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Hello, and welcome to Blurry Photos. I'm David Flora. It's around about

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time, probably past two for some
campfire ghost stories, and I've got a

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handful here for you to play around
the campfire. No news on a streaming

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date for the film, unfortunately,
but check out Barrego Triangle dot com to

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keep up with where it will be
showing in select theaters. We've had it

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in Kashakta, Ohio, Joplin,
Missouri, and there's a handful of others

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that are coming up soon. Just
working out the details on it. Other

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than that, you can check out
five Minute Frights, a storytelling podcast where

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I read reports written by Tom Lyons, author of Living among Bigfoot. You

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should be able to find that on
your podcatcher, especially if you search the

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number five then Minute Frights onto the
Outdoorsy Horror. I have four stories and

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a pume for you for this offering. Receive it thus and happy camping.

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Thirteen Steps The thirteen Steps down to
Hell were located in multi cemetery in Washington.

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There used to be a staircase that
began at ground level and descended down

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under the earth. It was said
to be a low grade entrance to the

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tomb of a wealthy local family.
According to the legend, you had to

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go to the cemetery late at night
and walk down these thirteen steps. While

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descending the steps, you wouldn't be
able to hear anything once you had reached

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the bottom. If you turned around, you would be confronted by a vision

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of hell. They say that the
vision would drive you insane. Those who

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watched people performing this rituals said that
they witnessed the person's stop at the bottom,

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turn around, and then collapse to
their knees in horror. According to

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some reports, several children emerged nearly
comatose from the steps, and many of

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them never uttered another word. The
thirteen steps no longer exist, as the

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story goes, they were bulldozed or
filled in with concrete years ago. Since

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then, there have been severe no
trespassing limitations on the cemetery, and even

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rumors of kids making expeditions late at
night to Maltby Cemetery armed with shovels,

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hoping to unher the thirteen steps down
to hill. My girlfriend and I wanted

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to see this for ourselves. You
have to go down these thirteen steps,

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and then you see a little chair. If you sit in the chair.

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It automatically means that you've sold your
soul to the devil. It sounds really

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creepy. I was at church with
my friend and his pastor said that he

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went there when he was sixteen years
old and it was the worst experience of

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his entire life. A group of
us headed out to the cemetery in Maltby.

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We made sure we got there as
close to midnight as possible. After

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about an hour of searching around in
the dark, we finally found it.

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In the moonlight, you couldn't see
the bottom of the steps. We tried

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using flashlight and we still couldn't see
the bottom. It was frightening, and

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one of the girls was so freaked
out that she couldn't even look down into

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the staircase. I decided I was
going to go for it, but as

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I walked down the first two steps, I started to fill sick. After

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the next two steps, I felt
lightheaded. When I got to the sixth

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step, I became so cold that
I could barely breathe, and I could

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hear muffled yelling and screaming. I
was not going any further. I couldn't

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even take the next step. When
I turned to climb back up. I

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could feel something pushing on my back, and I couldn't see out up to

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my friends clearly. When I finally
reached the top of the staircase, I

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realized the yelling and screaming was coming
from my friends. They were screaming that

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I had disappeared when I went down. I'm six feet tall, I couldn't

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have been out of sight after having
only gone down halfway. Needless to say,

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we were all completely freaked out and
got out of there as quickly as

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possible. To this day, every
now and then I dream about the thirteen

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steps that lead down to Hell,
and I always wake up in a cold

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sweat. Side note, there is
also a thirteen step cemetery in Pallo called

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pleasant Ridge Cemetery. There's a set
of stairs leading up to the cemetery gate

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that has twelve steps, but at
night, the thirteenth step is said to

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appear clown. At midnight. There
was a man who wanted to hire a

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clown for his son's birthday party.
He asked around at work in one of

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his colleagues, Sergio, gave him
the number of a clown who he said

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came highly recommended. The man called
the number and arranged for the clown to

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come over on Saturday and entertain the
kids at the party. However, when

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Saturday came around, it was raining
and the clown didn't show up. The

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children all grew bored of waiting and
went home early. His son was terribly

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disappointed and ran upstairs to his bedroom
in tears. The birthday party was completely

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ruined. The father kept calling the
clown's number, but there was no answer.

