CreepCast - Point Pine Series | CreepCast

Episode Date: May 24, 2026

Following up on 'Every month a parade would pass through my hometown' the boys come back to finish reading the Point Pine series including an exclusive unreleased story from the author! Stop putting off those doctors appointments and go to Zocdoc.com/CREEPCAST to find and instantly book a doctor you love today. Head to Factormeals.com/creepcast50off and use code creepcast50off to get 50 percent off and free daily greens per box, with new subscription only, while supplies last until 09/27/2026. (See website for more details). For a limited time, new Cash App customers can earn $10 if they use the code CASHAPP10 in their profile at signup and send $5 to a friend within 14 days. Terms apply. Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App’s bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. Cash App Green, overdraft coverage, borrow, cash back offers and promotions provided by Cash App, a Block, Inc. brand. Visit cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

we are going to be doing something I don't think we've ever done this before we're going back so we've read things before we're like that was fun and usually we don't go into the sequels or anything this is the first time I think we've gone back into a series

I don't people have wanted us to go back into like the tails from the gas station series people want us to finish the the thing in my basement whatever and all that stuff but this was one that we were pretty excited and we've been talking to the author Gabby

and she even gave us a little exclusive to sweeten the pot yeah so if you'll remember a while back, we read a story called, let me get it right, every month the parade would pass through my hometown, but we were never allowed to look at it. We read that story, and it was pretty awesome. It was about a group of kids who there's a parade that passes through town, and the parents tell all the kids, they can't go outside, so then a group of them sneak out. And it seems to be, we never see what it is, but it seems to be a sort of sacrifice saying that the kids inducted into.

it's like this small town has to appease some ancient deity. Very cool. We also read two other stories from her in that same episode, one of which is the most upvoted story on No Sleep. My Sugar Daddy asked me for weird favors. And she wrote the story about the guy who follows me everywhere, about the guy that turns around and just counts down. And we read another one of her stories about,

if you see me, please kill me, about the girl who had the boyfriend who slowly became her. More recent recording, yeah. Yes, and more recent recording. everything we've read from Gabby's been awesome and everyone who has read the rest of her stuff has been like guys

you liked the first part of the Point Pine series the one about the parade you have to read the rest of it so that's what we're going to do the reason that we're even diving back into this too is that the Patreon was they were like you should read the rest of it yeah we had a poll on Patreon what you what like series

you wanted to see while we're recording in person and overwhelmingly Point Pine one everyone wanted to see the rest of Point Pine so he reached out to Gabby and Gabby sent us, you know, the whole series said we could read it. And she gave us another point pine entry she's never posted called the history of point pine. So I'm pretty excited. Well, the first one we're reading today is every 13th of the month.

A new apartment appears in my building. Guys, if you're listening on Apple Podcast or Spotify, please give us a nice rating there or consider listening there. It does help us out. And also, you know, to our patrons, thank you for voting on this for our read today. and also if you're looking to get some extra content and also support the channel, please consider signing up to the Patreon. It does help us out.

And also, Gabby, her Reddit profile name is E-A-P-A-P-B-P. I have no idea what that means or how to pronounce it, but it'll be linked in the description. You can read all of her stories. We're obviously very grateful for her being so cool and giving us exclusive content like this. So as always, but especially now, be sure to support the artist. So let's do it

Let's get into it Are you ready to begin? It's been a while since we've done a long series like this Yeah I You know I know these are usually not I wouldn't say bite size stories But they're like little quick hits that That kind of come in and out real quick

Like little little fun vignettes But there are I think we're reading like eight or nine of them So I think eight So strap in Strap in Let's begin Every 13th of the month A new apartment

appears in my building. I inherited Point Pine Oaks for my grandfather after my father wanted nothing to do with it. I, on the other hand, was broke in need of a place to stay and a job, and well, beggars can't be choosers. So that's the answer to the question that I get asked any time that I'm out and about on the street of our town. How on earth did you get stuck with that place? Everyone can see what Point Pine Oaks is, which is an apartment building that is six stories tall with 12 apartments on each floor. The outside of the building looks pretty normal. It's just a brick building at the end of a Briar Road, which is a cul-de-sac that contains no other buildings on the street

except for Point Pine Oaks. My grandfather bought the building in late 2013. It had been abandoned for over three decades, and the town was eager for someone to buy it. It became his passion project, and he fixed up in January of 2014. And the building soon became the biggest department building in all of Point Pine. Any resident of Point Pine knows that the Oaks are anything but normal, however.

For starters, no one ever decides to move in. If people want an apartment, they have to go all the way to the opposite side of town where the apartment complex is. You see, people don't move into the Oaks. They just kind of appear. Every 13th of the month, a new apartment appears until each floor has 12 rooms. And then, the following year, a new floor appears to accommodate the next 12 apartments. Oh, and I suppose I should also mention, none of the residents are human, at least not normal, living humans. My grandfather made it very clear to me that humans do not live in Point Pine Oaks, with the exception of the owner, which is now me.

He never explained to me why humans are not allowed in the Oaks, and I never really asked because it just felt like the kind of rule that you follow without asking any questions. Seems like a kind of story we're leaning into the tills to the gas station, we're leaning into the vampire hotel I think so given that our first story in the series was about a child whose parents had a role for them

if I had a guess every point pine entry is going to be from a different point of view in the town is it going to be in the apartment complex? The town because the first one had nothing to do

with the apartment complex I thought the first one was a house no the first one was kids at school who snuck out to see the parade I thought it was them looking at the I thought it was them looking

at the parade from their house I can't remember. No, they run over to the side of the bank and they lay down and they all close their eyes, but one of them looks and they all come over and take that kid. Yeah. So I imagine each story in the series is going to be from a different kid's point of view. Right. That makes sense.

It's like what the fuck is the west side, not west side stories, but it's like the school. Wayside, upside down. Yeah, wayside school for whatever. Sideway stories from wayside school and something like that. Yeah, yeah. Kind of like that vibe. Yeah. Yeah, that's cool.

Yeah, it's a different perspective. I only know children literature, by the way. Yeah, I know. I can tell. I can only ever reference children's literature. I wish I had something else, but sadly I don't. But there's another, there's another horror story that follows that same convention. I can't think of, uh, there's a Karelian frequency, uh, but there's some TV show

where it's like the same setting, a different perspective. Anyway, the entire first floor houses people who have died outside of the town. You see, anytime a prior resident of Point Pine dies, they wake up again here. Point Pine. Usually they're putting some secluded house up in the mountains, but for reasons unknown, they all ended up here at the Point Pine Oaks in 2014. The second floor houses the creatures with the eyes that too wide, teeth that are too sharp, and skin that is too green. They first appeared in Point Pine in 2015 and have been in charge of the farmer's market since. They're relatively nice and tend to mind their own business, but that doesn't mean that they don't still freak me out every time I see

them in the building. They're incredibly long arms dragging the floor. On the third floor is where the collectors live. The leader of the collectors is a 10-year-old Mary Lou Birmingham. Mary Lou is the one who collects children's teeth. Of course, she doesn't take them right out of their mouths. That would be horrifying. She sneaks into their homes after their baby teeth fall out and takes them from under their pillows instead, like the tooth fairy. Most of the collectors are children, with the exception of old man Jones, who was an old man. As the name would indicate. We piece that one together.

Yeah, I figured that one out. Thank you. Some of the children collect dead bucks. Others collect less unsettling things like flowers, but some collect the dirt from graves and cemetery. On the fourth floor, live all the people who died in 2017 with the bell tower appeared in Windsor Park. No one ever figured out what the deal was with that bell tower,

but exactly 12 people died that year as soon as they saw. Once the people of Point Pine picked up on the pattern, stopped going into Windsor Park. Of course, after that, the bell on the tower would just ring every month and still managed to kill more people, but that's a different story. I like to think, too, that if this is the first entry of the story,

it'd be kind of cool if that was what was setting up every story. You know, like all the residents. I feel like Windsor Park got mentioned in the first one. Oh, maybe. I mean, don't ask me. I can't fucking remember anything. thing. But I will say, like, using this as like a fun catalyst of being like, here's all these interesting people that live in this apartment. And then now every other story subsequently

afterwards is going to be the happening to why those people died and showed up here. That'd be kind of fun. Well, it might be that she made the first story, the parade one, and just used point pine as a filler name. And then everyone was like, this is great. You should write more in there. Harry was point the first point pine thing that we read was it the parade was the first story But was that the first story of it or is the or is the apartment building the first story That the parade is the first story she the parade is the first story Of the series because she's we read other story like shorter stories from her Yeah, that weren't part of the point pine series yeah yeah but she was saying so the

The um the parade was the first story and then we're gonna go back and read all the ones that are like in that kind of world And then so I have them laid out in the sheet in order from the author of like how it should go. Plus the bonus story at the end. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. But the, what might have happened is that first story she made, point bomb was just to fill her name. And everyone's like, this is awesome. You should write more there.

She's like, all right, I make a series. And this is like, it's the second entry, but it's the kickoff to the series by all this extra lore. But I almost feel like Windsor Park's familiar. Why don't, why don't we ask her? Editor, put it up. who would have thought? I wouldn't because I don't know yet because that's in the future.

Well, yeah, we can, it just popped up for them. Yeah, but when the post goes up it'd be in the past for me, but it's currently in the future. Sure. Yeah. Well, that means to me.

That median point in time, who would have thought? On the fifth floor are the invisible vampires, but we don't talk about them. Well, all right. I don't blame me. Invisible vampires,

you're invisible and you're a vampire. That's a deadly combo. That's a rough thing to do with. That's a problem. The sixth floor appeared this year. And so far, tenants of that floor were not of one specific species, and they don't seem to have anything in common. First family to appear is no mouths and communicate by somehow talking inside my head. February, one of the sacrifices from the Point Pine Parade showed up.

March, it was a headless man. April brought a family of kuk, kukis. So what is it? Kukies, kookis. Kukes. Kukes. Cuck cucks. I don't fucking know, dude. April brought a family of cookies that almost gave me a heart attack the first time I saw them.

It's a, uh, uh, L. Cucui is a mythical shape-shifting boogeyman in Spanish and Latin American folklore used to scare children to behaving or sleeping. Oh, of course. Not sure if that's the, it's also pronounced Coco as well. I don't know. I don't know if that's the. Cocues, co. Just cocoa. That's what a millisecond Google search did, but I have no idea. April brought a family of cocos that almost gave me a heart attack the first time that I saw them. They were by far the most horrifying residents of the building. Their huge red eyes that rattled around in their skulls,

their decaying black skin that was crawling with maggots. Upon opening their mouths, the building shook with a horrible screeching sound that was like nails on a chalkboard in 600% volume. Sounds like Lee Cronin's The Mummy. Does that not literally sound like Lee Cronin's? The mummy. It's really so loud, gosh. also the rattling the dead skin

Lee Cronin's the mummy Lee Cronin's the point Pine place Don't bring him into this I feel like a creepy monster Like she falls in the window Oh Lee Cronin's the mummy If you didn't

If you didn't attach the mummy to it I would have believed Well I guess I still could I just if it was if it was like this is a random town This is a ritual they do I'd be like they probably took this from a creeppasta because it did have a creepypasta vibe too. Lee Cronin's the creepypasta.

Lee Cronin's the creepy pasta. Put in a very loud sound effect. Lee Cronin's the creepcast. Don't bring you in it. In May, a seemingly more normal-looking family moved in, which terrified me just a bit more than the cuckus had, until they invited me to dinner and I watched their lower jaws drop to their shoulders as each one ate an entire raw chicken in one bite. June brought a demon who would routinely set fires in the building, but other than that, it appeared to stay out of everyone else's way.

Last month brought the windegos, which were by far the hardest to deal with. We had to come up with an agreement that they would only eat the undead folks on the first floor since they would just wake up in their apartments again the next day, and therefore they wouldn't technically be hurt in anybody. Today, the new apartment didn't appear until noon. This was odd because they usually appear right at the midnight on the 13th. I stood on the sixth floor, staring at the empty wall until a door suddenly appeared. Apartment number 68. I took a few deep breaths to prepare myself for whatever hideous monster would answer the door

and then lifted my hand a knock. Coming. I called from inside. I heard footsteps approach and then the door opened up in front of me. Hi. There was a woman standing in the apartment. She looked normal enough. Tall and blonde with a tattoo of a rose on her left forearm.

