1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:02,360 Speaker 1: I Heeart three D audio. 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,320 Speaker 2: For fall exposure. Listen with that phones. 3 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:11,640 Speaker 3: Havoc Town is a production of iHeart Podcasts and Grimm 4 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:16,280 Speaker 3: and Mild from Aaron Mankey Headphones recommended. Listener discretion advised. 5 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 2: See here's the October eighteen seventeen. Have sent the boys 6 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 2: to stay with my sister in Concord. I hadn't the 7 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 2: heart to tell them of their father's dire situation. Noah 8 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:35,120 Speaker 2: bore her departure with a sort of grim stoicism that 9 00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 2: he's never shown. Is the fever taking root? Who was 10 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 2: he putting on a brief face? I do not know. 11 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:49,200 Speaker 2: He became agitated last night, threw a plate against the mantle. 12 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 2: His rage seemed to shadder along with it, and when 13 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 2: he turned to me to apologize, his eyes were filled 14 00:00:56,240 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 2: with bloody tears. Assume we will have to bind him 15 00:01:01,360 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 2: to the bed with that of the ropes. Soon, Father 16 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 2: Abbis will begin in Vain, his fight against the devil. 17 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 2: I will be there. I will be there until the 18 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:16,039 Speaker 2: bitter end. 19 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but I could use a 20 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: series of drinks. 21 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 4: Better get to it, then? 22 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 5: Hold up? 23 00:01:58,360 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 4: What look it is? 24 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 2: Coming out of the old bell knap hotel with what 25 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 2: looks like a wheeltor Hey, say. 26 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 1: Too, I know he's coming over. 27 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:11,360 Speaker 6: Hello ladies, Jerry. 28 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:15,520 Speaker 1: Hi, what you doing at the abandoned hotel? 29 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 6: Well? 30 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:19,360 Speaker 7: I was, yeah, I was just giving it a once over. 31 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:22,720 Speaker 7: It's a lovely old building, isn't it. That would be 32 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:24,680 Speaker 7: such a shame just to see it brought away. 33 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,720 Speaker 4: I think, Oh, are you considering buying it? 34 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 7: Well, I think that a working hotel would fit in 35 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:36,960 Speaker 7: nicely with the Havoc entertainment district. The well the Tanneris 36 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 7: and factories of my forebears feel a little how shall 37 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 7: one put it outdated? 38 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 6: Yeah? 39 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 7: If I'm going to do something with them, it wouldn't 40 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 7: be to open the back up for their intended purposes. 41 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:51,839 Speaker 1: Yes, do go on? 42 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 7: Well, uh, imagine a regional hub for entertainment. I'm working 43 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 7: with the state government to loosen laws on gambon. So 44 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 7: a casino a casino, among other things, but a casino 45 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 7: as an anchor could attract a massive amount of tourism 46 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 7: to this region and to this town in particular. 47 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:13,359 Speaker 4: That's pretty ambitious. 48 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:17,079 Speaker 7: Well, I'm an ambitious guy. 49 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 6: What do you what are you reading? 50 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 4: Oh? Oh, nothing at all? History or which history it's 51 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 4: not important. 52 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 7: Come on, let me see. 53 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's some spicy stuff. 54 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 7: Turns out I'm familiar with the spies. At any rate, 55 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 7: I'm late for a conference call. It was nice to 56 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 7: see you both, lovely surprise in an otherwise. 57 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 1: Dull vey, The pleasure is all ours. 58 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 4: Tomorrow night, tomorrow night. 59 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 7: Well, have a good afternoon. 60 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 1: Does he have to be rich and good looking? 61 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 4: Booze, booze? 62 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 1: I think this town could use a nice injection of energy. 63 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:17,360 Speaker 1: Imagine the business from a working hotel right across the street. 