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Speaker 1 (00:02):
I used to work for pest control services in Louisiana.
It was a tedious job with an awful chemical to
smell twenty four to seven. Once I got a booking
from the outskirts. The client complained that she's facing a
major cockroach infestation. The pay was good, so I drove
to the place. There was a big wooden signboard with
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the name the Mannequin Farm written on it. That's an
ode name for a farm. I rang the doorbell and waited.
Minutes went by and no one opened the door. I
knocked heavily this time and heard a feeble woman's voice from.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Inside, coming dear.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
An old woman opened the door.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Are you from pest control? Yes, ma'am, come in, dear.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I stepped into the house and the immediate smell of
bleach and detergent hit me. Damn, no doubt she's having issues.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I tried to kill those vermin myself, but it doesn't work.
Seems like they need a way more painful death to die.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
You don't say.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Suddenly, I heard a scratching sound behind a door on
my right.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
That's just my cat. A poor baby must be hungry.
I'll feed him later.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
She took me to her kitchen. I must say the
house looked way cleaner than I expected, no dust and
no garbage on the floor. It was a little weird
to guess that such a tidy place can face pest issues,
but then again, she was living on a farm near
the woods, so it was possible. I kept my backpack
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on the kitchen floor and started my job. The old
lady stood behind me and watched me work. Every time
I turned to her, she gave me a huge grin,
flashing your yellow broken teeth. I started making small talk
to avoid the awkward silence. So you live alone?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I never married. And also I don't think anyone can
live with me. What do you say that I'm an artist.
It's hard to understand an artist.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I kept working, thinking the woman will leave me b
but she didn't. She just stood there and watched creepily.
Do you mind if I use your washroom.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
And down the hall on your right.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I crossed the dark hall and entered the bathroom. The
light wasn't working. The morning sunlight coming from the window
made the bathroom visible. I did my business. I pressed
open the garbage can and saw a vicious sight. There
was a skinless animal head inside it, maggots were eating
it inside out. I left the bathroom right that moment
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and straight walked to the main door to leave. I
knew I had my keys in my pocket and I
was sure to drive away. But after reaching the main door,
I tried to twist the door knob, but it was
locked from the inside, probably with a key. The woman
was nowhere to be found. That's when I heard the
same sound I heard entering the house. The lady said
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it was her cat scratching the door from the other room.
I walked close to it. It was locked two. I
crouched down to look through the keyhole. At first I
saw nothing but darkness, and suddenly I.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Saw an eye looking at me.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
And immediately I heard an inaudible cry of words, followed
by loud banging on the door.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Oh, who is it hello?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Just then I felt a strong blow at the back
of my head and I fainted. When I woke up,
I could see drops of blood on my white shirt.
My eyes took time to adjust to the lights. Suddenly
there were tons of lights. Once my vision cleared, I
saw a skinny, tired man with a horrible physique sitting
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opposite of me. He was tied to a weird looking chair.
The chair was attached to a big platform kind of thing,
and there was a foul smell all around the room,
even though it was crystal clean.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Suddenly the door.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Opened and the old lady entered. But my stomach dropped
once I saw her in the light. The lady was
holding a wig in her hand, and the makeup was
all diluted, like she tried to wash it off. It
wasn't a she, but a he. It was an old
man dressed like a woman.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Sorry for the dramatic entrance, you see, I have to
work hard to collect my raw material.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
What what do you do? Kill and then eat people.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
I'm not a barbarian, as I said, I'm an artist.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Saying this, he walked to me and revolved my chair
at the back when I saw chilled my bones. On
the other side of the room stood an exhibition of mannequins,
only they were made from skins.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Every mannequin has the skin of the animal that is representing.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Most of them are wild animals. Those you can call
my early works, and these three human are my latest creation.
