WEBVTT - 4 | Demaris 0:00:01.040 --> 0:00:05.760 iHeart three d are for full exposure. 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:06.840 Listen with headphones. 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:12.280 Havoctown is a production of iHeart Podcasts and Grimm and 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:16.759 Mild from Aaron Mankey Headphones recommended. Listener discretion advised. 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:27.120 The rumors, which had largely been unsubstantiated but had seemed 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:30.040 to spread of their own accord, took on flights of 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:34.720 incredible fancy. Mister Matthews was heard to have been speaking 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:38.400 in tongues. The Johnston Boy went feral and was seen 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:42.000 wallowing with the hogs. It was whispered around the mill 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:46.080 that the devil himself had come to Abbystown and was 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:51.280 slowly seeping into the cracks of our everyday lives. These 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:56.400 were all things that could be dismissed as superstition children's tales, 0:00:57.760 --> 0:01:01.080 but today's events caused even the huh artist skeptic in 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:05.120 Avestown to turn violently to it a horrible sort of 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:09.560 belief that we were, at long last coming to the 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:10.959 very end of days. 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:53.000 Sylvia and I set out just after dawn on Saturday, 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:57.040 deciding to keep to the back roads. I was in 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:00.600 no rush to get to our destination. I found the 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:04.520 whole thing rather silly, to be honest, rousing an academic 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.160 from his dusty slumber to ask him to make sense 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:10.360 of the dying man's words and a macabre little box 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:16.440 of vampire hunting tools. Then I found everything a little 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:21.560 silly in that moment. Nothing I could do would feel otherwise, 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:25.600 And so, a foot and lighthearted, we took to the 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:29.760 open road, swearing to kill time scenic overlooks and roadside 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:32.120 apple stands on the way to bone up on a 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:38.280 little family lore. Now, explain to me why you were 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:42.800 at a lecture about the terror of Lake? What the 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:43.800 terror of Lake? 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.080 Me from a mega? Uh huh something like that? 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:47.919 Yeah, m hm. 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:50.840 It was when I was dating Patrick. He was in 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:53.639 Ato all that weird shit. Yeah right, He watched every 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:55.200 unsolved mystery show out there. 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:55.959 Yeah. 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:57.400 I didn't see the appeal. 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:01.560 Of unsolved mysteries of Patrick. Yeah, well, he was away 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:03.840 to pass the time. I wouldn't have gone to that 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:07.079 thing myself, but Professor Bradshaw was very. 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:13.119 Cool and very attractive, holy shit, yeah, and polite. 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:15.440 He ended up talking to us for an hour after 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:19.720 the lecture. Patrick wouldn't stop asking him questions. He's such 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:20.120 a nerd. 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:23.919 So what was the terror of like memphor. 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.240 Of godm mama, frog of frog frog. I don't know, 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:28.200 I don't know. It was so it was like an 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:31.320 alligator with a cowhead. I don't I have no idea. 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:35.520 It's not real anyway. But doctor Bradshaw is an expert 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:36.560 in things that aren't. 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:41.480 Real, like vampires. Like vampires, and this is a serious scholar. 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:48.920 Yeah, just wait until you meet him. 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:53.960 Whoa, Yeah, I haven't stepped into a college building since 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:55.200 I dropped out. 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:59.440 Oh what do I feel like I'm gonna get in trouble? 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:02.000 I don't know, like should I have a whole pass 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:02.480 or something? 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:04.200 God damn adults. 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:09.360 Here, let's go. Come on, kingsh don't be weird. You're 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:09.840 being weird. 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:10.560 You're being weird. 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:14.400 She just walk normally. It's okay for us to be here. 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:17.599 We are bringing an interesting artifact to an expert in 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:18.120 the field. 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:23.719 Okay, here it is well knock Oh. 