WEBVTT - S3/E9 | The Mausoleum

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<v Speaker 1>Thirteen Days of Halloween. Devil's Night, a production of I

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<v Speaker 1>Heart three D audio, Blumhouse Television and Grimm and Mild

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<v Speaker 1>from Aaron Mackey Headphones Recommended. Listener discretion advised. The yes

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<v Speaker 1>no no, yes Lord, Oh no, no, yes Lord spoken

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<v Speaker 1>out here in the cemetery. Why I did not mean

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<v Speaker 1>to startle, you know, in the church, the pastor and

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<v Speaker 1>his wife. Yes, that was a close one, but you said,

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<v Speaker 1>you promised me you wouldn't hurt anyone else. You asked

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<v Speaker 1>me not to kill anyone, and I did not. It

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<v Speaker 1>was not by my hands. But they still died, and

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<v Speaker 1>you told them to do it. Do you think they

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

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>right back. The children, on the other hand, innocent as

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<v Speaker 1>they are still drugged and following orders. I think I

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<v Speaker 1>can outrun some little kids on again. I don't understand

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<v Speaker 1>what we're doing it cemetery. Take it from me. There's

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

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<v Speaker 1>vandalizing the headstones. One time I swear to God, I

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<v Speaker 1>broke up what was about to be some kind of

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

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<v Speaker 1>is somebody here? I told you so, all right, Now,

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

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<v Speaker 1>I think back that way behind the big cross. You

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<v Speaker 1>know you're violating curfew and you're trust passing out of here.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't want to add resisting arrest. If you come

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

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<v Speaker 1>boy is out, it is entirely up to you. You

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<v Speaker 1>know I can stop this sick you behind the cross

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<v Speaker 1>on your feet now run it's doing both. Do you

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<v Speaker 1>stop right there? Go around, get them from the other side,

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<v Speaker 1>snored hide You could go in that building. Can you

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<v Speaker 1>just for a second, where are you going to go?

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

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<v Speaker 1>I will not. Just let them chase me a little.

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<v Speaker 1>I won't return as soon as I can, how you

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<v Speaker 1>tall fella? Yes, officers, we want to talk to you,

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<v Speaker 1>of course you do, but you will have to catch

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<v Speaker 1>me first. I get back here in the name of

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

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<v Speaker 1>no no, no, no, no no no no no no yea,

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<v Speaker 1>well crap, I could have left me a candle. Is

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>it isn't your place. I know, I was just hiding, hiding.

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<v Speaker 1>Why there was? There are some people after me? Again?

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<v Speaker 1>I asked why. I didn't mean to intrude. I didn't

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<v Speaker 1>know there would be anyone else here. I tried to leave,

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<v Speaker 1>but the door what was that? Did you hear your voice?

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

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<v Speaker 1>a guilty conscience, whatever it is, you are not welcome.

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<v Speaker 1>This place is sacred, a monument built on hallowed ground,

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<v Speaker 1>a final resting place, and it deserves respect or resting

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

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<v Speaker 1>my entire world and I was hers. When I closed

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<v Speaker 1>my eyes, all I see is that face. When I

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<v Speaker 1>listen into the night, I still hear the musical tone

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<v Speaker 1>of her voice, like the ringing of a bell. And

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<v Speaker 1>unlike other pretty girls, she was not jaded by this world.

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<v Speaker 1>She was perfectly kind, generous, trusting. She sounds like a

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<v Speaker 1>very nice person nice. Yes, she was nice, two nice.

