April 10, 2024 • 25 mins
Finally, the truth of Danville is revealed. But is it too late? Racing against the clock, can Sarah and Gordon survive to do anything about it? Or will another body be consumed by the terror that has haunted the town for centuries?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Do you mind if I smoke? We called him the
dark Man. We were told he would come through the
shadows and make bad kids disappear. I was eight years
old when Jimmy vanished. James Mooring he was sixteen or seventeen,
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and boy was he a trouble maker. He draws all
of the kids at the McDonald the old middle school.
I was looking for a fight would have gone pro
in the ring. I suspect if only he hadn't been
pushed so hard by his father. That son of a
(01:06):
bit strength enough for the whole town. And we knew
when Jimmy came around with a black eye it wasn't
because he lost a fight. He never lost a fight
or fell down the stairs. No one bought it, but
he never said it out loud. You didn't back then.
It was nineteen sixty. Twelve year old smoked a pack
(01:28):
of luck. He's a day for fun. You just let
Jimmy terrorize you, as if it was a way to
give him a small win in his otherwise miserable life. Now,
I don't know how much of this ended up being
legend versus fact, but I was eight or nine, and
(01:48):
remember that one day Jimmy was picking on us down
behind the Anderson and the next day he was gone.
Old Man Brooder, grandpa who ran the grocer, told us
Jimmy had gone off to some prep school. I think
your kids call it the Governor's Academy nowadays. Now look,
(02:11):
there's no way in hell Jimmy Mooring would have let
himself go to a prep school. Kid was smart, but
he wasn't a suit and tie kind of guy. But
we didn't question, not until well, it wasn't until we
heard what happened to missus Shaw one night in nineteen
sixty three. We didn't see it, but rumors said that
(02:35):
she showed up the Mooring house, who were clearly still grieving,
and she just started pounding on the door, yelling things
like the dark Man took our children. They let him
take them. And that's how it started and grew into
an urban legend. Everyone wrote off Missus Shaw and Missus
(02:59):
Mooring is coop, especially when mister Moring drunk himself into
the ground a year later. But when you're sixteen years old,
you start to worry about other things, like girls and Vietnam,
wondering if you'd end up going if the US got involved,
(03:19):
did you.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah. Only thing I ever won that wasn't Sandy's affection
was the lottery. But this was the world's worst lottery,
and I spent eighteen months there, barely survived Kese Song,
only thinking I'd never see her nor Danville again. I
suppose that's why we had little Joshua so fast when
I got back.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
And he's the boy that disappeared in nineteen ninety one
at the rock concert in Boston.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
That's what the paper said. But Joshua never made it
down to Boston.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
How do you know what happened?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I could see it in their eyes, the Shaws, the Bruders,
the McDonald's. What the guilt? They knew? What happened?
Speaker 5 (04:05):
What was it? What happened to your son, Rudy?
Speaker 6 (04:08):
They happened, this town, happened, sat hides and you should
(04:31):
in your house.
Speaker 7 (05:06):
So was it the dark Man?
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Because believe me.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
We took care of that.
Speaker 8 (05:12):
We stopped it.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yeah, you didn't stop anything, just like I didn't thirty
one years ago or this year what do you mean, Oshi, Manitou.
I'm sorry, Manitou. It's everything to the Algonquin. It is
the spirit of life, omnipresent and found everywhere animals, earth, trees, plants, food,
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even at birth and death.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Okay, And like.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Many spiritual cultures, there's a duality to it, the good
and the bad.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
No ugly Gordon, Sorry.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
The good Manitou is the asha the bad Oatshee. Back
in the seventeenth century, when the colonizers found Danville, they
found a thriving community.
Speaker 8 (06:08):
Holy shit, Gordon, the whispers.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
They were welcomed by a tribe settled up top what
you know is Anderson Hill, where this very library was
eventually built. The chief of the tribe was convinced everyone
could get along, but the colonizers had guns and greed.
Speaker 8 (06:31):
Some things never change.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Still, this chief thought he could make things work, but
little by little, the colonizers kept taking and he kept
making deals. It wasn't until the deals ran out and
he was forced to lock up his remaining tribespeople in
a crypt built somewhere in town that they burned them
all alive while making him watch. Then, because they were bored,
(06:59):
brutally skinned, and murdered him. Oh Jesus, And do you
want to know how old the chief was when he
had everything, his children, his wife, his family, his tribe,
his land, his entire village taken away from him.
