1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:01,800 Speaker 1: iHeart three d A. 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:06,400 Speaker 2: For full exposure, listen with thatphones. 3 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:11,880 Speaker 3: Havoctown is a production of iHeart Podcasts and Grim and 4 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:16,360 Speaker 3: Mild from Aaron Mankey Headphones recommended. Listener discretion advised. 5 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 4: There's a vile sickness in Abbesstown. You must excite it, 6 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 4: dig into the deep earth, and cut it out by 7 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 4: any means necessary. And if you see the devil walking 8 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:43,600 Speaker 4: around in sight of another man, be an enemy of 9 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:46,520 Speaker 4: your very own brother. If you see the blood pour 10 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 4: forth from his flesh, you must cut out the very 11 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 4: heart of him, burn his body, and scatter the ashes 12 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 4: in the furthest corner of this town as a warning. 13 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 5: Jonathan Uh, my father. I've been to a lot of 14 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 5: these for my grandfather, Bill Abbas, my grandmother Dottie a 15 00:01:56,320 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 5: couple of years later, my mom too young. I've been 16 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:09,799 Speaker 5: a funerals for a lot of your families too. It's 17 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:13,840 Speaker 5: a small town. That's God, it's good and it's bad. 18 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 5: And all of us, all the grieving ones, the ones 19 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:25,800 Speaker 5: left behind, we all say the same thing. Right. He 20 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:31,079 Speaker 5: was a complicated man, because how else do you sum 21 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 5: up a person's life? Now, he lived here, His entire 22 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:40,240 Speaker 5: life was born a County General. Went to school at 23 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 5: Havoc Elementary and later Robert Frost High Go you Blue Devils. 24 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 5: He didn't go to college, and a lot of us didn't. 25 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 5: A lot of us stayed on at home after high school, 26 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 5: got jobs at the mill or with the police department, 27 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 5: raised families. That was Dad too. Met mom right out 28 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 5: of high school, fell in love, made a few mistakes together, 29 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 5: and boom took over Grandpa's bar, made it his own. 30 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 5: He was a good dad. Not too harsh, No, maybe 31 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 5: not harsh enough. He always said he was proud of 32 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:30,679 Speaker 5: me mm pushed me to be my best, but never 33 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:35,000 Speaker 5: made me feel less than if I failed. Only only 34 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 5: time I think I ever saw him disappointed in me 35 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 5: was when I left college after a couple of semesters 36 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 5: to help out at home. You know, my mom was sick. 37 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:51,880 Speaker 5: He wasn't disappointed that I came home so much, but 38 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 5: I think he knew that I wasn't going back, and 39 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 5: I think I think that broke his heart, because he 40 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 5: knew that I'd probably stay here in this place where 41 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 5: we sometimes aren't just people who live here now, because 42 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:19,599 Speaker 5: they'd be thinking about the past, about who our family was, 43 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 5: not who we are who we can be. And of 44 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:27,840 Speaker 5: course a lot of this is conjecture. He wasn't much 45 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:33,360 Speaker 5: of a talker, I'm sure you know, but you still 46 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:41,600 Speaker 5: knew where you stood somehow. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, okay. 47 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:46,239 Speaker 5: Jim Avis was a good man. He was my dad. 48 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 5: He loved the people, He loved fiercely. He got all 49 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 5: of you drunk. There's no such thing as a curse. 50 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:06,119 Speaker 5: Come out to Dottie's after we'll drink to that first 51 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:21,719 Speaker 5: rounds on the house. Obviously, I'm not a public speaker, 52 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 5: and I hate it. But more than that, I hate 53 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:30,159 Speaker 5: a bit after the service. The line, the line, always 54 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 5: the damn receiving line, people you barely know, offering their condolences, 55 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:39,039 Speaker 5: bar our patrons, strangely sober in daylight, blinking their eyes 56 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 5: to adjust the occasional surprise he. 57 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:43,720 Speaker 2: Laid me out. 58 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:47,400 Speaker 5: Was you know, I've heard the story, never even saw 59 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:47,839 Speaker 5: it coming. 