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Speaker 1: I remember the first day when I stepped into Saint

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Luke's Hospital. The pure white walls and the scent of

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antiseptics hung in the air with the low murmur of

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life and death.

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Speaker 2: It was my first day as an entrance in this

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new city.

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Speaker 1: I was keen yet anxious, entirely unaware that I was

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on the verge of something nightmarish. Charles was the first

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to greet me. He had been there for years and

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was supposed to train me in the beginning. He was charming,

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even in a quiet, confident manner. He knew all protocols,

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every patient's name, and seemed deeply committed to his work.

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He'll get used to work in the night shift. His

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voice was smooth with a note of odd chill. However,

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the hardest of all is watching them go. Some of

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those elderly souls won't last much longer. I nodded then,

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completely unaware of how ominous were his words. As days

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passed by, I began to be apprehensive about him, and

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at times even some what impressed by charles His obsessive

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care for work, his passion. He showed up when I

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least expected him to, with a lingering gaze much longer

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than comfort would allow. It wasn't just his presence that

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made the Foxes confusing. There was an increase in patient death.

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I initially dismissed this as coincidence. The hospital was essentially

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packed with old patients, many already sickly. Then I noticed

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something disturbing. Almost every patient who died suddenly had been

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visited by Charles minutes before their demise. There was no correlation.

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Some of their conditions were stable, some were even getting well,

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but all had one thing in common Charles. One evening

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I found him watching me as I read a patient's file.

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He smirked knowingly. What's on your mind, Amie, he asked,

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his voice low. I made myself smile.

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Speaker 2: Just getting the hang of things nice.

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Speaker 1: He said, stepping closer. It's better to forget the details

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easier that way. That night I had decided to have

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a closer watch on him. A few nights later, I

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had gone to take a break in the back alley

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when I sent something blood curdling. Charles was crouched down

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beside a dumpster, facing away from me. He was methodically

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doing something, and when I took a step forward for

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a better look, I gasped. He was ripping into a

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dead pigeon with a surgical blade, finger stained crimson. His

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head shot up, his dark eyes piercing through mine. What's wrong, Amy,

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he asked, getting up slowly, knife still in his hand.

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Speaker 2: I shook my head and slowly backed away. Oh I

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just I went out to get some air.

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Speaker 1: His lips curled into that strange smirk. Air does good

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for you. I hurried back inside, my heart pounding whatever

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was wrong with Charles It wasn't just in My head

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passed and the deaths continued. I started keeping notes, watching

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his every move. I noticed how he always seemed to

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be around when a patient took their last breath. He

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would enter their room, sometimes alone, sometimes under the preteens

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of checking vitals. Moments later, the machines would beat their

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ominous tone, signaling the end. Days later, I followed him

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quietly from one ward to another. He didn't seem to

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notice me at first, but then came to an abrupt stop,

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as though sensing my presence. Turning his head slightly, he whispered,

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you really shouldn't be out here by yourself, Amy.

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Speaker 2: I froze.

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Speaker 1: His voice was soft, but held something sinister underlying its

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gentle tone.

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Speaker 2: I forced a laugh. I'm just checking on the residence.

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Speaker 1: He chuckled under his breath, continuing down the halls as

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if nothing had happened. Trembling, I held my pen and

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wrote another entry in my little black book. A few

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nights later, I saw him creeping into the supply unit.

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I felt my heart race as I quietly followed a

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decent distance away. I peered through a small glass window

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to see him filling his shirt pockets full of syringes.

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I knew my time was running short. That same night,

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I saw Charles walk into the room of an elderly

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patient who had only recently been admitted. There was a

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knot in my stomach with fear. I wanted to go

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in after him, to scream at him not to touch

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that patient, but was instead rooted to the floor in fear.

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I figured it would be best to get evidence first.

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symptoms had been expressed, no complications. It was just gone.