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<v Speaker 1>And you know what happens to nice people, They get

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<v Speaker 1>taken advantage of who happened to her. What happened is

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<v Speaker 1>she resented me. I devoted every waking moment to that child,

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<v Speaker 1>and she resented me for it. I realized now that

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<v Speaker 1>it was my own fault. I wanted to keep her safe,

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<v Speaker 1>but in doing so, I kept her isolated, naive to

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<v Speaker 1>the world and the evils lurking in it. But children,

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<v Speaker 1>even the innocent, obedient ones, are destined to outgrow their confinement,

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<v Speaker 1>to find a way to test their boundaries. It was

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<v Speaker 1>Halloween two years ago to day, a dark, cold, wet

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<v Speaker 1>night that autumn. It rained like it would never end,

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<v Speaker 1>swelled the river, overflowed the dam, and saturated every inch

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<v Speaker 1>of god forsake and ground. While the other kids were

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<v Speaker 1>out gallivanting in the streets, taking candy from strangers and

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<v Speaker 1>getting into god knows what other kinds of trouble, me

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<v Speaker 1>and my baby were all to ourselves, just like any

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<v Speaker 1>other night. I put her to bed. I remember standing

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<v Speaker 1>in the threshold of the door, the shape of her

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<v Speaker 1>sweet little form buried under the blanket. In the middle

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<v Speaker 1>of the night, I woke suddenly. The storm outside was raging,

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<v Speaker 1>and I figured that's what had stirred me. I left

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<v Speaker 1>my room and I went back to check on my angel.

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<v Speaker 1>From the doorway, it looked as if she hadn't moved

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<v Speaker 1>an inch. I sat down on the bed next to her,

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<v Speaker 1>just to stroke her hair. I pealed back the covers,

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<v Speaker 1>and you know what I saw, you do, don't you

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<v Speaker 1>lo what? Two pillows were stuffed beneath the quilt, and

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<v Speaker 1>my girl was gone. I tore through every room, praying,

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<v Speaker 1>please God, let me be wrong, let her just be hiding.

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<v Speaker 1>But it was pointless. She was not in the house.

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<v Speaker 1>If I had slowed down to think, I might have

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<v Speaker 1>noticed that the window in her room was ajar. But

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<v Speaker 1>I wasn't thinking. I was panicking. I rushed out into

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<v Speaker 1>the storm, still in my slippers, no raincoat, no lantern,

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<v Speaker 1>and no sense of where my little girl had gone.

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<v Speaker 1>I ran through the streets from one end of town

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<v Speaker 1>to the other, screaming her name. Who was that? I

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<v Speaker 1>think you know already. I didn't find her that night.

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<v Speaker 1>The next day a search party was launched. The police

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<v Speaker 1>went door to door, set roadblocks on the highways in

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<v Speaker 1>and out of town, cleared, the hobo camp ran bloodhounds

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<v Speaker 1>through the woods. Within a week, they'd dredged the river.

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<v Speaker 1>We made up posters with her picture, offering a reward

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<v Speaker 1>for any information. There wasn't a window door or telephone

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<v Speaker 1>pole in town without my baby's face on it, and

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<v Speaker 1>nothing happened. A runaway, they called her. I knew my

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<v Speaker 1>girl would never run away. But even if that was true,

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<v Speaker 1>where had she gone. Weeks passed, the rains cleared, the

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<v Speaker 1>posters yellowed and tore, and still I truly believed that

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<v Speaker 1>I would see her again, that no one could hurt

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<v Speaker 1>something so beautiful and sweet. And yet I knew I

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<v Speaker 1>could feel it, something was hiding in plain sight. I

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<v Speaker 1>kept my thoughts waking and sleeping on nothing but her,

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<v Speaker 1>and with every ounce of strength, I embraced that feeling.

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<v Speaker 1>What is that? You don't know, well, let me tell you.

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<v Speaker 1>The next fall, the reins returned. All through October. It

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<v Speaker 1>stormed and stormed again. The basements flooded again, the river

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<v Speaker 1>overran and again. The earth everywhere was turned to mud.

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<v Speaker 1>The pattern, the repetition, it was all too much to bear.

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<v Speaker 1>And Halloween was the worst of all. I was alone,

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<v Speaker 1>cooped up in my house, listening to the rain pound

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<v Speaker 1>the window, thinking the last thing I wanted to do

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<v Speaker 1>was live through this night again. In that moment, I

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<v Speaker 1>was ready to end it all. And then outside my

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<v Speaker 1>window I heard something. It wasn't clear, maybe more a

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<v Speaker 1>agend than real, and yet I didn't dare deny it.

