October 11, 2025 • 40 mins
Dive into a haunting Halloween tale as Halloween turns to horror in this chilling story!
When a rebellious teen steals a mysterious glowing pumpkin ring from a strange shop in Strickfield, she unleashes a Halloween curse that drags her into a nightmare realm filled with monsters and terror.
As the night unfolds, she encounters living vines, pumpkin demons, and ghostly villages in a desperate fight for survival. Escaping the curse means facing her own transformation—and realizing that some things you steal can steal you right back.
If you love scary Halloween stories, creepy curses, and the thrill of classic horror, this one’s for you. Join us for an unforgettable spooky season is filled with terror and suspense!
One Fateful Halloween — by Rob Fields
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When a rebellious teen steals a mysterious glowing pumpkin ring from a strange shop in Strickfield, she unleashes a Halloween curse that drags her into a nightmare realm filled with monsters and terror.
As the night unfolds, she encounters living vines, pumpkin demons, and ghostly villages in a desperate fight for survival. Escaping the curse means facing her own transformation—and realizing that some things you steal can steal you right back.
If you love scary Halloween stories, creepy curses, and the thrill of classic horror, this one’s for you. Join us for an unforgettable spooky season is filled with terror and suspense!
One Fateful Halloween — by Rob Fields
🎧 LISTEN NOW and subscribe for spine-tingling horror stories every week!
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👉 WeeklySpooky.com/Join
📬 Contact Us / Submit Your Horror Story!
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🎵 Music by Ray Mattis 👉 Check out Ray’s incredible work here !
👨💼 Executive Producers: Rob Fields, Bobbletopia.com
🎥 Produced by: Daniel Wilder
🌐 Explore more terrifying tales at: WeeklySpooky.com
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
On Halloween night. Sheila just wanted one night of freedom,
but when she slips a glowing pumpkin ring into her
purse without paying, her world twists into a nightmare. Rhodes
Vanish monsters rise and what she stole begins to steal
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her soul.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
There's a shill in the air. Must befall join me
for a tale of Halloween.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
You will experience tales of over ghosts, and it is
not recommended for the weak at heart.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Join me for a Tale of hol Weekly Spooky.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Hello, my spookyas it's time for a scary Saturday. To
make sure you're enjoying your Halloween season properly. I'm your
host and narrator, Enrique Cuto, and tonight we have a
story all about the dangers of theft on Halloween. But
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before we get to that, I want to remind you
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for tonight, have you ever noticed how on Halloween some
things just feel different, Like the air is thicker, the
shadow move a little slower, and maybe, just maybe you're
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being watched. Now, imagine finding something that wasn't meant for you,
something small and shiny calling your name, and when you
take it, you don't just steal it, you steal your
way into another world. Our story after this one fateful
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Halloween by Rob Fields. It's Halloween here in Strickfield and
I was forced to take my little sister Phoebe to
Strickfield Town Center mall since there's no school today. So
much for being able to sleep in a little bit.
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Hopefully I can sleep in tomorrow since there's no school
then either. With Phoebe always being a pain, I know
that's not gonna happen. There'll be Saturday mornings when I
got my door closed, only for that little pest to
come right in my room, get on my bed and
start jumping up and down while telling me I gotta
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get up. I can't yell at her because then Mom
gets mad and starts yelling at me about yelling at Phoebe. Seriously,
I just I can't win. I guess I ought to
be thankful though Mom and Dad don't say anything about
my punk style. I probably died and buzzed my hair
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dozens of times, and I even got different piercings. Then
there's the clothes I wear. I guess since I ain't
getting in trouble at school, Mom and Dad both don't care.
Mom herself seems to only care when she wants me
to watch Phoebe. The pest and me have been going
into stores and just looking at whatever. Oh wait. I
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also had to take Phoebe to Spirit Halloween to get
her a few more things for her costume. I got
no clue what she's gonna be, and I really don't care.
I just want to go have fun tonight and hit
up a few parties at Strickfield University, mainly because Wicked
Pedia is back in Strickfield and playing a show at
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one of the frat houses. I ain't sure which one.
I gotta go hit up Wilder Hall and look at
the flyer at the coffee place they got there. Then
I get my head out of the clouds and wonder
why the heck I'm even walking down this particular hallway.
There's nothing down here, as in no stores. Then I'm
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proven wrong when I see a single store here called Tinkers.
Looks like some junk shop or something. I look at
my phone and see, we gotta kill a little more time. Yet,
Mom's cleaning up around the house, so she don't want
us back home till she's all done. Guess we're going
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in the junk shop. I tell the pest. I don't wanna.
She whins, well, too bad, I say, besides, we did
what you wanted to do at the Halloween store. She
gives me that poudy look of hers. Again. I hate you.
I roll my eyes. Yeah, well right back at you. Now.
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Come on. Phoebe's always giving me mean looks when I
won't give her her way. We go into the junk
shop and look around. Seriously, why do these kinds of
places even exist? I mean, who really buys this crap?
It ain't long before this old geezer comes over and
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asks me if I need help finding anything just looking.
I mutter, no problem, he says, names Isley Tinker. I'll
be up front if you need anything. I keep dragging
Phoebe around the store. Believe it or not, there's actually
a few interesting things in here. Nothing I gotta have, though.
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We eventually make it up to the counter. Tinker's there
as I'm seeing what he's got In the display case.
There's things from old video game consoles to a few
movies on video cassette. I'm surprised Dad still watches movies
on those ancient relics. Then I see a movie called
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The Strickfield Slasher and don't recall ever hearing anything about
that one, and I'm usually renting horror movies from Strickfield
Video most every weekend. Seriously, what is wrong with what
I just said? You'd think i'd be out on dates
with boys from Strickfield High or maybe even the university.
