CreepCast - The Thing in the Basement is Getting Better At Mimicking People | Creep Cast

Episode Date: April 6, 2024

 In this episode, Creep Cast tackles the story of a boy who believes his sister died while fighting a monstrous mimic within the basement of her house. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome back to another enthralling episode of Creepcast. Today, we're going to be talking about the thing in the basement is getting better at mimicking people. And before we get into this, I just wanted to say, be sure and check us out on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, all those other places. It helps us out a ton. And also, I like to think that I'm not the best lookers, so I think I'm better to listen to, if I'm being honest. Right? Little deal? No, I see all the people dreamboating over you, dude, but I don't get that kind of enough.

Now, I've seen some people Dreamboat over you. I don't know what you're talking about. Oh, whatever, dude. I sent you the fan of it that was talking about a certain kind of choo-choo train, if you know what I mean, that involves both of us. Okay, dude, all right. This is a four-part series here that was eight guys. Just bring us past it. Okay.

Completely zoom past it. Okay, go ahead. It's a four-part series here. I, once again, as is tradition on the show, I have no idea about this story. But this is one that people have, I've seen, requested quite a bit. And I'm pretty stoked. The title is so intriguing. I like it.

Yeah, so this is one of those occasions. I think I may have to go back and look. But I had at least heard about everything that we've covered so far before the podcast, right? Maybe not read it, but I heard about it. This is the first one that the first time I ever heard about it was in comments for Creepcast. People were like, you should check this story out. So I'm completely blind I'm as blind as you are on this one

So I'm excited to see how it goes And if it's awful it's your fault Keep like audience It's your fault audience Well okay I was gonna say I thought I had to take the weight there No not you I'll put it on the audience as well

This is written by That Exo guy User that XO guy Oh it was two years ago I wonder if that's kind of why It was past Jiz Because I feel like a lot of the stuff that you know I feel like a lot of the stuff that you know

is like it was a little bit like maybe five to seven years ago is where you're most um you know what I mean it's stuff I had late high school like college that's like my area of expertise but yeah when like that's why this is off my radar but if it that's not to say you know bad story I mean good stories can't come out since then not to say bad stories can't come out since then not to say good stuff can't come out since then so I'll I'll see what you kids are up to what you zoomers have got in store I'm stoked I mean I'm ready to get into it so I mean I guess without further ado let's read

the thing in the basement is getting better at mimicking people let's go for it same as always you you got quotes and I got the I got the diet the other stuff that is right and I want to say that you know we don't have to be a rocket scientist

and know that there's going to be a lot of mimicking here so if one if character sounds similar I don't know what I'm just to tell you all right I'll have a slight deviation but it's probably going to be a little bit of rough pumpkins throughout this deal, all right? That's all I got to say. If it becomes like an issue, I could take one maybe like I did left-right game, but until then

I'm happy to see you like flail and suffer until we get to that. Yeah, well, that's fine. As long, you know, the cap apparently so far is, I think left-right game was what, seven characters? So I got six in the bag. As long as long as we can sit in six, I think we'll be all right. Yeah, as long as people start dying, you're good to go, right? We're perfect. We're gravy.

All right, cool, cool. Let's get into it. Let's do it. Part one. I never had a close relationship with Sarah, my older half-sister. She was born out of my dad's earlier marriage, so by the time I came into the picture, she was already a teenager. We didn't argue or fight. We simply never spent time together. I was starting kindergarten when she moved out, and she wasn't thrilled about having a younger brother.

I barely saw her as I got older, meeting only occasionally during holiday get-togethers, or in the once-in-a-blue-moon visits. but we were on good terms so when the cops called us a few days ago to let us know they found her body I was devastated some neighbors apparently called 9-1-1 when they heard screams and saw smoke coming out of the house

after the firefighters put out of fire in the basement they found some charred remains that they assumed were hers okay first of all out of the gate this story's just like full throttle like I mean that was like good God yes second paragraph we've got a charred body like whoa okay you know what's kind of interesting it's it kind of reminds me of

midsummer a bit whenever the girl uh unalives herself with her family in the house as well and now we're kind of having this uh this estranged relative as the sister in midsummer as well um who's kind of picking up the pieces after the fact so i i like that the similarity is fun but this is uh yeah i mean paragraph too my god we're just already in it just slap right to the face out of the gate all right let's go with it they couldn't identify her given the body's state but all of the evidence pointed towards an accident she didn't have a husband or kids so the duty of burying her fell on us the funeral was what you'd expect under such circumstances lots of crying and mourning around a closed casket but the deed was done i was left an only child and a few days later we took to scouring her house and doing an inventory of her belongings.

It was an all-around unpleasant experience on many levels. It felt so wrong to go through her things like that. But with her only living relatives being my father and I, we inherited her house and possessions. We decided we didn't want them, so we'd sell almost everything. The plan was to only keep some of Sarah's stuff as mementos, things like pictures and whatnot. I went along with dad to help

and we went room by room cataloging items one by one given the small size of the house it went pretty fast but we started late into the day and so we wouldn't be able to finish by nightfall one of the detectives wants to drop by later

says he says he has some oh my god let me restart that sorry one of the do okay first line Nari did great one of the detectives wants to drop by later says he has some more investigating to do God, I know, I'm sorry I'm not like

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, that was the worst No, what's funny was your recovery of it because you're like God, stupid, stupid, idiot! Idiot! You know what, so this is the dad. You know what, fuck it, I'm giving him a back. What of the detectives

wants to drop by later? Says he has some more investigating to do. That's what you. get. That's what you viewers get for making me feel so bad about messing up that first line. My first thing. No,

Hunter, you are, this hell you're in was constructed by you. No, no, no. That's forever the dad's voice. I don't care. What it does is the story? That is the dad's voice moving forward. What if it becomes like a very dramatic, like,

serious care? Well, then it's going to get very awkward very quickly. What do the detectives wants to drop by later says he has some more investigating to do all i'm doing okay the audience isn't here right now they're doing this is a recording all that i did was laugh at your recovery you talked yourself into meaming the dad i'm in my own health okay i'm in my own health all right as long as we acknowledge who did it yeah so i did it i did it okay so bugman dad says that my dad said as we were getting ready to leave.

He asked for so to stay here to date, but work would allow me. Could you do it, champ? Uh, sure. I mumbled. Not in the least thrilled about the prospect. Dad packed a small box of trinkets in his truck, and off he went home. The only room we hadn't gone into was the basement, and I wasn't about to do it by myself. The wooden door leading into it was wide open, charred by the fire and black with soot.

The basement itself was in similar condition, ravaged by the fire and by the firemen's attempts to put it out. It unnerved me to no end, so I dragged a chair out on the porch and spent the evening there. I smoked half a pack of cigarettes and drank some old beer left behind in the fridge, all while the neighbors regarded me with curiosity. A few of them even approached me, giving me their condolences when they found out I was Sarah's younger brother. The detective finally arrived at sundown, pulling onto the street in an old beater car. He looked like your average guy when he stepped out, dressed in a cheap suit and a loose coat hanging on his shoulders. Hello, I'm Detective Marcus.

He introduced himself. Clancy. Nice to meet you, detective. Likewise. I'd offer you a beer, but I'm assuming you can't drink on duty. Might as well. Marcus said with the shrug of his shoulders. I'm off the clock. and I'll be here all night.

That took me by surprise, but who's I'd argue with the man? I fetched him a chair and a beer, so he sat down and lit up a cigarette as well. We had some admittedly awkward small talk, but the subject quickly moved to Sarah and her death. Marcus asked the usual questions. Was she depressed? Did she go out, or was she a shut-in? Did she have any friends or romantic partners he could question? All perfectly reasonable questions made to dig up new leads, but I was the wrong person to try and answer them.

I wasn't particularly close to Sarah, so I didn't know most of the answers that Marcus wanted. Don't worry about it. I get it. He reassured me. I don't speak much with my old man, for example. Couldn't tell you his birthday if you put a gun to my head, let alone what he's up to these days. It's just, I never imagine she'd go like this, you know? I'd have to make an effort if I knew. Don't beat yourself up over it, kid.

What's done is done. It was getting late and darkness settled, so we went inside. I led Marcus to the living room, and he shared some of the case details with me after we made ourselves comfortable. The reason I wanted to stay in this house overnight is this. As he spoke, he pulled out a smartphone and browsed and files on it. I'll warn you, they're pretty disturbing. If you want me to stop at any moment, just say so.

You press play in an audio phone. file and laid the phone down on the small table between us. We both leaned in as Sarah's voice resounded from the speakers. I'll do my best to write down what she said for memory, as I don't have access to the recordings. Recording one. Is this app working? Test, test, oh, okay, well, uh, my name is Sarah. I moved into this house two days ago, and I, uh, I heard some strange noises last night from the basement.