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Why did you recommend such an unreliable
clowns Sergio, he thought bitterly.

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That night, the man and his
wife were lying in bed, exhausted.

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The party had been a disaster,
and he was still irritated that the clown

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had not shown up. What time
did you tell him to come, his

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wife asked, I said, very
clear, Saturday, at twelve o'clock.

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He replied, maybe he thought it
was twelve at night, said his wife.

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A clown at midnight? The man
laughed out loud. Who would hire

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a clown to come to a birthday
party at midnight? He turned over and

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drifted off to sleep. At midnight, they were awoken by a horrible scream.

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It sounded like their son. Something's
wrong, whispered the mother, turning

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on the light. Stay here,
said the man jumping out of bed.

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I'll check on him. Maybe he's
just having a bad dream. He stepped

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into the hallway and immediately stopped in
his tracks. There was a trail of

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muddy footprints on the floor. They
were too large to belong to a normal

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man. The footprints looked like clown
shoes. They led from the open window

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in the bathroom, down the hallway
to his son's bedroom. A clown,

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thought the horrified father a clown.
At midnight, and then, without knowing

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why, he remembered something about Sergio, his friend from work who had recommended

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the clown. Sergio had two sons, but one of them had died not

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long ago under mysterious circumstances. He
had never discussed it with Sergio himself for

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obvious reasons, but rumors had spread
around the office that after several days of

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intense searching, Sergio's son had been
found dead in the woods. Why had

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he remembered that just now? With
a shaking hand, the father reached out

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and opened his son's bedroom door.
The room was empty, the bed was

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unmade, and the window was wide
open. There were traces of mud on

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the carpet. The man let out
an anguished howl and ran out of the

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house. His wife followed him.
They started calling a son's name over and

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over. The neighbors turned on their
lights and came out to see what was

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wrong. Someone has kidnapped my son, the man cried, it was a

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clown. One of the neighbors called
the police, and a few minutes later,

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several squad cars arrived. They immediately
spread out and started searching the area

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for the missing boy. Just then, the man received a phone call.

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It was his colleague, Sergio.
He was crying between babbels and sobs.

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Sergio tried to apologize for what he
had done. What did you do?

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Cried the father, What did you
do? Where is my son? Who

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was that clown you told me to
hire? I don't even know, Sergio

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whispered, his voice barely audible.
I don't even know if he's human,

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but I know he's hungry, always
hungry, hungry for more victims. He

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took my oldest son. Then last
week he came back for my youngest I

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told him to take yours instead.
I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. Oh

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my son, I love it.
Where is he screamed the man, where

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is my son looking in the forest? Sergio whimpered. He always nails the

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heads of his victims to the trees
as a signal. What the hell do

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you mean by that? The man
screamed. Before he could say another word,

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he heard the sound of a gunshot
on the other end of the phone,

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and the line went dead. The
father dropped the phone and ran out

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of the house. He went into
the forest which stood behind the house.

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When he came to a big,
gnarled oak tree, he suddenly stopped,

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sank to his knees, and began
crying uncontrollably. He had found what remained

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of his son, Labrue. My
mother told me this story once, and

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my grandmother told me that she lived
through it. In the early nineteen sixties,

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there was a small town in Mexico
where a lot of babies just happened

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to be born around the same time. It said that there was a woman

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who haunted the town. She was
not a ghost, She was one of

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the two hundred people that lived in
the town at the time. People say

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that she was a witch, a
worshiper of the devil, and many people

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said that she would go out into
the fields in the middle of the night

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when everyone was asleep. Some local
farmers claimed that they would see her whenever

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they would go outside to check on
their animals, because their animals would make

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a lot of noise whenever she passed
by. They could never tell who it

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was because it was always pitch black
and they couldn't see a thing. It

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was a poor town with a couple
of street lights. People weren't so worried

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about her for a while because they
saw that she did no harm to them,

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until something terrible happened. One night, a married couple slept with their

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baby between them. They were so
poor that they couldn't afford a mattress and

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had a carpet as their bed.
The parents didn't sleep too close to their

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baby because they were afraid that they
would accidentally roll over and hurt their child.