Speaker 8 (07:21):
Thirty one years old.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Thirty one years old.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
But how does that explain that they got rid of
the good spirits, leaving this area unbalanced?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Correct? Without Asha Manitou, only Oshi Manitou remained, and it
laid upon Danville a curse that had to be fed
every thirty one years.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
A sacrifice like what they did to the chief.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Every thirty one years, someone from the town had to
be consumed in order to keep the manner to it. Bay,
I didn't believe any of the dark man or until
it happened to my boy.
Speaker 9 (08:09):
But what about the monster? We definitely ended something down
by the old drain.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
You ended a physical manifestation of what happens when the
curse is ignored. The sacrificing of a resident has to
be fulfilled.
Speaker 9 (08:24):
Okay, supposing there's sillivandet out there, why did you leave
and take the internet with you?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I shut down the grid because well, because I was angry.
They took Joshua and you saw her they took my
Sandy away twenty eight years. She tried to process, but
it eats at you. All she wanted to talk about
(08:52):
was the dark Man. No one else existed, myself included.
I knew I'd have to work just to keep her
in a safe place. I'd already developed the area's first
computer network, so it was only natural that I create
our rural isp framework as well. That's when I noticed
this year that they could hear us, and some of
(09:15):
us could hear.
Speaker 8 (09:16):
Them through technology.
Speaker 10 (09:19):
Through the waves are man made spirits, so they've been
listening this whole time. But from where, from everywhere, radios, phones, speakers.
Speaker 7 (09:33):
That does sound a bit crazy, though.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
As crazy as the monster you say you incinerated, Well yeah,
let me ask you. Did you ever see it.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
The windy go?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Well no, but I heard it.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
You heard what you're scared of. You heard your deepest fears,
and it terrified you.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
But why did you let it come back this year revenge?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
What with Sandy at the home and Joshua gone. Once
I saw that the patriarchs of the town were planning
on defying the curse, I knew they'd pay for it,
And my only regret is that the spirits haven't taken
more of them.
Speaker 11 (10:19):
Okay, but hold on, Alfonso had nothing to do with.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Any of this Wrong town, wrong time.
Speaker 8 (10:26):
So how do we stop it?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Unless you can find a way to satiate the spirits,
you can't. You should just pack a bag and never
turn around.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Worry, But why did you come back?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I'm going to bury my wife next to the empty
grave of my son, and by this time next week
I'll be somewhere in Europe. Who knows?
Speaker 9 (10:50):
Is there any way you can help us before someone
else dies?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I've told you everything I know.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
No, but for.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Real there, thank you for your time, Rudy, Sorry for
your loss, says.
Speaker 8 (11:04):
I hope you find some peace wherever you end up.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
It's too late for peace or revenge for me, but
perhaps not for you.
Speaker 7 (11:22):
Was that helpful?
Speaker 8 (11:23):
Dude has seen shit?
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Yeah? But was it all shit?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
What?
Speaker 5 (11:29):
I don't mean his suffering? No, no, no, I.
Speaker 9 (11:32):
Mean we could be talking big fish here. Memories makes
with dreams as you get older, and it all becomes
real in one's head.
Speaker 8 (11:39):
Shut up for a second.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Listen you hear that the wind draft's gotta draft?
Speaker 7 (11:47):
No, no, no.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
No, it can't be. What the fuck we wrote that
that demon from hell.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
We did.
Speaker 8 (11:57):
Listen, listen, Holy shit?
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Was that English? That's not supposed to be this shit.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
It's okay, listen, pray, remember Gordon, don't you get it?
Speaker 8 (12:20):
What it's here, It's been here the whole time.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Sheriff, Sheriff, Hey, hey, I was just coming to it's
the library.
Speaker 12 (12:40):
What it's the library. That's the source of all of it.
And if you don't come with us and help us
try to stop it right now, I think we'll be
in for a very massive fucking realization that things are
nowhere near done.
Speaker 11 (12:53):
Can someone just listen to us right now.
Speaker 13 (12:56):
We need to get the.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Guns, the cups, the tactical whatever, and just get back
to the tunnel tunnels.
Speaker 11 (13:01):
I'm sorry, I'm a bit busy right now. I've that
wasn't everything.
Speaker 13 (13:05):
And the longer we wait here.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
What the.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
What's going on?
Speaker 8 (13:14):
What's that smell?
Speaker 11 (13:16):
I think it's wherever those fire trucks are going.