64 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:19,279 Speaker 4: No, it would be a bump. 65 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 1: But back to the important stuff. 66 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:25,480 Speaker 4: Murder, ah, murder. 67 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:27,120 Speaker 1: This must be super weird for you. 68 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:27,720 Speaker 6: Huh. 69 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 1: Finally getting the inside scoop on the old family lore. 70 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:34,480 Speaker 4: I mean, I knew it was messed up, but this 71 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:36,480 Speaker 4: is really something else. 72 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 8: Yeah. 73 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:41,160 Speaker 4: Also not thrilled about the current parallels I'm seeing with 74 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 4: their blood fever. 75 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, that is troubling, double trouble. 76 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:54,280 Speaker 4: Oh, filler up that a girl. I wonder how Jimbo's doing. 77 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:56,719 Speaker 4: I need to call Barbara to check in. He was 78 00:04:58,120 --> 00:04:59,840 Speaker 4: not well when we saw him last. 79 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 1: I'm sure he'll pull through. He's a tough old bird. 80 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 6: Yeah. 81 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:09,840 Speaker 4: Still, how much of that diaries left. We're getting to 82 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:11,920 Speaker 4: the end of Demarus's bit. Looks like. 83 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 1: Jesus they brought the whole cavalry. 84 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:18,360 Speaker 4: That's foreboding. 85 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's probably nothing to courage. 86 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:30,360 Speaker 4: Courage. WHOA, why did you shoot it? 87 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:31,920 Speaker 1: I thought we were shooting it. 88 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 4: No, I'm not shooting a rocks glass full of whiskey, coward. 89 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 4: Do you want me to keep reading? Yeah? 90 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 1: And for a penny and for a bound. 91 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:50,600 Speaker 4: Okay, okay, go it. The ninth of October eighteen seventeen. 92 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 2: Last night, with Noah's permission, we bound him and foot 93 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:59,679 Speaker 2: to the bed with heavy rope. He has been fever 94 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:03,119 Speaker 2: since the evening, the sweat pouring from him in heavy 95 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:06,360 Speaker 2: red streams that steamed the bedclothes and the mattress beneath. 96 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 2: Josiah Praise. I do my best to keep them fed, 97 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:16,159 Speaker 2: to put the cup to Noah's mouth. When he cries 98 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:19,600 Speaker 2: out in thirst, I wipe his brow with cool cloths 99 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:28,960 Speaker 2: from his sore muscles. Josiah Praise. In the middle of 100 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:34,560 Speaker 2: the night, Noah screamed out for me to release him. 101 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 2: He called me any number of horrible names, cursed my 102 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,240 Speaker 2: soul to hell for keeping him. Died down and then, 103 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:45,760 Speaker 2: as if nothing had happened, he calmly asked after the 104 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:51,400 Speaker 2: boys and throughout all, Josiah. 105 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 6: Praise our Father, who art in heaven. That would be 106 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:02,360 Speaker 6: thy name, will be done on earth as it is 107 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 6: in heaven. Give us this day, our daily bird, and 108 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 6: forgive us our trespasses. If we forgive those who trespass 109 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:14,679 Speaker 6: against us, it lead us not into temptation, but deliver. 110 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 6: What is it? 111 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 2: He is resting? We need to let him rest. The 112 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 2: devil does not rest, perhaps, but you need to eat 113 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 2: to keep up your strength. Come, no, and I prepared him, mirror. 114 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 2: The devil will still be here when you get back. 115 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 2: Very well, just a simple porridge. I've boiled water for 116 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 2: tea as well. 117 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:57,240 Speaker 6: Yes, thank you, Demrs. Your demeanor tells me you have 118 00:07:57,360 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 6: something to say out worthy. 119 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 2: I will speak plainly. 120 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 6: Go on. 121 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:08,160 Speaker 2: Then, this is beyond us. It has been beyond us 122 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 2: from the start. Perhaps, what do you intend to do? 123 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 6: I intend to eat and then to return to No aside. 