1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:05,760 Speaker 1: iHeart three d are for full exposure. 2 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:06,840 Speaker 2: Listen with headphones. 3 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:12,280 Speaker 3: Havoctown is a production of iHeart Podcasts and Grimm and 4 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:16,759 Speaker 3: Mild from Aaron Mankey Headphones recommended. Listener discretion advised. 5 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 4: The rumors, which had largely been unsubstantiated but had seemed 6 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 4: to spread of their own accord, took on flights of 7 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 4: incredible fancy. Mister Matthews was heard to have been speaking 8 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 4: in tongues. The Johnston Boy went feral and was seen 9 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:42,000 Speaker 4: wallowing with the hogs. It was whispered around the mill 10 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:46,080 Speaker 4: that the devil himself had come to Abbystown and was 11 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:51,280 Speaker 4: slowly seeping into the cracks of our everyday lives. These 12 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:56,400 Speaker 4: were all things that could be dismissed as superstition children's tales, 13 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 4: but today's events caused even the huh artist skeptic in 14 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:05,120 Speaker 4: Avestown to turn violently to it a horrible sort of 15 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:09,560 Speaker 4: belief that we were, at long last coming to the 16 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:10,959 Speaker 4: very end of days. 17 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 1: Sylvia and I set out just after dawn on Saturday, 18 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 1: deciding to keep to the back roads. I was in 19 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 1: no rush to get to our destination. I found the 20 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 1: whole thing rather silly, to be honest, rousing an academic 21 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:07,160 Speaker 1: from his dusty slumber to ask him to make sense 22 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:10,360 Speaker 1: of the dying man's words and a macabre little box 23 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 1: of vampire hunting tools. Then I found everything a little 24 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 1: silly in that moment. Nothing I could do would feel otherwise, 25 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 1: And so, a foot and lighthearted, we took to the 26 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: open road, swearing to kill time scenic overlooks and roadside 27 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 1: apple stands on the way to bone up on a 28 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 1: little family lore. Now, explain to me why you were 29 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:42,800 Speaker 1: at a lecture about the terror of Lake? What the 30 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:43,800 Speaker 1: terror of Lake? 31 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:47,080 Speaker 5: Me from a mega? Uh huh something like that? 32 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:47,919 Speaker 1: Yeah, m hm. 33 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 5: It was when I was dating Patrick. He was in 34 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:53,639 Speaker 5: Ato all that weird shit. Yeah right, He watched every 35 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 5: unsolved mystery show out there. 36 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:55,959 Speaker 6: Yeah. 37 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:57,400 Speaker 1: I didn't see the appeal. 38 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 5: Of unsolved mysteries of Patrick. Yeah, well, he was away 39 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 5: to pass the time. I wouldn't have gone to that 40 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:07,079 Speaker 5: thing myself, but Professor Bradshaw was very. 41 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:13,119 Speaker 1: Cool and very attractive, holy shit, yeah, and polite. 42 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:15,440 Speaker 5: He ended up talking to us for an hour after 43 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 5: the lecture. Patrick wouldn't stop asking him questions. He's such 44 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 5: a nerd. 45 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:23,919 Speaker 1: So what was the terror of like memphor. 46 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:26,240 Speaker 5: Of godm mama, frog of frog frog. I don't know, 47 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 5: I don't know. It was so it was like an 48 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:31,320 Speaker 5: alligator with a cowhead. I don't I have no idea. 49 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 5: It's not real anyway. But doctor Bradshaw is an expert 50 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:36,560 Speaker 5: in things that aren't. 51 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 1: Real, like vampires. Like vampires, and this is a serious scholar. 52 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 5: Yeah, just wait until you meet him. 53 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:53,960 Speaker 1: Whoa, Yeah, I haven't stepped into a college building since 54 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 1: I dropped out. 55 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 5: Oh what do I feel like I'm gonna get in trouble? 56 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 1: I don't know, like should I have a whole pass 57 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 1: or something? 58 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 6: God damn adults. 59 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 1: Here, let's go. Come on, kingsh don't be weird. You're 60 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 1: being weird. 61 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:10,560 Speaker 5: You're being weird. 62 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 1: She just walk normally. It's okay for us to be here. 63 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:17,599 Speaker 5: We are bringing an interesting artifact to an expert in 64 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 5: the field. 65 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:23,719 Speaker 1: Okay, here it is well knock Oh. 66 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:26,239 Speaker 5: Yeah right, sorry, oh god. 67 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:26,600 Speaker 7: I'll do it. 68 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, come in. 69 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:32,040 Speaker 5: Professor Bradshaw. 70 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:32,640 Speaker 2: That's me. 71 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:36,599 Speaker 5: Hi, Yeah, I'm Sylvie Marcus. We spoke on the phone. 72 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 7: Oh yes, yeah, come in, come in. You can just 73 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:42,039 Speaker 7: call me Jeremy Jeremy. 74 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 5: Oh uh, this is current Abbs. She is the one 75 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:46,480 Speaker 5: I was telling you about. 76 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:50,279 Speaker 7: Yes, and I assume that this is. 77 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:53,400 Speaker 5: The yeah, the vampire kid. 78 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:56,040 Speaker 8: Wow? 79 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 1: May I oh, yeah, of course? 