Speaker 14 (13:18):
Oh my god, it's the library.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
Get the ladder off on the side.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
We need more water.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
We don't have any more water.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
What do you mean the hydrant is dream?
Speaker 6 (13:33):
What the fuck?
Speaker 7 (14:04):
A nott a fucking night?
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Good job, boys and girls, we contained it.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah, but the entire villain is basically turned to ash.
Speaker 13 (14:12):
What's important is that it didn't spread and no one
was hurt.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
It took fourteen.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Hours, but we did it.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
Let's get out of here. Thanks Max, Thanks guys.
Speaker 14 (14:29):
Hello, officer, have you seen a woman named Sarah Simmons?
Speaker 8 (14:33):
Lex Sarah? Oh, Jesus Christ, you're okay? Of course?
Speaker 13 (14:39):
How did you find us?
Speaker 14 (14:41):
You'll find my iPhone pings late last night after a
day and a half of calling you and it going
straight to voicemail, which we'll have to talk about later.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
And you drove up here. Of course, I drove up
here to chastise me. I suppose to make sure.
Speaker 14 (14:55):
You were okay, Sis, talk of murders and then radio silence.
I'll do a number on someone. So you're not here
to I'm here for my sister, and that's all that matters.
I'm relieved beyond measure that you're alive and well. And
I'm not even going to ask what happened there.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
That used to be my playground.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (15:16):
Gordon Morales, you must be alex Sis.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
This is Gordon literally just said that, Yeah, sorry, it's
been what day is there? It's been a few days.
Speaker 14 (15:28):
Nice to meet you, Gordon.
Speaker 8 (15:31):
You used to live here.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
Yeah, a lot of history. Just went up and smoke, Alex.
Speaker 11 (15:36):
I'll explain everything, but I gotta Yeah, No.
Speaker 13 (15:39):
I get it.
Speaker 14 (15:39):
I saw a diner on the way in I can
Uh no, I wouldn't go there.
Speaker 9 (15:45):
Yeah, I'd avoid that place. They got to see you
on their latest health inspection. But there's a great motel
in Lumington just down the road. We'll make sure to
get Sarah there once we uh.
Speaker 14 (15:55):
Yeah, no, I get it.
Speaker 8 (15:57):
I'm just happy you're okay.
Speaker 11 (16:00):
Thanks, Lex. So, so where are you going to stay tonight?
Speaker 5 (16:10):
I have no idea none.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
I mean, this all kind of happened really quick. Yeah,
one minute or researching centuries of history, and.
Speaker 11 (16:19):
The next it's all gone without.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
So much as a warning.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Shame the books, I guess. I guess when books are burned,
things like this tend to happen.
Speaker 9 (16:30):
Colonial cartnage, the terrorizing escapegoating of certain people's minorities if
you're being nasty, theft, death, destruction lies to blink the
public into thinking.
Speaker 11 (16:40):
Feels like a New Hampshire primary.
Speaker 9 (16:42):
Well less detrimental to the country as a whole, I suppose,
But I'll still miss them.
Speaker 11 (16:48):
And the newspapers. Oh, the old computer, the Tom Brady poster,
all gone.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
Well, almost all gone. For some reason.
Speaker 9 (16:57):
I brought a little bag with me when we left
the Gotell Maxwell's.
Speaker 11 (17:00):
Yeah, I can see that. It's a beautiful bag, stunning.
Did you want to describe it to me? Even though
I'm standing here looking at it.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
It's not the bag so much, but this.
Speaker 11 (17:12):
Whoa is this the real thing?
Speaker 9 (17:15):
The playbill for Man of Wamoncha's Broadway debut.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
I mean one would have assumed it would have burned
with everything else. And if I were a betting man,
I would assume that if someone had time to get
something out of a burning building, perhaps they had something.
Speaker 11 (17:32):
To do with it.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
Yeah, we can just keep on assuming it.
Speaker 11 (17:36):
I like, just wait, which part?
Speaker 5 (17:39):
What?
Speaker 13 (17:39):
Which part?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Are we assuming that it would have burned with everything else?
Or that someone might assume we had something to.
Speaker 13 (17:46):
Do with this?
Speaker 9 (17:48):
I do you think anyone is going to figure out that?
Speaker 13 (17:53):
Think?
Speaker 7 (17:55):
Sorry?
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Think what?
Speaker 13 (17:57):
I wouldn't want to risk it.
Speaker 9 (17:59):
Well, lucky for us us, this beautiful bag has an
inside zipper.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
So I'll just put it back here, just.