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:26.239 Yeah right, sorry, oh god. 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:26.600 I'll do it. 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:29.400 Okay, yeah, come in. 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:32.040 Professor Bradshaw. 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:32.640 That's me. 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:36.599 Hi, Yeah, I'm Sylvie Marcus. We spoke on the phone. 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:40.120 Oh yes, yeah, come in, come in. You can just 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:42.039 call me Jeremy Jeremy. 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.440 Oh uh, this is current Abbs. She is the one 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:46.480 I was telling you about. 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:50.279 Yes, and I assume that this is. 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:53.400 The yeah, the vampire kid. 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:56.040 Wow? 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:58.120 May I oh, yeah, of course? 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.160 Oh wow, wow. 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:05.280 You do not see a lot of these in the wild. 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:07.680 Have you seen others? 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:11.240 I actually did. They're more common in New England than 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:14.280 you'd think due to the vampire panic. 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:18.479 I'm sorry, Oh is this the letter? Uh? Yes, it's 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:19.800 from Wow. 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:23.800 Yes, this is from Josiah Abvis. Wait a minute, so 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:28.800 that makes you his great great great Oh is it 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:29.880 great granddaughter? 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:30.360 Is that right? 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:33.800 You've heard of Josiah. 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:36.000 The mad Preacher, the most prolific vampire hunter of them all. 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:41.240 Yeah, I'm sorry, there's a lot to unpack in that statement. 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:42.520 I'm sorry. 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:45.640 This is just this is very exciting for me. 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:46.760 Okay. 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.320 I'm assuming that, based on the gobsmacked look on your 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:51.599 face right now, that you are unfamiliar with the New 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:53.200 England vampire panic. 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:55.640 Yeah, let's pretend we're not familiar. 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:56.400 Okay. 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:59.640 Well, there were a number of tuberculosis outbreaks in the 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:03.360 region and throughout the nineteenth century, and it was common 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:05.920 for the disease, of course, to spread through families due 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:09.320 to the close quarters. So someone would die and then 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:12.800 be buried, and then shortly thereafter another member of the 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.800 family would get ill. And because many people at that 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:22.240 time were very let's say, superstitious, it was believed that 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:27.320 these subsequent illnesses were because the dead were coming back 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:31.160 and stealing the life force of their still living family members. 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:36.320 And so it led to no small amount of mayhem 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:40.920 and paranoia and bodies being you know, as you do, 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:43.800 exhumed and relieved their hearts. 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:45.080 Jesus. 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:49.840 Yeah, that was one thing. But then Abbystown was a 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:53.839 whole another animal, how so, well, a couple of things. 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:59.839 For one, the symptoms reported in that epidemic were just, 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.600 you know, totally different from tuberculosis. Tuberculosis takes a long 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:07.560 time to kill, right, It's victims slowly waste away. That's 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:10.920 why they gave it the nickname consumption. But the illnesses 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:14.040 in Abstown, whatever that was, it was something else. Like 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:20.880 victims experienced disorientation and fever, and then they flew into 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:26.680 these sudden, violent rages and finally they would bleed from 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:29.800 the eyes and the nose and even the pores. It 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:33.400 was like a terrifying, terrible way to go. I think 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:39.200 it more closely resembled I don't know, like pose red 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:44.280 death or something more so than TB Oh, God, is 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:45.920 everything all right, Sylvie? 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:49.440 Yeah, we've seen something like that recently this week. 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.000 Well, let's hope it's something else. 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:55.800 I guess. 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.680 On the upside, there have been advances in medicine since 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:00.920 the early nineteenth century. 