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Speaker 1: Fast Food Horror is produced and distributed by Abbey Normal Productions.

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Welcome listeners to Fast Food Horror. In this episode, we

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learn Holmes hold more than just memories. In a tale

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entitled My Dear Aunt Lotte, narrated by Stephanie Miller and

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written by E. J.

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Speaker 2: Miller, my great aunt Lottie's farmhouse on Morrow Hill held

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countless memories, treasures that were warm and funny, loving and sweet.

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From my childhood, from my mother's childhood. Oh heck, every

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family member I knew, five generations, celebrated and came together

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under that roof. We all spent so much time in

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that home. That house built us. And that is why

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what happened to my great aunt hurts so much more,

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because she no longer had those memories. Not that her

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memories were bad, but she just had no memories at all.

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It hurt watching my great Aunt Lottie fade away. It

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didn't happen all at once. It was slow, as the

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moonflower shutting its bloom as the sun rose.

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Speaker 1: Slowly.

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Speaker 2: She began forgetting things, small things, little, inconsequential things which

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she needed at the store. The name of shows or actors,

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lyrics of songs. Then it progressed. She confused names of

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family members, calling me by my sister's name, before catching

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herself forgetting what she was talking about mid sentence. Still

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nothing that got us worried. Aunt Lottie, after all, was

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eighty six. It was just her, be little quirk, still

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the same lovely old woman whom we cherished dearly, This

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same woman that has taken us blueberry picking on the

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backside of the property line in the summer, then spoil

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us with pies and other homemade baked sweets when our

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parents said it would spoil our dinner. Who would host

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cousin sleepovers and stay up with us telling us ghost

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stories or funny ones about our parents when they were

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our age. She was still able to live on her own,

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still able to care and cook for herself, still able

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to even drive. We weren't worried, But then one day

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we were. Aunt Lottie started asking about how family and

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friends were, even though they were long since past. She

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couldn't recognize people that had been in her life for years.

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Her brother and sister became strangers. Photos of her parents

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or her husband long since past were just the people

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that came with the frame. Her memories were gone. My

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mother was my great aunt's closest living relative in proximity

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and in relation, even though the proximity had her living

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almost an hour and a half away. My mom had

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seen this coming and had broached the topic many times

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with Aunt Lottie to move in with her so she

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wouldn't be alone. When that avenue of a solution didn't

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appear to be going anywhere, she looked into small apartments

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near where my mother lived, reinforced that she'd still have

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her own independence, but at least my mom would be

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closer should anything happen. She pitched senior living apartments, highlighting

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all the activities in people her own age. Both met

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with negative results. She even looked into nursing homes, but

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we nor my aunt had enough money to afford that.

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My mother took safety measures into her own hands. My

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Aunt Lottie's car was sold and her license was surrendered.

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Meals on wheels were arranged, and a part time nurse

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was hired through my aunt's insurance to come in twice

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a week to check on her. Arms and cameras were

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installed outside and inside the house. They were all hooked

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up to Wi Fi so my mom could check on

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her right from her phone, and that's when things got bad. Well,

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we all got to see how bad it really was,

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and bad doesn't even cover it. I didn't know how

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bad it was until I got the call three weeks in.

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My mom told me there'd been an incident at the

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house late that night. Aunt Lottie had been taken to

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the hospital and I was needed for emotional support and

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my tools did I mention I build homes for a living.

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I came right away, arriving bright and early the next morning,

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a four hour drive in my work truck, laden down

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with every tool I could need. Without even knowing how

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bad the damage was or what the damage was. My

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mom would only say that the damage was extensive and

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that I needed to see the video so I could

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fully understand. I pulled in the gravel drive and I

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saw my mom on the stoop. There she was looking

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exhausted and probably still in the same clothes she wore yesterday.

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Her face brightened as she saw that the gravel crunching

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was me and my Dodge Ram with a trailer in tow.

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I put the truck in park and walked over and

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took a place next to her on the concrete stoop. There.