60 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:50,279 Speaker 3: Your father wasn't what you call it bluesy. 61 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 5: You know, he was a sweetheart. O. 62 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:56,360 Speaker 3: You just don't want to cross it deserves it. 63 00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:00,839 Speaker 5: Probably that was a prodigious drinker back then. See anyways, 64 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 5: I'll see you at the bobbin. Thanks for coming, mister Stavino. 65 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:06,920 Speaker 3: Thank you're old enough to call me Tom now. 66 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:10,160 Speaker 2: Now, Tom, you're holding up the. 67 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:14,600 Speaker 4: Line, all right, that Bob, you uh get my regards 68 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:16,080 Speaker 4: to Jimbo while he's hailing up. 69 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:20,040 Speaker 5: We'll do. How is Jimbo barb you know. 70 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 2: Ornerie as hell? Yeah, he's been snippy with me, which 71 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:27,159 Speaker 2: isn't like him, but we can talk about him later. 72 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 2: I'm so sorry about Johnny. You know, we used to 73 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:33,600 Speaker 2: work together at the bar when we were just out 74 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:37,719 Speaker 2: of school. Jimbo told me I had such a crush, 75 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:41,039 Speaker 2: but he only had eyes for your mom. Of course, 76 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 2: then Jimbo came along brash. 77 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 5: We'll please send my love. Tell him first round is 78 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:49,160 Speaker 5: on me when he gets back on his feet. Oh 79 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:50,839 Speaker 5: my love, dear, Thanks Bob. 80 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:54,800 Speaker 6: Hey, Hi holding up? 81 00:06:55,279 --> 00:06:59,040 Speaker 5: No, Sylvia, I need a drink. But this line seems 82 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:04,039 Speaker 5: to keep getting longer. Easy, All right, burners, it's time 83 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 5: to wrap it up. 84 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:07,280 Speaker 7: We're gonna go get pissed in Johnny's memory. 85 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:07,840 Speaker 1: All right. 86 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 7: You can give her in your condolences while she's got 87 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:12,800 Speaker 7: a drink in her hand. 88 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:18,560 Speaker 6: Let's move, Thank you, ride or die hun. 89 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 2: You know he happened to be walking by when I 90 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:28,920 Speaker 2: got a flat tire. He fixed it for me, but 91 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 2: you never heard such swearing. 92 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 3: Just laid me out on the floor right over there. 93 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:36,320 Speaker 3: Didn't know what hit me, just sort of came to 94 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:38,800 Speaker 3: covering in bers, running by my buddies. 95 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 6: And just started laughing his ass off. 96 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:44,559 Speaker 3: You heard him laugh, right. He didn't do it often, 97 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 3: but the man cackled like a hyaena. 98 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 5: It was endearing, you know. This was what kept Dad 99 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 5: going through the hard gears. This was a good and 100 00:07:55,160 --> 00:08:00,160 Speaker 5: proper sent off friend or foe. Everyone was welcome at Dottie's, 101 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:03,600 Speaker 5: even the man who very timidly poked his head in 102 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 5: at this moment. Brother Ken, our towns eminent scholar on 103 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 5: sin and the wages thereof. Nobody was sure where he 104 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 5: came from. Nobody was sure where he went each night 105 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 5: after packing up his cardboard signs covered in prophecies and scripture. 106 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 5: But he always managed to be clean cut, and his 107 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:29,120 Speaker 5: khakis and navy's sport coat were always clean, even if 108 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:33,920 Speaker 5: a little threadbare in places. He was crazy, of course, 109 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:36,679 Speaker 5: you'd have to be to stand on a street corner 110 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:39,200 Speaker 5: and preached to deaf ears for so many years. But 111 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 5: he was dedicated. Ken had never walked into this bar 112 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:48,520 Speaker 5: until this moment, and it's like it burned his lungs 113 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:51,559 Speaker 5: to breathe the air. But he stood up straight when 114 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:55,960 Speaker 5: he saw me and marched bravely across the bar, ignoring 115 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 5: the quiet chuckles and leering eyes that followed him. Hello, Ken, 116 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 5: to what do I owe this honor? 