Sept. 17, 2024

Your Scary Stories Episode #10: Police Horror Story

Your Scary Stories Episode #10: Police Horror Story

Full Audio Content from Your Scary Stories Episode 109. The following story was shared during this episode: Police Horror Story Parts 1-5. Your Scary Stories is a show where we share your true scary stories LIVE every Monday at 10:30pm EST. To learn...

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Full Audio Content from Your Scary Stories Episode 109. The following story was shared during this episode: Police Horror Story Parts 1-5. Your Scary Stories is a show where we share your true scary stories LIVE every Monday at 10:30pm EST. To learn more about the Show, or to submit your true scary story go to YourScaryStories.com Music- Author: Kevin MacLeod at - http://incompetech.com/ CarlB1961 Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/kzntf8/ive_been_a_smalltown_cop_for_twelve_years_theres/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32626579&utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan

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All right, all right, all right, This is Jeff Townsend

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and joining me as usual is Luke John Daily Programmer.

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This is another episode of your Scary Stories. Luke John

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Daily Programmer.

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How are you doing? Man? Pretty good? Pretty good?

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You just like to say, at first, I didn't know

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it was really the golfer things. So now I feel

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like a little silly, you know.

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I like it, personal favorite golfer to watch. When he's

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doing it, it's he's entertaining. Ain't then is he playing

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in like Saudi Arabia Nour? I haven't never noticed why

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it's been up too recently?

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Did they've been playing? They've been paying golfers big money

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to go over there, and golf like big money. I

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know they offer Tiger Woods like mega money and he

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turned it down. But a lot of those guys are

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taking it, Like wait, I would some of them? Well yeah,

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I mean it's not like so a lot of people

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look at it a lot of different ways, right, Like

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how you're accepting money? Four Like what I mean people

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you're accepting it from I guess, but you're also go

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golf for a year and retire, provide for your everybody

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and your family.

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You know, it's a smart move. Yeah. Yeah, the PGA Tour.

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They hate it, man, they hate it. But that's enough

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golf talk. Maybe we'll talk more about golf when the

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Masters happens in a few weeks. Yeah, we'll have a

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golf special. Oh, a golf horse.

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Oh, we got to find some golf scary stories on

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this Master's time. Oh, that's a challenge accepted. For today's show,

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We're going to do something a little bit different. We're

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going to go back to what we did. Oh man.

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We were just a couple episodes in and maybe an

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episode three of this show. Very beginning of the year,

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we recorded a episode where we read a long form

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story about the stairs in the woods. So today we're

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going to tag team this story, scary story that he has.

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So this is actually from Carl B nineteen sixty one

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or Carl B one nine sixty one. I great to

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follow on Reddit. Make sure you check out his Patreon

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and stuff like that. So as we approached this story,

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as we read it, we're going to be reviewing it.

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I guess you could say like we're going to read

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it and then we are going to discuss it as if.

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It's a real event.

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Yeah, right, So that is a fun way to do it.

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This is an awesome story, man, and I know that

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I got it over to you and you got to

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read it through.

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So yeah, I've read through a few times. It's very interesting.

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I'm excited to share the story with everybody. Are you

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excited to very much?

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So?

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Well, I think I'm first on the list to read. Yep,

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So we'll go ahead and get it going. I've been

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a small town cop for twelve years. There's one case

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that still scares me. Being a cop in a small

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town in Minnesota probably isn't the most exciting career there is.

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But it's not bad either.

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It's actually a relatively peaceful and safe line of work

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compared to being in law enforcement in one of the

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big cities New York or LA, for example, where all

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the action is is They would say, there's only around

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ten thousand people in the town where I live. It's

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way out in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by miles

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of open farmland, and the only real crime that ever

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occurs as pretty minor stuff. The occasional rowdy rednecks getting

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into fist fights, teenagers vandalizing, petty theft, the odd drunk

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driver here and then a case of disorderly conduct here

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and there a were breaking and entering, and then a

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couple of times I've been to some more serious stuff

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I've had to deal with, like domestic violence, assault and

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then robbery. But that's not even that typical. It doesn't

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really happen that often. Well, that's not entirely true. There

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was one case that still haunts me. But I'm getting

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ahead of myself. Like I was saying, I live in

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a peaceful little town, boring. Some would even say the

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kind of rule out of the way farming community. You've

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probably driven through on the highway on your way to

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somewhere more interesting, without even really thinking about it as

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you passed it by. The kind of place where nothing

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out of the ordinary ever happens, You've probably thought, and

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for the most part, you'd be.

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Right thinking that.

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But there's one case I can't get out of my mind.

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One case is bill makes my blood run cold whenever

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I think about it. One case I can't explain, no

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matter how hard I'd try to rationalize it to myself.

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What happened to the old Garrity woman seven years ago.

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I had been a police officer for five years when

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it happened in the early spring of twenty fourteen. There

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were only five cops on the entire police force. Me,

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my partner Jerry, Pete and Vance, who both worked a

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night patrol, and the police chief, plus Karen, an older

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woman who is a retired librarian and worked part time

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as the dispatcher. The police department was located in the

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town building. It consisted of two offices, one for the chief,

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then an open work area for the rest of us.

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There are three jail cells in the rear, and the

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three of them were never all occupied at the same time.

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It was an overcast, rainy afternoon in late March early April.

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ME and Jerry were in our cruiser on a routine

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patrol around town when Karen's voice came over the radio

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telling us there was a possible ten eighty two in

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progress at the Garrity House on Turner Road. We acknowledged,

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then changed directions heading to the Garretty house. I wasn't

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overly concerned about the call. I already had a pretty

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good idea who made it. Aleene Garrity was an elderly

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woman who was a widow who lived in a Rundown

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farmhouse on the outskirts of town. She was probably around

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sixty five or seventy years old and had lived a

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lone since her husband had died of a stroke three

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years before. They had two children, but both of them

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lived out of town and never visited her. Since her

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husband's death, she had developed something of a reputation of

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being crazy. Okay, I guess that's not putting it so nice.

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She was a shut in who rarely left her home

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and had groceries delivered once a week. Basically a crazy

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cat lady minus the cats. The reason she was considered

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crazy was because she had become pretty blaky and paranoid

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since being widowed, and had called the police department on

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multiple occasions for everything from hearing intruders moving around in

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her attic to see in UFOs and the cornfield. There

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were probably at least a dozen other calls too. All

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her calls turned out to be false alarms. Of course,

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the robbers she claimed were hiding in her attic turned

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out to be a pair of raccoons had slipped in

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under the roof, and the UFOs were probably just jets

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flying overhead from the National Guard base fifty miles west

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me Jerry Pete and Vance had all visited her home

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multiple times before during our respective shifts. We never got

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frustrated with her or gave her a hard time about it,

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and usually we would inspect her house and property to

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calm her nerves. She'd relax, think us, we'd leave, and

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the process would repeat itself in a couple of weeks

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or maybe a couple months. Honestly, our infrequent trips to

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her house were probably the only real highlight of what

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was a rather dull and unexciting job. When we told

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the chief about missus Garretty's latest emergency bigfoot was sneaking

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around in her yard, or there was a giant and

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a conda lurking in her basement, would just shake his

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head sadly. When Vance and Pete were the ones who

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had to deal with her, they'd tell us all about

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the most recent ordeal. When me and Jerry saw them

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at shift exchange, they'd usually smirk in a mean spirited way,

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and Pete would twirl his finger next to his temple

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before they left, symbolizing that she's crazy. Jerry and I

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just felt sorry for the old woman. It couldn't have

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been easy for her. A frail, nervous lonely woman living

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all alone in that old, crumbling house with no friends

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or close family. I suspect she might be getting senile,

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or maybe entering the early stages of Alzheimer's or dementia.

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We worried about her living out there by herself, almost

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a mile from the nearest neighbor. If her health suddenly

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turned bad or she had an accident, couldn't call for help, Well,

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there wasn't really much.

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We could do about it.

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A couple of times I looked at the numbers of

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her daughter and son and tried calling them about possibly

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placing her in an assistant living home or a mental

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health facility. But the one time I actually managed to

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reach her son, as I was explaining his mother's situation

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to him, he interrupted me, telling me he was too

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busy at the moment and would call me back, then

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abruptly ended the call. He never did call me back.

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From then on, they always happened to be unavailable and

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never answered any of the voicemails I left them.

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It's such a sad like turn of events for someone

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later in life too, you know, start to lose their

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faculties and then you know their family isn't even around

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to like help them or at least call them down.

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And it's all up to these small town police that

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she keeps calling to try to make something of it.

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You know, first of all that the introduction is the

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hardest read of the whole thing's the longest and hardest.

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But just going back to the community and the area,

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it really feels like like the place that we're from,

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you know, this small town.

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I think they even worked.

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I think he worded it as you'd be you'd like

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pass by on your way to go somewhere more interesting. Yeah,

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that sounds like a lot of the rural area that

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you know, we live in. So I could kind of

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relate to that. Yeah, obviously it's a little bit smaller

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in this story, but I could kind of relate to

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what he was saying.

