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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: The Thing in the Wall by Scott Donnelly. I want

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to tell you about the first, and frankly the last

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time I ever house sat for anyone. It was a

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summer many years ago. I was twelve years old and

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looking for a few quick bucks to buy a new

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video game that had just been released for the PlayStation two.

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I know that probably makes me seem super old to no. Well,

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as luck would have it, a friend of my dad's

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was going out of town for work for the weekend.

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He wasn't married, didn't have any kids or pets, but

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he was very protective of his house. He liked the

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lights to be off during the day but on at

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night in order to ward off any potential trespassers, and

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being summertime, he liked the temperature in the house to

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remain at a consistent seventy degrees. Knowing I was looking

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for a few bucks, my dad's friend offered me a

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job for the weekend to house sit for him make

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sure these minor things were attended to while he was gone.

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I agreed right away and was paid upfront a whopping

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one hundred dollars, more than enough to get my game

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and have some left over for a late summer spending

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spree before school started again. My dad drove me to

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the house that Friday night, after his friend had already left.

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I hadn't really stayed a whole lot by myself anywhere yet,

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but since the house was in a really rural area

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with only a few other houses nearby, one or two

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of them were still vacant back then, from what I

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can recall, he thought I would probably be okay. The

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house had a security system, and my dad would be

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only a phone call away if I needed anything. So

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it began. My dad went home after getting me at

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pizza to start my job. I was left alone in

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a nice house larger than ours, with a pepperoni pizza,

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a two liter of vanilla coke. My PlayStation two and

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my brand new game. Well, the game didn't last long.

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Not long after I started the epic space Adventure, I

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heard thunder in the distance. Within minutes, a storm rolled

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in and knocked out the power. I was able to

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fish out a flashlight from a junk drawer in the

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kitchen and went off to find the breaker box. Not

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that I really even knew what I was supposed to

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do with it when I found it. I was just

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hoping it would be super easy to figure out. Before

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I opened the door to the basement, I heard a

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sound coming from upstairs. It was a scratching sound, like

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something was screeping hard against a wall. I stopped where

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I was and waited for it to stop. I thought

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maybe the storm outside had knocked a gutter loose or something,

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But the sound wasn't stopping. It was getting more aggressive,

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and finally something popped or burst. I heard something crumble

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all over the floor above me. A window. Maybe had

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a window shattered from the storm. It didn't sound like glass,

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but I couldn't be sure, and if a window had shattered,

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I needed to find a way to close it off

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so whatever room above me didn't get flooded by the rain.

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I ran upstairs and tried to find the room that

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I was standing beneath moments ago. When I figured it out,

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I turned the knob and pushed the door open. The

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door creaked loudly, like its hinges hadn't been oiled in years.

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As the door opened in front of me, lightning from

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outside the window flickered briefly, giving me a full glimpse

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into the room. It was carpeted, but empty, no furniture,

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no decor, nothing. A rumble of thunder shook the house

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again as I took a step into the room, letting

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my flashlight.

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Speaker 1: Lead the way.

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Speaker 2: I aimed my light from one side of the room

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to the next, and that's when I saw it. A

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large gaping hole had been punched into the wall somehow.

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I could see pieces of drywall had crumbled to the

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carpet beneath it, and the dust from its recent braking

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was still drifting through the air, glinting in the beam

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of the flashlight. I walked closer to investigate the hole,

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but was stopped dead in my tracks by sight that

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turned my blood ice cold. Within the hole, hidden mostly

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by shadows, was a hairy face. I froze just staring

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at the face, thinking that maybe I was seeing things

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or my vision was hampered by the darkness and selective

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areas of light from my flashlight. But the more I stared,

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the more I realized I wasn't seeing things. There was

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a face ahead inside the wall. It was still unmoving,

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like the stuffed mounted head of a trophy animal, only

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this one was beastly, and for some ominous reason, it

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seemed to be on display behind the wall. I studied

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the face from where I stood, a safe three or

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four feet from the hole in the wall. I moved

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the flashlight around, but still couldn't get a full grasp

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of what I was looking at. The face was covered

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in shades of dark and light gray hair. It might

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have had an elongated snout that was pointing downward, but

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I couldn't be sure. I didn't see any eyes, but

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figured they were hidden behind its shaggy hair. I decided

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I needed a closer look, so I took a step forward.

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That's when I heard an animalistic puff and another plume

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of dry wall dust shot out from the hole. I

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stopped again, my heart rate picking up. Whatever the thing

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in the wall was, I now didn't believe it to

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be a stuffed taxi or Mead's trophy head. It was

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alive and didn't knew I was there. I took a

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step back, and then another. The thing huffed again, expelling

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more dry wall dust from around the broken edges of

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the hole than it growled. I turned and ran as

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fast as I could out of the room and into

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the hallway. Down the hall, I tripped over my own

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panicking escape and face planted into the floor. I could

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still hear the thing growling, and then what sounded like

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more dry wall being ripped apart and falling to the floor.