117 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:05,679 Speaker 2: Uh? 118 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:11,360 Speaker 8: Your father? I wanted to pay my respects. Despite his vocation, 119 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:15,240 Speaker 8: I believe that he was a decent man. He was 120 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 8: always very kind. He gave regularly so that I could 121 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 8: keep up the services for my parishioners. 122 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:25,520 Speaker 5: Who are your parishioners. Thus, poor people walking by on 123 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:29,160 Speaker 5: the street. Quiet, Tom, go on, ken. 124 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 8: He was very kind and very generous. 125 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:36,200 Speaker 5: Hum I didn't know that he donated. 126 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:40,360 Speaker 8: Well, that's the mark of a godly man. And when 127 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:42,600 Speaker 8: you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, for 128 00:09:42,679 --> 00:09:45,840 Speaker 8: they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and 129 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 8: at the street corners that they may be seen by others. Truly, 130 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:53,960 Speaker 8: I say to you, they have received their reward. But 131 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:56,880 Speaker 8: when you pray, go into your room and shut the 132 00:09:56,880 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 8: door and pray to your father who is in secret, 133 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 8: And your father, who sees in secret, will reward you. 134 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:07,960 Speaker 8: That's Matthew he was good. I can see that he 135 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:11,280 Speaker 8: instilled that in you. I was hoping that you would 136 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:12,440 Speaker 8: allow me to lead a prayer. 137 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:19,720 Speaker 5: Ah. Well, Dad wasn't religious, but you know, given the circumstances, 138 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:21,960 Speaker 5: I think he'd happily accept that. 139 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:27,320 Speaker 8: It is into your hands, Oh Lord, that we humbly 140 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 8: entrust our brother Jonathan Abbys in this life. You embraced 141 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 8: him with your tender love. Deliver him now from every 142 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:41,000 Speaker 8: worldly evil and bid him eternal rest. The old order 143 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:45,680 Speaker 8: has passed away. Welcome him into paradise where there will 144 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 8: be no sorrow. 145 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:55,720 Speaker 5: Jimbo, Oh my god, Jim, Hey, are you okay? You're bleeding. 146 00:10:56,840 --> 00:10:58,880 Speaker 2: I didn't want to miss it. 147 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 5: Barbes said, yeah, I know what she said. Jimbo, your 148 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:07,120 Speaker 5: eyes it's nothing now. I think you should go to 149 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:09,600 Speaker 5: the hospital. Jim, Jim, your eyes are bleeding. 150 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:11,280 Speaker 8: What are you looking at? 151 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:11,680 Speaker 4: Ken? 152 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:13,040 Speaker 2: What's he saying? 153 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:14,560 Speaker 1: What are you saying? 154 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:18,440 Speaker 8: Against itself? Is brought to desolation? 155 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:19,720 Speaker 4: What the hell are you on about? 156 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:22,760 Speaker 8: If Satan also be divided against himself? 157 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:24,800 Speaker 3: How shall his kingdom stand? 158 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:25,520 Speaker 9: Shut him up? 159 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 8: Because you say that I cast out devils through beels above, 160 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 8: and if I by beels above cast out devil's hair shut. 161 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:36,079 Speaker 8: Therefore shall they be your judges. 162 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:41,520 Speaker 5: Suddenly Jimbo was hands in his hair, screaming and slamming 163 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:44,080 Speaker 5: his head on the counter. Ken managed to get up 164 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:46,640 Speaker 5: and swing, but jim tackled him to the ground and 165 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:50,520 Speaker 5: sunk to his teeth, right into Kim's shoulders. 