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The mother and father were deep into
their sleep until the mother heard the

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baby cry terribly. It shrieked a
blood curdling scream, loud enough to wake

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up my grandmother and grandfather, who
lived next to them. The baby cried,

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and the mother woke up and tried
to put him back to sleep.

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Whenever she went to sleep again,
she heard the baby cry once more.

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She woke up again and did the
same as before, and this went on

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for about two more times. The
mother became angry and impatient with her baby

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because she was really tired. The
father was asleep and would not wake up

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no matter how many times his baby
cried. The fifth time that the baby

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cried, his mother ignored it.
The baby cried for another couple of minutes.

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The mother continued to ignore her baby
until she subconsciously heard someone walking outside.

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She heard the door squeak open slowly, then it shut loudly. The

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door was made of thick metal,
so the loud sound terrified her and finally

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woke her and her husband up as
well. When she looked for her baby,

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she saw that he was quiet and
thought that he was sleeping. The

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mother asked her husband why he wouldn't
wake up before he said that he never

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heard anything. When the mother went
to hold her baby, she saw that

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he was cold. She kissed her
baby to try and wake him up,

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but he wouldn't. The baby was
dead. She took off his blanket.

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She saw that his stomach and arms
had scratch marks. Someone was hurting her

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child while he was sleeping. Then
her husband cried Lebruha lebrue Hala Mato Matolillo.

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The witch. The witch killed him. She killed my son. The

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mother swore that she heard a woman
giggling. After that, many parents held

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their children close to them whenever they
slept. Sometimes children would cry in the

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middle of the night out of nowhere, and their mothers would begin to pray.

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The children who could speak, said
that they would feel someone grabbing them.

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The witch would leave after It wasn't
until years later that two children died,

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a brother and a sister. Except
it was in a river in the

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town. One man swore that he
saw a woman pushing the boy in girl's

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heads into the water and laughing when
she did so. He yelled at her

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to leave them alone and ran to
stop her. She kept laughing at him

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and was singing as he ran towards
her, But when he almost reached her,

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she was gone, and the boy
and girl's bodies were floating on the

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water. People began to suspect women
who could be the witch, but coincidentally,

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many people left the town around that
time to move to other places.

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She could have been one of them. Suspension Bridge. My buddy told me

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a story once about a time when
he lived in Japan and a horrible event

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that he experienced while there. At
the time, he was seventeen years old

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and had managed to find himself a
summer job working in a store that sold

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electrical goods. One day, after
work, the manager of the store decided

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to bring all of the employees out
for dinner. The restaurant they were going

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to was up in the mountains,
and to get there they had to cross

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an old suspension bridge that stretched across
a deep valley. There were five of

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them in total, so they decided
to take two cars. The manager drove

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the car in front with two teenage
boys inside. My friend drove the car

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behind, and his colleague was in
the passenger seat. They started out straight

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after work, but the manager took
a wrong turn, so by the time

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they reached the suspension bridge it was
almost twilight. There was a light rain,

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and the bridge was covered in a
strange, wispy fog. The manager

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drove across the suspension bridge and my
friend followed close behind in the other car.

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However, when they reached the center
of the bridge, the manager's car

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came to a sudden halt. The
two people in the car behind were puzzled

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they couldn't understand why their boss had
stopped in the middle of the bridge.

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After waiting a few minutes, they
began to get impatient since they showed no

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signs of moving. My friend was
about to get out and see what the

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trouble was. Just then they saw
the rear door of the car in front

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open and the two boys who were
sitting in the back seat got out.

