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<v Speaker 1>Now, put your chair a little closer, friend, and listen

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<v Speaker 1>to the wind rattling, the wind of panes. We put

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of faith in the walls we build, don't

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<v Speaker 1>We We buy heavy dead bolts, We leave the porch

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<v Speaker 1>light on, and we locked the doors when the sun

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<v Speaker 1>goes down, trusting that the wood and brick and mortar

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<v Speaker 1>will keep the dark at bay. But what happens when

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<v Speaker 1>the dark doesn't need to break down the door? What

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<v Speaker 1>happens when the things that go bump in the night

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<v Speaker 1>just slip right through the keyhole and pluck you right

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<v Speaker 1>out of your own safe haven. Now, if you want

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<v Speaker 1>to know how fragile that fault sense of security really is,

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<v Speaker 1>you only need to travel down to the foothills of

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<v Speaker 1>the Ozarks, head on over to Springfield, Missouri, and let

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<v Speaker 1>the locals tell you the ghost story of East Delmar Street.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a true story, and that's exactly what makes it

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<v Speaker 1>so bone chilly. Now. It was a night of June six,

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen ninety two. The air was thick with humidity and

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<v Speaker 1>the sweet, heavy scan of bloom and honeysuckle. It was

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<v Speaker 1>a night of beginnings. Over at Kickapoo High School, the

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<v Speaker 1>senior c had just thrown their caps into the air.

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<v Speaker 1>Among those bright faced graduates nineteen year old Susie Streeter

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<v Speaker 1>and her friend, eighteen year old Stacy McCall. These were good,

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<v Speaker 1>vibrant girls, with their whole lives stretching out ahead of

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<v Speaker 1>them like an unpaved highway. After a night of hopping

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<v Speaker 1>between graduation parties, laughing and celebrating the way youth does,

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<v Speaker 1>the girls decided they were too tired to make it

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<v Speaker 1>to their final plan sleepover. Around two fifteen in the morning,

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<v Speaker 1>they pointed the car towards Susie's house at seventeen seventeen niece,

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<v Speaker 1>Delmar Street. Waiting at home was Susie's mother, forty seven

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<v Speaker 1>year old Cheryl Levitt. Cheryl was a hard work and

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<v Speaker 1>single mom, a popular local hairdresser, and a woman furiously

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<v Speaker 1>protective of her daughter. She'd spend a quiet evening at

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<v Speaker 1>home painting a dresser, talking on the phone with a friend,

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<v Speaker 1>and getting ready for bed. So the girls arrived, barked

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<v Speaker 1>their cars in the circular driveway, and walked through the

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<v Speaker 1>front door. We know that they made it inside. We

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<v Speaker 1>know they locked the door behind them. Evidence told the

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<v Speaker 1>story of a completely normal Monday and end till long night.

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<v Speaker 1>The girls took off their makeup. The washcloths in the

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<v Speaker 1>bathroom were still damp. The next morning, they took off

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<v Speaker 1>their jewelrys. Cheryl had climbed into bed, her book resting

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<v Speaker 1>on her nightstand, her glasses folded neatly next to it,

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<v Speaker 1>and then, somewhere in the dead quiet hours of the morning,

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<v Speaker 1>the veil between the safe world and the nightmare world

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<v Speaker 1>simply tore open. When the sun came up on June seventh,

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<v Speaker 1>the Missouri heat was already starting to bake the asphalt.

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<v Speaker 1>Around eight am, a friend of the girl's named Janelle

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<v Speaker 1>came knocking on the front door. The girls were supposed

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<v Speaker 1>to be at a water park that morning, and Janelle

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<v Speaker 1>was there to wake them up. But when she walked

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<v Speaker 1>up the concrete steps, the first sign of something wick

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<v Speaker 1>had presented itself. The glass globe of the front porch

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<v Speaker 1>light had been shattered out. The bulb mind you, Oh no,

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<v Speaker 1>The bulb was perfectly intact, still burning bright in the

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<v Speaker 1>morning sun, but the thick glass covering it was smashed

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<v Speaker 1>to pieces, glittering on the welcome mat like scattered diamonds.

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<v Speaker 1>Janelle knocked no answer. She turned the knob, and to

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<v Speaker 1>her surprise, the front door clicked open. It was unlocked,

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<v Speaker 1>so she stepped inside, calling out their names. The silence

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<v Speaker 1>that answered her was deafening and heavy, the kind of

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<v Speaker 1>silence that rings in your ears. Now the house wasn't ransacked.

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<v Speaker 1>There's no overturned furniture, no broken lamps, no muddy footprints,

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<v Speaker 1>and absolutely no blood. Everything was perfectly, unnervingly still. The

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<v Speaker 1>only moving thing in that house was Sheryl's little Yorkshire Terrier, Cinnamon.

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<v Speaker 1>The poor dog was pacing the floor, trembling and whining,

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<v Speaker 1>deeply distressed by terror. Only the animal had witnessed. As

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<v Speaker 1>Janelle and other friends now began walking through the house,

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<v Speaker 1>the hairs on their arms started as tand up lined

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<v Speaker 1>up perfectly. On the bedroom floor were all three women's purses.