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My sickened gut told me the thing was crawling out

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of the wall. I scrambled to my feet and faced

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the hallway in which I just ran down, aiming my flashlight.

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The thing was mobile. Now stepping out into the hall,

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I noticed its entire body was covered from head to

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toe in the same stringy gray fur, and it must

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have stood nearly seven or eight feet tall. Its head

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nearly touched the ceiling as it turned the corner out

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of the room. I didn't wait around to see anymore.

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I ran faster down the stairs, out of the house

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and into the storm. I was lucky enough that one

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of the neighbors next door was just getting home. He

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saw me, a twelve year old kid, splashing through the

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yard in his direction. When I explained what I just saw,

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he let me come into his home and together we

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called my dad. By the time my dad got there,

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the storm had passed. I told my Dad everything. Together,

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along with the helpful neighbor, we went back into the

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house so I could show him. Needless to say, we

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didn't see any strange, hairy monsters. We didn't hear any

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horrible growls. We did, however, see the massive hole in

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the wall upstairs. When the coast was clear, the neighbor

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went home and my dad told me it was probably

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all just my imagination. That being alone in a strange

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house with a power outage and a raging thunderstorm outside

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probably created some sort of elevated anxiety in me, and

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I started to imagine the worst things possible. I asked

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him to explain the hole in the wall then, since

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that's where the monster had come out from. He shrugged,

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not having a real answer, and blamed the storm the wind.

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More specifically, he can believe what he wants to believe,

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But I know what I saw that night deep in

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my gut. I know what I saw, and I know

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it was real. Some things you just know to be real.

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That's why, all these years later, as an adult, I

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bought one of the vacant houses across the street from

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my dad's friend's house. I found it odd and coincidental

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that houses in that small little community don't seem to

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stay occupied for long. Even my dad's friend moved out

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the next year without ever giving a reason. It might

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seem strange that this small community seems to have people

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come and go without explanation, leaving houses vacant more often

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than not, but not to me. I know why. It's

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because of the monster that lives here. The thing I

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saw behind the wall. It scares people away. I know

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it was there all those years ago, and I am

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convinced it never left. It might be in that very

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house still, or it might have moved to another house

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in the community. Whatever it is, I am here waiting

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for it to come back. Maybe one night I'll hear

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a scream out in the storm, then i'll know. Maybe

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one day the police will come to investigate a strange occurrence,

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then i'll know. Like I said, either way, I'm here

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and I'm waiting for the thing in the wall to

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show itself again. Actually, I think I hear something scraping

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a wall in the room next to me right now.

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Speaker 3: Wow, one hundred bucks for a weekend, easy work, easy pay.

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Speaker 2: Lights sound at night, lights off in the day, a

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beast or.

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Speaker 3: Souda my game and I'm set, just me and a house,

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best gig I could get. Then the thunder road in

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the power went out.

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Speaker 2: There heard a sound I couldn't figure out.

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Speaker 3: There's the thing in the wall, and the wall.

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Speaker 2: And scraping, scraping down there upstairs.

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Speaker 3: Hall shouldn't have looked, but there's a thing no wall.

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There's a thing in the wall, and it won't go

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to the dry wall, pointing in the light, shaggy great shadows,

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even feet of fright it and it growled and it

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pushed its way through.

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Speaker 2: I was down the stairs before.

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Speaker 1: I knew what to do. Out the door and through

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the ring.

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Speaker 3: Through the neighbor next door came back when my daddy

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wasn't there anymore. There's a thing in the wall, the

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wall and the walls scraping down there upstairs. Hall shouldn't

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have looked, but I look anyway. Now there's a thing

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the wall. There's a thing in the wall, any wall?

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The houses going everything, and folks come in and go no, no,

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it stays long and nobody knows. I'm growing up now,

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but watching it's still that house is every window shadow

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and shies.

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Speaker 1: In the wall?

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Speaker 3: Scratch you not a scrapping down the upstairs all Dad says.

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It was nothing, just my brain thing.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 3: Wall, No know what I saw.

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Speaker 2: I wasn't joking that day.

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Speaker 3: There's nothing in the wall any wong.

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Speaker 1: The wall? Wait?

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Speaker 2: Is that a scratch?

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Speaker 1: Seriously?

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Speaker 3: I think I just heard something instead. That's all.

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Speaker 2: Coming up next week. On micro Terror's Scary Stories for Kids,

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Lexi is invited to a barbecue to help celebrate the

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life of her best friend's mother. Only this barbecue isn't

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handle at microterrors I hope you'll join us again soon

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for micro terrors, scary stories for kids,