So do you like my work?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Their human figures looked distraught. The man even used their
real eyes and somehow didn't manage to fit them well,
so the eyes were halfway hanging on the chin of
the mannequin. He walked to the malnourished man and pressed
a button on the chair. The chair started to shake
violently and a scary sound came from it. After three minutes,
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he stopped the chair and the man was dead. His
feeble weak body couldn't take the pain.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
I like skinning them without any wounds. It's a quite
merciful method, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
He took off the dog leash from his neck and
came to put me on it as his next raw
material that I used my brain.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
It was my only weapon.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Then I told him I would like to have the
sandwich made by my wife before he starts starving me.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Hm, fair enough, I'll bring your bag to you.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
He brought me my bag and I started looking into it.
I was unmarried. Who was all a lie? To buy
time from my possible killer.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
I had to check your bag for a knife or
a gun.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Hope you don't mind. I don't need a knife or
a gun, son of a psycho.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I grabbed the most poisonous chemical bottle I could find
and splash the liquid on his face. He screamed and
fell to the floor, holding his face.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
It's burning.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I got up and started running upstairs. I remembered seeing
a balcony in the top bedroom. I reached it and
jumped straight from the balcony. Once I got into the car,
I started the engine. I heard a long click and
the farmhouse's main door opened. As I reversed the car,
I could see the man standing on the porch. His
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half face was melted, yet he watched me with one
eye and then waved at me. I never went back
to that farm. This was meant to be the best
decision of our lives. Ay and my darling wife Maria
had just acquired a two hector strip of land sitting
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in a small village in the state side of Nevada.
We had always craved to experience life in the country,
and seeing as she was doing three months, it seemed
like the best time to make the move. The property
came at a steel price, and to make things even
more interesting, the realtor said it already had a cornfield
on it. It was too good to be true. But if
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only I had known the truth, I would have torn
up those deed papers there and then when we arrived,
the scenery was just as gorgeous and serene as we
had dreamed. A small cottage was in front of us,
and we could see the cornfield towering over it from behind.
Maria walked towards the house with our pet dog, Rex,
while I carried out the.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Rest of our stuff from the trunk.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Suddenly, the dog began to bark incessantly, like it had
just seen the mailman.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
It bolted to the back of the house. Rex come back.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Maria called out, and she went after him. I was
still very much preoccupied with the heavy bags when I
suddenly heard a loud shriek. It was Maria's voice. My
heart skipped a beat forthwith I dropped everything and raced.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
To the back of the house. Upon reaching there.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Maria was panting heavily with her hand on her chest,
while Rex seemed a lot more docile.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
What is it, I hastily asked.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Oh, I'm sorry, honey, I was just frightened by the scarecrow.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Maria responded, But what I muttered to myself upon lifting
my eyes, I was also left traumatized by the most
disturbing and hideous looking scarecrows I had ever seen in
my life, and they were pegged all over the cornfield. Ultimately,
it seemed like a problem for another day, so we
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just left it alone and made our way into the house.
Later that evening, we heard two resounding knocks on our
front door. We had only just moved in, so we
definitely weren't expecting any visitors. I approached the door and
swung it open. It was an offbeat and tattered looking
old man, and he had a dirty inverted cross around
his neck. He just stared at me with a blank
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expression on his face. Can I help you with something?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
I asked. You cannot help me, but I can help you.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
He responded. He forcefully dragged my hand, took the cross
off his neck, and placed it in my open palm.
He was pretty strong for a man his age. I
felt harassed imediately retracted my hand. Hey, get your hands
off me, I barked, an outrage.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
There's no time to waste sud. The harvest is almost
upon us. Hang the cross on your door post, or
dire consequences shall.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Follow, the old man ominously warned. I was still trying
to figure out what was happening. Before I could ask
any questions, he turned and fled into the darkness. It
was a very curious encounter, but not one I had
the energy for. I shook my head and slammed the
door close.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Honey, who was at the door?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Nobody, sweetheart, mister prankster, I responded. I momentarily glanced at
the cross and callously tossed it to the fireplace. By midnight,
I was awakened by a very strange sound. It sounded
like a clanging bell. I went downstairs in my pj's
and drowsy eye to investigate. The sound was coming from
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a grandfather clock in the living room. But what was
most curious was the fact that I had never noticed
the clock up until that night. The clock was also
concealing a hidden door that had been chained shut. As
I approached the clock, my eyes were drawn to window,
where I met an even more bizarre site. The scarecrows
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were all missing from their wooden posts. They were impossible
to miss earlier, but at that moment I couldn't even
see one. Maybe it was just the extra glass of
wine I had earlier. I turned around and stumbled back upstairs.