166 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:56,720 Speaker 6: She does not with me, it's against me. 167 00:11:57,280 --> 00:11:58,480 Speaker 5: She that gathered not with. 168 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:10,920 Speaker 1: Damn called the cops. 169 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:20,320 Speaker 5: It was horrible, all of it. The blood was everywhere. 170 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 5: Jimbo Horn, a gentleman, raving and screaming as friends pulled 171 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:29,680 Speaker 5: him from a battered Brother Ken, who continued screaming Bible 172 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:33,200 Speaker 5: verses in his shrill, terrified voice. 173 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:35,600 Speaker 8: But if I, with the finger of God cast out 174 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:38,320 Speaker 8: the devils, no doubt the Kingdom of God has come 175 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 8: upon you. 176 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:42,960 Speaker 5: By the time the authorities that arrived, both had been subdued. 177 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:45,800 Speaker 5: Brother Ken had a nasty bite mark on his shoulder 178 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:55,120 Speaker 5: and a broken nose. Jimbo was bleeding from everywhere, his eyes, nose, mouth. 179 00:12:55,320 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 5: He was sweating it, just like Raymond Bachman had before him. 180 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:07,160 Speaker 5: But what struck me was the eyes. Brother Ken's fearful 181 00:13:07,679 --> 00:13:11,080 Speaker 5: turned upward, looking for help from the Almighty to pull 182 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 5: him through Jimbo's wild, almost feral, murderous Jimbo Horn who 183 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:22,839 Speaker 5: in decades on the force only discharged his firearm once 184 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:28,839 Speaker 5: to save my life. A good gentleman, that's the word 185 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 5: anyone would have used. Gentle now suddenly a slavering beast. 186 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:39,959 Speaker 5: They were taken to the hospital, Jimbo and handcuffs. Of 187 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 5: the officers were apologetic about it. He'd trained them both. 188 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 5: I'd called Barb to break the news. Hello, Barbs, it's Corinne. 189 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 5: Oh yes, actually, what did you do? 190 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:02,240 Speaker 10: Is it kill somebody? 191 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:05,600 Speaker 5: Listen? It's best that you let the guys tell you 192 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:06,319 Speaker 5: the details. 193 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:10,080 Speaker 10: Did he kill someone? 194 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:10,880 Speaker 5: No? 195 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 10: Oh, thank god? 196 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:21,960 Speaker 5: Did you think he would farm? 197 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 10: I'm so sorry. It's okay, I say old days for 198 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:28,080 Speaker 10: you to listen to me. Blubber is not. 199 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 5: What happened. 200 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 10: He came home from the hospital the other day and 201 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:37,480 Speaker 10: it's just well, he's he's not man himself. 202 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:41,760 Speaker 2: It's it's like he's been possessed. In forty years of marriage, 203 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 2: he's never once raised his voice with me, and suddenly 204 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:49,520 Speaker 2: he's screaming about everything. He's mad that I'm keeping him 205 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 2: in bed, But Krinny, he's had this fever and I 206 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 2: keep having to change the bedsheets because well they're red. 207 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:03,440 Speaker 2: And then and this afternoon, I get back from your 208 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:06,000 Speaker 2: father's service and Jim's taking a nap and I'm in 209 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 2: the kitchen when I hear this, I don't know, this scream, 210 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:16,040 Speaker 2: like like a baby screaming, but somehow worse. And I 211 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:18,640 Speaker 2: come up the stairs and he's sitting in the corner, 212 00:15:18,920 --> 00:15:24,240 Speaker 2: faced away from me, hunched over something. And when I 213 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:26,880 Speaker 2: ask him what the hell happened, he. 214 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:30,120 Speaker 6: Turns to me with this. 215 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:37,440 Speaker 2: It was a snarl, crim like like a junk yard dog, and. 216 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:44,520 Speaker 5: Arm what is it? 217 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:50,880 Speaker 2: He's got the cat in his hands, and it's. 218 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:56,520 Speaker 5: That he he killed the cat. 219 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 2: I didn't know what to do. I I should have 220 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:04,040 Speaker 2: run off or called somebody, his doctor, the chief, anybody, 221 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 2: but I couldn't wrap my head around what was happening. 