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.760 You said there were a couple of differences. What was 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:05.120 the other? 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:09.960 Turns out that there was a very interesting account written 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:14.320 of the Abbystown Panic in Morgan Perkins A Terrible thirst, 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:20.400 which is it's about the panic. Hold on, It's a 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:24.400 diary written by none other than Ah. 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:29.520 Look here, the diary of Demris Abbess. 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:34.920 Shit, that's what I said when I first read it. 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:37.960 I didn't know there'd been a diary. 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:42.440 Well, it was probably confiscated when they arrested Josiah. It 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:47.440 was found decades ago when the old Coop's County Courthouse 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:51.320 in Lancaster was retired, and it made its way into 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:55.080 this publisher's hands. There are plenty of written accounts of 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:58.520 the larger Vampire panic, but besides a mention of it 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:01.800 here and there in Larger tech next, the Abbistown Panic 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.960 has very little in the way of any first hand accounts. 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.760 And this one, boy, let me tell you. It's all 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:12.960 the more chilling because of how it abruptly. 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:15.600 Ends, because the good Reverend murdered her. 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:20.720 Yeah, along with a woman by the name of Sophia Havoc, 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:23.319 the wife of a wealthy merchant. 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:28.840 Jury. Yes, we live in Havoc, formerly Abbistown. My family 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:33.640 is quite famous there for its misdeeds. Small town and all. 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:35.080 You don't have to tell me. 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.400 Hey, do you mind if I borrow this book? 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:41.160 Uh? 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:44.200 I promise to bring it back and I'll buy you 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:45.120 a drink. 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:54.040 That's not strictly necessary. I h okay, sure, yeah, take 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:58.160 the book and I would love to talk to you 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:00.320 further about your family laws time. 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:05.320 Absolutely, yeah, although I'm afraid I can't really give you 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:07.160 much more than legend and myth. 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:13.200 Well, from personal experience, I found that sometimes that's where 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:13.959 the truth lies. 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:20.240 So so, so what did you think? 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:25.120 Oh, I mean, it's a lot to absorb. 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:28.040 Well, I mean, at least now you've got the diary. 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:32.640 Yeah yeah, well, well what. 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:34.520 Well freaking Reid to Carinne. 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:40.280 We have a long drive home. Oh yeah, okay, out loud, 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:47.520 no shit, fine, okay, first entry, there we go. Sixth 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:52.800 of September eighteen seventeen. Wow, Noah and Father Josiah have 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:55.160 laid the final stone at the front step of the 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:59.040 new church, and Father Josiah invited Noah to consecrate the 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:00.720 church with the Lord prayer. 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:04.319 I can tell this is going to be exciting. 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:09.800 Hush. Eighth of September eighteen seventeen, an exciting day, all right. 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:12.800 The congregation gathered in the new church building for the 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:15.400 very first time, with Father Josiah to side. 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:20.080 Speaking after reading from first Tinnity, Father spoke about the 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:23.960 importance of continuing the tradition of reading scripture aloud, and 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:28.080 the congregation nodded quietly, content in the knowledge that they 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:32.080 were in the hands of the wisest of shepherds. 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:36.640 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:41.400 As people moved eastward, they found a plane in Shinar 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:45.240 and settled there, and they said to each other, come, 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:49.600 let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly. They used brick 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:53.840 instead of stone, and tar for mortar. And then they said, come, 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:57.680 let us build ourselves a city with a tower that 0:11:57.920 --> 0:11:59.040 reaches to the heavens. 