I'm kind of paranoid. right now, because I live here alone. So I'll leave my phone not to record them and hopefully find what's up. Recording 2. Some breathing is heard in the background and the phone gets set down. Footsteps walk away from the microphone, then it's quiet for a long time. Marcus skips through most of the recording as it's nearly nine hours long. About two hours in, around midnight, the microphone catches a distant crash.

some skittering follows sounding like a cat running around on bathroom tiles it goes on for a few hours with long pauses between bouts a deep voice calls out weekly what the hell i let out marcus paused the recording and looked at me do you want me to stop it he asked i contemplated this offer on one hand whatever followed had the potential to traumatize me for life, but on the other hand, the sheer curiosity would eat me up alive if I didn't find out more. So I gave in and told him to let it play. The voice calls again. This time sounded more human. Is anyone, is anyone there? No one answers it. The voice falls silent and the skittering carries it away from the microphone. No more sounds were heard that night. Recording three. What the hell? What the hell? I knew it. Someone's living in my basement.

Recording four. Okay. I come down a bit. I was terrified after I listened to the last recording, so I ran out of the house and called the cops. A squad guard came after about half an hour, and the bastard took their sweet time. I showed them the recording. I went back inside, accompanied by a cop, and we checked out the basement. No one was there. We turned the place inside out, and we checked everything. But the room is small. No windows, no exits, and no place for someone to hide.

Cops think that it was an intruder that broke in, but they couldn't find any signs of it. They said they'll patrol the neighborhood at night and keep on the lookout for any suspicious activity. One of them also asked me to keep recording, just in case. Recording 5 Okay, here goes I'll leave the phone out tonight as well The cop car just passed on the street So I feel a bit safer

The sound of the phone being placed down is heard And Sarah's footsteps follow She leaves And the recording is silent for a few hours Marcus skips ahead through it Until another distant crash is caught Skittering returns Stopping a few feet away from the microphone

Hello The voice calls out Is anyone there? It sounds more feminine than the last time. Still inhuman, sort of like an artificially generated voice, but verging on crossing the uncanny valley into unnatural sounding territory. It calls out a few more times over the span of a few hours, sounding more and more like a woman.

When it becomes apparent that no one will answer its calls, the voice stops. The skittering takes it away from the microphone, and the rest of the recording is silent. This is getting... This is getting all kinds of freaky. I mumbled. I know. Marcus admitted.

Never seen anything like it before. Do you recognize the voice by any chance? Not a clue. I admitted. It doesn't sound familiar. I was afraid that that would be the case. Marcus said with a sigh Sarah confirms a possible identity

to the voice later on the recording but I wanted to double check Then maybe show it to dad I provided a solution He was closer to Sarah than me He might have an idea Marcus fell silent for a long moment He joined his hands beneath his chin and leaned forward

propping his elbows on the table The look in his eyes turned grim And worried I'm sorry sonny. He sat out of the blue. For all you've heard so far and for all that's to follow.

But I'm glad it's not your father that decided to stay. These recordings might just break him. What? I asked dumbfounded. What's that supposed to mean? It will all make sense if you keep listening.

Marcus answered. The change in his demeanor was strange and the night took an unnerving turn. i should have backed out i should have kicked him out i should have done a lot of things differently but my curiosity mounted to levels beyond my ability to rein it in so i proceeded to listen further man all right so that's the ending of recording or that's the before we get into recording six here yeah it's a pretty interesting uh buildup i like that it's it's it's building up that obviously something like pretty crazy happens but even uh this marcus guy she kind of or sunny

kind of alludes to the idea of I should have kicked him out, I should have done a lot of things differently, so I'm wondering what Marcus is getting ready to reveal, or I don't know, dare I say this early on, that Marcus could possibly be the creepy person in the basement?

I don't know. I don't know. So, I'm very interested. It has me hooked. Great opener. My curiosity, I'm saying this as a bit of a cynic, right? my curiosity is if it keeps this energy up right because this this is like a bat to the skull way to start a story right my sister's dead on fire a cop pulls up he gives me tapes it's my sister there's a thing in her basement like it's

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Oh, interesting. So recording six, she was, so Sarah is thinking that, uh, that the person in the basement is mimicking her mother at this point. Yeah. I wonder if, does he mention his mom anywhere before? I don't think so, right? Does he say anything? I don't think so because it seems like it's the, also it's, I believe it's the mom from a

different early marriage. Yes. Right. Yeah. So it's like, I don't think that even Sonny knows what this is. That also explains why the cop was like, I'm glad you're here, you know, because you never even knew this mom that she's talking about. Yeah, that makes sense. He's like, it's probably going to be a lot easier for you to know.

Yeah, interesting. Okay. Right. This is pretty... Okay. All right. Recording seven. I'm...

I'm not going to call the cops anymore. That was mom calling out. I don't... I don't want to talk to her. She's been gone for so long. Ugh. I don't know. Mom's dad.

Yeah, I don't know how I like that. You know what? Call the old fashion talking to dead ladies. Not my cup of tea. Well, I'm even just thinking about being down in my basement right now, and I think I hear my deceased mother. Like, oh, God. Well, also, she's doing a thing, too.

It's weird she's like, that was my mom calling out. I don't want to talk to her. She's been gone for so long. Like, I feel like a lot of stories would take an angle about being, like, oh I want to you know I miss my mom like that's a huge part of like talk to me as a girl is trying to reach out to her deceased mom so I don't know just this thing of like I don't want to talk to her it's been so long it's kind of the opposite uh the opposite reaction I would expect from either a deceased mom right I find myself as I get older I get more scared by like concepts of mimicry you know like family members and stuff like that because I think it's just I was so desensitized to it as a kid because everything you read is like it was wearing my mom's face or it looks like looked like my dad or you know whatever um but thinking about like a literal scenario where an unexplainable thing looks like like your parent or your loved one or something like that and it's it's like trying to sound like them like it the more i think about the more i don't like

it the more it bothers me um the uh well this one's interesting too because she's not even seeing it's just yeah it's just audio all sound so in her head it's like now she's visualizing that in her mind. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. All right. So, recording eight. Okay.

I've calmed down a bit. I hope. I'll wait here tonight. The recording is silent for a long time. It turns off abruptly about half an hour. Do you know anything about Sarah's mother? I jumped back in my chair at the sudden interjection, completely absorbed by my thoughts.

Not really. She died before I was born It was why dad remarried Marcus gave me a thoughtful nod of his head An Answer And he played the next recording Recording 9 It's back

I'll start another recording The Scurrian returns Sarah's breathing is audible In the background and it gets faster As the sound approaches her A chair creaks Presumably as she gets up And her footsteps

Join the Skittarian in the background The same woman's voice from the previous recording calls out. Who are you? Who are you? The voice repeats Sarah's words back to her. Mom? Mom. The voice repeats her words again.

Who the hell are you? How do you have my mother's voice? Who are you? The voice repeats. footsteps resound again approaching the voice as it says the same line over and over answer me as sarah demands knocking is heard as if someone bashes a door with their fist answer me the voice coos what do you want voice lets out a few garbled words but they are unintelligible its pitch and imitation adjust before it speaks again Sarah, my dear, is that you? I was left stupefied.

The uncanny valley was finally crossed, and the voice sounded decidedly human for the first time. It held none of the animalistic traits from before. The subtle anger and malice in it was gone, replaced by a deep sense of compassion and worry. I haven't seen you in so long. Sarah weeped silently. in the background, but she doesn't answer the voice again.

It, however, keeps calling out. I've missed you, my dear. Footsteps sound out as Sarah backs away, and the voice grows distant. It calls out over and over again, but the facade cracks. It can't maintain its grasp on the charade for long, and it devolves back into the uncanny valley, slowly. The footsteps pick up speed until they turn into a run.

After a few seconds, the voice becomes inaudible. A door is opened and closed shut with force, and Sarah starts crying uncontrollably. The recording stops. I just want to say, we're not done with the recording, but I just want to say this is... That's... That's pretty great.