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Though, Yeah, I mean it kind of just actually, uh,

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like you said, the towns that we lived in, so

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the areas you know, there was only one cop in

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one of the towns we lived in, you know, Yeah,

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and so it was just, uh, you know, if you

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lived in those areas, you know the feeling, you know,

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the feeling of how these people react, you know, the

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way that there usually is someone kind of by themselves that.

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Probably get in. You probably know everybody too, right, Like, yeah,

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a small place, you know everybody, you know their story.

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Oh yeah, you'll know most of the people in the

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town if it's small enough. Like you know, we've been

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in towns that were six hundred people and yeah, you

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knew it was there for Yeah, So it seems like

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this is that kind of place. Uh.

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So there the old lady. Garretty keeps calling them, and

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there's a couple of different patrols, right, there's him and Jerry.

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Him and Jerry are the day shift, the pen advance

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of the night shift, I believe, Yeah, And it kind

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of sounds like they both approach this lady differently, like, yeah,

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they on the day shift are a little bit more

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kind of the night shift are a little bit more

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I don't know mean joking about it, but it seems

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like he really relates to this lady, like, not even

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really relates to her, he really feels for her.

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I guess that is what I'm saying. Yeah, he understands

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that she's not all there and she can't help it,

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and he just feels bad about it. So even tried

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calling the family members.

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What did you feel about how did you feel about

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these family members? Not even like just blowing her off.

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You know, it's just really, like I said, it's a

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sad state of affairs. Like you know, it's just like,

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how could you let that happen? You know, you heavier

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your mother by herself, and if that's going on, you

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got to step up obviously, if.

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You're just if you're just now too. She's widowed, her

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husband passed away to say, three years ago at least,

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so she's trying to manage and take care of herself,

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take care of this old farmhouse, and they think possibly

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developing dementia or some sorts. She frequently calls the cops

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for false alarms. They're very used to it, even give

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some examples of thought intruders are in her house. It

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was raccoons in the attic, UFO Bigfoot. So it makes

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you wonder is she calling She calling to get I

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don't want to say attention, but you know it's probably.

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Not intentional, but if your mind's starting to go, you're

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by yourself, you might call just to have some sort

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of interaction with her person. But beyond that, she probably

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does think she see these things and she's scared because

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she's by herself.

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A mile away from the closest neighbor.

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So it's clear that you know, she just gets worried

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and scared out there by herself, and she would needs

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someone to be there for her.

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Did a great job, I think set in the stage

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here for the first part of the story. We know

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kind of like that was a quick, good description of

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the situation. Then of course you're going to jump back

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into it with the events that fall him.

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Jerry and me turned on to turn her road and

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drove up to missus Garretty's house on the gray, rainy

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late spring day, certain that the old woman was just

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overreacting yet again something relatively minor, and her imagination was

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playing tricks on her. She was waiting for us outside

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on her porch when we pulled to a stop. I'll

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never forget how she looked shocked me. She'd already been

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a thin and frail woman the other times we've been

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out there, but we hadn't seen her in probably a

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couple months since her last false emergency. She had changed

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drastically since then. Now she was gone, almost emaciated, her

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cheeks hollow and dark rings under her bloodshot, sunken eyes,

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her gray hair, was tangled and didn't look like it

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had been washed in days, maybe weeks, and the dress

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she was wearing was wrinkled and dirty. Her physical appearance

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was alarming enough, but there was also something about the

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way she was staring at both of us, with those dull,

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dark eyes that seem to look at us, through us,

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and passed us all at once reminded me of old

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photos I've seen of American soldiers in Vietnam. The blank, expressionist,

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shell shocked look of someone who had been through more

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horror than any ordinary person should have to endure. Me

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and Jerry exchange a shocked look that got out and

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approached the old woman. What seems to be the trouble,

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missus garrity, Jerry asked her, trying to keep his voice nonchalant.

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There's something in my house, she told us a flat,

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toneless voice. She was shaking slightly on the verge of

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total physical and mental exhaustion. The way she phrased it,

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not someone, but something, made me raise my eyebrow. Well,

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you just wait here and we'll go have a look

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and make sure it's safe, I told her, trying not

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to sound too patronizing. I looked to Jerry and nodded.

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We drew our pistols and stepped past miss Garrety cautiously.

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Entering the house, we did a routine sweep of the

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first flour our guns were leveled head then we headed upstairs. Oh,

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it took about five minutes to check out the house.

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We had done it so many times before. We had

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to lay out down pat and there was no sign

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of any intruders or evidence would break in. And entering,

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I saw plenty of other things that disturbed me deeply.

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For one thing, the place was a total mess. The

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house was already pretty decrepit. Missus Garretty had still taken

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pride at how clean she kept it. It had always

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been spicking spin on our earlier visits. Now dirty dish

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were stacked so high in the kitchen sink, the counters

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were dirty, and the trash and dirty laundry littered the floors.

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I also noticed that missus Garrity pillow and blankets were

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lying rumbled on the couch in the living room. The

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surface of the coffee table in front of it was

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cluttered with half drunk cups of coffee, open containers of food,

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a bible, and a rosary. It looked like she's been

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eating and sleeping in the living room for some time.

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We went upstairs. Sure enough, the bed and Missus Garretty's

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room was bare, and the room itself looked like it

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had been vacant for quite a while. There was also

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something in a living room that really alarmed me. Leaning

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in one corner was an old double barreled shotgun that

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probably belonged to her late husband. Jerry picked it up,

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broke it open and found two spent shells in the chamber,

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took one out and stepped it. They told me the

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gun had been fired very recently. We also discovered something

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else bizarre. All of the mirrors and Missus Garretty's house

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had been shattered, and every closet door had been boarded shut.

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That one the front hall on the first floor, had

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a huge hole blasted in the center of smaller holes

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pitting the splintered wood around it. He didn't need to

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be shruck Holms to deduce that Missus Gearritty had fired

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her shotgun into that door. But why what the fuck

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had happened here? Jerry shot me a perplexed, questioning look.

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I shrugged, cooled us, and in equally bewildered, finished with

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our inspection of the house. We put away our pistols

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and turned around to go back outside. Missus Garretty was

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standing in the room behind us, staring at us with

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that unnerving blank expression. Both of us almost jumped a

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foot in the air, startled. Neither of us had heard

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her enter. Jerry regained his composure and flash her a fake,

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reassuring smile. We don't see any sign of a Missus

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Garretty must have slipped out the back you're saying. She

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didn't relax or peer relieved like she had the countless

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other times we had as humored her. Her face seemed

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to twitch and some new look dawned in her eyes.

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Took me a moment to identify it. It was a

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look of pure hopeless doom mixed with utter terror. No,

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she said, and that same odd, listless, flat voice. I'm

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not safe. It's still here. It's hiding, that's why you

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couldn't find it, and after you leave, it'll come back

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for me. Then she began to quiver. She started to

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cry with total despair, breaking down into hysterical sobs that

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racked her whole body. Jerry and me looked at each

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other concerned. We went to the old woman and comfort

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her as best as we could, guiding her over to

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the couch, sending her down with us on either side,

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coaxing her gently back to a state of calm.

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The story progresses here and they arrive on the scene.

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I guess is what you would say, Yes, and things

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are a little bit different than they typically are.

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Yeah, I would say so. Seems like clearly she's in

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a quite a bit more disarray than normal, Like like

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physically they can see it on her. Yeah, she hasn't.

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She doesn't look like she's been eating well. She looks tired,

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she definitely looks scared, and beyond that, she's not taking

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care of herself. She's not cleaning her hair or her dress,

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she's not cleaning her home. Everything about this definitely seems

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like not the usual case.

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And she said something okay with the creepy part, and

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I have to go find them exactly where it is.

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But she used the word it yh. Yeah, she says

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something in it, and so like she's not referring to

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this as a person, and she's not even really referring

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to you give to the sense of she's not talking

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about an animal either. She's not talking about a raccoon.

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This definitely seems like something else, and the fact that

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she actually is doing some strange things in this house,

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like all her mirrors are smashed, and her closet tours

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are all boarded shut.

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And she hasn't slept in her room for quite some time.

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All the pillows and blankets are on the couch.

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They said, yeah, on the couch, and that's where she's

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also got like some amounts of food and coffee around

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on the coffee table there.

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So coffee would make you think maybe that she's afraid

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to sleep. Sounds like she's not in her room. Yeah,

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afraid to sleep. So I think the next part that

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is what's crazy. They find the shotgun, a couple spent

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shellcasings in it, and Jerry actually smells it. You could

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tell that the weapons recently been fired.

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Yeah. Then they see the hole blasted in the closet tour,

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So we know at this.

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Point in time she at least thinks something is in

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that house and she's gone I don't want to say

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gone crazy in the meanway, but she it has a

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very extreme reaction to this situation. By firing a gun

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off in your house.