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<v Speaker 1>Inside were their keys, their wallets, and their cash. Out.

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<v Speaker 1>In the driveway, all three of their cars were part

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<v Speaker 1>cold to the touch. On the nightstand, Cheryl's cigarettes and

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<v Speaker 1>lighter said untouched. In the living room, the television had

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<v Speaker 1>been left on, buzzing a steady, droning static into the

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<v Speaker 1>empty room. It was a Maurice Celeste on dry land.

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<v Speaker 1>It was as if Cheryl Susie and Stacy had simply

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<v Speaker 1>been erased from existence mid breath. Now Here's where the

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<v Speaker 1>tragedy of human nature makes the mystery even darker. Unaware

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<v Speaker 1>that they were standing in what was likely a major

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<v Speaker 1>crime scene, the well meeting friends began to clean up.

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<v Speaker 1>Janelle's boyfriend got a broom and swept up the shattered

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<v Speaker 1>porchlight glass, during it in the trash and wiping away

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<v Speaker 1>any fingerprints it might have been left on the shards.

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<v Speaker 1>Worse still, Stacy's mother, Janice, arrived at the house, sick

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<v Speaker 1>with worry. Checking the answer machine for clues, she pressed play.

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<v Speaker 1>There were a few normal messages and then a bizarre,

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<v Speaker 1>chilling recording. Janis later described it as a strange, gruff

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<v Speaker 1>male voice saying things that didn't make sense. Enter panic

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<v Speaker 1>state and fumbling with the unfamiliar machine, she accidentally hit

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<v Speaker 1>the delete ld. That ghostly voice, perhaps the voice of

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<v Speaker 1>the very man who took them, was wiped into the

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<v Speaker 1>ether forever. So when the Springfield Police and later the

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<v Speaker 1>FBI arrived, they were completely baffled. Three grown women, one

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<v Speaker 1>of them a fiercely protected mother who had fought like

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<v Speaker 1>a cornered wildcat to protect a child had been taken

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<v Speaker 1>from a small, cramped suburban house without leaving a single

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<v Speaker 1>sign of a struggle. Another neighbors heard a scream. Another

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<v Speaker 1>neighbors heard a car peel out. So how do you

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<v Speaker 1>force three women out of their home in the middle

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<v Speaker 1>of the night. Did the intruder have a gun, did

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<v Speaker 1>he know them, did he trick them into opening the door?

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<v Speaker 1>Or did he already have a key? So the investigation

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<v Speaker 1>dragged on, from days to months to decades. Over five

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<v Speaker 1>thousand tips pored, The police dragged lakes, dug up farm fields,

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<v Speaker 1>and interviewed every known criminal in the Tri state area.

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<v Speaker 1>And then, years later came to the most terrifying rumor of all.

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<v Speaker 1>Just a short drive from the house on East Elbour

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<v Speaker 1>there was a large medical center called a Cock South Hospital.

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<v Speaker 1>In the summer of nineteen ninety two, right when the

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<v Speaker 1>women vanished, they were pouring the concrete foundation for a

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<v Speaker 1>brand new parking garage. A tipster claimed that the killer

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<v Speaker 1>had taken the women, disposed of them in the construction site,

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<v Speaker 1>and the next morning the heavy cement trucks rolled in

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<v Speaker 1>and paved right over them. In two thousand and six,

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<v Speaker 1>a mechanical engineer took ground penetrating radar to that very

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<v Speaker 1>parking garage, and wouldn't you know it, the radar hit

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<v Speaker 1>upon three distinct human size and obelies, very deep beneath

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<v Speaker 1>the concrete, three shapes resting side by side in the dark.

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<v Speaker 1>But for their own reasons, the police refused to dig.

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<v Speaker 1>They said the radar was a conclusive that core drilling

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<v Speaker 1>would cost too much and compromise the structural integrity of

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<v Speaker 1>the hospital's garage, based on a wild conspiracy theory. So

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<v Speaker 1>to this day, hundreds of cars park over that spot

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<v Speaker 1>every single afternoon, completely unaware of what or who might

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<v Speaker 1>be resting quietly beneath their tires. Thirty years have come

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<v Speaker 1>and gone. The house at seventeen seventeen East Delmer still stands,

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<v Speaker 1>looking just like any other house on the block. But

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<v Speaker 1>the folks in Springfield they know better. They know that

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<v Speaker 1>on June seventh, nineteen ninety two, the Boogeyman didn't hide

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<v Speaker 1>in the woods. He walked right up the concrete steps,

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<v Speaker 1>shouted the light, and took three instant souls into the

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<v Speaker 1>dark with him. So when you go to bed to night,

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<v Speaker 1>lock your doors. But remember the Springfield three, and know

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<v Speaker 1>that sometimes A lock is just a piece of metal

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<v Speaker 1>after all, and the dark always finds a way in