80 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:03,160 Speaker 8: Oh wow, wow. 81 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:05,280 Speaker 7: You do not see a lot of these in the wild. 82 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 1: Have you seen others? 83 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 7: I actually did. They're more common in New England than 84 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:14,280 Speaker 7: you'd think due to the vampire panic. 85 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:18,479 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Oh is this the letter? Uh? Yes, it's 86 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:19,800 Speaker 1: from Wow. 87 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:23,800 Speaker 7: Yes, this is from Josiah Abvis. Wait a minute, so 88 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:28,800 Speaker 7: that makes you his great great great Oh is it 89 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 7: great granddaughter? 90 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:30,360 Speaker 8: Is that right? 91 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 1: You've heard of Josiah. 92 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:36,000 Speaker 7: The mad Preacher, the most prolific vampire hunter of them all. 93 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:41,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sorry, there's a lot to unpack in that statement. 94 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 4: I'm sorry. 95 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 7: This is just this is very exciting for me. 96 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 8: Okay. 97 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 7: I'm assuming that, based on the gobsmacked look on your 98 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:51,599 Speaker 7: face right now, that you are unfamiliar with the New 99 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 7: England vampire panic. 100 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 5: Yeah, let's pretend we're not familiar. 101 00:05:56,080 --> 00:05:56,400 Speaker 8: Okay. 102 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:59,640 Speaker 7: Well, there were a number of tuberculosis outbreaks in the 103 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:03,360 Speaker 7: region and throughout the nineteenth century, and it was common 104 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:05,920 Speaker 7: for the disease, of course, to spread through families due 105 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:09,320 Speaker 7: to the close quarters. So someone would die and then 106 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 7: be buried, and then shortly thereafter another member of the 107 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:15,800 Speaker 7: family would get ill. And because many people at that 108 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:22,240 Speaker 7: time were very let's say, superstitious, it was believed that 109 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 7: these subsequent illnesses were because the dead were coming back 110 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:31,160 Speaker 7: and stealing the life force of their still living family members. 111 00:06:31,839 --> 00:06:36,320 Speaker 7: And so it led to no small amount of mayhem 112 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:40,920 Speaker 7: and paranoia and bodies being you know, as you do, 113 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:43,800 Speaker 7: exhumed and relieved their hearts. 114 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:45,080 Speaker 5: Jesus. 115 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:49,840 Speaker 7: Yeah, that was one thing. But then Abbystown was a 116 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:53,839 Speaker 7: whole another animal, how so, well, a couple of things. 117 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:59,839 Speaker 7: For one, the symptoms reported in that epidemic were just, 118 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:03,600 Speaker 7: you know, totally different from tuberculosis. Tuberculosis takes a long 119 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 7: time to kill, right, It's victims slowly waste away. That's 120 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 7: why they gave it the nickname consumption. But the illnesses 121 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 7: in Abstown, whatever that was, it was something else. Like 122 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 7: victims experienced disorientation and fever, and then they flew into 123 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 7: these sudden, violent rages and finally they would bleed from 124 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:29,800 Speaker 7: the eyes and the nose and even the pores. It 125 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 7: was like a terrifying, terrible way to go. I think 126 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 7: it more closely resembled I don't know, like pose red 127 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:44,280 Speaker 7: death or something more so than TB Oh, God, is 128 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 7: everything all right, Sylvie? 129 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 5: Yeah, we've seen something like that recently this week. 130 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 7: Well, let's hope it's something else. 131 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:55,800 Speaker 8: I guess. 132 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,680 Speaker 7: On the upside, there have been advances in medicine since 133 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 7: the early nineteenth century. 134 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 1: You said there were a couple of differences. What was 135 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 1: the other? 136 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:09,960 Speaker 7: Turns out that there was a very interesting account written 137 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 7: of the Abbystown Panic in Morgan Perkins A Terrible thirst, 138 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 7: which is it's about the panic. Hold on, It's a 139 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:24,400 Speaker 7: diary written by none other than Ah. 140 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 1: Look here, the diary of Demris Abbess. 141 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 7: Shit, that's what I said when I first read it. 142 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:37,960 Speaker 1: I didn't know there'd been a diary. 143 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:42,440 Speaker 7: Well, it was probably confiscated when they arrested Josiah. It 144 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:47,440 Speaker 7: was found decades ago when the old Coop's County Courthouse 145 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:51,320 Speaker 7: in Lancaster was retired, and it made its way into 146 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:55,080 Speaker 7: this publisher's hands. There are plenty of written accounts of 147 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 7: the larger Vampire panic, but besides a mention of it 148 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 7: here and there in Larger tech next, the Abbistown Panic 149 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:05,960 Speaker 7: has very little in the way of any first hand accounts. 150 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:09,760 Speaker 7: And this one, boy, let me tell you. It's all 151 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:12,960 Speaker 7: the more chilling because of how it abruptly. 