September 16, 2025 • 29 mins
Sympathy for a devil. A godly man makes a horrible sacrifice.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
See here's the October eighteen seventeen. Have sent the boys
to stay with my sister in Concord. I hadn't the
heart to tell them of their father's dire situation. Noah
bore her departure with a sort of grim stoicism that
he's never shown. Is the fever taking root? Who was
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he putting on a brief face? I do not know.
He became agitated last night, threw a plate against the mantle.
His rage seemed to shadder along with it, and when
he turned to me to apologize, his eyes were filled
with bloody tears. Assume we will have to bind him
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to the bed with that of the ropes. Soon, Father
Abbis will begin in Vain, his fight against the devil.
I will be there. I will be there until the
bitter end.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I don't know about you, but I could use a
series of drinks.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Better get to it, then?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Hold up?
Speaker 4 (01:58):
What look it is?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Coming out of the old bell knap hotel with what
looks like a wheeltor Hey, say.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Too, I know he's coming over.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
Hello ladies, Jerry.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Hi, what you doing at the abandoned hotel?
Speaker 6 (02:16):
Well?
Speaker 7 (02:16):
I was, yeah, I was just giving it a once over.
It's a lovely old building, isn't it. That would be
such a shame just to see it brought away.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I think, Oh, are you considering buying it?
Speaker 7 (02:28):
Well, I think that a working hotel would fit in
nicely with the Havoc entertainment district. The well the Tanneris
and factories of my forebears feel a little how shall
one put it outdated?
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (02:44):
If I'm going to do something with them, it wouldn't
be to open the back up for their intended purposes.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yes, do go on?
Speaker 7 (02:52):
Well, uh, imagine a regional hub for entertainment. I'm working
with the state government to loosen laws on gambon. So
a casino a casino, among other things, but a casino
as an anchor could attract a massive amount of tourism
to this region and to this town in particular.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
That's pretty ambitious.
Speaker 7 (03:13):
Well, I'm an ambitious guy.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
What do you what are you reading?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Oh? Oh, nothing at all? History or which history it's
not important.
Speaker 7 (03:29):
Come on, let me see.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah, it's some spicy stuff.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
Turns out I'm familiar with the spies. At any rate,
I'm late for a conference call. It was nice to
see you both, lovely surprise in an otherwise.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Dull vey, The pleasure is all ours.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Tomorrow night, tomorrow night.
Speaker 7 (03:54):
Well, have a good afternoon.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Does he have to be rich and good looking?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Booze, booze?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I think this town could use a nice injection of energy.
Imagine the business from a working hotel right across the street.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
No, it would be a bump.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
But back to the important stuff.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Murder, ah, murder.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
This must be super weird for you.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Finally getting the inside scoop on the old family lore.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
I mean, I knew it was messed up, but this
is really something else.
Speaker 8 (04:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Also not thrilled about the current parallels I'm seeing with
their blood fever.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah, that is troubling, double trouble.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Oh, filler up that a girl. I wonder how Jimbo's doing.
I need to call Barbara to check in. He was
not well when we saw him last.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I'm sure he'll pull through. He's a tough old bird.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Still, how much of that diaries left. We're getting to
the end of Demarus's bit. Looks like.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Jesus they brought the whole cavalry.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
That's foreboding.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah, it's probably nothing to courage.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Courage. WHOA, why did you shoot it?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I thought we were shooting it.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
No, I'm not shooting a rocks glass full of whiskey, coward.
Do you want me to keep reading? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And for a penny and for a bound.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Okay, okay, go it. The ninth of October eighteen seventeen.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Last night, with Noah's permission, we bound him and foot
to the bed with heavy rope. He has been fever
since the evening, the sweat pouring from him in heavy
red streams that steamed the bedclothes and the mattress beneath.
Josiah Praise. I do my best to keep them fed,
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to put the cup to Noah's mouth. When he cries
out in thirst, I wipe his brow with cool cloths
from his sore muscles. Josiah Praise. In the middle of
the night, Noah screamed out for me to release him.
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He called me any number of horrible names, cursed my
soul to hell for keeping him. Died down and then,
as if nothing had happened, he calmly asked after the
boys and throughout all, Josiah.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Praise our Father, who art in heaven. That would be
thy name, will be done on earth as it is
in heaven. Give us this day, our daily bird, and
forgive us our trespasses. If we forgive those who trespass
against us, it lead us not into temptation, but deliver.
