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Speaker 1: Thirteen Days of Halloween is a production of iHeartRadio Blumhouse

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Speaker 1: Television and Grim and Mild from Aaron Mankey Headphones Recommended

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Speaker 1: listener discretion advised. Greetings friend, my deepest apologies for startling you.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to get the measure of you before you

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Speaker 1: knew I was looking. You can tell a lot about

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Speaker 1: a body when that body doesn't know it's being studied. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: of course, as you can at any rate. Come. I

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Speaker 1: hope that your journey wasn't too arduous. The weather here

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Speaker 1: can be rather unforgiving this time of year, though, truth

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Speaker 1: be told, I was never worried about you finding your way.

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Speaker 1: As they say here, all roads lead to the manner.

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Speaker 1: No matter where you roam, you will find this to

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Speaker 1: be true. This, my friend, is Hawthorn manner. I am

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Speaker 1: a scaretaker, the caretaker if you wish impressive, is it not? Ah?

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Speaker 1: I know that. Look well, my friend, you cannot fully

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Speaker 1: understand what it is that you are beholding. It's quite natural.

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Speaker 1: Hawthorn manner is something of an architectural anomaly, though austere,

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Speaker 1: even savagely so. At first glance, you cannot help but

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Speaker 1: notice the quiet. It's whimsy that seems to permeate the

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Speaker 1: structure by the coupola there at the apex of the

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Speaker 1: main wind, the dome thing on the roof with all

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Speaker 1: the windows. Who you see it. It was said to

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Speaker 1: have been constructed specifically for the daughter of the architect,

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Speaker 1: at first as a play room and then later as

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Speaker 1: her own infirmary. Some have reported seeing a shade past

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Speaker 1: the windows late at night, back and forth. Patient solitude

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Speaker 1: at any rate. Because of the strange blend of architectural

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Speaker 1: styles that this massive house possesses, it has the quality

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Speaker 1: of feeling both timeless and a standing outside of time.

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Speaker 1: Many say that the architect was a madman, but there

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Speaker 1: was method to it, all of it. Shall we abandoned?

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Speaker 1: Hope yee who enter here? Just kidding? Welcome home, my friend.

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Speaker 1: This place was built to last beyond its architect and

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Speaker 1: so it has. It may seem disorienting in first, glass

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Speaker 1: filled with strange twists and turns, Ceilings too high here,

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Speaker 1: too low there. Some rooms canadists, some claustrophobic, this is

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Speaker 1: my design. Some prefer grand halls, others quiet nooks. The

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Speaker 1: architect manifested this place as a refuge for all This

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Speaker 1: has been way station for countless Wario souls, a home

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Speaker 1: for those without destination. In time you two fight it familiar.

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Speaker 1: You will notice that this elevator is not part of

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Speaker 1: the original structure, but yet still oh so vintage. Now,

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Speaker 1: before we continue, and if I may be so bold,

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Speaker 1: I'd like for you to meet one of our other guests.

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Speaker 1: Any objections, I shall take your enigmatic silence as an

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Speaker 1: affirmative before your arrival. Soren was our resident neophite. He's

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Speaker 1: proven reluctant to indulge in the hotel's more extravagant offerings.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it is inherent shyness or well,

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Speaker 1: perhaps your attentive demeanor is just what he needs to

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Speaker 1: come out of his shell. Oh yes, you two will

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Speaker 1: become fast friends. I can feel it before we enter.

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Speaker 1: I must warn you Soren is rather guarded trust issues.

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Speaker 1: It's honestly no wonder after what he's being through, but

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Speaker 1: I do imagine that he'll explain it all. I can't

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Speaker 1: wait for you two to meet Sorred, My dear, I

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Speaker 1: present you to our latest guest. Oh dear, all this

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Speaker 1: chattering and I haven't caught your name. Oh you don't

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Speaker 1: have one, no matter, my friend, meet sorn. I shall

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Speaker 1: return after you two have become acquainted albionto he said.

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Speaker 1: They harvest at night. He said he'd figured it out.