152 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 1: Ends, because the good Reverend murdered her. 153 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:20,720 Speaker 7: Yeah, along with a woman by the name of Sophia Havoc, 154 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:23,319 Speaker 7: the wife of a wealthy merchant. 155 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:28,840 Speaker 1: Jury. Yes, we live in Havoc, formerly Abbistown. My family 156 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 1: is quite famous there for its misdeeds. Small town and all. 157 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:35,080 Speaker 7: You don't have to tell me. 158 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 1: Hey, do you mind if I borrow this book? 159 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 7: Uh? 160 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:44,200 Speaker 5: I promise to bring it back and I'll buy you 161 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 5: a drink. 162 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:54,040 Speaker 7: That's not strictly necessary. I h okay, sure, yeah, take 163 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 7: the book and I would love to talk to you 164 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:00,320 Speaker 7: further about your family laws time. 165 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:05,320 Speaker 1: Absolutely, yeah, although I'm afraid I can't really give you 166 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:07,160 Speaker 1: much more than legend and myth. 167 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:13,200 Speaker 7: Well, from personal experience, I found that sometimes that's where 168 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:13,959 Speaker 7: the truth lies. 169 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:20,240 Speaker 5: So so, so what did you think? 170 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 1: Oh, I mean, it's a lot to absorb. 171 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 5: Well, I mean, at least now you've got the diary. 172 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, well, well what. 173 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 5: Well freaking Reid to Carinne. 174 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 1: We have a long drive home. Oh yeah, okay, out loud, 175 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:47,520 Speaker 1: no shit, fine, okay, first entry, there we go. Sixth 176 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 1: of September eighteen seventeen. Wow, Noah and Father Josiah have 177 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:55,160 Speaker 1: laid the final stone at the front step of the 178 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 1: new church, and Father Josiah invited Noah to consecrate the 179 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:00,720 Speaker 1: church with the Lord prayer. 180 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:04,319 Speaker 5: I can tell this is going to be exciting. 181 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:09,800 Speaker 1: Hush. Eighth of September eighteen seventeen, an exciting day, all right. 182 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:12,800 Speaker 1: The congregation gathered in the new church building for the 183 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:15,400 Speaker 1: very first time, with Father Josiah to side. 184 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:20,080 Speaker 4: Speaking after reading from first Tinnity, Father spoke about the 185 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:23,960 Speaker 4: importance of continuing the tradition of reading scripture aloud, and 186 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:28,080 Speaker 4: the congregation nodded quietly, content in the knowledge that they 187 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:32,080 Speaker 4: were in the hands of the wisest of shepherds. 188 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:36,640 Speaker 6: Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 189 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:41,400 Speaker 6: As people moved eastward, they found a plane in Shinar 190 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:45,240 Speaker 6: and settled there, and they said to each other, come, 191 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 6: let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly. They used brick 192 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:53,840 Speaker 6: instead of stone, and tar for mortar. And then they said, come, 193 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:57,680 Speaker 6: let us build ourselves a city with a tower that 194 00:11:57,920 --> 00:11:59,040 Speaker 6: reaches to the heavens. 195 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:04,840 Speaker 4: A tall, wiry figure opened the door to the church then, 196 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:09,840 Speaker 4: and the cold rain and wind of September entered behind him, 197 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,640 Speaker 4: as if he had brought with him the first chill 198 00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:16,520 Speaker 4: of the coming season, vanquishing the long summer. At last, 199 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:20,680 Speaker 4: he wore the black of mourning, and his bright eyes 200 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:24,319 Speaker 4: shone as he took in the house of worship the congregation, 201 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:27,440 Speaker 4: the pastor, to whom he gave a nod and a 202 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:31,280 Speaker 4: gesture of his hand that the man should continue. I 203 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:33,720 Speaker 4: would come to find out later that this was the 204 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:38,000 Speaker 4: merchant jury Havoc, who was building his home up the 205 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:40,160 Speaker 4: hill from the village. 206 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:45,880 Speaker 6: Yes, please come in. You know the rest of the story. 207 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:49,560 Speaker 6: The people of Chennard built their great tower, and the 208 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:53,600 Speaker 6: Lord Almighty saw their hubris and saw fit to punish 209 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:58,080 Speaker 6: them with his mighty hand. It is hubris that we 210 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:02,760 Speaker 6: speak of to day, a poison that fasters. 211 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 7: In the s. 212 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:08,600 Speaker 4: It was in the reception line after Father Josiah's sermon 213 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:12,200 Speaker 4: that we met him officially for the first time. He 214 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 4: stood at the very back of the line and kept 215 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:17,199 Speaker 4: his eyes on the ground until he reached the great door. 216 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:22,160 Speaker 4: When finally he looked up and met my eyes. They 217 00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:26,240 Speaker 4: were set deep and were dark and sharp. They nearly 218 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:29,280 Speaker 4: stopped my heart for a moment. They so thoroughly seemed 219 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 4: to find the center of me. But before I could 220 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:36,480 Speaker 4: find another breath, he was upon us. 221 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:40,760 Speaker 9: Reverend Others, I apologize for interrupting your sermon, sir. 222 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:44,440 Speaker 6: Now do not be the Lord brought you in his 223 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 6: own time. Where do I have the pleasure of addressing. 