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Turns out, Mom and Dad get to go out on
Fridays and Saturdays, which means I get to stay home
and babysit Phoebe. It's the same old story when they
rattle on about how they work hard all day and
they're entitled to their Friday and Saturday nights. They even
add I'm too young to date. No, I'm only almost nineteen,
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that's all. And don't even get me started. On Halloween week,
I either gotta take Phoebe trick or treating or I
gotta stay home and hand out candy. I really hate
my life. Sometimes something's definitely got to change. And soon
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a phone rings, then tinkered. He turns around and answers it.
I don't listen to what he's saying, because I got
my eyes on this awesome ring. Now. I ain't one
to wear Halloween jewelry, but there's this ring with a
I don't know, a glowing pumpkin on it or something.
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I pick up the ring and feel it. Wow, this
pumpkin ain't no cheap plastic with a light bulb in it.
It's gotta be some kind of a jewel or stone.
Phoebe ain't looking, and neither is Tinker. I lifted a
few little things in stores before I know how to
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do it, so no cameras catch me. When Tinker's finished,
he hangs up. Then he turns around to look at me.
Guess he'll get a little money off me for the
sodas I grabbed for Phoebe in me, he thanks us
for stopping in. When we turn to leave, Tinker don't
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say anything about the ring. I want to go to
kitty Land again. Phoebe winds, Yeah, yeah, I mutter, whatever
looks like. I get to watch Phoebe play in the
playland just off center Court. I may just head into
that babble Topia place again while I'm letting her play. Wow,
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it's dark and tricker treating's going on for the final
night of Halloween week. I'm all dressed up in my
dark outfit and got my makeup on. And where do
you think you are going? Sheila Mom calls out. When
I'm ready to take off, I turn around. I'm gonna
get on over to Strickfield you and catch that Wicked
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Pedia show. I've been telling you about it all week.
Mom shakes her head quickly. No, no, no, you are
staying right here and handing out candy while I take
phoebe trick or treating. No way, I fire back. I
ain't missing that show. Dad can do it. Your father
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hasn't even come home from work yet. Mom informs me
he had to stay after for a big meeting and
won't be home for another hour. Yet that means you
are staying right here and handing out candy. End of discussion.
You gotta find newer and better ways to ruin my life. Huh,
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I mutter. Mom, ain't even phased. You can complain all
you want, Sheila, but you're still handing out candy. In fact,
you'd better get busy right now.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
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Speaker 1 (11:59):
I got half a mind to just bail and head
to Strickfield University anyway. But my parents don't say nothing
about what I wear or what kind of music and
movies I like. And it ain't like there being abusive. Wait,
scratch that, almost forgot about the no dating or going
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out at night thing. I roll my eyes and step
out on the front porch right when a big group
of little brats come up with their bags wide open
trick or treat They practically roar, so I give them
the candy and continue to think about bailing. I managed
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to text it up with a few boys I know
who like me, including a college sophomore. At least it's
helping make the night go by a little faster. I
keep handing out the candy as tricker treaters just keep
coming out of nowhere, and the timing couldn't have been
more perfect. When Mom and Phoebe come back home as
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I'm getting low on candy, have you been giving two
pieces of candy per trick or treater? Like I said?
Mom demands, what do you think? I snap for the record, yes,
I did what Mom said. She looks at her watch
and trick or Treating is still a good two and
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a half hours from being over. Mom brings Phoebe in
the house with her haul of candy. A few minutes later,
she comes back to me and hands me some money.
I'll take over. I want you to head out to
Meyer and buy some more candy, then you can hand
it out when you get back. I take the money
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and groan, Seriously, you are ruining my Halloween. Don't take
that attitude with me, Sheila. Mom snaps, maybe I just
won't come home. Then I reply, Mom groans and hands
me the keys. Just go buy the candy and come
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back home. Okay, okay, geez. At least I get to
get away from here for a little bit. I pull
out of the driveway and got a drive nice and easy,
so I don't get no homicides on my hands. Little
too young to be starting a life sentence over at
glen View. Speaking of being a criminal, I remember that
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Halloween ring I lifted from Tinker's store. So far, no
cops have been my way to ask about it, no
phone call at the house neither. I pull the ring
out of my jacket pocket and see how bright it's glowing.
I can't believe how much it's lighting up the car
like I turned on the compartment light. Then I slide
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the ring on, perfect fit. Huh. Now everything's looking I
don't know, kinda different somehow. It's like all the Tricker
treaters are moving in a funny way. I know the
parents sometimes wear costumes when they're bringing their kids around,
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but it's like everybody's got costumes on or something. I
keep driving until I'm out on State Route one and
heading back to Strickfield Town Center mall the Meyers stores
right across the road from it. I turn on the
radio and get some awesome music playing. Oh yes, I
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absolutely love this song. Makes me think about how I'm
missing the Wicked Pedia show at the University. I still
got half a mind to just head on out there.
The heck with getting more candy. Then I'm gonna have
to deal with both Mom and Dad when I'd come home.
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They'd definitely be waiting up to start ripping into me.
I keep driving and listening to my station, and that's
when I realize I'm driving past open fields. Did I
pass Meyer and the mall? I wonder out loud. I
could have swore I was watching the road. I know
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I ain't lost. I mean, I've been living in Strickfield
my whole life. How could I possibly get lost? I
pull my phone out and look, and what all I'm
seeing is no service, not even the satellite icon. I
can't even call mom or send a text just to
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make sure I try. Nope, I can't even go online.