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Speaker 1: We could go about our business in the day, could

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Speaker 1: still walk in the sun, could keep on and besides,

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Speaker 1: the authorities had at coverage to be on the safe side.

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Speaker 1: He said he'd been preparing. I wasn't surprising. Dad was

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Speaker 1: always kind of a prepper. He and Mom had this

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Speaker 1: massive garden in the back, and I kept it for years.

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Speaker 1: The shelves and the pantry were a rainbow of summer colors,

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Speaker 1: caught and sealed in glass jars in case of a race, war,

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Speaker 1: They had a freezer filled with meat chickens they raised,

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Speaker 1: plucked half a cow they bought from some service online,

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Speaker 1: and a generator to keep it all frozen solid should

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Speaker 1: the power grid fail. I asked Mom one time how

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Speaker 1: long they could hold out in case of the apocalypse,

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Speaker 1: and without pause, said, I could feed twelve people for

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Speaker 1: eight months before we had to start eating the freeze

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Speaker 1: dried stuff. She'd done them that. I think she told

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Speaker 1: me the freeze dried stuff would last another four months,

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Speaker 1: so here, I said, what happens at the end of

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Speaker 1: a year, She shrubbed, Well, let's hope it doesn't ever

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Speaker 1: come to that. Dad had guns, lots of guns, all

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Speaker 1: kinds and calibers. I mean, that's why I was there,

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Speaker 1: after all, I didn't have one of my own, and

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Speaker 1: my roommates had headed back to their own parents to

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Speaker 1: deal with the disturbance on their own terms. I wanted

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Speaker 1: to stay on at the apartment. The only thing worse

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Speaker 1: and dealing with global emergencies alone would be dealing with him,

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Speaker 1: with Dad knowingly glancing over at me every time a

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Speaker 1: was right. They hated that I didn't want to come home,

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Speaker 1: but quit bugging me about it. When I finally agreed

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Speaker 1: to stop buying pick up a gun. He looked terrible.

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Speaker 1: The front yard was overgrown, the grass was long, and

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Speaker 1: the holly bushes were shaggy, and Dad matched unshaven, heron

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Speaker 1: kempt stinged sweatpants, an old undershirt and say it was clear.

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Speaker 1: He head and showered, but his eyes were still sharp.

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Speaker 1: They darted around outside before he pulled me in. Inside

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Speaker 1: wreck before. But I looked around at the kitchen, the

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Speaker 1: opened jars and cans that flies over, the dirty dishes

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Speaker 1: just said Jesus, Jesus quietly, over and over, as Dad

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Speaker 1: stood nearby, looking at me up and down. Where's Mom?

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Speaker 1: I asked, and he said she's sleeping. All she seems

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Speaker 1: to do these days asleep, And when I asked if

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Speaker 1: her depression was back, he just sort of shrugged. I

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Speaker 1: promised myself that before I left, I could make sure

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Speaker 1: that she was still taking her medication. I didn't want

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Speaker 1: her to get as bad as she'd gotten when I

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Speaker 1: was in the eighth grade and couldn't get out of

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Speaker 1: deal with the business in hand first, so I said,

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Speaker 1: can we look at the guns? And he just looked

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Speaker 1: back at me, confused, as if he'd never heard the

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Speaker 1: word before. The guns, I said, and he snapped, two, oh, yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: the guns. The guns, he said, almost wistfully, and then

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Speaker 1: he said, I want to show you something first. Growing up,

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Speaker 1: there's this grape backyard. You used to have kids from

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Speaker 1: all over the neighborhood. We played touch football or these

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Speaker 1: huge games of freeze tag barbecues in the summer. And

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Speaker 1: after nine eleven when they started watching the network, which

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Speaker 1: told them all of the damn time that people were

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Speaker 1: coming to get them. They want to convert your kids,

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Speaker 1: and they want to steal our money and wreck our culture.

