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Speaker 1: Welcome to micro Terrors, scary stories for kids where it's

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always the spooky season, full of chills, thrills, and spine

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tingling spooks. Micro Terrors are family friendly frights for those

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ages eight and up, and while our stories are for

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younger years, we are still talking about things that go

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bump in the night, and some children may not be

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able to handle what others can. Parental consent is recommended

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now for tonights micro terror.

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Speaker 2: Cthulhu Ate My Hot Dog, written by Scott Donnelly. I

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never thought I would be that guy, that guy, or

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that uncle a family gatherings or picnics who everyone snickers

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at when I'm not looking or listening. That uncle who

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grills burgers and hot dogs by the edge of the

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lake while the kids run around and play and the

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grown ups laugh and discuss family drama. That uncle who

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everyone knows saw a monster when he was little. Even

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though I never thought I'd become that uncle. Here i am.

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I'm on the shores of Lake Weeping Tree, nearly two

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decades after I first saw it.

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Speaker 1: I have my.

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Speaker 2: Tongs in hand and a charcoal grill in front of

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me with sizzling beef patties and partially beef. Frank's cooking

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up to perfection. I'm facing the lake on a small

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doc even though I've been here a couple of times.

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The monster that lurks within it ate my cheeseburger minus

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the veggies. Of course, I actually hadn't seen it again,

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but today felt different. The conditions were just right. The

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sun was out and shimmering across the lake, almost like

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it was speckled with glitter. Behind me, I could hear

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the family gathering in action. The kids were playing, the

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grown ups were talking, and I was almost certain someone

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was talking about me, more than likely my brother. I'd

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heard words which I thought I could make out as

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Look at him, just steering off into the lake. He's crazy.

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He thinks there's a lot less monster in there. I

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turned around, clicked my tongs together and tried to pinpoint

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where my brother was, but I couldn't. Everyone was so

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well blended that when I did finally spot him, he

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was further away than I thought, pushing his son, my nephew, Billy,

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on a swing. My brother hadn't said anything, after all,

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It was all in my head. Decades of people not

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believing me, save for my own uncle. That was he'd

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been the first to see it in the lake. I

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saw it next, and ever since he passed away, I've

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been wanting confirmation or closure, and needed to see it

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again to prove to myself that it wasn't a one off,

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that it wasn't some crazy dream brought upon by undercooked

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burgers all those years ago. I was anxious, nervously tapping

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the tongs against the grill. I eventually just stared into

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the water. I was looking for any ripple. I could

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find any disturbance, anything breaking the surface. But I saw nothing.

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Something then pulled at my cutoff jean shorts, carrying me

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for my daydream. I looked down and saw Billy Hid

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the Beggar's done yet, he asked, Almost, I replied, flipping

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the patties on the grill and rotating the hot dogs

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with a grill master's precision. I saw Billy glance out

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into the water. Is it true, he asked? Is what true?

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The Lockness monster?

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Speaker 1: He said?

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Speaker 2: My dad says, you think there's a lock Desh monster

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in Lake Weeping Tree. I laughed, your dad's a moron.

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First of all, lock Ness means lake of the ness,

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referring to the river that flows into it. Plus, it's

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in Scotland, not New York. Therefore a Lockness monster could

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only exist in Lockness, not lake Weeping Tree. Show them

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what's he blabbing about, Billy asked, Well, laughter an annoyance

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that my brother dissipated as I focused on the water again.

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He's blabbing about what I saw when I was little,

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what I saw in the lake when my uncle was

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at my side. The conditions are right, I thought again.

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This was deja vu. The lake, the uncle, the nephew,

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the family gathering. I felt a twinge of excitement and

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hope surged within me. I looked down at the burgers

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on the grill and immediately flipped one onto a bun

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and closed it up here. I handed it to Billy.

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Hold this out over the lake. Billy was confused, and

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I couldn't blame him. It was a strange request, but

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he did as any good nephew would, and he held

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the burger out over the lake water. We waited. Then

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Billy dropped the burger into the water. The burger I

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hurried to the edge and watched the bun become soggy

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and break apart, leaving just a floating beef Patty. The

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school of fish were quick to attack the burger and

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start puckering at its flame broiled surface. What's in the lake?