I drive a little longer and still don't see the
mall or a big superstore. I figure I gotta have
missed those places. Maybe I got a little too much
into the car radio. Then I stopped the car. When
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I realize something else ain't right here, I get out
and look at the road. Wait just a minute, here,
I snap to nobody in particular. Strickfield ain't got no
dirt roads, except maybe in the backwoods. I know I
was driving on Route one. How did I get on
a dirt road? All of a sudden, I blow into
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my hand and smell. No, I ain't been drinking even
I ain't stupid enough to be doing that. All Mom
and Dad gotta do is smell even the teensiest bit
of a beer on me, and my life will be
over as I know it. Then I see that ring
still glowing hot on my finger. Heck, it's lighting up
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enough for me to see grass and trees on either
side of the dirt road. Now I see the jack
o' lantern patterns themselves on the pumpkin jewel. Suddenly there's
some rustling noises nearby. Who's there? I call out. When
there's more rustling sounds, I gulp and turn to get
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back in. What the For the record, I also ain't
dumb enough to be smoking pot when I go to
parties or see bands. In other words, I know I
ain't stoned or drunk. Where the heck is the car?
I yell? I know, no, I stopped the car before
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I got out, as in I put it in park.
There's no way the car could just disappear like that.
I was near it the whole entire time. I didn't
hear anybody get in and drive off with it. Why
the heck is the car gone?
Speaker 4 (19:03):
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Oh, I'm gonna have a fun time explaining this to
mom and dad. By the time they get through with me,
I ain't gonna have to worry about graduating Strickfield High
or going to college next fall. I'm gonna be grounded
for the rest of my natural life. And what's even worse,
Phoebe's gonna be laughing it up. While Mom and Dad
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are tearing me apart. I groan and look up. Why
is this happening to me tonight? The rustling sound is
almost on me. I turn around and feel my legs
taking over, making me run when I see this, this
thing coming after me. I got a good look at
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it before my legs took over. It's like it's mostly
these pumpkin vine It's making its body with the head
being a bright jack O lantern. That thing's making this
gravelly grating noise as it moves on its vines to
chase me. I gotta make a quick stop to untie
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and get my platform boots off. I can't run in
these heavy things. Boy, do I notice a difference when
I'm running in just my socks. I move into the
grass to get off the dirt road. At least the
grass ain't wet, or I know the heck with it.
I quickly get my socks off and run barefoot, glad
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I'm wearing shorts instead of pants. The ring keeps lighting
my way. That's good for me because I can see
where I'm going on the flip side. It's also letting
that thing know where I am. I keep hearing the
rustling sound of those vines and the grating sound as
it's I don't know, roaring at me. Maybe leave me alone,
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I yell over my shoulder, nothing doing. That thing still
on my tail. Wait a minute. All I gotta do
is just lose the ring. If I ain't wearing it,
that thing shouldn't be able to see me right Suddenly,
I'm all tangled up and know that thing caught up
to me. I scream when I feel it taking me
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down to the grass. That grating sound it's making just
sending chills down my spine. Get off of me, I
cry out. Then I get an out when I feel
I can slip away by losing my jacket. It wasn't
snapped up, so I wriggle a little and come right
out of it. I get out of them vines and
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get back to runnin again. I shriek when I hear
that thing grating even louder and know it's coming after
me again. Not thinking twice, I grab hold of the
ring to pull it off. Oh oh no, no, come on,
don't do this to me. I can't get the ring off.
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I'm pulling and even turning it. It turns easily, but
it won't move along my finger. I know it didn't
feel the least bit tight when I put it on.
I didn't have to work it. It just slid right on.
Why ain't it coming off now? Seriously, I gotta be
home in bed and having a nightmare. This can't be happening.
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I don't care that this is Strickfield, Ohio. There's no
such things as ghosts. There are no haunted houses. All
them stories about grim Manor and the Carnivosha State are
just a bunch of stories to tell around summer campfires.
Even the stories on Strickfield Used website are all made up.
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None of this is real. Come on, Sheila, wake up.
I yell at the sky. I keep running and running
until I shriek when I trip and fall and roll downward.
I shriek again when I splash into some water and
feel myself moving fast down river. Great Now, I'm probably
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gonna get sick after this. It's chilly out here tonight.
Most halloweens usually are in Strickfield. Only reason I was
warm was because of all the run and I was doing.
I move further and further along. Then my eyes are
wide open. When I see that thing moving along the bank.
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It ain't even looking like it's gotta work hard to
keep up with me. Eventually I make it to the
opposite bank and get out of the water. Then I
keep running and glance over my shoulder to see I'm
leaving that thing behind. I keep running and hope I
don't step on anything that'll cut into my bare feet.
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Before long, I come into an area where there's these
small buildings. Where am I now? Is this supposed to
be Hollow Point, that ghost village that's supposedly haunted by
the spirit of a vengeful witch and her groundhog. Nah,
can't be. From what I heard, Hollow Points supposed to
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be a whole village with a square in everything. I
see a light on inside a hut and go inside.
My heart starts pounding fast, and I wonder if I
peed my pants when I see these other creatures inside.
I don't even want to describe these things. With the
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rings still on my finger. It's bright enough to where
I can see my skin's turning white. I ain't got
time to wonder why Halloween night is one continuous nightmare
for me. When the creatures start coming at me, I
scream again and run back outside. That's when I see
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that pumpkin headed thing made it across the water and
found me again. I turn and run through this little
village or whatever you'd call it. More and more fiendish
creatures are coming out and joining the chase. I still
can't get this ring off. I'm almost considering biting right
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through my finger. But I don't want to bleed to
death and die. I'm hearing a whole lot of groans, grunts,
and roars, and God only knows what else. I keep
using the ring to light my way. Before I know it,
I'm right at the edge of a cliff. Seriously, what
part of Strickfield am I in? Right now? Am I
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even in Strickfield? I turn around and see the monsters
closing in on me. Leave me alone. I scream at them.