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:04.840 A tall, wiry figure opened the door to the church then, 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:09.840 and the cold rain and wind of September entered behind him, 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:12.640 as if he had brought with him the first chill 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:16.520 of the coming season, vanquishing the long summer. At last, 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:20.680 he wore the black of mourning, and his bright eyes 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:24.319 shone as he took in the house of worship the congregation, 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:27.440 the pastor, to whom he gave a nod and a 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:31.280 gesture of his hand that the man should continue. I 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:33.720 would come to find out later that this was the 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:38.000 merchant jury Havoc, who was building his home up the 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:40.160 hill from the village. 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:45.880 Yes, please come in. You know the rest of the story. 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.560 The people of Chennard built their great tower, and the 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:53.600 Lord Almighty saw their hubris and saw fit to punish 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:58.080 them with his mighty hand. It is hubris that we 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:02.760 speak of to day, a poison that fasters. 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:02.640 In the s. 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:08.600 It was in the reception line after Father Josiah's sermon 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:12.200 that we met him officially for the first time. He 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:14.640 stood at the very back of the line and kept 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:17.199 his eyes on the ground until he reached the great door. 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:22.160 When finally he looked up and met my eyes. They 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:26.240 were set deep and were dark and sharp. They nearly 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:29.280 stopped my heart for a moment. They so thoroughly seemed 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.840 to find the center of me. But before I could 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:36.480 find another breath, he was upon us. 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:40.760 Reverend Others, I apologize for interrupting your sermon, sir. 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:44.440 Now do not be the Lord brought you in his 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:47.520 own time. Where do I have the pleasure of addressing. 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:51.280 My name is Jury Havoc. I came to the country 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:55.480 from London by way of Boston Harbor and recently begun construction. 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:55.880 Just north of here. 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:57.880 And what is your business, sir? 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:02.439 I'm in the shipping business. Sir. My farmers a fleet 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:03.600 harbored throughout the world. 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:09.280 You're a long way from the ocean, young man. You 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:10.160 have court me out. 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:12.439 I have come here to take good country. 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:15.600 My bride has been suffering from an illness, and I 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:17.680 believe that this part of the world would do her good. 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:20.080 I'm not a man to ignore the call. 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:22.920 Of opportunity, especially when it also involves the health of 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:23.520 those I love. 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:30.520 Well. We welcome you into our town and into our congregation, 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:35.720 and your wife as well. Please wish missus Havoc well 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.080 for us. We will pray for her full recovery. 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:42.120 I thank you. And this is your family. 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:44.960 Yes, this is my son Noah. 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:47.720 A pleasure mister Havoc, and this is. 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:50.920 His wife, missus Abbess madam. 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:55.400 A pleasure, A pleasure is mine, sir, well, i'm. 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:57.160 As bidiodieu abssis. 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:01.880 Construction on my house is well underway and requires my eye. 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:05.840 Yes, we are baggerly watched from afar. It looks to 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:09.400 be quite large. Have you a family to match it? 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:15.760 I'm afraid that it is just so fair, and I. 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:18.520 I see well. I am sure the town will appreciate 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:19.560 the business you bring. 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:22.480 I pry myself on creating honest work for on his men. 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:26.480 Good. We look forward to welcoming you into the fold. 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:30.320 Yes, thank you. A good day to you will. 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:36.800 And to you services begin at seven a m sharp, sir, I. 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:37.680 Shall try to remember. 