222 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:11,720 Speaker 2: So I just said, Jim, did you kill the cat? 223 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 5: And what did he say? He shrugged, He shrugged. 224 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:25,520 Speaker 2: And dropped it on the carpet like I used towel, 225 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:29,520 Speaker 2: And he said he was going out for a drink 226 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:37,000 Speaker 2: and he left, Karen, his eyes were all bugged out 227 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 2: and bloody. 228 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:40,880 Speaker 5: Wait the cats or jimbows. 229 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 10: Jimbows, of course, Sampson. I mean, he was a good cat. 230 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:53,200 Speaker 10: He didn't deserve to be mingled. He loved Jim, he did. 231 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:58,640 Speaker 10: They were best friends. Sampson used to crawl into bed 232 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 10: at night and crawl up the side jim shoulder, right 233 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:03,640 Speaker 10: in the curve of his neck. He flits there all 234 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:05,760 Speaker 10: night long, only getting up when Jim did. 235 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:11,919 Speaker 5: I'm so sorry, Barb. I think you should go to 236 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:15,239 Speaker 5: the hospital. Okay, maybe you can tell the doctors all 237 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:19,399 Speaker 5: the details. It's not like Jim, of course. 238 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:26,119 Speaker 2: I'm just so scared, Barb. 239 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:33,600 Speaker 5: If you need any Barb, Barb. I'd come straight home 240 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:39,200 Speaker 5: to shower after everything, and to sit shell shocked by 241 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 5: the violence and loss over the last few days. I 242 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:46,239 Speaker 5: barely had time to recover from one thing before the 243 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:50,399 Speaker 5: next barrel through. I'd barely had time to process my 244 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:54,359 Speaker 5: father's death. I'd spend so much time on his arrangements. 245 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:59,280 Speaker 5: I hadn't had time to grieve, to start to sift 246 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:06,320 Speaker 5: through the pieces, to process his last days. His last words. 247 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:15,600 Speaker 4: Black wood black would box. 248 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:22,399 Speaker 5: Shit. I hadn't thought of them since he died a 249 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:26,280 Speaker 5: few days previous. It must have been important if it 250 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 5: was the last thing he'd said. Dad was never a 251 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:35,200 Speaker 5: man of many words. He was careful with them, used 252 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 5: them sparingly, even occasionally to the detriment of our relationship. 253 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:45,639 Speaker 5: He said, I love you, and that stood in for 254 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:49,680 Speaker 5: a lot. We didn't talk about Mom much after she died. 255 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:54,439 Speaker 5: We didn't talk about feelings. We didn't talk about his 256 00:18:54,560 --> 00:19:00,600 Speaker 5: shortcomings or mine. So using up his last breath on 257 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:05,239 Speaker 5: these instructions, and of course my middle name must have 258 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:10,199 Speaker 5: some weight. He certainly didn't talk about the box that 259 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:14,600 Speaker 5: I found on the top shelf of his closet. He 260 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:18,679 Speaker 5: really buried the lead on that one. What in the 261 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:25,119 Speaker 5: hell a black wooden box with an old iron clasp, 262 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 5: I mean antique the size of a bread box across 263 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:34,879 Speaker 5: and lay it on the lid. I was not prepared 264 00:19:35,119 --> 00:19:40,760 Speaker 5: for what I found inside? What coming? 265 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:42,880 Speaker 1: What the hell? 266 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:44,760 Speaker 5: What the hell? 267 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 7: Hey, buddy, Sylvie, And look who I found pacing in 268 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:51,320 Speaker 7: front of your house. 269 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:56,919 Speaker 5: Hi. Hi, It's Murray. 270 00:19:57,760 --> 00:19:58,840 Speaker 9: I was your father's nurse. 271 00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I'm sorry. The last few days have been 272 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:06,160 Speaker 5: a little bit of a whirlwind. 273 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:11,240 Speaker 9: I'd imagine. I'm incredibly sorry for your loss, and I 274 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:12,040 Speaker 9: am sorry. 275 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:12,680 Speaker 5: To show up uninvited. 