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Speaker 1: Thirteen Days of Halloween. Devil's Night, a production of I

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Speaker 1: Heart three D audio, Blumhouse Television and Grimm and Mild

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Speaker 1: from Aaron Mackey Headphones Recommended. Listener discretion advised. The yes

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Speaker 1: no no, yes Lord, Oh no, no, yes Lord spoken

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Speaker 1: out here in the cemetery. Why I did not mean

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Speaker 1: to startle, you know, in the church, the pastor and

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Speaker 1: his wife. Yes, that was a close one, but you said,

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Speaker 1: you promised me you wouldn't hurt anyone else. You asked

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Speaker 1: me not to kill anyone, and I did not. It

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Speaker 1: was not by my hands. But they still died, and

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Speaker 1: you told them to do it. Do you think they

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Speaker 1: deserve to live? I don't think that was my choice,

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Speaker 1: and it isn't yours either. What would you have done?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but that can't happen never again. All

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Speaker 1: right back. The children, on the other hand, innocent as

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Speaker 1: they are still drugged and following orders. I think I

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Speaker 1: can outrun some little kids on again. I don't understand

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Speaker 1: what we're doing it cemetery. Take it from me. There's

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Speaker 1: always some trouble you're on Devil's Night. Kids drink and

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Speaker 1: vandalizing the headstones. One time I swear to God, I

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Speaker 1: broke up what was about to be some kind of

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Speaker 1: satanic ceremony. They're too close. What do you know? There

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Speaker 1: is somebody here? I told you so, all right, Now,

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Speaker 1: come on out. We know you're there. Which way to go?

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Speaker 1: I think back that way behind the big cross. You

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Speaker 1: know you're violating curfew and you're trust passing out of here.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to add resisting arrest. If you come

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Speaker 1: out now, we'll make it easy on you. How this

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Speaker 1: boy is out, it is entirely up to you. You

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Speaker 1: know I can stop this sick you behind the cross

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Speaker 1: on your feet now run it's doing both. Do you

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Speaker 1: stop right there? Go around, get them from the other side,

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Speaker 1: snored hide You could go in that building. Can you

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Speaker 1: just for a second, where are you going to go?

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Speaker 1: Throw the cops? Okay, I will, but seriously, don't hurt anyone.

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Speaker 1: I will not. Just let them chase me a little.

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Speaker 1: I won't return as soon as I can, how you

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Speaker 1: tall fella? Yes, officers, we want to talk to you,

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Speaker 1: of course you do, but you will have to catch

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Speaker 1: me first. I get back here in the name of

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Speaker 1: the law. Seems cellib you've got here. Okay, Oh no,

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Speaker 1: no no, no, no, no no no no no no yea,

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Speaker 1: well crap, I could have left me a candle. Is

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Speaker 1: is someone there? What do you want here? I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: I didn't know anyone else. You shouldn't be here, boy,

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Speaker 1: it isn't your place. I know, I was just hiding, hiding.

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Speaker 1: Why there was? There are some people after me? Again?

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Speaker 1: I asked why. I didn't mean to intrude. I didn't

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Speaker 1: know there would be anyone else here. I tried to leave,

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Speaker 1: but the door what was that? Did you hear your voice?

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Speaker 1: There's a tremor in it. What is that? Fear? Sadness,

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Speaker 1: a guilty conscience, whatever it is, you are not welcome.

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Speaker 1: This place is sacred, a monument built on hallowed ground,

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Speaker 1: a final resting place, and it deserves respect or resting

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Speaker 1: place for who my daughter? Oh, I'm sorry. She was

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Speaker 1: my entire world and I was hers. When I closed

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Speaker 1: my eyes, all I see is that face. When I

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Speaker 1: listen into the night, I still hear the musical tone

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Speaker 1: of her voice, like the ringing of a bell. And

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Speaker 1: unlike other pretty girls, she was not jaded by this world.