Speaker 11 (18:06):
For us, just for us, huh.
Speaker 9 (18:09):
I mean until the rom com prophecy is fulfilled, and
I find out you're building high rise luxury housing right
here with my bank account.
Speaker 11 (18:16):
Until I have a job, I won't be doing much
of anything.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
I don't think that will be an issue.
Speaker 9 (18:21):
This story will open up a million doors for you.
Speaker 13 (18:24):
What story?
Speaker 5 (18:25):
What story? You mean the last four days of stories.
Happy to remind.
Speaker 11 (18:29):
You, I have no idea what you're talking about. Seems
like some people.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Got mulled by woodland creatures and an unfortunate fire took
a creaky, drafty, shaky building that really shouldn't have been
there in the first place.
Speaker 7 (18:41):
Yeah, Yeah, that's exactly what I was gonna say.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
A real talk.
Speaker 9 (18:45):
Wouldn't another version help you get one of those big
fancy jobs?
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (18:49):
Maybe, but at what cost?
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Also, I think you're overestimating what a media job pays
in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 11 (18:57):
And besides, I think I found the job that I want.
Speaker 13 (19:00):
Yeah, yeah, you want to get out of here?
Speaker 7 (19:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
The on Me.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Starve.
Speaker 15 (19:25):
That was the impossible dream from that doozy man of
La Mancho.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
What a show.
Speaker 15 (19:29):
And let me tell you, if you haven't seen the
Saint Louis Players production of it, you have just two
weeks to get tickets. I saw it last weekend and
just bravo for tickets to Missouri's Best Peter menu. Head
on over to Muni dot com slash tickets, slash Missouri,
slash the Men, Babe.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Some kind of international number.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
Hello Max, Max, put on speaker.
Speaker 11 (19:56):
Max, you're on speaker with Gordon and I al.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Uh ola.
Speaker 16 (20:01):
First off, relax, not calling about anything having to do
with Danville.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Oh, I mean yeah cool? Like well would you yeah?
Speaker 16 (20:09):
Well we'll get into that over some mezcal.
Speaker 13 (20:11):
When I see you, I'm sorry.
Speaker 11 (20:13):
When you see us.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Well, unless you're dying to staying. Where even are you.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
Indiana, Missouri?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Sorry? I don't even know where that is really? North
of Texas, south of Canada.
Speaker 13 (20:26):
I presume hold on Mescal s Amigos.
Speaker 16 (20:30):
In good old CDMX, or as we call it down
here aks, but usually without my atrocious accent butchering it.
Speaker 11 (20:39):
You're in Mexico City.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Indeed, how why when it dust.
Speaker 16 (20:44):
Settled after that mysterious fire, I tried to tie up
some LuSE enns And when I looked around, everyone that's
had lost someone had family to lean on, except.
Speaker 8 (20:55):
For Alfonso's mother.
Speaker 16 (20:58):
Correct, So I decided that my time in America had
come to a pause.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
And that someone had to get consoled reunited with her relatives.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
So you stayed down there.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Wouldn't you. It's gorgeous and the people are wonderful, but.
Speaker 9 (21:16):
They're kind of getting annoyed with expats moving down there,
aren't they Americans?
Speaker 3 (21:21):
They're annoyed with Americans.
Speaker 16 (21:23):
But that's a worldwide phenomena.
Speaker 11 (21:25):
You're not wrong.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
That's wonderful, But I think we're a bit confused as
to why you're calling.
Speaker 16 (21:31):
I guess what do you know about Elbosque, the Chapultepec.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
The forest of Chapultepec.
Speaker 16 (21:39):
Besides knowing what Bosque is in English, Google tells me
it's like Mexico City Central Park.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Sure, but hundreds of years older.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
As most things are.
Speaker 9 (21:52):
So you're calling about a forest laden park in the
middle of Mexico City.
Speaker 16 (21:56):
I'm calling about a series of evidence that have been
happening in and near the castle that overlooks the entire park.
Speaker 11 (22:05):
What kind of incidents?
Speaker 3 (22:07):
That's where I need your help.
Speaker 16 (22:09):
Us You came together and solved a five hundred year
old mystery, no matter your priory methods.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
We don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 16 (22:20):
I know you've been searching out similar occurrences, looking to
offer closure, and I'm offering you the chance to find
closure for six boys who passed away.
Speaker 11 (22:32):
Oh I'm sorry to hear that. When did they pass?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Eighteen forty seven?