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What is it?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
He is resting? We need to let him rest. The
devil does not rest, perhaps, but you need to eat
to keep up your strength. Come, no, and I prepared him, mirror.
The devil will still be here when you get back.
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Very well, just a simple porridge. I've boiled water for
tea as well.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Yes, thank you, Demrs. Your demeanor tells me you have
something to say out worthy.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I will speak plainly.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Go on.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Then, this is beyond us. It has been beyond us
from the start. Perhaps, what do you intend to do?
Speaker 6 (08:14):
I intend to eat and then to return to No aside.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Are there no more doctors, no science to help you
combat this?
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Science cannot save it? Now?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
How do you know?
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Dread carefully to me.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I have dread carefully throughout all of this. I have
dread carefully since her families fell. I have dread carefully
on the earth that you have displaced, digging bodies out
of the church or to defile. And none of it,
none of your prayers, or your mutilations or madness, have
even slowed the progress of this vile disease. He stood
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suddenly ho for me, eyes wide with rage and sorrow.
I was terrified, and yet I stood firm. I have
tread carefully since the day I crossed the threshold into
this house and became your daughter in law. I held
such a deep respect for you, Josiah, a man of
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principle of vision. But now, ah, how your parishioners have
come to fear you more than they fear the devil.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Don't you see it?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
They fear you more than the Almighty. They say that
you've gone bad, and you have father you have.
Speaker 6 (09:37):
Further, will often present this madness to those who refused
to see God's light. My daughter, we are not judged
in the end by our easy acts of faith. We
are judged by our actions, and times such as these
we need help the Lord's protection. Dare you deign to
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speak for the Lord?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
I do not know what we expected to fight. It
was not Noah, bright eyed, tears rolling down his face,
a bittific smile on his lips, through the slinger.
Speaker 8 (10:18):
Block sweat, My son, Oh, my son, you look father.
I have I seen an angel of the Lord. I
have instructions Father, for you. Gather amerind and garlic from
the woods, and with holy water, make a tea and
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bring it to me.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
Yes, yes, of course, demeriuse watch over him.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Yes I will.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
I shall return shortly.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
And with that he was gone. When I turned back
to Noah, his demeanor had changed once more. There was
fear there and something else, resignation. Noah, what is it?
Speaker 8 (11:12):
We must speak quickly, my love. There was no angel,
There was nothing, But I must speak to you alone.
Your father has gone mad. You've said as much yourself.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
We need to get you from the house. Then we
need to hide you somewhere, Oh.
Speaker 8 (11:29):
Darling, No demeris this illness is taking me. It is
too late to do anything about it. I have been
gifted this moment of clarity, but it soon will pass
and I will be lost to this world.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Noah, it is done.
Speaker 8 (11:49):
It was done when I first was bitten. It is
a miserable then, but I must face it, Collect the
boys and run far from this place, far from my father,
who is lost as well. In his own way. His
will is great and terrible love, and he will not
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stop this insane battle that he imagines with the devil
until every timber in every home is consumed. I have
spent the last few years scratching and saving in secret
in the sanctuary. There is a loose board in the
northwest corner, a shade darker from the boards around it.
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I have hidden funds there in a satchel, enough to
secure travel away and three months living wherever you go.
Speaker 9 (12:42):
I am sorry it was not more.
Speaker 8 (12:46):
Do not return, Do not look back.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Where did you cat?
Speaker 8 (12:52):
I was going to tell you about this before the
sickness came to us. Why for us to give you
the choice to stay or to go with me, to
live a life away from my father. I was never
called to the cloth, I was forced towards it by
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his beliefs. I wanted so much to.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
No hear, drink drink.
Speaker 8 (13:26):
We were never to be given a chance to forge
a life of our own, and so I would steal it.
But my chance is gone.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Oh no, I can't just leave you.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
Listen, you are a widow. Now you must take the boys.
Do you understand this place has become a snare? Do
not become entrapped. The illness will end us. All promise me,
Promise me, I promise. Good, darling, good. I love you,
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I love you.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I read more rich for your father.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Can you read?
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Please?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Okay, all right?
Speaker 9 (14:24):
One thing more, demeres?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
What is it? Anything?
Speaker 9 (14:30):
Would you loosen my behinding?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Something in his eye gave me pause, a twink of mischief.