I ain't got a choice. I can't go back the
way I came with them things closing in and the
cliff right behind me. I don't think about it. When
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I turn around and jump right off, I scream again.
When I'm fallen, and fallen and fallen UF. I land
on some slope and tumble down, down, down. I'm back
in the river again and moving downstream. And then my
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eyes go wide when I'm falling again. I went right
over the falls and splash into the waiting river down below.
I sink all the way down to the bottom and
try to push with my feet, desperately trying to get
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back up to the surface. I need air, I need air,
I need air. I push my way back up to
the surface. I take some huge breaths and try to
swim to where I can finally get out of the water.
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Now I'm flat on my back and feeling exhausted. I
can't run no more. I can't even make myself get up.
The light from the ring keeps showing me everything, but
I make myself move when I feel deep down that
those things are gonna keep coming after me. It takes
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a lot of effort to get back on my feet.
I try to move, but my legs give out and
make me fall again. I'm feeling pain and fatigue seemingly everywhere,
but I know I can't just stay here. Then I
hear those things getting closer. I make myself get up
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and fall flat on my chest again. I make myself
get up again, and this time stay on my feet.
I stagger away from the water and keep moving. Since
I'm all wet, I try getting the ring off my
finger again. It still won't come off. I keep moving
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and groaning in pain. I turn and move through a path.
I keep moving and moving until I find myself in
another little village. I don't even get to wonder if
I ran in circles or not. When other creatures I
ain't never seen before, come out and come after me.
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I try turning around and see the head of that
jack o' lantern leading those other monsters from that village.
I'm trapped. I got nowhere left to run. All those creatures,
no two of them are alike when I'm looking at them.
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Yet I'm the only human being here? Or am I?
My skin's even whiter now? What's happening to me? I'm
soaking wet and holding myself as I'm shivering. I've got
no idea if these creatures are gonna kill me or what.
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I just know I'm completely surrounded. Next thing I know,
I'm being wrapped in those vines by that jack o
lantern looking monster. I scream for what'll probably be the
last time when I feel myself being brought down to
the ground. I don't even fight anymore. I'm too tired
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to even move. I'm in so much pain. Now I'm
wishing I would have just shut up and did what
Mom said. But it's much too late for that. Now,
when everything goes full dark.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Did you hear that? Better check the locks on your doors. Weakly, spooky,
We'll be right back.
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Suddenly, I opened my eyes and sit up. I don't
know how long I slept, but I feel a lot
better now. Also, I see I ain't wearing that pumpkin
ring I lifted from Tinker's store anymore. I don't got
no idea when or how it came off. Somehow, I
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can still see everything like I was still wearing that ring.
I turn and get off the bed, which feels like
it's stuffed full of something. I just know it doesn't
look like my own bed back home in Strickfield. I
think I'm in one of those huts from that village
I ran into. Am I still wherever here is? I
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see the mirror and go to it. I gulp when
I see I'm completely changed. I'm still wearing my clothes
from when those things finally got me, but now I'm
not only chalk white, but my eyes It's like I
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got two dark holes where my pretty green eyes used
to be. I also got lots of sharp teeth and
silver hair. I know now I ain't human no more.
I'm really really hung right now. When I see the
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table in the hut is set, I move right to
it and see all this weird looking meat on it,
and a cup and pitcher filled with a red liquid.
Then I pick up some meat and start eating it.
I think whatever this food is was put here for me.
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Since whatever I'm eating tastes real good, I think it's
also what I'm supposed to eat from now on. What
happened to me? Why am I something else? Now? What
could I have eaten or drank to make me change
into what I am now? I got no idea. Deep down,
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I feel that whatever I changed into, well, I don't
belong to my world no more. Then I feel I
ain't alone. And see that Jack O'Lantern thing looking in
at me. It don't move to come after me. Now
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now more of those things that chased me down are
looking at me like they know I'm one of them.
Now makes me wonder if these other creatures used to
be human themselves? Will I ever know? As I embrace
my new life? Epilogue Isley Tinker had known that Sheila
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Cantrell stole the Halloween Ring, even though he was on
the phone when she had done it. In fact, Tinker
never maid any attempt to stop her, nor did he
stop any of the others who thought they could easily
steal that ring. This is what happens when you take
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things you didn't pay for. Tinker said out loud that
glowing pumpkin ring was simply too good of a temptation,
wasn't it no matter? He placed the ring back in
its open case, where it had been in past times before.
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I know it won't be long before another foolish mortal
thinks they'll get away with stealing this ring. Tinker knew
exactly what the ring was capable of. The victim would
place it on their finger easily enough. From there, the
ring would remain on the victim's finger while its energies
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worked to transform its wearer into their new form. In
the case of Sheila Cantrell, she was transformed into what
was a reflection of her deepest, darkest nightmares. There were
no names for any of the individual creatures that the
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ring had created from the former mortals. Each of them
had been transformed and now lived in an area of
the Night Realm. Once each victim had placed the ring
upon their finger, they were immediately transported there, unless they
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could find a portal back. These creatures would remain in
the night Realm and never return. Whatever the case, it
didn't make any difference to Isley Tinker. Once he had
found this cursed ring on an excursion into one of
the ghost villages not far from Strickfield several years ago.
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The ring was hidden in a cavern pointed out by
the drawings in one of the huts. Tinker would have
no problem finding and claiming the ring and learning what
it could do. Halloween was over in Strickfield for another year.
Tinker smiled to himself when he saw Sheila Cantrell's former
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family walking around inside the mall. The parents never even
considered going into Tinker's shop, in spite of the little
girl telling them that she and her older sister had
visited there the day before. But Sheila Cantrell herself was
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never seen in any part of Feltner County again. Only
the family vehicle she had been driving was found in
a ditch just off State Route one the next morning.