276 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,640 Speaker 9: I just seen that you were you were the only 277 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:17,520 Speaker 9: one who came to visit your father in the hospital, 278 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:19,520 Speaker 9: and I don't know. 279 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:20,080 Speaker 6: This was silly. 280 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:23,480 Speaker 5: No, no, no, it's not. You thought I was alone. 281 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:27,040 Speaker 5: A lot of assumption on my part. What was kind 282 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:33,680 Speaker 5: of you? Come in? I rap bourbon, excellent, we'll get 283 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:36,119 Speaker 5: the glasses. Oh, none for me. 284 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:38,480 Speaker 9: Thanks, I've got first shift tomorrow. 285 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 5: Boo Sylvie. No, Hey, how did everything go? After I 286 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:45,520 Speaker 5: left the bar? 287 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:51,200 Speaker 7: I mean the cops hung around asking questions. I don't 288 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:53,600 Speaker 7: think they could believe that Jimbo would ever attack anyone 289 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:56,879 Speaker 7: over nothing much just bite a guy, I'm. 290 00:20:56,760 --> 00:21:03,280 Speaker 5: Sorry, what a regular at my bar? When berserk sounds 291 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:03,640 Speaker 5: like it? 292 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:06,760 Speaker 7: Old Tom and Kit Baker were moaning that they got 293 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:10,800 Speaker 7: scratched up too trying to pull Jimbo off Ken, So 294 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:12,520 Speaker 7: I gave them a couple in the house to clear 295 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:12,840 Speaker 7: it up. 296 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:14,280 Speaker 6: Hope that's okay. 297 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:17,600 Speaker 5: Yeah, I trust your judgment, as you should. 298 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:21,480 Speaker 6: But anyway, the mood changed. 299 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:25,040 Speaker 7: Some of the old folks talking about winds shifting, signs 300 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:26,640 Speaker 7: of the times, normal shit. 301 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:29,359 Speaker 6: But they were rattled courin. 302 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:32,719 Speaker 7: Yeah I am too, right, so am I I mean, 303 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:35,840 Speaker 7: shit has been crazy, and with your dad dying in 304 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:40,840 Speaker 7: the middle of it, I don't know anyway to Jonathan, 305 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:44,400 Speaker 7: God love him, he'd have had all this shit. 306 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:45,040 Speaker 6: Worked out quick. 307 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:48,560 Speaker 5: Truth to dad? 308 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:55,440 Speaker 6: So, uh, you're gonna keep us in suspense? 309 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:58,240 Speaker 5: Or what? 310 00:21:58,240 --> 00:21:59,159 Speaker 6: What's in the box? 311 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:02,120 Speaker 7: Answer the door, clutching it for dear life, and your 312 00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 7: eyes haven't left it since you put it down like 313 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 7: you thought it might bite you. 314 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 5: Oh well, you're not going to believe this. 315 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:16,160 Speaker 6: What the hell am I looking at? 316 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 5: Inside the box, lined with deteriorating red velvet, were the 317 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:28,359 Speaker 5: following items. A small crystal vial, a bible, its leather covered, 318 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:34,800 Speaker 5: dry rotted brass candlesticks, two half melted candles, a small crucifix, 319 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:41,960 Speaker 5: rosary beads, desiccated garlic, a small brass flask, two ornate 320 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:44,720 Speaker 5: matching pistols, the kind they used to use in duels, 321 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:52,200 Speaker 5: a wooden mallet, and finally, a simple wooden steak stained 322 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:56,480 Speaker 5: a dark brown on the sharp end. It had clearly 323 00:22:56,760 --> 00:23:00,960 Speaker 5: been used at some point in the distant past. It's 324 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:06,040 Speaker 5: for vampires, well, I figured, given the family history. Oh, 325 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:10,200 Speaker 5: it's just a long story that I guess I don't 326 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:13,080 Speaker 5: know in as much detail as I thought. 327 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:14,199 Speaker 6: What's that? 328 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:16,480 Speaker 5: Be careful, careful? Ah nah, I'll. 329 00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:22,320 Speaker 6: Be gentle it's a letter. It's signed by Josiah Abbis. 330 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 5: We'll read it aloud. 331 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:32,160 Speaker 7: I will Jesus ahem, my dear grandson. There are many 332 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:35,840 Speaker 7: things between a parent and his progeny that go unspoken 333 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:38,159 Speaker 7: over the course of a lifetime. 