When I spoke again, it was with great care.
Speaker 9 (14:46):
Do they hurt ever so much?
Speaker 6 (14:49):
Dear?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
You've had a fits?
Speaker 9 (14:52):
My head is so clear right now, just for a moment.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 8 (14:59):
No, oh, I understand.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I shall return momentarily.
Speaker 9 (15:06):
De Marius. Yes, I saw your mother last night.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
That's not funny.
Speaker 9 (15:14):
Noah, Oh, it was not a joke.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
My mother has been dead for many years. Yes, did
you dream of her?
Speaker 6 (15:27):
No?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Then, what did you mean?
Speaker 9 (15:31):
I visited Hell last night while you slept. I saw
her there, half naked, tattered rags hanging from her soot
from the fire that took her, covering the whole of
her body. But it was unmistakably her. She had your eyes,
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your wild stupid animalies wide with terror as yours are now.
She was screaming, de Marius, Oh, you never heard such
a scream. If a living woman were to scream so
her vocal chords would strain and snap in a cush
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of blood. A mortal scream, the scream of continuous dying
without the mercy of death. You see, the flame that
took her did not stop devouring her flesh and death.
It was continuing on consuming her in great licks, her
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skin peeling and crisping, great blisters of blood and puss
popping and running down her, further feeding the flame.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Stop stop you and not yourself.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
I have never been more myself wife as I was
when she implored me for help, told me that she
would do anything, anything for me to lessen her torment.
She begged for me to lend my moisture to still
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the flames, if only for a moment, spittle.
Speaker 9 (17:20):
Piss anything, wife.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
You two have taken to medis.
Speaker 9 (17:27):
But I would piss upon her, not to lessen her agony,
for I was enjoying it.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
So it quickened the blood in tens and oh.
Speaker 9 (17:37):
How I fantasized watching her about how I would inflict
these agonies upon her daughter. How I would light my
pathetic wife, my father, my muling stinking children alight on
a great fire and feast on their burnt flat.
Speaker 10 (18:00):
Yes, my darling wife seems to have had quite enough.
Speaker 9 (18:13):
If you want to silence your husband, you will have
to use more force when you next bring down the
picture upon my face.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Not my husband.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
My husband is.
Speaker 10 (18:27):
Dead, yes, and he burns in hell with your whole mother.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
What is this?
Speaker 10 (18:35):
Ah ah? A mad preacher has returned to quite.
Speaker 9 (18:41):
The familial scene. And what's this in your hands? This
isn't the holy water and herbs I asked for. If
I didn't know better, I'd say that case contained.
Speaker 10 (18:53):
A cure far more final.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
He's not himself, Yes, I see what These are the
tools of the Lord's marshal. Yes, the crucifix.
Speaker 9 (19:07):
I shake with the holy terror.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
What are you going to do? Father?
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Stand aside to me? Isn't our hands now? You can't?
Our father are in heaven? Here we go? Hollow would
be thy name?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
He is mad, just like kingdom.
Speaker 11 (19:24):
Come, I will be done on earth as it is
in heaven. Because this day let us look for trespasses
weeping and those trespass against us, and lead us out
to the temptation, but delivers for mevill bell is the
kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
He placed the cross down beside Noah and reached into
the bag, pulling forth the great ashwood steak that had
become the symbol of his mad belief.
Speaker 10 (19:52):
Way, whatever will he do with that?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
He raised it above his head to Meris, how could
you allow?
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Yes, father, please.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Demaris, and brought it down into Noah's heart.
Speaker 9 (20:11):
No, I suppose I'll see you both in hell.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Mm hmm ah ahmen.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
And with that my life ended. Jesus, Jesus, I mean,
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I don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
I don't know what to say that me neither.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
I'm afraid to ask if there's more.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
There looks to be one more entry. It's shorter, but uh,
I think I need a minute to absorb that.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Fair enough, cheers?
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Maybe we should grab a bite to eat.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I could order a pizza from Remones
no Onion's.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Right, Yeah, I'll need anything else at it. What the
hell is happening out there?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Huhm. Hey, there's half a dozen emergency vehicles, there's fire trucks, cops.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
You want to check it out?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
How can I help you.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I'll call you back. Come on, let's be tacky.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
I hope everyone's okay.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I don't know. Maybe it's what we've been reading, but
I feel real dread. Yes, I'm sure it's nothing as
operatic as Noah's death, right.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
I mean, we just had an axe murderer out here
last week.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Good point, Hey Bill, what's going on? I heard Old
Tom Stabanow's places on fire.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Oh my god, is he there?