Soon two female high school students entered Tinkers and were
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looking around for anything on clearance for Halloween. Tinker said
he didn't have anything. When he saw he wouldn't have
to help them any further, he went in back. That
was when one of the students lifted the ring out
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of its holder, thinking it would be easy to get
away with taking it, the student conveniently let it drop
into her purse. From there, the students both left Tinkers.
A moment later, Tinker glanced out from the back and
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knew the Night Realm would soon have another inhabitant. All
that student needed to do was put on the ring,
and that my Spookys was one fateful Halloween by Rob Fields,
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A reminder that some tricks can't be undone, no matter
how much candy you hand out. But before you drift off,
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Make sure to find your way back next week, but
for now you are safe trust me,
On Halloween night. Sheila just wanted one night of freedom,
but when she slips a glowing pumpkin ring into her
purse without paying, her world twists into a nightmare. Rhodes
Vanish monsters rise and what she stole begins to steal
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things just feel different, Like the air is thicker, the
shadow move a little slower, and maybe, just maybe you're
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being watched. Now, imagine finding something that wasn't meant for you,
something small and shiny calling your name, and when you
take it, you don't just steal it, you steal your
way into another world. Our story after this one fateful
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Halloween by Rob Fields. It's Halloween here in Strickfield and
I was forced to take my little sister Phoebe to
Strickfield Town Center mall since there's no school today. So
much for being able to sleep in a little bit.
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Hopefully I can sleep in tomorrow since there's no school
then either. With Phoebe always being a pain, I know
that's not gonna happen. There'll be Saturday mornings when I
got my door closed, only for that little pest to
come right in my room, get on my bed and
start jumping up and down while telling me I gotta
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get up. I can't yell at her because then Mom
gets mad and starts yelling at me about yelling at Phoebe. Seriously,
I just I can't win. I guess I ought to
be thankful though Mom and Dad don't say anything about
my punk style. I probably died and buzzed my hair
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dozens of times, and I even got different piercings. Then
there's the clothes I wear. I guess since I ain't
getting in trouble at school, Mom and Dad both don't care.
Mom herself seems to only care when she wants me
to watch Phoebe. The pest and me have been going
into stores and just looking at whatever. Oh wait. I
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also had to take Phoebe to Spirit Halloween to get
her a few more things for her costume. I got
no clue what she's gonna be, and I really don't care.
I just want to go have fun tonight and hit
up a few parties at Strickfield University, mainly because Wicked
Pedia is back in Strickfield and playing a show at
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one of the frat houses. I ain't sure which one.
I gotta go hit up Wilder Hall and look at
the flyer at the coffee place they got there. Then
I get my head out of the clouds and wonder
why the heck I'm even walking down this particular hallway.
There's nothing down here, as in no stores. Then I'm
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proven wrong when I see a single store here called Tinkers.
Looks like some junk shop or something. I look at
my phone and see, we gotta kill a little more time. Yet,
Mom's cleaning up around the house, so she don't want
us back home till she's all done. Guess we're going
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in the junk shop. I tell the pest. I don't wanna.
She whins, well, too bad, I say, besides, we did
what you wanted to do at the Halloween store. She
gives me that poudy look of hers. Again. I hate you.
I roll my eyes. Yeah, well right back at you. Now.
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Come on. Phoebe's always giving me mean looks when I
won't give her her way. We go into the junk
shop and look around. Seriously, why do these kinds of
places even exist? I mean, who really buys this crap?
It ain't long before this old geezer comes over and
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asks me if I need help finding anything just looking.
I mutter, no problem, he says, names Isley Tinker. I'll
be up front if you need anything. I keep dragging
Phoebe around the store. Believe it or not, there's actually
a few interesting things in here. Nothing I gotta have, though.
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We eventually make it up to the counter. Tinker's there
as I'm seeing what he's got In the display case.
There's things from old video game consoles to a few
movies on video cassette. I'm surprised Dad still watches movies
on those ancient relics. Then I see a movie called
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The Strickfield Slasher and don't recall ever hearing anything about
that one, and I'm usually renting horror movies from Strickfield
Video most every weekend. Seriously, what is wrong with what
I just said? You'd think i'd be out on dates
with boys from Strickfield High or maybe even the university.
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Turns out, Mom and Dad get to go out on
Fridays and Saturdays, which means I get to stay home
and babysit Phoebe. It's the same old story when they
rattle on about how they work hard all day and
they're entitled to their Friday and Saturday nights. They even
add I'm too young to date. No, I'm only almost nineteen,
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that's all. And don't even get me started. On Halloween week,
I either gotta take Phoebe trick or treating or I
gotta stay home and hand out candy. I really hate
my life. Sometimes something's definitely got to change. And soon
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a phone rings, then tinkered. He turns around and answers it.
I don't listen to what he's saying, because I got
my eyes on this awesome ring. Now. I ain't one
to wear Halloween jewelry, but there's this ring with a
I don't know, a glowing pumpkin on it or something.
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I pick up the ring and feel it. Wow, this
pumpkin ain't no cheap plastic with a light bulb in it.
It's gotta be some kind of a jewel or stone.
Phoebe ain't looking, and neither is Tinker. I lifted a
few little things in stores before I know how to
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do it, so no cameras catch me. When Tinker's finished,
he hangs up. Then he turns around to look at me.
