1 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,880 Speaker 1: Thirteen days of Halloween is a production of I heart radio, 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: Blumhouse television and grim and mild from Aaron mankey headphones recommended. 3 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 1: Listener discretion advised. Good evening, friend, welcome to the Sunset Lounge. 4 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: Won't you join me at the bar a live astion? 5 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:39,879 Speaker 1: I've just the thing here. The architect, though possessing a 6 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:43,400 Speaker 1: sober mind, wasn't a pot of a little tipple here 7 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 1: and there. He inherited this particular spirit from a small 8 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:53,519 Speaker 1: tavern in Nantucket, which was, in its day, quite popular 9 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 1: with the types of men who spent their lives to see. 10 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:02,760 Speaker 1: The owner, Nathaniel Mulgrave, was a stingy type, particularly when 11 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:06,559 Speaker 1: it came to the fairer sex, particularly when it came 12 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:12,399 Speaker 1: to his bar maid, Oh Lilian, Long Auburn hair and 13 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:15,560 Speaker 1: eyes that changed color with the mood of the ocean, 14 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:20,839 Speaker 1: an ethereal laugh that she gave freely to anyone willing 15 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:24,520 Speaker 1: to earn it, and men who worked to earn it 16 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:30,679 Speaker 1: all the time. and One night a young sailor arrived 17 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:34,840 Speaker 1: in the tavern, causing Lilian to squeal with delight. A 18 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:40,039 Speaker 1: jealous chill overtook Nathaniel, who wasted no time but poisoned 19 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 1: a bottle of fine Oloroso with a small dram of 20 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 1: arsenic that he kept for the rats. He brought it 21 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 1: to the young man, saying a friend of Lilian's, before 22 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 1: returning to the bar to wait. The sailor turned out 23 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 1: to be Lilian's brother and quite a good man. And then, 24 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 1: the end of the night a dozen were dead, including 25 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 1: the beloved Lilian. Nathaniel has tried and executed, of course. 26 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:12,080 Speaker 1: Oh No, don't, don't worry. This isn't that bottle of 27 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 1: all a rods. DRINK UP, drink up. Oh Bravo, Mitch, Bravo. 28 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:27,240 Speaker 1: Oh God, I cannot wait to Entrin to so, Mitch 29 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:32,359 Speaker 1: de Hup, this is my friend who is simply dying 30 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 1: to hear your tale. Ah, if you'll excuse me, listen. 31 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:48,240 Speaker 1: It's naturally you can stop me right here. Just get 32 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:52,400 Speaker 1: up and walk away. It's okay, because what I'm about 33 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 1: to tell you is a key. The key. There are 34 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:00,960 Speaker 1: lots of door to a place there. I shouldn't be. 35 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:05,360 Speaker 1: I once that door is open, that's no closing it again. 36 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 1: All right, I can't say I didn't warn you. This 37 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 1: was quite a few years back now. Friday night after 38 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:20,040 Speaker 1: work me and the rest of the sales department hit 39 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 1: our favorite water and hole to kick off the weekend. 40 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:28,919 Speaker 1: The last call. I wasn't hammering my show. I wasn't 41 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:32,840 Speaker 1: ready to drive. You know the drill I want to 42 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: take home. I don't want to go back home to. Eventually, 43 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 1: it was just me, bartender and him, this guy. I 44 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 1: want to look at him, man, you get it. Being 45 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 1: as I was raised to avoid a drop down on 46 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 1: this luck, I made sure to avoid eye contact. But 47 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 1: screw the pouch when I lit up a cigaret at me, 48 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:04,800 Speaker 1: but of course this fool asked me for one. Then 49 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 1: a light. Next thing I know, he's camped out on 50 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 1: the store next to me with a fresh double. Right 51 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:17,039 Speaker 1: off the bat, he asked me for a ride to 52 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:19,840 Speaker 1: his car down the block. I tell him maybe the 53 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:25,200 Speaker 1: walk with doing some good. M H. He grasped my 54 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:27,559 Speaker 1: wrists like we're on the first state of the horrid 55 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:35,800 Speaker 1: moone there waiting, waiting, the children. His eyes, bowls were 56 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 1: terror the children with eyes as it started this night, 57 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: I remember those words exactly as a startled to night. 