Speaker 6 (22:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Oh, come on, he's like two streets over.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
We moved quickly, with the group all streaming out of
their homes and main street restaurants from the courthouse, where
the last of the day's business had just concluded, everyone
racing toward the great fire at Tom's. We rounded the
corner to find his house, an old saltbox style all
timber from two hundred years ago, up in flames. The
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hoses were blasting water into the home trying to put
it out, when suddenly.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Oh my god, he's in there.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
There stood old Tom Stabina in the top floor window,
naked and covered in soot, his hair singed off what
flesh you could still see sean a horrible bloody red
and then he's gotta gown. With an old hunting rifle,
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he opened fire on the crowd.
Speaker 10 (23:23):
Everybody down, down.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Everything happened in a horrible, bloody mess, people diving for
cover everywhere as Old Tom raved and shot. The fire
host suddenly unattended, wildly flying through the air, blasting water
in all directions, returned fire, and Tom disappearing back into
the window in a fine mist of pink.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Clear clear.
Speaker 9 (23:51):
Is anyone hit?
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Is any one hit?
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Sylvie?
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I'm okay, we need to get out of here.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Yeah, it was a blur. Everything felt abstract and far off.
The second time and under a month that we were
processing the horror of this violence. We held hands as
we ran away through the throngs, Sylvie's hand sweaty and
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solid in my own, the only real thing in a
world that was fast becoming meaningless. And then we were
safe home at the bar, and shock in the familiar quiet.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
My god, Tom, what the hell is happening?
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Grid?
Speaker 12 (24:44):
I think something big is coming, big, bigger than this.
I don't know, I don't know. It's a feeling, you know, dread,
just massive dread.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Tom's dead.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
He's dead. He is a real piece of work. But
now he's dead. Did you see him up there? He
was insane.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
It's the same look I saw in Jimbo's eyes after
the funeral when he attacked Ken. It was the look
in Bachman's eyes when he came at me with the axe.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
It's what Demeras wrote about.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
You said there was more, Yeah, there was another entry.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
You think it'll tell us how to deal with salt this.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
I mean, I can't imagine, barn Please we.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Just please please?
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Huh what what it's just a paragraph? Well, uh, Josiah
has gone up the hill. He has the steak. He
is going after a Havoc. He is mad. I will
stop him, and then that's all. That's all she wrote.
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I mean, the book itself goes on. After this entry
occurred the murder of Sophia Havoc at the Havoc estate.
The diary was found in the church soon after the
murder's pages torn out of the back. Josiah himself was
found in the sanctuary, hanging from the rafters of the rectory. Rush.
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It looks like here, it looks like there's more about
the illness and the aftermath in the next chapter. But
oh god, Sylvie, I have to stop for now.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Yeah, I understand, it's all too much.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
I don't think I can pross this anymore today.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
But who's given the choice to fully disengage? As we
sat there, shells shocked, we saw the first military vehicles
roll into town, alongside numerous black SUVs. Become familiar with
those sites over the coming days. I should have been
relieved as they passed by the cavalry, but that feeling
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in my gut, the dread, it only deepened.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Should I get it?
Speaker 4 (27:25):
It can't be good news, You just can't might it.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Ring Havoctown was created by me Aaron Mankey. The show
was written and directed by Nicholas Takowski. This episode was
edited and sound designed by Rima lk Ali, starring Jewels
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State as Corene Avis, James Kallus as Jerry Havoc, Felicia
Day as Sylvie, Harris, Ray Wise as Josiah Abbas, Crystal
Lee as Demeris, Daniel Ernesto A known as Noah Abbas,
with additional voice acting from David Caprita, Dick Terhun, Beverly
Bremer's David Davrees, and Aaron Mankey. This season is directed
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by Nicholas Takoski, 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 Lkali and producers Nomes Griffin and
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Jesse Funk. Havoctown is set in the Bridgewater Audio Universe,
which includes the hit fiction podcasts Bridgewater and Consumed. Learn
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
See here's the October eighteen seventeen. Have sent the boys
to stay with my sister in Concord. I hadn't the
heart to tell them of their father's dire situation. Noah
bore her departure with a sort of grim stoicism that
he's never shown. Is the fever taking root? Who was
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he putting on a brief face? I do not know.