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<v Speaker 1>A tone in the air like that of a ringing bell.

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<v Speaker 1>I can't imagine why, on that night, of all nights,

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<v Speaker 1>I would venture out into that storm, and yet that

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<v Speaker 1>is exactly what I did. I walked calmly forward, certain

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<v Speaker 1>I had lost my mind, but since I had already

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<v Speaker 1>lost everything else, what did it matter. I followed the

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<v Speaker 1>sound with ears I could not trust, but where I

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<v Speaker 1>felt it get louder. I went through the neighborhood into town,

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<v Speaker 1>behind the church and passed the cemetery gate. There I

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<v Speaker 1>heard a cacapa me like the chiming of a thousand

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<v Speaker 1>clock towers. Everyone in different tambre and time, some so

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<v Speaker 1>shrill they pierced the sky, others so deep they shook

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<v Speaker 1>the earth below. But in the midst of all of it,

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<v Speaker 1>one voice rang true, like a bell, soft and simple,

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<v Speaker 1>yet insistent. I trained my senses on that single note

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<v Speaker 1>and walked toward it. It led me to the center

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<v Speaker 1>of the cemetery, away from all the other headstones, to

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<v Speaker 1>this very spot. My boots sunk into the mud, and

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<v Speaker 1>there the ringing stopped. You mean right here, right here,

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<v Speaker 1>m I realized then where I stood the ground had

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<v Speaker 1>been disturbed, a depression in the earth where no grass groop.

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<v Speaker 1>It looked like it could have been a grave, only

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<v Speaker 1>big enough for a child. But there was something wrong

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<v Speaker 1>about it. It looked shallow, like it hadn't been properly filled,

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<v Speaker 1>and the rain had been eating it away. I plunged

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<v Speaker 1>my bare hands into that sodden ground, and I dug

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<v Speaker 1>into the black mud, wrist elbow, shoulder deep. The earth

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<v Speaker 1>was soft and giving and stuck to my skin like tar.

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<v Speaker 1>It got into my hair, my mouth, and nose. But

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<v Speaker 1>I just kept digging, and before I knew it, I

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<v Speaker 1>was crouched at the bottom of a hole. And then

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<v Speaker 1>my hand found something cold, hard. It was her. Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>she had led me write to her, But you already

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<v Speaker 1>knew that, didn't you. If I had had the chance

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<v Speaker 1>to bury her, to give her a funeral and have

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<v Speaker 1>her embalmed, her beautiful little body, her bright countenance, might

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<v Speaker 1>have stood a chance. But with no casket between her

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<v Speaker 1>and the wet earth, the elements got the better of her.

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<v Speaker 1>She was not quite a skeleton yet, but not much more.

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<v Speaker 1>I promised right there that I would restore her to

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<v Speaker 1>her former beauty. No, nothing like that was possible now,

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<v Speaker 1>but we would do the best with what we had.

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<v Speaker 1>I began that very morning, carried her home in my

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<v Speaker 1>arms in the pre dawn light, and got to work.

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<v Speaker 1>Where she still had skin. I washed and dried and

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<v Speaker 1>sewed the cracks together where she was only bone. I

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<v Speaker 1>scrubbed until perfectly white, her eyes, once so blue, now

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<v Speaker 1>modeled gray. I replaced with jewels, blue moonstones that glitter

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<v Speaker 1>in the night. For her nose, long eaten away, a

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<v Speaker 1>button from her favorite dress, onto which I hand painted

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<v Speaker 1>each of her freckles. For her mouth, the porcelain lips

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

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<v Speaker 1>they'll do for now. And what wisps of hair as

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<v Speaker 1>she had left, I washed and curled and tied up

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<v Speaker 1>in ribbon. Some days I wonder what would happen if

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<v Speaker 1>I gave her blood a fresh heart. Would she live again?