That's pretty crazy. That's pretty crazy. The uncanny valley aspect of it, it's really fun to read, by the way. really really cool but the uh dude your voice your voice gave me chills that's why i was like giggling because when you would like go back and forth at the same time that was hot the uh geez christ it's hot all right easy down the uh the i'm thinking about that chuchu train edit my bad yeah yeah yeah the so wait just to clarify as well because i don't know if i'm the only one

usually i'm the only one thinking this so apologies but is sarah is she's she can't see the thing she can only hear the the creature moving around or whatever a non like whatever kind of random entity this is right okay so the way this reads to me is initially yes uh but in this recording nine she's closer to it because it says her her footsteps join the skittering so it sounds like they're in the same position you know relative to the recorder and then you hear hello who are you mom what and then what are you why do you have my mother's voice who are you and then it says the footsteps resound again approaching the voice and then it says

You know what I'm thinking is that Sorry to interrupt you is that It makes me think that like she's in a dark Like Sarah is in this dark basement And like maybe she's like trying to like turn on the light But can't turn it like It's definitely a dark thing So I'm just imagining like one burnt out light bulb

Or like broken light bulb in the center And just like that little chain The little chain you have to turn on the light It's just like barely swaying So you like see that like the creature Messed with it like in my mind's that's what I that's what I'm saying and even to do something where it's like you barely see something in the in the darkness of a room is so creepy yeah so I have the exact same idea I kind of imagine Sarah is maybe in like a cone of light right and then there's something in like the shadow of the basement that's getting closer and I think at the line after Sarah yells answer me and then the voice says Sarah my dear is that you Sarah doesn't speak after that here and the last thing we see about is it says she weeped silently and then says footsteps sound as Sarah backs away.

So I think at that point, she saw whatever it is. I was wondering if she's, I'm wondering if she didn't see what it was, but she was like, this is not my mom kind of thing. Well, I mean, look at this, this paragraph, the footsteps pick up speed until they turn into a run. After a few seconds, the voice becomes inaudible. The door's open and closed shut with force. And Sarah starts crying uncontrollably.

So she saw it. She turns around. Yeah, yeah, took off. came around and turned. Yeah. So, yeah, I don't know. I mean, we still got to read on, but I almost see that she was so horrified by it. Because, you know, the only light source I'm thinking is coming from into the basement is from, I would assume, the doorway that is opened up. Like, the door leading into the basement, I assume that stayed open.

And it's just like the small trickle of light to where the, there's a little bit of light coming down. But it's like the entire basement of shroud and darkness. So I, yeah, I assume that she saw something or maybe she saw the silhouette of something. it freaked her out or she came to terms of something and ran away and is just like totally in shambles. All right. Let's keep going. I will say so my early, like again, we're not even halfway through part one, but my initial thing is I think this would kill as an audio show. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. And I'm sure there's some out there and we'll, we'll do what we always do and look into it, you know, as we get into it. Yeah, look into it and be sure and give a nice show. shout out at the end for some of the stuff that we found for sure absolutely yeah so let's keep going the recordings are time stamped marcus said after this one ended sarah didn't make another one for a few days considering what i just heard i didn't know what to answer i kept silent mulling over my own thoughts and feelings on the matter as intriguing as the situation was i mostly felt horrified and sorry for sarah i couldn't even begin to imagine what must have gone through her head after

living through that. Why are you showing me all of this? If you really are a detective and part of the police force, you'd lock stuff like this away behind ten locks and keys. What a weird thing to say. Why specifically ten locks a gate? How old is the kid here that's like a 12-year-old statement? You'd put, I don't know, ten locks on that, like a high number.

You'd put this stuff in digon alley. It just makes fun. culture reference. You'd have to catch this with the infinity gauntlet. What is this place? What do you mean? It's where

where should some wizards go. Oh, I've never heard of such a place. Oh, Mark, is you crazy little crazy little goose. What is this? Some kind of whore crooks? Yeah, she's like, what is this? A horrocks you have here?

Yeah, has like a Deathly Hollow's ankle tattoo. Well, this is, this is actually a 32-year-old woman. Ha, I guess this creature sure was up to no good, huh? I bet he solemnly swore it. Marcus is like, I'm begging you to please stop. I don't understand what you're doing, but I know it's a reference to something and I don't care.

What the hell is a Hufflepuff? What the hell do you mean Hufflepuff? She's like, man Marcus whatever this thing was it's a raven it's a slitherin for sure yeah

well I better not hope Sarah didn't find the sorting hat down there who knows what house she would have been in okay well I'm gonna keep playing

this recordings of this crazy deity attacking your step sister the references don't even make sense it's like wow I sure do feel like a Malfoy about this like it's just

man this sure is haggard marcus you're giving off haggard energy did you know that you're being so haggard right now you better watch a tone is what he says man this is serious so serious it's black did you like that pun Marcus

he's already gone he's in his car driving away down the road the creature from the the creature like crawls in the house and it's just like I was going to do a bunch of stuff but I had like this whole four-part series playing out I was gonna do a bunch of stuff I had this whole thing playing with the lights they were going to go out

and I was going to pit around I was going to do a bunch of stuff but I can't be bothered him and Marcus drive away together the creature and Marcus She was just driving me up a wall Let's try that again Let's start over We'll have to burn another teenage woman But no

You'd lock stuff like this away behind ten locks and keys I'm not going to let that slow us down Yeah yeah continue it Marcus leaned back in his own chair Thinking my question over He pulled out his crumpled up pack of cigarettes And retrieved one from it I pushed the ashtray closer to his side of the table

as he lit it up, and you bellowed out a cloud of white smoke. All in due time. His eyes scanned me in a fashion completely different from before, with a cold and calculated look behind them. What do you think so far? I... Fuck. I don't know.

What the hell is going on? Answer me, Clancy. And be honest. Whether or not I'll show you more depends on it. Yeah, that's kind of a weird thing. The kid's name's Clancy, though. I like that name, so I'll let it slide. Yeah, well, first, he said, Sunny.

And now he says, Clancy. It's sunny just supposed to be like that. Sonny's just like a boomer way to greet a kid. Well, hi, Sonny, you know. So Clancy. So this isn't a 32-year-old woman. This is a 32-year-old man who's a Harry Potter fanatic, Clancy. Right?

Clancy? Yes. Clancy's a boy's name. Yeah. Yeah, earlier in the story, he said he's the older brother. Oh, that's right. Okay. Yeah, yeah.

Or younger brother. Younger brother, I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah. she's not wait you you know that the boys like younger right yeah like lives with his parents yeah he's not 32 no but i like to imagine it oh okay in your head canon in my mind i see okay all right i don't want to take that from you yeah no i imagine clancy is i'd say teens right which is still i'm gonna guess like 15 16 yeah i would say it's kind of weird that a detective is signaling out a 15, 16-year-old kid. It's also illegal.

What do you think? Be serious. What do you think of this? He's like, ah, it's weird. I don't know. He's like, okay, perfect. We'll keep going. What if he's like, I don't know.

He's pretty normal? He's like, all right, good day. Get somebody leaves. I just want to freak you out. I know you can't tell me anything. All right, well, this is no fun. Goodbye. I racked my brain, but I was truly and utterly stumped.

The situation devolved too fast for me to keep up, and I didn't know what to think. anymore. But I could tell that that wasn't the answer Marcus wanted. It's, I don't know, a ghost, a demon, a skinwalker? What is this? Some kind of crepecast? I've been listening to a lot of creepcast, and these are just some

suggestions that I have. What are we? Some kind of suicide squad? Yeah, maybe the entity has a, I don't know, some kind of cave where he goes and impregnates tons of people, I don't know, right? Marcus is like, what the hell are you talking about? You know, it's funny, I didn't know what you were talking about for a second. I'm like, cave impregnate.

And I'm like, oh, wait, I did that. Yeah, that was, that was me. A slight tumor grows in the back of your head, and it's just like, Barasca. Yeah, yeah, it just, it follows me around, yeah. See, now that I was able to pass on the cursed, you all, and specifically you, Hunter, I just have pleasant memories of Barasca. What a nice little story.

Psychopath. Yeah, psychopath. Marcus seemed surprised by that. He pushed the cigarette away from his... That's kind of funny. Marcus seems surprised by that. You mean by him saying a skin walker? Marcus seems surprised.

Yeah, the detective's like, what do you think happened to your sister? And the boy's like, I think a skinwalker, Connor. Hmm. That's surprising. I don't know why you thought that, but... I was just going to say someone, you know, pretended to be your mom.

What are you talking about? I don't know. There's probably a guy broken to your house, but okay. Yeah, home invasions are pretty common. What is a skin walker? I don't even know what the fucking skin walker is to be completely. I've only seen documentaries where it's like Skinwalker Ranch. No one ever really says what it is.