Uh, hi, I'm the owner of this building, the landlord. My name's Eric. I extended my hand out, bracing myself for some sort of heat or coldness or shock. I'm Gwen. Nice to meet you. shook my hand with a strong grip. It was a normal handshake, but I wasn't going to relax just yet. I needed to give it a few minutes to know what exactly these new residents were. Oh, come in.

I'll introduce you to my family. Slowly followed her into the apartment. I looked around. It seemed pretty normal. Again, all the apartments seemed normal. It's things that live inside that aren't normal. Hey, guys, come out here. Gwen called into the apartment.

Would you like some water? Oh, no, thanks. I turned at the sound of footsteps to see two kids and another woman walk out into the kitchen. This is my wife, Laura, and our kids, Kimberly and Christopher. Nice to meet you. Laura stuck her hand out, and I shook it. Again, it was normal.

I'm Eric, the owner of the building. Hmm, nice to meet you. There's a brief moment of awkward silence. So, uh, do you have any questions? Hids took off as I stood there with Gwyn and Laura. Oh, yeah, so what are the rules? Are we allowed to, you know, paint the walls and hang stuff up? Oh, yeah, I mean, you can decorate this place however you want.

Awesome! So, if you don't mind me asking, what are you? Excuse me? What are you? I mean, I don't mean to be offensive anything. I just like to know. Lauren Gwynn exchanged looks. Like, lesbians? Are you allowed to ask that?

When ass narrowing her eyebrows. No, I mean, like, what are you? I know you're not human. Eric is either extremely based or... Lee Cronin's the Eric. Sigma, Sigma, edit. No, but, like, I know you're not human. No, I mean, I don't care. I'm just saying it.

Are you guys, like, what, bug people? No, the, uh, yeah, Lee Cronin's the lesbians. This is an average conversation that I have on every day. And then I step out of the Subaru and then reinforce the lesbian claims. I thought you're going to say this is an average conversation Nick has every day. No, this is. So what are you? So are you people.

Laura laughed. Not human. What do you think we are? Like mythical creatures? Well, I don't know. That's why I'm asking. I mean, your neighbors are windagos and there's a family of cocos down the hall. Is this something that a joke?

Is it because we're new? No. Well, then we're just regular humans I stared at them Haven't you ever seen a human before? Not a regular one, at least Not in this building Okay, now you're freaking me out

Do you not know where you are? Well, sure, we're in Colorado, right? No, this isn't Colorado. What do you mean? Where are we then? Point Pine. Where? You're in Point Pine. It's a small town in the middle of nowhere.

Do you think it's people that don't know that they're dead yet? could be people that don't know that they're dead. A little beetle juice meme. It'll be a teleport thing. Yeah. It could be a time. The Ann Hathaway and Ian McGregor movie.

Guys, our house, our street, our neighborhood. I have to keep explaining the references. Hasbing is gone. I have to keep explaining the references. And then he was McGregor running away from a dinosaur.

Last night we went to go. Last night we went to go see the mummy. Well, Lee Cronin's, the mommy. Lee Cronins. The mummy. And it was awful.

It was terrible. And we did put up a... We put a video on Patreon of us like reacting to it. It was so bad that we recorded us talking. It's like a 40 minutes of me and Hunter talking about how bad the movie was. The AMC parking lot. Yeah.

So if you want to pay money for that, it's on the Patreon. That's just more so we didn't know where else to put it. That's catharsis for us. But it was so bad. That's why he keeps saying Lee Cronin's the blank. And also there was a trailer before it. If I kid you not,

Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway, whose street is teleported to a dinosaur land. Yeah. It's a normal American suburb, but there's dinosaurs now. I thought all of the trailers look so bad. Which, which, hold on,

that one can be campy fine. The potential to have a street teleported to dinosaur land. How were they going to play? You know the problem with Lee Cronin's the Mummy? I mean, there's a lot of problems. But a problem was it did not know what it was. it was far too serious for the campiness of the story and stuff like that.

Yeah, I think that it was trying to do like a Evil Dead 2 black comedy thing. But the thing with Evil Dead 2 is that it's like slapstick humor with Ash. No, it should have been black comedy. But it wasn't. That's what I'm saying is I think that it like it should have been.

Yeah, yeah. Or like the original mummy, the Brendan Fraser one. That movie knew what it was. I would say that's like a horror comedy. Yeah, exactly. But when it wants to be funny, it knows what it's doing.

With like beating and characters like the... The trailers, this is going to, sorry to derail this, but the trailers to this were so bad. Haneus. I seriously believe that... I seriously believe the passenger looks like one of the worst movies.

It probably will be. Let me finish my thought. Not of all time, but, you know, like the year or whatever. The dinosaur one. There's no way that film takes itself too seriously. 100% it does. There's no way.

100%. Because if you... If Jurassic Park doesn't take it film that seriously. If it was Ann Hathaway and Mark Wahlberg, I would agree. Okay, yeah. Ann Hathway, Ewan McGregor. They're playing that to be like,

these are serious, these are actors. Yeah. That kind of thing. It's gonna be this whole story about family too. Yeah, yeah. Don't even wrong.

It's not gonna be, it's not gonna be a grizzly, it's not gonna be a grizzly horror thing. Yeah. But I do believe it's going to, they're gonna try to do like a, like a less, like,

because Dresac Park had was kind of campy and fun. Yeah, I knew what it was. Yeah. But it's not gonna be that. I don't think it'll be that. I think it'll least match dress. I think they're going to try to be scary.

Even Jurassic World, they still knew what they were with all the dramatic shots and, like, action segments and stuff. I don't think I've seen Jurassic World. I didn't like any of the sequels, but the first Jurassic World, like, it, it was fun. I knew what it wanted to be. All I know is the passenger. I editor put up, is the passenger a, is that a creeper? That is a creepy posthum. That has to be a creepyposs.

Yeah, it's the old story of the hitchhiker in the passenger seat. You're driving alone at night and I see someone. You see him doing that every time you drive. At first, I was like, oh, my God. is this a fucking left-right game movie? That's what I thought when I first saw it. Because the whole thing, too, is like, oh, don't look at them. Yeah.

Right? So then the whole thing is that it keeps doing the repeat. Yeah. I was like, oh, shit. I don't know if I called it. I was going to kind of hype for a second. I was like, oh, damn. And then it cuts to the, just,

rooom, and then the third will, when he does, and also I hate that every fucking horror movie trailer has to be people just screaming. Yeah. That's all it is, all of them. can there not be any that's why that's why sometimes i have a kane pixels the backroom and you're like

oh i have a good feeling about this this trailer is whenever it's it's like oh it's a horror film but it's uh it's not just screaming at my face the whole time also i about lost my fucking mind when that old bitch from insidious popped up in that trailer i was like oh god you have a gift you're like a god yeah there was a trailer here we go there's a trailer for a horror movie and it was like what's this it's like kind of oh ghost family and then the end of the end of insidious like medium pops up. It's like All right. As soon as I saw it from James or from Jason Bloom and James

Juan I was like oh fuck. Well that's this well at the end of the Lee Cronin's the mummy. That showing up in the credits was the most since the night had made. Dude well yeah when I have to sit through the 75 minute long intro that Bloomhouse makes you sit through it getting up other films

Insidious goes to Egypt. That's how I knew. That Bloomhouse tag is horrible. Oh it's the worst. It's just like cheesy Michael Meyer. Remember all of our fucking box. That's Jason Bloom basically taking a giant mirror putting up on the wall, he's just jacking off and coming all over the mirror. I think that... I'm Jason Bloom!

I think early in the studio, there was a... I liked the first insidious when it came out. I thought it was fine. It's when it became a million sequels. I was like... It's hard to... It's hard to look back with anything in hindsight now with what has happened. I know. I get it. You know? I get it. Yeah. So, it is what it is. Also...

All right, we got it. Point Pine. Yeah. Um, Laura ran to the wind in the living room and pulled the curtains back and gasped. What is it? When asked turning around. Their window had a view of some of the buildings in the town below, along with a giant sign right outside. Welcome to Point Pine. Population unknown. I don't understand. Yeah. Me neither. How do we get here?

I shrugged. I don't really know how people get here. They sort of just show up. Okay, then how do we get to Colorado? Laura asked back and away from the window. You don't. What do you mean? You can't willingly leave Point Pine once you're here. Everyone who leaves gets banished and even then.

And even then, when you die out there, you just wake up and you're stuck here again. Went inside and Laura ran her hands through her black hair. So you don't know why we're here? Shick my head. But if you really are just human, then this can't be good. After a few minutes of silence, I left the apartment and decided to go outside and get some fresh air. just all right i'll leave them with that to come to whatever conclusion they were well i must be on my way i stepped on to the elevator and pressed the button to the first floor got off and made my way down

to the doors stopping as i reached out to open it i looked down at the watch on my wrist still noon but that wasn't possible i've been up in the apartment for at least 20 minutes but that wasn't the only thing that was wrong it was pitch black outside couldn't even see the sidewalk right outside the door or giant tree that was a few feet in front of the building. I pressed my forehead against the glass, squinting to see if I could make out something in the darkness. Suddenly, someone crashed right into the glass, causing me to jump back at least a few feet in fright. Holy shit! Hey, open the door! I walked closer and realized that I recognized the person who was outside. It was Lee. Everyone knew who he was since he had lost his eyes to the Point Pine

Parade years ago. Lee? Open the door! I guarantee you Lee was the kid from the first one. Because I can't remember what happened to him. If his eyes got taken or if he was taken away, but I guess he lived in his eyes were just... Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Lee Kronin's.

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And now that I was seeing him, I could see that it was true. I reached out to open the door, but it was stuck. I tried again, pulling on the door as hard as I could, but it didn't budge. It's stuck! Suddenly, Lee went flying backward, and I watched and the darkness lifted

and the sun came out again. I looked down to my watch again. It's still noon. When I looked back up, I found myself standing in the hallway of the sixth floor again. his apartment number 68 appeared in front of me once again. I reached out and knocked.

Coming. I called from inside. Foot steps approached and then the door opened up in front of me. Hi. Gwen? Yeah, who are you? Uh, Eric, we just spoke. I'm sorry, you must have me confused there's someone else.

I didn't reply. Staring into the apartment as Lauren the kids came out. That was at least an hour ago, but the same chain of events keeps repeating every few minutes and the time has not moved past noon. I don't know how to undo it. I don't even know what it is. I'm pretty sure I know what's causing it, though.

Humans shouldn't live in Point Pine Oaks. Cool. All right, well, that's the first one. So what do you think that loop is for them? I think that people aren't supposed to be there. It's a supernatural, you know, hotel effectively. Sure, but they definitely were put there. Yes, something put them there.

Something went wrong. And I think it may coincide with the guy running to the door and something, there's like a darkness over the town, maybe Lee did something he's not supposed to, and now some entities pulling him back. Maybe that glitch caused people to appear in the new hotel room.

Or something like that. I like the tie-in to the parade earlier. Yeah, I feel like it was not very invasive. If you've never read the parade one, you still weren't lost. It's not beating you over the head with like, oh, you have to go read this one, yeah. I agree.

I like that one. Hopefully we see Eric again. I'd like to know what, how Eric, because Eric's just a regular guy, right? Yeah. To an extent. He's a regular guy who lives in a supernatural. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like I said before he starts, like adult gravity falls. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I will say this one felt a bit campier compared to the first one. I thought the first one was a lot more like,

oh, the parade's coming, don't fucking look at it. You know, this one's very much just like, there's ghouls, dragons, and goblins, walking around, we're all pals. Yeah. You know, they creep me out, but it is what it is. and then the lesbians come and that's when the danger truly starts. Yeah, I know you despise fine.

How many times have you said that in your life? You? Just, I looked at the camera of the viewer. Lee Kronin's the lesbians. God. That actually, I honestly, I would go see Lee Kronin's the lesbians. Lee Kronin's the lesbians.

Either just back in Cairo again. They're in Egypt. What the hell is this? They're just throwing up And there's fucking pus and everything everywhere It was like one of the grossest movies I've seen And I'm not maybe not one of the grosses But I was just like needlessly you're like oh my God

Come on it was assault on the senses It was so loud It was just not nice to look at A lesbian like shitting on the floor and then crawling Like punching through the floorboards And crawling out from the room I I'm willing to believe that

Not everyone was seen it But they should have at least had one person and spot her coming through the thing. I mean, obviously, how is there not one? There's just no way in a quiet, yeah, do you see something come through the ceiling? All out of context.

