August 26, 2025 • 26 mins
The peace is broken in sleepy Havock, New Hampshire, when a man with an ax to grind barrels into town.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:08):
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Speaker 4 (00:22):
Your TSI was Christine CHAVOTIPOKOI sloge Bogar yurre.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Rhonda, Hallelujah, the.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
Eleventh of October sixteen fifty six, kringa hysteria. This is
Father Ivan, my elder father Josef refuses to write another entreaty.
He has seen the church is in action, and so
it is left to me to appeal to the Holy
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Council and to beg once more for our lives. The
village is ravaged with the blood fever. Entire families have
been consumed and perer the Cardinal's instructions. The bodies have
been burned as soon.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
As they succumb. It has come in waves.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
There are nights when you can see the bonfires far
up into the hills, smell the flesh burning, the stars
in the sky blotted out by the smoke. But it
is the quiet night that bring me true dread. We
had one such night earlier this week. No one reported dead,
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no bonfires lighting up the night. I stood on the
steps of the church and looked out over the town,
and it was not hard to imagine that I was
the light, best living man in hysteria. We are a
small ship in a great storm, and I fear the
next wave will extinguish us. If you do not hear
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from me again, assume that I too, am smoke in
the night sky.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
M h m hmm.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Come on. I have nightmares all my life. I've had them,
so it really never had anything to do with this
particular day. That is to say, if I look back
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on this particular day and you ask, hey, Grin, would
anything have tipped you off about how badly this day
was going to go off the rails, say a premonition
in the form of a dream, I'd say, yeah, no, dummy,
that's stupid. Dreams are our way of sifting through our
impressions of the day and making sense of them, fitting
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them in a neat little narrative. They don't tell you
ahead of time that the world is getting ready to
burn down. My name is Korean ABIs. I own a bar.
It's a family bar that my dad owned, and his
dad before him. I'm not sure that's important to the story.
But I spend most of my time there, so hey,
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how was the treatment not fully covered? But the hospital
is in network, so you're you're telling me that the
specialist was not in network. Uh huh, well, what the
hell does that mean for us? Yes, I'll hold morning
Pop Insurance. Yeah, on hold, I'll call him later. No, No,
(04:30):
I hello? Uh huh uh okay, So can you just
transfer me? Let me get a pen, dad, sid Okay,
give me the number. M all right, thank you? Damn it.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
You know I'm a big boy who can handle the
insurance people myself.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
No, you always get pissed off and lose it on them.
Look exhausted rough night.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I haven't slept through a night in months.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Coffee?
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Uh please? So what's on your agenda today?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I gotta deal with the liquor license.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Did it lapse?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yes, second year in a row. I've forgotten. I'm an idiot.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
Listen, kiddo. When I was in charge, we almost lost
the damn business. You're in good company, Oh.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Jesus Pop, I'm okay, you sure?
Speaker 7 (05:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (05:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (05:55):
I got an appointment with doctor Culver Friday.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
If I make it till.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Then you're gonna be okay on your own today.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
Yeah, I should.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Be able to manage.
Speaker 8 (06:07):
Okay, but we got to talk tonight.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Is this the talk?
Speaker 7 (06:14):
Well, no, not.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
That talk, but it is that talk, Jason.
Speaker 8 (06:21):
Okay, we'll time.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Are you home.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Sylvie's closing, so it'll probably be around eight or so.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Okay, we'll talk.
Speaker 8 (06:31):
Love you, Love you, kiddo.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
I have a good one.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
You too. You stay out of trouble.
Speaker 7 (06:38):
Shit.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Our house has been in the family for one hundred years.
The family has been in this town a lot longer
than that. Beautiful Havoc, New Hampshire population three eight hundred
and eighty six, located in the foothills of the White
Mountains and once a prosperous farming town before becoming a
prosperous mill town. Before all that went away. We survive
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now in various and sundry ways, not the least of
which is tourism. During the fall. The countryside around here
is littered with apple orchards, pumpkin patches, all matter of
picturesque colonial barns and gristmills that pop when the leaves turn.
But more than that, it's the vampires, well not real vampires. See,
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we have a sort of history of religious zealots in
this town. For instance, brother can here.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Who go abroad to the kings of the whole world.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Morning, ken Ah.
Speaker 7 (07:41):
A good morning.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Indeed, Miss abbys How's business.
Speaker 9 (07:44):
There's no end to the work of salvation, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Don't I know it? Have a good one, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
Demonic spirits performing signs who go abroad to the kings
of the whole world.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
To susions of the classic Fire and Brimstone school of preaching,
more than their share have called Havoc home one in
particular kind of bloody swath through the heart of the town.