Oh, you don't know what Skinwalker is? No, I have no idea. This is a safe space. The comments will bowl you, but I won't. So a Skinwalker is a creature from, it's a lot of like Western American. Native American mythology, but primarily like the Navajo. It's effectively was a, a shaman or like medicine man who became a witch doctor, began to practice in like, you know, darker sides of, you know, mysticism or tradition and stuff like that, and began to develop the qualities of dark spirits. So

in a lot of renditions of the story, they either become a cannibal or they become some kind of killer. and using the dark spirits that they've taken on, they can shape-shift into the forms of various animals that they kill. So if the shaman or if the witch doctor kills a coyote, he can wear the skin of the coyote and become one. But it's always implied that there's something a little off about it. Maybe their cry doesn't sound quite right. Maybe their legs don't move the way they're supposed to.

That's why when you see uncanny animals, people will be like, is that a skin walker. Right. And that's the original story. It blends a lot with like Windigo imagery where people say it's not really like a medicine man.

It's kind of just like a monster that can shape shift. But yeah, Skinwalker basically means a shape shifter. Okay. It would be the same thing if they killed and ate a human being. Would they be able to take the likeness of that human?

Yeah. It's not always they have to eat them. It's normally they have to wear the skin of them. But in some stories, they're cannibals too. okay but yeah yeah like so if say it

killed someone you knew and pretended to be them from a distance it looked fine but then you got closer maybe they walk differently maybe their face looks a bit off maybe their speech

is a bit different that's like the idea okay well yeah I sympathize with Marcus being slightly surprised then yeah yeah fair he's like go on

you were saying you were saying he put pushed a cigarette away from his face, letting out another lungful of smoke. And do you believe that? That it could be something supernatural? What the fuck else could it be? What do you think it is?

What I think is irrelevant? I want to know what you believe. God, dude. What is up with Marcus? This is like some weird... I don't know. Maybe Marcus isn't a cop. Or maybe he is, but he's been like chasing some supernatural angle for a while or something.

Yeah, well, I don't know. That's what I believe. Maybe, hold on, maybe he's not a cop at all. Maybe he just, because the only person who said he's a cop is Clancy's dad. So maybe he has been following like supernatural leads. Thanks to his death is supernatural and is like, oh, I'm a cop, can I talk to your son? Him being so hung up on that either makes you think that the dad is like very mental and well or something, something that makes him be like

the validity of Clancy's responses where he would need to be like I need to know if you think this is supernatural or something that could actually happen or something like I don't know Clancy says that's what I believe I didn't know Sarah well but

she wouldn't fake something like this so either she was haunted by something or you're messing with me that's the correct answer Marcus said with a satisfied smirk you put out the cigarette in the Astrian leaned over the phone, placing a finger over its screen. So how about it? Do you want to hear more?

Why would I want that? Do you or do you not, Clancy? No hard feelings either way. I can't force you to listen. I... Yeah. Start the next one. I don't know for sure why I decided that. We could sit here all day while I blame curiosity or more likely stupidity. But those answers would be half-truths at best. It didn't feel like a want at the time. It felt like a need. I needed to go through with it.

I needed to hear all of it. The reasons I felt that way didn't matter at that moment. I have a good feeling about you, kid. Marcus mumbled as his finger tapped the screen and started the next recording. Recording 10. I don't know what to do anymore. It's driving me nuts. Whoever's messing with me comes back every night

I hear them even now The microphone picks up footsteps And a door creaks open slowly Faint mumbling comes from the distance Accompanied by the familiar skittering It pauses for a brief moment Before it speaks up Sarah, my dear

The voice calls out Not entirely human Please, I just The door closes shut with a loud thud and Sarah retreats back into the room I tried a lot of things over the past few days It calls from the basement So I got locks and put them on the door

They're untouched So whoever it is isn't coming from outside of the house It hides in there somehow I called the cops again while the thing Was there but it left when the cops arrived The two officers asked me and unlock the door and they checked the basement again. But lo and behold,

it's as empty as last time. I'm not sure what they think of me. Maybe they suspect I'm fucking with them, so I can't rely on their help. I even told Amy about the thing that showed her at the recordings, so she slept over yesterday. The thing somehow knew I wasn't alone

because it didn't make it peep the entire night. I'm not sure if Amy believes me or not anymore. Hell, I wouldn't believe me if I were. her. But she offered a solution. Get our roommate or a boyfriend. Someone to live with me. It could work, but I don't know anymore. Do you know this, Amy?

Marcus asked as the recording ended. I think Sarah mentioned her a few times, but I never met her. I looked over my shoulder as I answered. At the corridor leading to the kitchen. The basement door was on one of the walls there, and I could see the locks. mentioned in the recording. They hung open on the door, but they were still intact. Marcus snapped his fingers to get my clearly distracted attention, and he pointed down to the phone.

Want to keep going? Yeah. Before I hit play, I want to ask you something again. Did you, by any chance, suffer any mental trauma as a child, or even recently? Something that shook you to your core. I raised an eyebrow at the strange question No Why

You're taking all of the surprising well Your mental fortitude is pretty high That's sometimes a sign of Never mind He hit play before I could pry him for more details So I fell silent to not miss it But I made up my mind When it was over

Marcus would have a lot of answering to do Okay so clearly Marcus is like putting together some like Avengers initiative right that that whole your mental fortitude's pretty high it's a sign of you know clairvoyant children or whatever well now I'm wondering if he's almost wondering if this thing is uh is our main protagonist maybe what do you think about that no you mean like does he think clancy is the creature yeah or I mean I don't know like that I mean, that'd be a great mimic if it got him this far. Well, that's a, yeah, I mean, that's the thing is I'm like, I'm wondering if, where does Marcus come into this to where he's so knowledgeable about it?

Because really, the thing about it is, yes, it is creepy what we're hearing so far, but I don't think it's overtly disturbing, especially for, I mean, like, it is, but I just mean, like, it's not like you're hearing Sarah get mauled to death or something, like that one grizzly bear, like the documentary about the grizzly man, whatever, and then the guy listens to the audio. of him getting attacked. Like, that would be shocking to be like, well, that's weird. Maybe he needs a Skinwalker. You know, like, that would be odd. But so far, it's just people mimicking back and forth to a person that he kind of doesn't know very well. And now it is creepy because they're still in the house, right?

They're in the house. Like, he can, he sees the locks over there. So I didn't know if Marcus is maybe, like, suspicious. He's like, huh, you know, for hearing all this weird stuff, you're really not reacting the way that I thought you. would and you know i i can't tell if he's reading him or what i see what you're saying that might be i don't think it's correct i'm just saying i'm trying to get a grip on what he's what's happening wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait uh back here at the top

it says he goes with his dad and they go room by room so as far as unless something changes later in the recording the house has this mimic in it while clancy and his dad are in there they go room by room given the small size of the house it went pretty fast and then the dad says one of the detectives wants to drop by says he has some more investigating to do um he asked for someone to stay here tonight but work won't allow me could you do it champ and he says sure so is I'm thinking maybe the dad was the thing you know oh maybe yeah I can't stay yeah and he's just like the the damage has been done in the dad line we'll see I'm curious to see that too

Also what kind of dad is just like Hey you know this house that kind of like burnt down or whatever And some people died in here Hey would you mind just stay in for a bit But god I just have such a busy night ahead At my job Yeah try not to think about the smell here That's your sister's flesh

Don't don't worry about it See that's kind of stuff that's you You know your your feet are tracking all over the The floor You hear that sticky noise whenever you step Yeah Yeah the ashes that are on your feet that you're tracking on the floor.

That's actually your sister's burnt skin. It's the ash of her burnt skin. So don't worry about that. I have to go to my job. I have to. Totally metal, all right. So you talk to the cops.

I'm going to go get some roadies. We're going to take care of. I'm going to do what we got to do. Yeah, do a little booze cruising. Got to steady me for the road, son, you know. Yeah. Have fun,

12-year-old child of mine. Have fun talking to the cops, nerd. In a hint. Peace. Recording 11. I tried my best to ignore it. I slept at a friend's house some nights, but that's getting harder to pull off.

I tried looking for roommates, but no one wants to share a small house with this stupid pandemic around. And my search for a boyfriend is just fruitless. I'm getting a bit old for the dating scene. We'll keep at it, but for the looks of things, everyone's mostly down to fuck and not much else. I don't want to resort to frequent one-night stands. The police still answer my calls, thankfully. But they're not doing much. Even the patrols are getting less and less frequent.

I'm at a total loss here. I've considered selling the house and moving, but I can't afford that. Dad might be my last resort. Dad might be my last resort. Maybe I can move in with him and his wife and son. We're not exactly friends, though. Who knows? and I can't risk telling them

there's no chance in hell they'll take me if they think I'm crazy sorry I did that because your theory right there was like maybe I can move in with dad dude it's set I'm setting something up

I don't know we'll see we'll see also I know I know it's kind of this is kind of a lame criticism for horror stories I understand

but at the same time leave just you're in the house the house is weird don't be in the house Well, yeah, I mean, I was going to wait until we got done with our first. Okay, yeah, you're right. You're right.