My mind was probably just playing tricks on me. I
observed the same phenomenon over a span of three days.
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By nighttime, the scarecrows were gone, but by morning they
would all return. I was bewildered. The villagers certainly put
a lot of effort into their pranks, at least that's
what I believed. It was an until Rex went missing
that I knew things had really gotten out of hand.
I eventually found his decaying and maggot infested body lying
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in the foot of one of those scarecrows within the cornfield.
Blood was splattered all over the cornstalks, and a blood
drenched cleaver was lying besida.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Who could have done such a thing?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I was still trying to figure out how to explain
it to Maria when I suddenly bumped into the creepy
old man again.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Did you hang the cross like I told you?
Speaker 1 (12:32):
He abruptly asked, Uh, No, I burnt it, I responded,
almost unapologetically.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
The old man hissed, such was the fate of your predecessors.
Prepare your household.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
The harvest will beget after the eleventh hour.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Hey, wait a minute, do you know what happened to
my Before my eyes could transition from Rex's body and back,
the old man had vanished without a trace. By midnight,
just as he had said, I was awakened by the
same clanging sound, but this time it was accompanied by
a heavy ruckus coming from the cornfield. I peeped through
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the window to investigate, and a cold chill gripped my spine.
It was unreal, it was petrifying. I became weak to
my knees. The scarecrows were alive. Each of them wielded
a crude farming tool, but it didn't look like they.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Intended to plant seeds.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
In a panic, I grabbed my wife and hastily sprinted
down the stairs. But before I could reach the front door,
and axe was driven through it. They had encompassed the
house and were forcefully trying to break in. Our last
option was the eerie looking door behind the grandfather clock.
It was mysteriously now unlocked. We frantically charged into it.
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The door closed by itself. Within the room, we found
dark scrolls, ancient relics, fetish ornaments, and sinister looking books,
all of which seemed to make mention of a curse,
and an ancient ritual called the Harvest. From what we
could gather, if we had just placed the cross on
our doorpost like the old man had cautioned, it would
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have been exempt from the reckoning, but since I was reluctant,
our fate would pretty much be similar to our multitude
of predecessors, who were either rotting away or had already
turned into piles of ashy bones within the cryptic room.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
God help us, Hi.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I'm Paris, and last weekend was the strangest weekend of
my life. I was blissfully sleeping in the car while
my boyfriend Clark was driving. We were headed to this
beautiful farmhouse next to a lake. It was our much
needed break after a month long busy work schedule. I
had closed my eyes and was enjoying the breeze when
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Clark suddenly applied the brakes of the car. I hit
my head on the dashboard and woke up with a
shock to see Clark closed his eyes in fear.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Clark, what the hell? What happened?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
He opened his eyes and was even more terrified. I
kept asking him what happened, but he didn't reply. He
just got out of the car in a hurry and
went out looking for something. I followed him out and
was losing my patience with Clark's behavior. He looked around
and said, where did he go?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
He was right here.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Who are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
There's no one here. He came out of nowhere. I
got scared and stopped. But now he's missing.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
I thought Clark might have dozed off while riding and
had a daydream. I told Clark to take a break
from driving and I took the wheels. He was still
worried and looking around, so I put on the radio
and our favorite dance number was playing. I started to
massage Clark's neck and told him to relax, and just
when he was about to close his eyes, we arrived
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at the gate of the farmhouse, and what we saw
at the gate gave us a shock. There was an
old man holding a rifle and waiting for us. I
got tense to looking at his rifle and asked him
what the rifle is for. He looked at me with
his rock like face and told me for the wolves,
I'm mister Parker. Welcome a farmhouse where times stands still.
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The farmhouse was exactly like we had imagined. I told
Clark to forget about what happened and have fun. Clark
and I went inside, and the place and its decor
was straight out of a fairy tale. I was happy
and rushed to hug Clark, but mister Parker walked in
between with the luggage and scared the hell out of me.