Guess he'll get a little money off me for the
sodas I grabbed for Phoebe in me, he thanks us
for stopping in. When we turn to leave, Tinker don't
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say anything about the ring. I want to go to
kitty Land again. Phoebe winds, Yeah, yeah, I mutter, whatever
looks like. I get to watch Phoebe play in the
playland just off center Court. I may just head into
that babble Topia place again while I'm letting her play. Wow,
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it's dark and tricker treating's going on for the final
night of Halloween week. I'm all dressed up in my
dark outfit and got my makeup on. And where do
you think you are going? Sheila Mom calls out. When
I'm ready to take off, I turn around. I'm gonna
get on over to Strickfield you and catch that Wicked
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Pedia show. I've been telling you about it all week.
Mom shakes her head quickly. No, no, no, you are
staying right here and handing out candy while I take
phoebe trick or treating. No way, I fire back. I
ain't missing that show. Dad can do it. Your father
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hasn't even come home from work yet. Mom informs me
he had to stay after for a big meeting and
won't be home for another hour. Yet that means you
are staying right here and handing out candy. End of discussion.
You gotta find newer and better ways to ruin my life. Huh,
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I mutter. Mom, ain't even phased. You can complain all
you want, Sheila, but you're still handing out candy. In fact,
you'd better get busy right now.
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I got half a mind to just bail and head
to Strickfield University anyway. But my parents don't say nothing
about what I wear or what kind of music and
movies I like. And it ain't like there being abusive. Wait,
scratch that, almost forgot about the no dating or going
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out at night thing. I roll my eyes and step
out on the front porch right when a big group
of little brats come up with their bags wide open
trick or treat They practically roar, so I give them
the candy and continue to think about bailing. I managed
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to text it up with a few boys I know
who like me, including a college sophomore. At least it's
helping make the night go by a little faster. I
keep handing out the candy as tricker treaters just keep
coming out of nowhere, and the timing couldn't have been
more perfect. When Mom and Phoebe come back home as
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I'm getting low on candy, have you been giving two
pieces of candy per trick or treater? Like I said?
Mom demands, what do you think? I snap for the record, yes,
I did what Mom said. She looks at her watch
and trick or Treating is still a good two and
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a half hours from being over. Mom brings Phoebe in
the house with her haul of candy. A few minutes later,
she comes back to me and hands me some money.
I'll take over. I want you to head out to
Meyer and buy some more candy, then you can hand
it out when you get back. I take the money
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and groan, Seriously, you are ruining my Halloween. Don't take
that attitude with me, Sheila. Mom snaps, maybe I just
won't come home. Then I reply, Mom groans and hands
me the keys. Just go buy the candy and come
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back home. Okay, okay, geez. At least I get to
get away from here for a little bit. I pull
out of the driveway and got a drive nice and easy,
so I don't get no homicides on my hands. Little
too young to be starting a life sentence over at
glen View. Speaking of being a criminal, I remember that
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Halloween ring I lifted from Tinker's store. So far, no
cops have been my way to ask about it, no
phone call at the house neither. I pull the ring
out of my jacket pocket and see how bright it's glowing.
I can't believe how much it's lighting up the car
like I turned on the compartment light. Then I slide
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the ring on, perfect fit. Huh. Now everything's looking I
don't know, kinda different somehow. It's like all the Tricker
treaters are moving in a funny way. I know the
parents sometimes wear costumes when they're bringing their kids around,
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but it's like everybody's got costumes on or something. I
keep driving until I'm out on State Route one and
heading back to Strickfield Town Center mall the Meyers stores
right across the road from it. I turn on the
radio and get some awesome music playing. Oh yes, I
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absolutely love this song. Makes me think about how I'm
missing the Wicked Pedia show at the University. I still
got half a mind to just head on out there.
The heck with getting more candy. Then I'm gonna have
to deal with both Mom and Dad when I'd come home.
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They'd definitely be waiting up to start ripping into me.
I keep driving and listening to my station, and that's
when I realize I'm driving past open fields. Did I
pass Meyer and the mall? I wonder out loud. I
could have swore I was watching the road. I know
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I ain't lost. I mean, I've been living in Strickfield
my whole life. How could I possibly get lost? I
pull my phone out and look, and what all I'm
seeing is no service, not even the satellite icon. I
can't even call mom or send a text just to
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make sure I try. Nope, I can't even go online.
I drive a little longer and still don't see the
mall or a big superstore. I figure I gotta have
missed those places. Maybe I got a little too much
into the car radio. Then I stopped the car. When
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I realize something else ain't right here, I get out
and look at the road. Wait just a minute, here,
I snap to nobody in particular. Strickfield ain't got no
dirt roads, except maybe in the backwoods. I know I
was driving on Route one. How did I get on
a dirt road? All of a sudden, I blow into
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my hand and smell. No, I ain't been drinking even
I ain't stupid enough to be doing that. All Mom
and Dad gotta do is smell even the teensiest bit
of a beer on me, and my life will be
over as I know it. Then I see that ring
still glowing hot on my finger. Heck, it's lighting up
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enough for me to see grass and trees on either
side of the dirt road. Now I see the jack
o' lantern patterns themselves on the pumpkin jewel. Suddenly there's
some rustling noises nearby. Who's there? I call out. When
there's more rustling sounds, I gulp and turn to get
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back in. What the For the record, I also ain't
dumb enough to be smoking pot when I go to
parties or see bands. In other words, I know I
ain't stoned or drunk. Where the heck is the car?
I yell? I know, no, I stopped the car before
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I got out, as in I put it in park.
There's no way the car could just disappear like that.
I was near it the whole entire time. I didn't
hear anybody get in and drive off with it. Why
the heck is the car gone?