See Salem's got their witch trials, while we have.
Speaker 10 (08:12):
The Abbesstown vampire panic of eighteen seventeen.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
This is Sarah Beth Spalding, head of the Havoc Historical Society,
their only tour guide, and a huge fan of my family.
Speaker 10 (08:27):
Over the course of a bloody fortnight, Josiah Abbess, the
mad Preacher, led a mob of religious zealots to dig
up numerous bodies of plague victims that they claim to
be vampires, desecrating their corpses and scandalizing the community until
that fateful night that he went too far. Hello Sarabeth Ah,
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ladies and gentlemen, A true stroke of luck we have here.
Corinne abbis the last living descendant of the mad Preacher.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
It's not luck. You're standing in front of my bar
and my dad is still kicking. Thanks. Hey, folks, if
this dry tour you're on makes you thirsty, matt ABIs
bloody Mary's are half off all day long here at Dottie's.
Moving on, y'all come back now, Jimbo. If you're gonna
sit here and wait out front for me to open
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the bar, I'd love it if you do your job
and clear the looky lose away before they scare off
my pain customers.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
Hey, they're not breaking any las Karn. The sidewalk is
a public thoroughfare.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
There are my tax dollars at work. I'll put some
coffee on.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
Thanks, kid, You're not half the monster they make you
out to be.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Well, you don't know me, have as well as you'd think, Jimbo.
That's the thing about living in a small town. Everyone
knows your business and your father's and his father's all
the way back, so you get painted with the same brush,
especially if those ancestors of yours up in to be
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insane and led the charge on the most macabre event
in your town's history. Once held in such high esteem
that our fair city was literally named Abbystown, the Abbes's
bloodline was forever laid low by the actions of the
good Reverend Josiah Abbess. The town's name Pavoc now unronically.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
So the man says, I founded this town.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I know this one, Jimbo.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
Just wait, he says, built her up, made sure she
was good and stable, set up the local constabulary, you know.
But do they call me the town founder?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
No?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Have you read Sarah Lynd's colin today morning, Sylvie?
Speaker 11 (10:44):
Have you read it?
Speaker 7 (10:46):
Sylvie? I'm telling a djokhiah oh.
Speaker 11 (10:48):
Jimo, I swear to God.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Well no, no, I've been slammed, first with Dad's insurance
and then the inventory. Who reads their paper?
Speaker 7 (10:57):
How's old Johnny doing anyhow?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Not great? Jim corin focus? Okay, why don't you give
me the highlights?
Speaker 11 (11:06):
Okay? It reads and I quote a Havoc homecoming emphasis mine.
For the first time in two generations, a flurry of
activity has been noted at the long dormant jury Havoc
House on the north side of town. Witnesses have reported
workmen milling about the place, and a large moving truck
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was seen on the seventh. Built in seventeen ninety eighth,
this federal style double house was the country home of
industrialist Jury Havoc the eighth Exkippy skibby skipping boring history. Shit,
Oh Jesus, Sarahbeth Oh, Okay, Okay, Here, this reporter has
it on good authority that scion to the Havoc Empire,
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Jury Havoc the fourteenth himself will be coming to town
to continue on the industry of his forebearer, Jury the eighth.
Will this mean new business in the town named for
the only time will tell?
Speaker 12 (12:03):
So?
Speaker 6 (12:05):
So what?
Speaker 7 (12:06):
So?
Speaker 11 (12:07):
What do you think of that?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Uh? I mean neat.
Speaker 9 (12:10):
Neate Nate Jerry Havoc, the famous reclose billionaire is coming home.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Isn't that at least interesting to you?
Speaker 11 (12:18):
As I don't know the last of a bloodline cursed
by his great great great great.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Grandfather, there's no curse.
Speaker 11 (12:24):
Okay, yeah, sure, Well, maybe this is your chance to
march up the hill ring his doorbell, bury the hatchet,
apologize for your great great great grandfather, terrorizing his great
great great grandfather, and finally get rid of your family.
Totally not a curse. Once and for all.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
That's insane.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
You are hopeless.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
What do you expect me to say, Sylvie? We're understaffed.
I've got to renew the liquor license today or we'll
lose it. I spend half the morning on the line
with Dad's insurance because for some reason, they're not covering
his most recent round of testing.
Speaker 11 (12:56):
Oh honey, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
And on top of that, my head waitress was running late.
Speaker 11 (13:01):
I was doing recon.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
And I deeply appreciate it. But we're under a time
crunch today, okay, and I need you by my side.
I got you, so we let go.
Speaker 11 (13:14):
I will never ever ever leave you, and you will
never leave me.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Right, Okay, Mama's got Aaron's to run. Okay, hold down
the fort?
