M hm, he was cold. Cold. That was the nam he was
cold. What's going on up there? Could be the most important event in
history? Now I desturb worlds, I said. I hope this is close
to him ever again. Good hello, and welcome to the Tales from the
Dark podcast. I'm your host, Bob. You're with my co host Brittany.
Hey, guys, what's up Brittany. How's it going? It's going
good? How are you? It's going well. I'm excited to get back
into the Gregory eighty eight saga here. Yes, but before we do,
I want to throughout another weird acknowledgement of how deep the hat Man episode is
ingraining in everyone's brain, Yeah, and affecting everyone. Okay, what happened?
So? I had another listener of the show who's been a listener for
a while reach out and he's like, hey, I have my own hat
Man encounter. I have a Jeremy Harper sent me a message. I have
an unread message and Facebook I to get back to him about We got another
email about a hat Man story, and it just seems like hat Mania is
Oh that's a good T shirt idea at Man, it just seems like it's
it's kind of it's odd that everyone seems to have a hat Man's story except
us. Except us. I mean, I have to keep it that way.
We've had sleep paralysis, but that's a different conversation altogether. And I
know I keep bringing this up, but it's like every single time I do
an episode story, I get another email, another texts. I'm like,
hey, I fucking saw the hat Man. He Fedora tipped me in here
three six nottoscope. You know why why ladder Stall. It was a big
deal. You beat my my high score in my favorite arcade game. Oh
I have a personal vendetta against him. Yeah, So keep sitting in your
guys as stories. I'm it's one of those things where is it. Is
it synchronicity. Is this something that we am I being led towards hat Mania?
Or is it because there's been so many, you know, public and
public stories in the media right now, is it just becoming like a TOPA
like phenomenon. And that's the question. And speaking of Topa's, if you're
a member of the Patreon get ready this week, I am putting together a
hell of an episode. It's one of those where I don't like to hype
up episodes too much. This is gonna be one that you're like, all
right now, now he's fucking making this up. This is not this is
not a real thing that's happening until you look it up. Yeah. So
anyway back to Gregory eighty eight, so I have to you know, this
never happens, but it happened. I did make a mistake in episode one.
Okay, So there are two videos. There's one where at the edge
of his property he sees a shadow type of figure, and I thought that
was the video of the woman he was referencing an actuality hidden underneath a response
to someone else is the video of the woman he keeps referencing. So I
missed this entirely. I showed it to you. Do you remember the video
I'm talking about? Oh yeah, can you explain to everyone what this video
was. So it's a woman that almost has like a slightly elongated face,
like her her chin is kind of bulging out, like her mouth is bulging
out from her face a little too much. Yeah, And the skin over
her eyes she has no eyes, and it's like the directly coming where her
eyebrows would come across. It's like a lump of skin but it's attached and
it is the creepiest. She has like a silicone looking face and it's creepy.
I hate it. But in the studio that he is referring to,
it was in the dark. This she was staying in like a beacon of
light. Again, she has no eyes, so she can't see. Yeah,
but then all of a sudden, she jerks her head towards the person
film and camera. I'm assuming Gregory yep, filming her and it was terrifying.
He went off running. Yeah, and that would explain the notebook that
was found that said they took my eyes over and over and overcame again.
Gregory is believing that this is the woman. Yeah, yeah, this is
her stuff or her jacket, her notebook. And at the end of the
last episode we found out what the letters meant that were found inside the house.
His house was a church at one point chapel. Yeah. So if
you guys are new, I highly recommend watching episode one. But the TLDR,
this young man named Gregory inherited a house from his grandfather. His mom
and his grandfather had a falling out of some sort. He doesn't really know
much about him. Yeah, him or the or the property he inherited,
and people in townteracting weird. There's odd things happening around his house, and
that's much. Yeah, and that's about the biggest summary that I could come
up with without actually diving too deep. In episode one, I do want
to do something I wish we had done with the sun Vanish. I have
a couple of fan theories of what they think is going on. Okay,
so we have one listener theory. I hate the term fan theory, but
that's the only thing that popped in my head. I'm sorry, but one
listener got a hold of me and said, Hey, it's killing me not
to fucking read ahead because you guys put this out on a fucking Friday.
Oh yeah, he had two days to sit on it. Yeah. Yeah,
Well I'm pretty sure this person's patrons, so they got at the night
before, so they got an early release, so they had an extra day
to have to sit on this. But they think that this is more of
like he's looking into things that aren't there and he's going crazy because he's never
had Based off his previous tweets, he's kind of like a regular guy and
hasn't had responsibility. He was pulled out of college, thrust into a real
world situation where he has this property. He doesn't know how to sell a
house. He's drinking constantly, he's you know, he references drinking and his
tweets before the Grandfather House thing. Now he has an entire wine seller.
So they think it's like an alcoholic thing where he is manifesting is happening.
Yeah, and it's in an actuality. He's just in like an empty,
fucking vacant house. Okay, so that would actually hold a lot of water
without the video. Well, again, we can't fault anybody who, especially
people who didn't read ahead, for not finding that video because again it was
embedded comments. But with that video now in our realm and our discussion of
this story, I would say that wouldn't really be possible unless you know,
he photoshopped her, But again that's not something he's even talked about doing.
Yeah. And then the other theory was this is a UFO alien embedded city
scared. Oh no, that girl looked like a fucking alien, so I
could see it. They think it's like a sacrificial UFO situation. And that's
that's the only other theory that I've got that there was a few others like
this is fucking creepy, but those are the two standout theories. So these
are like aliens basically that have interwoven themselves into a nearby community and it's impacting
and infecting everyone up to the lake. Yeah, okay, which that would
actually make sense because there are stories of like nearly human like how we have
innate fear of things that look human. Yeah, the Uncanny Valley. Yeah
yeah, yeah, so interesting. Interesting. Do you have any theories yet?