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<v Speaker 1>Would you like to see her? No? No, no no, she's

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<v Speaker 1>lonely after all this time, still so beautiful, Yes, am

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<v Speaker 1>s S. I had the grave filled in, and above it,

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<v Speaker 1>I built this mausoleum where nothing could ever hurt her again,

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<v Speaker 1>not even time itself. Did you ever find out what

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<v Speaker 1>happened to her? Funny that you should ask. For the

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<v Speaker 1>longest time, it remained a mystery. I feared I would

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<v Speaker 1>never know. And then one came forward, a boy just

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<v Speaker 1>a little older than she would have been. Couldn't handle

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<v Speaker 1>the guilt, he said. He certainly waited long enough. And

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<v Speaker 1>you know what happened. The reason he gave for the

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

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<v Speaker 1>a joke, a prank. And when I heard him say it,

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

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<v Speaker 1>uncanny feeling I could not deny. A child buried alive

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<v Speaker 1>on Halloween. He's more than just a coincidence. It's a story,

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<v Speaker 1>a tale children tell. They told it long ago. I

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<v Speaker 1>suspect they tell it now. I believe it was told

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<v Speaker 1>to me as a girl, that I had heard it

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<v Speaker 1>before I lived it, and that it was all but

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<v Speaker 1>forgotten until I heard it again. As the story goes,

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<v Speaker 1>some time a century ago, there was a banker's daughter

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<v Speaker 1>who fell ill. The banker sent for the best doctors,

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<v Speaker 1>with the finest medicines, the most modern techniques. They did

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<v Speaker 1>everything they could, but Halloween night she was declared dead

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<v Speaker 1>in her bed, and to stop the spread of infection,

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<v Speaker 1>they dragged her body out that very night and buried

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<v Speaker 1>her in the earth. But the next morning, when they returned,

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<v Speaker 1>the grave had caved in, and the whole where she

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<v Speaker 1>had been laid to rest was empty. Now this might

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<v Speaker 1>have happened, might have not. But regardless of what was true,

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<v Speaker 1>a legend was born that every Halloween, that poor forgotten

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<v Speaker 1>child would arise once more from that unhallowed ground and

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<v Speaker 1>walk the streets looking for some one, some one else

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<v Speaker 1>lonely to spend eternity with. Now I don't know where

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<v Speaker 1>or when, but somehow this boy and his accomplices had

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<v Speaker 1>gotten to my little girl. They had told her the

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<v Speaker 1>story of the banker's daughter and given her the idea

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<v Speaker 1>that because she was so utterly alone, she would be

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<v Speaker 1>the perfect bait. And this Halloween, even if she was

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<v Speaker 1>locked up tight in her room, the banker's daughter would

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<v Speaker 1>come and get her. Unless they took the steps to

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<v Speaker 1>prevent it, and the only way to ward off this

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<v Speaker 1>wandering spirit was to go out Halloween night and leap

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<v Speaker 1>over an open grave. Knowing my baby, with her simple

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<v Speaker 1>heart and trusting nature, she probably believed it. Really, they

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<v Speaker 1>just thought it would be funny that she would be

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<v Speaker 1>an easy target, and so they dug the grave that

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<v Speaker 1>night in the rain. Can you imagine going to such lengths? Well?

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<v Speaker 1>Can you? And then they came to my house, lured

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<v Speaker 1>my baby out of her bed, opened her window, and

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<v Speaker 1>led her into the cemetery. I can't imagine it all.

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<v Speaker 1>My little girl more nervous than she'd ever been, but

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<v Speaker 1>I suspect more excited, too exuberant even the chance to

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<v Speaker 1>have friends play their games be one of the gang,

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<v Speaker 1>But of course that was hardly their intention. By the

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<v Speaker 1>time they reached the cemetery, the storm had gotten worse.

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<v Speaker 1>The makeshift grave was filled with water and mud, and

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<v Speaker 1>the edges were slippery and crumbling. One by one, the

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<v Speaker 1>boys leapt over, ensuring my darling girl that this would

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<v Speaker 1>keep her safe from the evil spirit, and then, just

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<v Speaker 1>as she was about to jump, the last boy pushed

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<v Speaker 1>her in. She hit the bottom and sunk in the mud.