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Well, do you didn't let me finish my joke?
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Screw your joke quick.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
So the guy says, I founded the town, But do
they call me the town founder? No? No, I built
the g I built the church brick by brick, preached
the gospel there every Sunday. But do they call me
the town preacher? No?
Speaker 2 (13:46):
No.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
I planted the very first apple tree in town?
Speaker 11 (13:50):
But did they call me, ibis that no?
Speaker 7 (13:57):
So you've heard it?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Then, coffee's on the house, jims, Sylvie. I'll be back
in a couple hours. Don't let my bar burn down, gotcha, hun?
That right? There was the entirety of my day to
day life. Dad, Aaron's labar and a cycle. Days become weeks,
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become months, become years, and you know what, it was? Fine, dependable, quiet.
Maybe I got bored from time to time. Maybe I
sometimes remember the dreams of my youth. Maybe being caretaker
to Dad and the ragtag group of eccentric drunks that
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made Dotti's hideaway home occasionally bore on me. I'd become
accustomed to the steadiness of things, comforted, lulled. And this
is the moment it all ended, the hell When the
forest Green two thousand Toyota Corolla came barreling through the
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intersection and onto Maine, slamming into a garbage can. I
froze when its driver steered directly toward me. All I
could do was let out a quiet sigh of resignation.
Speaker 8 (15:20):
Hey you're right.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Uh oh shit? You are you bleeding?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Uh? Sorry not? I think that's.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
You write your suit?
Speaker 12 (15:43):
Oh suits me, it's actually a bit all quite shabby.
I was thinking donating it to charity.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I'm sorry, what what's happening?
Speaker 12 (15:52):
What looks like the man that was driving that car
tried to mow you down and he missed, luckily decided
to hit the courthouse instead.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Looks like he's murdered the front axle.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Is he okay?
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Oh yes, he's Oh actually he's he's bleeding, leaving quite
a lot.
Speaker 7 (16:10):
Oh shit, get back everyone, he's gone axe.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Oh my god. The driver was covered in blood from
head to toe and in his hands an old axe.
I don't know what I was expecting from him, but
it wasn't for him to start swinging. The first couple
of onlookers managed to duck his swings, but poor old
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mister Shelton took the blade to the shoulder and collapsed.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Maybe you should get out the past. The blood to
the Master.
Speaker 8 (16:46):
That's the blood of the Master.
Speaker 10 (16:48):
That's the blood of the Master, the Master.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
The plot.
Speaker 13 (16:56):
Jesus, Jesus Christ, call nine one one, but I don't
have my radio. It's okay, j Jesus, I ain't never
shot any one, Corin.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
I need to stop his bleeding.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
God, he's covered with where where is it all coming from?
Speaker 12 (17:21):
Uh maybe you shouldn't touch him, No nonsense.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
I got to keep him alive. Hey, hey, buddy, it's
all right. Uh, calm down and let me God damn animal,
they put me Jesus sit still?
Speaker 8 (17:44):
They all right?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I mean you get a pretty scraped up hm.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yes, yeah, I'm okay, sore, little little shell shocked.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Yeah, well and good company. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
What's your name, Oh Krinn, I'm Krinn.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Well, nice to meet you, Chrinn.
Speaker 12 (18:09):
Under the circumstances, yeah shit.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Well, thank you for pushing me out of the way.
You saved my life.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I don't mention it.
Speaker 12 (18:21):
It's just lucky.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
All right.
Speaker 8 (18:26):
Jimbo got an ambulance.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
What. Wow, that's a lot of blood. What the hell happened?
Crazy son of a bitch?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Bit me?
Speaker 7 (18:38):
What's up? At Dotty's? And I heard the car burned
by slam it to the courthouse. The guy came out
swinging people, scattering.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
It was a blur after that. The Havoc police hadn't
had anything resembling homicide in a decade, and they'd never
seen anything like this man dressed in chinos and a
pole low shirt, covered in blood and slamming into the
courthouse steps. Mister Shelton didn't make it. He was dead
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before he hit the ground. His poor wife, his poor kids,
and his grandkids. I got questioned by Jimbo before they
sent him off to the hospital to get his hand
checked out by Jay Campbell, the first on the scene
and then the second on the scene, all the way up,
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repeat questions, disbelief. They weren't accustomed to this sort of thing.
I was four officers deep before anybody saw my scrapes
and thought to have someone look at them. It was
sunset before they let me go. You know how waking
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up from a dream, a familiar place can look suddenly
completely alien. Well, Main Street, Havoc, New Hampshire may as
well have been the surface of the moon to me
that night, with the mobs of concerned citizens crowding the
streets and the flickering blue lights bouncing off the walls
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of the buildings. I didn't know where to go and
what to do until.