58 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:55,200 Speaker 1: The poetry of it threw me off. I was listening 59 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 1: when I should have been walking. He told me now. 60 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:04,280 Speaker 1: A few nights ago he was at this bar a 61 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 1: few over from the one we were at. When the 62 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:12,039 Speaker 1: place closed, he made his way to his car, got 63 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 1: in and before he could start it up, there was 64 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:22,360 Speaker 1: a tapping on his window. He looked up. Two kids 65 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:30,159 Speaker 1: stood there, teenagers. They looked weird, Pale white skin, long 66 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 1: black hair, with the toss of their faces hidden beneath 67 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 1: White Brim hats. Excuse me to give us all right, please. 68 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 1: Normally he would have just flipped him off and floored it, 69 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 1: but suddenly he was overcome with confusion. Then it struck 70 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:59,360 Speaker 1: terror that seized him. On a biologicalge not that these 71 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:02,719 Speaker 1: kids look her particularly dangerous, but on a gut level 72 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:08,839 Speaker 1: something was off, something was wrong, real wrong. He tried 73 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:11,480 Speaker 1: to leave, but there was a ringing in his ears, 74 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:16,400 Speaker 1: the hum of an invisible engine feeding his skull electricity 75 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:27,839 Speaker 1: and panic. Yeah, as one of them demanded, and he 76 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:30,560 Speaker 1: was about to give reaching for the lock on the 77 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:37,000 Speaker 1: passenger side, he noticed their eyes started started to night. 78 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:42,119 Speaker 1: I started tonight. How kind of myth right there, down 79 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:49,160 Speaker 1: my beer without a word walked out the bar. By 80 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:51,719 Speaker 1: the time I got to my car, I was curious. 81 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 1: It's like a car wreck. You know there's nothing to see, 82 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:01,360 Speaker 1: but I gotta see it for yourself anyway. Mh. I 83 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 1: come up on his car, slow down, scope the scene. 84 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:13,960 Speaker 1: No one there. Everything he told me. It was just 85 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:19,440 Speaker 1: a bunch of two shadows stepped from around the car 86 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 1: into the light. Still knew better than the God, but 87 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 1: I couldn't help myself. Something in the way they moved. 88 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:35,080 Speaker 1: Nice sleep walkers, played at the wrong speed. I found 89 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 1: myself transfixed. It was like watching someone else's bad dream. 90 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 1: Next thing I know they stepping in front of my car, 91 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,160 Speaker 1: into my head. I said him up. I veered around 92 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:53,480 Speaker 1: them and put the pellets of the metal. I looked 93 00:07:53,480 --> 00:08:02,600 Speaker 1: in the rear view mirror. No alms there. Got Home, 94 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:06,960 Speaker 1: pop open another beer, passed out in front of TV. 95 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 1: In the story, so I thought. Welcome to the power 96 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 1: flickering on and off, plans to sleeping, then going dead, 97 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:33,920 Speaker 1: then beeping again. I lay there for I don't know 98 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:39,599 Speaker 1: how long, unable to go back to sleep, but eventually 99 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:48,200 Speaker 1: I began to drift off. I drawed awake, wait to 100 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:53,040 Speaker 1: see if it was a dream. Lay Back Down, pretended 101 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 1: to be asleep, hoping whoever it was would would take 102 00:08:56,520 --> 00:09:02,240 Speaker 1: a hint and piss off, grabbed my phone, turned on 103 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:06,160 Speaker 1: the flashlight. Out I found a baseball bad stashed by 104 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:08,600 Speaker 1: my bed and made my way to the front door. 105 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 1: M Hmm, stood there. Who is it? He tell me. 106 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:24,079 Speaker 1: Our carts are a lot of trouble. You have to 107 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:30,360 Speaker 1: open the door please. There was an urgency in the 108 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 1: voice that that I couldn't refuse. I brought the bat 109 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:38,320 Speaker 1: against the wall, ensuring it was it was in grabbing distance. 