You know what, though? I'm glad that it's going to be a lot. Like, what are they talking? Actually, do you think that we're making it more, we're making it more appealing to go see Lee Cronin's The Mummy so you know what we're talking about? The Patreon video will be out before this comes out. Oh, yeah, well, not everyone who watches this as a patron.

I'm saying that. I'm saying that people are going to be like, little girl crawling through the floor. What are you talking? Like that kind of thing. No. I think they're going to be like, so the movie's bad. Got it. We'll see. I wouldn't saw Lee Kroden's The... I bet you anything. There's going to be against some... Yeah, so I actually ended up watching Lee Kroden's The Mummy because of the podcast.

And, uh, yeah, those guys were... Those guys were right. Or actually, actually more realistically, because it's a YouTube comment. It was not bad. Yeah. It'll be that. It was scary. I actually liked it better than, like, all the other movies. I couldn't believe how bad the dad actor was. Yeah. He's in some other stuff I've seen him.

Mid-summer. Yep. Yeah, you're right. Which also, I want to tell you a story off camera. I guess just editor you can cut it. Interesting. All right.

There's a new guy in town and we don't like him. Yep. Next entry. New guy in town, we don't like him. How are you doing, Isaiah? Doing good. All right. Need anything? We don't really know when he got.

he was just here this morning although I guess he could have gotten here sometime last night or even earlier today but of course we wouldn't know since we don't wake up until 8.13 a.m. I guess if he got here before then he would have snucked in unnoticed. We don't like him. I can't speak for everybody but everyone I have spoken to would agree. We aren't too fond of strangers popping in out of the blue. Makes us nervous. How did he find us? We don't know why he's here although I've heard that he's been claiming that he's from here. Still, he's been out there in the outside world for way too long. New to us, even if we aren't new to him. I heard someone say that his name was Cody. I don't know

anyone named Cody, and I've lived here for over 10 years. Cody is hyperlinked. What happens when you click on it? Oh, it takes you back to the first one. Was Cody one of the characters in there? Cody, Cody I mean, I'm just scrolling. Lee was the person in that story. I see who looked. Oh, Cody was the protagonist from that first story, it seems like.

Yeah, because they're saying, look at us, Cody. Do what? His name was Eric. I thought was... Well, yeah, he's right. Cody is the protagonist, I think, and then he went out with some friends,

and Eric is the one like up. Oh, and the parade story. Oh, okay, sorry. Yeah, Cody and his friends went out. Cody was the one writing the first story. Lee was the one who looked and as we saw got his eyes taken. So what happened is he probably left and now he came

back to Point Pine and people are like, I don't fucking know you and he's like, I'm from here. Yeah. Oh yeah. Okay. At the end he says minutes after we left, my parents acted like Point Pine never existed. So the story ends with his parents getting him out there because he saw the parade. Yeah, I see. And now he's come back later on. I got it. I first saw him while I was on my morning run.

He was walking up Briar Road, the road that leads to the Point Pine Oaks, and I stopped for a second, watching him. That's how I knew he wasn't from here. Anyone who's from here would know that Point Pine Oaks has been stuck in a time loop for the past four months. I'd also know that the Point Pine Oaks doesn't take guests,

at least not guests, who would walk in and ask for a room. It's so funny, it's like, anyone from here knows about the time distortion. That's kind of fun, though. I stood on the corner until he walked back down the road. What are you doing? That didn't used to be here.

You gesture towards the Oaks? Yeah. I'm assuming it's not a normal apartment building. You said walking closer to me. Right. I'm looking for someone thinking, help me. I looked around the empty street. I don't know you.

Yeah. I haven't been back here in 15 years. 15 years. Gosh, it's a long time. Not that much has changed, though. I said nothing. Anyway, I'm looking for my dad. He died about seven months ago.

Well, if he's dead, then why are you looking for? him. Don't you know where he is? In the ground somewhere? No? He stared at me. Everyone knows you never really leave Point Pine. He was right, but I wasn't going to help him. Sorry. I wouldn't even know where to start looking. That was a lie. I knew exactly where to start looking. He was probably in one of the houses up in the mountains or in the oaks. That's fine. I'll go find people that I know. They should still be here. Have fun with your walk. Watched as he walked away towards the center of town, where, most of the shops were.

He stopped a few feet away and slowly turned back to look at me. Hey, has a parade happened this month? Made me nervous that he knew about that. No. Mumbled something that I didn't quite catch, continued walking. I was too anxious to finish my run, so I went home instead. I heard Cody's back. My father was on the phone as I walked into the kitchen.

Haven't seen that boy in years? It's silly he managed to show up here. Crazy, ain't it? Looked up and saw me. I'll call you back. How's your run? Who's Cody? Just a boy.

Is it cold out? I met him. Cody, I met him on my run. Sad. He's looking for his father. Right. Is he that, Cody? Daly didn't want to talk about it.

I'm going to the farmer's market. There were a lot of people around today. More than usual, at least. I walked around a few stands, try my best to avoid the creature's green skin, wide eyes and sharp teeth, which was hard since they were in charge with the farmer's market. I was at a produce stand when I saw Cody again. Everyone got quiet and started whispering among themselves.

I hid behind a wooden pole before he saw me and I wanted to be seen speaking to him. Reed? Everyone looked towards Cody as he walked up to Reed. He was in the middle of buying something. Cody? So she did know him. Cody? Cody?

Cody. Hey! Lee Cronin's the reed So she did know him Which meant he was telling the truth He was from Point Pond That still didn't seem to make anyone any friendlier towards him though I thought you

The parade I knew Reed had been in the parade years ago It only just appeared in February of this year Point Pine Oaks Yeah, I'm back I'm looking for my father Do you have any idea where I could find him He's at the Oaks

First floor I see him from time to time The Oaks Yeah but you can't go in there I figured. I could tell him for you, though. I live there. What about Lee? He's somewhere around here.

She was right. He was. Somewhere being the time loop at the Oaks. I wondered why she didn't specify that. That's interesting. So in the first story, we have the three characters. Lee, Cody, and Reed, who go. And Reed was the one who was in the parade, right?

She's supposed to be the sacrifice. And that's the one who's mentioned in the last one, like one of the girls from or one of the people that got sacrificed just showed up here and that's great. But for some reason she can come and go and isn't in the time loop. Probably because she's dead. Well, she also works at the, uh, or she lives at the, uh, the oaks on the hill, right? No, she lives in the, oh, she lives in the apartment.

Oh, that's right. She lives in apartment building. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, she's the one that appeared. But I think, um, probably because she's dead. Yeah, yeah. She's 100% good. Yeah.

Which would explain why it's Lee, the tenant and the family upstairs. all the monsters can probably come and go. I looked around and I noticed that no one else was speaking. He was dead silent. Cody and Reed must have noticed too because they stopped talking and looked around. I don't think they liked me much. He was right. We didn't.

I saw him again later that day. So I was leaving the Point Pine Library. I just returned some books that my father had checked out on gardening. I saw him talking to Mr. Terrence outside the Point Pine Bakery. It stood on the steps of the library, watching.

They seemed to be having a normal conversation. Mr. Terrence was laughing at something that Cody had said, and it made me weary of him. I already didn't trust Cody. Now I don't trust Mr. Terrence. They continued to talk, and I noticed other bystanders giving them weird looks. I decided that it was time for me to leave, and began walking down the steps and onto the sidewalk. That's when the chorus of voices started singing. Took off running immediately, as did the rest of the people standing around.

I knew everyone would head for the point pine bar first. since they had recently added locks to their doors, which meant it would get full, and I'd only have to go back and find somewhere else to hide. Point Pine Middle School was my best bet. It was about two minutes away if I ran fast enough, and so I took off in that direction. I ran as the familiar melody filled my ears.

It seemed like it was coming from all around me, above me and below me. I ran faster, seeing the school in the distance. I'm pretty sure that's the parade, right? The parade's what melody is, I think, yeah. Because they talked about in the parade that everyone hides. And that you have to find there was only a few buildings in town you could hide in when the parade was coming. Yeah. Yeah.

I threw open the doors and walked in. There were only about 20 or so people in here. But I knew it would get full of no time. Set down on the floor trying to catch my breath. Marcus, can you watch the doors for me? The parade starts in exactly three minutes. Make sure you locked them and get everyone inside before then. Got back up and Mrs. Monroe handed me the keys.

I walked over to the door, dropping it open with my body as people ran inside the school. I could see more and more people coming down the street, frantically running as the start of the parade got closer and closer. Two minutes left. Crowd of people had thinned down. Now there are only a few people trickling in at the last minute. One minute left. I could see people coming in the distance and I squinted, trying to make out who it was. Fifty seconds.

As the person got closer, I saw it was none other than Cody. 40 seconds. Began to close the door. 20 seconds. Cody picked up his speed, shouting for me to wait. Can't close in the door slowly. Wait, please. I watched as he got closer and closer,

and time seemed to slow down as he desperately ran towards the door. I looked at the time. 10 seconds. 9, 8, 7, 6, 5. I shut the door and locked it. 4. Cody banged on the small glass window. Let me get it, please.

He cried. three let the small curtain fall and covered up the window two come on one heard his footsteps as he ran away but it was too late there's nowhere else to go now braid had already begun who was that monroe asked the new guy he stayed quiet so did everyone else in the school like i said we don't like him wonder if uh do you think that he actually is gone no i'm sure he'll show up somewhere i mean survived at once right? For some reason, you just have to close your eyes and look away, it seems. If you can endure.

That's interesting. I like that. I was like, we don't like him. There's this bitterness. And it's like, you may be from here, but he didn't stick around here. So then when he dies, no one has any sympathy for him. Like how isolated this community is, how weird they are of outsiders. Even people from there who've just been gone a while are not accepted.

A guy that was able to come, a guy that was able to leave and then come back. They're like fuck this guy. I mean, yeah, but I'm an outsider obviously, but I'm just yeah. Yeah, you also see those are a lot of just like isolated people's where it's like, uh, you're not us. Gone, who cares? Mm-hmm. This episode's sponsored by Cash App. Cash App just released a new status part of the way people actually spend called Cash App Green.

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The next was called The Day the Angel Came. Perfect. All right. Well, Hunter, are you ready? Yes. For the day the angel came. Is I take a sip of mine? Angel come. No, don't. The rooftop of the Point Pine Hospital overlooks the town. in the surrounding woods. In the distance, you can see the sign that welcomes you to Point Pine, although it's too far away to read from up here. Not that it matters. I already know what it says anyway. Welcome to Point Pine, population unknown. People usually come

up here to smoke. I don't smoke, but I like coming up here and looking down at all the people in town who are walking around running errands and whatnot. It looks so small from up here, like ants. Sometimes I imagine a child giant foot coming down from the sky, squishing everything in town. It's gruesome, I know, but I've always had an overactive imagination. Besides, it gets boring being in a hospital bed all the time. Beaping of the machines and the smell of antiseptic is enough to make anyone go crazy after a while. So I like to get away for some time.

Usually, that means about 30 minutes before a nurse realizes that I'm missing. I'm sure they know where I am by now, and I think they like to give me some time before they come up to get me because they normally don't show up until about an hour after I get up here. I'm not sure if they're allowed to do that, but I appreciate it nonetheless. But enough about me. The story ain't about me. At least not really. It's about the people of Point Pine. It's about Apollo. I'm at Apollo a few hours ago, on the rooftop of the Point Pine Hospital. I'd been up there no more than 15 minutes.

I suddenly noticed him standing a few feet away from me, leaning over the edge, staring at the town below us. He was dressed in all black, including in a black hat that covered most of his face and dirty, worn out boots. I was startled because I had to notice anyone else out here when I came up. It was like he had just appeared out of nowhere. Given the number of odd things that occur in this town,

I wouldn't be all that surprised if he had. He was smoking a cigarette, and the wind was blowing the smoke directly into my face. I stifle a cough and turned the other way. Don't know what it is yet, do they? It's over at him. They continue to look down in smoke. Again, blew it on my face and I tried not to cough.

Excuse me? Turn to face me, but I couldn't make out the top half of his face due to the shadow caused by his hat. The doctors, they don't know what you got. You replied, taking another drag from the cigarette. This time when he excelled and the smoke blew into my face, I coughed. He had an accent, but I couldn't quite place it. Sorry. Tossed a cigarette on the floor and used his heel to put it out.

How do you know? after a few minutes of silence. Because I know a lot of things about a lot of people. Step closer to him. Like what? Turned back towards the town below us and pointed off to the right. You see that man over there? In the brown coat walking out of the library.