124 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 2: Are there no more doctors, no science to help you 125 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:23,000 Speaker 2: combat this? 126 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 6: Science cannot save it? Now? 127 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:29,240 Speaker 1: How do you know? 128 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:31,200 Speaker 6: Dread carefully to me. 129 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 2: I have dread carefully throughout all of this. I have 130 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:39,440 Speaker 2: dread carefully since her families fell. I have dread carefully 131 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 2: on the earth that you have displaced, digging bodies out 132 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 2: of the church or to defile. And none of it, 133 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:48,880 Speaker 2: none of your prayers, or your mutilations or madness, have 134 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 2: even slowed the progress of this vile disease. He stood 135 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:57,680 Speaker 2: suddenly ho for me, eyes wide with rage and sorrow. 136 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:03,840 Speaker 2: I was terrified, and yet I stood firm. I have 137 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:08,360 Speaker 2: tread carefully since the day I crossed the threshold into 138 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:13,200 Speaker 2: this house and became your daughter in law. I held 139 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 2: such a deep respect for you, Josiah, a man of 140 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:24,480 Speaker 2: principle of vision. But now, ah, how your parishioners have 141 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:27,200 Speaker 2: come to fear you more than they fear the devil. 142 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:27,920 Speaker 4: Don't you see it? 143 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:31,160 Speaker 2: They fear you more than the Almighty. They say that 144 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:36,319 Speaker 2: you've gone bad, and you have father you have. 145 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:41,240 Speaker 6: Further, will often present this madness to those who refused 146 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 6: to see God's light. My daughter, we are not judged 147 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:52,240 Speaker 6: in the end by our easy acts of faith. We 148 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:55,959 Speaker 6: are judged by our actions, and times such as these 149 00:09:56,320 --> 00:10:01,680 Speaker 6: we need help the Lord's protection. Dare you deign to 150 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 6: speak for the Lord? 151 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:09,319 Speaker 2: I do not know what we expected to fight. It 152 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:14,319 Speaker 2: was not Noah, bright eyed, tears rolling down his face, 153 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:18,920 Speaker 2: a bittific smile on his lips, through the slinger. 154 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 8: Block sweat, My son, Oh, my son, you look father. 155 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:31,080 Speaker 8: I have I seen an angel of the Lord. I 156 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:37,400 Speaker 8: have instructions Father, for you. Gather amerind and garlic from 157 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 8: the woods, and with holy water, make a tea and 158 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:41,280 Speaker 8: bring it to me. 159 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:49,600 Speaker 6: Yes, yes, of course, demeriuse watch over him. 160 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:51,080 Speaker 2: Yes I will. 161 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 6: I shall return shortly. 162 00:10:56,760 --> 00:11:00,840 Speaker 2: And with that he was gone. When I turned back 163 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:04,360 Speaker 2: to Noah, his demeanor had changed once more. There was 164 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:11,960 Speaker 2: fear there and something else, resignation. Noah, what is it? 165 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 8: We must speak quickly, my love. There was no angel, 166 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:20,199 Speaker 8: There was nothing, But I must speak to you alone. 167 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:24,920 Speaker 8: Your father has gone mad. You've said as much yourself. 168 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:27,880 Speaker 2: We need to get you from the house. Then we 169 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:29,360 Speaker 2: need to hide you somewhere, Oh. 170 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:36,080 Speaker 8: Darling, No demeris this illness is taking me. It is 171 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:39,160 Speaker 8: too late to do anything about it. I have been 172 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:42,559 Speaker 8: gifted this moment of clarity, but it soon will pass 173 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:45,280 Speaker 8: and I will be lost to this world. 174 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:48,439 Speaker 4: Noah, it is done. 175 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:52,800 Speaker 8: It was done when I first was bitten. It is 176 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:56,720 Speaker 8: a miserable then, but I must face it, Collect the 177 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:01,520 Speaker 8: boys and run far from this place, far from my father, 178 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 8: who is lost as well. In his own way. His 179 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:10,680 Speaker 8: will is great and terrible love, and he will not 180 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:14,160 Speaker 8: stop this insane battle that he imagines with the devil 181 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:19,280 Speaker 8: until every timber in every home is consumed. I have 182 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 8: spent the last few years scratching and saving in secret 183 