Speaker 9 (20:27):
Couren Karen, Oh my god, sweet. They wouldn't tell me
what happened. I thought i'd lost you. There's so much chaos.
Are you Are you okay? Your dad called, he is
worried sick.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Oh shit, yeah, I think I dropped my phone when
I hit the pavement. They didn't get you a doctor.
Oh no, I'm fine. I'm fine, Sylvie. Just let's just
go to Dotty's and let me have a drink and
call my father of course. Honey, okay, come on.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
Side, and just aamed for the crowd.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Did you see him? Just dive b mister Shelton.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
You sit.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
What can I get for you? Whiskey? Yeah, get me
my dad's bottle? You got it? And the phone. I'm
sure Dad's worried sick.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Got it?
Speaker 1 (21:21):
And Sylvie, you're still hiding that pack of cigarettes behind
the absent.
Speaker 11 (21:25):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Just hand them to me. That bad huh, yeah, that bad?
Speaker 7 (21:42):
Hey, this is John Abbot. What do you want?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Hey, Pop, I'm sure Sylvie told you about all the chaos.
Well I'm okay, I mean well not okay, but alive
and only sort of scuffed up anyway. I guess you're asleep.
I'm sorry I didn't call it earlier. We can have
that talk in the morning. I guess okay. I love you.
Speaker 11 (22:12):
We never used the absence, right.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Uh huh?
Speaker 8 (22:17):
Still oh?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Shit, Sylvie, are you o?
Speaker 11 (22:24):
Kihun?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
The TV? What turn up the TV?
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Oh oh.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Driver continued on to the have A courthouse, where he
crashed his car into the courthouse steps. As bystanders attempted
to assist him, he brutally attacked and killed one on
the spot as others fled on foot. In total, two
were killed and seven injured before he was apprehended by
local police. The suspect has been identified as Raymond Bachman
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of Banger Main, who is currently being treated for injuries
at Havoc Memorial Hospital. More on this story as details emerge.
A new Hampshi State senator has found that is insane.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
You could have been killed.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Yeah, well, here's to mister Shelton. He was a good guy.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (23:17):
I always tipped well, never got grabby.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
He'll be missed to mister Shelton. Sorry, we're well.
Speaker 11 (23:29):
Hello handsome, you've got to be lost.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Hello.
Speaker 12 (23:35):
I I hope I'm not disturbing you. Is this bad time?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
No, sir?
Speaker 8 (23:43):
Now, I come in by all means.
Speaker 11 (23:46):
Can I get you something?
Speaker 6 (23:48):
No?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Thank you?
Speaker 7 (23:50):
Hi?
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Hi?
Speaker 12 (23:53):
Sorry we sort of got separated with all the questioning,
and I just wanted to make sure that they took
care of all those scrapes.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Oh uh yeah, yes, of course.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
And I found your phone at least I think it's yours.
Speaker 12 (24:09):
God, I hope it's yours or else I stolen somebody's phone.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
It's mine, Thank you, and you're right. Yeah.
Speaker 11 (24:18):
Hello, I am Sylvie. I work here and I.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Am friends with Corrinne. Oh God, I'm sorry. This is Sylvie, Sylvie.
This nicely dressed man pushed me out of the way
of a moving car and saved my life. And I
never got his name.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
All right, I'm jury, Jurry, havec well.
Speaker 7 (24:44):
Shit.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Havoctown was created by me Aaron Mankey. The show was
written and directed by Nicholas Takowski. This episode was edited
and sound designed by Nomes Griffin. Starring Jewels State as
Corene Avis, James Callus as Jerry Havoc, Felicia Day as
Sylvie Harris, Robin Bloodworth as Jim Bohorn, David Calhoun as
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Jonathan abbas Charlie, David Newell as Brother Ken, Gina Rikeikey
as Sarah Beth Spaulding, with additional voice acting from Kanisha Johnson,
Gabriel Menak, Julian Graham, Eric Td Beverly Bremers, Jay Jones,
Darren Heemes, Daniel Avi Sarkis, David Davrees, and Aaron Mankey.
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This season is directed by Nicholas Takowski with assistant directors
Sarah Klein and Jake Diamond, casting by Sunday Bowling CSA
and Meg Mormon CSA. Production coordinator Wayna Calderon. Our theme
song was created by Chris Childs, executive producers Aaron Mankey,
Trevor Young, and Matt Frederick, with supervising producer Rima Elkali
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and producers Nomes Griffin and Jesse f Havoctown is set
in the Bridgewater Audio universe, which includes the hit fiction
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Speaker 4 (00:22):
Your TSI was Christine CHAVOTIPOKOI sloge Bogar yurre.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Rhonda, Hallelujah, the.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
Eleventh of October sixteen fifty six, kringa hysteria. This is
Father Ivan, my elder father Josef refuses to write another entreaty.
