a person like you 119 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:16,760 Speaker 1: happens along and I'm drawn out like water. Did you 120 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:31,440 Speaker 1: find it a pattern? Listen, silent, going good. Hold it. 121 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:37,079 Speaker 1: Philis Gon Tours against your hand and the fat of 122 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:48,000 Speaker 1: your bone. Now through it in trust me, it works. 123 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 1: It is always worked. This wasn't always a will. Millions 124 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:02,400 Speaker 1: of years ago, old this valley was a long low plain. 125 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:07,959 Speaker 1: The Rock fell from the spy, drawing waterful deep beneath 126 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:12,640 Speaker 1: the earth. Some of the first animals stumbling onto the 127 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:17,120 Speaker 1: land found the evidence of its passage. The creater lined 128 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 1: with Redns, dead things. They stood, crows or slithered right 129 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:33,960 Speaker 1: where we are now. They looked over the edge, down 130 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:42,440 Speaker 1: into the darkness and the Spring and they fell. Ages passed. 131 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:46,160 Speaker 1: The land grew over the spring like a scar forming 132 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:49,679 Speaker 1: the valley. When the first people arrived, they could feel this, 133 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:55,320 Speaker 1: a pulse, like an ordery below the flesh of the soil, 134 00:12:55,960 --> 00:13:01,320 Speaker 1: flowing from somewhere deeper still. Your ancestors dub into this 135 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:07,320 Speaker 1: ground and called what they found God. You can't see 136 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:12,439 Speaker 1: it now, but there was a place here before, a temple, 137 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:18,360 Speaker 1: a church, you could say, but not the kind you'd recognize. 138 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:23,440 Speaker 1: If you close your eyes you can hear the wind 139 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:27,760 Speaker 1: through those ruins. Now the shame of a place alters. 140 00:13:27,800 --> 00:13:35,120 Speaker 1: One comes after the well, the wind. This place. It 141 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 1: is like you, it is like me. It is wearing 142 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:46,080 Speaker 1: a face not its own. We are wearing a face, 143 00:13:48,559 --> 00:13:52,080 Speaker 1: the voice you hear us speaking through now. She died 144 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 1: in this well, the face you see in your mind 145 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 1: when you close your eyes and listen to the wind. 146 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:02,720 Speaker 1: That's her. We remember her name when the wind whispers 147 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:07,640 Speaker 1: it into her ears. Down there, you can remember everything. 148 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:12,360 Speaker 1: The well remembers the dark winters long before her own, 149 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 1: when certain people of this town made a covenant with 150 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:25,720 Speaker 1: the well, the thing beneath it. A trade every so often, 151 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 1: when the stars were right, a trade a little wish 152 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 1: for a wish, a little sacrifice for a heart's greatest desire. 153 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:38,600 Speaker 1: We'd take no one, any one would miss, of course, 154 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 1: a drifter or an orphan or a single mother. There 155 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:51,040 Speaker 1: were never any misimposters, never stories on the mainland news, 156 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:57,280 Speaker 1: not even an article in the local newspaper. It's funny 157 00:14:57,480 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 1: how they forget those on the edges of their society. 158 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:06,400 Speaker 1: But we don't. We know the feeling of desire and 159 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:11,640 Speaker 1: all we require is someone to take care of what's 160 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 1: stopping you. Why the hesitation when you're scared? Don't worry, 161 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:25,880 Speaker 1: our wishes don't count. We're already in here. We, the dead, 162 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:30,240 Speaker 1: can only make the same wish over and over again, 163 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 1: but you, you can make a new one. You can 164 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 1: set us free and say okay if it doesn't happen 165 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:45,600 Speaker 1: right away. That's the thing about wishes. There's no time limit. 