00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 8: in the sanctuary. There is a loose board in the 184 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:30,880 Speaker 8: northwest corner, a shade darker from the boards around it. 185 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:36,880 Speaker 8: I have hidden funds there in a satchel, enough to 186 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:41,000 Speaker 8: secure travel away and three months living wherever you go. 187 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:44,400 Speaker 9: I am sorry it was not more. 188 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:50,080 Speaker 8: Do not return, Do not look back. 189 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:52,800 Speaker 2: Where did you cat? 190 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 8: I was going to tell you about this before the 191 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 8: sickness came to us. Why for us to give you 192 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 8: the choice to stay or to go with me, to 193 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:10,440 Speaker 8: live a life away from my father. I was never 194 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:14,959 Speaker 8: called to the cloth, I was forced towards it by 195 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:19,199 Speaker 8: his beliefs. I wanted so much to. 196 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:23,439 Speaker 2: No hear, drink drink. 197 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:28,760 Speaker 8: We were never to be given a chance to forge 198 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:32,319 Speaker 8: a life of our own, and so I would steal it. 199 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:35,240 Speaker 8: But my chance is gone. 200 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:39,000 Speaker 2: Oh no, I can't just leave you. 201 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:44,840 Speaker 8: Listen, you are a widow. Now you must take the boys. 202 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:49,600 Speaker 8: Do you understand this place has become a snare? Do 203 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:55,840 Speaker 8: not become entrapped. The illness will end us. All promise me, 204 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:07,480 Speaker 8: Promise me, I promise. Good, darling, good. I love you, 205 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:08,640 Speaker 8: I love you. 206 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:16,839 Speaker 2: I read more rich for your father. 207 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:18,599 Speaker 4: Can you read? 208 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:19,680 Speaker 6: Please? 209 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:22,120 Speaker 3: Okay, all right? 210 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:25,200 Speaker 9: One thing more, demeres? 211 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:29,000 Speaker 2: What is it? Anything? 212 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 9: Would you loosen my behinding? 213 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 2: Something in his eye gave me pause, a twink of mischief. 214 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:45,240 Speaker 2: When I spoke again, it was with great care. 215 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 9: Do they hurt ever so much? 216 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 6: Dear? 217 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 2: You've had a fits? 218 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:56,560 Speaker 9: My head is so clear right now, just for a moment. 219 00:14:58,600 --> 00:14:59,240 Speaker 2: I'm sorry. 220 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:03,000 Speaker 8: No, oh, I understand. 221 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:05,880 Speaker 2: I shall return momentarily. 222 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:12,880 Speaker 9: De Marius. Yes, I saw your mother last night. 223 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:14,600 Speaker 2: That's not funny. 224 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:19,000 Speaker 9: Noah, Oh, it was not a joke. 225 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:25,880 Speaker 2: My mother has been dead for many years. Yes, did 226 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:26,640 Speaker 2: you dream of her? 227 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 6: No? 228 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 2: Then, what did you mean? 229 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 9: I visited Hell last night while you slept. I saw 230 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:43,680 Speaker 9: her there, half naked, tattered rags hanging from her soot 231 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:47,240 Speaker 9: from the fire that took her, covering the whole of 232 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:54,120 Speaker 9: her body. But it was unmistakably her. She had your eyes, 233 00:15:54,800 --> 00:16:02,640 Speaker 9: your wild stupid animalies wide with terror as yours are now. 234 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:09,080 Speaker 9: She was screaming, de Marius, Oh, you never heard such 235 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 9: a scream. If a living woman were to scream so 236 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:17,120 Speaker 9: her vocal chords would strain and snap in a cush 237 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:24,000 Speaker 9: of blood. A mortal scream, the scream of continuous dying 238 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:30,800 Speaker 9: without the mercy of death. You see, the flame that 239 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:34,960 Speaker 9: took her did not stop devouring her flesh and death. 240 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:40,480 Speaker 9: It was continuing on consuming her in great licks, her 241 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:46,000 Speaker 9: skin peeling and crisping, great blisters of blood and puss 242 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 9: popping and running down her, further feeding the flame. 243 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:53,400 Speaker 2: Stop stop you and not yourself. 