He has seen the church is in action, and so
it is left to me to appeal to the Holy
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Council and to beg once more for our lives. The
village is ravaged with the blood fever. Entire families have
been consumed and perer the Cardinal's instructions. The bodies have
been burned as soon.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
As they succumb. It has come in waves.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
There are nights when you can see the bonfires far
up into the hills, smell the flesh burning, the stars
in the sky blotted out by the smoke. But it
is the quiet night that bring me true dread. We
had one such night earlier this week. No one reported dead,
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no bonfires lighting up the night. I stood on the
steps of the church and looked out over the town,
and it was not hard to imagine that I was
the light, best living man in hysteria. We are a
small ship in a great storm, and I fear the
next wave will extinguish us. If you do not hear
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from me again, assume that I too, am smoke in
the night sky.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
M h m hmm.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Come on. I have nightmares all my life. I've had them,
so it really never had anything to do with this
particular day. That is to say, if I look back
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on this particular day and you ask, hey, Grin, would
anything have tipped you off about how badly this day
was going to go off the rails, say a premonition
in the form of a dream, I'd say, yeah, no, dummy,
that's stupid. Dreams are our way of sifting through our
impressions of the day and making sense of them, fitting
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them in a neat little narrative. They don't tell you
ahead of time that the world is getting ready to
burn down. My name is Korean ABIs. I own a bar.
It's a family bar that my dad owned, and his
dad before him. I'm not sure that's important to the story.
But I spend most of my time there, so hey,
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how was the treatment not fully covered? But the hospital
is in network, so you're you're telling me that the
specialist was not in network. Uh huh, well, what the
hell does that mean for us? Yes, I'll hold morning
Pop Insurance. Yeah, on hold, I'll call him later. No, No,
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I hello? Uh huh uh okay, So can you just
transfer me? Let me get a pen, dad, sid Okay,
give me the number. M all right, thank you? Damn it.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
You know I'm a big boy who can handle the
insurance people myself.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
No, you always get pissed off and lose it on them.
Look exhausted rough night.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
I haven't slept through a night in months.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Coffee?
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Uh please? So what's on your agenda today?
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I gotta deal with the liquor license.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Did it lapse?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yes, second year in a row. I've forgotten. I'm an idiot.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
Listen, kiddo. When I was in charge, we almost lost
the damn business. You're in good company, Oh.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Jesus Pop, I'm okay, you sure?
Speaker 7 (05:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (05:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (05:55):
I got an appointment with doctor Culver Friday.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
If I make it till.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Then you're gonna be okay on your own today.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
Yeah, I should.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Be able to manage.
Speaker 8 (06:07):
Okay, but we got to talk tonight.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Is this the talk?
Speaker 7 (06:14):
Well, no, not.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
That talk, but it is that talk, Jason.
Speaker 8 (06:21):
Okay, we'll time.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Are you home.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Sylvie's closing, so it'll probably be around eight or so.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Okay, we'll talk.
Speaker 8 (06:31):
Love you, Love you, kiddo.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
I have a good one.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
You too. You stay out of trouble.
Speaker 7 (06:38):
Shit.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Our house has been in the family for one hundred years.
The family has been in this town a lot longer
than that. Beautiful Havoc, New Hampshire population three eight hundred
and eighty six, located in the foothills of the White
Mountains and once a prosperous farming town before becoming a
prosperous mill town. Before all that went away. We survive
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now in various and sundry ways, not the least of
which is tourism. During the fall. The countryside around here
is littered with apple orchards, pumpkin patches, all matter of
picturesque colonial barns and gristmills that pop when the leaves turn.
But more than that, it's the vampires, well not real vampires. See,
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we have a sort of history of religious zealots in
this town. For instance, brother can here.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Who go abroad to the kings of the whole world.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Morning, ken Ah.
Speaker 7 (07:41):
A good morning.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Indeed, Miss abbys How's business.
Speaker 9 (07:44):
There's no end to the work of salvation, ma'am.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Don't I know it? Have a good one, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
Demonic spirits performing signs who go abroad to the kings
of the whole world.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
To susions of the classic Fire and Brimstone school of preaching,
more than their share have called Havoc home one in
particular kind of bloody swath through the heart of the town.
See Salem's got their witch trials, while we have.
Speaker 10 (08:12):
The Abbesstown vampire panic of eighteen seventeen.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
This is Sarah Beth Spalding, head of the Havoc Historical Society,
their only tour guide, and a huge fan of my family.