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I called the police. I explained everything, the pattern, the

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theft of the syringes, the suspicious actions of Charles, and

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they took me seriously and we made a plan. I

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would stay on watch and call them. When Arles made

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his next move at night, I saw him again. He

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slipped another syringe into his pocket and headed towards the

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room of a man who had only been admitted the

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day before. I hastily messaged the officers waiting outside. With

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everything crammed with courage, I trailed behind him. I slowly

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stood just outside the door, looking through the small crack,

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But I saw him.

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Speaker 2: Made my stomach drop.

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Speaker 1: Charles loomed over the patient as he whispered something I

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couldn't hear, standing there with a syringe as he prepared

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to inject stop, I continued in a voice that rang

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through the room.

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Speaker 2: He turned his eyes dark, almost soulless.

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Speaker 1: The syringe fit itself more snugly into his fingers amy

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he purred, you mustn't be here. Before he could make

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his move, the police rushed in with a bang.

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Speaker 2: Drop the syringe, one shouted.

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Speaker 1: Charles clenched his jaw, his eyes darting to each officer

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back to me. For a moment, I thought he might charge,

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but he hissed and dropped the syringe to a clatter

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on the floor. They were all over him, forcing him down.

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As they dragged him away, he turned his head toward

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me and smiled a slow, knowing smile. I'll see you around, Amy,

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I shuddered, wrapping my arms around myself. Now that reality

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began to hit. Charles was a monster, and I had

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witnessed him firsthand.

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Speaker 2: But he had been caught. It was over, so I

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Speaker 1: Even with Charles in custody, a certain tension still hung

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heavily over me. It was his twinkling words that visited

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me at night from shadowy corners, And there were nights

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I woke in a cold sweat, thinking I saw him

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lurking in a shadow somewhere inside my room. I told

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myself it was just paranoia that he was locked away.

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Speaker 2: But fear is a cunning thing.

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Speaker 1: It digs itself in below the skin and refuses to

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let slip. And while I indeed wanted to believe that

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Charles was gone forever, there was a part of me lurking,

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waiting for the moment when his prophecy would come true,

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that one day, somehow virtual or otherwise, I would.

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Speaker 2: Come to see him again.

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Speaker 1: Charles Cullen, a former nurse, is one of the most

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notorious serial killers in US history. Cullen murdered at least

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forty patients, though he confessed to killing up to four hundred.

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where he had access to vulnerable patients. Cullen used his

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position to inject lethal doses of drugs like digoxin an insulin,

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making his crimes difficult to detect. His killing spree went

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unnoticed for years until two thousand and three. At Saint

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Luke's Hospital in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Cullen's friend Amy Lauren, secretly

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cooperated with investigators, helping them gather evidence. Cullen was arrested

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on December twelfth, two thousand and three, and confessed to

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his crimes. It was sentenced to eleven consecutive life sentences

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in prison without the possibility of parole. Hi.

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Speaker 2: My name was Kumar, and I was raised in a

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small Indian village where the summer air was infused with

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the fragrance of fresh mangoes and the land shimmered gold

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in the afternoon sunlight. Childhood was simple and beautiful, cool

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winds blue on our faces. Friends and I ran through

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fields where the greenery spread endlessly, climbed trees and swam

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in the clearest ponds reflecting the blue sky like mirror.

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Life was easy, worry free, and full of laughter. Then,

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out of nowhere, village children started to go missing. It

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began as a whisper among the elders that acquired the

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entire village. Initially, these missing cases.

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Speaker 1: Were brushed off as unfortunate incidents, but soon the locals

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started to get scared.

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Speaker 2: A boyfriend when the.

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Speaker 1: Next community went missing on his way home from school

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one girl went to bring back a jug of water

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and never returned. Their parents searched, calling out, and the

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echoes could be heard across the village, but the police

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dismissed it as trivialities. They called them missing cases, but

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the police never truly searched. Things started to go down

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really soon, parents forbade their children from staying outside for

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too long. Those of us still playing out now moved

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by twos and threes, trying to protect one another from

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the unknown power that snatched away our friends. A village

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that was once our playground started to feel different and darker.