334 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:43,480 Speaker 4: My time grows short even now. I can sense a 335 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:47,200 Speaker 4: shift in the wind over this village. The blind will 336 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 4: be approaching soon to cut out the good eye that 337 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:55,080 Speaker 4: has led them through the darkness thus far. There's a 338 00:23:55,080 --> 00:24:00,600 Speaker 4: little time for apology, But I fear I must make 339 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:04,720 Speaker 4: one to you, to your brother, for I could not 340 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 4: save your parents from their fates, nor could I keep 341 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:12,520 Speaker 4: this great burden from you, so young and alone in 342 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:17,160 Speaker 4: this world. These things shall torment me long after death, 343 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:22,760 Speaker 4: and I well deserve it. I shall leave you with 344 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 4: this sacred box. Hopefully, by the time that you receive 345 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:31,960 Speaker 4: this missive, its contents will no longer be necessary for peace, 346 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:37,240 Speaker 4: the Good Lord willing. But I fear, my good grandson, 347 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:41,199 Speaker 4: that the events which have unfolded in this town have 348 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:44,639 Speaker 4: not yet come to full fruition. And so it is 349 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:50,320 Speaker 4: with you I leave these holy artifacts, these histories, these 350 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:56,600 Speaker 4: consecrated weapons against the inferno. It is time for you 351 00:24:56,760 --> 00:25:00,520 Speaker 4: to take up the family's great cause in this ending 352 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:05,840 Speaker 4: battle between God's holy warriors and the horrors of the infernal. 353 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:12,200 Speaker 4: There's a vile sickness in Abbess Town. You must excite it, 354 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:18,280 Speaker 4: dig into the deep earth, and cut it out by 355 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:22,000 Speaker 4: any means necessary. And if you see the devil walking 356 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,960 Speaker 4: around in sight of another man, be an enemy of 357 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,880 Speaker 4: your very own brother. If you see the blood pour 358 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,800 Speaker 4: forth from his flesh, you must cut out the very 359 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:35,720 Speaker 4: heart of him, burn his body, and scatter the ashes 360 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,840 Speaker 4: in the furthest corner of this town as a warning. 361 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:44,879 Speaker 4: You are God's warrior. Now they will not understand you. 362 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:51,359 Speaker 4: They will fear you. But this fear is your weapon 363 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:55,360 Speaker 4: as well. Wield it without mercy, and bring down its 364 00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:57,679 Speaker 4: holy judgment upon any who stand in the way of 365 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:08,920 Speaker 4: your calling. God save this lineage. God save ABBA's Town. 366 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:15,640 Speaker 4: God save my own wretched soul for what I have 367 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:16,840 Speaker 4: done in his service. 368 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:30,840 Speaker 6: Wow, Shit, that's incredible. Was he insane? 369 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:35,119 Speaker 5: I mean they didn't call him a mad preacher for nothing. 370 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:43,360 Speaker 5: If you see the blood pour forth from his flesh, shit, Jimbo, Yeah, 371 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:46,639 Speaker 5: I mean that that that can't be connected. 372 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:48,080 Speaker 6: Why not? 373 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:54,000 Speaker 5: I don't know. And Demerius, my father's very last word 374 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:57,320 Speaker 5: was Demerius. What do you think he meant? 375 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:02,800 Speaker 6: I mean that's your middle name, right? Did he ever 376 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:03,280 Speaker 6: call you that? 377 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:03,840 Speaker 5: No? 378 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:06,760 Speaker 6: Oh, that's so weird. 379 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:13,040 Speaker 5: What did he do to demerish? What? 380 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:14,560 Speaker 7: I think? 381 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:18,160 Speaker 5: I know someone who can help us, help us, what, Sylvie, help. 382 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,520 Speaker 6: Us figure out how this is all connected? 383 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:23,880 Speaker 5: Oh, Sylvie, don't be ridiculous. 384 00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:26,800 Speaker 1: No, come on, let me call. 385 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:28,240 Speaker 5: The guy, Sylvie. 