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:43.120 I watched him walk north toward the wood, toward the 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:46.280 timbers of the great house, rising above it on the hillside, 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:51.200 builders swarming upon it as ants on spilt sugar. And 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:55.520 then I witnessed Father Josiah's face move through a series 0:15:55.560 --> 0:16:03.160 of desperate emotions, confusion, curiosity, a quiet anger, all before 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:06.960 going blank, as if a great hand swept across the 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:10.680 table of his mind. I do wonder what he was thinking. 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:15.920 I do know that he immediately distrusted jury havoc because 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:17.840 Father Abbess trusted No. 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:23.280 One. 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:30.400 Twelfth of September eighteen seventeen ill Omens. Noah and Father 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:33.040 Abbess have been busy with the new Church. As the 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:36.680 Lord's business is never done. Noah insisted that the boys 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:40.480 be tutored in maths and scripture so that church business 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:43.920 may be passed on to them in the future. Though 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:46.720 I miss the boys during the day, I know that 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:50.480 this is best. It allows me more time focused on 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:54.000 the house. In the course of cleaning ash from the 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:57.240 hearth this morning, I knocked the kettle and bent the 0:16:57.280 --> 0:16:59.720 kettle hook so that it could no longer do its duty, 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:03.240 and so it was off to the blacksmith to repair it. 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:08.000 Good day, mister. 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:11.360 Smith, Ah, missus Abbess, Good day. 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:15.200 Ah. I seem to have bent this kettle hook while 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:17.639 cleaning the heart this morning. I wonder if you have 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:18.639 the time to set it straight. 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:20.320 Well, just let me give it a look. 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:22.000 Ah. 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:24.520 Yes, I can take care of this straight away. 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:25.920 Ah, thank you, sir. 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:29.720 Fine sermon that the reverend gave the other day. 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:32.160 It was one of his finest. 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:35.520 The new church is a beauty, yes. 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:38.359 And may I say the iron work on the doors 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:40.560 is perhaps one of its finest features. 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:44.160 Oh well, well, thank you. 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:51.320 It was then that it happened a scream across the street. 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:55.400 The devil, the young man, my own Williams h perhaps ten, 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:59.040 had set up on Missus Harris, fists flying, knocking over 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:00.720 chicken crates on the market's edge. 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:05.560 Two men pulled him off, and my blood ran cold. 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:08.960 The boy was wild eyed, and blood poured from his 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:09.960 mouth as he raved. 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:12.520 He crossed me ries. 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:15.240 He cut me with the heart, the old witch. 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:27.879 Don't light them from your stolle. 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:24.560 Two wounds and get the boy to jail. 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:28.439 Tell me, good God. I had seen the boy about. 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:31.920 His father owned a farm nearby and regularly brought the 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:35.400 boy to market. He seemed a good child, dautiful quiet. 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:39.560 He had come quite mad and did not stop shouting 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:42.280 until he was cuffed across the temple, putting him out. 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:45.320 I ran into the church as quickly as I could. 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:49.959 Noah and Father Josiah were deep in conversation when I arrived. 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:53.840 Good Heavens to marry school. 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:56.480 What is this Missus Harris attacked at market by the 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:57.120 chandler boy? 0:18:57.760 --> 0:18:58.480 Is all right? 0:18:59.040 --> 0:18:59.840 You bit her face? 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:02.640 There was quite a lot of. 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:06.639 Blood Noah go and fetch the boy's father. I'm going 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:10.320 to go to Missus Harris's side. Are you well, daughter, Yes, sir, 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:11.879 we will return. 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:35.080 They have not returned this evening, thirteenth of September eighteen seventeen. 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:39.520 Father Abbess and Noah returned early this morning, and both 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:44.160 men were rattled by their experiences. Father Abbess in particular 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:47.120 seemed troubled, though would not speak of it, and retired 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:52.240 to his room. Noah spoke at greater length, explaining the situation. 