Speaker 10 (08:27):
Over the course of a bloody fortnight, Josiah Abbess, the
mad Preacher, led a mob of religious zealots to dig
up numerous bodies of plague victims that they claim to
be vampires, desecrating their corpses and scandalizing the community until
that fateful night that he went too far. Hello Sarabeth Ah,
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ladies and gentlemen, A true stroke of luck we have here.
Corinne abbis the last living descendant of the mad Preacher.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
It's not luck. You're standing in front of my bar
and my dad is still kicking. Thanks. Hey, folks, if
this dry tour you're on makes you thirsty, matt ABIs
bloody Mary's are half off all day long here at Dottie's.
Moving on, y'all come back now, Jimbo. If you're gonna
sit here and wait out front for me to open
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the bar, I'd love it if you do your job
and clear the looky lose away before they scare off
my pain customers.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
Hey, they're not breaking any las Karn. The sidewalk is
a public thoroughfare.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
There are my tax dollars at work. I'll put some
coffee on.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
Thanks, kid, You're not half the monster they make you
out to be.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Well, you don't know me, have as well as you'd think, Jimbo.
That's the thing about living in a small town. Everyone
knows your business and your father's and his father's all
the way back, so you get painted with the same brush,
especially if those ancestors of yours up in to be
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insane and led the charge on the most macabre event
in your town's history. Once held in such high esteem
that our fair city was literally named Abbystown, the Abbes's
bloodline was forever laid low by the actions of the
good Reverend Josiah Abbess. The town's name Pavoc now unronically.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
So the man says, I founded this town.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I know this one, Jimbo.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
Just wait, he says, built her up, made sure she
was good and stable, set up the local constabulary, you know.
But do they call me the town founder?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
No?
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Have you read Sarah Lynd's colin today morning, Sylvie?
Speaker 11 (10:44):
Have you read it?
Speaker 7 (10:46):
Sylvie? I'm telling a djokhiah oh.
Speaker 11 (10:48):
Jimo, I swear to God.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Well no, no, I've been slammed, first with Dad's insurance
and then the inventory. Who reads their paper?
Speaker 7 (10:57):
How's old Johnny doing anyhow?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Not great? Jim corin focus? Okay, why don't you give
me the highlights?
Speaker 11 (11:06):
Okay? It reads and I quote a Havoc homecoming emphasis mine.
For the first time in two generations, a flurry of
activity has been noted at the long dormant jury Havoc
House on the north side of town. Witnesses have reported
workmen milling about the place, and a large moving truck
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was seen on the seventh. Built in seventeen ninety eighth,
this federal style double house was the country home of
industrialist Jury Havoc the eighth Exkippy skibby skipping boring history. Shit,
Oh Jesus, Sarahbeth Oh, Okay, Okay, Here, this reporter has
it on good authority that scion to the Havoc Empire,
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Jury Havoc the fourteenth himself will be coming to town
to continue on the industry of his forebearer, Jury the eighth.
Will this mean new business in the town named for
the only time will tell?
Speaker 12 (12:03):
So?
Speaker 6 (12:05):
So what?
Speaker 7 (12:06):
So?
Speaker 11 (12:07):
What do you think of that?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Uh? I mean neat.
Speaker 9 (12:10):
Neate Nate Jerry Havoc, the famous reclose billionaire is coming home.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Isn't that at least interesting to you?
Speaker 11 (12:18):
As I don't know the last of a bloodline cursed
by his great great great great.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Grandfather, there's no curse.
Speaker 11 (12:24):
Okay, yeah, sure, Well, maybe this is your chance to
march up the hill ring his doorbell, bury the hatchet,
apologize for your great great great grandfather, terrorizing his great
great great grandfather, and finally get rid of your family.
Totally not a curse. Once and for all.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
That's insane.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
You are hopeless.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
What do you expect me to say, Sylvie? We're understaffed.
I've got to renew the liquor license today or we'll
lose it. I spend half the morning on the line
with Dad's insurance because for some reason, they're not covering
his most recent round of testing.
Speaker 11 (12:56):
Oh honey, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
And on top of that, my head waitress was running late.
Speaker 11 (13:01):
I was doing recon.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
And I deeply appreciate it. But we're under a time
crunch today, okay, and I need you by my side.
I got you, so we let go.
Speaker 11 (13:14):
I will never ever ever leave you, and you will
never leave me.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Right, Okay, Mama's got Aaron's to run. Okay, hold down
the fort?
Speaker 7 (13:27):
Well, do you didn't let me finish my joke?