110 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:46,520 Speaker 1: Ben My hand. Shaking Open door, I raising a flashlight 111 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:51,840 Speaker 1: from behind the screen door. A little boy and an 112 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:57,199 Speaker 1: equally little girl stood there, shouting their faces from the glare. 113 00:09:57,240 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 1: You have to let us there was something off about them. 114 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:07,120 Speaker 1: They didn't move except to keep the life from their eyes. 115 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:10,440 Speaker 1: When I asked them what happened, they just repeated the 116 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:17,880 Speaker 1: same words us. Yeah, I caught a whiff of something, 117 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:23,559 Speaker 1: stench of rotten. Next, but more accurate, and just then, 118 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 1: my grain knife jasp me between the eyes. Please you 119 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 1: yere us. Then I heard it humming in my ears, 120 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 1: surge of power thriving through the skull, drowning out my thoughts. 121 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:58,320 Speaker 1: M Hm oh, suddenly I can't help myself. Of course 122 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:01,160 Speaker 1: I would let them in, and all made perfect sense. 123 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 1: Just as I reached for the screen door to unlock it, 124 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:11,280 Speaker 1: I phone it up their faces and there was eyes 125 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 1: the starllars night. I snapped out of it slammed the 126 00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:25,280 Speaker 1: door down. That won one. All of a sudden my 127 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:29,040 Speaker 1: phone's got no service. The powers how many of my 128 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:32,720 Speaker 1: skull again? It was making me dizzy and I stumbled back. 129 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 1: They stood there knocking on the door until dawn. That's 130 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:42,120 Speaker 1: when the power came back home, my phone started working 131 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 1: again and they went away. I almost called out sick, 132 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:52,440 Speaker 1: but I was too freaked out to stay home alone. 133 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:55,960 Speaker 1: I worked through the day and the more I dwelled 134 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:59,360 Speaker 1: on him, the more I realized that it must have 135 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:03,439 Speaker 1: been a nightmare, not the war. Until the next night, 136 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 1: that buzzing noise in my skull again. I know, yeah, yeah, 137 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:22,120 Speaker 1: they were standing in the bushes outside my window. They 138 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 1: clawed at the glass and then try and open in 139 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:28,920 Speaker 1: the window. When that didn't work, I can hear them 140 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:33,160 Speaker 1: scirting around, making their way through the backyard searching from 141 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:39,240 Speaker 1: our opening. They kept at it until down and then disappeared. 142 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:44,600 Speaker 1: I knew if I phoned the costly just I just 143 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:51,480 Speaker 1: think I was crazy. So I called my therapist told 144 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:54,280 Speaker 1: her my story in detail. She told me I was 145 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:57,840 Speaker 1: just a victim of a prank, but agreed to pounce 146 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:02,160 Speaker 1: me in the next day. That night I finally slept 147 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:06,520 Speaker 1: free of any interruptions. When I showed up for my 148 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:10,599 Speaker 1: session the following afternoon, my therapist hand shown up and 149 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 1: wasn't returning any calls. I think I knew even then 150 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:21,760 Speaker 1: what happened later back home, the power died again, and 151 00:13:21,880 --> 00:13:27,439 Speaker 1: right on cue, only this time they knocked on the 152 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:32,520 Speaker 1: door to my bedroom. They rattled the door now told 153 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:35,240 Speaker 1: me they knew I could hear them, that I needed 154 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:39,400 Speaker 1: open the door let the men. I could hear them 155 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 1: rummaging around my home, knocking on different walls, making their 156 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:46,720 Speaker 1: way to the to add it to Claude the ceiling. 