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It was as if something sinister lurked in the corners

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that the sun couldn't touch. One evening, when I was seven,

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my best friend Harry and I lost track of time.

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We had been playing near the old Banyan tree, laughing

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and chasing fireflies, not caring that the sun had dipped

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into the horizon. As I looked up by noticed the

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sky orange red with the hue of the dying sunlight.

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Warmer tones of the evening became cooler night blues. The

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fields were filled with the chirping of crickets, while eerie

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howls of coyotes danced in the air around us at

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a distance.

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Speaker 2: We should take the shortcut through the woods.

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Speaker 1: Harry suggested it wasn't the safest route, but it was

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the fastest way home. The thought of our mother's scolding

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us for being late made us quick to agree.

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Speaker 2: We started walking.

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Speaker 1: Along with the sounds of our voices, we could hear

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the crunch of leaves under our feet. Five minutes into

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the walk, we began hearing a distant crying. It was

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like the cry of a child at first far, but

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then it became louder. Thinking a poor kid must be

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in trouble, Harry ran toward that sound.

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Speaker 2: I had no other.

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Speaker 1: Option than to follow him, but a red alarm had

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already activated in my mind. Who in the woods would

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be crying a lost child, a ghost. Every ghost story

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we ever heard ran through my life. We got close

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to a big bush, and peeking through the leaves, we

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saw it in the damp earth. It was an old,

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shabby doll, button dyed, glittering in the moon's dim light.

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The instant I stopped to touch it, the cry peeped again, clearer.

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This time the cry wasn't even of a child. He

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was coming from the doll. Harry Smirt thinking something must

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have made the doll move to let out that cry,

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but I wondered what or who. We turned to leave

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when we heard footsteps behind us.

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Speaker 2: There was a.

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Speaker 1: Man, a tall, lanky man, standing under the glimmering moonlight.

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His partial face was curtained under the shadows of the

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tree branches above him. His eyes were wide, and he

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had this stretchy, unnatural, dragged grin. He whispered, du like toys,

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I have many more. Come with me and I'll show you.

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Speaker 2: My blood ran cold.

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Speaker 1: Har and I had heard the stories, the missing children,

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the stranger who lured them away. We shook our heads

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and turned to leave, but he moved fast. Before we

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could take another step, he appeared in front of us,

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blocking our way, his long fingers reaching.

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Speaker 2: Into his pocket, pulling out chocolates.

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Speaker 1: Come now, don't be afraid take these, I have plenty more.

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His voice was smooth and coaxing, but there was something

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off about it, something that made me scared enough to

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never stay outside after dark. Now, Harry suddenly yelled, grabbing

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my hand, let's go, Kmar. We started to run, our

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feet pounding against the forest floor.

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Speaker 2: My heart hammered against my ribs.

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Speaker 1: I expected to hear some footsteps and feel his hands

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grabbing at our clothes, but as I glanced back, I

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saw something worse.

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Speaker 2: He wasn't chasing us. He was standing still, and he

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was munching on something.

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Speaker 1: At first, I thought it was the chocolates that he

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offered us, but then I noticed it from a black

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plastic bag. He pulled something out, something dark, wet and

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dripping with a thick red liquid. He stucked it into

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his mouth, chewing slowly, savoring it the way the thick residue.

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Speaker 1: I got doubts about whether this guy's a real human

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being or not. It wasn't food, at least I won't

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call it food.

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Speaker 2: I didn't scream. I couldn't.

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Speaker 1: Harry dragged me forward, forcing me to move until we

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reached the edge of the woods, where the sight of

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the village lights finally made us feel safe.

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Speaker 2: We ran home and told our parents.

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Speaker 1: They listened, their faces pale with horror, but when they

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asked around the village, no one knew who the man was.

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A year later, my father got a job in the

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city and we moved away.

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Speaker 2: Life changed.