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Screw your joke quick.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
So the guy says, I founded the town, But do
they call me the town founder? No? No, I built
the g I built the church brick by brick, preached
the gospel there every Sunday. But do they call me
the town preacher? No?
Speaker 2 (13:46):
No.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
I planted the very first apple tree in town?
Speaker 11 (13:50):
But did they call me, ibis that no?
Speaker 7 (13:57):
So you've heard it?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Then, coffee's on the house, jims, Sylvie. I'll be back
in a couple hours. Don't let my bar burn down, gotcha, hun?
That right? There was the entirety of my day to
day life. Dad, Aaron's labar and a cycle. Days become weeks,
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become months, become years, and you know what, it was? Fine, dependable, quiet.
Maybe I got bored from time to time. Maybe I
sometimes remember the dreams of my youth. Maybe being caretaker
to Dad and the ragtag group of eccentric drunks that
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made Dotti's hideaway home occasionally bore on me. I'd become
accustomed to the steadiness of things, comforted, lulled. And this
is the moment it all ended, the hell When the
forest Green two thousand Toyota Corolla came barreling through the
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intersection and onto Maine, slamming into a garbage can. I
froze when its driver steered directly toward me. All I
could do was let out a quiet sigh of resignation.
Speaker 8 (15:20):
Hey you're right.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Uh oh shit? You are you bleeding?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Uh? Sorry not? I think that's.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
You write your suit?
Speaker 12 (15:43):
Oh suits me, it's actually a bit all quite shabby.
I was thinking donating it to charity.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
I'm sorry, what what's happening?
Speaker 12 (15:52):
What looks like the man that was driving that car
tried to mow you down and he missed, luckily decided
to hit the courthouse instead.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Looks like he's murdered the front axle.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Is he okay?
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Oh yes, he's Oh actually he's he's bleeding, leaving quite
a lot.
Speaker 7 (16:10):
Oh shit, get back everyone, he's gone axe.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Oh my god. The driver was covered in blood from
head to toe and in his hands an old axe.
I don't know what I was expecting from him, but
it wasn't for him to start swinging. The first couple
of onlookers managed to duck his swings, but poor old
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mister Shelton took the blade to the shoulder and collapsed.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Maybe you should get out the past. The blood to
the Master.
Speaker 8 (16:46):
That's the blood of the Master.
Speaker 10 (16:48):
That's the blood of the Master, the Master.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
The plot.
Speaker 13 (16:56):
Jesus, Jesus Christ, call nine one one, but I don't
have my radio. It's okay, j Jesus, I ain't never
shot any one, Corin.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
I need to stop his bleeding.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
God, he's covered with where where is it all coming from?
Speaker 12 (17:21):
Uh maybe you shouldn't touch him, No nonsense.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
I got to keep him alive. Hey, hey, buddy, it's
all right. Uh, calm down and let me God damn animal,
they put me Jesus sit still?
Speaker 8 (17:44):
They all right?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
I mean you get a pretty scraped up hm.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yes, yeah, I'm okay, sore, little little shell shocked.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Yeah, well and good company. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
What's your name, Oh Krinn, I'm Krinn.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Well, nice to meet you, Chrinn.
Speaker 12 (18:09):
Under the circumstances, yeah shit.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Well, thank you for pushing me out of the way.
You saved my life.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I don't mention it.
Speaker 12 (18:21):
It's just lucky.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
All right.
Speaker 8 (18:26):
Jimbo got an ambulance.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
What. Wow, that's a lot of blood. What the hell happened?
Crazy son of a bitch?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Bit me?
Speaker 7 (18:38):
What's up? At Dotty's? And I heard the car burned
by slam it to the courthouse. The guy came out
swinging people, scattering.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
It was a blur after that. The Havoc police hadn't
had anything resembling homicide in a decade, and they'd never
seen anything like this man dressed in chinos and a
pole low shirt, covered in blood and slamming into the
courthouse steps. Mister Shelton didn't make it. He was dead
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before he hit the ground. His poor wife, his poor kids,
and his grandkids. I got questioned by Jimbo before they
sent him off to the hospital to get his hand
checked out by Jay Campbell, the first on the scene
and then the second on the scene, all the way up,
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repeat questions, disbelief. They weren't accustomed to this sort of thing.
I was four officers deep before anybody saw my scrapes
and thought to have someone look at them. It was
sunset before they let me go. You know how waking
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up from a dream, a familiar place can look suddenly
completely alien. Well, Main Street, Havoc, New Hampshire may as
well have been the surface of the moon to me
that night, with the mobs of concerned citizens crowding the
streets and the flickering blue lights bouncing off the walls
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of the buildings. I didn't know where to go and
what to do until.