Speaker 13 (22:40):
We're on our way.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
Do you mind if I smoke? We called him the
dark Man. We were told he would come through the
shadows and make bad kids disappear. I was eight years
old when Jimmy vanished. James Mooring he was sixteen or seventeen,
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and boy was he a trouble maker. He draws all
of the kids at the McDonald the old middle school.
I was looking for a fight would have gone pro
in the ring. I suspect if only he hadn't been
pushed so hard by his father. That son of a
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bit strength enough for the whole town. And we knew
when Jimmy came around with a black eye it wasn't
because he lost a fight. He never lost a fight
or fell down the stairs. No one bought it, but
he never said it out loud. You didn't back then.
It was nineteen sixty. Twelve year old smoked a pack
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of luck. He's a day for fun. You just let
Jimmy terrorize you, as if it was a way to
give him a small win in his otherwise miserable life. Now,
I don't know how much of this ended up being
legend versus fact, but I was eight or nine, and
(01:48):
remember that one day Jimmy was picking on us down
behind the Anderson and the next day he was gone.
Old Man Brooder, grandpa who ran the grocer, told us
Jimmy had gone off to some prep school. I think
your kids call it the Governor's Academy nowadays. Now look,
(02:11):
there's no way in hell Jimmy Mooring would have let
himself go to a prep school. Kid was smart, but
he wasn't a suit and tie kind of guy. But
we didn't question, not until well, it wasn't until we
heard what happened to missus Shaw one night in nineteen
sixty three. We didn't see it, but rumors said that
(02:35):
she showed up the Mooring house, who were clearly still grieving,
and she just started pounding on the door, yelling things
like the dark Man took our children. They let him
take them. And that's how it started and grew into
an urban legend. Everyone wrote off Missus Shaw and Missus
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Mooring is coop, especially when mister Moring drunk himself into
the ground a year later. But when you're sixteen years old,
you start to worry about other things, like girls and Vietnam,
wondering if you'd end up going if the US got involved,
(03:19):
did you.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah. Only thing I ever won that wasn't Sandy's affection
was the lottery. But this was the world's worst lottery,
and I spent eighteen months there, barely survived Kese Song,
only thinking I'd never see her nor Danville again. I
suppose that's why we had little Joshua so fast when
I got back.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
And he's the boy that disappeared in nineteen ninety one
at the rock concert in Boston.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
That's what the paper said. But Joshua never made it
down to Boston.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
How do you know what happened?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I could see it in their eyes, the Shaws, the Bruders,
the McDonald's. What the guilt? They knew? What happened?
Speaker 5 (04:05):
What was it? What happened to your son, Rudy?
Speaker 6 (04:08):
They happened, this town, happened, sat hides and you should
(04:31):
in your house.
Speaker 7 (05:06):
So was it the dark Man?
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Because believe me.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
We took care of that.
Speaker 8 (05:12):
We stopped it.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yeah, you didn't stop anything, just like I didn't thirty
one years ago or this year what do you mean, Oshi, Manitou.
I'm sorry, Manitou. It's everything to the Algonquin. It is
the spirit of life, omnipresent and found everywhere animals, earth, trees, plants, food,
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even at birth and death.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Okay, And like.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Many spiritual cultures, there's a duality to it, the good
and the bad.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
No ugly Gordon, Sorry.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
The good Manitou is the asha the bad Oatshee. Back
in the seventeenth century, when the colonizers found Danville, they
found a thriving community.
Speaker 8 (06:08):
Holy shit, Gordon, the whispers.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
They were welcomed by a tribe settled up top what
you know is Anderson Hill, where this very library was
eventually built. The chief of the tribe was convinced everyone
could get along, but the colonizers had guns and greed.
Speaker 8 (06:31):
Some things never change.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Still, this chief thought he could make things work, but
little by little, the colonizers kept taking and he kept
making deals. It wasn't until the deals ran out and
he was forced to lock up his remaining tribespeople in
a crypt built somewhere in town that they burned them
all alive while making him watch. Then, because they were bored,
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brutally skinned, and murdered him. Oh Jesus, And do you
want to know how old the chief was when he
had everything, his children, his wife, his family, his tribe,
his land, his entire village taken away from him.
Speaker 8 (07:21):
Thirty one years old.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Thirty one years old.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
But how does that explain that they got rid of
the good spirits, leaving this area unbalanced?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Correct? Without Asha Manitou, only Oshi Manitou remained, and it
laid upon Danville a curse that had to be fed
every thirty one years.