I so I do, but I do partially remember the ending, so
I can't talk about my theory, all right, Yes, well, let's
just hop into where we are. So again, at this point, we
have established the house used to be a church. We don't know any backstory
on the house that he inherited. The people in town are weird. There
were some twins at the hardware store that were rude to him, making fun
of him. Yeah, so this day starts us as twelve thirteen, twenty
eighteen. She was here, The woman was in my house. Oh god,
no, sorry, I'm getting ahead of myself. I can barely type.
Sorry, I'll try to explain. All right, So I was in
the woods out back yesterday when it started pouring. It happened really suddenly,
and even though I wasn't far from the house, I got soaked. Anyway,
it rained most of the evening. I left my clothes by the fireplace
to dry and ended up going to bed early. Or I guess it was
today. Sorry, I'm still not really awake yet. Anyway, I had
this awful dream tonight. Sorry if I'm rambling a bit, I'm still trying
to collect my thoughts. Sorry, my hands are shaking. I can like
feel the emotion and like he's yeah, he's consistently apologizing. You know,
he clearly feels bad for not being able to explain, because I mean,
that's a hell of a way to open up a thread, like she was
in my house. Yeah wait, let me start over. Anyway, So
in the dream, I was on the deck outside with a bunch of friends
from back home. We were all sitting in a circle. My friend Eric
was there talking about how creepy the woods were. He was saying how the
trees were just big black silhouettes and anything could be out there watching and you'd
never know it. He was sort of freaking me out, but I was
trying not to show it. I'm all, I know what you're doing.
It's not gonna work. You're not gonna scare me. And Eric sort of
narrowed his eyes and says, I bet I can scare you. Something about
the way he said it made me uneasy, and I was like, all
right, very funny. You can stop now that. Eric wasn't smiling anymore,
he was just staring back at me. The whole mood seemed to shift
at that point. No being the circle was talking anymore, and suddenly it
got really quiet, no sound except the wind and the lake down below.
I have to put a pen in this for a second, because I just
remembered a part of my dream from last night. And I told you briefly
about the dream with a boat. I don't really remember. Okay, So
I had two really bad nightmares last night. I'm only gonna get into one
of them here. And it's because it's so weird. It's it's it has
a parallel with this where I was talking to some people at some point on
like it was kind of like the like the gondolas of Italy where there's like
restaurants on the water. It was. It wasn't in Italy or anything.
But there I was. We were like at a restaurant bar thing kind of
like Bourbon Street, but if Bourbon Street was on the river, which would
be a fun horrible but um, something had happened and I had said,
yeah, I'm a pretty strong swimmer, and actuality, I'm not a strong
swimmer. I don't really know how to swim. I can I can waddle
pretty good through the water. Yet good. Yeah you say that, but
I've seen you swim, so anyway, I'm telling me, well, yeah
I can. I'm a pretty strong swimmer. And what was weird is the
person in my dream was like, how how good of a swimmer? And
I said, oh, I'm pretty good. It's like I want to find
out how good of a swimmer. Then something happens and I'm fucking in the
water and there's this giant barge coming at me. And this barge is trying
to like go up to this like small little man made doc like large,
like large enough that you could fish off of, but not large enough for
a boat to dock on. Yeah, and I get swept under like by
the turbine. Oh my god. Yeah, and then something puts a life
vest on me and pulls me up, like, and the guy said,
I thought you said you are a strong swimmer. You know, have we
not put the life that's on? You were going to fucking die? And
then what was what's creepy? The whole one I'm telling the story is I'm
like talking to this group of people. I don't remember what any of their
faces look like or anything. And the one guy looked at me and said,
are you scared yet? And I said no, I you know,
I'm out of the water. Well I'm not scared, and he goes,
oh, you're gonna be. And then I remember waking up. Oh oh
no, no, thank you. Yeah. All that reminds me is the
uh the waiting room? Have you have you? I think it was a
Reddit post. This guy was in a waiting room, like a dentist office
waiting room, and there was a fish tank with this really weird looking fish
swimming back and forth. It's not finding Nemo, I promise, walk in.
No, and he's looking at this fish and he's like Then the guy
in the dream realizes like, I don't know what I'm waiting for, Like
I don't know why I'm in this waiting room. This doesn't fucking make any
sense, and then he starts to question more and more things like why are
the walls purple? Like? Who paints the walls of an office purple?
Why is his certificates are upside down? Like all these weird things are on
the walls, And it didn't quite make sense. Yeah, and then he
realizes, Oh, I'm asleep, and then the fish looks at him says,
hey, you better wake up before you forget how to and up in
a fucking panic attack. Oh god, No, think this is going to
go into a whole like Strange Streams episodes. We need to get back on
track. But I wanted to throw that out there because I'm hearing from Austin
and a lot of people right now are having fucking bizarre dreams, way off
the wall dreams right now, And I'm wondering if anyone else on the tails
from the dark community is also having bizarre dreams? Are you having strange dreams?
Don't don't bring that epool back on. No, I can't really remember
the dreams I've been having recently. But I also I know there's exercises for
it, but I don't. I can't really remember most of the time.
Maybe and my dreams so maybe maybe that's a blessing with all this all this
bad juju going around with these dreams, it's hit or miss from me.
If it's something that's like really off the fucking wall, you'll remember, I
remember. But apart from that, I don't think I remember very mind of
my dreams, at least lately. Yeah, I don't know, all right,
So back to back to Gregory. Any trace of joking has disappeared from
Eric's face. After a long minute, he slowly cocked his head to the
side and says, is there someone here with us right now who shouldn't be?
Is this a fucking ghost hunt? Yeah? Seriously. All of a
sudden, I was too scared to break Eric's gays, afraid I'd see something
I didn't want to. For a long time, we just stared at each
other. Nobody said anything. Then very softly, Eric said, is there
somebody watching you sleep? Right now? Greg I would have lost it.