224 00:13:48,559 --> 00:13:51,280 Speaker 9: My name is Jury Havoc. I came to the country 225 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 9: from London by way of Boston Harbor and recently begun construction. 226 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 2: Just north of here. 227 00:13:56,480 --> 00:13:57,880 Speaker 6: And what is your business, sir? 228 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:02,439 Speaker 2: I'm in the shipping business. Sir. My farmers a fleet 229 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 2: harbored throughout the world. 230 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:09,280 Speaker 6: You're a long way from the ocean, young man. You 231 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 6: have court me out. 232 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:12,439 Speaker 2: I have come here to take good country. 233 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:15,600 Speaker 9: My bride has been suffering from an illness, and I 234 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:17,680 Speaker 9: believe that this part of the world would do her good. 235 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:20,080 Speaker 2: I'm not a man to ignore the call. 236 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,920 Speaker 9: Of opportunity, especially when it also involves the health of 237 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:23,520 Speaker 9: those I love. 238 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:30,520 Speaker 6: Well. We welcome you into our town and into our congregation, 239 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:35,720 Speaker 6: and your wife as well. Please wish missus Havoc well 240 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 6: for us. We will pray for her full recovery. 241 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:42,120 Speaker 2: I thank you. And this is your family. 242 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:44,960 Speaker 6: Yes, this is my son Noah. 243 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:47,720 Speaker 8: A pleasure mister Havoc, and this is. 244 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 6: His wife, missus Abbess madam. 245 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:55,400 Speaker 4: A pleasure, A pleasure is mine, sir, well, i'm. 246 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:57,160 Speaker 2: As bidiodieu abssis. 247 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:01,880 Speaker 9: Construction on my house is well underway and requires my eye. 248 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:05,840 Speaker 6: Yes, we are baggerly watched from afar. It looks to 249 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:09,400 Speaker 6: be quite large. Have you a family to match it? 250 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:15,760 Speaker 2: I'm afraid that it is just so fair, and I. 251 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:18,520 Speaker 6: I see well. I am sure the town will appreciate 252 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 6: the business you bring. 253 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:22,480 Speaker 9: I pry myself on creating honest work for on his men. 254 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:26,480 Speaker 6: Good. We look forward to welcoming you into the fold. 255 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 2: Yes, thank you. A good day to you will. 256 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:36,800 Speaker 6: And to you services begin at seven a m sharp, sir, I. 257 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 2: Shall try to remember. 258 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:43,120 Speaker 4: I watched him walk north toward the wood, toward the 259 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:46,280 Speaker 4: timbers of the great house, rising above it on the hillside, 260 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:51,200 Speaker 4: builders swarming upon it as ants on spilt sugar. And 261 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 4: then I witnessed Father Josiah's face move through a series 262 00:15:55,560 --> 00:16:03,160 Speaker 4: of desperate emotions, confusion, curiosity, a quiet anger, all before 263 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 4: going blank, as if a great hand swept across the 264 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:10,680 Speaker 4: table of his mind. I do wonder what he was thinking. 265 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 4: I do know that he immediately distrusted jury havoc because 266 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:17,840 Speaker 4: Father Abbess trusted No. 267 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:23,280 Speaker 1: One. 268 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 4: Twelfth of September eighteen seventeen ill Omens. Noah and Father 269 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 4: Abbess have been busy with the new Church. As the 270 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:36,680 Speaker 4: Lord's business is never done. Noah insisted that the boys 271 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:40,480 Speaker 4: be tutored in maths and scripture so that church business 272 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:43,920 Speaker 4: may be passed on to them in the future. Though 273 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:46,720 Speaker 4: I miss the boys during the day, I know that 274 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:50,480 Speaker 4: this is best. It allows me more time focused on 275 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:54,000 Speaker 4: the house. In the course of cleaning ash from the 276 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:57,240 Speaker 4: hearth this morning, I knocked the kettle and bent the 277 00:16:57,280 --> 00:16:59,720 Speaker 4: kettle hook so that it could no longer do its duty, 278 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:03,240 Speaker 4: and so it was off to the blacksmith to repair it. 279 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 4: Good day, mister. 280 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:11,360 Speaker 8: Smith, Ah, missus Abbess, Good day. 281 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:15,200 Speaker 4: Ah. I seem to have bent this kettle hook while 282 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:17,639 Speaker 4: cleaning the heart this morning. I wonder if you have 283 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:18,639 Speaker 4: the time to set it straight. 284 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:20,320 Speaker 8: Well, just let me give it a look. 285 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:22,000 Speaker 6: Ah. 286 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:24,520 Speaker 8: Yes, I can take care of this straight away. 287 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:25,920 Speaker 4: Ah, thank you, sir. 288 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 8: Fine sermon that the reverend gave the other day. 289 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:32,160 Speaker 1: It was one of his finest. 290 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 8: The new church is a beauty, yes. 291 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:38,359 Speaker 4: And may I say the iron work on the doors 292 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:40,560 Speaker 4: is perhaps one of its finest features. 293 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:44,160 Speaker 8: Oh well, well, thank you. 294 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 10: It was then that it happened a scream across the street. 