166 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:51,320 Speaker 1: You wish, you wait, you walk, you move on further 167 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:54,280 Speaker 1: and further away from the version of you that made 168 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 1: the wish. You Change, trade one piece of you for another, 169 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:03,600 Speaker 1: over and over again, until you have become something different, 170 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:07,680 Speaker 1: and you will wish when it arrives from the chasm 171 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:15,720 Speaker 1: of the distant past. That wish up close, it could 172 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:20,600 Speaker 1: feel a lot like a curse. You're not supposed to 173 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:23,880 Speaker 1: tell people what you wish for. That's one of the rules, 174 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:27,840 Speaker 1: but we've always thought that rule was for the living. 175 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:34,840 Speaker 1: Here coome closer. Would you like to know what we 176 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:42,320 Speaker 1: wish for? Weld all the faces you will meet, we 177 00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 1: wish for you. Over and over again, we have wished 178 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 1: for you. You can free us, all of us Down't here. 179 00:16:54,880 --> 00:17:00,280 Speaker 1: What are we? What are you freeing? You mean, never 180 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:05,399 Speaker 1: mind that there's no time. Listen. Can you hear them? 181 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:08,160 Speaker 1: The festival is upon us. The stars and the darkness 182 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:12,679 Speaker 1: between the stars aligned. They know you are here, they're coming. 183 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:17,680 Speaker 1: We can save you. Throw in your goin and say 184 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 1: the words free us and we will have our cot 185 00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:32,520 Speaker 1: it now. Don't turn us and you won't spend the turning. 186 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:37,320 Speaker 1: Come now, your face rip, now in the darkness. Yes, 187 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:52,880 Speaker 1: that's it now, that's enough. That's enough of that. What happened? 188 00:17:54,359 --> 00:18:00,639 Speaker 1: I'll take that going back. Thank you. What happened? You 189 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:04,439 Speaker 1: met an unfriendly spirit, not one of the father, in 190 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:08,720 Speaker 1: the seas, adjacent to the father, but not of him. 191 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:14,280 Speaker 1: I could feel it's need. Well, it's need. Is None 192 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:18,040 Speaker 1: of our business, is it? Come? The doctor should be 193 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:20,520 Speaker 1: back by now. We can take a short cut back 194 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 1: past the schoolyard. Okay, are you all right? Yes, just shaking. Well, 195 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:54,879 Speaker 1: my darling, step up a little. They're so much more ahead. Yeah, tomorrow, 196 00:18:54,960 --> 00:19:02,200 Speaker 1: on thirteen days of Halloween, the schoolhouse eventually over the waves, 197 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:06,840 Speaker 1: I heard my name called. I awoke to the Gustav 198 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:11,720 Speaker 1: Twins Bursting into the classroom with hysterical bleed. They urged 199 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:14,320 Speaker 1: me from the desk and led me towards the playground, 200 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:20,240 Speaker 1: their identical smiles radiant, yet their faces flushed and still 201 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:23,600 Speaker 1: wet with tears. They wouldn't explain themselves, and I was 202 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:29,199 Speaker 1: still too discombobulated to protest. Once outside, I saw them 203 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:32,280 Speaker 1: the other children, all kneeling in a circle in the 204 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:35,840 Speaker 1: center of the kickball field and their body swayed to 205 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:41,400 Speaker 1: the tempo of their Chad. The grading to do exceedingly indeed, 206 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:47,760 Speaker 1: in the places the head reached, the gray angels wings 207 00:19:47,760 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 1: are out there. The emotions, the Stutus, thirt days of Halloween, 208 00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:04,960 Speaker 1: the wishing well starring Kathy and Jimmy, Bethany and Lynde 209 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:09,120 Speaker 1: and Claire Bronson, written by Ben Bolan with additional material 210 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:13,760 Speaker 1: by Nicholas Takowski. Sound Design and mixing by Miranda Hawkins, 211 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:18,520 Speaker 1: engineering by violent Ferton, DUBWAY STUDIOS NEW YORK. Casting by 212 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:22,520 Speaker 1: Jessica Losa. Created by Matt Frederick and Alex Williams, with 213 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:26,359 Speaker 1: executive producer Aaron Manky. A production of I heart radio, 214 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:28,760 Speaker 1: grim and mild and BLUMHOUSE television.