I beat the fuck out a guy. That's when I bolted awake. It
was the middle of the night. I was alone in my room, but
I had this weird feeling that someone had just been there in the room with
me. I laid there in bed for a minute, too terrified to move,
too scared to breathe even and then I heard something downstairs. At least
I thought I did. This house is always making sounds, so I couldn't
be sure. I hesitated for a second, then crept out of my bed
and went down the hall, trying to be as quiet as possible. From
the second floor landing, I could see the living room in part of the
kitchen. Everything seemed normal. I could hear the wind blowing loudly outside,
so I figured maybe I hadn't heard anything after all. I tried to calm
myself down. I was wide awake at that point and too shaken to go
back to bed, so I went downstairs to get a snack or some coffee
or something. I walked into my kitchen, then stopped dead in my tracks.
What's this picture of Brittany? I can't really see. It's a door
opened to the outside. Oh and it's fucking kitchen. Oh No, What
would you do in the situation? Are you shutting the door? You're leaving
it open? I don't know, I because it's hard to say, because
that's your way of escape, and it takes time to open the door back
up. If you have to run back out, and it's also your way
if you're chasing somebody out, that gives them an exit, because if you
trap someone in there with you, it can turn from yeah, them trying
to escape to them trying to attack you very quickly. I often wonder that
in horror movies when I see someone like walking they find a door open and
they shut it and locked the dead bolt and stuff. I'm like, if
you have to chase somebody out and they suddenly realize they can no longer get
out of the way they came in, they're turning around fighting. Yeah,
especially if they're not familiar with the home they broke into, it could turn
into a robbery to a fucking murder real quick. Yeah, that's a very
good point. I've never thought about that. Yeah. So there's a door
in the kitchen that leads outside. It was wide open. I know I
locked it. I lock all the doors every night, and even if I
forgot to lock it, I know I wouldn't leave the door wide open like
this. The whole kitchen floor was wet with rain. I'm calling a locksmith
first thing in the morning to come change the locks. Shit. I want
to leave, but I don't even know where I go. I'm all alone
out here, try to find a motel. And I just realized my wet
clothes are gone. She fucking stole my clothes. I'm not spending the night
here. What. Yeah, so we remember he came back in from the
rain, took his clothes off, and then left them. Yeah. So
then someone said, as she was able to navigate through the house and she
has no eyes, that means she's familiar with the house, is layout,
she's been there before and knows it well enough to walk around without bumping into
things. He says, I didn't even think of this. I left,
but I'm still freaking out a bit. I'm going to try and find a
hotel or something. See that. That's a new level of creepy, and
it makes me wonder did he pre plan this ahead of time that someone would
pick up on that, or it's like I choose your own adventure book,
yeah, or like it's actually just like a DND because if the gamemaster can
have so many different scenarios in their head about how if you ask a certain
question, you'll get a certain interaction, and three fourths of them don't ever
happen, So I don't know is he choosing this as he goes, but
it's damn good he can think on his fucking feet if he is. Yeah,
so we have about a five day gap. Now we're twelve twenty three,
eighteen, two days before Christmas. I'm sorry I haven't said anything in
a while. I've been staying in a motel about an hour outside of town.
When I left the house at night, I just kept driving until I
felt like I was far enough away to feel safe. Let me ask you,
because this makes me wonder in locations that we've been to that have a
reputation of highest strangeness, think your point pleasant, You're Ashland, your summerset
when things are really popping off there. And we've been in all three locations
where things have popped off in one way, shape or form. Yeah,
do you feel like there's a certain distance away where it starts to fade?
And do you think that's because it's the time, like enough time has passed
or the mileage? The mileage? Is it a physical separation between point AM
point B that makes you feel better? I think it's mileage. I think,
I really do think it's a radius of distance around it. Because we've
gone. We've been in the ship and had to take a break or go
do something real quick, like go to a gas station or something, and
I'll still feel completely unhinged. We can sit, we can sit the gas
station for hours or Walmart or wherever, and I know I still won't wouldn't
feel better. I really do, truly think it's a radius. See.
I like that you say that because I remember I remember one night specifically.
We were we were at Point Pleasant out in the T and T area,
Yeah, and it was just it was weird that night because it wasn't like
anything happened, but we were hearing noises. Is this the night of the
Hunters? No, maybe there is a general creepiness. But what I remember
is we were seeing some lights in the sky and we went to there's a
gas station right up the road, I don't know, a mile two miles
away. It might have been the night that the Hunter's run. Oh,
yeah, I know what you're talking about. Yeah, And we sat there
and just watched the sky for a good forty five minutes to an hour.
We literally sat in the back of the car. We had an sub pop
the trunk and bought snacks, sat in the back of a well lit parking
lot in the back of the gas station. Yeah, and it never seemed
to really fade. And what that reminds me of. And this is all
kind of coming full circle because there was somebody in the Facebook group and I'm
pardon me for forgetting your name, who's reading the Eighth Tower. So heel
references is this, references it a little bit and moth bean prophecies, but
he really goes into it and eighth in the Eighth Tower, where there's these
window areas of fear, of just pure terror. And it's not because it's
not because something happened and you were afraid. It's all of a sudden,
you walked into this area and you were fucking terrified. It's like a like
an it's something in the air. Yeah, like how people say, oh,
it must be in the air when people are angry or upset or in
love or whatever. It's like a general radius of you feeling a certain emotion.
But what's interesting is he goes further and says that it's not that anything
is happening, and that it's any one thing making you feel this way.
It's just it just happens, and there is no way around it. There's
no I stood there long enough and I got used to the feeling it was.
I did not feel better until I physically left the area and drove three
or four miles down the road. And he discusses this in the in the
Tower where he had this happen outside of Point Pleasant, in between Point Pleasant
and Marietta, Ohio. On the way on the outset, you're on the
outskirts of Point Pleasant. You're heading towards the not gwards Charleston, but the
other direction. Yeah, he describes he had it happened, and he was
driving through it in his car, and he stopped out of his car and
did not feel better till he walked about a mile down the road. Ooh,
And it was one of those things where he could not figured it out.
Balls for doing that, especially by himself. He was by himself,
middle of the night. Oh my god, we've been in those areas and
that it ain't no joke. Yeah, And when you get struck with fear
like that, yeah, Well he walks a mile away and then had to
walk a mile back to his car. So I don't know. I guess
for me, i'd had to agree. I think it's a distance thing.