I squinted and found the man that he was talking about. However, I couldn't tell who it was from up here. He killed his five-year-old son about two months ago and let his wife go to prison for it. Because it's so awful. People are pretty awful, yeah. You know, Mr. Terrence, the psychic baker. Yeah, is he a murderer, too?

Shug his head. No, he's one of the good ones. But his mother used to torture his sister when they were younger. Mr. Terrance has a sister? Had. She's dead. It's been for a few years, suicide. Over a few minutes of silence as we watched people walking through town. Who are you?

Apollo. I nodded. And you're deafening. Nodded again. How do you know all these things? He sighed. Let's just say I'm not exactly human. So, what are you?

An angel. An angel? Yeah, an angel. So why are you here in Point Pine? Someone's going to do something really bad soon. I need to be here for that. Thought about all the bad things that happened here. Things like the parade and the time loop that lasted a few months.

How bad? Worse than the parade and worse than the time. Lube. Stared at the people below us. Tiny, ants, walking around town. Thought again about a giant foot coming down from the sky and destroying everything.

What could be worse than the things we'd already seen? Three millennial men are going to open a burger restaurant. It's going to be very quirky. Instead of... It's going to be Edison bulbs and high top chairs. Fries are $17 and they're in metal

baskets. Instead of meat options, it's going to say protein. It says a protein The appetizers are going to say the shareables It's good All the sides are going to be family style The bathrooms are sitters and squatters It's going to be kind of amusing for about two minutes

And that's going to get real old real quick All of the food is going to come out in that kind of like Patchwork plaid white and red design The little baskets But it will just be over a plastic basket Yeah there's going to be the hunk and chungis burger But it will come on a metal tray that would actually be, oh my God.

On the menu, it's going to have a picture. People just run out to the parade. Ah! He killed immediately. See that car, the one driving in the woods. Just to Matt, I can see the picture of my head behind the counter. It's the menu, and all three of them are like, like, look. Yeah, so that's awesome.

Yeah, it says like three guys in a dream. So the Heisenberger comes with truffle oil, and it comes with Parmesan-graded fries. You want to add that for? $1 upcharge? No. It is always like a $7 up charge minimum. Ain't nothing on that menu. So we have saracha marshmallow ketchup.

Saracha marshmallow. I nodded as I watched the tiny white car become even smaller as it drove. There's a woman in the car. She's going to kill herself. Why's that? Turn to look at me. This time I can see his face. His eyes and mouth are like two glowing slits in his face.

backed up her husband just took out alone for a burger restaurant Oh my god The horse Do it! Wow, she's awesome There's one of our viewers

is about to start a burger restaurant It's real discouraged right now Yeah Everyone's gonna wear black aprons and black Barber gloves. Everything's gonna be way too silver, but also brick. Exposed brick, exposed like H-back

lines in the ceiling. What would the name of the restaurant be? Six guys, because five wasn't enough. Be like cleavers or something like that. They have big picture of meat cleaver or something. Oh, yeah, yeah. I thought it'd be like, what's something kind of like a little funny?

Like a play on, I had the word hamburger. Right? fam burger doesn't it make you want to kill yourself fam famb burgers unbelievable because everyone because you're everyone's family exactly oh my god doesn't that hurt there's just like why are there bullet casings

all over by the front door it's going there's a guy they're on the hospital roof and they can see someone with a gun walking up like machine gun to shoot up the place and angels like you see that guy he's a hero I was going to say, you see that guy, he's not making an inside.

I can't. Yeah. They only serve bison burger? Oh, there's an elk. I'm just looking for a burger with fries. Yeah, that's not really how we do. That's not how we do things here. There's also, like, the buns are way too big and also way too cooked, but it's like grilled buns.

They also burn the insignia. Like their logo on top. Or like they smoke it on top. It just says fan burger on top of it. And also instead of, man, I hate putting fam burger into the ether. That was the worst. Welcome to Fanburger. Can I interest you in our hangover special?

Yeah. Oh, it's got an egg on it. It's a normal burger, but there's an egg on it. He's like, yeah. I'm going to, there's a guy behind him. He has like lip piercings and stuff. And he has the beanie, like the bun and the beanie and stuff. and like the jacket, whatever.

Yeah. And he has the glasses. And he's just like, yeah, I'm going to need one of those, Pronto. Yeah, I need a firmware, I need a firmware update in the form of a hangover burger. The curly, the gelled curly cue mustache.

Oh, you got two razors. Sweet you're all of the meat. It's really funny to imagine this restaurant with bodies littered. Oh, yeah, everywhere. Yeah. We're kind of doing a whole, I don't know, post-apocalyptic kind of day to day. It's kind of fun.

It's all bison meat, but you can get the elk burger for a $14 upcharge. You can do elk for $14 upcharge, and we can add truffle pepper on that for $6 off charge. And gold shavings. And we do have gold shaving lemonade. Yeah. Yeah. We make our own mics hard here. Make our own mics hard.

But we can't get our alcohol license yet, so it's B-Y-O-L for the liquor. Yeah, we don't really care what you do on the patio. Unless you say that. It's so lame. Just like as soon as he says, you just see a giant blood splatter against the window. Yeah, the whole front window.

We don't care of it. I feel like I've had that said to me. places like this. Hey, I'll turn a blind eye. As long as it's not on the camera in here. Hey, as long as I can taste these delicious burgers, who cares? Oh. We don't care to chew on the pad.

It was so. God. We have a sign-up sheet out back to play the big janga. Yes, we had big janga and cornhole on the back. It's always big jenga. It's always big jenga. They're really quirky. They have the giant connect four.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We have a giant connect four, big jenga and cornhole in the back. just in case. Can you put it on the game? Yeah, we don't really watch sports ball. But we do have Harry Potter Marathon going on.

That would be hell. That is hell. What's that big section off place in the back? Oh, we'll get this. Next month, we're putting in an axe-throwing arena. The axe throwing's back there, so be sure to gobble down your boozy shake

while you throw axe. But it's B. YOL for the boosy shake, but you can do that on the back patio because we don't care. No, seriously. I don't think there's any alcohol in here. Yeah, so we still can't get our liquor license. Yeah, so kind of a patio boozy shake situation. Yeah, but in here it's more of a fam shake. It's for the kiddos.

This is kind of a kid shake. I know. That's stupid venue picture. Meet the chef You see am I putting the burger in a microwave We started This stream started from a conversation We had at Mike's house seven years ago

Yeah It all started with a conversation and a dream I never really thought about being a chef Once I started talking I realized it was my passion But when I found out I had no personality And no taste I knew this is exactly what I needed to do

I thought to myself What's what do I love? That's why I legitimately saw that when I lived in Round Rock, Texas, this is one. There's like one of those kinds of restaurants nearby. And it said, start with a dream. And I had to ask myself, what do I love? Hamburgers. It's like, that's the one thing you dug up from.

I mean, what are you like, what's one thing you love? Hamburgers? Do that. Do what? Hamburgers. Do that. All right. There's like, it's just like, it's like, it's like a hamburger and it's written in

that so like the signs like the kind of brown it's written it's written in nicolodeon font no it's like the sign's kind of brown and then famberger is like big text thin then big text and like old west you know and then it says underneath it in like a bow it's like where the good times are always to go yeah we're good times or or uh we're hunger we're hunger uh dares to enter where hunger dares enter that is horrible If I saw that I would say oh my god All you enter abandoned hunger

Here Oh my god I say yeah That is If I didn't see a Jeep patriot Drive through the front doors that place Ah Yeah just a bunch of homemade nail bombs

Ah Cushin The owner's just like stops them there's a truck there's a VB-I-D just coming over the hill 100 miles an hour

propane tanks line in the truck all you enter abandoned hunger is so good abandoned hunger is so unbelievable oh my God Jesus Christ God kill us

my God kill us but no it was the other way around it'd be yeah because it's abandoned all hunger ye who enter here yeah

yeah yeah oh that is 100% also they would have the Saturn eating his son

but it would be a giant burger and yeah that that I would know if a place was self aware

enough to do stuff like that that would almost be funny I think it would but it has to be done without a breath I think that's impossible

I think that it's all took it in a way where it's like, okay, now that's funny. Yeah. Yeah. That's kind of cool. I get what she did there. Yeah. Can you read the he turned to look at me again? Yeah, so anyway, they see the truck coming and the angels like, that guy's a hero. Yeah, yeah. Hey.

Where was it? He turned to look at me. Because a daughter's sick and the doctors don't know what it is. But they do know that she's dying. And that one would have. And that woman would rather run away from her problems and never face them again. What? The door to the roof swung open and two nurses came out.

When I looked back as they dragged me inside, Apollo was nowhere to be found. And the only thing that was left of him was a cigarette he had thrown on the ground. Nurses told me I was dying. I said my mom wanted to tell me. I couldn't get a hold of her, but someone saw her steal a car, white car, drive off. I don't think this is the bad thing that Apollo was talking about. I started to get gray outside. The sun is getting dimmer and dimmer as the minutes pass.

I can tell that something's going to happen. Everyone's acting jittery and anxious. The nurses have started to ask everyone to keep the blind shut, but I've gotten up and taken a few peaks. It doesn't seem to be getting any better. The temperature has dropped significantly inside the hospital, and I heard someone say that the trees in the woods have fused together to form a giant wall around town.

Not that anyone could leave town before that anyway, but now they can't even venture out into the woods. I didn't believe Apollo before, but I guess he was right. I got out of bed once, no one was looking because they were too preoccupied with the man next door who was coughing blood. I walked over to the window and pulled back the blinds just a bit. I was face to face with Apollo, who was floating in midair, his eyes glowing. Behind him, dozens of other angels. I didn't tell anyone what I saw. Simply closed the blinds and got back into bed.

If I listened really closely, I can hear the worried conversations of the other patients. The nurses seem to be the most worried, though. Keep whispering to one another and looking into my room. I heard one of them say that I'm probably going to die soon, maybe within the next few days. I'd be relieved if it weren't for the fact nobody ever really leaves Point Pine. So is it coming to a fact that's like, oh, it almost seems like Point Pine. is hell. Yeah, it's like a purgatory. Yeah, a purgatory kind of thing

to where maybe if people die here, they just cease to exist entirely. Uh-huh. Yeah, it's like when the angel comes, it's like these people show up, but angels are a stretch of the word. It's really like some entity that just transfers you. You have to stay in Point Pine,

but from one time of life to the other. Like an arbiter, yeah. And there was, what was that thing about the town was covered in what there in the last segment says it's dropped. The trees in the woods

of fuse together to form a giant wall so no one can get out everyone's stuck there yeah well they could never leave before or it was like

where someone was able to leave but now it's like there's a wall that you cannot get around yeah all right so if you look at

the stories list there's a story called room 813 on Gabby's post but when we talk to Gabby she said to keep it to the mainline entries

how she would suggest to read through them plus the bonus story she gave us so she said go on to the next one to Point Pine's newest visitors that's what we're going to do but there's bonus stories on the master list

that's going to be linked in the description that include things like Room 813 So if you want even more point pine there's like bonus side stuff There should be two of them I think I think there's two of them That Gabby recommended we don't read for this straight run through But if you want to check them out they're on that master list So there's even more point pine but you know obviously if the author says there's a better way to read the series We're going to do that

So our next story in order then is Point Pines' newest visitor came with a warning. Mary Lou Burningham took my sister, Genevieve's Tooth this morning. She was the one mentioned in the apartment who takes the baby teeth, right? Under the pillow. The child, she's a child. The tooth fairy. Oh, she's a child? Yeah.

She's a kid. Because remember, there's only one man, old man Jones. Oh, man. Of course, of course. I saw her leaving the house when I got up to make breakfast. I only saw the back of her head as she walked out at the front door, but I would recognize those bright red curls anywhere. This wasn't anything out of the ordinary, at least not in Point Pine.

That's just what the collectors do, collect stuff. No one really knows why, or what they do with it, except for Mary Lou. We've seen her wearing jewelry made from the teeth of the people of Point Pine. She obviously doesn't wear all the teeth, that'd be weird, and so I've always wondered what she did with the rest of them. like the quick light like it'd be weird if you're all the teeth some teeth are fine but wearing a couple you know let a girl have some fun I wonder if they just mean because there's so many that it'd be like how would you even wear that it'd be like

just covering her giant long cape of teeth that'd be pretty cool see a little girl walking down the street this is like 20 feet of teeth yeah last year when our I'm not I'm not gonna lie probably need to cut this but says last year when our hamster pennies died I straight up read that his penis last year When our hamster named penis died. Last... Back in Lee Cronin's the Mummy is what you're doing. Yeah, Lee Cronin's Famberger.