Yeah, I was just say, I do have some criticism so far. Well, okay, hold on. Yeah, yeah, you're right. It can wait. We'll continue with the story. Hearing that, hearing her opinion of me and mom, it's done. Sure, we weren't more than acquaintances, but we're not horrible people. We would have taken Sarah and if she reached out to us.

So to know that her salvation was so close, Kevin Bay, only by superficial assessments of us. It sucked. Plain and simple. And if she would have showed us the recordings, we might have even believed her, especially Dad. Play the next one.

I demanded before Marcus had a chance to say anything. You sure? You sound a bit riled up, maybe. Play it! Marcus sighed deeply, but he did as he was told. According 12. It's still here. It won't go the fuck away.

I haven't talked to it in almost a month now, but it's still here. It's going to drive me insane for real. I can't take it anymore. I'll confront it again tonight. Maybe I can find out what the fuck it wants or get some answers. Recording 13. The recording starts in his quiet, save, or static for a few moments. Sarah takes a deep breath and a barely audible step.

Are you there? The skittering returns, coming closer to the microphone than ever before. It sounds more frantic than usual. Of course, my dear. I'm always here. You stop that, you hear me? Stop using her voice. Sarah, I, I said stop.

I know you're not her. The voice coughs loudly. It changes as it does, slowly morphing and growing, deeper. When it stops, it sounds male. I paused hearing that. It was Dad's voice. No doubt about it. Although it sounded ever so slightly off, I could recognize it. Up to that point, my running theory was that the thing could mimic the dead. But Dad is still very much alive, so that threw my theory under the bus. I didn't know what to believe anymore

What do you want? I just want to see you Open the door Sarah backs away as her breathing grows faster Please honey It's dark down here I just Shut up

Sarah ruts away from the door as the voice calls Continue in the background That was your father correct Marcus asked when the recording ended. Yeah. And what does that tell us? I pondered the question for a moment. It's not a skinwalker, like I thought at first.

I don't know much about them, but like skinwalkers need to kill their victims to copy them, right? Not necessarily. Wait, what? I knew it. I knew it. I knew it. I know it, Marcus, is some kind of paranormal. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Not necessarily. But they do need to hear the voice they're trying to copy. And anyways, the Skinwalker could have broken down the door. So, it's something else? But what? I'm not sure yet.

He went to play the next recording, but I stopped him. Where do you know so much about Skinwalker's from? Marcus chuckled dryly All in due time, Clancy We still have a few recordings to go through You know what He hit play on the next recording so he listened So I really not liking this thing

Where it's like why just not tell him Why would that Like I know it's probably something where it's like Oh if he tells him It might jeopardize him for wanting to listen on But still is that not just annoying all in due time. It's like, dude, just fucking tell him

why you know so much about Skinwalkers. Yeah, also like, okay, so Marcus shows up and he's like, you know, Joey badass, right? Like, he knows all the stuff and he was kind of presenting himself as a cop so he could get alone with Clancy,

but I know Clancy's a kid, but there's still no level of Clancy. Like, there's the whole, wait, where do you know about Skinwalkers or whatever? but I mean like even when I was a kid jumping to supernatural conclusions if an adult went along with me

I'd be like I'd be like what the fuck really? Yeah yeah I'd be like I'd be like What the fuck really I think it's that I was talking about a movie I watched The other night Oh yeah I'm Marcus

I'm Marcus and yes it is a ghost Yes Clancy I'd be like You seem of like a very irresponsible I should have a parent right now Where's my dad at He's a he's a werewolf I should call the police

The police are zombies Or something They're all plant people They're all plant people It's just me and you Child Me and you Clancy

Against the world Now do you want me to show you Where vampires come from Hi No All right then I guess I'll play the next recording Or he's like

Or like You mean Transylvania Marcus leans forward He's like Now how did you know Where did you find out about them? Where did you find out about them? Who the hell told you that?

It's like Clancy's like this is just like Hogwarts Marcus is like Dear God Good God You're not a wizard, are you? Like, what, Marcus is just an equally delusional old man who, like, also thinks media is real?

We're going to need to call Nick Fury on this one. We are coming to the conclusion, though, like, just to get back, we are coming to the conclusion, though, that we think Marcus is not a cop, right? Yeah, clearly. But that's becoming very often. If he is, then he has a, he, like, a moon. lights as a paranormal investigator, but no, I don't think he's a cop. Okay. All right.

Recording 14. It's not just mom and dad anymore. The damn thing has so many voices now. Amy, my ex-boyfriend Clinton, random voices I can't place. Hell, it even used the voices of those two police officers that went down in the basement looking for it. It keeps calling for me, pleading and begging, feying confusion, asking to be let out

but I won't do it I won't open that damn door ever again fuck whatever I keep down there it could have my stuff for all I care I'm tired I can't sleep because of it it's getting so hard to do anything I swear today almost got fired for mixing

for mixing up customers' orders for the 20th time I nearly snapped at the manager but I stopped at the last second and I apologize Guys, some co-workers noticed that I'm acting off and asked me about it, but I can't tell them to think I'm crazy. Hell, I'm starting to think I might be crazy myself. I would just tell somebody. I feel like if it was like, I feel like if it was messing you up that bad. I also, I know that this is a, so two years ago, so this is a COVID right as well.

So one thing that's kind of interesting with the pandemic is. Pandemic like took me out. I was like, whoa, okay. I was like, holy shit, yeah. So it would be, it would be a bit difficult to be. like hey can i crash your place because people would be like like no i don't i don't want to be mixing you know germs or anything like that so i could see that but still i it's you know also this is the second time wait wait wait wait wait she's working at a restaurant yeah mixing up customers

orders for the 20th time which it could be super covid it's not like the peak of it right yeah well i guess that's true maybe it's well there were some places that did like a drive-thru and stuff like that so maybe that's what you know who knows i'm i'm probably leaning too hard as it we'll say we'll save it for the end of the part at least i was just say it is literally part one of four so we're yeah yeah well we'll see okay yeah we're taking up too much time making fun of the three our only three characters so far and four counting the dad's voice at the beginning recording 15 that's as far as i got into that particular recording i slapped my hand over the phone with enough force to sing cracks

into the glass surface at the table Marcus jumped back in his chair taken by surprise What the what the hell That's my fucking voice I knew this one would get you Come on dude Come on

Marcus answered with a half grin I knew this one would get to you I imagine if I had like Will of Defoe's Green Goblin Like, yes, use your hatred. I knew this one would get to you. Only fools are heroes, Clancy. I knew this one would get to you, Marcus, answered with a half grin.

Or well, get to you more than the other. I just don't know why he's being so coy He's being so coy In spite of everything You've done for her Eventually she will hate you Eventually she will hate you Glancy

In this world It's drip or drowns Spider-Man Oh god Okay I have to keep the faith I have to keep the faith It hasn't lost me It hasn't lost to you.

I just think Marcus's characterization is a bit cartooning is all. It is. Well, even with Clancy a bit too, but I'm going to keep pushing on that. Clancy's a child, so he gets some bonus points for me. From this point on,

dude, I'm wiping myself. I'm going in with full love here. Okay. I never visited Sarah here. It couldn't have, it couldn't have heard my voice. So how the fuck did it copy me?

Think Clancy. Did you ever hear Sarah's dead mother? For how long? Has she been dead? 20 years. So what does that tell you? It doesn't need to hear people's voices. Correct.

So what? It can read minds? Maybe. At the very least, it can form a connection with people. But until we catch it and see for ourselves, I can't say for certain. Catch it. is that what this is all about you want to catch it Marcus wiped his smirk off his face and looked at me intently Yes clancy either catch it or kill it and solve your sister's case

So what? So what are you Marcus didn't let me finish you push my hands away from the phone screen and hit play on the record recording, interrupting me. I'm sorry. I know. So what are you? And he's like, all in due time,

Peter, Peter, Peter, I'm recording. Come on, dude. I was laughing, but he's like, so what are you? In my head, he's got like, he's got like a duster on

that's like flowing in the wind. Who am I? I'm a motherfucking angel. Exactly. That's exactly what it's so good life. I am he who walks between the here and the there. I am like, what? Like 2000s, f-x, like, action movie, dialogue, you know? Like, hell boy.

Yeah. Oh. Oh, God. All in due time. He repeated once more. Sorry, so we're getting back into the recording now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is presumably the, this is Clancy's voice talking in the recording.