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<v Speaker 1>She tried to climb out, but the more she struggled,

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<v Speaker 1>the deeper the whole got. She cried out for someone

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<v Speaker 1>to help her, but these boys laughed at her, at

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<v Speaker 1>her fear, at their successful prank, and they left her

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<v Speaker 1>there beneath the earth, the storm worsening, the whole filling

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<v Speaker 1>with water, with no one to hear her scream. The

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<v Speaker 1>boy who confessed, I swears it wasn't he who pushed

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<v Speaker 1>her in. He claimed they never thought she'd actually die,

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<v Speaker 1>that it was all a harmless prank that went too far.

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<v Speaker 1>But she did die, suffocating on mud until it filled

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<v Speaker 1>her mouth, her nose, her lungs, a child entombed in

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<v Speaker 1>the earth, all alone for a joke. I'm so sorry.

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<v Speaker 1>That's horrible. There it is again, that little tremor in

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<v Speaker 1>your voice. You remind me of him, you know of who,

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<v Speaker 1>the one that confessed. Why did you come here? Boy?

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<v Speaker 1>I'm sorry, but I really need to leave, to vandalize

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<v Speaker 1>this tomb, to see her own handiwork to defile her corpse. No, no,

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<v Speaker 1>which one were you? Did you tell her the story?

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<v Speaker 1>Did you open her window? Did you push her into

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<v Speaker 1>the grave? No? I didn't. It was maybe you were

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<v Speaker 1>the mastermind behind all of it. Get that stay await.

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<v Speaker 1>Why should a worm like you live while she lies dead? Stop?

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<v Speaker 1>Let go of me. I don't know what you were

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<v Speaker 1>thinking coming back here, boy, but it's time you, atone

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<v Speaker 1>hell join my daughter in her tomb right here forever,

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<v Speaker 1>so she is never lonely again. Experience the fate. You

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<v Speaker 1>condemned her to feel what it's like to be buried

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<v Speaker 1>alive now they in there is that I can never sir,

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<v Speaker 1>uh mazie nothing. Greez line with me. This boys burry

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<v Speaker 1>has done nothing to me. Greez right there. I have

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<v Speaker 1>missed you so of course, of course, darling, Missilo, quiet,

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<v Speaker 1>you vile thing, leave us be your head, girl, my love,

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<v Speaker 1>my angel, my world. Oh I've missed you so and

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<v Speaker 1>I because the lead anything anything, baby, it's a well

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<v Speaker 1>h okay, Max, this way, Oh my god. The church wedn't.

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<v Speaker 1>I could not kill the police, so I needed a distraction.

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<v Speaker 1>I made sure all the kids got out. No one died,

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<v Speaker 1>but the leading crip. I assure you, Max, she is

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<v Speaker 1>alive and very very happy. You can't didn't she suffered

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<v Speaker 1>himing there. Eventually, I suppose you should get her out

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<v Speaker 1>if you wish I just thought, maybe give her tonight,

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<v Speaker 1>Needy in this moment, we have more urgent problems. Hey,

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<v Speaker 1>you there so much redistraction. PSI, well that's a well

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

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<v Speaker 1>starring Carter Rockwood and Clancy Brown. Episode nine, The Mausoleum

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<v Speaker 1>Written by Annie Reese, Nicholas Takowski, and Alexander Williams. Editing

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<v Speaker 1>and sound designed by rema Il Kali, featuring the voices

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<v Speaker 1>of Clayton Ferris, Laura Shine, Nicholas Takowski, f Frey Kennedy,

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<v Speaker 1>and Angel Masters. Directed by Alexander Williams. Script supervision by

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<v Speaker 1>Nicholas Takowski. Casting by Sunday Bowling c s A and

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<v Speaker 1>Meg Mormon c s A. Production coordinator Wayna Calderon. Production

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<v Speaker 1>assistants Zoe Shay and Amber Ferris. Animal recording by Ben James,

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<v Speaker 1>closing theme by Rose Azerti. Loyalty Freak Music dot Com

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