Speaker 7 (07:49):
A sacrifice like what they did to the chief.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Every thirty one years, someone from the town had to
be consumed in order to keep the manner to it. Bay,
I didn't believe any of the dark man or until
it happened to my boy.
Speaker 9 (08:09):
But what about the monster? We definitely ended something down
by the old drain.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
You ended a physical manifestation of what happens when the
curse is ignored. The sacrificing of a resident has to
be fulfilled.
Speaker 9 (08:24):
Okay, supposing there's sillivandet out there, why did you leave
and take the internet with you?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I shut down the grid because well, because I was angry.
They took Joshua and you saw her they took my
Sandy away twenty eight years. She tried to process, but
it eats at you. All she wanted to talk about
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was the dark Man. No one else existed, myself included.
I knew I'd have to work just to keep her
in a safe place. I'd already developed the area's first
computer network, so it was only natural that I create
our rural isp framework as well. That's when I noticed
this year that they could hear us, and some of
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us could hear.
Speaker 8 (09:16):
Them through technology.
Speaker 10 (09:19):
Through the waves are man made spirits, so they've been
listening this whole time. But from where, from everywhere, radios, phones, speakers.
Speaker 7 (09:33):
That does sound a bit crazy, though.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
As crazy as the monster you say you incinerated, Well yeah,
let me ask you. Did you ever see it.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
The windy go?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Well no, but I heard it.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
You heard what you're scared of. You heard your deepest fears,
and it terrified you.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
But why did you let it come back this year revenge?
Speaker 2 (10:04):
What with Sandy at the home and Joshua gone. Once
I saw that the patriarchs of the town were planning
on defying the curse, I knew they'd pay for it,
And my only regret is that the spirits haven't taken
more of them.
Speaker 11 (10:19):
Okay, but hold on, Alfonso had nothing to do with.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Any of this Wrong town, wrong time.
Speaker 8 (10:26):
So how do we stop it?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Unless you can find a way to satiate the spirits,
you can't. You should just pack a bag and never
turn around.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Worry, But why did you come back?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I'm going to bury my wife next to the empty
grave of my son, and by this time next week
I'll be somewhere in Europe. Who knows?
Speaker 9 (10:50):
Is there any way you can help us before someone
else dies?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I've told you everything I know.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
No, but for.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Real there, thank you for your time, Rudy, Sorry for
your loss, says.
Speaker 8 (11:04):
I hope you find some peace wherever you end up.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
It's too late for peace or revenge for me, but
perhaps not for you.
Speaker 7 (11:22):
Was that helpful?
Speaker 8 (11:23):
Dude has seen shit?
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Yeah? But was it all shit?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
What?
Speaker 5 (11:29):
I don't mean his suffering? No, no, no, I.
Speaker 9 (11:32):
Mean we could be talking big fish here. Memories makes
with dreams as you get older, and it all becomes
real in one's head.
Speaker 8 (11:39):
Shut up for a second.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Listen you hear that the wind draft's gotta draft?
Speaker 7 (11:47):
No, no, no.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
No, it can't be. What the fuck we wrote that
that demon from hell.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
We did.
Speaker 8 (11:57):
Listen, listen, Holy shit?
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Was that English? That's not supposed to be this shit.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
It's okay, listen, pray, remember Gordon, don't you get it?
Speaker 8 (12:20):
What it's here, It's been here the whole time.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Sheriff, Sheriff, Hey, hey, I was just coming to it's
the library.
Speaker 12 (12:40):
What it's the library. That's the source of all of it.
And if you don't come with us and help us
try to stop it right now, I think we'll be
in for a very massive fucking realization that things are
nowhere near done.
Speaker 11 (12:53):
Can someone just listen to us right now.
Speaker 13 (12:56):
We need to get the.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Guns, the cups, the tactical whatever, and just get back
to the tunnel tunnels.
Speaker 11 (13:01):
I'm sorry, I'm a bit busy right now. I've that
wasn't everything.
Speaker 13 (13:05):
And the longer we wait here.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
What the.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
What's going on?
Speaker 8 (13:14):
What's that smell?
Speaker 11 (13:16):
I think it's wherever those fire trucks are going.
Speaker 14 (13:18):
Oh my god, it's the library.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
Get the ladder off on the side.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
We need more water.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
We don't have any more water.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
What do you mean the hydrant is dream?