295 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:55,400 Speaker 10: The devil, the young man, my own Williams h perhaps ten, 296 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 10: had set up on Missus Harris, fists flying, knocking over 297 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:00,720 Speaker 10: chicken crates on the market's edge. 298 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:05,560 Speaker 4: Two men pulled him off, and my blood ran cold. 299 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:08,960 Speaker 4: The boy was wild eyed, and blood poured from his 300 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:09,960 Speaker 4: mouth as he raved. 301 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:12,520 Speaker 7: He crossed me ries. 302 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:15,240 Speaker 2: He cut me with the heart, the old witch. 303 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:27,879 Speaker 9: Don't light them from your stolle. 304 00:18:22,359 --> 00:18:24,560 Speaker 2: Two wounds and get the boy to jail. 305 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:28,439 Speaker 4: Tell me, good God. I had seen the boy about. 306 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:31,920 Speaker 4: His father owned a farm nearby and regularly brought the 307 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:35,400 Speaker 4: boy to market. He seemed a good child, dautiful quiet. 308 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:39,560 Speaker 4: He had come quite mad and did not stop shouting 309 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:42,280 Speaker 4: until he was cuffed across the temple, putting him out. 310 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:45,320 Speaker 4: I ran into the church as quickly as I could. 311 00:18:46,359 --> 00:18:49,959 Speaker 4: Noah and Father Josiah were deep in conversation when I arrived. 312 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:53,840 Speaker 2: Good Heavens to marry school. 313 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:56,480 Speaker 4: What is this Missus Harris attacked at market by the 314 00:18:56,560 --> 00:18:57,120 Speaker 4: chandler boy? 315 00:18:57,760 --> 00:18:58,480 Speaker 6: Is all right? 316 00:18:59,040 --> 00:18:59,840 Speaker 1: You bit her face? 317 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:02,640 Speaker 4: There was quite a lot of. 318 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:06,639 Speaker 6: Blood Noah go and fetch the boy's father. I'm going 319 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:10,320 Speaker 6: to go to Missus Harris's side. Are you well, daughter, Yes, sir, 320 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:11,879 Speaker 6: we will return. 321 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:35,080 Speaker 4: They have not returned this evening, thirteenth of September eighteen seventeen. 322 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 4: Father Abbess and Noah returned early this morning, and both 323 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:44,160 Speaker 4: men were rattled by their experiences. Father Abbess in particular 324 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:47,120 Speaker 4: seemed troubled, though would not speak of it, and retired 325 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:52,240 Speaker 4: to his room. Noah spoke at greater length, explaining the situation. 326 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:57,040 Speaker 4: First a visit to Missus Harris's to pray with the 327 00:19:57,080 --> 00:20:00,520 Speaker 4: family and speak to our town's physician, Doctor Bright, who 328 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:04,520 Speaker 4: attended the white mark on the cheek, was angry, but 329 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:07,240 Speaker 4: Noah promised me not as terrible as I'd imagine. After 330 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:11,320 Speaker 4: seeing the attack, the good doctor was able to easily 331 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:17,359 Speaker 4: staunch the blood and applied a healing poultice. Afterward, Father 332 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:19,800 Speaker 4: Abbess had joined Noah to see into the matter of 333 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:22,720 Speaker 4: the boy who had attacked, and met with his father, 334 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:26,399 Speaker 4: mister Satterwhite, who owned a small farm on the west 335 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:30,359 Speaker 4: of the village. The boy, Nathaniel, was still in the 336 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:34,840 Speaker 4: jail and had calmed himself somewhat In the words of 337 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:38,520 Speaker 4: the jailer, Constable John Fellows, who had himself suffered a 338 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:41,280 Speaker 4: small bite in getting the boy situated in the cell 339 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:46,119 Speaker 4: under lock and key. Nathaniel himself had a high fever 340 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:49,080 Speaker 4: and had begun to bleed from the eyes and nose. 341 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:54,440 Speaker 4: He even, Noah said, with a shudder, seemed to swept 342 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:59,000 Speaker 4: blood from his purse. His father was in a terrible state. 343 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:01,720 Speaker 4: He said that a son who was normally of a 344 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:06,000 Speaker 4: sweet disposition, had begun to act strangely in the previous days, 345 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:10,399 Speaker 4: until finally in a fit of rage, turning over the 346 00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:14,000 Speaker 4: family's table and running out of the house. The next 347 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:16,639 Speaker 4: he was seen was in the market in the attack 348 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:21,639 Speaker 4: on Missus Harris, which I have described. Noah described the 349 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:26,879 Speaker 4: boy's demeanor when they first entered calm, but watching his 350 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,680 Speaker 4: visitors through the bars with a wary eye. He remained 351 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:36,240 Speaker 4: that way, quiet and watchful as they spoke to him 352 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 4: about what had caused his behavior. Father ABIs told him 353 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:44,480 Speaker 4: that it was only Christian to make full apology, and 354 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:46,879 Speaker 4: advised him that he may be able to avoid trial 355 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:50,199 Speaker 4: if he showed himself to be penitent. He began to 356 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:53,800 Speaker 4: pray over the boy. It was then that had happened. 357 00:21:56,680 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 4: Nathaniel bolted upright and began screaming curses, said Father Abbess, 358 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:05,240 Speaker 4: flecks of blood in his foamy spittle flying from his lips. 359 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:07,840 Speaker 4: He set upon the bars with the sort of madness 360 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:12,639 Speaker 4: that Noah described as inhuman, even infernal. They spent the 361 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:16,080 Speaker 4: night in a back and forth, father praying in the boy, 362 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:20,640 Speaker 4: cursing him his ancestors and progeny. It took weary hours 363 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:23,520 Speaker 4: and all of Father's strength to match the boy's fury 364 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:28,720 Speaker 4: with God's love, but in the end it was fruitless. 