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We sat in silence for what was probably thirty seconds,

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but it felt like thirty minutes. Finally I heard her

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exhal as she finished gathering her thoughts and prepared to

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share with me now what had happened. She never looked

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at me. She simply just stared at the ground and

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let the words flow. The security app I used has

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what's called night MOODE. The cameras have motion to tech

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on them, so in night mode, if there's any activity

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in or around the house past a certain hour, my

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phone would be alerted. She reached her hand into her

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purse and produced an iPad and then handed it to

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me in a voice that conveyed how tired she was.

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She breathed out in an exhausted sigh and said, just

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turn it on. The app for the camera is still open.

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Each thumbnail is dated of the recording. There are twenty

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one of them. The top left corner starts with the

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first night. They go left to right. I tapped the

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first thumbnail and then increase the video speed to double

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the time and wait it. I watched as my aunt

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Lottie made her way from the bedroom, down the hall,

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through the kitchen, across the dining room and into the

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living room, and then watched as she sat down on

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the couch. She didn't turn the TV on, she didn't

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turn on the lights. She just sat and I watched

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as her head turned to the left and right every

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few seconds, scanning the room like she was expecting someone

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to walk in. Minutes passed, then hours. Aunt Lottie then stood.

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She walked around the perimeter of each room as she

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proceeded back to the kitchen, knocking on the walls. Then

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she went into the refrigerator. As she entered the kitchen

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and came out with a slice of cake, placed the

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cake at the edge of the counter, then she backed away.

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but there was no audio, so there's no way to

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tell exactly what she was saying. She then made her

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way back down the hall to the bedroom. I skipped

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ahead to the next night, again the same scenario unfolded.

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Aunt Lottie exited her bedroom, walked her way down the hall,

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drew the kitchen, threw the dining room, and into the

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living room again. She sat on the couch and waited,

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scanning the room ever slowly as minutes and then hours passed.

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She then stood and made her way back through every room,

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knocking on the walls as she did so. She then

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arrived in the kitchen, where she went directly to the

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refrigerator and again produced a slice of cake. However, this time,

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she walked the cake to the dining room table, where

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she placed it and then backed out of the dining room,

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her lips again moving, saying something, but with no audio,

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there was no way to know. Then she walked back

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through the kitchen and back to her bedroom. I skipped

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ahead three nights, and the same scenario played out. I

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skipped ahead four nights, and as predictable as the sun rising,

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my Aunt Lottie's nightly routine was again on full display.

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My mom evidently was looking over my shoulder, because she whispered,

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go ahead to night eighteen. I did as she suggested

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and tapped the thumb nail for night eighteen. I waited,

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and I watched, and I saw my aunt come into

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the frame, just like the other nights, at the same hour.

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She made her way through the house, and I was wondering,

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what was the difference, what did my mom want me

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to see? As she entered the living room, I saw it.

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Something was missing. The stately, straight back chair made of

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heavy ornate varnished wood, the one that gave the occupant

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a full view of the room and the living room,

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had always sat in the corner and was missing. Mind you,

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it was quite a high, heavy chair, so for this

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chair to be gone was quite noticeable. I watched as

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my aunt entered the living room and made a beeline

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for the sliding glass patio doors, quickly closing the blinds.

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Did you see it, my mom asked, Yeah, the chair

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is gone, I answered, but she answered back with no hesitation, no,

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look again, it's not gone. I again backed up the

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video and I watched intently.

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Speaker 1: She was right.

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Speaker 2: The chair wasn't gone. It was gone from the room,

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but not from the video frame. The chair was outside

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on the patio. Why is the chair in the patio.

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Speaker 1: I asked.

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Speaker 2: My mom looked away. She replied simply, Aunt Lottie doesn't

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like the man in the chair. I looked at my mother, dumbfounded.