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The best circumstance is this seems like you have someone

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who's losing their mind fully and it is, you know,

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just destroying everything around them. It's a very touchy situation

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to be in because now they got to you know,

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find out what's going on and then try to take

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care of her, but they can't really at this point,

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you know, she's possibly danger or someone. Yeah, they did

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a really good job dealing with her that I feel like, Yeah,

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they're being a crazy thing to walk into and I

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feel like these guys that a really good job of

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handling it. Definitely so far. Yeah, for sure, But you

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can't be easy.

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You walk into that situation where this house has just

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just been destroyed basically, and you're reacting to it. Well,

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not only that, you go there every week, every couple weeks,

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every couple of months, and there's just so much worse

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this time. So to your point, it's got to be

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very concerning. But the first thing they got to do

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is get her calm down.

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Yeah, definitely, and then maybe get some answers.

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Yep, which is what we'll get into that a little

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bit more right now at the next part. After she

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had herself back under control, we asked her to explain

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what had happened. She was quiet for a few moments,

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gathering her thoughts. Then she began to speak. As we

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listened to her story, my body temperature seemed to gradually drop,

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and I felt chills take over me. Several times I

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made eye contact with Jerry, and his expression was a

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mirror of my own disbelief and fear. It started about

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a month ago, she began. That's when I first heard

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the scratching and my closet door, A soft, slow, steady scratching.

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This seemed to come from inside her bedroom closet at night.

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At first, she had assumed it was probably a mouse

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or something like another small animal, except the scratching seemed

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to come from too high of a height to be

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the working of a mouse or an animal. Whenever she

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opened the closet door allways after the scratching had stopped,

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there had been nothing there. Several times she had started

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to open the closet door as the scratching was in

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progress to get to the bottom of it once and

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for all, but each time she grasped the doorknob, and

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she was overwhelmed with unease and fear, and she was

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not able to do it. The scratching sounded too deliberate,

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too gentle, deceptionally harmless, as if something was trying to

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lure her into opening that closet door. To be safe,

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she had started locking her closet door at night. Over

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the next several days, the scratching had gotten louder and

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more intense, as if something was trying to tunnel its

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way through the wood. One day, she opened the closet

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door and found claw marks on the other side, claw

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marks that were six feet off the ground, claw marks

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that looked like they had been made by fingernails. The

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horror had really started for Miscarty about a week after

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she had first heard the scratching sounds. One night, she

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had awoken to a voice softly calling her nae, a

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voice that seemed to be coming from the locked closet door.

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She was bewildered, even more so because she recognized this voice.

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It belonged to Bill, her dead husband. Bill's voice had

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pleaded for her to open the closet door, telling her

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that God had sent him down to take her up

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to heaven where they could be together again and young

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like they used to be forever. At this point, Jerry

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had looked at me, wide eyed from the other side

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of the couch. Then what happened? I asked her gently.

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I thought I was dreaming, Miss Garretty said, I thought

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it had been a dream. Poor Bill had been gone

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for three years, and since I was having a dream,

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I didn't see a harm in doing what he was

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asking me to do. I got out of bed and

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went to the closet. I reached for the lock, but

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then I stopped something. Something didn't seem right. It was

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Bill's voice, and it seemed perfectly normal, but somehow it

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was wrong too. The way he was talking, it wasn't

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like how Bill used to talk. It was like a

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stranger was using Bill's voice trying to trick me into

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opening the closet door. That doesn't make much sense, does it.

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Actually nothing she was telling us made sense, but we

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just asked her to continue telling her story. Bill or

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whoever or whatever was using his voice had continued to

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beg her to unlock the closet door, which she had

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refused to unlock the closet door. The voice had changed,

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becoming harsh and angry. It was very angry and demanding

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that she opened the door when she had still refused.

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It began to shout at her, using profanity and making

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obscene threats. Thanks, Bill would never do things Bill would

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have never said when he was alive. Before beginning to

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pound violently on the door, the voice had begun to change.

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No longer sounding like her late husband's, it became deeper

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and disordered, until it didn't sound human at all. In terror,

469
00:24:57.599 --> 00:24:59.559
she had fled her room and spent the night on

470
00:24:59.599 --> 00:25:04.039
the couch downstairs. Eventually the pounding and the threats had stopped.

471
00:25:04.759 --> 00:25:08.519
Miss Garrety Jerry politely interrupted her at this point, why

472
00:25:08.599 --> 00:25:11.599
didn't you call us at the police station when this happened?

473
00:25:12.039 --> 00:25:14.920
She was silent for a moment, then a small bitter

474
00:25:14.960 --> 00:25:18.200
smile formed on her lips. I thought you'd think I

475
00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:21.960
was imagining it, she told us. I know people in

476
00:25:22.039 --> 00:25:26.000
town think I'm the crazy old lady, and I've had

477
00:25:26.200 --> 00:25:28.319
you out here so many times before for things that

478
00:25:28.400 --> 00:25:30.720
turned out to be nothing. I thought maybe it was

479
00:25:30.759 --> 00:25:32.799
all in my head and I didn't want to bother

480
00:25:32.880 --> 00:25:33.440
you about it.

481
00:25:34.680 --> 00:25:37.839
Well, this story really goes from zero to sixty like that?

482
00:25:37.920 --> 00:25:40.160
Isn't that business has just picked up? I guess you

483
00:25:40.160 --> 00:25:45.400
could say so. So freaking definitely thinks she is experiencing

484
00:25:45.400 --> 00:25:48.599
something completely crazy. Yeah, definitely.

485
00:25:48.799 --> 00:25:50.160
So we get a little bit more, We get a

486
00:25:50.200 --> 00:25:52.640
little bit more information about this closet now, right, like

487
00:25:53.240 --> 00:25:55.640
talked about how the closet doors were boarded up, so

488
00:25:55.799 --> 00:25:58.079
now we know that it all began in her bedroom

489
00:25:58.160 --> 00:26:00.480
closet door where she started hearing scratching sounds.

490
00:26:01.440 --> 00:26:03.079
Yeah, that's really.

491
00:26:02.759 --> 00:26:06.440
Crazy gentle though, right, like, not like violently scratching, just

492
00:26:06.480 --> 00:26:09.160
like almost like you're just trying to get somebody's attention.

493
00:26:09.799 --> 00:26:12.720
Yeah, that's what it seems like, almost like you know,

494
00:26:12.880 --> 00:26:16.119
just a light scratching a track someone through the door.

495
00:26:16.519 --> 00:26:19.880
Progressively did get a little bit more, like she said,

496
00:26:19.920 --> 00:26:22.039
it was almost like they're trying to tunnel through the door.

497
00:26:22.440 --> 00:26:24.319
Yeah, she opened the door and actually saw the claw

498
00:26:24.359 --> 00:26:26.160
marks that were like six feet off the ground.

499
00:26:26.720 --> 00:26:29.480
Yeah, that's raasy.

500
00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:33.119
Which is pretty tall for a person even though, but

501
00:26:33.160 --> 00:26:35.359
nevertheless that that rules out an animal.

502
00:26:35.480 --> 00:26:40.079
Yeah, definitely, And it just seems so creepy. And then

503
00:26:40.240 --> 00:26:43.119
then the voice though that that's when of the creep

504
00:26:43.160 --> 00:26:45.160
factor really cranks up.

505
00:26:45.519 --> 00:26:48.400
Before that though, before we get into that, though, several

506
00:26:48.440 --> 00:26:50.079
times she went up to the door and she was

507
00:26:50.119 --> 00:26:52.920
going to open it, why that scratching was happening would

508
00:26:52.920 --> 00:26:55.480
you be able to do that, like eventually, right you'd

509
00:26:55.480 --> 00:26:56.440
be like, I'm sick of this shit.

510
00:26:56.519 --> 00:26:59.480
I got to open this door. Yeah, you know. It's

511
00:26:59.519 --> 00:27:02.559
one of those things that, like, there are times where

512
00:27:02.640 --> 00:27:06.519
it happens to almost everyone where you're just like, if

513
00:27:06.559 --> 00:27:10.440
I turn around right now, there's going to be someone

514
00:27:10.519 --> 00:27:14.319
behind me, right, that kind of feeling, Yeah, you just

515
00:27:14.799 --> 00:27:18.039
and so you decide not to turn around sometimes just

516
00:27:18.079 --> 00:27:20.000
because it's like I can't do it. I can't turn

517
00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:23.759
around and see this thing behind me, Or it's like, yeah,

518
00:27:23.880 --> 00:27:26.720
the corner of your eye, you see something that might

519
00:27:26.799 --> 00:27:29.920
be there, and so you don't look at it directly

520
00:27:29.960 --> 00:27:31.839
because you don't want it to know that you're looking

521
00:27:31.880 --> 00:27:33.839
at it. And I get that. I think that's the

522
00:27:33.880 --> 00:27:36.119
feeling that she got when she's gone up to this door.