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:57.040 First a visit to Missus Harris's to pray with the 0:19:57.080 --> 0:20:00.520 family and speak to our town's physician, Doctor Bright, who 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:04.520 attended the white mark on the cheek, was angry, but 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:07.240 Noah promised me not as terrible as I'd imagine. After 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:11.320 seeing the attack, the good doctor was able to easily 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:17.359 staunch the blood and applied a healing poultice. Afterward, Father 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:19.800 Abbess had joined Noah to see into the matter of 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:22.720 the boy who had attacked, and met with his father, 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:26.399 mister Satterwhite, who owned a small farm on the west 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:30.359 of the village. The boy, Nathaniel, was still in the 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:34.840 jail and had calmed himself somewhat In the words of 0:20:34.840 --> 0:20:38.520 the jailer, Constable John Fellows, who had himself suffered a 0:20:38.560 --> 0:20:41.280 small bite in getting the boy situated in the cell 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:46.119 under lock and key. Nathaniel himself had a high fever 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:49.080 and had begun to bleed from the eyes and nose. 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:54.440 He even, Noah said, with a shudder, seemed to swept 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:59.000 blood from his purse. His father was in a terrible state. 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:01.720 He said that a son who was normally of a 0:21:01.760 --> 0:21:06.000 sweet disposition, had begun to act strangely in the previous days, 0:21:06.760 --> 0:21:10.399 until finally in a fit of rage, turning over the 0:21:10.440 --> 0:21:14.000 family's table and running out of the house. The next 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:16.639 he was seen was in the market in the attack 0:21:16.680 --> 0:21:21.639 on Missus Harris, which I have described. Noah described the 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:26.879 boy's demeanor when they first entered calm, but watching his 0:21:27.000 --> 0:21:30.680 visitors through the bars with a wary eye. He remained 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:36.240 that way, quiet and watchful as they spoke to him 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:41.280 about what had caused his behavior. Father ABIs told him 0:21:41.320 --> 0:21:44.480 that it was only Christian to make full apology, and 0:21:44.560 --> 0:21:46.879 advised him that he may be able to avoid trial 0:21:46.920 --> 0:21:50.199 if he showed himself to be penitent. He began to 0:21:50.280 --> 0:21:53.800 pray over the boy. It was then that had happened. 0:21:56.680 --> 0:22:01.000 Nathaniel bolted upright and began screaming curses, said Father Abbess, 0:22:01.280 --> 0:22:05.240 flecks of blood in his foamy spittle flying from his lips. 0:22:05.800 --> 0:22:07.840 He set upon the bars with the sort of madness 0:22:07.880 --> 0:22:12.639 that Noah described as inhuman, even infernal. They spent the 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:16.080 night in a back and forth, father praying in the boy, 0:22:16.200 --> 0:22:20.640 cursing him his ancestors and progeny. It took weary hours 0:22:20.640 --> 0:22:23.520 and all of Father's strength to match the boy's fury 0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:28.720 with God's love, but in the end it was fruitless. 0:22:30.000 --> 0:22:33.960 The boy dropped in the early hours, dead in the 0:22:34.000 --> 0:22:40.080 middle of the floor. They had lost him. Noah believes 0:22:40.160 --> 0:22:42.960 that the devil is at work in Abbstown, and it 0:22:43.040 --> 0:22:46.320 is up to us, the family who gave the town 0:22:46.440 --> 0:22:48.080 its name, to fight it. 0:22:54.400 --> 0:23:00.600 That feels eerily familiar. Yeah, do you think that and 0:23:00.720 --> 0:23:03.360 Jimbo and the axe guy are related? 0:23:04.760 --> 0:23:07.800 I mean, it seems. 0:23:07.520 --> 0:23:11.840 Absurd, does it? Keep reading? 0:23:12.800 --> 0:23:19.720 Yeah? Okay. Fifteenth of September eighteen seventeen, the news has 0:23:19.840 --> 0:23:23.840 not been good. Both Missus Harris and Constable Fellows have 0:23:24.000 --> 0:23:28.480 fallen ill. Both have suffered from fevers and strange bleeding. 0:23:29.440 --> 0:23:32.600 Both have exhibited signs of the type of volatility that 0:23:32.680 --> 0:23:37.080 plagued poor Nathaniel, though neither so far have become violent. 0:23:38.080 --> 0:23:42.240 Doctor Bright has given both a tincture of medicinal herbs 0:23:42.280 --> 0:23:46.080 and cod liver oil, And to mister Fellows, who has 0:23:46.119 --> 0:23:51.200 a stronger constitution, he has applied leeches for the purposes 0:23:51.240 --> 0:23:56.080 of bleeding. We pray throughout the day for their full recovery. 0:23:56.720 --> 0:24:01.000 There are whispers in the town of great evil settling 0:24:01.119 --> 0:24:05.440 in with us. It is for this reason that Father Abas. 0:24:05.080 --> 0:24:08.119 Addressed the congregation on the matter in today's service. 0:24:10.800 --> 0:24:13.280 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High, 0:24:13.560 --> 0:24:17.000 will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will 0:24:17.000 --> 0:24:20.879 say to the Lord my refuge and my fortress, my 0:24:21.040 --> 0:24:25.040 God in whom I trust, for he will deliver you 0:24:25.240 --> 0:24:29.359 from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. 0:24:30.119 --> 0:24:32.919 He will cover you with his pinions, and under his 0:24:33.040 --> 0:24:37.960 wings you will find refuge. His faithfulness is a shield 0:24:38.480 --> 0:24:42.440 and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, 0:24:43.320 --> 0:24:47.200 nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence 0:24:47.240 --> 0:24:51.760 that stalks in darkness, nor the destruction that wastes at noonday. 0:24:53.680 --> 0:24:55.680 I have had many in this congregation who have come 0:24:55.720 --> 0:24:58.760 to me with their worries in the matter of Nathaniel 0:24:58.800 --> 0:25:02.719 Satterwhite and his illness. It is true that his end 0:25:02.920 --> 0:25:07.119 was violent and terrible. It is true that there is 0:25:07.280 --> 0:25:12.000 evil on the land and here in Abistown. But it 0:25:12.119 --> 0:25:17.160