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I didn't know what she meant. There was never a

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man in the chair, and before the silence when any longer,

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my mom simply said, he upsets her and told me

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to watch the next date. I skipped to the next

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date and waited for Aunt Lottie to make her way

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into the living room. I looked on to the patiom

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and I saw the chair, but it was now facing

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the other direction, away from the window. Aunt Lottie still

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went to the glass doors and closed the blinds. I

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watched as Aunt Lottie went about her same routine as

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the other knights, waiting and waiting before making her way

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to the kitchen, knocking on the walls as she went again,

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producing another slice of cake and leaving it out in

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another part of the house. I skipped to the next

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night and looked for the chair. It was gone. I

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heard my mother's voice over my shoulder, who told me

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to go to the menu button and pick the garage camera.

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I did as instructed, and there it was. Before I

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could ask, my mother piped over my shoulder, go to

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last night, my mother said. I tapped on the thumb

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nail for last night, and I watched the same routine

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as every night I had watched before, except this time

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my Aunt looked older. It appeared she had been wearing

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the same clothes she had worn all that day. Her

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hair was a mess, and I know it was one

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thirty in the morning, but somehow she looked even more tired,

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like she hadn't slept in days. I watched as she

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made her way into the living room, closing the curtains

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and the blinds on every single window, and then she

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took her customary seat on the couch, but she looked

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worried as she sat there, scanning the room, waiting, but

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waiting for what minutes passed before she began to pace

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the room. Then she exited the same way she always did,

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knocking on the walls, but instead of the customary soft taps,

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she pounded with her fist, shaking the pictures free from

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the walls as she proceeded from room to room to room.

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She then arrived in the kitchen, went directly for the refrigerator,

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pulled out that piece of cake that she had left

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on the counter. She then appeared to be yelling something,

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not just talking, but emotionally crying out and for the

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first time, she did something different, breaking the routine. I

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watched as she opened a closet door, disappearing for a

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few seconds before reappearing with a hammer in her hand.

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I held my breath and I watched as my favorite

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aunt walked about the kitchen and took the hammer to

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the wall. Whole upon whole she produced, with each strike,

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making the walls of this once proud home into Swiss cheese.

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She moved from the kitchen to the dining room, from

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the dining room, down the hall, from the hall and

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into the living room, whole after hole after hole. Before

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I could see the red and blue lights from behind

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the curtains, I turned off the video. I looked at

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my mother. What happened, I asked. I got the motion alert,

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and when I saw what she was doing with the hammer,

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I immediately called the police for a wellness check. Apparently

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so had some of the neighbors when they heard the screaming.

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Aunt Lottie had been sedated and she is resting comfortably

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in the hospital. The doctors have asked me not to

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bring up what happened. They don't want to upset her.

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Speaker 1: All.

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Speaker 2: I know she believes there's a boy that lives in

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the walls and he likes cake. My mother took a

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deep breath before she said what we were both thinking,

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I think she is gone. I left my mother there

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in the stoop and I made my way inside the

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house to get a first hand account of the damage

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and assess how much work would need to be done.

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Speaker 1: Most of the.

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Speaker 2: Holes could easily be patched up. Some dry wall would

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have to be completely cut out and replaced. My worry

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was some of the holes were awfully close to fixtures,

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light switches, and sockets. A few were awfully close to

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where there might be some pipes for water, so I

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took special care to make sure those things were not damaged.

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I looked inside each hole with a little extendable camera tool,

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and that's when I found it. Before I could do

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anything without thinking, I screamed for my mother out of

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natural instinct more than anything. I haven't done that since

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I was a small girl. She came running into the room,

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fearing that I was hurt. We locked eyes as she

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had said, Oh my god, are you all right. You're

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gonna want to see this, I told her. I gave

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her my cellphone with the video camera tool attached. I

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pointed towards the hole and told her to take a look.

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I knew she would see what I saw, and I

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knew she saw it as soon as I heard her

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breathe and her stifled scream. Draped in tattered cloth, but unmistakenly,

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bones too big to be anything but human. So there

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was a boy in the wall. Who was he and

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how did he get there? We may never know. But

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if the boy was real, who was the man in

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the chair it see