365 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:33,960 Speaker 4: The boy dropped in the early hours, dead in the 366 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:40,080 Speaker 4: middle of the floor. They had lost him. Noah believes 367 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:42,960 Speaker 4: that the devil is at work in Abbstown, and it 368 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 4: is up to us, the family who gave the town 369 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:48,080 Speaker 4: its name, to fight it. 370 00:22:54,400 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 5: That feels eerily familiar. Yeah, do you think that and 371 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:03,360 Speaker 5: Jimbo and the axe guy are related? 372 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:07,800 Speaker 1: I mean, it seems. 373 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:11,840 Speaker 5: Absurd, does it? Keep reading? 374 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:19,720 Speaker 1: Yeah? Okay. Fifteenth of September eighteen seventeen, the news has 375 00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:23,840 Speaker 1: not been good. Both Missus Harris and Constable Fellows have 376 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:28,480 Speaker 1: fallen ill. Both have suffered from fevers and strange bleeding. 377 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 1: Both have exhibited signs of the type of volatility that 378 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:37,080 Speaker 1: plagued poor Nathaniel, though neither so far have become violent. 379 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:42,240 Speaker 1: Doctor Bright has given both a tincture of medicinal herbs 380 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:46,080 Speaker 1: and cod liver oil, And to mister Fellows, who has 381 00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:51,200 Speaker 1: a stronger constitution, he has applied leeches for the purposes 382 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:56,080 Speaker 1: of bleeding. We pray throughout the day for their full recovery. 383 00:23:56,720 --> 00:24:01,000 Speaker 1: There are whispers in the town of great evil settling 384 00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:05,440 Speaker 1: in with us. It is for this reason that Father Abas. 385 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:08,119 Speaker 4: Addressed the congregation on the matter in today's service. 386 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,280 Speaker 6: He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High, 387 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:17,000 Speaker 6: will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will 388 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:20,879 Speaker 6: say to the Lord my refuge and my fortress, my 389 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:25,040 Speaker 6: God in whom I trust, for he will deliver you 390 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:29,359 Speaker 6: from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. 391 00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:32,919 Speaker 6: He will cover you with his pinions, and under his 392 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:37,960 Speaker 6: wings you will find refuge. His faithfulness is a shield 393 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:42,440 Speaker 6: and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, 394 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:47,200 Speaker 6: nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence 395 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:51,760 Speaker 6: that stalks in darkness, nor the destruction that wastes at noonday. 396 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:55,680 Speaker 6: I have had many in this congregation who have come 397 00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:58,760 Speaker 6: to me with their worries in the matter of Nathaniel 398 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:02,719 Speaker 6: Satterwhite and his illness. It is true that his end 399 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:07,119 Speaker 6: was violent and terrible. It is true that there is 400 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:12,000 Speaker 6: evil on the land and here in Abistown. But it 401 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:17,160 Speaker 6: is also true that the Lord is our shepherd. We 402 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:21,520 Speaker 6: must remain vigilant, yes, but we must also retain our 403 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:28,679 Speaker 6: faith as our strongest defense. Redouble your prayers. The Lord 404 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:33,359 Speaker 6: will strengthen the walls of your home against evil. Do 405 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:37,720 Speaker 6: not walk in fear, my friends. Put your faith in him, 406 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:44,159 Speaker 6: and his light will banish the darkness. Let us pray, 407 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:49,199 Speaker 6: Oh God, may your spirit speak in me, that I 408 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:50,080 Speaker 6: may speak to you. 409 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:54,399 Speaker 4: But in private. His faith is taking a more practical form. 410 00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:58,680 Speaker 4: Under cover of night, Father ABIs and Noah have traveled 411 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:03,080 Speaker 4: to be afflicted for three nights. They have gone quickly 412 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 4: in the darkness so as not to arouse alarm in 413 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:09,960 Speaker 4: the village. They go not to pray, but to fight 414 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:15,240 Speaker 4: for alverst. They shout and taunt whatever demon has entered 415 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:20,159 Speaker 4: the poor victims, and the demon fights back, hurling epithets 416 00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:24,440 Speaker 4: most obscene and cursing the Lord. No one comes more 417 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:35,080 Speaker 4: exhausted shaken. I fear he is losing faith. Seventeenth of September, 418 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:43,119 Speaker 4: after days of affliction, Constable Fellows passed eighteenth of September. 419 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:50,720 Speaker 4: Missus Harris has passed. Twenty second of September. Another case 420 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:54,320 Speaker 4: of the blood fever and resulting possession, this time in 421 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:58,640 Speaker 4: a young girl, Annabel Leary, who had no known contact 422 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:03,080 Speaker 4: with any of the three previous victims. Walking into town 423 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:07,720 Speaker 4: yesterday morning to purchase flower, I heard the whispers. They 424 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:12,000 Speaker 4: say that the devil walks in Aristow. You could sense 425 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:13,720 Speaker 4: the simmer and services this morning. 426 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:21,480 Speaker 6: Visit, Oh Lord, we beseech thee this habitation and creature 427 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 6: of thine, and remove far away from him all the 428 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 6: snares and assaults of the devil. Led by angels Michael, 429 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:34,679 Speaker 6: Raphael and Gabriel. Dwell therein to preserve it in peace 430 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:38,760 Speaker 6: and from all unclean spirits. And let thy blessing be 431 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:40,000 Speaker 6: always upon. 432 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:43,200 Speaker 4: Us, Master Rabbits, what is being done? 433 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:49,120 Speaker 6: My friend? We are communing with our father, ask of him. 434 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:53,959 Speaker 4: Three and died, and my Annabel is biting and scratching 435 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:54,760 Speaker 4: like an animal. 