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Speaker 1: Hey guys, it's E. J. Miller here at Fast Food Horror.

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I'm the editor, creator, writer, and voice for most of

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the characters you've heard here. I want to apologize for

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the lack of content these last few weeks. I was

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cast in a musical, and over the last few months

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I've been at rehearsal at the theater every single day.

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We just wrapped up our performances, so we'll be getting

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back onto a somewhat regular schedule of releases here going forward.

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So having said that, I hope you enjoy our next

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installment of the Tale of the House on Morrow Hill.

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And without further ado, your MC, I goor Froedrick.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Fast Food Horror.

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Speaker 3: In our next installment of the Tale of the House

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on Morrow Hill, entitled The Night Parade, the fifth and

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sixth Night, where our resident is starting to find what

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really is going on in the home he now resides.

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Speaker 1: I spent the rest of the night on the couch,

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sleeping on and off with each creek and sigh of

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the bones of the ancient home, working my plan over

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and over, making sure I had each possibility covered. I

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only hoped I could find the necessary items in town

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to do it. I woke the next morning before my

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wife with the aid of my Apple Watch, Thank God

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for that. I was so exhausted and I had a

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limited amount of time to get it done. You see,

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we were notified by our lawyer the day prior that

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we were needed in the city to sign paperwork finalizing

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the transfer of the home and estate, the establishment of

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the bed and breakfast there in our new residence, along

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with some other paperwork, insurance stuff, and what nots. We

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decided we'd travel into the city late that morning, meet

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with the lawyer in the afternoon to cross all the

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t's and dot all the eyes. Since it would be

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entirely too late to travel home. After that, we'd spend

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the night, maybe visit some friends while we were in town.

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I was really looking forward to the sleep art the most.

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I raised into town to hopefully find the items needed

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at the hardware store, getting an early start so not

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to make us late to leave for the lawyer. I

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wasn't sure how long it would take me to get

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everything installed and running like I wanted. I was reasonably

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sure though I could handle the task. Like most projects,

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all the YouTube videos made it look so easy. I

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entered the hardware store, and was greeted by the bass

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voice of the burly, white haired owner. As I walked

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towards where he sat nursing a coffee at the counter.

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He introduced himself as Theodore Tolbert, but told me everyone

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called him Teddy Bear. I could easily see why without

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the name, a guy standing well over six foot six

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and tipping this scale somewhere north of three hundred and

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fifty pounds with shoulders and a frame like that could

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only be called some variation of bear. I told him

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as much, and he go fowd, followed by us somewhat

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bashful aw shucks. When I told him my name, he

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immediately knew my wife, her family, and where we lived

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without a blink. Small town life was odd and nice

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all at once. As we exchanged pleasantries, my eyes caught

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the flash of shiny plastic off the store light hanging

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behind the counter. I was shocked to find the exact

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item right there in the town. Time forgot. I pointed

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it out to my new friend Teddy Bear and asked

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for five of them. He was quite happy to do so,

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and even commented he didn't think they would even sell

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when he stocked them. I raced back home through town

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and up Marrow Hill, led out a hey babe to

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let Steph know I had returned, and set about my task.

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It only took an hour and a half to have

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all five installed and running without fail. Having this little

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bit of solace, I quickly went and helped Steph pack

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our things into the car and off to the city

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we went. I won't bore you with the detailed account

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of my sleeping the entire drive as Steph drove jamming

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out to jelly roll, the meeting with the lawyer, dinner

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with friends, and our overnight in the hotel, or the

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shopping trip the next day for do dads and decorations

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for the BMB, or the brunch that turned into lunch

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that morphed into a bar hang with more friends, and

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a second overnight in the city and stead all fast

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forward to the morning of the seventh day. As we

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set off from the city. Late that morning, the second

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coffee kicked in and I remembered about my purchase from

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the hardware store I made before we left. You see,

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I wanted to know what was going on in the

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house at night, not only to prove it to my wife,

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but to prove it to myself. I had set up

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Wi Fi cameras in the bedroom, the kitchen, the front

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door and rear door, and the living room. As Steph drove,

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I fumbled with my cell phone and logged into the

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app that was connected to the cameras. What the cameras

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recorded were broken into files based on the date. I

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found two files and clicked on the oldest file for

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the first day. On my cell phone's screen were five

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separate windows, each one for each camera. I watched the

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recorded video and started advancing it at a faster speed,

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hoping to see something, searching frantically with my eyes to

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see the slightest bit of anything out of the ordinary.

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And at two thirty three am, that's exactly what I saw.

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The something out of the ordinary started on the bedroom camera.

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I spotted it along the baseboard on the opposite wall

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of the bed, a dark liquid slowly, like a dark tie,

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it crept a shadow. It slowly moved up the wall

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with nothing projecting it, no solid thing casting the shadow

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that slowly grew with a very real head and arms

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and legs that began to move about the room's perimeter,

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seemingly searching for something before exiting the room. My eyes

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immediately moved to the kitchen camera, where the shadow joined

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a multitude of shadows walking about the perimeter, creeping up

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and down the walls before after a few minutes, they assembled,

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and the shadows marched in a macabre parade of shades

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to the door at the far end of the kitchen,

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the door that led to the basement. I quickly reversed

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the video and watched it again, then again, and again

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and again, shocked and surprised, fascinated and horrified all at once.

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I tried to hide my reaction because I did not

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tell Steph what I had installed in the house. That

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was an entirely new conversation to have, and probably an argument. Besides,

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she seemed entirely too wrapped up in the drive in

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whatever podcast she was listening to, something new from Gray Matter,

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that acid horror anthology. I rewound the entire video, this

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time paying attention to the moments before. At the front

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and rear doors. Nothing, no one entered, no one proceeded

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past the doors, No one was seen beyond the window pane.

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The shadow had materialized in the bedroom and disappeared in

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a macabre procession behind the basement door. The kitchen shades

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had proceeded down the steps from the second floor or

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captured on the living room camera, and skulked into the kitchen,

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parading about before disappearing behind the basement door. I clicked

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on the file for the second night, I advanced just

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prior to two thirty three am, and saw it again,

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just like the night before. I then rewound the recording

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to the very beginning and concentrated on the front and

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rear doors, watching the windows caught in the camera. Nothing,

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not one person, no one. My mind spun shadows. Why

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what were they and what was in the basement drawing

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them