523
00:27:36.359 --> 00:27:40.200
It's like everything seems like you need to confront it,

524
00:27:40.680 --> 00:27:43.519
But at the same time, it's like, do you really

525
00:27:43.680 --> 00:27:46.039
want to open that door? Do you really want to

526
00:27:46.039 --> 00:27:48.200
look at the corner of your eye? Do you really

527
00:27:48.279 --> 00:27:51.799
want to turn around? Those are things that a lot

528
00:27:51.839 --> 00:27:54.599
of people deal with a lot of times, and you

529
00:27:54.680 --> 00:27:58.160
never know what it is. She's really trying to ignore it.

530
00:27:58.160 --> 00:28:00.400
It seems like like if I ignore it, maybe it'll

531
00:28:00.400 --> 00:28:04.000
go away, right yeah, or maybe it's just like in

532
00:28:04.039 --> 00:28:05.640
your head, it's not really there.

533
00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:08.680
So then you talked about it. The voice is she

534
00:28:08.720 --> 00:28:12.519
started hearing voices, her husband's voice asking her to come

535
00:28:12.519 --> 00:28:15.920
to the closet door to open it, basically like we'll

536
00:28:15.960 --> 00:28:19.480
go to heaven together and be together forever. But the

537
00:28:19.519 --> 00:28:21.880
way he was speaking it may have sounded like her

538
00:28:21.960 --> 00:28:24.799
husband as far as like the voice itself, but the

539
00:28:24.839 --> 00:28:28.559
way it was actually talking, he wasn't phrasing or saying

540
00:28:28.599 --> 00:28:31.759
things like her husband would her late dead husband.

541
00:28:31.519 --> 00:28:34.480
Right, Yeah, And that actually makes a lot of sense

542
00:28:34.559 --> 00:28:38.160
because you know someone they have a specific way of

543
00:28:38.240 --> 00:28:41.640
talking that goes beyond their voice pattern and everything. Yeah,

544
00:28:42.039 --> 00:28:44.559
you know, the cadence of which they talk. So it

545
00:28:44.680 --> 00:28:48.240
makes sense that things would seem right at first, but

546
00:28:48.319 --> 00:28:50.079
then it's it's like, well they would have a light

547
00:28:50.279 --> 00:28:54.079
a little bit more, a pause there, or something like that.

548
00:28:54.160 --> 00:28:57.200
You know, she's ignoring it. This thing's getting pissed off

549
00:28:57.240 --> 00:28:59.839
about it. It gets to the point where its voice

550
00:28:59.880 --> 00:29:02.480
no longer sounds like Bill's her dead husbands. The way

551
00:29:02.519 --> 00:29:04.240
I read it, when I was reading it, I was thinking,

552
00:29:04.279 --> 00:29:05.359
like demonic sounding.

553
00:29:05.880 --> 00:29:10.240
Yeah, definitely seems like it. It says nor sounds human like,

554
00:29:10.599 --> 00:29:13.519
and it also has like it's been saying some really

555
00:29:13.640 --> 00:29:18.000
terrible things to her, Yeah, which you know is terrifying.

556
00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:21.279
Well it less terrified, I thank's ever. Yeah, I this

557
00:29:21.440 --> 00:29:25.680
sounds this is a crazy story. But again, though, she

558
00:29:25.880 --> 00:29:28.599
moves downstairs and they asked the million dollar questions, why

559
00:29:28.599 --> 00:29:29.599
didn't you call us? Right?

560
00:29:30.519 --> 00:29:33.799
And you could tell that she's still contemplating if this

561
00:29:33.880 --> 00:29:34.599
is like real or not.

562
00:29:34.720 --> 00:29:35.160
Almost.

563
00:29:35.359 --> 00:29:37.359
First of all, she doesn't want to bother them. She

564
00:29:37.440 --> 00:29:40.799
knows everybody thinks she's a crazy lady. But she's starting

565
00:29:40.799 --> 00:29:42.920
to think herself, waitter, am I going crazy?

566
00:29:43.240 --> 00:29:46.079
Right? And that's kind of like why she maybe didn't

567
00:29:46.079 --> 00:29:49.000
open the door, because it's like, is she going to

568
00:29:49.079 --> 00:29:51.640
have to admit that she's crazy when she opens that door?

569
00:29:51.680 --> 00:29:55.480
There's nothing there? Or is it? There is something there?

570
00:29:55.519 --> 00:29:57.319
And you definitely don't want to open that door.

571
00:29:57.720 --> 00:29:59.920
Him and his fellow officer definitely thinks she's completely lost

572
00:30:00.039 --> 00:30:01.279
her mind at this point though.

573
00:30:01.680 --> 00:30:06.119
Definitely, Yeah, But they're also there being very courteous about

574
00:30:06.160 --> 00:30:09.200
they're very very professional. They're trying to, you know, still

575
00:30:09.200 --> 00:30:11.799
settle her down and get to the bottom of what

576
00:30:12.039 --> 00:30:15.160
led up to when she finally did call, She seems

577
00:30:15.160 --> 00:30:18.519
just relief that they're there, you know. Yeah, and you

578
00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:22.599
can imagine that, you know, anyone wants to see someone

579
00:30:22.680 --> 00:30:25.519
after a while, So yeah, it makes sense that she

580
00:30:25.599 --> 00:30:28.519
would be very really regardless of what was happening. But

581
00:30:28.559 --> 00:30:31.559
the fact that something might be happening. Yea, ifite I

582
00:30:31.559 --> 00:30:34.759
want to see someone else, yeah for sure. Well man,

583
00:30:34.759 --> 00:30:38.079
we'll let you pick it back up all right. Things

584
00:30:38.200 --> 00:30:43.359
had escavated pretty quickly from there. The pounding and threats

585
00:30:43.400 --> 00:30:46.680
had continued every night. She had been too scared to

586
00:30:46.720 --> 00:30:49.000
sleep in her bedroom and had started sleeping in the

587
00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:52.759
living room couch. Then one night the pounding had begun,

588
00:30:52.920 --> 00:30:56.880
not just on her bedroom closet, but all the closet

589
00:30:56.920 --> 00:31:00.240
doors in the house, all at the same time, like

590
00:31:00.319 --> 00:31:02.359
there were people and all of them trying to get

591
00:31:02.440 --> 00:31:05.000
all at once. She told us it was the same

592
00:31:05.160 --> 00:31:09.400
voice in every closet, that same horrible voice. In fear,

593
00:31:10.039 --> 00:31:14.039
she nailed all the closet doors shut to keep the thing,

594
00:31:14.319 --> 00:31:17.680
whatever it was, from coming out to get her. Then,

595
00:31:17.759 --> 00:31:21.279
about two weeks ago, something even more terrifying had happened.

596
00:31:22.039 --> 00:31:24.240
She had been in her bathroom and was washing her

597
00:31:24.240 --> 00:31:26.640
hands in a sink when she looked up into the

598
00:31:26.680 --> 00:31:31.440
medicine cabinet mirror. She paused, what'd you see, Jerry asked her.

599
00:31:32.200 --> 00:31:35.240
I saw it, she said, in a choked whimper. I

600
00:31:35.279 --> 00:31:38.400
saw its face instead of my own. He was wearing

601
00:31:38.519 --> 00:31:41.200
a black robe with a hood, and its face. His

602
00:31:41.319 --> 00:31:45.240
face was just a grinning skull, a skull with horns.

603
00:31:45.880 --> 00:31:48.759
His eyes were red, the eyes of the devil himself.

604
00:31:49.480 --> 00:31:51.519
I don't mean I saw it standing behind me in

605
00:31:51.559 --> 00:31:55.599
the mirror. It was in the mirror itself. I felt

606
00:31:55.599 --> 00:31:58.960
a shiver crawl up my spine. It reached out of

607
00:31:59.000 --> 00:32:02.279
the mirror. It didn't have hands, it was like claws,

608
00:32:02.960 --> 00:32:06.000
and it tried to grab me in horror. She had

609
00:32:06.039 --> 00:32:10.079
thrown a bottle of lotion at the mirror, shattering blasts, then,

610
00:32:10.279 --> 00:32:12.079
to be safe, had done the same to all the

611
00:32:12.079 --> 00:32:15.160
other mirrors in the house. How could you stay in

612
00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:17.079
this house with all this has happened to you, asked her.

613
00:32:18.000 --> 00:32:20.920
She shrugged sadly. I don't have anywhere else to go,

614
00:32:21.440 --> 00:32:24.839
and no one will take me in. The nights were awful.

615
00:32:25.319 --> 00:32:27.920
It was always better during the days. At least then

616
00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:30.920
I could get some sleep. It always stopped by morning

617
00:32:31.240 --> 00:32:35.839
and never happened during the day, she suddenly shuddered. Until

618
00:32:35.880 --> 00:32:39.920
three days ago. Then it started happening all the time,

619
00:32:40.319 --> 00:32:43.480
day and night. I was safe no matter what time

620
00:32:43.519 --> 00:32:46.799
it was. It all come to a head late this morning.