He became agitated last night, threw a plate against the mantle.
His rage seemed to shadder along with it, and when
he turned to me to apologize, his eyes were filled
with bloody tears. Assume we will have to bind him
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to the bed with that of the ropes. Soon, Father
Abbis will begin in Vain, his fight against the devil.
I will be there. I will be there until the
bitter end.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I don't know about you, but I could use a
series of drinks.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Better get to it, then?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Hold up?
Speaker 4 (01:58):
What look it is?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Coming out of the old bell knap hotel with what
looks like a wheeltor Hey, say.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Too, I know he's coming over.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
Hello ladies, Jerry.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Hi, what you doing at the abandoned hotel?
Speaker 6 (02:16):
Well?
Speaker 7 (02:16):
I was, yeah, I was just giving it a once over.
It's a lovely old building, isn't it. That would be
such a shame just to see it brought away.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I think, Oh, are you considering buying it?
Speaker 7 (02:28):
Well, I think that a working hotel would fit in
nicely with the Havoc entertainment district. The well the Tanneris
and factories of my forebears feel a little how shall
one put it outdated?
Speaker 6 (02:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (02:44):
If I'm going to do something with them, it wouldn't
be to open the back up for their intended purposes.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yes, do go on?
Speaker 7 (02:52):
Well, uh, imagine a regional hub for entertainment. I'm working
with the state government to loosen laws on gambon. So
a casino a casino, among other things, but a casino
as an anchor could attract a massive amount of tourism
to this region and to this town in particular.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
That's pretty ambitious.
Speaker 7 (03:13):
Well, I'm an ambitious guy.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
What do you what are you reading?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Oh? Oh, nothing at all? History or which history it's
not important.
Speaker 7 (03:29):
Come on, let me see.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah, it's some spicy stuff.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
Turns out I'm familiar with the spies. At any rate,
I'm late for a conference call. It was nice to
see you both, lovely surprise in an otherwise.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Dull vey, The pleasure is all ours.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Tomorrow night, tomorrow night.
Speaker 7 (03:54):
Well, have a good afternoon.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Does he have to be rich and good looking?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Booze, booze?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I think this town could use a nice injection of energy.
Imagine the business from a working hotel right across the street.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
No, it would be a bump.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
But back to the important stuff.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Murder, ah, murder.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
This must be super weird for you.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Finally getting the inside scoop on the old family lore.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
I mean, I knew it was messed up, but this
is really something else.
Speaker 8 (04:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Also not thrilled about the current parallels I'm seeing with
their blood fever.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah, that is troubling, double trouble.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Oh, filler up that a girl. I wonder how Jimbo's doing.
I need to call Barbara to check in. He was
not well when we saw him last.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I'm sure he'll pull through. He's a tough old bird.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Still, how much of that diaries left. We're getting to
the end of Demarus's bit. Looks like.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Jesus they brought the whole cavalry.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
That's foreboding.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah, it's probably nothing to courage.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Courage. WHOA, why did you shoot it?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I thought we were shooting it.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
No, I'm not shooting a rocks glass full of whiskey, coward.
Do you want me to keep reading? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And for a penny and for a bound.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Okay, okay, go it. The ninth of October eighteen seventeen.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Last night, with Noah's permission, we bound him and foot
to the bed with heavy rope. He has been fever
since the evening, the sweat pouring from him in heavy
red streams that steamed the bedclothes and the mattress beneath.
Josiah Praise. I do my best to keep them fed,
(06:14):
to put the cup to Noah's mouth. When he cries
out in thirst, I wipe his brow with cool cloths
from his sore muscles. Josiah Praise. In the middle of
the night, Noah screamed out for me to release him.
(06:34):
He called me any number of horrible names, cursed my
soul to hell for keeping him. Died down and then,
as if nothing had happened, he calmly asked after the
boys and throughout all, Josiah.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Praise our Father, who art in heaven. That would be
thy name, will be done on earth as it is
in heaven. Give us this day, our daily bird, and
forgive us our trespasses. If we forgive those who trespass
against us, it lead us not into temptation, but deliver.