Yeah, Lee Cronin's the hamburger. Last year when our hamster pennies died, Curtis Mann came to take it from us. He collects dead animals. Those are the only two collectors that I'm familiar with, but there's 12 total and they all live at the Point Pine Oaks. With the amount of close-ups too, that Lee Cronin's the Bummy,

that'd be a gross movie. he would put the camera slightly above them like that. He put it so close to them. Or it'd be somebody ordering up close. There'd be a little bit of blur. And then the background, you see it's someone just like eating a burger. It'd be that. Anyways, go ahead.

Let me get Lee Kronin to shoot the Famberger movie. I want to get Lee Kronin for the Creepcast. We can just call it Lee Kronin's the Creepcast. Yeah. Recently, the collectors have been behaving a little weirder than usual. Today, when I went on my run, I saw all of them walking in two single file lines down the road. I had never seen all 12 of them together at the same time, so I stopped to observe. They were walking weirdly.

They'd put one foot forward and stop for a second. Then bring their other foot forward and stop for a second. They walked like that all the way down the road, headed for the shops in the center of Point Pine. I saw them again about an hour later when I walked to the Point Pine Bakery to pick up a pie for my mom. As I was waiting for them to bring my order out, Mary Lee walked up to me. Hey, Lee, she said, sounding a bit sad. Hey, are you all right? Mary Lou sighed and glanced down at the chain she wore around her neck that contained a small glass bottle that was filled with teeth.

Suddenly, that pie didn't sound so appetizing. So she's speaking to our narrator and saying Lee, right? Yeah, so Lee is the person that's our protagonist right now. Yeah, and he's the one who lost his odds. Yeah, and he's the one he got, but he was in a time loop. I don't think I don't know how much of this is narratively that's true yeah why would I be all right stared at her I really knowing how to answer

haven't you heard about the visitor I shook my head slowly and then glanced over to see if anyone was on their way with my pie yet no offense to Mary Lou but she had a tendency of making people feel uncomfortable Mary Lou sighed again then reached out and placed her hand on my arm she wore a ring with a tooth on it on each of her fingers try not to gag be cautious with your eyes Lee I would hate for you to lose them again.

She said, staring at me intently with her huge green eyes. I watched as she walked away. A spot where her hand had rested on my arm felt noticeably colder than the rest of my body, and I rubbed my arm until the feeling went away. I finally got my pine and headed outside. I looked down the road and saw the collectors were back in their two lines, walking in that weird way that they had been earlier. I watched them for a few seconds.

Mary Lou turned around and we locked eyes. She brought both of her hands up to her face and covered her eyes before turning back around and continuing her walk. I turned around and started walking back home, thinking about how Mary Lou was quite possibly the most unsettling 11-year-old that I had ever met. On the walk home, I overheard a few different conversations about the collectors. The people of Point Pine were starting to become irritated with them, convinced that they were playing some sort of prank on everyone. When I got home, my mom was talking about them too. Can't you believe it? They told Sontra's kid that he needed to keep an eye on his arms because he might lose them.

I mean, who says it to an eight-year-old? Mary Lou told me to be cautious with my eyes. He said as I stepped in and set the pie down on the kitchen table. What? My dad snapped. I'm sure it's fine. They're just weird. They told Cody the parade was coming back to get him soon.

Cody had come back to Point Pine a few months ago. It survived the Point Pie Parade twice now. We've been staying with us for a while now, but spent him. most of his time locked in his room in the basement. Okay. So maybe the time loop is just broken. Time loop's broken at some point and Cody lived through the parade incident. Twice. Twice. Yeah.

She said something about a visitor. What? My dad asked. At the same time, my mom asked. Who? Mary Lou. She asked me if I heard about the visitor. What visitor? I don't know. She didn't give me a name. That's interesting because I thought by visitor she was talking about Cody.

I thought she was talking about the angel. Oh, just kidding me. Yeah. Just in us. God. We've really ruined it because I'm thinking of like the layout of town in my head. Right in front of all these decrepit weird buildings and then just an extremely bright, big fanburger. It's a crowd.

It's like the hotel. Yeah. I went up and dropped the pie on the counter. Mom says, do you see they're opening up another fan burger on Westchester Street? In my head. In my. Another one. in my head it's like built like Gatlinburg where it's a single like skinny strip in the mountains.

Oh sure. Yeah, yeah. And at the end of the street, you have the hospital that they're looking on. And then like two blocks down on the left, you have point oak or oak, the oakwood, whatever, the apartment building. And then straight beneath the hospital is the flaming red hamburger. The, uh, the fam burger internment camp. Yes. They forced They forced Cody into the

Fam Burger camp today When you said She's talking about the angel I just see the angel Looking at Famberger And seeing the truck Drive through the wind My parents

If a burger joint Shows up That's a bear trap If a burger joint I'm not even if a bear If a burger joint shows in the story I'm walking off said It could be like a

If it would be like a greasy spoon though, like a diner kind of place, you know? It wouldn't be fanburger, but we'll see. We'll see. I'm not, I don't know. We'll see. My parents spent the majority of the day questioning what Mary Lou and the rest of the collectors were talking about. That evening, we all got a flyer slipped under our front doors. I was sitting on the couch when it flew across the floor. I walked over and picked it up. It was a black piece of paper with the words, Beware the visitor, sprawled crudely at the top and white crayon. Below that, that in neat writing, also in one crayon, they read the following.

Redisans of Point Pine. Tomorrow at 7 a.m. we will have a visitor. We advise you not interact with him, which shouldn't be a problem since no one is allowed up until 8.13 a.m. But we use this time to wander around town and even your homes. If you hear him, simply pretend to be asleep. He is here to take from you. But as long as you don't interact, you'll be fine.

Be careful, the collectors. Then take long for people to freak out. Sure, we were all used to weird things happening in Point Pine, but how did the collectors know so much about this? Some people walked over the oaks to try and speak to the collectors, but apparently Eric wasn't letting anyone in. Not that I blamed him. After being stuck in that weird time loop with him, I understood his caution when it came to the people that he allowed inside his building. Eventually, people returned to their homes and went to bed. There was an odd feeling like something really bad was going to happen.

I tried my best to ignore it. I went to bed at my usual time, tossing and turning for a few minutes before finally falling asleep. I awoke when I heard the front door creak open. Turned over in bed and looked at the clock, 7.55 a.m. The heart sped up in my chest as I realized that the visitor was here. I could hear the footsteps coming up the stairs and I turned so my back was facing my bedroom door, shut my eyes, trying to even my breathing. As a visitor got closer, I noticed that he was humming a very familiar tune.

Took a few minutes before I realized that it was the same music that played whenever the Point Pine Parade started. The visitor never stepped into my bedroom, but I heard him wandering around the rest of the house for what felt like hours. Finally, I heard him walk back out the door. I breathed the sigh of relief as I slowly turned back around to look at the clock. 8.8 a.m. 5 minutes until we could be up. I laid there, staring at the ceiling, waiting for the town along the ring. Or it did, however, I heard a scream pierced through the morning silence. It sounded like it was coming from the house next door.

Frozen bed, not wanting to take a look and risk seeing something that I shouldn't. Mary Lou's voice kept echoing in my mind as I laid there, waiting for the town alarms to go off. Be cautious with your eyes, Lee. I would hate for you to lose them again. Finally, the town alarms went off and I climbed out of bed and made my way downstairs. The rest of my family, Cody, following me. I walked over to the living room window and pulled the curtains open a few inches to look outside. Most of the neighbors were now out there, crowding on the Humphrey's lawn.

My dad opened the front door and Cody and I followed after him, making our way through the crowd of people to try to see what was going on. We pushed through until we got to the front of the crowd and finally managed to see what the big deal was. On the front lawn was the entire Humphrey's family. All four of them, laying on their backs and facing up towards the sky, their eyes darting around the crowd of people above them. Their noses and mouths were completely gone. Everything below their nose had vanished and was simply replaced with smooth skin. No nose, no nostrils, no lips, just eyes and smooth skin all the way down their faces.

Above their heads was a copy of the flyer that I had gotten last night, stuck in the grass by a rusty butcher knife. Only this flyer was a bit of a blower. bit different. It was written on white paper in red font and it read, welcome the visitor at the top. The rest of the flyer said as follows. Residents of Point Pine. Tomorrow at 7 a.m. you will have a visitor. You have been chosen to interact with him. Congratulations. He will use this time to wander on town at even your homes. When you hear him, get up and say hello. It's an honor to be chosen. He is here to, he is here to see you and only you. Be happy. Be nice. I don't put up a fight.

It won't be worth it. The visitor. interesting. So maybe it isn't the angels, but at the same time I could see maybe it's like they get smooth faces and do their... Because what happened was the angel's face also was smooth and it just had the slits

that had the things. But it also makes it seem where it's like are the angels there to protect them from the visitor? I don't know. Yeah. Well, it's like the collectors were the ones who were like, Mary Lou seemed sad. She knew the visitor was coming. And then she kind of gave Lee a word of caution. Like, I wouldn't

when you lose your eyes, which seemed menacing, but was actually like a good piece of advice. And then everyone else got the note that's like, hey, do not interact. But then the target is like, why don't you get up? Say hi to it. Yeah. So one of them. Definitely more menacing. Does that mean the Humphreys like suffocate because they don't have noses or mouse? Or are they just like kept alive in the state? I can't tell. I can't tell if it's all up in the air. There's a lot of different ways you could read it. I mean, you could read it as like a purgatory thing of like, is it their existence, like being sucked out of the place or do they lose their identity there? Did they like lose

the shell that they inhabit in this body? Or is it a thing where they're just, yeah, stealing their identity or just torturing them? Yeah. Yeah. The next one's called The Things in the Giant Bear costumes won't stop handing out popcorn. Excellent. Kind of a turn. A little bit,

a little bit different from the last one. But you know what? That's what it's all about. I hate the carnival. The obnoxious music that's trying way too hard to sound happy. the hundreds of colorful blinding lights, the mix of popcorn, sweets, peanuts, and sticky, sweaty children. I hate all of it.

Of course, because I hate the carnival, it makes perfect sense that I live in Point Pine, where everyone else adores it so much that there's always a carnival in town. It's like the universe wants to torture me. I'm usually able to tolerate it. I just don't go. It's a perfect plan,

and so far, it's worked out exceptionally well for me. And then, they added the dancing bear, They look like normal brown teddy bears with black eyes and a red bow tie. Only these are about seven feet tall. I saw the first one in the middle of town while I was picking up groceries. It was standing outside the bakery, slowly swaying in place while that stupid carnival music played through some speakers that seemed to be located inside the costume. As I got closer to the giant dancing bear, I thought about kicking whoever had this fantastic idea right in the teeth. When I passed the bear, it held out a bunch of the bear.

it held out a bucket of popcorn towards me, seemingly manifesting out of thin air. It kept swaying as it held the bucket out towards me, staring at me with its stupid, beady eyes. Yeah, no thanks. I scoff, pushing it aside. Bear dropped the bucket, and the popcorn spilled all over the sidewalk. Dumbass. Mumbled as I kept walking. The next time I went into town, there were three bears.

All identical, all swaying, and all were playing the same stupid carnival music. I think the best part about this was that the music was not playing simultaneously, making the already lousy tunes sound even worse, which I didn't really know as possible until now. Every time a person passed by the bears, they would pull a bucket of popcorn out of nowhere and offer it to the bystanders. Every single idiot took it, of course, and I rolled my eyes as their stupid faces filled with joy. After about three days of this, the smell of popcorn was everywhere.

I swear, it was in my skin at that point. It was nauseating. One step outside and you were hit with the smell of popcorn. And it even started to seep into my home. All I could smell was popcorn. A single semi-tolerable thing was now also ruined, which only further forced my hatred. And still, the bears continued to multiply like bunnies.

There's now one on every street corner, even the neighborhoods. The stupid carnival of music could be heard everywhere in town. It was so irritating that I thought about jamming something in my ears for some relief. The next time I went out, popcorn filled the streets. It was everywhere. It looked like Olive Point Pine was a popcorn machine. A popcorn machine that incessantly played carnival music. I could tell that even the other people, who usually loved the carnival, were getting tired of it.