621
00:32:47.400 --> 00:32:51.680
Pounding had gradually gotten more violent and forceful, until all

622
00:32:51.680 --> 00:32:55.640
the closet doors were rattling in their frames. Scared, he

623
00:32:55.720 --> 00:32:57.960
knew that you went boards nailed over them. It's only

624
00:32:58.039 --> 00:33:01.240
a matter of time till that thing broke through. In desperation,

625
00:33:01.839 --> 00:33:04.880
she gained praying and reading from the Bible, which had

626
00:33:04.960 --> 00:33:07.559
only caused the entity in the closet to laugh at

627
00:33:07.599 --> 00:33:12.279
her mockingly. Finally, she had gotten out Bill's shotgun and

628
00:33:12.359 --> 00:33:15.440
fired it through the closet door. For a minute or so,

629
00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:18.920
there wasn't a sound. She told us, I sort of

630
00:33:18.920 --> 00:33:22.640
think it was finally over. Then I saw those red

631
00:33:22.680 --> 00:33:26.240
eyes burning in the dark in the hole the shotgun

632
00:33:26.279 --> 00:33:30.559
had made. It. Chuckled and said one word to me. Well,

633
00:33:30.559 --> 00:33:34.400
what to say? I asked her? Tonight she said, began

634
00:33:34.440 --> 00:33:36.680
to tremble. She lowered her head and her hands and

635
00:33:36.680 --> 00:33:40.039
began to sob again. Jerry and I were silent for

636
00:33:40.119 --> 00:33:43.319
some time, trying to absorb what she had just told us.

637
00:33:44.160 --> 00:33:46.839
We looked at each other, deeply troubled by her story.

638
00:33:46.960 --> 00:33:50.240
Either of us actually believed it, of course, but it was

639
00:33:50.279 --> 00:33:53.480
obvious the poor woman was deeply disturbed. If she was

640
00:33:53.799 --> 00:33:57.119
having some kind of nervous breakdown, maybe her afraid grip

641
00:33:57.200 --> 00:34:00.720
on reality had finally snapped. Maybe it was old age

642
00:34:00.759 --> 00:34:03.880
was taking this toll on her mind. One thing was clear.

643
00:34:04.519 --> 00:34:07.440
It wasn't safe for her to be alone anymore, especially

644
00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:10.599
not here. It was not healthy for her. Hell, for

645
00:34:10.679 --> 00:34:13.719
all we knew, maybe her paranoid delusions were her results

646
00:34:13.719 --> 00:34:16.119
of some dangerous form a mold that had formed in

647
00:34:16.159 --> 00:34:20.800
the house. Jerry and I excused ourselves for a moment,

648
00:34:21.039 --> 00:34:24.199
then stepped outside and talking privately, we both agreed she

649
00:34:24.239 --> 00:34:28.320
needed help, she needed to be institutionalized, but for now

650
00:34:28.880 --> 00:34:32.079
it was best she stay somewhere else. Went back in

651
00:34:32.159 --> 00:34:34.760
and told missus Garrett she was coming with us. She

652
00:34:34.880 --> 00:34:37.039
was going to spend the night in a hotel room

653
00:34:37.039 --> 00:34:40.639
in town, and tomorrow, Jerry added, we were going to

654
00:34:40.679 --> 00:34:43.119
find a priest who had come exercise this free evil

655
00:34:43.159 --> 00:34:45.280
spirit they had been bothering her, getting rid of it

656
00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:47.960
once and for all she broke down again, this time

657
00:34:48.079 --> 00:34:51.559
crying and relief and hugged me and my partner, thankingness

658
00:34:51.599 --> 00:34:55.960
over and over again. Well, she's finally getting the help

659
00:34:56.000 --> 00:34:59.320
that she needs. Sounds like, Yeah, it sounds like they're

660
00:34:59.360 --> 00:35:02.199
really trying to get her, like cancel sort of institution.

661
00:35:02.920 --> 00:35:07.320
They're going to try to hold her someplace overnight. That's

662
00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:10.000
what it seems like to me that they're not really

663
00:35:10.039 --> 00:35:15.079
believing this story. But her story is terrifying, and if

664
00:35:15.079 --> 00:35:18.320
it's you are remotely true, this is a nightmare scenario.

665
00:35:18.880 --> 00:35:21.119
Yeah, it sounds like this is actually later in the day,

666
00:35:21.760 --> 00:35:24.760
all this is transpiring. All this is happening, and like

667
00:35:24.840 --> 00:35:27.239
you said, get her to a hotel and excuse me,

668
00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:29.920
get her to a motel until the next day when

669
00:35:29.920 --> 00:35:33.239
they can get her help wherever that may be. It

670
00:35:33.320 --> 00:35:35.920
was a previous section that you read when he said,

671
00:35:35.920 --> 00:35:36.960
what the fuck happened here?

672
00:35:37.840 --> 00:35:39.159
You really start.

673
00:35:38.920 --> 00:35:42.440
To like put all the puzzle pieces together as far

674
00:35:42.480 --> 00:35:45.239
as how crazy of a state this house is in.

675
00:35:45.760 --> 00:35:51.239
Yeah, the disarray and like all these boards up dworse,

676
00:35:51.480 --> 00:35:54.679
Like that's something that would be crazy to walk into.

677
00:35:55.440 --> 00:35:57.760
She looks in the mirror. She sees a I don't

678
00:35:57.800 --> 00:36:00.840
know how to describing a monster. Yeah, it looks like a

679
00:36:00.920 --> 00:36:05.639
skeletal monster of some sort and reaching out to her

680
00:36:05.760 --> 00:36:08.119
from the mirror, not so much that's behind her. She

681
00:36:08.199 --> 00:36:10.599
describes it as being within the mirror.

682
00:36:11.159 --> 00:36:12.920
We've all seen that in a movie or had that fear,

683
00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:14.559
like we're gonna look in the mirror and like something

684
00:36:14.599 --> 00:36:16.559
else is like not even behind you, but it's like

685
00:36:16.559 --> 00:36:19.559
they're in the mirror, you know. Yeah, And so she

686
00:36:19.639 --> 00:36:22.000
breaks the mirror that she goes around and she destroys

687
00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:23.079
all the other mirrors in the house.

688
00:36:23.480 --> 00:36:26.119
Yeah, she breaks them all that day. And so like

689
00:36:26.239 --> 00:36:29.639
there's all these broken mirrors, there's glass something around obviously,

690
00:36:29.760 --> 00:36:33.880
and so, like I said, he has definitely starting to

691
00:36:33.880 --> 00:36:37.760
see like, ah, this is we got ourselves a problem here.

692
00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:41.000
It's very much she is in you know, she could

693
00:36:41.039 --> 00:36:44.320
be endangering herself. She needs to be taken care of.

694
00:36:45.159 --> 00:36:48.719
And it's a really scary moment if there was nothing

695
00:36:48.880 --> 00:36:51.360
supernatural going on, because this old woman who you've been

696
00:36:51.440 --> 00:36:54.480
like kind of taking care of sort of by going

697
00:36:54.519 --> 00:36:58.119
and visiting her during her calls and you know, just

698
00:36:58.159 --> 00:37:01.880
like calming down every time, and then you see her

699
00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:04.639
in this state. It's a scary moment for you, right,

700
00:37:04.639 --> 00:37:07.159
because you gotta be like thinking, how are we going

701
00:37:07.199 --> 00:37:09.239
to take care of her? Now? You know, we got

702
00:37:09.320 --> 00:37:13.480
to something's gonna happen. Just that alone, you can you

703
00:37:13.519 --> 00:37:16.639
can imagine there their way. They excelled in this moment,

704
00:37:17.159 --> 00:37:21.440
but away she's feeling with all that she's claiming to see.

705
00:37:22.360 --> 00:37:24.079
That's that's the craziest thing ever.

706
00:37:25.119 --> 00:37:28.199
Yeah, So what began is clawing at the closet door

707
00:37:28.719 --> 00:37:31.480
is now pounding in every closet door throughout the house.

708
00:37:32.079 --> 00:37:34.360
She's actually concerned that the pounding is so hard it's

709
00:37:34.360 --> 00:37:39.480
going to break through the boards. She began praying and

710
00:37:39.559 --> 00:37:41.719
reading the Bible. I guess this made this entity is

711
00:37:41.760 --> 00:37:44.480
we're going to call it laugh. It was mocking her.

712
00:37:45.480 --> 00:37:48.800
Finally she got the shotgun and fired it through the

713
00:37:48.800 --> 00:37:51.519
closet door. This entity was mocking her.

714
00:37:52.159 --> 00:37:56.480
Yes, so after it started making Funever, she shot at

715
00:37:56.519 --> 00:38:00.960
it and then saw those eyes with in the darkness.

716
00:38:01.679 --> 00:38:03.719
So like she walked up to the door, she was

717
00:38:03.719 --> 00:38:06.199
seeing these eyes in there through the holes.