I don't think it's amount of time that you're away. I think it's it's
a certain radius of effect of the fear or the terror, or the high
strangeness. Okay, So anyway, I called a locksmith, but they weren't
able to come out right away, and there was no way I was going
to back going back to the house without new locks. So I've been waiting
it out here until I can go back, basically doing nothing, jumping at
every little sound and feeling crazy. Okay, let me ask you this.
If you think that she knows her way around your home without vision, do
you think that she would Wouldn't you think that she would know another way in
your home that's not through the door. Yes, especially with him having an
old seller, a wine seller that he hadn't seen, when other secrets are
there exactly, That's where my brain would be. It would be more than
a locksmith. It's like I want to realtor or someone who knows like our
security camera. My question is where's he getting money from because he's not working
and he's a student. From what he said. Yeah, Finally, a
couple of days ago, the locksmith called back and said he'd come out so
I checked out of the motel and got into my car to drive home.
It was a pretty long drive back, and the closer I got to the
woods, the worst I felt. It's weird that he calls it home now
and not a house, even though he feels uncomfortable and he's scared, he's
now considering it a home. Yeah, well, it's probably like minecraft won't
you sleep in the bed? And there that's you know, you're that's your
home now. In my head, I knew I was. I knew going
back was wrong. But I can't just leave for good. I don't know.
I can't explain it. I can't leave. I don't expect you want
to understand. I don't even understand. Okay, that's weird fucking timing with
what I just said. Yeah, anyway, I drove past the town and
reached the woods, where the roads get worse and harder to drive on.
They get twist easy drive up to the house and you have to be careful
not to hit deer. I almost always see a dozen or so deer on
my drive, but today there were none, not a single deer in sight.
In fact, the wood seemed a lot quieter than usual. I could
have been imagining it, but something definitely seemed off. I was almost bizarry
go ahead. I was just gonna say, that's usually, you know,
when we talk about high strangeness, it's usually when a predator like creature is
out there. Yeah, whether that be a bear, a lion, or
crypted or whatever we're talking about now. Yeah, I was almost ready to
turn around when something darted across the road. It was so fast that I
wasn't sure I saw it at all. I panicked and swerved off the road
and into a deep groove by the roadside. By the time I realized what
had happened, the thing was gone. I have no idea what it was.
It was just a blur, but it wasn't a deer. It was
red and red like blood. Worse, my car was stuck. It's my
mom's old car this week, little two wheel drive, and I couldn't manage
to get it out of the groove. I sat there for a long time
trying to figure out what to do. He's got no phone service to I
guarantee you, Oh God, red like blood. That is such a specific,
such a specific way to describe something. No animals, unless it's like
an exotic bird. No animals I know of would be red like that,
maybe fish speaking of blood. Speaking of blood, I still don't know.
I still don't know what that was. So there's there's a certain location that
we're looking at for the next documentary. Every time this location gets brought up,
typically it's just Austin weird s. She'll start happening, He'll start a
shadow, people, apparition, go sex, you name it. It seems
to happen to Austin specifically. Well, last night, Austin and I were
discussing this location because we're going to visit it next month. We're going to
see basically, is this we're gonna shoot the next documentary because it's a location
that I really enjoyed going to, but I don't know if it's right for
us. Yeah, Well, every time, and Austin has a history with
it, like like ten year plus history with this location. Well, last
night we're discussing this place and I was upstairs playing Overwatch. Britain was downstairs
playing Overwatch with me, and I come downstairs and I'm like, I looked
out of my hands and I had blood, like a good amount of blood
on the front and back of my hands. Yeah, so I take my
shirt off. I had Brittain checked me all over. I'm not bleeding from
anywhere. She's not bleeding from anywhere. No idea where the fucking blood came
from. And it's not like it was a drop or two, like it
was like I had like it was like I had an open yeah, and
it was like I had an open wound and was holding my hand over the
wound to stop it from bleeding. Nose bleeds, no, nothing, Yeah,
it was. It was very very weird. Yeah, and literally tonight,
we're gonna have to have Austin back on here soon and he can kind
of explain what's going on. But he had a ton of crazy shit happened
to him tonight. I start to read those. Yeah, I need to
figure out what's going on with him. As soon as we were discussing this
location, and it's and it's so weird because I've never heard of a location
causing phenomenon. Yes, when you speak a bit like Voldemort, yeah,
it's it's like a cause and effect. And that's exactly what this feels like,
is because we're talking about its reaching out. Yeah, it's reaching out
and touching us, and it's it's in a way that the blood was weird.
That's never happened to me before. No, Okay, So anyway here,
I knew it wasn't a good idea to walk the rest of the way,
but if I didn't, I'd missed a locksmith, and I'd have to
either spend the night in the house with old locks or go back to the
motel, which I couldn't afford. Okay, I wasn't too far from the
house, so it made the most sense to walk the rest of the way
and call a tow truck from home. I needed to meet the locksmith anyway,
so I got out and started walking. Once I was outside, I
realized I'd been right about the woods seeming quieter than usual. I couldn't even
hear any birds. It was dead silent. My footsteps seemed so loud.
Every twig that cracked under my shoe sounded like a bone breaking. We've been
in spots like that before. I was periodically checking my phone's GPS to make
sure I was heading the right way. I had just re checked my route
and was about to put my phone down when I saw something that made my
heart sink. So he has a photo here, and he says, there
was another one of those artifacts like the ones I'd seen on my first day
here, but it had one of my gloves tied to it from the rainstorm
last week when I left my clothes by the fire to dry. There was
a pair of gloves with it. That would freak me the fuck out.
Yeah, it sounds like a binding ritual or something like that, especially if
he's just now feeling called old and tied to the place. Yeah. I
knew that woman had taken my clothes that night, and this just confirmed it.