Speaker 6 (13:33):
What the fuck?
Speaker 7 (14:04):
A nott a fucking night?
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Good job, boys and girls, we contained it.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah, but the entire villain is basically turned to ash.
Speaker 13 (14:12):
What's important is that it didn't spread and no one
was hurt.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
It took fourteen.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Hours, but we did it.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
Let's get out of here. Thanks Max, Thanks guys.
Speaker 14 (14:29):
Hello, officer, have you seen a woman named Sarah Simmons?
Speaker 8 (14:33):
Lex Sarah? Oh, Jesus Christ, you're okay? Of course?
Speaker 13 (14:39):
How did you find us?
Speaker 14 (14:41):
You'll find my iPhone pings late last night after a
day and a half of calling you and it going
straight to voicemail, which we'll have to talk about later.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
And you drove up here. Of course, I drove up
here to chastise me. I suppose to make sure.
Speaker 14 (14:55):
You were okay, Sis, talk of murders and then radio silence.
I'll do a number on someone. So you're not here
to I'm here for my sister, and that's all that matters.
I'm relieved beyond measure that you're alive and well. And
I'm not even going to ask what happened there.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
That used to be my playground.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (15:16):
Gordon Morales, you must be alex Sis.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
This is Gordon literally just said that, Yeah, sorry, it's
been what day is there? It's been a few days.
Speaker 14 (15:28):
Nice to meet you, Gordon.
Speaker 8 (15:31):
You used to live here.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
Yeah, a lot of history. Just went up and smoke, Alex.
Speaker 11 (15:36):
I'll explain everything, but I gotta Yeah, No.
Speaker 13 (15:39):
I get it.
Speaker 14 (15:39):
I saw a diner on the way in I can
Uh no, I wouldn't go there.
Speaker 9 (15:45):
Yeah, I'd avoid that place. They got to see you
on their latest health inspection. But there's a great motel
in Lumington just down the road. We'll make sure to
get Sarah there once we uh.
Speaker 14 (15:55):
Yeah, no, I get it.
Speaker 8 (15:57):
I'm just happy you're okay.
Speaker 11 (16:00):
Thanks, Lex. So, so where are you going to stay tonight?
Speaker 5 (16:10):
I have no idea none.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
I mean, this all kind of happened really quick. Yeah,
one minute or researching centuries of history, and.
Speaker 11 (16:19):
The next it's all gone without.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
So much as a warning.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Shame the books, I guess. I guess when books are burned,
things like this tend to happen.
Speaker 9 (16:30):
Colonial cartnage, the terrorizing escapegoating of certain people's minorities if
you're being nasty, theft, death, destruction lies to blink the
public into thinking.
Speaker 11 (16:40):
Feels like a New Hampshire primary.
Speaker 9 (16:42):
Well less detrimental to the country as a whole, I suppose,
But I'll still miss them.
Speaker 11 (16:48):
And the newspapers. Oh, the old computer, the Tom Brady poster,
all gone.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
Well, almost all gone. For some reason.
Speaker 9 (16:57):
I brought a little bag with me when we left
the Gotell Maxwell's.
Speaker 11 (17:00):
Yeah, I can see that. It's a beautiful bag, stunning.
Did you want to describe it to me? Even though
I'm standing here looking at it.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
It's not the bag so much, but this.
Speaker 11 (17:12):
Whoa is this the real thing?
Speaker 9 (17:15):
The playbill for Man of Wamoncha's Broadway debut.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
I mean one would have assumed it would have burned
with everything else. And if I were a betting man,
I would assume that if someone had time to get
something out of a burning building, perhaps they had something.
Speaker 11 (17:32):
To do with it.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
Yeah, we can just keep on assuming it.
Speaker 11 (17:36):
I like, just wait, which part?
Speaker 5 (17:39):
What?
Speaker 13 (17:39):
Which part?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Are we assuming that it would have burned with everything else?
Or that someone might assume we had something to.
Speaker 13 (17:46):
Do with this?
Speaker 9 (17:48):
I do you think anyone is going to figure out that?
Speaker 13 (17:53):
Think?
Speaker 7 (17:55):
Sorry?
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Think what?
Speaker 13 (17:57):
I wouldn't want to risk it.
Speaker 9 (17:59):
Well, lucky for us us, this beautiful bag has an
inside zipper.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
So I'll just put it back here, just.
Speaker 11 (18:06):
For us, just for us, huh.