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Oh, I'm gonna have a fun time explaining this to
mom and dad. By the time they get through with me,
I ain't gonna have to worry about graduating Strickfield High
or going to college next fall. I'm gonna be grounded
for the rest of my natural life. And what's even worse,
Phoebe's gonna be laughing it up. While Mom and Dad
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are tearing me apart. I groan and look up. Why
is this happening to me tonight? The rustling sound is
almost on me. I turn around and feel my legs
taking over, making me run when I see this, this
thing coming after me. I got a good look at
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it before my legs took over. It's like it's mostly
these pumpkin vine It's making its body with the head
being a bright jack O lantern. That thing's making this
gravelly grating noise as it moves on its vines to
chase me. I gotta make a quick stop to untie
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and get my platform boots off. I can't run in
these heavy things. Boy, do I notice a difference when
I'm running in just my socks. I move into the
grass to get off the dirt road. At least the
grass ain't wet, or I know the heck with it.
I quickly get my socks off and run barefoot, glad
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I'm wearing shorts instead of pants. The ring keeps lighting
my way. That's good for me because I can see
where I'm going on the flip side. It's also letting
that thing know where I am. I keep hearing the
rustling sound of those vines and the grating sound as
it's I don't know, roaring at me. Maybe leave me alone,
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I yell over my shoulder, nothing doing. That thing still
on my tail. Wait a minute. All I gotta do
is just lose the ring. If I ain't wearing it,
that thing shouldn't be able to see me right Suddenly,
I'm all tangled up and know that thing caught up
to me. I scream when I feel it taking me
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down to the grass. That grating sound it's making just
sending chills down my spine. Get off of me, I
cry out. Then I get an out when I feel
I can slip away by losing my jacket. It wasn't
snapped up, so I wriggle a little and come right
out of it. I get out of them vines and
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get back to runnin again. I shriek when I hear
that thing grating even louder and know it's coming after
me again. Not thinking twice, I grab hold of the
ring to pull it off. Oh oh no, no, come on,
don't do this to me. I can't get the ring off.
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I'm pulling and even turning it. It turns easily, but
it won't move along my finger. I know it didn't
feel the least bit tight when I put it on.
I didn't have to work it. It just slid right on.
Why ain't it coming off now? Seriously, I gotta be
home in bed and having a nightmare. This can't be happening.
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I don't care that this is Strickfield, Ohio. There's no
such things as ghosts. There are no haunted houses. All
them stories about grim Manor and the Carnivosha State are
just a bunch of stories to tell around summer campfires.
Even the stories on Strickfield Used website are all made up.
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None of this is real. Come on, Sheila, wake up.
I yell at the sky. I keep running and running
until I shriek when I trip and fall and roll downward.
I shriek again when I splash into some water and
feel myself moving fast down river. Great Now, I'm probably
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gonna get sick after this. It's chilly out here tonight.
Most halloweens usually are in Strickfield. Only reason I was
warm was because of all the run and I was doing.
I move further and further along. Then my eyes are
wide open. When I see that thing moving along the bank.
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It ain't even looking like it's gotta work hard to
keep up with me. Eventually I make it to the
opposite bank and get out of the water. Then I
keep running and glance over my shoulder to see I'm
leaving that thing behind. I keep running and hope I
don't step on anything that'll cut into my bare feet.
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Before long, I come into an area where there's these
small buildings. Where am I now? Is this supposed to
be Hollow Point, that ghost village that's supposedly haunted by
the spirit of a vengeful witch and her groundhog. Nah,
can't be. From what I heard, Hollow Points supposed to
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be a whole village with a square in everything. I
see a light on inside a hut and go inside.
My heart starts pounding fast, and I wonder if I
peed my pants when I see these other creatures inside.
I don't even want to describe these things. With the
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rings still on my finger. It's bright enough to where
I can see my skin's turning white. I ain't got
time to wonder why Halloween night is one continuous nightmare
for me. When the creatures start coming at me, I
scream again and run back outside. That's when I see
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that pumpkin headed thing made it across the water and
found me again. I turn and run through this little
village or whatever you'd call it. More and more fiendish
creatures are coming out and joining the chase. I still
can't get this ring off. I'm almost considering biting right
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through my finger. But I don't want to bleed to
death and die. I'm hearing a whole lot of groans, grunts,
and roars, and God only knows what else. I keep
using the ring to light my way. Before I know it,
I'm right at the edge of a cliff. Seriously, what
part of Strickfield am I in? Right now? Am I
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even in Strickfield? I turn around and see the monsters
closing in on me. Leave me alone. I scream at them.
I ain't got a choice. I can't go back the
way I came with them things closing in and the
cliff right behind me. I don't think about it. When
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I turn around and jump right off, I scream again.
When I'm fallen, and fallen and fallen UF. I land
on some slope and tumble down, down, down. I'm back
in the river again and moving downstream. And then my
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eyes go wide when I'm falling again. I went right
over the falls and splash into the waiting river down below.
I sink all the way down to the bottom and
try to push with my feet, desperately trying to get
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back up to the surface. I need air, I need air,
I need air. I push my way back up to
the surface. I take some huge breaths and try to
swim to where I can finally get out of the water.
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Now I'm flat on my back and feeling exhausted. I
can't run no more. I can't even make myself get up.
The light from the ring keeps showing me everything, but
I make myself move when I feel deep down that
those things are gonna keep coming after me. It takes
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a lot of effort to get back on my feet.
I try to move, but my legs give out and
make me fall again. I'm feeling pain and fatigue seemingly everywhere,
but I know I can't just stay here. Then I
hear those things getting closer. I make myself get up
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and fall flat on my chest again. I make myself
get up again, and this time stay on my feet.
I stagger away from the water and keep moving. Since
I'm all wet, I try getting the ring off my
finger again. It still won't come off. I keep moving
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and groaning in pain. I turn and move through a path.
I keep moving and moving until I find myself in
another little village. I don't even get to wonder if
I ran in circles or not. When other creatures I
ain't never seen before, come out and come after me.