Sis, are you there? It repeats my own voice. It's been some time since there's first recording of the mysterious voice, and it sounds thoroughly human at this point. No more cracks in its facade can be gleamed. Listen to me, and listen well. I won't put up with this anymore. You have tonight to leave my house and leave me the fuck alone.

I'll go to bed, I'll plug in some earphones, and I'll ignore you. If I hear you again tomorrow night, you can bet your ass I'll come down here and inch you, whoever or whatever you are. Understood. She sounds different somehow, worried, tired, manic. Please, sis. For fuck's sake, open the door and let me out. And why would I do that?

How'd you get down there anyway? I, fuck, I don't know. I can't remember, but it's scary down here. Let me out, please. It copies your mannerisms well. It's spot on, actually. It does. I admitted feeling the color in my face draining little by little.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I know, dude. No, no, no, no. It's just in that, like, um... The Marcus character is so fucking cheesy. Have you ever seen the fourth alien movie? No, huh?

Okay, there's a character in it who brought the aliens back to life, who is, like, fetishistically obsessed with them. He's like, look at the beautiful babies. They're so, like, that whole character. And, like, Marcus struck me as that just then, when he's like, it copies your mannerisms well. It's spot on, actually. Like, he's getting, like, flustered talking about it.

Well, I keep going back and forth between it's, like, very in my mind's eye when I see Marcus saying this stuff and stomping it with like a cigarette in his mouth and the light on them. Makes you think of like a really cheesy noir like a detective kind of thing. Like it copies your mannerisms well.

It's spot on actually. And it's like these people are just kind of sitting in this circle. But it's just like all these interruptions and him being just so kind of like I guess just cartoony and just not blatantly saying like hey this is what I think it is. I think we should do this.

I almost wish it was that and then maybe even Clancy could be like you're a psycho yeah yeah you know I mean and then Marcus has to convince the kid yeah yeah yeah

yeah you know what let's let's lean into it a bit well it's it's striking like Saturday morning cereal you know stuff so let's you can do interesting horror things with that most of the schlocky horror films

from the 80s I love so much are in that tone right so right so let's see let's see how it goes with that with that in mind. I'm imagining him in the duster and the fedora and he won't come out of it. So we'll see how that goes. Okay.

All right. So I'll just proceed with the... It does. I admitted, feeling the color in my face draining little by little as I listened. Given enough time to learn, that thing could be a top predator. And let me guess. You can't let that happen. Oh, my God.

Yes. Yes. Oh, my gosh. I, dude. I love it. Oh, dude. That was right. Oh, man. This is bordering on, like, do we even, do we, like, we, like, we, I'm down to read until the end of part one, but this is getting unbole. This is tragic. Out of all the things we've read so far, this is, come on. And we can't. Let that happen. And let me guess, you can't let that happen.

Oh, oh my God. We can't let that happen. All in due time, I replied and pushed play on the recording. What is this? What is this? Oh. Oh my gosh. I can't.

If this isn't, to those listening, if this doesn't, like, if you don't realize why this is so funny, the dialogue goes, it is a kid who just met this man who keeps saying stuff like, it's a predator, one that can't be stopped, one too powerful, and the guy goes, it could be a top predator, and the kid goes, and let me guess, you can't let that happen, and then the guy goes, we can't let that. Like it's the most But you see here Clancy is taking control And he says All in due time No He's mimicking Mark

The kid Who just found out That his sister's A full grown detective A full grown X-Files Detective man is Having this kind of camaraderie With what we assume to be

A 15 or 16 year old child All in due time And he's like Huh That's right Clancy Yeah the kid The kid after hearing all this hearing that his sister

burned to death a few days ago was killed by a skim walker the kid's like all in due time bro it's it's the most like Disney dialogue like in a minute in a minute there's going to be like a thumping in the closet

and then Marcus is going to go Clancy you're going to want to see this Clancy it's right behind me and you know what you know what like yeah yeah dialogue dialogue very funny i'm glad this is better to me than boring dialogue i'll say that yeah uh yeah because it's certainly memorable but i still like the monster concept so far it's just the dialogue that i just want to get through this

first part so fast okay we'll keep we'll keep going i am and i'm almost i am almost in the fourth way of hell i need to all right all right so clancy i'm having a great time this is awesome so so clancy pushes play on the recording and it goes sarah doesn't say anything else her footsteps carry her away from the basement door and the voice pleads in the background it shifts back and forth between different people quick and almost seamless for short periods of time between the adjustments glimpses of the animalistic nature make it through the recording The recording ends after Sarah closes the door to her bed firm. You know, and this is, before we get into recording 16,

I just want to say because of how much of a sour taste in my mouth right now, I'm now picturing Sarah's just like breathing heavily and we're just hearing footsteps. Like, that's all we're hearing in the recording. We're just hearing like, and just like patting around and then she shuts the door. Like I just, it's becoming even more comical in my head where they're like sitting around inquisitively looking at this, like this phone. And it's just like hearing someone like like, like, breathing heavily and walking around and they're just like

no seriously clancy listen to this part it's crazy I will I will say that one criticism I had is that Sarah goes from trying to find a way out of it to being like if you're not gone tomorrow I'm gonna come down there like what like what does she think she's gonna do you know I don't know I mean she's gone down there with cops and everything else and it's not there I mean

so she's gonna go down there herself and like show it just just leave leave the home and don't have go camping i know it's covid lockdown go sit in the woods like it's a better yeah like literally i feel like in any other person i feel like a lot people would just be like i'm just gonna be in my car i'm just gonna if i have nowhere to go i will literally just sleep in my car she has her mom and she's like who has his wife and brother who like she's like on talking term sure she doesn't love them i get it but she thinks there's a thing in her basement that sounds like her dead mom like that will negate some family you know discomfort or whatever i would i would go through i

would go through the awkward interaction if I thought something was this tragic and I would be like also I hate that she keeps saying like well they're going to think I'm crazy then let them think that who cares yeah try to let them think that you're having a psychotic breakdown and the 24-7 surveillance right ha what hell

even I'm starting to think I'm pretty crazy how do you say that seven more time Sarah that sounds great it's right behind the only thing the only thing that is getting me through this first part There is three more parts after this dude is that Sarah is going to be engulfed

in flames at one second That's the only thing pushing me forward It doesn't with her catching on fire You're right We know that for sure So I just want to see All right recording 16 You know what's going to happen

You already know what's going to happen If it stays this tone The comments They're going to need a part two I think you're stuck here I think you're stuck here I don't know Recording 16 is what I will say

Recording 16! Okay. So I can't get a firearm. I don't have the money for that. I don't even know how to handle one anyway. And fuck me. Gasoline's getting pretty expensive, too. Oh, my God.

I'm sorry. That just a line is insane. And fuck me. Gasoline's getting pretty expensive too. But I could afford a cashier canister's worth of a few gallons and a box of matches. The current plan is simple. I'll fuck that thing up if I hear it again tonight.

Also, just the amount of use of fuck is just really annoying too, but... The current plan is simple. I'll fuck that stupid fucking thing up so fucking hard. If I hear it again tonight, that stupid fuck, and I'll pour gasling into the fucking basement to the crack beneath the fucking door. And I'll light it on fire from up here. Fuck the fucking house. Fuck the stupid fucking authorities.

And fuck all the fucking repercussions. I can't let it live. I don't fucking care if I end up in prison or looney bin so long as it fucking dies here. My God, Sarah. Give me a second. Give me a second. Bro. I've never, you get in heated.

It's so funny for one. But her, okay, the, the gas line was so funny, for one. Like, I can't afford, I, I want to go get a firearm, and I don't have the $500 needed to buy one, sure, whatever. I also can't go buy a gallon of gasoline. It's $3. It's $3.00. It's $3.20.

I can't do it. Siphon it out of your car that you drive to work in. My gosh. Go to your kitchen, get any amount of the chemicals you use to clean stuff or do whatever. Throw that down there. That's flammable. Do what I mean, like, go to the store. You know, I mean, like, you don't have to just use gasoline.

I mean, I don't know. It's just so stupid. She does get it. I cannot wait. I cannot wait to where she's like, she pours or she's like, how I'm going to kill this monster you're asking? Well, that's simple. I'm going to douse myself in chemicals and gasoline, light myself on fire, and tackle it. You're like, why would you do that?