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Billy asked? This time, I could tell he seriously wanted

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to know. He wanted to know why I was considered

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the crazy uncle. I caved. Uh, have you you ever

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heard of Cthulhu, I asked him. Billy squinted and then said, yeah, yeah,

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monstri lives in the ocean. Godzilla's friend. It's not Godzilla's friend,

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and I quickly snapped to disregard any sort of crazy claims.

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It's a gigantic, cosmic entity that rests in a deathlike

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slumber beneath the ocean. It can infiltrate people's dreams and

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drive them insane, destroy ships and cities, and not to

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mention the world. Billy casually looked at the calm and

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serene lake before him. He pointed to it. They get

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live here, I laughed. Not the big one, of course,

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but one of its babies somehow found a path to

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Lake Weeping Tree from the sea. It's been living here

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ever since. I scanned the lake again. But aside from

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the fish suckling at the burger, now bobbing beneath the dock,

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nothing stood out. Can I have a hot dog? Billy asked.

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I sighed sure. I bunned up a partially beef frank

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and handed it to Billy. I turned back to the

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grill and flipped the remaining paddies and dogs onto a

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serving tray. Any longer on the grill and they'd become uneatable.

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I didn't need to be that uncle, the one that

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couldn't grill right, as well as the one that sees

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lake monsters. I'd be forced to relocate and find a

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new family if that lay hag dog, Billy exclaimed. I

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looked up just in time to see what I'd been

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waiting decades for. A slimy, tentacle faced beast had silently

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risen from the lake. Its bulbous, octopus like head dripped

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with algae, and his red eyes narrowed onto the hot

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dog that it had snatched from Billy's hand and was

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now tightly wrapped in his own monstrous grip. Billy and

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I watched on with wide eyes and mouths agape as

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the other worldly beast devoured the hot dog in front

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of us. Once it was done, it expelled a disgusting

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belch and slunk back into the lake, disappearing from sight.

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As the water's surface settled into stillness again, Billy looked

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at me, his face still trapped in shock. The smirk

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finally broke on my face. I have been waiting for

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that for so long, I exhaled, Finally satisfied after all

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the years that had passed by, I looked down at

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Billy and patted him on the back. Billy, this means

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that now one day you will be that uncle.

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Speaker 3: I was just a kid the day had showed his face.

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My uncle Lemma sat on the way.

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Speaker 1: Of the duck.

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Speaker 3: It rose a from the water then and.

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Speaker 2: Left no trace.

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Speaker 3: And now I'm back again and watching around the clock.

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Speaker 2: The snicker wind agreeeded at.

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Speaker 3: The water's edge.

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Speaker 2: My brother thinks I'm crazy.

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Speaker 1: I'm rolling in his eyes.

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Speaker 3: I'm standing on the down on the narrow edge, scating

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heavy ripple, waiting for rides. Sem uncles easy all along

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this way, and he years a talent DP but unbelieve

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the song late wheping tree. He has a monster renness deep.

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Speaker 2: And then I saw and now it's a secrets to keep.

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Speaker 3: Now I'm growing up, and they don't believe my claim.

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Now I'm a crazy arms to play until this game.

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Billy talk my shorts and ask me what I don't know.

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I tell the mother creature lurking in the lake, I'm

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a common thing with tentacles and hear you go, it's

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still a baby down their way into a week.

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Speaker 2: He said, my uncle was crazy.

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Speaker 3: Y'all along its twenty years a talented but unbelieving song

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Late wheep and Tree has a monster minous deepen and

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I saw. Now it's a secrets to keep.

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Speaker 2: Now I'm growing up and they don't believe my claim.

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Speaker 3: Now I'm a crazy uncle playing this game. Rosel sound,

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I'm the most sound, the most terrifying thing ever. Billy

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hands statstack hot do don't still the same? Back to

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the deep talkin Now my nephew understand.

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Speaker 2: He said, my.

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Speaker 3: Uncle is crazy all along this when he is a

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talented but I believe us song He Weeping Tree has

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a monster insteed.

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Speaker 2: I saw it. Now it's no secrets you keep it.

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Speaker 3: Now I'm grown up and I don't believe my claim.

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Speaker 2: I'm the crazy uncle play this game. Now I'm the

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crazy uncle playing this game. I thuluweight My hot dog

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