436 00:27:55,440 --> 00:28:00,879 Speaker 9: Calm, calm, She raids all night, saying more of things 437 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:01,800 Speaker 9: about her mother. 438 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:05,400 Speaker 4: Even you have been unable to save her. 439 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:12,200 Speaker 6: With your prayer, mister Leary, you will listen. I have 440 00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:15,080 Speaker 6: called on other men of God throughout the region, have 441 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:18,080 Speaker 6: sent missives near and far, so far as writing to 442 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:21,320 Speaker 6: England for consul on the matter. Doctor Bright, Noah and 443 00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:24,240 Speaker 6: I are working in tandem to discover the true root 444 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:28,480 Speaker 6: of his sickness and cut it out entirely. We will 445 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:32,480 Speaker 6: continue the fight. I have been told that many believe 446 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:34,320 Speaker 6: that the devil is in Abbistown. 447 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:35,920 Speaker 5: It's Jerry Havoc. 448 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 6: Now, mister Havoc is not here to defend himself. We 449 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 6: will not cast dispersions, but the devil is here. While 450 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:49,000 Speaker 6: doctor Bright works to cure the symptoms of this sickness, 451 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 6: my boy Noah joins me each night and pushing back 452 00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:56,840 Speaker 6: against him. We will cut him out of Abbistown. We 453 00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:00,680 Speaker 6: will send him back to Hell. But I need your help. 454 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:05,000 Speaker 6: I call for curfew self imposed. Of course, we are 455 00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:08,760 Speaker 6: free men, but we must be on our guard. We 456 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:12,560 Speaker 6: must be responsible for our own families. So at sundown, 457 00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:17,960 Speaker 6: go indoors, lock yourself away, sit at your tables or 458 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 6: around the hearth, and fathers, read aloud from your family Bible. 459 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:26,040 Speaker 6: It matters not where you're start, though the beginning is 460 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 6: as good as any place. Put all of your heart 461 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:35,240 Speaker 6: into these recitations, and wives, make sure that the children 462 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 6: pay heed to them. Do not open your door to 463 00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:43,120 Speaker 6: the devil. He will be all too happy to come in. 464 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:51,360 Speaker 4: The mood was greatly changed after the service. The congregants 465 00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:55,080 Speaker 4: treated Father Josiah with a certain awe that surpassed even 466 00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:58,640 Speaker 4: the normal respect shown him for his station. It seemed 467 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:02,440 Speaker 4: roundly agreed upon. A curfew was in order, and families 468 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:05,080 Speaker 4: rushed home to do the day's business ahead of sunset, 469 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:09,040 Speaker 4: leaving Father Abbess and Noah to close the church. The 470 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:12,200 Speaker 4: boys and I waited for them, as we did each Sunday, 471 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:16,080 Speaker 4: in the churchyard, where they could play amongst the tombstones 472 00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:22,360 Speaker 4: and I could sit with my thoughts. My parents are 473 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,720 Speaker 4: buried in the Abbastown churchyard, as well as my brother, 474 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:31,600 Speaker 4: who died in childbirth. I frequently visit with them, But 475 00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,280 Speaker 4: to day I was drawn to a fresh new grave, 476 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:40,400 Speaker 4: that of poor Nathaniel Satterwhite, taken so soon and so 477 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:46,120 Speaker 4: violently from his father. As I walked up, I noticed 478 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:53,120 Speaker 4: something strange the dirt. It had been disturbed, No, no, 479 00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:55,719 Speaker 4: not disturbed. It looked as though much of it had 480 00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,920 Speaker 4: been scattered, and there was a deep diffit in the 481 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:02,400 Speaker 4: center of the grave, as if someone had been digging. 482 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:07,320 Speaker 4: I called out to Noah, who was just exiting the 483 00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:09,760 Speaker 4: back door of the church with Father Abbis right behind, 484 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:10,440 Speaker 4: to lock up. 485 00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:15,040 Speaker 5: Noah, what is it, dear, Come and look both of you. 486 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:21,160 Speaker 4: Here Nathaniel's grave. It looks to have been desecrated. 487 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:27,560 Speaker 6: Noah, fetch two shovels from the caretaker shed. Do not 488 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:31,640 Speaker 6: allow he or anyone else to know why you're taking them. 489 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:34,560 Speaker 4: Yes, Father, shall I take the boys home? 490 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:41,480 Speaker 6: No? No, stay here and tucked away out of sight 491 00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:44,800 Speaker 6: behind the church. But I need for you to keep 492 00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:48,720 Speaker 6: watch and to let us know if anyone approaches. I 493 00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,440 Speaker 6: do not want a single soul within our congregation to 494 00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:57,760 Speaker 6: witness their pastor digging up a former member. Don't allow 495 00:31:57,800 --> 00:31:58,920 Speaker 6: the boys to get too close. 496 00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:05,280 Speaker 4: Noah returned, and they began to dig. Both men were 497 00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:10,480 Speaker 4: hale and hearty, and they struck the wooden lid shortly well. 498 00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:15,600 Speaker 6: In for a penny, in for a pound, I suppose. 499 00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:18,960 Speaker 8: Hum Eh, God have mercy. 