I also knew i'd find the rest of my clothes before I even saw
them, and sure enough, I found more of those artifacts not too far
from the first. I found my other glove, my socks, and a
bandana, everything from that night except for a sweatshirt I've been wearing. So
then he has other photos of these bigger and bigger artifacts that have all this
clothing strata about the woods in the center of them. Though, oh,
God, like it. What would you think if this were you, I'd
burn it. You'd burn your clothes too, Yeah, fucking clothes. I
don't need those clothes, I mean, but what would you think was going
on? Like I think it's a I would think it's a binding rich wh
I would think it's someone who's trying to do me harm spiritually or you know,
through magic. I definitely would not take a risk and think, oh,
they might be doing something nice for me, So I would cut all
ties with what were they're doing? See for me? I would think someone
was trying to warn me or trying to scare me away from my own property.
That's that's where my brain would go. This is the second episode.
I mean, I know this second episode, but both episodes we've had very
different point of views on this. It's weird. It is weird, okay,
but that too, it does sound like hazing. But anyway, Yeah,
so I left them alone this time. I didn't want to touch them.
All I wanted to do wanted to do was get back to the house,
get the locks changed, and called a tow truck. I started jogging
a bit, wanting nothing more but to get away from those stick things.
But after a while I started to think that I should have been home already.
I slowed my pace and took up my phone, but it wouldn't calibrate
this time. It couldn't seem to locate me in the GPS. Still,
I could hear the lake off to my left, which meant if I kept
walking alongside it, I should get to my house. Event So I kept
moving and tried not to think about getting lost. I must have gotten turned
around, because I was walking for what seemed like ages. I found myself
in a part of the woods that seemed unfamiliar. I had no idea where
I was, And then suddenly I saw something off in the distance, something
bright white, almost seeming to glow against the dark trees. So I'm showing
Brittany a photo here, and all you can really see is a bunch of
white dots. Probably it looks like mushrooms. Yeah, thirty or so feet
away. I couldn't figure out what it was from a distance. I went
closer, trying to be as quiet as I could. When I actually got
close enough to see what it was, my mouth literally fell open. What
are you looking at here, miss Britney. Giant fucking eggs like awestrich size
eggs, the size of a human fucking head. Yeah, those are fucking
huge. What lays those eggs? It was eggs, huge eggs, all
on a cluster like a nest. They were enormous It's hard to explain their
size, but you can sort of see them next to my boot here,
so oh my god, they don't even like compare to his boot like they're
huge. I felt like I was dreaming. If you guys want to see
the eggs, I'm going to actually make the thumbnail for this podcast the eggs
because they're fucking huge. Anyway, I felt like I was dreaming before I
evennew what I was doing. I touched one. I couldn't help myself.
It was warm. I had a sug sudden urge to smash it and see
what was inside. But then just as quickly I decided against it. I
get that, I mean, it's intrusive thoughts one on one, but at
the same time I would have fucking like, there's twelve here, Yeah,
I mean for science. But then I guess you'd have to weigh your odds
against those are huge eggs. And what happens if the mom that laid the
eggs come while you're smashing fucks you up for smashing an egg? Yeah,
because you got to imagine the mom wouldn't be that far away if yes,
yeah, that means they were just sitting there. I felt sick like I
was going to throw up if I didn't leave right away. I left the
clearing and tried to listen for the lake, then headed in that direction.
I got to the lake shore and felt a bit better. Since I was
out of the trees, I had a better view of my surroundings, and
I was able to pinpoint my house a ways down the shore. I never
thought i'd be so happy to see it. The rest of the way back,
I felt like I had vertigo. I couldn't make sense of everything that
just happened. I still can't. I reached the house and somehow felt a
little better once I was inside the locks, but arrived a little bit later
and changed the locks. I watched him work in a daze. I also
had him installed dead bolts. I called a tow truck and then got my
car out of the ditch. But now I'm alone again, and I can't
stop thinking about what I saw. I can't figure any of this out.
I don't know what's happening. I know I should leave, but I just
can't. I can't. At least nobody's getting inside tonight. At least I'm
safe inside. He's got a lot more. He's a lot more optimistic than
I am. Yeah, he has a lot of trust in that dead bolt.
My thing is, I understand the vertigo, especially when you are kind
of thrown into something that you don't understand, yeah, and can't possibly understand
like that, I completely understand the panic. I guess it's probably the best
thing I would say. But I don't know. He seems like he's being
like like I don't know, in a day's sort of like an a lullaby,
sort of like a trance. Like he's being controlled. Yes, his
outcomes are controlled to a certain extent. Yeah, And that I don't understand
at all, because it doesn't it doesn't really make sense to me. So
okay, so let me have on the twenty ninth. We go a little
further ahead here. So it just starts by saying, I guess the new
moon is January fifth, and then he says I heard something. Someone was
outside. I was in the kitchen washing a glass, and I heard something
outside on the deck, a scratching sound, and then it stopped. I
thought I imagined it, but then I heard footsteps, and for some reason
I just ran outside without thinking. I don't know what's wrong with me.
I don't even know if I'm scared anymore, I just want answers. I
can't be sure, but I think it was her. I saw someone running
into the woods. I'm sure it was her, but I couldn't catch her
in time. I thought about chasing her into the woods, but decided against
it. I don't want to get lost out there at night. I turned
around to go back inside, and that's when I saw what she had been
doing on my deck in the first place. Oh my god, she put
hers Oh my god, she put his sweater on there. And that's a
huge, like effigy huge. So we have a huge triangle with his sweater
in the center of it. Yeah. I shouldn't still be surprised by these
artifacts, but this one was huge, taller than me, and it had
my sweatshirt from the storm tied in the middle. Honestly, I was just
going to leave it there. I'm sick of this shit. I was about
to go back inside, but I noticed something had been written on the wall
behind the artifact I had never seen before. All it said was feared the
new Moon. What the fuck does that mean? I don't know where the
woman got a fucking marker. I don't like how fucking familiar. She feels
around my house and property. I hate that I consider this this my house.
Now that this feels normal. Now I'm losing it and I want this
to end. Whatever this new moonshoot shit is. It feels like something's coming.