No one was taking the popcorn anymore, and they weren't even going outside now. I was sitting in my living room trying to watch a movie and tune out the music when a scream pierced through both of the sounds and startling. me. I ran to the window and looked outside where a woman was pointing down the street at one of the dancing bears and screaming. One by one, my neighbors started to come out of their homes to investigate the murderous screams, and I saw Andy Cobart take one look down the street and throw up all over his rose bushes. Seeing that piqued my interest, so I stepped out of my house, out into the popcorn fumes that set heavily over Point Pine. I walked out onto my popcorn-covered lawn, looked down the street. A giant dancing teddy bear was still there, but whoever it was under

the costume had removed the head and was holding it in their hands as they danced. Oh, and the person of the costume didn't have a head. All that came out at the top of the costume was a neck that appeared to have sewn together at the top where the head should be. I stared at the headless dancing person as they moved the giant teddy bear head around where they swayed on the street corner. They had been out there for so long now that the carnival music was no longer. happy and bubbly. Now it was distorted, creepy. We all stood outside our homes, staring at the headless dancer at the end of the street, not knowing what to do. When weird things happened in Point Pine, we're usually warned about them in advance, and on the off chance that we aren't warned,

someone or multiple someone's, die. A scream erupted from the next street, signaling that the dancing bear had removed its head. Andy's husband, Marwin, walked down the street towards the bear, his feet crunching down on all the popcorn. I watched as he went up to the bear, and a bucket of popcorn appeared in mid-air and fell onto Marwin's head. I stifled a laugh as he threw the bucket aside. Marwin reached over and took the bearhead away from the dancer, turning it over to examine it.

Shook it a few times, and I expected a head to fall out and roll onto the popcorn, but it appeared to be empty. Suddenly, the dancing bear reached out and grabbed Marwin's arm with one of its teddy bear arms. Marwin backed up, trying to get away, but wasn't able to. What the fuck, man?

He shouted as they tried to shake the teddy bear off. Andy ran down the street towards Marwin and attempted to pry the bear away from Marwin. Why is this thing so fucking strong? I mean, it's a bear! Welled in tears. I rolled my eyes and ran over, taken out of a small pocket knife

I carried in my pocket to cut off the teddy bear arm. The knife tore through the fabric, cutting off about six inches of the arm. Sliced right through. The arm was empty. What the... Arwin grabbed the now limp piece of fabric and looked inside of it. They don't even have arms?

He was right. Whoever was in the costume had a neck, no head, and apparently no arms. The entire arm that I'd cut was now limp and flapping around as the teddy bear swayed as if all the stuffing had been taken out. I walked up to the teddy bear again and sank my knife into the chest, dragging it down a few inches. And he gasped. He stepped back and waited, but nothing happened. I looked back in my neighbors who were fixated on the teddy bear. After a few minutes, the carnival music stopped and the bear froze in place.

I took a few steps back, and suddenly blood began pouring out of the gash in its chest, spilling down the front of the suit and onto the popcorn on the ground. After that, chunks of stuff began to tumble out of the same gash, falling onto the popcorn with a sick splattering sound. I looked closer at the things that were spilling out of the giant teddy bear and finally realized what it was. They were organs. Organs were falling out of the teddy bear.

Is that a liver? Yeah. And that's a heart. Yeah. Lovely. When all the inside stopped falling out of the teddy bear, it crumbled in on itself and sank to the floor, covering the popcorn like a rug.

Is it dead? Someone called from behind me. I don't fucking know. At least the music stopped. We all stood in silence in the middle of the popcorn-covered road and stared at the pile of blood and organ. Andy threw up on someone else's yard and then Marwin took him back into the house. Hey, look!

I looked up to see that the dancing bear on the street corner across from Mars had also fallen over. Everyone in that neighborhood simply stared at the empty bear costume. The music is stopping. I listened as the music that had been coming from the bears got quieter and quieter. It seemed that killing one of them would kill them all. I breathed a sigh of relief and immediately regretted it as my nose filled with the smell of blood and popcorn. I coughed and gagged but controlled myself before I started throwing up on people's property like Andy. I walked back down the street, and toward my house, just as I was about to step onto my porch, felt the ground begin to shake.

I held on to the stair railing and looked back just in time to hear a loud pop, see Felicity Green fall backward onto the popcorn in the street. There was a giant hole in the middle of her chest that was still slightly smoking. There was another pop nearby, and the house next door's living. room window exploded. When the fresh hell was that? Someone called as people ran over to Felicity's smoking dead body. It was a colonel. There's no way a colonel just ripped a hole in Felicity's chest.

Well, it was a really big colonel. Amidst the voices that were shouting at each other from across the street, there were another two pops. I stared to the ground intently and managed to see one colonel pop up into the air and land a few feet away making a crack in the sidewalk as the popcorn around the area burned up and started smoking now it smelled like burnt popcorn i walked back toward the street the closer i got the hotter the area felt the roads were heating up point pine was now an actual popcorn machine i backed up and headed towards my house as the popping started to increase sending flaming hot kernels everywhere i ran inside and

locked my door heading to my living room window and pulling the curtains back to the look outside. Everyone was now in their homes and all that was left in the street was burned popcorn and Felicity's body, which was still smoking and now appeared to be cooking from the heat that was coming from the road. I glanced down the street where the loose organs were now beginning to move closer to each other, forming a body as each organ took its place. New costume began to form around the organs, this time taking the shape of a circus clown instead of a teddy bear. It was wearing bright yellow clown shoes, a white and red striped outfit, and blue suspenders, and a rainbow wig. The clown's face was painted white with pink circles on the cheeks and a black diamond that

surrounded each eye. Carnival music started up again, and the clown jumped up and down the road, yelling, hot, hot, hot! Every time its feet landed on the hot street. After a few minutes, it caught me staring and waved at me as it's headed to 360. Skip towards my house, stopping in front of the sidewalk and I stared as a bucket of popcorn appeared out of nowhere and he held it out towards me. When I didn't move, the clown dropped the bucket on my lawn and then turned around and made his way across the street, jumping and clicking his heels together every step while he shouted, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, a loud, cheery voice. Do you want to give us a hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot impression? Hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot. There you go. He kept jumping and clicking its heels as he made his way towards Felicity.

HAD HAD, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, jump, click. Finally, reach Felicity's body and leaned down, tearing off her entire arm with ease, and then taking a huge bite from the middle of it, bone and all. He stared at me while he ate the arm, and the carnival music slowly grew louder and louder as all the other dead bears transformed into one. I hate the carnival. I'll be completely honest. What the fuck even was that entry?

So that entry was, there's like this anomalous thing that shows up that takes on, an appearance that people like. Everyone wants to eat popcorn, right? And then when the facade's up, when someone recognizes him is like not just nice bear costumes, it's like, all right, well, time to reset and just become something else.

Well, it feels like the cohesion of the story so far was kind of broke. Well, like, the first one with the parade, it felt like an entry like the parade where it was kind of like just a moment, you know, but we've had so many to where I was just like, it just kind of felt like a bit more random

in terms of the linear structure of what we've been reading. far. Unless the carnival is the thing that is popping up that people are like, are those the visitors kind of thing? No, I think it's each its own thing. I think it's just like the town's full of like

different supernatural creatures each with their own thing going on. This is just a thing that wanted people to eat a bunch of popcorn so that it could maybe seems like it infects them right? Because all the people who ate the popcorn would get killed. Like an infection or like

a way to gain trust for like them to continue. Maybe it had some eventual plan it was going to get to. But once someone kills the bear, it's like, all right, well, that plan's done. New plan, like going to become a clown or something. It's like it wants to appeal to humanity, but it doesn't understand that it's not doing it right.

It's like, oh, people like bear costumes and popcorn, we'll do that. And then it's like, oh, well, that didn't work. Okay, they're like clowns. We'll be clowns now. It's like they just are just mimicking without understanding how to make the mimicry work kind of thing. Yeah, yeah.

That's what I think. It could just as easily be like a puppy or like a cute kid or something like that. This next one was the supposed last one before the... Our secret entry. Before the entry that she never uploaded. So apparently this was the last entry to the Point Pine Place, which was due to recent violent events, pumpkins are no longer allowed to Point Pine.

But we luckily have one more after this. All right. So last public story in the Point Pine series. you ready. Yep. Due to recent violent events, pumpkins are no longer allowed in Point Pine. It all started when Cassandra Wolfheart killed a pumpkin sprout. I didn't know Cassandra personally, but I knew of her. She was friends with Tom's sister and Tom was friends with me. All that I know about Cassandra, I've learned against my will, passing comments from adults for other kids at school. That Wolfheart girl, that's a picky eater if I've ever seen one. One thing that everyone in town knew was that Cassandra hated pumpkins. She literally,

could not stay on the side of them. I once watched her start screaming at the top of her lungs when a barista at the Point Pine Cafe offered her a pumpkin spice latte. The girl was weird, and her hatred of pumpkins was the weird cherry on top of the weird Sunday that was Cassandra Wolfheart.

Tom said that any time Cassandra came over during the fall season, she would avoid looking into their backyard. Apparently, the first time she went over, she saw their pumpkin patch and went wide as a ghost before she passed out on their kitchen floor. She showed me a dent that she swears was made by her head

hitting the wooden floorboards, but Tom is kind of a liar sometimes, so I just go along with most of what he says. I knew about the other girls at school who liked to play pranks on Cassandra. One day they filled her locker with pumpkin guts, and when she opened it, she threw up in the middle of the hallway. I have to say that at first, I found Cassandra to be a little ridiculous,

but now I feel bad for her. So many people constantly terrorize her with her biggest fear. I think about what I would do. Someone was dangling me off a cliff as a joke. I realized that I'd probably react the same way that Cassandra has. Last week, I was at Tom's house while Cassandra was there hanging out with his sister Megan. Even from Tom's room, I could overhear Cassandra complaining about pumpkin spice season. I even heard her gag a few times after she said the word pumpkin.

Cassandra left before dinner that day. once she found out that Tom's mother was serving pumpkin bread for dessert. Boy, that girl sure hates pumpkins. You put your soul into that one. That was powerful. Boy,

that girl sure hates pumpkins. A lot of passion of that. Tom's dad chuckled that she went out the front door. Why did Tom become my new favorite character? No, his dad. Yeah, right? Or Tom's dad, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Tom's dad, yeah. Tom's dad would stop Famberger. Yeah. He's that kind of guy. I have a gun in a dream. Tom's dad, you rule. I have to make it to heaven.

Blood for the blood, God. Pendence must be made. A few days after that, because Andrew's brothers managed to carry heard of Tom's pumpkin patch in her sleep when she woke up surrounded by pumpkins she screamed so loud that she woke up everyone in the neighborhood. So when's

so you can't be awake before 813 but when do you have to be in bed by? It's like if she wakes up at 2 a.m. into pumpkin patch is she dunzo? That just sucks for her. I would you assume. I don't know. They haven't really established

that. Hey, we prank Cassandra by killing her in the pumpkin patch. Yeah. We can't. You know, we've had it. Epic prank. We fed her to the blood God. Exactly. Tom's dad shot her with his pellet gun. It had to be done.

It had to happen. They all rushed out to find her slamming her fist over the pumpkins, punching holes into a few of them. She had apparently broken off a few nails doing this and severely cut up and bruised her hands in the process. They had to call the police and the paramedics to tear her away from the pumpkin patch and then sedate her so they could transport her to the hospital.

since her brothers had filmed it they were in some big trouble with the cops and their parents May she said she tried to get May said she tried to go visit Cassandra but she wouldn't even talk to her she kept crying and saying the pumpkins were going

she kept crying and saying that the pumpkins were going to want revenge well I'm sad as we did our history homework revenge for what for what she did to them duh she basically murdered a bunch of pumpkins Haley I saw what it looked like afterward she literally destroyed

a whole pumpkin patch. I looked up at Tom who was highlighted in a textbook. Yeah, but they're pumpkins. Like, they don't care. She doesn't think that. Mumbled with a highlighter cap in his mouth. I didn't hear much about Cassandra for the rest of the day. But the following morning, when Tom's parents went outside to clean up the mess,

they found that all the pumpkin debris was already gone. You mean someone just cleaned it up? I asked Tom over the phone. I guess. What else could have happened? I didn't say anything because honestly, I don't know. Maybe someone just felt bad and had decided to help Tom's family out by cleaning up Cassandra's mess. It wasn't likely that she would clean up after herself, at least not without having some sort of breakdown.

