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Speaker 1: Hello, It's Richard mclin smith here. I just want to

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Speaker 1: Two cities, two incredible events, and I can't wait to

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Speaker 1: see you there. In his seminal survey of horror culture

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Speaker 1: Dance maccarbough, Stephen King recounts a trip to see Stuart

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Speaker 1: Rosenberg's Amateurville Horror on its release in nineteen seventy nine.

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Speaker 1: While sitting in the Darkened Movie Theater watching James Brolin

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Speaker 1: and Margo Kidder recreate the supposed haunting of the Lutz family,

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Speaker 1: voice repeating the same phrase in low, urgent tones. Think

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Speaker 1: of the bills, she said, over and over, with mounting anxiety.

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Speaker 1: Just think of the bills. The Amateurville horror king theorizes

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Speaker 1: a nightmare of economic insecurity and domestic stress. Here is

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Speaker 1: a movie, he writes, for every woman who ever wept

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Speaker 1: over a plugged up toilet or a spreading water stain

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Speaker 1: maestro concludes what happens to the Lutz family is really

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Speaker 1: one more potential pitfall of home ownership, an esoteric version

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Speaker 1: listening to Unexplained and I'm Richard McLean Smith. Jack and

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Speaker 1: Janet Smile moved into their new home at three hundred

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Speaker 1: She called out to Jack, who was equally baffled to

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Speaker 1: to each other in horror. There was no doubting it now.

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Speaker 1: There was something in their home that wanted to hurt them,

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Speaker 1: something that wanted to hurt their children. It was time

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Speaker 1: to find help. You've been listening to part one of

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Speaker 1: Unexplained Season nine, Episode nine, The Uninvited. The second and

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Speaker 1: final part will be released next Friday, January twenty third.

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Speaker 1: This episode was written by Neil McRobert and produced by

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Speaker 1: me Richard mclin Smith. Neil is the creator and host

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Speaker 1: of his own brilliant podcast called Talking Scared, in which

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Speaker 1: he discusses the craft of horror, writing with everyone from

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Speaker 1: Ta Nanaeve Do to the god of horror himself, Stephen King.

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Speaker 1: I can't recommend it highly enough. Thank you as ever

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Speaker 1: for listening. Unexplained is an Avy Club Productions podcast created

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Speaker 1: by Richard McLain Smith. All other elements of the podcast,

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