Fuck this, I get it. I get it, dude. I
actually want to talk about that for a second, because there have been times
where we've been balls deep into into a certain investigation. Yeah. I don't
want to give a specific because I'm sure i'll all missspeak, but usually it's
around the three and a half week to one month mark where nothing surprises you
anymore. A great example this is the Fatel stuff. By the end,
I was uncovering things that like no YouTuber was talking about Reddit Hattan spoken about,
there was nothing on Google. And I remember it's when we got into
the Canada stuff, the German Canada. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's school connection and everyone was like, that's you're fullest shit, and I'm
like, let me show you why I'm not. And then it got to
the point where I'm telling people like Tyler, I'm telling folks about this like
this is fucking insane, like this is this goes way deeper and I'm like,
it's nothing, it's fine, it's fine, everything's fine. I just
want to go to the next fucking thing. This is too much. And
there's times where you get that way as an investigator, where it's so much
off the wall ship one thing after the next, after the next week,
just like I either wanted to go back to normal or I just want to
be fucking done with this, because it's it's get to the point where it's
ridiculous and it's not fun anymore. It desensitizes you to have so many things
happen in rapid succession, especially in these investigations. Now, let me ask
you, during our time where we were in Kentucky every other week, it
seemed like, did you get that way with the weird Yes, to a
certain extent. I never lost the awe. That's one thing that's weird about
Kentucky is I never lost the awe for Kentucky, even going back, like
when we just went back this last few weeks. I don't remember when we
went, but I really did think like after going so many times and going
to do all the crazy stuff we did, I would eventually feel a different
type of way, maybe not necessarily get bored of it, but not be
as awestruck by it, and it never really happens. But yeah, I'm
I don't know. I know how you feel because the time he took Austin
most recently, even though it was more than it has been, we're still
uncovering new things, like finding the train tunnel that they went to in Hell,
You're and finding these weird locations, and there's always something new and exciting.
So yeah, I think I would agree with you on that. Yeah,
okay, So let me go to the fourth and so we're one four
nineteen. Here it says there's going to be a storm tomorrow waite, okay,
January fourth, Yeah, the new moon is tomorrow two. I should
be fine if I just stay inside. So this is kind of odd to
me because it seems like he knows something that he's not telling us at this
point, Like I should be fine if I just stay inside? What do
you mean? Yeah, Like, how do you notice stay inside? How
do you know? Like what if you should go out of town? Why
do you know that you should be inside your house? Like it says fear
the new moon? Like to me, then I'm getting the Yeah, I'm
getting the fun out of the whole place. I'm going back to the motel.
Yeah. So it's been storming all day. This is one five nineteen
and end of the night, thunder and everything. I stayed inside all day.
Nothing has happened yet, maybe nothing will happen. Still, I'm nervous.
I've been freaked down all day. Maybe I should shouldn't have stayed.
I don't know what's wrong with me. I should leave tomorrow. I'm not
even really sure what I'm saying. I just need to occupy myself with something.
Writing this makes me feel less alone. It's like I'm talking to someone
very like owed to the sun vanished there. I can't do this anymore.
I'm leaving tomorrow first thing in the morning. I don't care about selling this
house anymore. I just want to go home. So now he's referring to
his previous house as home instead of this one. So did he break the
trance? Didn't spear break the feelings? What happened transition? Yeah, there's
definitely a disconnect here. I just need to make it through the night.
I'll be fine if I stay inside. The locks are knew and nobody can
get in. I'm gonna go get some wine and stay upstairs. Why would
you drink? Why would you drink if you're scared? Well, she's she's
here, she's in the cellar. Oh my god. Fuck. I practically
ran right into her. She didn't even hear me because of the thunder outside.
Her back was to me, standing dead still in the middle of the
night, just staring at the wall. So here's the picture, miss Britney.
What are we looking at? She has no hair, Yeah, she's
completely bald, and she's staring at the cellar wall. I would have I
told you, I told you, I told you that with him not knowing
his cellar, that there was definitely going to be some kind of tunnel or
something to get in. So here's my ode to my old WWF wrestling fans
back in the day. I'm hitting this bald bitch with a British bulldog,
do you know? Do you know what that is? A British bulldog is
when you run, when someone's facing away from you, you run and you
fucking take your giant man sized hands on the back of their skull and slam
them face first into the fucking man. That's what I'm doing to this bitch
in the cellar. Yeah, I'm committing murder and my Grandpappy's Oh yeah,
the wine's not the only thing gets gonna be red in this cellar right time.
I'm done. I'm a fucking tell you right now. I couldn't I
couldn't move. I was petrified. All I could do is stand there like
a fool and stare at the back of her head. And then she turned
around and she spoke to me. He missed his chance. She's gonna tell
him. She's here to talk about his car's extended warranty. That's what it
is. Yep, she said. She won't hurt me. She said that
she's here to explain everything. I'm sorry, this is all happening so fast.
She's sitting in my living room now. I can't believe this is happening.
Sorry, I'm just trying to make sense of this. She said,
she'll tell me everything. I'll be back, okay, So I'll try to
relay everything she said. But there was so much of it. I can
bear only keep track of it all. I'll start at the beginning. First.
She said, she made the stick things from my protection. She says
it's dangerous out here, and she was trying to protect me when I asked
what she's trying to protect me from. She was quiet for a long time
when she finally replied, I could barely hear there are things in the water.
What's in the water. I didn't really believe her. Oh wait,
let me let me give me one thing. I want to make sure I'm
actually going for Like this all goes in one big line here, but what
would you it's weird that there was a gap between they were in the cellar
to now they're in the living room together having a conversation. No, he
said that she turned around and spoke to him and said that she was there
to explain everything. And then so they probably just walked up the stairs and
went to the living room instead of standing in a dusty old cellar. Yeah,
I guess. Okay, so real quick, we just took a quick
break because I think that this was made before like modern Twitter, so it's
not exactly in perfect order. So if I skipped something, I do apologize.
