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Speaker 1: Unexplains two and nineteen Halloween special with me Richard McClean smith.

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Speaker 1: Before we begin, I have to issue a warning that

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Speaker 1: the following experience will contain scenes of an extremely graphic, intense,

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Speaker 1: and sometimes bloody nature, which may distress some listeners. Parental

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Speaker 1: discretion is advised. And now that's out of the way.

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Speaker 1: If you're still here, let's proceed. I want you to

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Speaker 1: imagine you're twelve years old, riding a bike along a

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Speaker 1: small deserted country lane, sipping along at speed past fields

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Speaker 1: of wheat and bright yellow sunflowers. All about as far

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Speaker 1: as your eyes can see. You're surrounded by rolling hills

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Speaker 1: in many shades of worn and green, dotted with small

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Speaker 1: clumps of trees and pretty hedgerows. Up above a majestic

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Speaker 1: golden sun, the warmth of which you feel on your skin,

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Speaker 1: sits high in a pale, cloudless sky that seems to

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Speaker 1: stretch out forever. Cycling faster, now, you feel the cooling

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Speaker 1: air on your face as you whizz along the road.

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Speaker 1: Up ahead in the distance you see a small forest

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Speaker 1: into which the road disappears, the final stretch of the

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Speaker 1: journey back to your grandmother's house, where your family and

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Speaker 1: lunch are waiting for you. At twelve years old, You've

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Speaker 1: found yourself occupying a strange, liminal space, caught between the

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Speaker 1: innocence of childhood and the creeping onset of adolescence, having

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Speaker 1: already begun to sense an untethering from the child. Perhaps

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Speaker 1: it has unsettled you. You worry it's all happening too soon,

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Speaker 1: and that the pull of this unknown, grown up world

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Speaker 1: that lurks on the horizon is something to be resisted.

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Speaker 1: Or maybe you can't wait to escape the juvenile world

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Speaker 1: of children, to shed its skin, excited by the prospect

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Speaker 1: of all that is to come. Whatever the case, whether

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Speaker 1: you want them to or not, changes are coming. But

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Speaker 1: right now, that's okay. Right now, under this sun, as

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Speaker 1: you revel in the freedom of two wheels, everything feels good.

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Speaker 1: So you plow on ahead, keeping your eyes on the

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Speaker 1: forest that seems to grow larger as you draw closer

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Speaker 1: and closer to it. Though it's only a short section

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Speaker 1: of woodland, you've always felt a little uneasy cycling through it,

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Speaker 1: trying your best to banish all thought of those dark

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Speaker 1: fairy tales that you enjoy reading so much, trying hard

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Speaker 1: not to think about what monsters might be lurking behind

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Speaker 1: the trees, it's silly really, After all, on a day

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Speaker 1: as bright and balmy as this, there really is nothing

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Speaker 1: to worry about. But just then you notice something strange.

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Speaker 1: It can't be, you think, as you bring the bike

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Speaker 1: to a sudden stop, staring ahead in disbelief. Where only

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Speaker 1: a moment ago a road runs straight through the woods,

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Speaker 1: there is nothing but trees. It's as if the forest

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Speaker 1: had just suddenly grown right over it. It must be

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Speaker 1: some mistake, you think, perhaps you took a wrong turn

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Speaker 1: at some point, but when you look back, everything behind

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Speaker 1: is just as it has always been. Confused, you put

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Speaker 1: down your bike and wander to the end of the tarmac,

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Speaker 1: which stops dead at the edge of the forest, and

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Speaker 1: stare into the thick mass of trees beyond. There is

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Speaker 1: no sign of the road further on, and now what

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Speaker 1: happens next is up to you. If you choose to

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Speaker 1: step into the forest for a better look, go to

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Speaker 1: episode two. If you decide instead to turn back and

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Speaker 1: find a different way home, go to episode three. Now

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