500 00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:23,240 Speaker 4: The boy lay in his coffin in just the position 501 00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:26,760 Speaker 4: that he had been laid to rest arms crossed over 502 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:31,760 Speaker 4: his chest. But his features he had been wasted by 503 00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:35,080 Speaker 4: his illness. I had been told. His eyes sunken, and 504 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:40,120 Speaker 4: his skin wan He was nearly skeletal, but the body 505 00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:43,520 Speaker 4: that lay in the grave retained that flush of youth 506 00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:48,800 Speaker 4: in the cheeks, and his lips were ruby red. He 507 00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:57,120 Speaker 4: could have been sleeping. He looked so horribly alive. Not 508 00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:00,440 Speaker 4: a one of us moved for a long moment until 509 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:04,720 Speaker 4: Father Abbess, still standing in the grave, inclined his head 510 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,320 Speaker 4: toward Noah. 511 00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:18,160 Speaker 6: Noah, hand me your knife, Yes, sir, thank you, look away, demurse. 512 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:24,920 Speaker 4: But I could not. I watched as he bent low 513 00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:31,960 Speaker 4: until he was right above Nathaniel's prone form. I watched 514 00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:36,880 Speaker 4: as he whispered a quiet prayer over the boy, and 515 00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:42,400 Speaker 4: I watched as he slowly brought the knife up, clasped 516 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,760 Speaker 4: the handle between both hands, looked up to the blank 517 00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:50,000 Speaker 4: white autumn sky in search of God's grace. Take a 518 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:58,960 Speaker 4: deep breath. Enter ha oh shit, sh shut up, shut. 519 00:33:58,800 --> 00:33:59,320 Speaker 7: Up, shut up? 520 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,680 Speaker 5: What who is it? 521 00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:12,399 Speaker 1: It's dree what yeah, answer it dummy, right, okay. 522 00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:15,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, hello, Hello, it's his career. 523 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:19,440 Speaker 1: Mister Havoc. To what do I owe the pleasure? 524 00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:24,200 Speaker 11: Well? I show no if I'm remembering this correctly or 525 00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:28,520 Speaker 11: if I imagined it, But I do believe that we 526 00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:29,560 Speaker 11: agreed to meet up. 527 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:32,600 Speaker 1: I think I recall something of that nature. 528 00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:36,640 Speaker 11: Wonderful. Yeah, how'd you like to come by the house, 529 00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:40,400 Speaker 11: say tomorrow night, and having some updates made to the 530 00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:42,440 Speaker 11: place where I could actually use a second opinion. 531 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:47,680 Speaker 1: Oh sure, that's not too forward. 532 00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:50,960 Speaker 9: I promise something not going to emerge you in the bathtub. 533 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:54,160 Speaker 9: I'd like to put that chapter of our family shared 534 00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:54,960 Speaker 9: history behind us. 535 00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:59,399 Speaker 1: Yes, Oh that sounds great. I'll bring up a bottle 536 00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:00,160 Speaker 1: of wine. 537 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:03,239 Speaker 11: Oh, no need, no need, and I'm well stocked up 538 00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:08,439 Speaker 11: on wine. And yeah, tomorrow night, unless that's too short. 539 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:11,439 Speaker 1: Notice, that's perfect. 540 00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:15,359 Speaker 11: Wonderful, great, And you know where it is. 541 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:19,440 Speaker 1: Big house on the hill, the famous one as the place. 542 00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:21,520 Speaker 1: I think I'll be able to find it. 543 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:22,520 Speaker 6: See that. 544 00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:26,480 Speaker 5: Hot Damn I've always wondered what the inside of that 545 00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:27,400 Speaker 5: place looks like. 546 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:31,000 Speaker 1: Well, I guess i'll report back to you. 547 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:32,320 Speaker 5: You better get pictures. 548 00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:33,880 Speaker 1: You are so weird. 549 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:36,560 Speaker 5: Now where were we? 550 00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:37,120 Speaker 6: Oh? 551 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:40,360 Speaker 1: I think my great grandfather was about to stab a corpse. 552 00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:43,560 Speaker 5: Oh, Like I said, I love story time. 553 00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:51,759 Speaker 3: Havoctown was created by me. Aaron Manky. The show was 554 00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:56,040 Speaker 3: written and directed by Nicholas Takowski. This episode was edited 555 00:35:56,040 --> 00:36:00,200 Speaker 3: and sound designed by Nomes Griffin, starring Jewels st Eight 556 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:04,879 Speaker 3: as Corene Abbas, James Callus as Jerry Havoc, Felicia Day 557 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:09,920 Speaker 3: as Sylvie, Harris Ray Wise as Josiah Abbas, Crystal Lee 558 00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:14,319 Speaker 3: as Demeris, Daniel Ernesto A known as Noah Abbas, and 559 00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:19,160 Speaker 3: Misha Collins as Professor Jeremy Bradshaw, with additional voice acting 560 00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:25,840 Speaker 3: from Gina Rikeike Dick Terhun, Jack Lafferty, Stephen Manley, Darren Heemes, 561 00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:30,240 Speaker 3: Daniel Avi Sarkis, and Aaron Mankey. This season is directed 562 00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:34,760 Speaker 3: by Nicholas Takowski, with assistant directors Sarah Klein and Jake Diamond, 563 00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:39,720 Speaker 3: casting by Sunday Bowling CSA and Meg Mormon CSA. Production 564 00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:44,280 Speaker 3: coordinator Wayna Calderon. Our theme song was created by Chris 565 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:48,880 Speaker 3: Childs Executive producers Aaron Manke, Trevor Young, and Matt Frederick, 566 00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:53,560 Speaker 3: with supervising producer Rima Lkali and producers Nomes Griffin and 567 00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:57,480 Speaker 3: Jesse Funk. Havoctown is set in the Bridgewater Audio Universe, 568 00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:02,000 Speaker 3: which includes the hit fiction podcasts Ridgewater and Consumed. 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