718
00:38:06.519 --> 00:38:09.079
I'm going sure how close she got, but she definitely

719
00:38:09.159 --> 00:38:11.239
kind of a period. So through the shotgun holes she

720
00:38:11.280 --> 00:38:17.199
could see these red eyes. Yeah, yes, that's absolutely terrifying. Wow.

721
00:38:18.159 --> 00:38:21.840
And then it said tonight. It said tonight, so.

722
00:38:22.760 --> 00:38:26.679
They relieve her of this tress and said we're going

723
00:38:26.719 --> 00:38:30.119
to get you help. They have a sidebar conversation. Hey,

724
00:38:30.199 --> 00:38:33.440
she she's no longer able to take care of herself.

725
00:38:33.480 --> 00:38:36.119
This is that she's a huge risk to herself. This

726
00:38:36.239 --> 00:38:38.320
situation is a bad situation. They're going to remove her

727
00:38:38.320 --> 00:38:40.760
from the situation. And like we when we just started

728
00:38:40.760 --> 00:38:43.079
this discussion right here, they're gonna.

729
00:38:42.800 --> 00:38:44.800
Get her help. Man, you still feel so sorry for

730
00:38:44.960 --> 00:38:47.519
being all alone? You know? Oh yeah, definitely, I'll jump

731
00:38:47.559 --> 00:38:49.159
back in here, all righty.

732
00:38:49.960 --> 00:38:52.239
We drove her to a cheap motel in town and

733
00:38:52.320 --> 00:38:55.840
checked her in. Her mental state already seemed to have improved,

734
00:38:56.199 --> 00:38:58.559
and that short amount of time being away from that house.

735
00:38:59.039 --> 00:39:01.480
She smiled and told her she couldn't wait to finally

736
00:39:01.519 --> 00:39:03.679
get a night, a decent night of sleep, without having

737
00:39:03.719 --> 00:39:06.840
to worry about that thing banging on the doors. I

738
00:39:06.840 --> 00:39:09.880
think mostly she was just glad she wouldn't have to

739
00:39:09.880 --> 00:39:13.239
be afraid anymore the entity she was convinced was lurking

740
00:39:13.280 --> 00:39:16.480
in her house. We both smiled at her and said goodbye,

741
00:39:16.960 --> 00:39:20.400
getting in the cruiser and driving away. Our smiles faded

742
00:39:20.400 --> 00:39:23.320
as soon as we pulled away from the motel. We

743
00:39:23.480 --> 00:39:27.760
both drove in grim silence. We both liked old miss Garrity,

744
00:39:28.199 --> 00:39:30.360
in spite of all the time she had made herself

745
00:39:30.400 --> 00:39:32.960
a nuisance to the police department with her bogus calls

746
00:39:33.400 --> 00:39:36.920
and her ratic behavior. We were sorry her mental estate

747
00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:39.679
had deteriorated to such a point where she could no

748
00:39:39.760 --> 00:39:43.519
longer look after herself. We told the Chief her story

749
00:39:43.519 --> 00:39:46.719
when we got back. He sighed sadly and nodded, agreeing

750
00:39:46.760 --> 00:39:51.119
that she had to be committed somewhere. Tomorrow, him and

751
00:39:51.159 --> 00:39:53.960
me were going to drive out there personally visit her

752
00:39:54.000 --> 00:39:56.480
son and daughter and explain to them what was going on,

753
00:39:57.000 --> 00:39:58.840
and as they still refused to do what needed to

754
00:39:58.840 --> 00:40:03.000
be done, the Chief would see to it himself that

755
00:40:03.039 --> 00:40:05.559
Miss Garretty would get the help that she needed. But

756
00:40:05.960 --> 00:40:08.800
we never got the chance. The last time we ever

757
00:40:08.800 --> 00:40:10.920
saw Miss Garritty was when Jerry and I left her

758
00:40:10.960 --> 00:40:14.199
at the motel around four in the morning. The next morning,

759
00:40:14.280 --> 00:40:16.119
I was awakened by an urgent phone call from the

760
00:40:16.199 --> 00:40:19.039
Chief telling me to get over to the motel as

761
00:40:19.079 --> 00:40:22.079
soon as possible. He wouldn't say why over the phone,

762
00:40:22.280 --> 00:40:24.360
but I already had a hunch had something to do

763
00:40:24.400 --> 00:40:27.760
with Missus Garretty. I felt an awful sense of dread

764
00:40:27.920 --> 00:40:30.480
as I got dressed. I wondered if maybe she had

765
00:40:30.519 --> 00:40:33.079
taken her own life in the motel room after we

766
00:40:33.119 --> 00:40:36.239
had left her. When I arrived outside the motel, my

767
00:40:36.320 --> 00:40:39.559
fears were confirmed when I saw crime scene tape blocking

768
00:40:39.559 --> 00:40:43.280
the door to miss Garretty's room. The Chief, along with Jerry,

769
00:40:43.480 --> 00:40:46.400
Pete and Vance, were gathered outside, along with a couple

770
00:40:46.440 --> 00:40:49.000
cops from the state police and a pair of detectives

771
00:40:49.039 --> 00:40:52.800
from the city. The Chief greeted me with a grave expression.

772
00:40:53.079 --> 00:40:55.920
As I approached him, he told me Missus Garretty was gone.

773
00:40:56.400 --> 00:40:59.199
At first, I thought he meant she was dead. Then,

774
00:40:59.360 --> 00:41:03.000
seeing the solemn look in his eyes, he clarified himself

775
00:41:03.280 --> 00:41:06.920
she was literally gone. I looked at him, confused. I

776
00:41:06.960 --> 00:41:09.199
saw something in his eyes that I had never seen before,

777
00:41:09.679 --> 00:41:12.400
something that caused a ripple of fear in my heart.

778
00:41:13.039 --> 00:41:16.159
The Chief was scared. He told me he didn't know

779
00:41:16.239 --> 00:41:19.480
what to make of it himself. People in the neighboring

780
00:41:19.559 --> 00:41:23.559
rooms had heard blood curling, screams and sounds of violence

781
00:41:23.639 --> 00:41:26.519
coming from Missus Garrett's room around two in the morning,

782
00:41:27.119 --> 00:41:31.960
then nothing silence. They had called the police department. Pete

783
00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:33.920
and Vance had been the first to arrive, since they

784
00:41:33.960 --> 00:41:36.639
were on the night shift. They had pounded on the door,

785
00:41:37.199 --> 00:41:40.360
but there had been no response. They had to force

786
00:41:40.400 --> 00:41:43.719
the door open. When they saw what was inside. They

787
00:41:43.800 --> 00:41:46.960
called the chief himself. What did they find? I asked,

788
00:41:47.440 --> 00:41:49.719
maybe you ought to come see for yourself, he told me,

789
00:41:50.199 --> 00:41:53.000
Leading to the doorway and under the crime scene tape.

790
00:41:53.159 --> 00:41:56.039
He explained to me that they had found no sign

791
00:41:56.119 --> 00:41:58.920
of forced entry, and that the door and windows of

792
00:41:58.960 --> 00:42:01.960
the motel room had had all still been locked from

793
00:42:01.960 --> 00:42:05.199
the inside. When Pete Advance showed up, I took a

794
00:42:05.239 --> 00:42:08.880
look around, feeling a shiver run through my body. There

795
00:42:08.960 --> 00:42:12.320
was fresh blood splattered around the room, on the walls,

796
00:42:12.599 --> 00:42:16.079
the floor, the bed, even the ceiling. The blood stained

797
00:42:16.119 --> 00:42:18.599
bed sheets had been ripped away from the mattress, as

798
00:42:18.639 --> 00:42:21.719
if somebody had desperately tried holding onto them as they

799
00:42:21.719 --> 00:42:24.519
were pulled off of the bed. There were ten very

800
00:42:24.559 --> 00:42:27.440
thin trails of blood on the carpet leading away from

801
00:42:27.440 --> 00:42:30.639
the bed, ten thin trails of blood that had been

802
00:42:31.079 --> 00:42:34.360
made by ten terrified fingers clawing as if they were

803
00:42:34.360 --> 00:42:38.079
being dragged away I followed the bloody finger marks across

804
00:42:38.079 --> 00:42:40.679
the floor, away from the bed to where they led

805
00:42:40.880 --> 00:42:44.440
where they ended at the closet. I looked at them.

806
00:42:44.760 --> 00:42:47.119
Then I looked at the chief. He looked back at me,

807
00:42:47.280 --> 00:42:50.440
his face hard and impassive, but I could see fear

808
00:42:50.480 --> 00:42:52.719
in his eyes. I approached the closet. The door was

809
00:42:52.760 --> 00:42:56.400
standing open. I stood there looking in for some time.

810
00:42:56.920 --> 00:43:01.320
The closet was empty, completely empty. There wasn't even blood

811
00:43:01.519 --> 00:43:04.760
on the floor. They never found Missus Garrity.

812
00:43:06.199 --> 00:43:10.800
Such a nightmarysh looking scene like that's been described here.