386 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:30,080 Speaker 6: No, let me call him. 387 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:33,320 Speaker 5: Who is this guy you speak of? You have a 388 00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:34,840 Speaker 5: historian in your back pocket? 389 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:36,640 Speaker 6: No, I wish. 390 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:42,000 Speaker 7: No, he studies folklore and he's cute too, not that 391 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:45,280 Speaker 7: that is important. I went to a lecture with that 392 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:47,119 Speaker 7: guy I dated who was in a weird shit and 393 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 7: we ended up. 394 00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:52,320 Speaker 6: Talking to him for a little afterward. I found his 395 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:53,720 Speaker 6: number a while back. 396 00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:56,680 Speaker 5: Are you stalking him? No? 397 00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:01,600 Speaker 7: Yes, but have the guts to call him, because just 398 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:03,440 Speaker 7: calling him out of the blue for no reason would 399 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:04,040 Speaker 7: be weird. 400 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:07,480 Speaker 5: But calling him about an old vampire slaying kid is 401 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:08,159 Speaker 5: not weird. 402 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:10,240 Speaker 6: Not for this guy. 403 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,080 Speaker 5: I don't have the time to deal with this. 404 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:16,919 Speaker 6: No, you have nothing but time. It's ringing. It's his 405 00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,160 Speaker 6: office number, so he probably won't pick up this Late. 406 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:21,440 Speaker 5: Professor Bradshaw. 407 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,200 Speaker 9: Listen, if this is about the midterm, I've made it 408 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:26,600 Speaker 9: abundantly clear that I will not be grading on a curve. 409 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:29,199 Speaker 6: Okay, nope, nope, not a student. 410 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:31,679 Speaker 10: Sorry. 411 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,439 Speaker 1: There's always a rush of them calling to beg or 412 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:35,640 Speaker 1: cajole this time of year. 413 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:37,879 Speaker 10: Who is calling? 414 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:38,800 Speaker 4: Hi? 415 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:42,280 Speaker 6: You don't remember me. My name is Sylvie. 416 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:45,400 Speaker 7: We met a while back after a lecture you gave 417 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,800 Speaker 7: at Concord Library about the you know, the Terror of Lake. 418 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:51,360 Speaker 10: Right, yeah, the Lake member Magog. 419 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:53,000 Speaker 6: Yeah, that's it. 420 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:56,120 Speaker 7: I never remember that. Anyway, I was with a guy 421 00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 7: at the time, Michael. I am not seeing him anymore, 422 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:04,800 Speaker 7: to be clear. But okay, sorry, anyway, we have something 423 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:08,280 Speaker 7: you might like to see go on. 424 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:17,280 Speaker 3: Havoctown was created by me Aaron Manke. The show was 425 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:21,560 Speaker 3: written and directed by Nicholas Takoski. This episode was edited 426 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:26,440 Speaker 3: and sound designed by Rima Lkali. Starring Jewels State as 427 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:31,080 Speaker 3: Corene Abbas, Felicia Day as Sylvie, Harris ray Wise as 428 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:36,920 Speaker 3: Josiah abbas, Crystal Lee as Demeris, Robin Bludworth as jimbo'horn, 429 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:41,960 Speaker 3: David Calhoun as Jonathan abbas Charlie, David Newell as brother 430 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:46,840 Speaker 3: Ken Summer rain Menkey as Barbara Horn and Misha Collins 431 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:52,200 Speaker 3: as Professor Jeremy Bradshaw, with additional voice acting from Julian Graham, 432 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:57,320 Speaker 3: Sasha Hatfield, Beverly Bremers, and Aaron Mankey. This season is 433 00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:01,440 Speaker 3: directed by Nicholas Takoski with assistant directors Sarah Klein and 434 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 3: Jake Diamond, casting by Sunday Bowling CSA and Meg Mormon CSA. 435 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:11,440 Speaker 3: Production coordinator Wayna Calderon. Our theme song was created by 436 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:16,400 Speaker 3: Chris Childs executive producers Aaron Manke, Trevor Young, and Matt Frederick, 437 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:21,080 Speaker 3: with supervising producer Rima Lkali and producers Nomes Griffin and 438 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:25,000 Speaker 3: Jesse Funk. Havoctown is set in the Bridgewater Audio Universe, 439 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:29,480 Speaker 3: which includes the hit fiction podcasts Bridgewater and Consumed. 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