I'm going to do the best that we can. Yeah. So,
anyway, she said that there's things in the water. I didn't really believe
her, but I didn't have any rational explanation for the things I've seen so
instead I just listened. Here's what she told me. A long time ago,
something came from the sky and landed in the lake. It brought something
with it, something ancient and strange. The people who lived here began to
commune with it. They protected it from the outside world, devoted their lives
to it, and in return, the thing gave them a gift. The
people were blessed with abnormally long, healthy lives and many children. But it
came with a price. I had so many questions, but didn't know which
ones to ask, so I just sat there in silence and took it all
in. The woman continued. In the beginning, there was just the one.
It spent most of its time in the deep in the lake, slumbering,
but over time it made more Instinctively. I asked about the eggs less
all in the woods, and the woman nodded, So, do we have
an alien situation here? It sounds like it, but it also just sounds
like some prehistoric creature. Yeah, there are so many of them now,
she said. They come from the water to lay eggs, and the people
take care of them, hide them away until they hatch. But when they
hatch, they need to feed. What do they eat. At that point,
I was starting to put two and two together. I thought about all
the twins I've seen in town. She must have sensed my understanding, because
she spoke again and said, I told you there was a price. The
people in this town are blessed with many children, but they don't get to
keep them all. When the eggs hatch, the people must bring one of
their own to the woods. The creatures need to eat, she said.
She was quiet again, and then she said, they start with your eyes.
Oh my god, what realization did you just come to. They were
trying to eat her. She was sacrificed. She was one of the fucking
sacrifices. Oh my god. Oh I just got the chills because I remember
the first time I read this, and I was like, oh shit,
it's going down, It's going down. I asked her how she knew all
this, but I already knew the answer. I know because it happened to
me. She said. When I was a girl, my father brought me
into the wood with the others, offered me up to the newborns. She
turned her head towards the window, like she was gazing into the distance.
They took my eyes. I waited until she was ready to speak again.
It was a long time before she did. She told me how she was
led to one of the eggs, how she watched it break open, and
how something came out of it, and before she knew it, something was
on her, burrowing into her. She wasn't sure what happened next, She'll
you, remembering the searing, the pain, and then suddenly she was free.
She doesn't know if she managed to push the creature off or if someone
helped her, but she got away and ran into the woods. She ran
until she couldn't breathe anymore. She was too scared to go home, so
she stayed in the woods. Eventually the forest became her home and she's been
there ever since. That would be fun because you can't really return to your
parents, no, And it's also fun because the things that ate you or
wanted to eat you could potentially come back up into the woods and eat you.
And I mean, and they're still in the fucking woods. Yeah,
well they're technically reside in the lake, but still they can come up from
the lake. That's that's insane. Yeah, she was too scared to go
home, so she stayed in the woods. Kame. We covered that already.
I felt completely bewildered. None of this made any sense to me,
Oh my god, But at the same time it did somehow. So many
questions I wanted to ask, but I couldn't sort out my thoughts. What
I bet that's why his mother hated her father. Oh shit, he sacrificed
her sister or brother. I couldn't figure out what to say. Finally,
I asked, why are you telling me this now, after all this time?
The woman didn't say anything at first, when she took a long labor
breath. It's the same every year, she said. They come out of
their water in the fall, lay their eggs. A few of them begin
to hatch early. They feed on the animals in the woods. They need
strength to make it back to the water, but most of them hatch when
it's darkest. She turned to me, even without eyes, I felt like
she was staring right at me. Tonight is the new moon, she whispered.
Tonight is the ceremony that would explain the lack of deer that he saw
on the way back, because some of them hatched early and they were feeding.
Yeah, and that way explained the red thing that ran across yep.
My stomach began to sink as realization set in, realization about what was happening
out there in the woods at that very moment. We have to do something
to stop it. I boarded out. I started getting out of my chair,
but she shook her head. She said, there was nothing we can
do. It happens the same way every year. We can't stop it.
But I wasn't listening anymore. I don't know what came over me, but
I jumped up and ran out the door, ran into the woods. I
don't even know where I was going. At some point the rain had stopped.
It was dark and I couldn't see anything, but I could hear things
all around me, things moving through the trees, and I can see lights
in the distance, fire or flashlights. I didn't know. I had no
idea where to go or what to do. More than once something ran by
me in the trees. I was using my phone as a flashlight and try
to take pictures of the trees, trying to see what was out there.
But everything was happening so fast. So he has pictures here. It's just
like blurs going across the screen, like something went extremely fast, all right,
he says, I don't even know what these are. Then it's this
is the clearest shot I could get. They moved so fast. Oh oh,
it's like a bloody skull type of thing that he has a picture of
here that just looked like flesh, like meat. Yeah, muscle. I
ran for what seemed like an eternity, ran in circles. I have no
idea where I was. And then somehow I was back in that same clearing
where the eggs had been. But they were all gone now, nothing but
bits of shell on the ground. Naming they successfully hatched, yep, and
he has pictures of broken egg shell. It was over. I was too
late, and it already happened, and they cleaned everything up. I was
too fucking late. I stood alone in the clearing. The lights in the
distance were disappearing. It was getting quieter, and just like that, I
was running again, running towards the lake. I don't even know why.
I couldn't do anything. Branches scraped my face as I ran blindly through the
trees. I reached the water, but there was nothing there. I saw
some faint ripples out on the black water, but besides that it was silent.
I was too late. I'm back at the house now. The woman
is gone. It's so quiet. I don't even know what to say right
now. I'm going to leave in the morning. I'm sorry. I just
don't know what else to say. I'm sorry. I'm not sure when i'll
tweet again. I need to take a break and get my head together,
but I'll be back. I have to go back. I want what this
happened again. So I guess that's all for now. I'm heading back to
school next week, so hopefully that I'll take my mind off things. I
need some sense of normalcy again. I'm still here, I'm still alive.
I left the house after that night. I decided not to sell it.
I don't think anyone would buy it anyway. I locked my doors, I
got into my car, and I left. I'm home now, trying to
process everything. The morning after, it was so quiet and peaceful in the
woods. There was like nothing had happened at all. I'm still not sure
what to believe. It sort of feels like it happened to someone else,
or like I dreamed it. Maybe. Sorry it took me so long to
update. I wasn't sure what to say. I still have so many questions.