813
00:43:11.679 --> 00:43:13.960
It's just changed so much from when we just had

814
00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:16.719
that recap. It was a positive thing. They were going

815
00:43:16.760 --> 00:43:18.360
to get her help. They were going to talk to

816
00:43:18.360 --> 00:43:20.760
her family the next day, and if the family wasn't

817
00:43:20.760 --> 00:43:22.239
gonna help, they were still going to make sure she

818
00:43:22.239 --> 00:43:25.679
got help. Basically, yeah, and everything.

819
00:43:26.400 --> 00:43:28.880
Seemed I don't want to say good, because I think

820
00:43:28.920 --> 00:43:32.760
they were really sad about the situation. But for missus

821
00:43:32.800 --> 00:43:34.920
Garritty herself, it seemed like she was going.

822
00:43:34.920 --> 00:43:37.599
To get help. It was like a bitter sweet thing, right.

823
00:43:37.679 --> 00:43:41.000
They didn't want to have to do it, but if

824
00:43:41.039 --> 00:43:44.280
they were willing to do it, because that's what she needed.

825
00:43:44.840 --> 00:43:46.360
Yeah, that's not an easy thing to do to, like,

826
00:43:47.000 --> 00:43:48.880
this person can no longer live at their house take

827
00:43:48.920 --> 00:43:51.079
care of themselves. It's a pretty sad thing when you

828
00:43:51.119 --> 00:43:55.320
really think about it. But she's relieved though. They like

829
00:43:55.480 --> 00:43:57.960
we said last time they leave her at the motel room,

830
00:43:58.039 --> 00:44:01.480
it seems to be. Everything seem to be okay. She

831
00:44:01.519 --> 00:44:05.480
seems to be looking up, they said, instantly, her aura her,

832
00:44:06.079 --> 00:44:09.320
She just seemed to be in a way better place.

833
00:44:09.719 --> 00:44:14.719
Yeah, and then this nightmarish outcome.

834
00:44:15.320 --> 00:44:17.519
He's a wolcome by a phone call at night saying

835
00:44:17.519 --> 00:44:19.599
he needs to get to the motel as soon as possible.

836
00:44:19.800 --> 00:44:22.719
He thinks the worst. Right, she's dead, she's taken her life.

837
00:44:22.719 --> 00:44:25.000
Something the terrible has happened to her. Can you imagine

838
00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:26.039
that drive over there.

839
00:44:26.639 --> 00:44:28.639
Yeah, I was thinking about that. That would be like

840
00:44:28.719 --> 00:44:34.199
a very dark and like a terrible time in your

841
00:44:34.199 --> 00:44:36.760
own head driving over there to this because you're like, yeah,

842
00:44:36.800 --> 00:44:40.360
you just saw this person. You're trying to get her help.

843
00:44:41.119 --> 00:44:44.039
And then it's like either she either she died of

844
00:44:44.519 --> 00:44:48.719
you know, a parent suicide, or she could have been

845
00:44:48.840 --> 00:44:51.079
natural causes. You know, she could have had a heart attack.

846
00:44:51.679 --> 00:44:54.599
But to think that you just saw her not that long.

847
00:44:54.480 --> 00:44:56.840
Ago, and that drive over there, you're wondering what happened

848
00:44:56.840 --> 00:44:59.280
the whole time he gets there, he sees he sees

849
00:44:59.320 --> 00:45:01.159
a lot of people there. He sees all his fellow

850
00:45:01.199 --> 00:45:02.800
co workers. There's only a few of them, I guess

851
00:45:02.800 --> 00:45:05.480
for the local police department, but he also sees state

852
00:45:05.519 --> 00:45:08.960
police and a detective from a nearby, bigger city. So

853
00:45:09.239 --> 00:45:10.440
you pull up, you see that.

854
00:45:10.400 --> 00:45:13.400
You think, oh shit, yeah, definitely seems like something else

855
00:45:13.519 --> 00:45:16.400
happened or or you know, it's a little bit more involved,

856
00:45:17.000 --> 00:45:21.360
but you wouldn't expect that. You would definitely never expect that.

857
00:45:21.800 --> 00:45:25.239
Then he's told that they heard blood curling, screaming, and

858
00:45:25.320 --> 00:45:29.480
like what sounded like an altercation, like a violent fight,

859
00:45:29.599 --> 00:45:32.559
like something crazy was happening in her room. The neighboring

860
00:45:32.559 --> 00:45:36.199
motel rooms heard. Then it went completely silent.

861
00:45:37.000 --> 00:45:40.840
What I find interesting is it even mentions it specifically

862
00:45:41.400 --> 00:45:44.599
that when Pete and Dvance, the night shift guys, show up,

863
00:45:45.280 --> 00:45:49.320
the door is locked. Yeah, the doors and windows were

864
00:45:49.320 --> 00:45:52.079
all locked, so they force themselves in. Yeah, they break

865
00:45:52.119 --> 00:45:54.000
in to get in there and see what was going on.

866
00:45:54.599 --> 00:45:57.960
And that the you know, the scene of all that

867
00:45:58.119 --> 00:46:02.280
blood on everything every where, and then the where her

868
00:46:02.360 --> 00:46:05.159
finger nails have been dragging across the floor trying to

869
00:46:05.199 --> 00:46:09.679
stop herself from being dragged away. All that blood there too.

870
00:46:10.440 --> 00:46:12.079
Horrific scene.

871
00:46:12.599 --> 00:46:14.719
So let's talk about the doors and the windows real quick.

872
00:46:14.800 --> 00:46:17.559
So you definitely can't go out a window then lock

873
00:46:17.639 --> 00:46:20.079
it behind you, that I'm aware of. You know, No,

874
00:46:20.719 --> 00:46:22.440
I don't know if these hotel room doors are like

875
00:46:22.519 --> 00:46:25.239
either a lot of the ones I've been to you

876
00:46:25.840 --> 00:46:27.360
they lock on their own. You have a key card.

877
00:46:27.360 --> 00:46:29.920
This sounds like an old motel though, actually have that

878
00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:33.159
like dead bowl on the inside, So it makes you wonder,

879
00:46:33.239 --> 00:46:36.199
like could you truly leave and lock it? But this

880
00:46:36.239 --> 00:46:38.280
is an old room, you think, so it's got to

881
00:46:38.280 --> 00:46:38.920
be confusing.

882
00:46:38.960 --> 00:46:42.280
Nevertheless, Well, also the question of whether or not it

883
00:46:42.400 --> 00:46:44.599
had one of those you know, they usually have the

884
00:46:44.639 --> 00:46:47.239
dead bolt, but they also have like the half block too.

885
00:46:47.719 --> 00:46:51.079
Yeah was that locked as well? I don't know, uh,

886
00:46:51.119 --> 00:46:54.280
but yeah, so like maybe the door code relocked. If

887
00:46:54.280 --> 00:46:55.880
it's an older one, like you said, it has a

888
00:46:56.000 --> 00:47:00.440
key and actual key, they don't relock, So that's a

889
00:47:00.440 --> 00:47:03.400
good question. This is a very small town, so I

890
00:47:03.400 --> 00:47:05.519
can't imagine they have the most up to date doors.

891
00:47:06.440 --> 00:47:08.760
This is where it gets weird. Like you said, the

892
00:47:08.760 --> 00:47:11.480
bed sheets have been ripped off the bed, and the

893
00:47:11.519 --> 00:47:13.840
blood and all that actually does not lead to the door,

894
00:47:14.880 --> 00:47:19.280
indicating that she was dragged outside and taken away. Uh,

895
00:47:19.559 --> 00:47:23.719
there's actually like finger marks on off of this bed

896
00:47:24.280 --> 00:47:27.880
that lead clear across the floor to the closet, not

897
00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:30.920
the door like her window, like she was forced out

898
00:47:30.960 --> 00:47:35.239
to leave to the closet, and then then upon getting

899
00:47:35.239 --> 00:47:37.599
into the closet nothing, they stopped there.

900
00:47:38.639 --> 00:47:42.599
Yeah, and that is like, you know, you you look

901
00:47:42.679 --> 00:47:44.880
at that, You're like, the body is gonna be in

902
00:47:44.920 --> 00:47:49.320
the closet, right, Yeah, but we quickly find out that

903
00:47:49.320 --> 00:47:52.239
that's not the case, and that was basically everything even

904
00:47:52.320 --> 00:47:55.039
more terrified in my opinion. Yeah, but she's been so

905
00:47:55.079 --> 00:47:58.159
afraid of these damn closets the whole time. Man, the

906
00:47:58.199 --> 00:48:00.960
holes eye. You have some short thing that supposed to

907
00:48:00.960 --> 00:48:03.679
be in this closet that's been threatening her for weeks.

908
00:48:03.719 --> 00:48:06.199
Now that it's gotten worse and worse to the point

909
00:48:06.239 --> 00:48:08.679
that she actually shot at the closet door at her

910
00:48:08.719 --> 00:48:12.760
house try to stop it. And then it told her tonight.