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My friend opened his door and was
about to ask them what was wrong,

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but the words died in his throat. He heard the boys screaming their lungs

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out. The two young men joined
hands and started to run like crazy.

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They rushed over to the side of
the suspension bridge and threw themselves over the

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guard rail. Horrified, my friend
rushed over to the guardrail and peered over

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the side, but he couldn't see
anything because of the mist. The drop

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was over one hundred feet. Nobody
could survive that. He stood there for

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a few minutes and stunned to silence, staring down into the foggy abyss.

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When he went over to check the
car in front, he found the manager

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crouched over the steering wheel, gripping
it so tightly that his knuckles were white.

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Tears were streaming down his face,
and he kept muttering under his breath,

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over and over. I want to
do it, but I can't do

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it. I want to do it, but I can't do it. I

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want to do it, but I
can't do it. My friend called the

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police, and when they arrived,
they had to pry the manager's hands off

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the steer ringmill. They took him
away in an ambulance, still muttering and

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gibbering as if he had taken leave
of his sanity. Later that night,

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the bodies of the two young men
were fished out of the river. My

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friend and his colleague were persistently questioned
by the police, but they couldn't shed

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any light on the puzzling incident.
The police seemed to think it was some

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kind of weird suicide pact. A
few months after that, my friend went

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to visit the store manager, who
was recovering in a mental hospital. After

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some small talk, he turned the
conversation to the strange events that had taken

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place that tragic summer night. The
store manager beckoned him closer and whispered in

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his ear. He told him that
as soon as they were driving across the

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suspension bridge, he was shocked to
see a woman suddenly emerge from the fog.

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She stood right in front of the
car, and he had to slam

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on the brakes to avoid hitting her. The woman had long black hair and

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was dressed in a brilliant white shroud. All of a sudden, he noticed

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that the mist was creeping closer,
encircling the car. Then, from the

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depths of the whisping fog, a
group of children appeared. They were dressed

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in similar white shrouds, and their
faces were deformed and smeared with blood.

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Before they knew what was happening,
the grotesque children surrounded the car and began

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beating on the windows and doors with
their fists. The children began CHANTINGSSS julians

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Us. The manager said that the
children's haunting voices echoed around in his head,

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and he felt powerless to resist.
He clung onto the steering wheel for

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dear life. At that moment,
he dearly wanted to die, but some

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small part of them desperately wanted to
leave. He heard the boys in the

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back seat screaming. As the children
opened the door and dragged them out into

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the mist, The terrified manager had
to fight the urge to join them.

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In death. After hearing this story, my friend was shaking with fear as

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he rose to leave. The manager
grabbed him roughly by the arm and hissed,

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I think that's what happened. But
don't tell the police. They'll never

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believe you. Sometimes I don't even
believe myself. Just promise me one thing.

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Promise me that you will never attempt
to cross that suspension bridge again,

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or they'll come for you and drag
you to your death as well. The

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spiral stairs, the narrow staircase leads
the way up to the padlocked door below.

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The halls as dark as sin,
with bloodstains on the floor. Nobody

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knows who climbed halfway to where the
stairs are bent, what crouching figure waited

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there with murderous in tint, And
no one knows what now ascends the thirteenth

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step and stops and flutters like a
dying bird before it moans it drops.

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One night I stepped into the hall
reciting whispered prayers, and to my horror

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saw what stands upon the spiral stairs. There's a handful of spooky tales to

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tell around Yon Foyer in a witchy, clowny stair field, nutshell and now

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the darkness at the bottom of the
stairs. Pun. There's a nasty disease

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going around, and it seems like
it started with some kids at a graveyard.

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The first thing it happens is you
get a sore throat, then you

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get better, then you get a
fever, then you get better, then

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you get fatigued, and it just
keeps going like this. A Baker's dozen

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times all because someone walked into a
tune and got thirteen strips. There's a

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comedy club in Mexico where all the
saucy witches go to drink tequila, and

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here's some dark comedy. It's called
La Bruhaha. Hey, them's puns.

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