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Speaker 1: One evening, I got home from school and found my

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parents glued to the TV. The tone of the news

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anchor was one of grave seriousness, depicting a case that

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had shaken the entire country. A man had been caught,

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a man who had been kidnapping and murdering children, along

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with a friend who was equally sick like him. Nineteen

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confirmed victims, some as young as five. He had even

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confessed to eating their flesh. The screen flashed an image

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of him. It was the man from the woods, the

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one who had grinned at us, the one who had

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offered us chocolates. My legs grew weak. My mother turned

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to look at me, her eyes wide with horror. I

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lay awake that night, staring at the ceiling, haunted even

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now by thoughts that just couldn't let go. I had

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stared into the eyes of a monster and lived to

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tell the tale. I should have been one of them,

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but I wasn't, and to this day I don't know why.

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Around two thousand and six, cases of missing children began

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skyrocketing in a village of Neuda, India, which was later

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termed as the Thari Killings. A series of gruesome child

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murders and assaults came to light through this case. Cops

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investigated the cases and found out that the crimes were

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committed by Maninder Singh Pander, a businessman, and his domestic

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help surrender Kohli at Pandhander's bungalow and Nathari village, police

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discovered human remains and drains near the house, leading to

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shocking revelations of abuse, murder, and cannibalism. Coley admitted to luring,

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killing and dismembering multiple victims, mostly children. Both were sentenced

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to death, but Pander was later acquitted in some cases.

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The case exposed severe police negligence and the vulnerability of

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marginalized communities.

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Speaker 2: I never truly wanted to believe that demons.

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Speaker 1: Exist, ghosts, perhaps spirits of the dead in this world. Sure,

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but demons. They belong in horror movies and sermons, not

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in a free bedroom house on Carolina Street in Gary, Indiana,

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of which I am a proud tenant.

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Speaker 2: But they came anyway.

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Speaker 1: It started with the flies, black buzzing swarms of flies

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appearing even when winter stood firm kill as many as

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I did and fumigate the house, they just kept coming back.

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Speaker 2: This was no normal infestation. They were not to have

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been there, but this was just the start.

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Speaker 1: At night, I heard heavy boots climbing and descending the stairs,

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pacing the halls just outside my bedroom. The first few

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times I thought it was one of my children getting

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a glass of water or going to the bathroom, But

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when I checked, they were sound asleep, their chests moving

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up and down in utter merciful ignorance. The footsteps continued,

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and they wouldn't stop, not even when I had locked

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every door and window and suspended myself from prayer.

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Speaker 2: Then my children changed. First it was little things.

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Speaker 1: My daughter talked to invisible friends and whispered tones, her

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eyes darting to the darkest corners of the room, as

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if something lurked there. The youngest woke up in the

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morning with deep fingernail scratches on his arms and legs.

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His sheets twisted as if he had been fighting something

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in his sleep.

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Speaker 2: But my eldest, he scared me the most.

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Speaker 1: One night, he sat up in bed, foaming, still straight

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and motionless and with a blank stare.

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Speaker 2: I called his name.

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Speaker 1: He turned his head slowly, very slowly, as if he

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were straining to do so, until he was locked into

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his stare upon me. His smile was not that smile.

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It was the smile of something else. Mama, he whispered,

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he wants to play. The room became unbearably still, crushed

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under the invisible weight of something pushing against my skin.

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I could not move my son. My baby gave a

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guttural laugh that made bile rise in my throat. The

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spirit left suddenly, and my son, after blinking back the tears,

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looked around, confused and began to cry. He couldn't tell

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me what had just happened. That was when I realized

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there was something evil in our house. So I went

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to the priest. Father Magunat listened to my story with

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a stern expression while I told him about everything strange

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that happened. The whispered voices and the shadows that slithered

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across the walls that should have been empty. He agreed

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to come out to the house to bless it and

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to drive whatever it was away. He lived to regret it.

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His complexion drained. The moment he walked into the house,

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the air chilled enough for our breath.

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Speaker 2: To be visible.