Following morning at 4 a.m., someone called the police claiming that there was a girl in a hospital gown, wailing and running barefoot down the street. It was Cassandra, and when they caught up to her, she said she was running from the pumpkin monster. He had made it all the way to our neighborhood. I'm about to read the line. She was running from the hospital. And I just pictured her running by Famberger, which is on the front left corner of the hospital.

Like there's a literal pumpkin monster behind her. The three guys are out front just like arms crossed watching her. On the patio. On the patio. Smoking weed. Yes. What you do on the patio? Hey,

don't let it rip. Shut the door. Don't let it draft in. They have the Truro Disney fans outside. They roll tobacco cigarettes. It was Cassandra. She had made it all the way to our neighborhood from the hospital and collapsed on her front lawn. I watched through my bedroom windows.

The police talked to Cassandra and her parents for a few minutes. Something caught my eye off to the left, and I looked over to see Tom waving me down. I ran downstairs and out the front door to meet him. What's going on? She says there's a pumpkin monster out to get her. Tom grinned. Maybe all the teasing caught up to her and she finally broke. I looked over at the rest of the neighbors

who had been drawn outside onto the street by the cops and the crazy girl in a hospital gown. Or maybe not. Tom trailed off. Glanced back at him and saw he was pointing towards one of the running paths that came out of the woods and between two of the houses on the street. There was movement in the trees and a flash of orange before something came out of the wood.

woods. What the fuck was that? Oh my god, it's here. The pumpkin monster's here. Please, you have to help me. I don't want to die. Xandra wailed as she saw it. For once, Cassandra wasn't crazy. The thing that had come out of the woods was, in fact, a pumpkin monster. It was about something feet tall and made out of broken pumpkins from Tom's pumpkin patch. Pumpkin pieces were crudely molded together to form feet, legs, torso, arms, hands, a neck, and finally, a head. It had pumpkin cuts, straped all. over it, hanging off its body and leaving a trail of them all over the ground. It stopped in the middle of the street and people began to go back into their homes. It seemed

to look around for a while, moving its lopsided, half-smashed pumpkin head from side to side, even though it had no eyes or any other facial features. After a few seconds, it headed straight towards Cassandra, who screamed so loud I thought my eardrums were going to burst. It began to awkwardly make its way towards her home, taking wide steps. and fumbling as it tried to speed up. Oh, hell no. Is that a Russian accent? Was it Russian?

No. That's what it says. Oh, hell no. I'm talking about your intonation on the character. Your assumption. Oh, is he Russian? Oh, hell no. No, no.

I'm trying to attack you directly, Hunter. Oh, hell no. All right. Is that Russian? It shook the ground with each step. Is that better? I held on to a nearby fence for balance. The police pulled out their guns and shot at it a few times,

but it continued to walk, unfazed. Cassandra darted between two of the officers and headed towards Tom and me. What is she doing? Why is she running this way? Pumpkin Monster pivoted and began making its way towards us as well. Xandra ran past us, looking back towards the monster for a second. She continued to run down the street,

and Tom and I moved out of the monster's way as it chased after her. After a few seconds, Tom took off after it as well. Where are you going? Don't you want to see what happens? I hesitated for a second before I followed. Hey, come back here. An officer called after us.

I do think it's kind of like so much stuff happens in the town. Clearly this is like, you know, goosebumps, fun, pumpkin monster thing. But it's, uh, it's funny how so much death and weird stuff happens in town that their friend is like, yeah, pumpkin deity's going to get her. Don't you want to watch? Don't you want to see? get like eviscerated by a pumpkin person.

Yeah, it feels like this is like Carly Beth from goosebumps mixed in with a sandlot, the guy running at the end away from the dog. Yeah. It's giving me that vibe. Yeah. So now all I'm mixed hearing is wipeout playing, oh, wipeout. You know, whatever that deal.

Isn't that what they play during the at the end of when he's running? It's like, doodoo da, oh yeah, I thought you were talking about the TV show Wipeout. That's what, yeah, you're the song. Yes, in the 19. In the 1992 film, they're watching clips of wipeout. Boing, boing, boing.

Yeah, I got it. The rush it the end. The hell, though. Fuck! That big stretch. God, damn. We made it to the end of the street just in time to see Cassandra a trip and roll down the small hill. He stopped and listened to her screams, and she kept rolling down the hill. No fucking way.

Tom whispered. We kept watching as Cassandra rolled straight into another pumpkin path. her head making contact with the biggest pumpkin and slamming right through it with a dull thud my god she's dead the pumpkin monster tripped down the field falling over Cassandra's lifeless body and falling apart all over her in the pumpkin patch cops finally caught up and raced down the hill to check on Cassandra but I was right she had died not even an hour later there's a town-wide announcement no more pumpkins in point pine ever Tom and I watched from the top of the hill as people carried the pumpkins away to burn them at the edges of town. Someone had already taken Cassandra's body away but left the pumpkin that her head is smashed through. For days, all that anyone talked about was Cassandra's freak accident. That night, Cassandra was seen again.

Multiple people reported seeing her walking around town, sobbing and asking for help. I was one of them. I heard her cries in the middle of the night, looked out my bedroom window to see her standing in the middle of the road, right outside her house. She was dirty and bruised, covered in pumpkin guts, dried up blood. She cried loudly, gasping for breath while she screamed. Someone help me, please! Please, I hate pumpkins.

I continued to watch as no one, not even her parents, turned on their lights or even looked outside. Sandra fell to her knees in the middle of the road, continuing to cry before finally falling face first, her forehead pressed to the road. Please. I hate them. She continued to cry for a few minutes, and I backed away from the window, got back into bed. After a few minutes, she started to scream.

She's done this every single night since she died. She screams about how we should have listened to her. Getting rid of the pumpkins now won't stop anything. She claims that they'll come back and that we're all going to die. I guess one thing that kind of sucks about Point Pine is that the dead never really leave. That's a fun entry. I like it.

The girl who's afraid of pumpkin, gets tortured with pumpkins and then a pumpkin monster gets her again very goosebumps. Yeah. What? What is it? Yeah.

Did you not like it? You were rubbing? No, it's, it is fun. It is very goosebumps. I just, I wish that they all had that cane. Like,

if that's supposed to be, so the next thing that we're reading is a secret entry. That was the last one, right? Publicly, yeah. In the point of injury. I kind of wish that they were all, I just wish there was a bit more cohesion between all them.

Like, I liked, I like the last three or the last two were like the first one where it's like, there's a parade. I like the idea of this town being a place where it's like, all this weird shit happens. No one's going to be faced by a pumpkin monster. Yeah. But people are still tortured and they're, you know,

it's like still a horror story for whoever's being affected, you know? But the stuff that's like all cohesive throughout the middle of section of it feels like that was just kind of thrown. Which I don't know. Maybe there's something added here. I mean, each one was kind of like its own. each entry was its own no did you not feel like it was building towards something

other than something bad's going to happen but I think that the entire everything with point pines building towards something bad's going to happen like that's a I don't think it was building towards anything it was just vignettes because each story was from a different perspective of a different thing happening like the only thing that happened twice was the parade but the second time wasn't even really

about the parade as much as it was like how much the town hates outsiders I think the way that the characters were interwoven made it seem like there was something that was coming in. I could see that. I didn't really get that. To me, it was more so just like, yeah, here's a guy from this other story doing another thing. And if anything, that was reinforcing to me, like, yeah, no matter what these guys go through, it is just one of many. Yeah, and I guess if that's the case, if that's what we're saying, then I wish it was just somebody entirely new.

You know? Because bringing it back to people that we've known that's like, oh, well, this guy's come back. He's been gone. He came back. and people are like, ooh, weirded out by it. That's fine. But it's like, I just kind of wish they were all just random vignettes of just different people in this area.

I can understand that. Yeah, this next one. The last one here is a entry that has never been published. We get to read it here. The history of Point Pine, a prayer to the wrong God. For the final entry of the Point Pine series, again, you can check out the other episode in the link in the description on the master list.

But this is the one that was sent directly to us by Gabby, which thank you very much, Gabby. Thank you, Gabby. The history of Point Pine, a prayer. to the wrong god. In the middle of the dark and cold forest, began to think this was my end. I was going to die here in the middle of nowhere, and I would have the dumbest obituary in the whole town. Wilmer Moore, age 22, loving brother and son, got lost in the woods while getting high and froze to death in the middle of the night, like an idiot. Cold air had pretty much killed my buzz at this point, and the fear began to creep in.

I fought hard to stop it, because I wasn't completely alert, and the cold. the last thing I needed was to get paranoid. I hyper-focused on my steps, putting one foot in front of the other. I decided a few minutes back that I was going to pick a direction and head that way in a straight line. I figured that was my best shot, and I would eventually either hit the road that led into town, or I'd fall off a cliff. At this point, I'd welcome either one of those options. I couldn't see the moon, and I remember thinking it was because of the weed at first,

but as I scanned the night sky, I realized it was absent. It's funny. It's like, there's no moon. Oh, no, it is gone. Got it. The moon is in fact gone.

It seems like the point behind place. I mean, if it is like a purgatory, but it does feel like it's just existing in nothing. Yeah. Like, it's definitely not in our world. Well,

that's kind of the thought I got by the darkness that was around the oak that one day before it disappeared. Yeah. Yeah, it feels like it's in space floating somewhere. Maybe tonight's a new moon, I thought.

it was easy to hold on to that explanation given the fact that I had no idea when the cycles of the moon happened then I began to fear that I had died and this darkness as well as the fear that came with it was my personal hell somehow I don't know how long I walked before I saw it small dim light off in the distance my first thought was that I was seeing the light that remained on

Point Pine Bakery but it was different and I still wasn't seeing any of the other buildings in town so it couldn't have been that As I continued heading towards it, it was in the path, the direction I had chosen, I soon realized that it was a porch light, and I'd walked right up to a small cabin that was hidden amongst the trees. I had seen things that were a lot weirder than this before, so I walked up and knocked on the door. When it opened, I recognized the occupant. It was Robert Ford, the oldest child.

A lot of people thought he was a myth, another creepy story that was made up by someone years ago and easily believed, because it paled in comparison to some of the other things that took place in Point Pine. Robert was said to have been a child since 1598. He's seen in some older photographs that can be found in the archives of the library, detailing some of the town's history. Of course, the photographs only go back so far, but it's widely believed that he was a child long before those images were taken. As I stared at Robert, I realized that before this,

I had not believed in his existence. I had seen the images. we all had, as they were part of our curriculum in school, but I didn't believe that he was real, until I was face-to-face with him there, the dark and cold forest. Yes? Yes, after waiting for me to speak.

I'm lost. Step aside and let me in. The inside of the cabin was what you'd expect. Small kitchen, couch, radio, and a bed. There was room off to the back, which I assume was some sort of bathroom. I sat on the couch. Did you come from town?

Robert asked. He didn't sit. I nodded. I'm also high. Of course. He stared at him and he stared at me. Would you like some water? I nodded and he walked over to his kitchen.

He was a boy. He looked to be around 11 or so, but I was never really good with kids for guessing their ages. How old are you? The question slipped out of my mouth as soon as I thought it. That depends on the answer that you're looking for. Robert replied as he handed me a cup of water.

I took a sip. It was room temperature, but it felt rude to complain. Have you always been a child? Have you always been your age? Shook my head, no. Neither have I. When did you stop aging? When I was 12. I was close. Off by one year.

Is it weird being a, like, a child your whole life? Well, I'm not really a child. I just look like one. That's problematic. I suppose our problems are different then. Drink the rest of the water. How come you never come into town? Some people think you don't exist. To think all these images of you are photoshopped.

I exist for a reason other than being a citizen of Point Pine. What reason? Herbert sat down on the floor in front of me, first across applesauce. Do they still teach the history of Point Pine in school? Yeah. They tell us about the settlers you came here and like how secluded it was. They set up a town far enough away from everyone else. they were never bothered, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Then the bad stuff started happening. Ah, so they changed the story again. Again? Yes. The last time someone came around here, they told me a different version. It seems like the version you were taught differs even from the original. Wait, so what's the original? Are you sure you want to know?