157 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 1: All night it went on. I didn't know what to do, 158 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:56,160 Speaker 1: but we called my best friend. I told him everything. 159 00:13:56,920 --> 00:14:00,880 Speaker 1: Begged him to come over that night to wait with me, 160 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 1: to prove me crazy, you're saying. Reluctantly, my request was granted. 161 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 1: He promised to come by after work that night. He 162 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 1: didn't show up, and neither did the black eyed children. 163 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:23,040 Speaker 1: That's when I figured it out. Being invaded not just 164 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:28,000 Speaker 1: our nation, but the whole damn planet. They're not traveling here, 165 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 1: no UFO, or there's some gateway to hell like in 166 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:39,680 Speaker 1: the movies. H M HMM. They come here their stories, 167 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 1: stories about children, eyes starvus night that, once heard, opens 168 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 1: the door for them to the listeners world. But there's 169 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 1: a way out. Oh Yea to do. Let's passed the 170 00:14:56,600 --> 00:15:02,400 Speaker 1: story along to some other poor sucker. Only then did 171 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:07,440 Speaker 1: they let you sleep, but only for a night. It 172 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:11,520 Speaker 1: provides incentive for you to find an audience for them, 173 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 1: an audience for them to enter our world through. which 174 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:21,560 Speaker 1: brings me to you. I know you don't believe me, 175 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:25,360 Speaker 1: at least not until they come knocking on your door, 176 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 1: but when they do, you have a choice to make. 177 00:15:30,760 --> 00:16:13,160 Speaker 1: Let them in or tell their story. M H tragic? No, 178 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 1: but there he sits every evening until the sun departs 179 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:23,080 Speaker 1: to night. He'll continue on well past the witching hour, 180 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 1: and that's thanks to you. So much power exists in 181 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:33,200 Speaker 1: the simple act of listening. A word of warning to you. 182 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:36,920 Speaker 1: If to night you hear a knock on your door, 183 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:40,160 Speaker 1: perhaps best to let them believe that you're not in. 184 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:44,360 Speaker 1: Just roll over and go back to sleep, no matter 185 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:50,120 Speaker 1: how insistent they may become well, my friend, you look 186 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 1: tired and the evening does seem to be wearing on. 187 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:57,440 Speaker 1: We have much yet to explore in the days ahead 188 00:16:57,520 --> 00:17:01,280 Speaker 1: if we're going to find that door. One more thing. 189 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:06,080 Speaker 1: You'll find complimentary air plugs in the washroom cabinet. That 190 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:11,199 Speaker 1: is safe than sorry. How do you make flights of 191 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:23,160 Speaker 1: Angels Sing Thee to Thy Wrist? Thirteen days of Halloween 192 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:26,520 Speaker 1: was created by Matt Frederick and Alex Williams and executive 193 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:30,480 Speaker 1: produced by Aaron Manky, starring Keegan Michael Key as the caretaker. 194 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:35,359 Speaker 1: Today's story was written by Robert Mosca, performed by Jason 195 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:38,480 Speaker 1: Williams and directed by Matt Frederick, with editing and sound 196 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:42,080 Speaker 1: designed by Trevor Young, additional writing and script supervision from 197 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:48,080 Speaker 1: Nicholas Dakowski casting by Jessica loser. Only eight days remain. 198 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:55,199 Speaker 1: Tomorrow another story. Sometimes newborn children open their eyes and 199 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:57,879 Speaker 1: see the sun or Bright Blue Star in the darkness 200 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:01,560 Speaker 1: and they think it sees them as well and they 201 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:06,400 Speaker 1: smile and they are beautiful. For some people, he said, 202 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:10,399 Speaker 1: it's a day, a night on the water, a graduation walk, 203 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:14,920 Speaker 1: a glory. That was their room. For some people it's 204 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:17,560 Speaker 1: a moment and they often do not see it when 205 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:23,120 Speaker 1: it happens. To see it to be seen. They look 206 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:30,720 Speaker 1: back years later and they think I was beautiful. 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