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Speaker 1: He dipped holly water in every room, muttering prayers and

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hushed tones. Down in the basement, something growled, The walls

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quivered above us, The bulls exploded. It's nothing, our surroundings

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in total darkness. This is not a ghost, he told

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me afterward. This is something much worse. The Department of

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Child Services got involved when my children started missing school.

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When they arrived for their visit, they witnessed things I

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could barely explain. My youngest was lifted from the ground,

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an invisible force hoisting him into the air, before he

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was flung across the room.

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Speaker 2: Like a rag doll.

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Speaker 1: My middle child walked backward up a wall and inhuman

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grace in his movements before he collapsed to the floor unconscious.

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Speaker 2: The caseworkers screamed, the nurse ran for help.

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Speaker 1: They took my children away that night, in the quiet

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darkness of the empty house. I cried all alone that cold,

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terrible night, with only that thing crouching in the other room.

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I fought, I prayed, I begged to God to take

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this curse away from my family. The priest returned, stronger,

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this time, more prepared. He performed an exorcism on me.

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First three times, I don't remember much, just flashes of darkness,

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the feeling of something clawing inside my skin, trying to

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tear its way out. I remember screaming, though I don't

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recall if it was my voice or someone else's.

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Speaker 2: On another night, I saw the thing in the window.

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Speaker 1: I was lying in bed, exhausted but too petrified to sleep.

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This heaviness came over me, further back on the bed,

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pressure coming onto the bed, It crept up my legs.

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I gasped. I couldn't move. The room was dark, another

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darkness looming above me. He had no face, but his eyes.

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Those eyes were disfigured as burnt embers, filled with hatred, hunger,

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and some other sense disdain.

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Speaker 2: She'll never be free, a voice.

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Speaker 1: Growled, with sensation finally flowing again through my body.

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Speaker 2: I leapt off the bed, gasping for air.

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Speaker 1: It felt as though it had all turned to ash

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in the back of my throat. I ran, I took

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my keys and fled into the night, without looking back

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until I reached miles further the church where Father Maganaut waited.

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Speaker 2: I sobbed.

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Speaker 1: He pressed a crucifix into my hands, firm fingered.

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Speaker 2: Then we shall make it.

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Speaker 1: The last exorcism was different, intense, violent. The thing inside me,

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the thing inside my children, the thing inside the house

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fought back with a vengeance.

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Speaker 2: Doors slammed, walls shook.

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Speaker 1: My screams were interspersed with moments where I tried to

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shake off the.

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Speaker 2: Thing weighing on me. It hissed in my ear.

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Speaker 1: Said things to me that I will never forget, but

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never utter.

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Speaker 2: Then suddenly he was gone.

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Speaker 1: The air cleaned, the house felt still darkness that had

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clung to me, to my children, to every square inch

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of that damned place lifted. We moved out, left it

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all behind that house, and I never looked back. Years

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later I learned the house got demolished. It was bought

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by Zach Baggins, filmed in a documentary, and then ultimately destroyed.

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But I know, I know the thing that had tormented

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us hasn't vanished, not really sometimes late at night, when

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I close my eyes, I.

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Speaker 2: Still hear the whispers. You never lave me.

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Speaker 1: LaToya Amons, an Indiana woman, claim she and her three

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children were tormented by demonic forces in their Gary, Indiana

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home in twenty and eleven. Dubbed the two hundred Demon

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House case, the alleged hauntings included levitation, shadowy figures, and

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violent possessions. Amons sought help from police, doctors, and allergy,

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leading to an investigation by child services and law enforcement.

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A Catholic priest, father Michael Magnot, performed multiple exorcisms on

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Amans once sanctioned by the church. Official reports from police

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and medical staff described eerie, unexplainable events, adding to the

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cases notoriety. The home was later demolished by paranormal investigator

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Zach Baggins, who documented the case in his twenty eighteen

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film Demon House. Ammons has since remained largely private, only

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occasionally speaking about her experiences, maintaining her belief that the

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house was infested with evil forces. The case remains one

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of the most controversial modern possession claims in the US.