Why wouldn't I? You can unlearn things. and sometimes certain kinds of knowledge can be a burden or a curse ignorance is bliss as they say I will say

so far this is probably my one of my favorite setups I really love the idea of like there's like this immortal child because everything's so weird in town but it's like the Oracle who's seen everything who like remembers the old history that keeps getting buried and stuff like that

I think that's a fun setup in another situation I would have been deeply unsettled by Robert's demeanor I want to know I nodded leaning in towards him Okay then But please remember that you asked me for this He

I nodded again And he began European settlers ended up in Point Pine Years ago But not because they liked the isolation They got lost on the way To their actual destination James Town Virginia

I was very very Very young then So the details of this are A bit murky But some of these settlers believed they had arrived in Virginia, and some swore that they had seen sign leading them to the destination. Once they were here, however, in Point Pine, they realized that they were wrong. They weren't in Virginia at all. They decided to stop here and rest, but that ended up being the worst decision they

could have possibly made. By the time morning came, the road they had followed into the area was gone. It had disappeared, and the sign that they swore was leading them to Jane's town had changed, and now said something else. Welcome to Point Pine, population unknown. A few people tried to leave the town. They tried walking through the forest, but they got lost and not all of them made it back. Outside, the winds picked up a bit,

and I could hear the sound of the trees wrestling in the night. Very quickly, the settlers realized that there was something very wrong with the land. There was a reason why this place was so isolated, why even the natives have left it alone, with remnants of dilapidated buildings and homes scattered across the land. Once they realized they couldn't safely leave, they had no choice but to stay and build. They needed to find water and food, and so they searched and they found something.

Not to something they were looking for, but something to help them. Robert paused. He dragged his fingers across the floor of the cabin slowly. What did they find? They thought it was God. They prayed and brought offerings. They prayed for food and a herd of sheep came wandering out of the forest. They prayed for water and it began to spray from the earth.

So they kept praying and they kept bringing it offerings, mainly food and crops once they had those. Soon though, people started to get sick. More specifically, the children. Stopped. Look at me in the eye. They prayed for the children. Some prayed harder than others. Offered more than others.

made deeper promises. They thought this thing was God. So when their children was saved, when their child woke up the next morning, completely fine, they had no reason to think that something sinister was coming, or they had brought it upon themselves. So it wasn't God?

It was a God. Just not the God they wanted. Which God was it then? Robert Shucka said, Other things. Other gods. One more in return. Other God.

God's are not always good or just. Sometimes or just. Sometimes they're not gods at all, but always know how to convince you that they are. They erred him. Wanted him to explain, but I knew he wouldn't. Soon, things began to happen. People would die and they wouldn't be dead.

People would hear things and see things. It didn't take long for people to make the connection to realize that what they had been praying to was not God they intended to praise, but it was far too long. late and other people didn't care. Other people had different ideas. They didn't fear this thing. Instead, they saw it as a resource, as a way to get things they wanted, things they couldn't get any other way. Like what? What kinds of things? After I almost died, my mother

became paranoid. She was afraid that I would be taken away from her any minute, and when she found out that she wasn't able to have any more children, the fear intensified. It consumed her! became a believer in this god, a devout follower, willing to do whatever it took in order to keep her children safe and alive. I'm eating this up. This is what I wanted out of this. I had been alive for about 16 years before my father realized what she had done. And even then, he did not know the full scope of it. Even now, the deal she made is not entirely clear to me. All I know was that my father, with the limited details he had had, the assumptions he had made, became enraged. And one night he confronted her.

They fought for what felt like ours, but it was so long that I couldn't really tell you. I don't know if my mother eventually confessed the magnitude of her crimes to him, or if the anger was too much for him to control. But that night, before the sun rose, my mother was dead. The next day the parade started, he was never seen. stating you you know how it works you you know how you have to hide and and then you know where to hide but they didn't know anything they didn't know they couldn't look they didn't know it needed to sacrifice did you see it i asked throat was dry again but i didn't want robert to stop telling me the story i've seen it yes he took hours to clean up the dead bodies after the parade came through that's what it did to the first time he killed everyone in its path

He lit a fire inside them. Oh, and they cooked from the inside out. The smell of cooked flesh lingered in the air for weeks after that, as a reminder. The next time that music started, we ran. There were less casualties that time. What happened the second time? Yeah, thinking about Lee and his eyes. I reclared his throat and looked around the cabin.

Towards the window on the far left wall. He didn't answer. Why don't they teach us this? Why do they change the story? As picking up on the idea that he didn't want to tell me what happened the second time. Like I said, ignorance is bliss. He said in silence for a while. I thought he would continue.

Tell me more details, but he didn't. I mentally kicked myself figuring that I had ruined my chances of learning more with my questions. I stopped myself from asking anything else as I sat there thinking about what he had just revealed to me. You'll have to leave soon. He said, breaking the silence. What? I apologize. I don't mean to be rude, but you'll have to go.

Stood up and held the empty cup back out to him. Can I have some water? He took it and walked back to his kitchen. So how do I get back? He handed me the cup and I drank it all in large rush gulps. Took the cup for me and opened the door, motioning for me to step outside. Can you point me in the direction of town? I got lost earlier when I was smoking in the woods.

Robert shook his head It won't matter You'll never make it back Rose in the doorway What do you mean There are some things that you can't know Like I said before This is some knowledge that is cursed

Where you learned here tonight Wouldn't do anyone to point pie It any good Why do you think I'm out here Why do you think they stop Let me go back into town Why do you think they change the story Every few years

So what am I supposed to do I can't live out in the woods I'll starve for a full freeze to death. Robert shrugged. I tried to warn you. That was barely even a warning. I want to go home.

I realized I was shouting. My exasperation echoing in the night. You can't. And you need to get out of my house. Stepped out into the forest. Sun was rising, but that didn't seem right. I'd have been inside Robert's cabin for that long. Good luck, Wilmer.

Turned around as Robert was closing his door. Cody made it back. He paused. How long ago? A few months. My palms were beginning to sweat as the paranoia began to creep in. Glanced towards the west. He was remembering something.

Then you're going to be very glad that you're out of that town. Ah, interesting. With that, he shut the door and the singing began. I fell to the floor and wrapped my hands over my head, shielding my eyes from what was to come. It never came. Horace continued, like usual, only loud. like the melody was coming from the ground, trees and leaves, like it was coming from inside of me,

but the parade never came. After a few minutes, the music stopped, and I peaked. Seeing nothing, I stood back up and noticed that Robert's cabin was gone. I looked around, thinking I'd somehow gotten lost, though I knew that was impossible as I hadn't moved a single inch. Even though there was more light now, the woods felt quieter and more dangerous than before. I felt lonely. or somehow too, emptier than they had felt when I first gotten lost, before I even found Robert. I thought about what he said, about how I would never go back. His voice repeated in my head as I tried to calm myself down. Finally, I looked toward the direction Robert had looked before he shut the door in my face and began walking again.

Open to eventually hit town as I prayed to whatever God was listening, that would make it back home. That's the end. She should upload that one. That one was really good. But hey, Gabby, what the fuck is going on with Cody? Well, Cody's like a harbinger of something. He either is the same. What happened, though?

I want, to what? We never figure out what it is. Well, clearly this isn't the end of the series. Yeah, I'm curious. Yeah. When is the last time that she wrote? Well, it was six years ago without master list posts, but she said, I'll update the list as I keep going,

and maybe they start working on other projects. Because there are comments from like two months ago saying, why did you never like continue. Gabby, don't pull a George Aramarton on us. Please don't. I need to know. Gabby, so she wrote a lot of no sleep.

It looks like maybe the point pines, like the sequels weren't getting a ton of attention. She went back to standalones and they were getting more attention. So I totally get that as a creator being like, this isn't working. I'll go somewhere else. Even if you don't, well, even if you don't finish it, send me a DM. Send me an email. Yeah, so after.

Give me an update on. Well, what's funny is, so she went back to posting like standalone stories and she has been making bank because like she did the woman in my family give birth differently. 4.1,000 up votes. She's making bank. She did. Well, bank. Reddit likes. Bank is then I mean like, uh, US Bank. Could you cash this check for me, please? Okay. Yeah. I didn't mean that. What is the conversion to the USDA to Carma gold? I didn't mean that in the Reddit sense. I have to save my save a little bit of my.

credibility here. I didn't mean that in the Red Since. I met that and that people kept cliquing She's been doing very good. Yes, she said she did this is four years ago. My sisters and I've been locked in an addict for 24 hours 2.8,000. Like she has she has an extremely dedicated fan. And let's also keep in mind the most upvoted story on no sleep. 100%. I'm not I'm not. I'm just I'm upset because I want to know. I'm saying, I'm saying, I'm saying, I'm saying that should me an email. I'm saying I understand why if people aren't reading your sequels to point pine, you move on. I'm just me. I'm saying I'm saying I'm saying I understand why if people aren't reading your sequels to point pine, you move on. You move on. I'm to sandalodes. I get that. But hopefully, with this video... I think you can do both. I think you can do both, too, but I hope that this gets interest in Point Pine,

that she continues it. And she should Gabby, you should absolutely post that last entry. I think that might be my favorite entry. I like that one a lot. That was fun. I do think the Pline series works best, in my opinion, as I like the connection between all the characters. Like, it can be new characters,

but they're interwoven. I was having fun when it was intertwining in that way. I think, I think, if she has an eventual goal because they talk about once you leave point pine you can never come back yeah somehow Cody comes back right after his dad dies we don't get any explanation on that yet so i think cody is a sort of like a prophet almost or a harbinger come back to the town uh so i think there's more that can be done there so i think it makes sense to have some stories that mentioned Cody if he's going to be so big in later entries uh but then that in line with the kid where he's like you're going to be thankful you're not

in that town then and yeah you also have line from the angel that something bad's coming I mean. Yeah, that's what I mean is there's a lot of unanswered questions right now. Don't pull George R. Martin, please let us give a little something. I will say, too, though, that the three main characters that we had that was Lee, Cody, and Reed. The, uh, I like that it could be anybody in the town, but it's just a small connection between them. It just, it adds a level of cohesion. That's why I was just like with the Bayer one. It is what it is, the carnival and all that kind of stuff and the pumpkin one. that's fine.

But I do think like that lack of that kind of intertwining was it took me out because I was getting so invested into that. Even even the one, Lee is barely in the apartment one. He motherfucker just keeps flying out into the goddamn loophole time. But even that was a fun like a little, oh. I'll just give you a little more.

Yeah. No, it's a lot of fun. Gabby, call me. Yeah, well, I don't know about that. Give me a call. I really. I really.

Just give me a call. One call. Hey, this is what happened. Oh, okay, cool. I really like. I love the last one. I love the direction that it is that he was a kid when the first Suddlers got there

and they keep changing the story because people can't know it. And they prayed to a God and like his mother was a first convert. And you can see how somehow his mother prayed really hard that he wouldn't die and it looks like she got her wish because he's still alive even now. Yeah, I imagine that Cody probably intertwined

with that boy out there in the woods somewhere. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, there's a lot of fun stuff there. And then I love at the end when the stoner's like trying to find. He's like, so I prayed. to whatever God would listen. It's like we hear about the mistakes that led to this in the first place where, you know, they're so desperate to get back to civilization or they're so desperate to survive that everyone

prayed to this being that was good enough of a God for a time. And then the story ends with the stone are doing the same thing. It's like, well, it may not be for the best, but I'm scared right now. So I'm going to commit to this. It has a nice cheese campness to the story that I think is good. That once again, it harkens back to tales from the gas station and tales from a lonely broadcast station that I think people really resonate with. I think also once again, I think having characters that are that keep popping up

makes it more to where I think you get, you become more attached to those characters and stuff. But I will say the point pine, the point pine town itself is just a fun backdrop that I think it'd be cool to keep exploring. I still think you can once again do standalone stories and still just dip into that. Selfishly mean, I would love to see way more point pine stuff. Like I said, at the master list, there's another point pine entry for you all to read if you're interested. And also, please support, you know, Gabby

and all that stuff. She certainly deserves it. Gabby, please post this and please keep writing this series. How about, let's say that. I'm literally, I'm going to email you my phone number. Let's say that. And I expect a call. Let's say this. Gabby, if you finish the Point Pine series or something like that, we'll cover it. We'll do a return to Point Pine.

God, lucky you. Hey, Gabby, aren't you just the luckiest little duck, huh? I'm saying because I'm excited and I want to read more of it. Hey, no. We'll cover it. Okay. Why not?

This one on us. You know what? We'll do that for you. You know what? You put it all the work and we'll read it. You know what, Gabby? Truffle fries for free. Yeah, you know what?

Truffle fries. Harry Potter Marathon on the back. You know what, Gabby? B. Y O.L. Shakespeare on us. Yeah, yeah. Be y'allel shakes are on us. Yeah. Guys, thank you so much.

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