911
00:48:13.159 --> 00:48:17.000
They told her tonight, and this is that night, this

912
00:48:17.079 --> 00:48:20.400
happens in that room and you see what appears to

913
00:48:20.400 --> 00:48:23.559
the evis of her being dragged to the closet. You

914
00:48:23.599 --> 00:48:27.320
always hear of these things that like something demonic haunts

915
00:48:27.360 --> 00:48:30.000
somebody or something. It's not just where they live, it's

916
00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:32.880
like attached to them. That seems to be the case

917
00:48:32.880 --> 00:48:36.039
for missus Garretty here it does seem to be. Yeah.

918
00:48:36.199 --> 00:48:39.239
Of course she was never found again yet, and there

919
00:48:39.280 --> 00:48:42.519
was no blood or anything in that closet.

920
00:48:42.519 --> 00:48:45.800
She's dragged in the closet then just vanished. Yeah, she's

921
00:48:45.840 --> 00:48:47.880
so afraid of those closets too the whole time, And

922
00:48:47.880 --> 00:48:51.320
that's gonna be what godters thought she got away from it. Yeah,

923
00:48:51.760 --> 00:48:54.800
imagine being there, people next door hearing that.

924
00:48:54.800 --> 00:48:57.679
That would be a very terrifying night. Now all you

925
00:48:57.679 --> 00:49:00.519
can do is call the police and I go back

926
00:49:00.519 --> 00:49:04.679
to that town again. Yeah, a small tower, nothing hardly happens.

927
00:49:04.719 --> 00:49:06.880
Do you think this sticks with the people that were

928
00:49:06.880 --> 00:49:07.599
involved forever?

929
00:49:08.039 --> 00:49:10.360
Oh? Yeah, this would be something that they'll never get over,

930
00:49:11.079 --> 00:49:13.360
something that will affect them for the rest of their

931
00:49:13.360 --> 00:49:17.920
lives and will probably affect people who weren't necessarily there,

932
00:49:18.199 --> 00:49:21.880
but who hear about later. She's still missing. We don't

933
00:49:21.920 --> 00:49:24.159
know if she's dead. We could presume I guess.

934
00:49:24.360 --> 00:49:27.360
Yeah, it's crazy how this progressed over time, and you

935
00:49:27.360 --> 00:49:29.639
really think about it. It's just a lady living on

936
00:49:29.679 --> 00:49:32.960
her house alone, and all this has just happened. I

937
00:49:33.000 --> 00:49:34.519
can't imagine how terrifying it was.

938
00:49:34.840 --> 00:49:38.079
It's dely. It goes like I said, it goes from

939
00:49:38.360 --> 00:49:43.000
zero sixty like that. It's like, craziest thing you'll ever hear.

940
00:49:43.719 --> 00:49:48.360
Absolutely, this guy actually years later posted yet another story,

941
00:49:48.440 --> 00:49:50.760
so we will go back to that. He had something

942
00:49:50.800 --> 00:49:54.119
else crazy he happened. So this is saying, craziest thing

943
00:49:54.159 --> 00:49:56.679
that's happened. How long did he say? He say, twelve years?

944
00:49:56.719 --> 00:49:58.480
Ten years? How long did he be in this cop?

945
00:49:58.800 --> 00:50:01.199
Twelve years? He'd in a cop in this town for

946
00:50:01.199 --> 00:50:04.039
twelve years. And this is really the case that haunts him,

947
00:50:04.039 --> 00:50:06.320
that sticks sticks out to him. The rest of stuff

948
00:50:06.400 --> 00:50:10.559
is pretty typical, pretty normal. This is not normal though, man, No,

949
00:50:10.639 --> 00:50:14.719
it's definitely not. Prehaps the opposite. Years later he has

950
00:50:14.760 --> 00:50:16.880
something else too, and we'll share that one day.

951
00:50:16.880 --> 00:50:19.559
I'm excited about that. Yeah, that'd be awesome. I can't wait.

952
00:50:19.840 --> 00:50:22.920
This is a story that leaves it on the ultimate cliffhanger.

953
00:50:23.280 --> 00:50:27.800
Yeah, yeah, it does. Uh terrible terrible cliffhanger and the

954
00:50:27.880 --> 00:50:30.519
one that yeah, it'll take whoever, it'll be solved.

955
00:50:31.039 --> 00:50:33.199
Well, we appreciate you listening to this story with us.

956
00:50:33.440 --> 00:50:35.199
Let us know what you think. We trying to do

957
00:50:35.559 --> 00:50:38.760
change things up a little bit where we every once

958
00:50:38.800 --> 00:50:41.239
in a while we'll share some long like long form

959
00:50:41.280 --> 00:50:44.159
stuff together. Then other times we're just kind of like

960
00:50:44.519 --> 00:50:47.519
we're just sharing like our own stories that we found

961
00:50:47.679 --> 00:50:50.840
or whatever we're sent, like just kind of they're all

962
00:50:50.960 --> 00:50:52.760
they're not always related. You do a pretty good job

963
00:50:52.800 --> 00:50:55.320
about relating to them. I always don't, but you never

964
00:50:55.400 --> 00:50:57.039
know like what stories we're gonna share. But this is

965
00:50:57.079 --> 00:50:59.159
like a long form one, and the Stairs in the

966
00:50:59.159 --> 00:51:01.599
Woods one did really well, So let us know what

967
00:51:01.639 --> 00:51:01.960
you think.

968
00:51:02.039 --> 00:51:02.559
Do you like this?

969
00:51:02.719 --> 00:51:05.599
Do you like the other style on more? And yeah,

970
00:51:05.679 --> 00:51:08.320
we're trying to just really kind of dial in on

971
00:51:08.360 --> 00:51:10.639
what the viewers listeners prefer.

972
00:51:10.840 --> 00:51:14.079
So it's a very good story, great story.

973
00:51:14.880 --> 00:51:16.719
Let us know what you think. Reach out to us.

974
00:51:16.840 --> 00:51:18.599
Go to your Scary stories dot com. There you can

975
00:51:18.639 --> 00:51:21.800
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976
00:51:21.800 --> 00:51:25.079
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977
00:51:25.360 --> 00:51:28.639
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978
00:51:28.679 --> 00:51:31.239
listen to your scary stories and audio form wherever you

979
00:51:31.239 --> 00:51:35.239
listen to podcasts. So we absolutely encourage you to join

980
00:51:35.280 --> 00:51:41.800
the live stream Mondays at ten thirty pm. Ish ish Yeah,

981
00:51:41.840 --> 00:51:44.239
I'm gonna get a tattoo that says ish on it.

982
00:51:44.519 --> 00:51:48.280
That'd be great. That's become my saying. Yeah, but yeah,

983
00:51:48.320 --> 00:51:48.480
we do.

984
00:51:48.599 --> 00:51:50.519
I think the live experience is definitely the way to go.

985
00:51:51.320 --> 00:51:53.039
But yeah, if you ever have a free Monday evening,

986
00:51:53.159 --> 00:51:56.199
jump on with us, comment along and join the experience.

987
00:51:56.199 --> 00:51:57.599
I don't know how else to word it, man.

988
00:51:57.679 --> 00:51:59.960
Yeah, it's a perfect way. It's an experience.

989
00:52:00.480 --> 00:52:02.760
What closing words of inspiration do you have before I

990
00:52:02.840 --> 00:52:04.199
hit my catchphrase that we're done.

991
00:52:04.400 --> 00:52:07.199
I feel like people need a river to take care

992
00:52:07.239 --> 00:52:11.119
of their their loved ones. You know, this woman, her

993
00:52:11.320 --> 00:52:14.760
kids kind of we weren't there for when they probably

994
00:52:14.800 --> 00:52:16.360
should have been. So you know, I'll always take care

995
00:52:16.360 --> 00:52:18.000
of your loved ones. You got to live with that forever,

996
00:52:18.079 --> 00:52:22.280
you know, yeah, absolutely, And you know they probably were

997
00:52:22.639 --> 00:52:26.400
very sad and were torn up over afterwards. But you know,

998
00:52:26.559 --> 00:52:28.960
it just makes it you have to make sure you

999
00:52:29.000 --> 00:52:32.360
take the time to see people and to talk to

1000
00:52:32.400 --> 00:52:35.760
people because you never know what's going to happen next Yeah,

1001
00:52:35.880 --> 00:52:36.639
I agree. Man.

1002
00:52:37.199 --> 00:52:40.480
We appreciate you watching or listen to this. We hope

1003
00:52:40.519 --> 00:52:43.280
you keep checking out our content. This is your scary stories.

1004
00:52:43.280 --> 00:52:46.840
And until next time, keep being you and keep being great.

1005
00:52:52.119 --> 00:52:55.960
Jeff Townsend Media says you good night. And the question

1006
00:52:56.079 --> 00:52:59.400
is do I stay here? Will you be back? Oh

1007
00:52:59.519 --> 00:53:04.159
you go coming back? Will you be back? Are you

1008
00:53:04.239 --> 00:53:04.960
coming back?