(07:15):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
He is resting? We need to let him rest. The
devil does not rest, perhaps, but you need to eat
to keep up your strength. Come, no, and I prepared him, mirror.
The devil will still be here when you get back.
(07:39):
Very well, just a simple porridge. I've boiled water for
tea as well.
Speaker 6 (07:49):
Yes, thank you, Demrs. Your demeanor tells me you have
something to say out worthy.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I will speak plainly.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Go on.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Then, this is beyond us. It has been beyond us
from the start. Perhaps, what do you intend to do?
Speaker 6 (08:14):
I intend to eat and then to return to No aside.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Are there no more doctors, no science to help you
combat this?
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Science cannot save it? Now?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
How do you know?
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Dread carefully to me.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I have dread carefully throughout all of this. I have
dread carefully since her families fell. I have dread carefully
on the earth that you have displaced, digging bodies out
of the church or to defile. And none of it,
none of your prayers, or your mutilations or madness, have
even slowed the progress of this vile disease. He stood
(08:53):
suddenly ho for me, eyes wide with rage and sorrow.
I was terrified, and yet I stood firm. I have
tread carefully since the day I crossed the threshold into
this house and became your daughter in law. I held
such a deep respect for you, Josiah, a man of
(09:16):
principle of vision. But now, ah, how your parishioners have
come to fear you more than they fear the devil.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Don't you see it?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
They fear you more than the Almighty. They say that
you've gone bad, and you have father you have.
Speaker 6 (09:37):
Further, will often present this madness to those who refused
to see God's light. My daughter, we are not judged
in the end by our easy acts of faith. We
are judged by our actions, and times such as these
we need help the Lord's protection. Dare you deign to
(10:01):
speak for the Lord?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
I do not know what we expected to fight. It
was not Noah, bright eyed, tears rolling down his face,
a bittific smile on his lips, through the slinger.
Speaker 8 (10:18):
Block sweat, My son, Oh, my son, you look father.
I have I seen an angel of the Lord. I
have instructions Father, for you. Gather amerind and garlic from
the woods, and with holy water, make a tea and
(10:40):
bring it to me.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
Yes, yes, of course, demeriuse watch over him.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Yes I will.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
I shall return shortly.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
And with that he was gone. When I turned back
to Noah, his demeanor had changed once more. There was
fear there and something else, resignation. Noah, what is it?
Speaker 8 (11:12):
We must speak quickly, my love. There was no angel,
There was nothing, But I must speak to you alone.
Your father has gone mad. You've said as much yourself.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
We need to get you from the house. Then we
need to hide you somewhere, Oh.
Speaker 8 (11:29):
Darling, No demeris this illness is taking me. It is
too late to do anything about it. I have been
gifted this moment of clarity, but it soon will pass
and I will be lost to this world.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Noah, it is done.
Speaker 8 (11:49):
It was done when I first was bitten. It is
a miserable then, but I must face it, Collect the
boys and run far from this place, far from my father,
who is lost as well. In his own way. His
will is great and terrible love, and he will not
(12:10):
stop this insane battle that he imagines with the devil
until every timber in every home is consumed. I have
spent the last few years scratching and saving in secret
in the sanctuary. There is a loose board in the
northwest corner, a shade darker from the boards around it.
(12:32):
I have hidden funds there in a satchel, enough to
secure travel away and three months living wherever you go.
Speaker 9 (12:42):
I am sorry it was not more.
Speaker 8 (12:46):
Do not return, Do not look back.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Where did you cat?
Speaker 8 (12:52):
I was going to tell you about this before the
sickness came to us. Why for us to give you
the choice to stay or to go with me, to
live a life away from my father. I was never
called to the cloth, I was forced towards it by
(13:15):
his beliefs. I wanted so much to.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
No hear, drink drink.
Speaker 8 (13:26):
We were never to be given a chance to forge
a life of our own, and so I would steal it.
But my chance is gone.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Oh no, I can't just leave you.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
Listen, you are a widow. Now you must take the boys.
Do you understand this place has become a snare? Do
not become entrapped. The illness will end us. All promise me,
Promise me, I promise. Good, darling, good. I love you,
(14:07):
I love you.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I read more rich for your father.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Can you read?
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Please?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Okay, all right?
Speaker 9 (14:24):
One thing more, demeres?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
What is it? Anything?
Speaker 9 (14:30):
Would you loosen my behinding?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Something in his eye gave me pause, a twink of mischief.
