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Speaker 1: In the oldest section of the Oregon Cradle Bone Forest,

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there stands no trail, no map, and no phone signals

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strong enough to call for help.

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Speaker 2: The locals. Those few old.

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Speaker 1: Timers who haven't already packed up and left, tell campers

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to avoid one place, the Burial Glades. There, among the

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sunken earth and crooked stones, grows a mushroom unlike any other,

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a pale, ghostly fungus that glows faintly like a firefly

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trapped under skin. Some say it sprouts from the graves

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of hunters who vanished in the eighteen hundreds. Others claim

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it grows from the bodies of anyone. The forest refuses

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to release. One truth, however, is always whispered. When eaten

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beneath the blood moon. The vel captains the bar between

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life and what waits hungrily beyond it, and once the

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barriers lifted, nothing comes through alone. Tasha, des Rico and

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Lani had spent years chasing the weirdest highs PMW could offer.

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Speaker 2: They'd babe glacier grown weed.

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Speaker 1: In Alaska, smoked hash from a stranger on a ferry,

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and once shared a blunt they swore tasted like sea

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water and gasoline. But none of that compared to the

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shimmering mushroom des brought off a twitchy old woman at

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the farmer's market. They're called zihillcaps, she croaked. Don't you

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let them dissolve, otherwise they bite back.

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Speaker 2: He brought them anyways.

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Speaker 1: Two hours into cradle Bon Forest, the group found the

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perfect sight, a ring of moss slick stone.

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Speaker 2: Half buried in the earth.

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Speaker 1: Bet druids sacrifice people here, Lanni joked, I bet they

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hot boxed it first, Rico said. As the blood moon rose,

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they passed the glowing caps around metallic cold, like licking

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a wet battery in the winter.

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Speaker 2: The trip hit fast, too fast.

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Speaker 1: The trees inhaled, exhaled, the moon bled crimson into the clouds.

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The forest hum with a pulse that wasn't wind or wildlife.

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Tasha was the first to see the silhouettes, long thin

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shadows slithering between trunks, dragging their limbs like broken puppets.

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Then came the voices, a choir whisper sewn together with grief.

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And then it got worse. A voice breathed into Lani's ear.

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You left me, She turned no one, But then she

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saw movement in the trees, figure stepping up from behind

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roots and branches, bodies cracked, drowned, burned, frozen, every kind

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of death imaginable, all smiling.

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Speaker 2: DES's voice broke. That's that's my brother.

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Speaker 1: Noah, he he looks water logged.

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Speaker 2: Rico fell to his knees.

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Speaker 1: Abuilita. But she wasn't the soft, warm woman he remembered.

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Her skin sagged, mold covered, her rosary melted into her palm.

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Tasha barely reacted. Her pupils were blown wide, her breath

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misted like smoke. They're calling from below, she whispered. The

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ground trembled, then split. Skeletal hands bursted from the soil,

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snapping roots like bones. The dead pulled themselves up through

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the earth, dragging braithed dirt and mushrooms with them. Dozens, hundreds,

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and every single one.

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Speaker 2: Knew their names.

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Speaker 1: The four sprinted blindly through the forest, but cradle Bone was.

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Speaker 2: No longer a place.

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Speaker 1: It was a loop, a maid, a jaw closing around them.

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Speaker 2: They ran north.

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Speaker 1: They ended up back at the stone circle. They ran south,

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back again. Time folded reality work. When they finally collapsed

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in exhaustion, the circle wasn't empty anymore. A crowd of

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dead stood waiting, layered, generations of horror, victims of the forest,

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victims of ritual, victims of the bellcap. Their mouths opened

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in unison, producing a sound like inhaling. A bomb hit backwards.

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Speaker 2: Tasha stepped forward. They've shown me everything, she whispered.

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Speaker 1: This spot, this is where the veil is thinnest.

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Speaker 2: We opened it.

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Speaker 1: Something burned into her abdomen, a glowing sigil made of

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twisting fungal threads, a living tattoo. Dez tried to pull

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her back. Tasha, you don't know what they want. I do,

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she said, softly, to come home. The dead move with

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terrifying speed. Rico was grabbed first, yanked down by four

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sets of hands. His grandmother's corpse cradled him as more

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dead tore out his neck and shoulders. Weeping as she fed,

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Lani bolted but tripped into an unmarked grave.

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Speaker 2: Shadowy body swarmed.

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Speaker 1: Her, pulling her legs down into the dark. Her screams

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cut off like someone hit mute. Des caught like a

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wild animal, smashing skulls, breaking arms, lighting whatever he could

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on fire.

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Speaker 2: But the dead just kept coming, crawling.

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Speaker 1: Out of graves of the trees, out of the darkness

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between the heart beats Tasha, how Tasha wasn't Tasha anymore.

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Her skin pulsed with veins of glowing fungus. Her eyes

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were solid black, her hair withered like underwater kelp. Spores

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leaked from her mouth like smoke. She knelt besides Dez

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as he was pinned.

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Speaker 2: Her voice.

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Speaker 1: Now two voices layered her and something ancient underneath. You

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brought life into its own grey place.

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Speaker 2: She said, no when you become hurt like the feast.

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As the final screen was swallowed by the forest. As

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the dead consumed him, and then.

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Speaker 1: Silence, the forest went still. Every corpse, fresh or ancient,

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rotated slowly to face Tasha. She raised her hand and

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they bowed. She wasn't their victim, She was their gateway.

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The sidel on her stomach opened like a mouth, revealing

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a swirling cavity of night and spores. From within it,

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Something enormous shifted, something breathing, something waiting.

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Speaker 2: Tasha smiled. The veil is open. Then slowly she.

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Speaker 1: Turned her head directly towards the tree line, towards someone watching.

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A faint gasp echoed there was a fifth person in

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the forest, some one who had followed them, some one

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who had been hiding recording everything on their phone.

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Speaker 2: Tasha's smile widened.

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Speaker 1: Come join the ritual, she whispered. The camera light blinked,

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the hidden observer stumbled back.

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Speaker 2: Brunches snapped with the dead turned, and the forest rushed

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towards the unsea worst.

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Speaker 1: The screen recording on the fallen phone kept going, even

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after the screaming stop