Speaker 1: Welcome to micro Terrors, scary stories for kids where it's
always the spooky season, full of chills, thrills, and spine
tingling spooks. Micro Terrors are family friendly frights for those
ages eight and up, and while our stories are for
younger years, we are still talking about things that go
bump in the night, and some children may not be
able to handle what others can. Parental consent is recommended
now for tonights micro terror.
Speaker 2: The Static Growler, or so it Seems, Written by Scott Donnelly,
narrated by Daryn Marler. The day began like any other day.
Birds chirped to ring in the morning, Clouds gently glided
through the blue sky, and the air was warm, touched
with a scent of fresh leaves and grass. It was
a perfect day, some would say. But for podcaster Daryl Mayler,
that perfect day was about to turn into a nightmare.
Daryl left his home and walked down the sidewalk, whistling
a friendly tune and carrying his lunch pail. Oh what
a great day to be a podcaster. I'm going to
record things until the cows come home, he joyfully sang.
Daryl lived not far from an old radio station, It
wasn't in use much anymore since the unpleasantness, but Daryl
had been able to sweet talk the old, grumbly owner
of it into renting it out to him on a
daily basis so he could deliver his spooky and mystery
filled podcasts to the masses. Can't wait to scare all
those little weirdos out there, Daryl continued to speak in
an overjoyed voice as he unlocked the door to the
radio station and pushed it open. He walked down the
first of many long concrete hallways. Cobwebs clung to the
high corners of the ceiling. Rat nests were sporadically scattered about,
and the old pipes that ran along the ceilings creaked
and echoed as if they were coming alive for the day.
Daryl finally made it to the sole recording studio in
the station. It was a small room behind four walls
of cracked, grimy glass. Once he entered, pipped on the
buzzing knee on sign that said on air, and sat
down in a torn leather chair. In front of him
was a soundboard, desktop, computer, microphone, and a stack of notes.
Daryl placed his lunch pail on the floor next to
him and filtered through the stag of notes, trying to
figure out which topic he'd cover on the day's podcast.
After just a couple of page flips, he found the
perfect one. It was one he couldn't believe he hadn't
covered yet, The Static Growler. Darryl turned on the computer,
pulled up his recording program, and flipped on his microphone.
Once he was ready, he hit record and was off
to the races. Good evening, my spooky dookie Weirdos, Darryl said,
Welcome back to another episode of Microscopic Horrors Spooky Tales
for Children. Tonight's episode is called The Static Growl. Daryl
played a dramatic sound effect to kick off the episode
and then continued. Long ago, in the world of radio,
there was an ominous frequency that would burst to life
with a mysterious static, and hidden within that static people
claimed to have heard. Oh wait, wait, is Daryl Mayler
supposed to be me? Darren Marler? Did Scott write a
story about me? And really, Microscopic Horrors Spooky Tales for
Children that's just a lazy renaming of micro Terror's Scary
Stories for Kids. Scott, what are you doing here? You're
so weird okay anyway, and hidden within that static people
claimed to have heard scary whispers and growls. One in
particular had come to be known as the static growler.
He was an especially fright frightened way Hold, wait a minute, way,
why was I whistling friendly tunes and carrying a lunch
pail in this story? Like I'm some cartoon character. I
don't do that.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: The static growler was a particularly frightening entity that would
expel a gruff horse growl through short radio bursts of static.
Sometimes it would say weird, threatening things. Other times it
was inaudible gibberish that would unnerve those who heard it.
In one case, in particular, it was able to embed
itself into a woman's mind and make her hold.
Speaker 1: On holdline.
Speaker 2: Good evening, my spooky dukie weirdos? Why why does Scott
have me saying that? I'm I don't I don't say that.
I have never said that, Scott. You are not really
training me here in a cool way at all. I'm
coming across as the weirdo here? What else is in here?
Stantic growls?
Speaker 1: Wait?
Speaker 2: Huh? I get sucked into a black hole now now now,
I don't like this. Yes, I have got to let
Scott know I'm not doing I'm not.
Speaker 1: Doing this story.
Speaker 2: No way, Scott. I can't do the new episode. I won't,
not after you made me a cartoon character and sent
me into oblivion. Wow, quick reply, you better do it
otherwise I'll write a sequel where Darryl has to eat
rotten for dinner or what rotten treasure? Who does Scott
think he is?
Speaker 1: Are you all right?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna finish the story, but I'm gonna do it
my way. As it turns out, the Static Growler was
nothing but a lame urban legend created by a lame
author who liked to throw his friends under the bus
and make them look lame. The real threat all along
with something called the Marler Monster. It was a massive
Kaiju like beast with fiery wings, a dinosaur body, fire eyes,
alien superpowers, and roared fire like a thousand t rexes
all at once, and it rose up from the depths
of the earth whenever somebody chose to make their friends
look lame. Needless to say, the unnamed author of the
Static Growler legend was the first person to meet the
Marler Monster in person and get crushed beneath the weight
of its manhatt In sized claw feet to this day.
Speaker 1: To this.
Speaker 2: Hello, you're interrupting my recording process, Scott, what do you want?
Speaker 1: You have to help me?
Speaker 2: There's a massive dinosaur thing outside my house.
Speaker 1: It looks sad and it's got your face.
Speaker 2: That's the Marler Monster. See that's what you get from
making me look lame in your story.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry already, new one.
Speaker 2: Scott Scott Scott whoops. Well, hopefully his wife won't be
too mad at me. Yikes. Coming up next week on
Microscopic Horrors, spooky Tales for shipping out, hold on sorry,
Next week on micro Terror's Scary Stories for Kids. That's
better anyway. Next week, a couple of kids finally get
the answer to a question they've been wondering for years,
where does the sewer go? And later this month we'll
encounter a snake and not from this world, as well
as a brand new Listener Terrors episode. In the meantime,
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Thank you all for being such dedicated micro Terrors listeners,
and we'll see you next week maybe man. I hope
Scott's okay.
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