244 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:59,120 Speaker 5: I have never been more myself wife as I was 245 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:03,360 Speaker 5: when she implored me for help, told me that she 246 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 5: would do anything, anything for me to lessen her torment. 247 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:15,439 Speaker 5: She begged for me to lend my moisture to still 248 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:19,640 Speaker 5: the flames, if only for a moment, spittle. 249 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:24,840 Speaker 9: Piss anything, wife. 250 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:27,360 Speaker 2: You two have taken to medis. 251 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:31,960 Speaker 9: But I would piss upon her, not to lessen her agony, 252 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:33,879 Speaker 9: for I was enjoying it. 253 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:38,320 Speaker 5: So it quickened the blood in tens and oh. 254 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:42,400 Speaker 9: How I fantasized watching her about how I would inflict 255 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 9: these agonies upon her daughter. How I would light my 256 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:55,680 Speaker 9: pathetic wife, my father, my muling stinking children alight on 257 00:17:55,840 --> 00:17:59,960 Speaker 9: a great fire and feast on their burnt flat. 258 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:11,480 Speaker 10: Yes, my darling wife seems to have had quite enough. 259 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:16,879 Speaker 9: If you want to silence your husband, you will have 260 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:20,399 Speaker 9: to use more force when you next bring down the 261 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:22,040 Speaker 9: picture upon my face. 262 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:27,119 Speaker 4: Not my husband. 263 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:27,960 Speaker 2: My husband is. 264 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:33,399 Speaker 10: Dead, yes, and he burns in hell with your whole mother. 265 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:35,040 Speaker 6: What is this? 266 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 10: Ah ah? A mad preacher has returned to quite. 267 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:46,200 Speaker 9: The familial scene. And what's this in your hands? This 268 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:50,280 Speaker 9: isn't the holy water and herbs I asked for. If 269 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:54,200 Speaker 9: I didn't know better, I'd say that case contained. 270 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:55,960 Speaker 10: A cure far more final. 271 00:18:56,680 --> 00:19:02,439 Speaker 6: He's not himself, Yes, I see what These are the 272 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:06,840 Speaker 6: tools of the Lord's marshal. Yes, the crucifix. 273 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:10,399 Speaker 9: I shake with the holy terror. 274 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:11,760 Speaker 2: What are you going to do? Father? 275 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:16,200 Speaker 6: Stand aside to me? Isn't our hands now? You can't? 276 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:20,400 Speaker 6: Our father are in heaven? Here we go? Hollow would 277 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:21,120 Speaker 6: be thy name? 278 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:24,040 Speaker 1: He is mad, just like kingdom. 279 00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:26,840 Speaker 11: Come, I will be done on earth as it is 280 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:31,720 Speaker 11: in heaven. Because this day let us look for trespasses 281 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:35,439 Speaker 11: weeping and those trespass against us, and lead us out 282 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:39,119 Speaker 11: to the temptation, but delivers for mevill bell is the 283 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:42,480 Speaker 11: kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. 284 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:46,120 Speaker 2: He placed the cross down beside Noah and reached into 285 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:49,239 Speaker 2: the bag, pulling forth the great ashwood steak that had 286 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:51,400 Speaker 2: become the symbol of his mad belief. 287 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:54,920 Speaker 10: Way, whatever will he do with that? 288 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:59,560 Speaker 2: He raised it above his head to Meris, how could 289 00:19:59,560 --> 00:19:59,920 Speaker 2: you allow? 290 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:02,960 Speaker 6: Yes, father, please. 291 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:09,920 Speaker 2: Demaris, and brought it down into Noah's heart. 292 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:20,280 Speaker 9: No, I suppose I'll see you both in hell. 293 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 6: Mm hmm ah ahmen. 294 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:53,560 Speaker 2: And with that my life ended. Jesus, Jesus, I mean, 295 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:55,439 Speaker 2: I don't know. 296 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:58,359 Speaker 4: I don't know what to say that me neither. 297 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:01,800 Speaker 1: I'm afraid to ask if there's more. 298 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:08,359 Speaker 4: There looks to be one more entry. It's shorter, but uh, 299 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:11,840 Speaker 4: I think I need a minute to absorb that. 300 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:16,920 Speaker 1: Fair enough, cheers? 