Later in the evening, when we were asleep, I heard
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a loud gunshot and woke up. I came out to
the balcony, thinking mister Parker might have killed a wolf,
but what I saw stunned me. There was a girl
in a white flowing frog like a bride, standing on
the terrace with a rifle in her hand. I was
both surprised and shocked to see her because I thought
there was no other guests in the farmhouse. I yelled
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out to her, Hi. She didn't reply. She just went
away without even looking at me. I thought it was
strange and wanted to find out more about her, so
I came out of the room and was headed towards
the stairs when someone tapped my shoulder. It was mister
Parker to you served at the table by the lake.
Please come, madam.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
I saw a girl on the terrace. Is this the
way up?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
That is a private area, madam. Guests are not allowed there.
Please leave. I found this whole thing very strange, but
I had no choice but to leave. I decided to
get back in the night and check. While having tea,
I told Clark about the girl. He was about to
say something when we saw another girl coming out of
the lake and walking towards the house without even drying
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herself off. We called out to her, but she did
not respond, just like the other girl on the terrace.
I got very curious now and asked mister Parker.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
About the girls.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Guest information is confidential. Get ready for hunting. I did
not understand what he meant by hunting and asked mister Parker.
He said it was part of the farm stay experience.
We both got excited, and a little while later we
entered the woods nearby.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Mister Parker was our navigator.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
He pointed in a direction and Clark took a shot
but missed. It was my turn next. Mister Parker listened
carefully and then pointed in a direction.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
I aimed and took a shot.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
I heard the shrieking of an animal and rushed to look.
But then mister Parker took out a bluetooth speaker from
the ground and told us that it was just a
simulated game, and.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
We had a good laugh about it.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Later that night, mister Parker served us some delicious food.
I casually asked him that I wanted the recipe, and
he looked at me with a cold face and said
it's human meet Curry. We were shocked to hear this,
but then mister Parker burst out into a monstrous laugh
and told me that he'll give me the recipe when
I leave from here. After dinner, I had decided to
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find out more about the girls, but the food mister
Parker served us made us drowsy and put us to
sleep in no time. And then suddenly I heard a
gunshot and woke up. I came out of the balcony
to the same the girl standing on the terrace, like
what happened the previous day. I came out of the
room and was going towards the terrace, when, just like
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the previous day, mister Parker tapped on my shoulder, stopped
me from going upstairs and told me that the tea
is served by the lake. I was at the lake
having tea when I saw the same girl coming out
of the lake and walking away. The same thing was
happening again. I tried to explain it to Clark that
then mister Parker came and called us for the hunting.
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At the hunting, Clark missed the first time, and when
I took a shot, the animals shrieked in pain. But
the mister Parker came and showed the bluetooth speaker. I
told Clark that I've lived this day before. Clark strangely
did not believe me. At dinner, we ate the same
food again. Mister Parker made the same joke again. I
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was getting worried, but when I told Clark, he just
asked me to rest and we slept. I was woken
up again by the gunshot, came out to see the
same girl, and was again stopped at the stairs by
mister Parker. The same girl came out of the pool.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Then we went hunting.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
I shot and mister Parker got the speaker. And then
dinner and we slept again. But this time I woke
up early and went to the terrace and saw the
girl coming out of a room. I walked towards her
to find out what was happening, but she tried to
shoot me. I ran from there and came to my room.
Woke up Clark and told him what had happened, and
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he was shocked. We had to save ourselves, so we
sneaked out of the house started my car, but mister
Parker was at the gate aiming his rifle at us,
and I stopped for a moment and then hit the
accelerator and drove past him as he tried to shoot
at us. We drove away from there, but as we
were about to hit the highway, we saw the same
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man who had stopped Clark before. He told us that
he was also one of the guests there and was
trying to get out. We didn't believe him at first,
but he showed us his ID and begged us to
help him. We asked him what was going on in
that place, and he told us that the farmhouse was
cursed and whoever came there was stuck in a time
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loop and couldn't escape. We were lucky enough to get
out of there alive, and we never returned to that
place ever again.