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Speaker 1: She was perfectly kind, generous, trusting. She sounds like a

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Speaker 1: very nice person nice. Yes, she was nice, two nice.

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Speaker 1: And you know what happens to nice people, They get

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Speaker 1: taken advantage of who happened to her. What happened is

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Speaker 1: she resented me. I devoted every waking moment to that child,

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Speaker 1: it was my own fault. I wanted to keep her safe,

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Speaker 1: but in doing so, I kept her isolated, naive to

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Speaker 1: to find a way to test their boundaries. It was

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Speaker 1: Halloween two years ago to day, a dark, cold, wet

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Speaker 1: night that autumn. It rained like it would never end,

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Speaker 1: From the doorway, it looked as if she hadn't moved

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Speaker 1: my girl was gone. I tore through every room, praying,

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Speaker 1: please God, let me be wrong, let her just be hiding.

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Speaker 1: But it was pointless. She was not in the house.

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Speaker 1: If I had slowed down to think, I might have

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Speaker 1: noticed that the window in her room was ajar. But

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Speaker 1: I wasn't thinking. I was panicking. I rushed out into

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Speaker 1: think you know already. I didn't find her that night.

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Speaker 1: The next day a search party was launched. The police

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Speaker 1: through the woods. Within a week, they'd dredged the river.

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Speaker 1: We made up posters with her picture, offering a reward

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Speaker 1: nothing happened. A runaway, they called her. I knew my

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Speaker 1: where had she gone. Weeks passed, the rains cleared, the

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Speaker 1: posters yellowed and tore, and still I truly believed that

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Speaker 1: something so beautiful and sweet. And yet I knew I

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Speaker 1: could feel it, something was hiding in plain sight. I

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Speaker 1: and with every ounce of strength, I embraced that feeling.

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Speaker 1: The next fall, the reins returned. All through October. It

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Speaker 1: stormed and stormed again. The basements flooded again, the river

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Speaker 1: overran and again. The earth everywhere was turned to mud.

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Speaker 1: The pattern, the repetition, it was all too much to bear.

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Speaker 1: And Halloween was the worst of all. I was alone,

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Speaker 1: was ready to end it all. And then outside my

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Speaker 1: is exactly what I did. I walked calmly forward, certain

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Speaker 1: I had lost my mind, but since I had already

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Speaker 1: lost everything else, what did it matter. I followed the

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Speaker 1: sound with ears I could not trust, but where I

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Speaker 1: felt it get louder. I went through the neighborhood into town,

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Speaker 1: shrill they pierced the sky, others so deep they shook

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Speaker 1: the earth below. But in the midst of all of it,

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Speaker 1: yet insistent. I trained my senses on that single note

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Speaker 1: It got into my hair, my mouth, and nose. But

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Speaker 1: my hand found something cold, hard. It was her. Yes,

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Speaker 1: She was not quite a skeleton yet, but not much more.

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Speaker 1: I promised right there that I would restore her to

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Speaker 1: scrubbed until perfectly white, her eyes, once so blue, now

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Speaker 1: from her favorite doll. The fit isn't quite right, but

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Speaker 1: in ribbon. Some days I wonder what would happen if

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Speaker 1: Would you like to see her? No? No, no no, she's

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Speaker 1: s S. I had the grave filled in, and above it,

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Speaker 1: I built this mausoleum where nothing could ever hurt her again,

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Speaker 1: not even time itself. Did you ever find out what

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Speaker 1: longest time, it remained a mystery. I feared I would

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Speaker 1: the guilt, he said. He certainly waited long enough. And

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Speaker 1: you know what happened. The reason he gave for the

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Speaker 1: murder of my daughter. You do, don't you. It was

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Speaker 1: everything became clear. That's something hiding in plain sight, that

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Speaker 1: uncanny feeling I could not deny. A child buried alive

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Speaker 1: a tale children tell. They told it long ago. I

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Speaker 1: where do you freeze? Thirteen Days of Halloween Devil's Night,

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