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Speaker 1: Welcome listeners to another episode of Fast Food Horror. In

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this episode, one of the residents of Morrow Hill finds

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out there is something stranger still going on in the house.

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In this tale, entitled the Tale of the House on

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Morrow Hill, Night number.

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Speaker 2: Four, the hours passed with such patience while I waited

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for the sun. I did regular rounds of the house

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through the night, inspecting every floor, each room and nook,

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making sure no closet or hiding spot was left unchecked.

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With each creek or tap against a window pane, I

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quickly moved to inspect the source of the sound till

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the sun broke over the Holland Hills and the only

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sound was the coffee pot percolating in the kitchen and

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the birds chirping in the orchard. As the warmth of

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the morning grew, I heard the padding of my wife's

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saw footfalls from the bedroom into the kitchen. I made

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my way to greet her, exhausted as I was, and

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have my first of many necessary cups of coffee before

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powering through the day's mountainous lists. I entered the kitchen

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to begin what had now become an odd routine debriefing

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of my poor knight's wakefulness. I cleared my throat as

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I entered and wished my wife a good morning. She

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smiled and pointed to what was now my spot at

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the nook and a full hot cup of coffee waiting

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for me, black, just the way I liked it. I

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shuffled over and joined her, gave her a kiss, then

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took a gulp of the bitter broom. I let out

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a sigh as I let the coffee do its trick

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before launching into a detailed account of last night's happenings.

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To her credit, she took it all in, and when

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I finished, she took our coffee cups for a refill,

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came back to the nook, sat down beside me, and

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took my hands in hers, and again gave me a

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reasonable rational explanation for it all. Finishing with the door

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opening with such force proved in her mind that there

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was an issue with a furnace or ventilation in this

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old house, and probably the windows a draft somewhere. Coincidentally,

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while I was awake, already on edge, stressed and sleep deprived,

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just took the door. A difference in the temperatures of

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the house or just the furnace kicking on and pushing

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the air down the hall and bang the door swung open.

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I had to admit that sounded a lot better than

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the explanations in my mind. But the fourth night I

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slept with such unease that night, restless, the difficulty of

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even getting comfortable, tossing side to side, trying to find

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that right position to settle into, and my brain just

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wouldn't relax and turn off, not thinking about anything specifically

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or in general, just the inability just to power down,

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wide ethan awake. Three nights in a row of disturbed

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and disturbing sleep or lack thereof, will do that to you.

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But somewhere just after midnight, sleep found me and then left.

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As I again found myself wide awake with the feeling

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that some one was again in the room, I rolled

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on to my back and sat up in bed. I

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knew innately some one was there. I could see the

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white puffs of my breath with each exhil in the moonlight.

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The chill was back, the sheets and the blankets were

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again gone too. I reached across to the night stand

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for my cell phone and touched the screen to activate

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the flashlight. In one fluid movement, but the app wouldn't work.

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I instead turned up the screen light to its brightest

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two thirty three. A m looked back at me as

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I flipped the phone around and used the screen glow

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to help illuminate the room. I scanned the darkness looking

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for the source of my knees. I worked the glow

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slowly from left to right and saw it. I sensed

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it there at the far right corner of the room,

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six feet from the door's right as I quickly moved

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the glow of the cell phone and tried to focus

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on a set of glowing red eyes. They were at

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a height of about six feet off the ground, but

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I couldn't see good enough to tell if they were

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a man or a woman. They locked eyes with me

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only for a second before they darted towards the closed door.

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The door swung open with such force I was sure

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the knobbed into the wall. I called out as I

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watched the red eyes sprin from the room to the kitchen.

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I jumped from the bed and darted out the door,

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intent on catching whoever it was and put an end

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to this insanity. I ran into the kitchen, and then

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the sitting room, the foyer, the bathrooms. I searched the closets,

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the study, the pantry, the dining room, all empty, nothing

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amiss disturbed. Both the front and rear door still locked,

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bolted shut. I ran to the second floor and checked

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each of the bedrooms, turning on every light. I checked

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every closet, not leaving one inch unsearched, and after an hour,

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sweat beating my forehead, I found I was again the

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only person awake in the house, and then the thwack,

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thwack thwack. This needed to stop. I walked back to

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the bedroom to check on Steph and explained to her

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what had happened, and found her sound asleep, undisturbed by

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all the events, the chill, the noise me I had

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to get a plan to end this, whatever this was,

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to prove to Steph something was going on, and to

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prove to myself I wasn't sleep deprived after going crazydict

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GDT dictent gent