When I spoke again, it was with great care.
Speaker 9 (14:46):
Do they hurt ever so much?
Speaker 6 (14:49):
Dear?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
You've had a fits?
Speaker 9 (14:52):
My head is so clear right now, just for a moment.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 8 (14:59):
No, oh, I understand.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I shall return momentarily.
Speaker 9 (15:06):
De Marius. Yes, I saw your mother last night.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
That's not funny.
Speaker 9 (15:14):
Noah, Oh, it was not a joke.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
My mother has been dead for many years. Yes, did
you dream of her?
Speaker 6 (15:27):
No?
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Then, what did you mean?
Speaker 9 (15:31):
I visited Hell last night while you slept. I saw
her there, half naked, tattered rags hanging from her soot
from the fire that took her, covering the whole of
her body. But it was unmistakably her. She had your eyes,
(15:54):
your wild stupid animalies wide with terror as yours are now.
She was screaming, de Marius, Oh, you never heard such
a scream. If a living woman were to scream so
her vocal chords would strain and snap in a cush
(16:17):
of blood. A mortal scream, the scream of continuous dying
without the mercy of death. You see, the flame that
took her did not stop devouring her flesh and death.
It was continuing on consuming her in great licks, her
(16:40):
skin peeling and crisping, great blisters of blood and puss
popping and running down her, further feeding the flame.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Stop stop you and not yourself.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
I have never been more myself wife as I was
when she implored me for help, told me that she
would do anything, anything for me to lessen her torment.
She begged for me to lend my moisture to still
(17:15):
the flames, if only for a moment, spittle.
Speaker 9 (17:20):
Piss anything, wife.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
You two have taken to medis.
Speaker 9 (17:27):
But I would piss upon her, not to lessen her agony,
for I was enjoying it.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
So it quickened the blood in tens and oh.
Speaker 9 (17:37):
How I fantasized watching her about how I would inflict
these agonies upon her daughter. How I would light my
pathetic wife, my father, my muling stinking children alight on
a great fire and feast on their burnt flat.
Speaker 10 (18:00):
Yes, my darling wife seems to have had quite enough.
Speaker 9 (18:13):
If you want to silence your husband, you will have
to use more force when you next bring down the
picture upon my face.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Not my husband.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
My husband is.
Speaker 10 (18:27):
Dead, yes, and he burns in hell with your whole mother.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
What is this?
Speaker 10 (18:35):
Ah ah? A mad preacher has returned to quite.
Speaker 9 (18:41):
The familial scene. And what's this in your hands? This
isn't the holy water and herbs I asked for. If
I didn't know better, I'd say that case contained.
Speaker 10 (18:53):
A cure far more final.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
He's not himself, Yes, I see what These are the
tools of the Lord's marshal. Yes, the crucifix.
Speaker 9 (19:07):
I shake with the holy terror.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
What are you going to do? Father?
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Stand aside to me? Isn't our hands now? You can't?
Our father are in heaven? Here we go? Hollow would
be thy name?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
He is mad, just like kingdom.
Speaker 11 (19:24):
Come, I will be done on earth as it is
in heaven. Because this day let us look for trespasses
weeping and those trespass against us, and lead us out
to the temptation, but delivers for mevill bell is the
kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
He placed the cross down beside Noah and reached into
the bag, pulling forth the great ashwood steak that had
become the symbol of his mad belief.
Speaker 10 (19:52):
Way, whatever will he do with that?
Speaker 2 (19:55):
He raised it above his head to Meris, how could
you allow?
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Yes, father, please.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Demaris, and brought it down into Noah's heart.
Speaker 9 (20:11):
No, I suppose I'll see you both in hell.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Mm hmm ah ahmen.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
And with that my life ended. Jesus, Jesus, I mean,
(20:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
I don't know what to say that me neither.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
I'm afraid to ask if there's more.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
There looks to be one more entry. It's shorter, but uh,
I think I need a minute to absorb that.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Fair enough, cheers?