301 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:21,880 Speaker 4: Maybe we should grab a bite to eat. 302 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:26,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I could order a pizza from Remones 303 00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:28,680 Speaker 1: no Onion's. 304 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:34,639 Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, I'll need anything else at it. What the 305 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:36,400 Speaker 4: hell is happening out there? 306 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:37,720 Speaker 2: I don't know. 307 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:44,480 Speaker 4: Huhm. Hey, there's half a dozen emergency vehicles, there's fire trucks, cops. 308 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:47,800 Speaker 1: You want to check it out? 309 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:50,359 Speaker 2: How can I help you. 310 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:57,639 Speaker 1: I'll call you back. Come on, let's be tacky. 311 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:02,320 Speaker 4: I hope everyone's okay. 312 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:05,159 Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe it's what we've been reading, but 313 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 1: I feel real dread. Yes, I'm sure it's nothing as 314 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:13,920 Speaker 1: operatic as Noah's death, right. 315 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:16,680 Speaker 4: I mean, we just had an axe murderer out here 316 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:17,399 Speaker 4: last week. 317 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:23,439 Speaker 1: Good point, Hey Bill, what's going on? I heard Old 318 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:25,240 Speaker 1: Tom Stabanow's places on fire. 319 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:27,120 Speaker 4: Oh my god, is he there? 320 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:28,080 Speaker 6: I don't know. 321 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:30,240 Speaker 1: Oh, come on, he's like two streets over. 322 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:35,240 Speaker 4: We moved quickly, with the group all streaming out of 323 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:38,840 Speaker 4: their homes and main street restaurants from the courthouse, where 324 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:42,320 Speaker 4: the last of the day's business had just concluded, everyone 325 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:46,280 Speaker 4: racing toward the great fire at Tom's. We rounded the 326 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:49,400 Speaker 4: corner to find his house, an old saltbox style all 327 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:53,000 Speaker 4: timber from two hundred years ago, up in flames. The 328 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:56,080 Speaker 4: hoses were blasting water into the home trying to put 329 00:22:56,119 --> 00:22:57,480 Speaker 4: it out, when suddenly. 330 00:22:57,480 --> 00:22:59,480 Speaker 1: Oh my god, he's in there. 331 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:04,240 Speaker 4: There stood old Tom Stabina in the top floor window, 332 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:10,399 Speaker 4: naked and covered in soot, his hair singed off what 333 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:15,359 Speaker 4: flesh you could still see sean a horrible bloody red 334 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:20,719 Speaker 4: and then he's gotta gown. With an old hunting rifle, 335 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:22,879 Speaker 4: he opened fire on the crowd. 336 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:25,440 Speaker 10: Everybody down, down. 337 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:30,800 Speaker 4: Everything happened in a horrible, bloody mess, people diving for 338 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:34,680 Speaker 4: cover everywhere as Old Tom raved and shot. The fire 339 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:38,560 Speaker 4: host suddenly unattended, wildly flying through the air, blasting water 340 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:44,480 Speaker 4: in all directions, returned fire, and Tom disappearing back into 341 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:48,400 Speaker 4: the window in a fine mist of pink. 342 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:50,080 Speaker 6: Clear clear. 343 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:52,560 Speaker 9: Is anyone hit? 344 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:53,920 Speaker 6: Is any one hit? 345 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:54,920 Speaker 4: Sylvie? 346 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:58,400 Speaker 1: I'm okay, we need to get out of here. 347 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:05,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a blur. Everything felt abstract and far off. 348 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:09,120 Speaker 4: The second time and under a month that we were 349 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:14,560 Speaker 4: processing the horror of this violence. We held hands as 350 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:18,600 Speaker 4: we ran away through the throngs, Sylvie's hand sweaty and 351 00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:22,439 Speaker 4: solid in my own, the only real thing in a 352 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:27,280 Speaker 4: world that was fast becoming meaningless. And then we were 353 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:36,040 Speaker 4: safe home at the bar, and shock in the familiar quiet. 354 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:44,119 Speaker 2: My god, Tom, what the hell is happening? 355 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:44,440 Speaker 4: Grid? 356 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 12: I think something big is coming, big, bigger than this. 357 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:53,159 Speaker 12: I don't know, I don't know. It's a feeling, you know, dread, 358 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:56,200 Speaker 12: just massive dread. 