Speaker 9 (20:27):
Couren Karen, Oh my god, sweet. They wouldn't tell me
what happened. I thought i'd lost you. There's so much chaos.
Are you Are you okay? Your dad called, he is
worried sick.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Oh shit, yeah, I think I dropped my phone when
I hit the pavement. They didn't get you a doctor.
Oh no, I'm fine. I'm fine, Sylvie. Just let's just
go to Dotty's and let me have a drink and
call my father of course. Honey, okay, come on.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
Side, and just aamed for the crowd.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Did you see him? Just dive b mister Shelton.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
You sit.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
What can I get for you? Whiskey? Yeah, get me
my dad's bottle? You got it? And the phone. I'm
sure Dad's worried sick.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Got it?
Speaker 1 (21:21):
And Sylvie, you're still hiding that pack of cigarettes behind
the absent.
Speaker 11 (21:25):
I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Just hand them to me. That bad huh, yeah, that bad?
Speaker 7 (21:42):
Hey, this is John Abbot. What do you want?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Hey, Pop, I'm sure Sylvie told you about all the chaos.
Well I'm okay, I mean well not okay, but alive
and only sort of scuffed up anyway. I guess you're asleep.
I'm sorry I didn't call it earlier. We can have
that talk in the morning. I guess okay. I love you.
Speaker 11 (22:12):
We never used the absence, right.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Uh huh?
Speaker 8 (22:17):
Still oh?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Shit, Sylvie, are you o?
Speaker 11 (22:24):
Kihun?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
The TV? What turn up the TV?
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Oh oh.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Driver continued on to the have A courthouse, where he
crashed his car into the courthouse steps. As bystanders attempted
to assist him, he brutally attacked and killed one on
the spot as others fled on foot. In total, two
were killed and seven injured before he was apprehended by
local police. The suspect has been identified as Raymond Bachman
(22:51):
of Banger Main, who is currently being treated for injuries
at Havoc Memorial Hospital. More on this story as details emerge.
A new Hampshi State senator has found that is insane.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
You could have been killed.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Yeah, well, here's to mister Shelton. He was a good guy.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (23:17):
I always tipped well, never got grabby.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
He'll be missed to mister Shelton. Sorry, we're well.
Speaker 11 (23:29):
Hello handsome, you've got to be lost.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Hello.
Speaker 12 (23:35):
I I hope I'm not disturbing you. Is this bad time?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
No, sir?
Speaker 8 (23:43):
Now, I come in by all means.
Speaker 11 (23:46):
Can I get you something?
Speaker 6 (23:48):
No?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Thank you?
Speaker 7 (23:50):
Hi?
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Hi?
Speaker 12 (23:53):
Sorry we sort of got separated with all the questioning,
and I just wanted to make sure that they took
care of all those scrapes.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Oh uh yeah, yes, of course.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
And I found your phone at least I think it's yours.
Speaker 12 (24:09):
God, I hope it's yours or else I stolen somebody's phone.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
It's mine, Thank you, and you're right. Yeah.
Speaker 11 (24:18):
Hello, I am Sylvie. I work here and I.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Am friends with Corrinne. Oh God, I'm sorry. This is Sylvie, Sylvie.
This nicely dressed man pushed me out of the way
of a moving car and saved my life. And I
never got his name.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
All right, I'm jury, Jurry, havec well.
Speaker 7 (24:44):
Shit.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Havoctown was created by me Aaron Mankey. The show was
written and directed by Nicholas Takowski. This episode was edited
and sound designed by Nomes Griffin. Starring Jewels State as
Corene Avis, James Callus as Jerry Havoc, Felicia Day as
Sylvie Harris, Robin Bloodworth as Jim Bohorn, David Calhoun as
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Jonathan abbas Charlie, David Newell as Brother Ken, Gina Rikeikey
as Sarah Beth Spaulding, with additional voice acting from Kanisha Johnson,
Gabriel Menak, Julian Graham, Eric Td Beverly Bremers, Jay Jones,
Darren Heemes, Daniel Avi Sarkis, David Davrees, and Aaron Mankey.
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This season is directed by Nicholas Takowski with assistant directors
Sarah Klein and Jake Diamond, casting by Sunday Bowling CSA
and Meg Mormon CSA. Production coordinator Wayna Calderon. Our theme
song was created by Chris Childs, executive producers Aaron Mankey,
Trevor Young, and Matt Frederick, with supervising producer Rima Elkali
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and producers Nomes Griffin and Jesse f Havoctown is set
in the Bridgewater Audio universe, which includes the hit fiction
podcasts Bridgewater and Consumed. Learn more about both shows, as
well as Havoctown at grimandmild dot com, and find more
podcasts from iHeartRadio by visiting the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
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