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Speaker 1: Hey guys, it's EJ here at Fast Food Horror. Just

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give you a little bit of heads up what's gonna

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happen over the next few weeks. So this is chapter

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five of our story The Shaft. We're envisioning at least

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two more chapters before we wrap up this story. After this,

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we'll have one more story, all new before we end

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this season. Now, during our little hiatus, probably about two months,

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we will be dropping some classic stories here at Fast

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Food Horror, along with a fun new segment. It's based

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on all of the social media queries we've gotten from

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you guys about Igor, what he's reading, what he's listening to,

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and most notably, what he's watching. So Igor Froedrick will

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get his own segment at least once a month for

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the foreseeable future, entitled I Gore's Spooky Section. It will

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detail what he's reading, what podcast he's listening to, and

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what movies he's found. Now that we've gone into all

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of that, I Gore take it away.

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Speaker 2: Good meetings. Listeners to chapter five of The Shaft.

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Speaker 1: I clicked on the email. What other secrets was I

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about to learn?

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Speaker 2: Dear sir?

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Speaker 1: It started, I received your freedom of information at request

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concerning the property located at. Normally, our office would only

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send you the documents concerning the property, but this one

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piqued my curiosity and I wanted to give you a

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summation of what was located. I found that, as you

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probably know, the property in question was owned by the

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Catholic Diocese in some such capacity, dating all the way

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back to eighteen oh two, officially in our records. I

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did further digging here at county records and on the archive,

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I found that a church to Saint Michael the Archangel

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has stood on the property since before our country's founding.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: I kept reading. I was able to find mentions of

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the church in various documents, historical records, and articles extending

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all the way back to the mid seventeen hundreds, copies

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of which are all attached now. The curious things were

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that the church has been built and rebuilt multiple times

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on the exact location, not moved to different parts of

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the property, on the exact spot at the rear back corner,

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and in every version and iteration of the church, it

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is always named for Michael the Archangel, and there are

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no mentions of the build specks past the exterior and

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interior at or extending above ground level. No mentions of

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a basement or anything below ground level, even though there

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are doors in the plans of all the iterations of

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Saint Michael the Archangel that obviously were for a basement.

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Oh man, humph, if you only knew. I continued on further,

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and this is just me here. The need for a

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church in the early years in that location seems odd

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as the closest population was Little Fort Niagara, built by

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the French a few miles away in seventeen fifty one

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and was burned down in seventeen fifty nine. There were

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two villages near by, the village of Manchester and Suspension Bridge.

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Later they merged, becoming the city of Niagara Falls. But

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traditionally a church would be at the center of a settlement,

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not so far away from the congregants. I'm not even

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sure what peoples would be attending service there. The fort

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would have had its own chaplain and therefore its own

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church gathering place, so no need for a church outside

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the fort's walls a few miles away and Suspension Bridge

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in Manchester were still an inconvenient trip from the Church

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of Saint Michael. The Archangel. The last church to Michael

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the Archangel burned to the ground in the nineteen seventies,

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about the time Niagara Falls started losing its population due

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to the factory closures, which again in modern times, seems

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an odd location for a church right in the middle

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of the factories and businesses. After it burned down, the

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lot was fenced in and had been vacant for some

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years until the state leased the property and paved it

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for the parking lot there today. The state had tried

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to buy it, but the sale was rejected by the owner,

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the diocese. The diocese did allow for a lease only

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as a parking lot, no other construction allowed, as outlined

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in the lease agreement. Again, all documents attached. If you

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have any other requests or questions, please reach out. Signed

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Tony Scare Humphm, Tony, you have no idea the number

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of questions I have. I closed out the email and

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grabbed a sheet of paper and began to write out

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what I knew. If everything was true that an ancient,

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immortal giant serpent had awoken from its slumber in some

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sort of cave that extended along the river, that he

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needed to consume seven people in order to gain his

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strength to emerge from said cave. That the cave's entrance

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had been concealed by the church by a church over

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the last almost three hundred years, and that the church

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had known about the serpent. Hum the serpent was now awake.

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Why why, after all these years was it awake? What

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had woken it up?

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Speaker 2: Or?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 2: No? Who?

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Speaker 1: I opened a new browser and typed the key words

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Niagara falls this year and missing persons. The page populated

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with news reports, and I started to read the articles,

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looking to see how many persons in the last few

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months went missing, or last scene near the old factory

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section of the city, and how many were still missing.

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Speaker 2: Oh.

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Speaker 1: I counted the names in the last thirty days, one, two, three, four, five,

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all last scene in a two mile radius of the

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shaft and the serpent. Olivia said seven seven persons needed

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to be consumed. I still had time. I knew what

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I had to do. It would be dark soon. I

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had to get moving, though,