359 00:24:57,040 --> 00:24:58,400 Speaker 2: Tom's dead. 360 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:01,159 Speaker 1: He's dead. He is a real piece of work. But 361 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:05,399 Speaker 1: now he's dead. Did you see him up there? He 362 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:06,159 Speaker 1: was insane. 363 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:09,640 Speaker 4: It's the same look I saw in Jimbo's eyes after 364 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,840 Speaker 4: the funeral when he attacked Ken. It was the look 365 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:15,800 Speaker 4: in Bachman's eyes when he came at me with the axe. 366 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:18,040 Speaker 2: It's what Demeras wrote about. 367 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:25,760 Speaker 4: You said there was more, Yeah, there was another entry. 368 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:29,320 Speaker 1: You think it'll tell us how to deal with salt this. 369 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:33,800 Speaker 4: I mean, I can't imagine, barn Please we. 370 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:36,040 Speaker 1: Just please please? 371 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:50,080 Speaker 4: Huh what what it's just a paragraph? Well, uh, Josiah 372 00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:52,879 Speaker 4: has gone up the hill. He has the steak. He 373 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:55,640 Speaker 4: is going after a Havoc. He is mad. I will 374 00:25:55,680 --> 00:26:02,760 Speaker 4: stop him, and then that's all. That's all she wrote. 375 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:07,240 Speaker 4: I mean, the book itself goes on. After this entry 376 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:10,159 Speaker 4: occurred the murder of Sophia Havoc at the Havoc estate. 377 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:13,040 Speaker 4: The diary was found in the church soon after the 378 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:16,520 Speaker 4: murder's pages torn out of the back. Josiah himself was 379 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:22,880 Speaker 4: found in the sanctuary, hanging from the rafters of the rectory. Rush. 380 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,280 Speaker 4: It looks like here, it looks like there's more about 381 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:31,320 Speaker 4: the illness and the aftermath in the next chapter. But 382 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,760 Speaker 4: oh god, Sylvie, I have to stop for now. 383 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:39,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, I understand, it's all too much. 384 00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:44,480 Speaker 2: I don't think I can pross this anymore today. 385 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:50,040 Speaker 4: But who's given the choice to fully disengage? As we 386 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:54,920 Speaker 4: sat there, shells shocked, we saw the first military vehicles 387 00:26:55,000 --> 00:27:01,439 Speaker 4: roll into town, alongside numerous black SUVs. Become familiar with 388 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,960 Speaker 4: those sites over the coming days. I should have been 389 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:11,280 Speaker 4: relieved as they passed by the cavalry, but that feeling 390 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:16,280 Speaker 4: in my gut, the dread, it only deepened. 391 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:25,040 Speaker 1: Should I get it? 392 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:35,919 Speaker 4: It can't be good news, You just can't might it. 393 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:49,120 Speaker 3: Ring Havoctown was created by me Aaron Mankey. The show 394 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:53,119 Speaker 3: was written and directed by Nicholas Takowski. This episode was 395 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:57,720 Speaker 3: edited and sound designed by Rima lk Ali, starring Jewels 396 00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:02,480 Speaker 3: State as Corene Avis, James Kallus as Jerry Havoc, Felicia 397 00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:07,360 Speaker 3: Day as Sylvie, Harris, Ray Wise as Josiah Abbas, Crystal 398 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:12,240 Speaker 3: Lee as Demeris, Daniel Ernesto A known as Noah Abbas, 399 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:17,240 Speaker 3: with additional voice acting from David Caprita, Dick Terhun, Beverly 400 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:21,959 Speaker 3: Bremer's David Davrees, and Aaron Mankey. This season is directed 401 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:26,520 Speaker 3: by Nicholas Takoski, with assistant directors Sarah Klein and Jake Diamond, 402 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:31,480 Speaker 3: casting by Sunday Bowling CSA and Meg Mormon CSA. Production 403 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:36,000 Speaker 3: coordinator Wayna Calderon. Our theme song was created by Chris 404 00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:40,640 Speaker 3: Childs executive producers Aaron Mankey, Trevor Young, and Matt Frederick, 405 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:45,320 Speaker 3: with supervising producer Rima Lkali and producers Nomes Griffin and 406 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:49,240 Speaker 3: Jesse Funk. Havoctown is set in the Bridgewater Audio Universe, 407 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:53,720 Speaker 3: which includes the hit fiction podcasts Bridgewater and Consumed. Learn 408 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:57,520 Speaker 3: more about both shows, as well as Havoctown at grimandmild 409 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:01,520 Speaker 3: dot com, and find more podcasts from iHeartRadio by visiting 410 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:05,160 Speaker 3: the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to 411 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:06,160 Speaker 3: your favorite shows.