The way he said that, well, that's simple. Like it's a TikTok DIY video. She literally begins her last thing she said with, The current plan is simple. I just like, it's like so long as it dies here. And then even Clancy's like, my God, Sarah. like i mumbled as the recording ended and it's like okay i'll say i'll say this um this story needed a a rewrite with the dialogue i think i still like the premise of like a girl dies

unexpectedly and her brother goes through the recordings with the cops let's talk about this when yeah okay at end of part one part one part one yeah yeah you're right you're right okay hearing her in that state of mind broke my heart no one deserves to go through what she did and the fact that we didn't help her sooner that none of us made an effort to be in her life it ate me up inside we could have made a difference i could have made a difference maybe then this tragedy would have had a better ending there's only one more to go thank god he leaned over the table and slapped a hand down on my

shoulder giving me a tight squeeze i nodded my head as i felt tears for me at the corner of my eyes and signaled for him to play it. What do I mean like is it Why is he? What are they suddenly like a father figure? What was that? Well the weird but like also why is he crying? Like

I understand that this is like I get it's emotional but 30 seconds ago he went all in due time like it's well they're just like So what and you can't let that happen Well it's just also it's like you don't know her that well and these are also only audio recordings and I'm sure that like it's still an emotional thing

but if he was emotional through all of the tapes that'd be fine it makes sense after the whole like we've got to stop it and then it's

16 recordings and this is the first time where he's like oh shit it's really hit me in the fields Marcus he didn't like how much he said the F word

also when you were doing that when you kept dropping like F bombs through that in my head Sarah became Joe Pesci from Goodfellas we're gonna have to fucking killed this motherfucker.

Yep, that's exactly. So what? So what do you want me to do? You want me to light the fucking house on fire, you stupid fuck? Funny, funny how? Oh god, here we go. Recording 17 and the first line is this. The fucker is still here.

Yes! Okay, I'm excited. I'm excited. Keep going. This is great. This is like football. Go. The fucker is still here.

I warned it. I tried. I tried to be nice. I really did. What more could anyone ask of me? A liquid sloshes around in the background. Presumably, the gasoline. Her breathing is strained and close to the microphone. Metal rings out as it hits the floor.

Sarah? It calls out in the voice of her mother. I warn you! Something topples to the floor and the sound of rushing liquid is heard. This is on you! It's not my fault! Sarah, please. The voice shales more desperate than ever.

What are you doing? What I said I would. You didn't listen. Why didn't you listen? Please, Sarah. You don't have to do this. Just let me out, please. Enough!

Stop using her fucking voice! The thing falls silent. Sarah takes a deep breath, and the sound of gasoline pouring out of the canister dies down as it presumably runs out. Her clothes rustle as she searches her pockets, and she shakes a little. matchbox when she finds it. The sound of the matches jumping around inside is the only audible thing for a moment. You know what that is, don't you? She opens the box

and fumbles around with the matches for a moment. The voice doesn't answer her, but instead skitters away from the door frantically. Sarah takes one final breath and the sound of a match being struck is heard loud and clear. Oh my god. Get fucked! I'm in hell. Imagine also, imagine, here's the thing, too, dude. Here's the thing, and I really want you to take this into consideration. They are not seeing any of this.

They are hearing this on a recorder on a phone. So you just hear like, get fucked. You know it's sad. that that line actually worked a little bit i was like oh that's good when she says stop using her voice like that feels there's like a um a reckoning for that almost kind of like uh if sarah hadn't showed any like bad assery in the story story up until then and then that was her first like resistance to it it's so desperate it's against her mother like that that works but then two lines later that had to go back to her holding the match like you

you call down the thunder well now you got it you know like yeah i dude i i don't know i mean it started with i mean we'll keep going keep going just part part part end of part one at least and then we can talk about more of this yeah yeah okay yeah yeah the microphone doesn't pick up the lit match hitting the ground but it picks up the gasoline igniting air rushes in as the flames begin to burn and sarah lets out a yelp the voice begins to scream loudly rapidly switching back and forth. Please. Let's out one final call

for the first time using Sarah's voice. The recording ended, leaving me wrapped up in a whirlwind of emotions. I was horrified, I was stupefied, I was strangely glad for it

to finally be over. I was a mess, to put it bluntly. My body felt like it melted into the seat, but I quickly composed myself when I remembered that Marcus still had

some questions to answer. Did Sarah kill it? Did we bury a monster instead of her? I don't know. We could very well be the case, but then. Then where is she? Exactly. Plus, a lot of other things don't line up.

But to be fair, they didn't line up no matter which angle I went at it from. All that we know for certain right now is that someone died on a fire. So, monster hunter, huh? They did it. Yes. They did it. They did the whole. kind of suicide squad they did it they literally did what else I'm going what are you

some kind of monster hunter yes oh oh gosh this is the great this is my favorite thing we've read on creepcast this is the bet this blows pin pals out of the water this blows veras out of the water this is so good

I can't oh my gosh oh god I'm oh my god wait wait wait wait look I asked after a few moments of heavy silence. Pretty much. Marcus answered. I'm the only one they call

when shit gets spooky. And let me tell you, this shit is very fucking spooky. Hold on. Let me get back in my chair. Let me get back in my chair. Hold on. Oh, my God. Dude, listen. Pretty much, Marcus answered.

I'm the only one they call when shit gets spooky. And let me tell you. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Where are you at? dude i thought i thought you were joking no i wasn't looking at the screen so when you said i'm the one they call when shit is spooky i thought you were making that is a legit this is this is quotes pretty much i'm the only i'm the one they call when shit gets spooky and let me tell you this shit is very fucking spooky okay but all of

this still doesn't answer the most important thing why show me this any of this okay hold on hold on let's do this let's play a game okay right now we're taking it seriously back to zero right and let's just see if we can get to the end okay okay without without you know let's just see okay okay all right so marcus lit up another cigarette and leaned back in his chair for the first time since he entered the house, he seemed truly comfortable like he had nothing left to hide. We're always on the lookout for new recruits. Oh, God.

So consider tonight your entry test. You're a bit rough around the edges. But you seem like a decent candidate to me. Stop. Me? A monster hunter? You can't be

serious. Marcus. He just shrugged his shoulders. You'd never know unless you try. I sure shit didn't. Never expected to hunt the things that go bump in the night before I tried. And what if I were to refuse? Will you kill me or erase my memory or something?

That's that. Marcus just laughed out loud. If you don't want to, you don't want to. you can try to tell anyone but who's going to believe you I frowned and Marcus caught on that he struck a nerve so he composed himself

got up taking the phone stashing it in his pocket look kid it's like I told you time and time again tonight I can't force you to do anything but consider it okay

as he said that. No. No, don't make me read this next phrase. As he said that, he pulled out a business. Oh my. God! He pulled out a business card for the monster hunters. Oh, my God. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Maybe what's happened. Just, just get, just get, just let's finish this deal. Please, we're, God. It keeps going. Okay, we're almost there. We're almost there. He pulled out a business card that he tossed on the table in front of me. The world desperately needs more people like us. If there were more of us to go around than maybe, maybe what happened here wouldn't have been stopped sooner.

They keep finishing each other's sentences. Yeah. It might be too late for your sister. you can make the difference for someone else. If you can make up your mind, it doesn't matter if it's tomorrow or a year from now. Give me a call and take care.

With that, Marcus left. I saw him to the door and closed it behind it. Then I went to crash into my bed. My entire worldview was shattered tonight. I decided

to get some rest before I tried to make sense of the pieces. The following days were uneventful, but even so, the strain of that night hung over me. It permeated my thoughts at all times, permanently active in the background as it burrowed deeper and deeper. Dad returned. We finished clearing the house and put it up for sale. But I couldn't focus on that. not when every other thought I had was about those damn recordings in the end I had to stay over for a little while longer despite my constant complaints

because of the slummy neighborhood and sketchy neighbors dad didn't want the house to go unoccupied that's basically asking for thieves and punks to break in and it's going to be hard to sell out of squatters make the nest here so just hang on for a little while longer okay i wanted to fight him on the matter to tell him that he could stay over himself if he was that worried but i didn't i couldn't not when i knew the truth about what went down

he wouldn't be another death on my conscience so I lived in the house for another week or so helping out with renovations and whatnot and truth and truth be told it wasn't all that bad it was a bit creepy it was a bit creepy

sure but the freedom of living Sure, but the freedom of living on my own was oddly pleasant What evening, after he went home and I was left all alone, I heard a knock on the door. I slowly made my way over to answer, expecting either him or Marcus, but who I found on the other side left me terrified. It was Sarah. Hey, Clancy.

She greeted sounding almost. casual. What? How? I let out in a meek voice as my tears started to flow. I have a lot of

explain to do, I know, but I didn't let her finish. I jumped her latching my arms around her shoulders as I bawled my eyes out. She put her arms around me as well and we

hugged for minutes in the doorway as I cry. what happened where were you we were we buried you we thought you were dead I'm sorry

I had a lot happened and I had some problems I ended up running away to a friend for a while and it's a long story okay and very crazy tell me about it

Call dad and tell him to come over. He needs to know you're okay ASAP. Actually, it would be better for you to do it. I don't want to give him a heart attack. Good point. We kind of got rid of most of the furniture, but make yourself comfortable. I'll call him and join you. Don't take long.