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I try turning around and see the head of that
jack o' lantern leading those other monsters from that village.
I'm trapped. I got nowhere left to run. All those creatures,
no two of them are alike when I'm looking at them.
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Yet I'm the only human being here? Or am I?
My skin's even whiter now? What's happening to me? I'm
soaking wet and holding myself as I'm shivering. I've got
no idea if these creatures are gonna kill me or what.
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I just know I'm completely surrounded. Next thing I know,
I'm being wrapped in those vines by that jack o
lantern looking monster. I scream for what'll probably be the
last time when I feel myself being brought down to
the ground. I don't even fight anymore. I'm too tired
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to even move. I'm in so much pain. Now I'm
wishing I would have just shut up and did what
Mom said. But it's much too late for that. Now,
when everything goes full dark.
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Suddenly, I opened my eyes and sit up. I don't
know how long I slept, but I feel a lot
better now. Also, I see I ain't wearing that pumpkin
ring I lifted from Tinker's store anymore. I don't got
no idea when or how it came off. Somehow, I
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can still see everything like I was still wearing that ring.
I turn and get off the bed, which feels like
it's stuffed full of something. I just know it doesn't
look like my own bed back home in Strickfield. I
think I'm in one of those huts from that village
I ran into. Am I still wherever here is? I
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see the mirror and go to it. I gulp when
I see I'm completely changed. I'm still wearing my clothes
from when those things finally got me, but now I'm
not only chalk white, but my eyes It's like I
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got two dark holes where my pretty green eyes used
to be. I also got lots of sharp teeth and
silver hair. I know now I ain't human no more.
I'm really really hung right now. When I see the
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table in the hut is set, I move right to
it and see all this weird looking meat on it,
and a cup and pitcher filled with a red liquid.
Then I pick up some meat and start eating it.
I think whatever this food is was put here for me.
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Since whatever I'm eating tastes real good, I think it's
also what I'm supposed to eat from now on. What
happened to me? Why am I something else? Now? What
could I have eaten or drank to make me change
into what I am now? I got no idea. Deep down,
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I feel that whatever I changed into, well, I don't
belong to my world no more. Then I feel I
ain't alone. And see that Jack O'Lantern thing looking in
at me. It don't move to come after me. Now
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now more of those things that chased me down are
looking at me like they know I'm one of them.
Now makes me wonder if these other creatures used to
be human themselves? Will I ever know? As I embrace
my new life? Epilogue Isley Tinker had known that Sheila
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Cantrell stole the Halloween Ring, even though he was on
the phone when she had done it. In fact, Tinker
never maid any attempt to stop her, nor did he
stop any of the others who thought they could easily
steal that ring. This is what happens when you take
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things you didn't pay for. Tinker said out loud that
glowing pumpkin ring was simply too good of a temptation,
wasn't it no matter? He placed the ring back in
its open case, where it had been in past times before.
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I know it won't be long before another foolish mortal
thinks they'll get away with stealing this ring. Tinker knew
exactly what the ring was capable of. The victim would
place it on their finger easily enough. From there, the
ring would remain on the victim's finger while its energies
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worked to transform its wearer into their new form. In
the case of Sheila Cantrell, she was transformed into what
was a reflection of her deepest, darkest nightmares. There were
no names for any of the individual creatures that the
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ring had created from the former mortals. Each of them
had been transformed and now lived in an area of
the Night Realm. Once each victim had placed the ring
upon their finger, they were immediately transported there, unless they
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could find a portal back. These creatures would remain in
the night Realm and never return. Whatever the case, it
didn't make any difference to Isley Tinker. Once he had
found this cursed ring on an excursion into one of
the ghost villages not far from Strickfield several years ago.
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The ring was hidden in a cavern pointed out by
the drawings in one of the huts. Tinker would have
no problem finding and claiming the ring and learning what
it could do. Halloween was over in Strickfield for another year.
Tinker smiled to himself when he saw Sheila Cantrell's former
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family walking around inside the mall. The parents never even
considered going into Tinker's shop, in spite of the little
girl telling them that she and her older sister had
visited there the day before. But Sheila Cantrell herself was
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never seen in any part of Feltner County again. Only
the family vehicle she had been driving was found in
a ditch just off State Route one the next morning.
Soon two female high school students entered Tinkers and were
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looking around for anything on clearance for Halloween. Tinker said
he didn't have anything. When he saw he wouldn't have
to help them any further, he went in back. That
was when one of the students lifted the ring out
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of its holder, thinking it would be easy to get
away with taking it, the student conveniently let it drop
into her purse. From there, the students both left Tinkers.
A moment later, Tinker glanced out from the back and
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knew the Night Realm would soon have another inhabitant. All
that student needed to do was put on the ring,
and that my Spookys was one fateful Halloween by Rob Fields,
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A reminder that some tricks can't be undone, no matter
how much candy you hand out. But before you drift off,
I should probably warn you about something. Every now and then,
something strange slips into our feed. I don't schedule it,
I don't announce it. It just appears tomorrow. If you listen,
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you might hear the crackle of an old transmission, whispered
voices from another time, a man begging for forgiveness, a
woman who swears she saw something that wasn't there, and
the sound of well, you'll have to hear it for yourself.
All I know is it's an unknown broadcast. I don't
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know where it comes from. I just know it's coming.
So make sure you're subscribed and tune in tomorrow if
you dare. Just don't ask me how it got here.
And remember you can support the show by going to
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the show going and we're very great. But now it's
time for me to get back to work. There's so
much more spooky as we dive into the second third
of October. So for myself, for my executive producers Rob
Fields and Bobbletopia dot Com, my producer Dan Wilder, and
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my creepy composer Ray Maddis, I will talk at you
very soon.
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Make sure to find your way back next week, but
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