Speaker 9 (18:09):
I mean until the rom com prophecy is fulfilled, and
I find out you're building high rise luxury housing right
here with my bank account.
Speaker 11 (18:16):
Until I have a job, I won't be doing much
of anything.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
I don't think that will be an issue.
Speaker 9 (18:21):
This story will open up a million doors for you.
Speaker 13 (18:24):
What story?
Speaker 5 (18:25):
What story? You mean the last four days of stories.
Happy to remind.
Speaker 11 (18:29):
You, I have no idea what you're talking about. Seems
like some people.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Got mulled by woodland creatures and an unfortunate fire took
a creaky, drafty, shaky building that really shouldn't have been
there in the first place.
Speaker 7 (18:41):
Yeah, Yeah, that's exactly what I was gonna say.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
A real talk.
Speaker 9 (18:45):
Wouldn't another version help you get one of those big
fancy jobs?
Speaker 5 (18:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (18:49):
Maybe, but at what cost?
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Also, I think you're overestimating what a media job pays
in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 11 (18:57):
And besides, I think I found the job that I want.
Speaker 13 (19:00):
Yeah, yeah, you want to get out of here?
Speaker 7 (19:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
The on Me.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Starve.
Speaker 15 (19:25):
That was the impossible dream from that doozy man of
La Mancho.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
What a show.
Speaker 15 (19:29):
And let me tell you, if you haven't seen the
Saint Louis Players production of it, you have just two
weeks to get tickets. I saw it last weekend and
just bravo for tickets to Missouri's Best Peter menu. Head
on over to Muni dot com slash tickets, slash Missouri,
slash the Men, Babe.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Some kind of international number.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
Hello Max, Max, put on speaker.
Speaker 11 (19:56):
Max, you're on speaker with Gordon and I al.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Uh ola.
Speaker 16 (20:01):
First off, relax, not calling about anything having to do
with Danville.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Oh, I mean yeah cool? Like well would you yeah?
Speaker 16 (20:09):
Well we'll get into that over some mezcal.
Speaker 13 (20:11):
When I see you, I'm sorry.
Speaker 11 (20:13):
When you see us.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Well, unless you're dying to staying. Where even are you.
Speaker 7 (20:18):
Indiana, Missouri?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Sorry? I don't even know where that is really? North
of Texas, south of Canada.
Speaker 13 (20:26):
I presume hold on Mescal s Amigos.
Speaker 16 (20:30):
In good old CDMX, or as we call it down
here aks, but usually without my atrocious accent butchering it.
Speaker 11 (20:39):
You're in Mexico City.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Indeed, how why when it dust.
Speaker 16 (20:44):
Settled after that mysterious fire, I tried to tie up
some LuSE enns And when I looked around, everyone that's
had lost someone had family to lean on, except.
Speaker 8 (20:55):
For Alfonso's mother.
Speaker 16 (20:58):
Correct, So I decided that my time in America had
come to a pause.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
And that someone had to get consoled reunited with her relatives.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
So you stayed down there.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Wouldn't you. It's gorgeous and the people are wonderful, but.
Speaker 9 (21:16):
They're kind of getting annoyed with expats moving down there,
aren't they Americans?
Speaker 3 (21:21):
They're annoyed with Americans.
Speaker 16 (21:23):
But that's a worldwide phenomena.
Speaker 11 (21:25):
You're not wrong.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
That's wonderful, But I think we're a bit confused as
to why you're calling.
Speaker 16 (21:31):
I guess what do you know about Elbosque, the Chapultepec.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
The forest of Chapultepec.
Speaker 16 (21:39):
Besides knowing what Bosque is in English, Google tells me
it's like Mexico City Central Park.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Sure, but hundreds of years older.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
As most things are.
Speaker 9 (21:52):
So you're calling about a forest laden park in the
middle of Mexico City.
Speaker 16 (21:56):
I'm calling about a series of evidence that have been
happening in and near the castle that overlooks the entire park.
Speaker 11 (22:05):
What kind of incidents?
Speaker 3 (22:07):
That's where I need your help.
Speaker 16 (22:09):
Us You came together and solved a five hundred year
old mystery, no matter your priory methods.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
We don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 16 (22:20):
I know you've been searching out similar occurrences, looking to
offer closure, and I'm offering you the chance to find
closure for six boys who passed away.
Speaker 11 (22:32):
Oh I'm sorry to hear that. When did they pass?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Eighteen forty seven?
Speaker 13 (22:40):
We're on our way.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
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