She said and went inside to find somewhere to sit. I watched her walk down the car. corridor towards the kitchen, passing by the basement door. She looked at it for a long moment, and she continued on her way. I pulled out my phone and Marcus's card unsure about what to do. The thing's facade was good. Damn near perfect. But as it spoke, those last words in its voice,

Cracked. Just a little. Dun, done, done, done, end of part one. And actually, wow, I can't believe we made it through all four parts of the thing in the basement is getting better at mimicking people. What a, what a story. Wow. Wow. Wow.

I really, um, I met a loss for words. I really enjoyed all four parts of that that I'm going to. glad that we got through the whole story. You know what? You know what? This first part took much longer than I expected. We're already at an hour and a half on the recording. I would be curious.

We can ask the viewers and the listeners at home if they want us to continue this story. We still have three parts if you do. If not, for the love of God, request something that is of... I mean, dude, if you would have told me, it's insane. First off, this is... such a deceptively, this story is so deceptive. And also, I want to say that this is a bummer. This is two

stories in the row where it's like, ooh, really, really great beginnings. Right? And then it just completely devolves into whatever the fuck this is supposed to be. If you told me that this was supposed to be about a monster hunter who is

recruiting a, I mean, presumably a 14 to 16 year old guy. Why? This is leading me into Jeff the Killer Territories. where it's definitely a teenage kid writing this, right? About how cool it would be to be a part of a monster hunting situation. And the thing is, crazy good premise. It could have been so good,

but the interjections between Marcus and Clancy the entire time completely disrupts any win that was in the sales of being in the story. And it's a shame, because it could have been so sick, but instead it goes into whatever the fuck. territory this is whatever fucking territory this fucking story fucking fuck fuck fuck

fuck to quote this great author so two things that I have two thoughts right if we went into it under the I guess you could say notion that what we're about

to get into was supposed to be like an old like detective drama right like you know you can hear jazz music, you know, you know, the type thing, right? Like, it's purposefully over the top. I think it would have, the reason it's so funny to me is because it was so unexpected. That's the, it's not really, it's not that the writing is like so horrifically awful that it's just hilarious. It's that it is, like I said, like Disney dialogue and stuff like that, that came out of left field, right?

Like, it was the surprise nature of it. So if I went in expecting that, it wouldn't have been as funny. And also, I'm looking at the writer stuff now. And it looks like he wrote this story a couple years ago. And over time, he's been writing more and more stories. And in a recent post, he talked about how he's, you know, wanting to get better as a writer and stuff like that. So like you said, this is almost definitely like a teenager or something like that. Or just a new writer who's just, you know, writing basically.

None of the laughing we've done is a criticism towards him. I, you know, are saying that he can't get better or anything like that. of course. That being said, oh my gosh, just the, the monster hunter line, the, the unexpected, it was insane. It's insane that the thing too is like, dude, you can just make some shitty stuff and you can grow better. I mean, like, the idea of this is just crazy. It's, it's so unexpected. You know what? I'm going to, I'm going to throw a skeleton out there that I hope no one ever finds, but to prove where it is. When I was in, My freshman year of high school, or sophomore year of high school, I swear I'm not kidding. I wrote Doctor Who fan fiction. Not, not romantic fan fiction. It was like, it was like head canons about maybe this character went into this, maybe this adventure happened, right? It would be miles worse than what we're reading right now, right?

So everyone starts somewhere, you know, nothing against them. If they're showing me their skeletons, I'll show you mine. My gosh, was it funny. The Monster Hunter line was so good. The turn, the turn was like that of, it had as much grace in decorum as a car going 80 miles an hour and then taking a sharp left turn into a brick wall. I mean, it was like, it was so unexpected and so funny.

But I think, like, there's a lot of merit. I think that this will be very memorable. And like, you know, here's the thing, dude. Would you want to finish this? Well, okay, so here's what it is. I was thinking about this as we were reading and I'm like, man, our comments suggested this and I

and after reading it, I think I know why they suggested it. I think they knew very well what our reaction would be and they thought it would be funny. So there probably is an element of our audience who misses like what we did with the Jeff the Killer one and they just want to see us hurt. They want to see us

in pain, right? So maybe that's why. But the problem either, the biggest concern I have is that if we do read this moving forward we should try to read it respectfully we should make sure to show it respect and then you know keep powering through well yeah but does that also take out the fun well see no matter how much we know what we're getting into if they say a line like so what are you some kind of monster hunter it's not going to matter because

we're going to be out that's going to take us out that's going to yeah that's like a headshot just boom boom dad I'm curious I mean we're we could we could try to push forward or we can see what the comments say

what do you think I think what we should do it's an hour 40 right part two looks the same length okay right what we can do

is we will throw part one out there I'm sure someone will enjoy this and if they're like please for the love of God do the other parts we'll do the other parts but I think

I think what we got to because also where do you pick up from there because it ends with like that ended the way most like short micro horror creepypastas end with like the yeah the thing said it was my sister i knew it wasn't because of its voice right like how many creepypastas in that way so i don't know where it goes from there yeah i mean i'd be i would be curious to see i think that setting up the monster hunter organization really left some doors open so i'm guessing now that that it's it's it's clancy going to have to convince marcus to come back or maybe clancy does end up joining the monster hunting thing and then his first assignment is his now uh deceased skin walker sister and he has to like observe it and do whatever and he has to go by you know the guidelines there's probably some sorts there's probably a set of rules that he has to follow and stuff and you know maybe he gets into some trouble himself and he probably also finds some situations where maybe even Marcus you can't tell if Marcus is really who he is and all that kind of stuff so you know or vice versa

Marcus is like I can't tell if this is you or not or whatever so there's probably a lot of back and forth you know stuff like that deception that kind of stuff I would assume yeah this is crazy this is crazy I've never been I've never been so stoked on this creepy environment thing at the beginning like being so excited that's why that's why I found it so funny because I was locked in to a horror story. Well, dude, this is also why I love these creepypastas. And the thing, too, is like, I have been so... We ate...

We ate way too good, you know, with Barasca and then Penpal and all that stuff, even left-right game. And you're going to... You're probably... You're going to have to sift through the layers of these stories and stuff before you can get into these truly biblically epic, awesome stories that you know, or you're so fascinated by, but... That's just that, you know, it's like horror movies. I mean it's like there's some good horror movies

and you have it's a part of the hunt You know and I like to be let me be clear I enjoyed that That was enjoyable Oh yeah no I had a great time That we're not getting into that But I enjoyed it Yeah yeah I think that

For part one thing I don't know how How much of an interest I have moving on to part two If if people are just absolutely enthralled by it I'll consider it But if people are also like Hey you know let's move on to a different thing I wouldn't be opposed to that either. So you let us know down below.

And once again, too, guys, be sure to listen to us on Spotify and Apple podcast, all those places and give us a nice rating. It helps us out. And be sure to let us know, like, stories that you enjoy in the comments below. We do, as you can see, we read them. We try to make sure and take suggestions from the community as well. So we appreciate it. That was awesome. Again, to the writer, that story was enjoyable.

but I mean none of that as to say that you yourself are incompetent or whatever everyone grows everyone starts somewhere I'm glad that my first drafts of stuff isn't out there you know on the internet but thank you for sharing with us thank you for the entertainment I enjoyed it yeah dude I mean dude like there's fun if we laugh or do anything it's it's there's absurdity to things I mean like I you know I think that you can I think you can offer uh you can be disappointed or offer criticism with things and not just you know be we're not like saying that this person will never, you know, be able to do whatever. Absolutely. I, I, I've made plenty of things, and still even to this day, I make absolute dog shit. You know, I look at the progress I've made within the time I've been on YouTube,

and it's been, uh, it's always cool to see. So if anything, the only thing I would say with this story as well is that, like, to put your stuff out there publicly, to be ridiculed or to be loved is the first step of truly becoming a better artist, to being a better creative. You have to do it. So I think that this is just that, that initial step. And I'm stoked to, you know, see what else comes out of it. Yeah, I agree. 100%. I enjoyed it. And I will say this. I think I can say definitively,

that was better ridden than Jeff the killer. Oh, dude. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, 100%. Yeah, 100%. Come on now. What are we doing here? Definitely. Yeah. All right, y'all. Well, that's all we have for this week. We will catch you on the next episode. Goodbye.

Thank you all for watching. Bye. You know,