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Speaker 1: Whoever the hell the enemy of the week was. That's

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Speaker 1: when they started planting the garden. The first summer, it

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Speaker 1: Tomatoes and oak ground and squash, cucumbers and greens and

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Speaker 1: By the time I graduated, there was nothing left of

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Speaker 1: was their obsession be prepped when they came. Whoever they were,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I guess in a sense they were right. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: Dad wanted me to see a thing, so we walked

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Speaker 1: through the messy house towards the back door. That's when

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Speaker 1: he said they harvest at night. When I didn't say anything.

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Speaker 1: He went on, we can go about our business during

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Speaker 1: the day, but at night they harvest, so that's when

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Speaker 1: you want to stay safe indoors. All your know at

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Speaker 1: all friends think that they're immortal, think that they can

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Speaker 1: go wherever they want, whenever they want. But I'm telling you,

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Speaker 1: we'd stopped by the back door, and he turned and

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Speaker 1: my face and said good. His breath was rancid, and

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Speaker 1: I told him so, but he just smiled and turned

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Speaker 1: Jesus Dad, I said again, what the hell happened with

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Speaker 1: plodded forward and his dirty sweats right through the patch

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Speaker 1: where the grains used to be. Followed him. You didn't

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Speaker 1: turn around, but he said, just loudly enough for me

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Speaker 1: they'll make their voices sweet and warm, and they'll sound

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Speaker 1: Or your dead grandmother, and you'll be tempted to open

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Speaker 1: the door. But that's how they get you, begging and

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Speaker 1: pleaded and saying the sweetest things you can imagine to

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Speaker 1: So I asked where he'd heard it, and had it

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Speaker 1: But he didn't answer me. He just stopped and placed

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Speaker 1: massive pile of fresh dirt and next to it a

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Speaker 1: into the darkness. I was gobsmacked. That's the word I

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Speaker 1: a habit by now, and then asked if he'd been

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Speaker 1: building a bunker. He turned and smiled and nodded so

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Speaker 1: that's where the guns are, and then he started down

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Speaker 1: him down It was damp down there, and even though

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Speaker 1: when I paused to let my eyes adjust, he chuckled

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Speaker 1: at me. It's fine, he said, They only harvest at night.

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Speaker 1: They lure you in with their sweet song and with promises,

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Speaker 1: and then they prick you and their venom freezes you,

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Speaker 1: and then they harvest. But they only harvest at night.

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Speaker 1: My eyes had started to adjust to the dark, and

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Speaker 1: I could see his figure there, next to the smaller

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Speaker 1: indentations in the wall, like little cubby holes filled with

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Speaker 1: jar after jar after jar from Mom's pantry. How long

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Speaker 1: did it take you to do this, I asked, and

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Speaker 1: I could see a shrug in response, and beckoned me

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Speaker 1: further in, And as I followed, I glanced at the

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Speaker 1: dark shape swirling in the jars. The guns are right

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Speaker 1: over there, he said, and he pointed to a freshly

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Speaker 1: So I walked past him and leaned in toward the cubby,

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Speaker 1: which was just a couple of feet wide, but I

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Speaker 1: couldn't see anything, and when I was turning to say so,

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Speaker 1: So he yelped in surprise and turned. But before I

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Speaker 1: like someone you trust, he said, leaning down, and his

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Speaker 1: There are hundreds of rooms here of the Hawthorne, but

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Speaker 1: It's all part of my role here as the caretaker.

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Speaker 1: You know your lack of verbal supplication is really breaking

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Speaker 1: notice that Hawthorne Manner has no shortage of oddities. I've

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Speaker 1: Supposedly that somewhere within these halls there is a hidden doorway.

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Speaker 1: I have a feeling your quiet fortitude will lure them

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Speaker 1: Please make yourself at home. After all, this is it,

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Speaker 1: to meet very well until tomorrow on behalf of Hawthorn

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Speaker 1: Manner at you, my friend. Thirteen Days of Halloween was

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Speaker 1: by Aaron Manky, starring Keegan Michael Key as the caretaker.

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Speaker 1: Today's story was written and performed by Nicholas Dakowski and

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Speaker 1: Alex Williams. Only twelve days remain Tomorrow another story. He

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Speaker 1: I really did. The problem was he wasn't crazy enough.

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