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Maybe we should grab a bite to eat.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I could order a pizza from Remones
no Onion's.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Right, Yeah, I'll need anything else at it. What the
hell is happening out there?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Huhm. Hey, there's half a dozen emergency vehicles, there's fire trucks, cops.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
You want to check it out?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
How can I help you.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I'll call you back. Come on, let's be tacky.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
I hope everyone's okay.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I don't know. Maybe it's what we've been reading, but
I feel real dread. Yes, I'm sure it's nothing as
operatic as Noah's death, right.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
I mean, we just had an axe murderer out here
last week.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Good point, Hey Bill, what's going on? I heard Old
Tom Stabanow's places on fire.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Oh my god, is he there?
Speaker 6 (22:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Oh, come on, he's like two streets over.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
We moved quickly, with the group all streaming out of
their homes and main street restaurants from the courthouse, where
the last of the day's business had just concluded, everyone
racing toward the great fire at Tom's. We rounded the
corner to find his house, an old saltbox style all
timber from two hundred years ago, up in flames. The
(22:53):
hoses were blasting water into the home trying to put
it out, when suddenly.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Oh my god, he's in there.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
There stood old Tom Stabina in the top floor window,
naked and covered in soot, his hair singed off what
flesh you could still see sean a horrible bloody red
and then he's gotta gown. With an old hunting rifle,
(23:20):
he opened fire on the crowd.
Speaker 10 (23:23):
Everybody down, down.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Everything happened in a horrible, bloody mess, people diving for
cover everywhere as Old Tom raved and shot. The fire
host suddenly unattended, wildly flying through the air, blasting water
in all directions, returned fire, and Tom disappearing back into
the window in a fine mist of pink.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
Clear clear.
Speaker 9 (23:51):
Is anyone hit?
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Is any one hit?
Speaker 4 (23:54):
Sylvie?
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I'm okay, we need to get out of here.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
Yeah, it was a blur. Everything felt abstract and far off.
The second time and under a month that we were
processing the horror of this violence. We held hands as
we ran away through the throngs, Sylvie's hand sweaty and
(24:19):
solid in my own, the only real thing in a
world that was fast becoming meaningless. And then we were
safe home at the bar, and shock in the familiar quiet.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
My god, Tom, what the hell is happening?
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Grid?
Speaker 12 (24:44):
I think something big is coming, big, bigger than this.
I don't know, I don't know. It's a feeling, you know, dread,
just massive dread.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Tom's dead.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
He's dead. He is a real piece of work. But
now he's dead. Did you see him up there? He
was insane.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
It's the same look I saw in Jimbo's eyes after
the funeral when he attacked Ken. It was the look
in Bachman's eyes when he came at me with the axe.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
It's what Demeras wrote about.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
You said there was more, Yeah, there was another entry.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
You think it'll tell us how to deal with salt this.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
I mean, I can't imagine, barn Please we.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Just please please?
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Huh what what it's just a paragraph? Well, uh, Josiah
has gone up the hill. He has the steak. He
is going after a Havoc. He is mad. I will
stop him, and then that's all. That's all she wrote.
(26:02):
I mean, the book itself goes on. After this entry
occurred the murder of Sophia Havoc at the Havoc estate.
The diary was found in the church soon after the
murder's pages torn out of the back. Josiah himself was
found in the sanctuary, hanging from the rafters of the rectory. Rush.
(26:24):
It looks like here, it looks like there's more about
the illness and the aftermath in the next chapter. But
oh god, Sylvie, I have to stop for now.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Yeah, I understand, it's all too much.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
I don't think I can pross this anymore today.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
But who's given the choice to fully disengage? As we
sat there, shells shocked, we saw the first military vehicles
roll into town, alongside numerous black SUVs. Become familiar with
those sites over the coming days. I should have been
relieved as they passed by the cavalry, but that feeling
(27:11):
in my gut, the dread, it only deepened.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Should I get it?
Speaker 4 (27:25):
It can't be good news, You just can't might it.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Ring Havoctown was created by me Aaron Mankey. The show
was written and directed by Nicholas Takowski. This episode was
edited and sound designed by Rima lk Ali, starring Jewels
(27:57):
State as Corene Avis, James Kallus as Jerry Havoc, Felicia
Day as Sylvie, Harris, Ray Wise as Josiah Abbas, Crystal
Lee as Demeris, Daniel Ernesto A known as Noah Abbas,
with additional voice acting from David Caprita, Dick Terhun, Beverly
Bremer's David Davrees, and Aaron Mankey. This season is directed
(28:22):
by Nicholas Takoski, 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 Lkali and producers Nomes Griffin and
(28:45):
Jesse Funk. 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
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