I might never have all the answers, but something happened out there.
I can't explain it, and I don't know if I could have done anything
to stop it. But whatever it was, I can't let it happen again.
And that's why I'm not selling my house. The woman said this happens
every year, if she was telling the truth, and maybe there's something I
can do next time. I have to try, so I guess that's all
for now. I'm heading back to school next week, so hopefully that'll take
my mind back to normalcy. I'm not sure when i'll tweet again. I'm
sorry, and that's the end. He hasn't fucking tweeted since January sixteenth,
twenty nineteen. Are you serious talk about a fucking cliffhanger? Oh my god.
So there was one part that I know I missed that was somewhere in
the threads. So there was one like precursor to the whole eggs thing where
he goes into town Eats at the diner and he tries to order eggs Benedict
and they bring it to him and there's no eggs, and he's like,
well, what the fuck? And they just say that they were out of
eggs. Yeah, so we don't have eggs. We never have eggs.
So he checked the he had a picture of the menu, and it just
says, Benedict, there's no eggs, Benedict. It's just Benedict to it.
What do you think about that? This was really well done. And
what I love about this is he never came back. Yeah, Like,
I hate it because I would love an update like twenty twenty three. We
can a fucking update this October. I would love that. But at the
same time, it feels like it accomplished exactly what it set out to.
He stuck to the narrative. He's stuck to what he wanted to accomplish and
that's it. Yeah. And unlike the Sun vanished, he didn't play into
his audience very much like he would kind of tweet back and forth on occasion,
but he didn't let anybody from the audience dictate the narrative. Yeah,
and I can definitely I can appreciate that from a creative stance of like,
Okay, well, I'm making this for myself and also for you, but
it's got to play out the way that I say it plays out, Like
I haven't my decision. Yeah, I know how this should go in my
head, and because I know how it should go, that's how it's going
to go into discussion. And it was very well done. Yeah, shorter,
but it's very well done. Well. The photos are great, the
videos are are They're terrifying. Yeah, he did an amazing job on the
special effects. And what I love about this is we don't know who's behind
it because unlike the Sun Vanished, where there was an email, then there
was a ship that was purchased and it went to a production company. His
biodis says, I DK, that's it. That is so I said,
it's still up. You go to his Twitter account right now one hundred and
twenty four thousand followers, and that's it. And then you go to his
people. He's following is he following? So he follows John Mullaney, a
woman named Sophia who's a costume illustrator. So I'm guessing that's who did the
Paul Schreer apparently he works on the League FX, Nick Kroll who works for
Netflix, and then two other people one one guy's a VP of Creative and
he's an artist, and then one's just a fan of the of the thing
apparently, and that's it interesting, Like, so there's not enough here that
really it doesn't show you what's going on. He's not trying to sell this
and making into a bigger deal than it really is. And it was just
so well done. Because the account was made in twenty fourteen, there was
like a year between when it was created to his first tweet, which I
can appreciate. And it started out normal, like just like how Twitter was
back in the day, which was just I'm vlogging every bit of my life.
And it was fucking well done, very well done. The horror was
there, and my thing was did you see the ending coming with the like
the team work between the woman, you know what I will say. But
what I thought I was going to spoil was the eggs, But I cannot
remember what happened past the eggs. Yeah, and so that the last bit
was all like basically a complete surprise to me because I could not remember what
happened with the eggs. I thought it was a bird, honestly. Yeah,
for some reason, it sounds like it was like a reptile. Yeah.
But so this is what I find interesting is there's a lot of unanswered
questions. So she mentions a ceremony. Is this like a religious type ceremony?
Are they viewing this as a god or is it under you know,
if they can give them abnormally long lives, healthy children, YadA, YadA,
YadA, then I would have to be and a god like level.
Yeah. What other powers thing possess? Is it controlling anything else in the
area? What were the So then we have our unanswered questions we had to
throw out there. What the funk were the guys in the boat doing?
Yeah? Like were they just keeping an eye on it? Yeah, making
sure that he wasn't trying to do anything crazy? Where'd the woman go?
How did the woman survive with no eyes in the forest? Because I understand
like, oh, after fifteen years, twenty years in the woods, you
would learn how to survive. The first year would be the hardest, The
first month would be the hardest. Like, how did she learn to survive?
Was there someone else helping her? Was there his grandpa? Is that
why she was familiar with the Oh shit, that that could be the twist
right there. If you think that the mom hates the grandpa because they sacrificed
a kid, but then to make up for it when she when he found
her in the woods and saw what they did to them because they never saw
the aftermath. Yeah, they never saw what happened to the children after they
were dropped off. Yeah, so maybe he saw are in the woods,
felt guilty and spent the rest of us life trying to take care of her,
trying to reverse what he did. Gregory, get ahold of us.
We can we can help you out with the conclusion of part two here.
Yeah, I love this. Let me know what you guys think of this.
Um. This one was shorter, like Britney said, it's a lot
shorter than The Sun Vanished. But it was one of those where it was
one of my favorites. I think it's for obvious reasons at this point.
Now they're worth the conclusion. So if you guys have any more like this,
you want us to cover reddits on Twitter, Reddit, Tumbler, wherever,
let me know because I know of a few more, but I don't
know if any more that are this well and this well put together. The
Sun Vanished, I think the first two parts of the Sun vanished. That's
as good as it can possibly get, I think for a Twitter arg Yeah,
this one again, it was great because it seemed like it was a
one man wrecking crew who just came in and did what you need to do
and then left. Yeah. So with that being said, Miss Brittany,
the only thing I want to remind everyone we have a really off the wall
Patreon episode this week's if you guys want more extra content add fore all that
kind of stuff patreon dot com slash Tales from the Dark. This one's gonna
be fucking weird. Yeah. And so with that being said, Miss Pretty,
unless there's anything else you'd like to add, I do not. I
think we're gonna have to add the final episode of the Great Greed Twitter arc
to our never ending but are always growing Tales from the Dark