I used to work for pest control services in Louisiana.
It was a tedious job with an awful chemical to
smell twenty four to seven. Once I got a booking
from the outskirts. The client complained that she's facing a
major cockroach infestation. The pay was good, so I drove
to the place. There was a big wooden signboard with
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the name the Mannequin Farm written on it. That's an
ode name for a farm. I rang the doorbell and waited.
Minutes went by and no one opened the door. I
knocked heavily this time and heard a feeble woman's voice from.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Inside, coming dear.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
An old woman opened the door.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Are you from pest control? Yes, ma'am, come in, dear.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I stepped into the house and the immediate smell of
bleach and detergent hit me. Damn, no doubt she's having issues.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I tried to kill those vermin myself, but it doesn't work.
Seems like they need a way more painful death to die.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
You don't say.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Suddenly, I heard a scratching sound behind a door on
my right.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
That's just my cat. A poor baby must be hungry.
I'll feed him later.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
She took me to her kitchen. I must say the
house looked way cleaner than I expected, no dust and
no garbage on the floor. It was a little weird
to guess that such a tidy place can face pest issues,
but then again, she was living on a farm near
the woods, so it was possible. I kept my backpack
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on the kitchen floor and started my job. The old
lady stood behind me and watched me work. Every time
I turned to her, she gave me a huge grin,
flashing your yellow broken teeth. I started making small talk
to avoid the awkward silence. So you live alone?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
I never married. And also I don't think anyone can
live with me. What do you say that I'm an artist.
It's hard to understand an artist.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I kept working, thinking the woman will leave me b
but she didn't. She just stood there and watched creepily.
Do you mind if I use your washroom.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
And down the hall on your right.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I crossed the dark hall and entered the bathroom. The
light wasn't working. The morning sunlight coming from the window
made the bathroom visible. I did my business. I pressed
open the garbage can and saw a vicious sight. There
was a skinless animal head inside it, maggots were eating
it inside out. I left the bathroom right that moment
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and straight walked to the main door to leave. I
knew I had my keys in my pocket and I
was sure to drive away. But after reaching the main door,
I tried to twist the door knob, but it was
locked from the inside, probably with a key. The woman
was nowhere to be found. That's when I heard the
same sound I heard entering the house. The lady said
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it was her cat scratching the door from the other room.
I walked close to it. It was locked two. I
crouched down to look through the keyhole. At first I
saw nothing but darkness, and suddenly I.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Saw an eye looking at me.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
And immediately I heard an inaudible cry of words, followed
by loud banging on the door.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Oh, who is it hello?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Just then I felt a strong blow at the back
of my head and I fainted. When I woke up,
I could see drops of blood on my white shirt.
My eyes took time to adjust to the lights. Suddenly
there were tons of lights. Once my vision cleared, I
saw a skinny, tired man with a horrible physique sitting
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opposite of me. He was tied to a weird looking chair.
The chair was attached to a big platform kind of thing,
and there was a foul smell all around the room,
even though it was crystal clean.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Suddenly the door.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Opened and the old lady entered. But my stomach dropped
once I saw her in the light. The lady was
holding a wig in her hand, and the makeup was
all diluted, like she tried to wash it off. It
wasn't a she, but a he. It was an old
man dressed like a woman.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Sorry for the dramatic entrance, you see, I have to
work hard to collect my raw material.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
What what do you do? Kill and then eat people.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
I'm not a barbarian, as I said, I'm an artist.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Saying this, he walked to me and revolved my chair
at the back when I saw chilled my bones. On
the other side of the room stood an exhibition of mannequins,
only they were made from skins.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Every mannequin has the skin of the animal that is representing.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Most of them are wild animals. Those you can call
my early works, and these three human are my latest creation.
So do you like my work?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Their human figures looked distraught. The man even used their
real eyes and somehow didn't manage to fit them well,
so the eyes were halfway hanging on the chin of
the mannequin. He walked to the malnourished man and pressed
a button on the chair. The chair started to shake
violently and a scary sound came from it. After three minutes,
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he stopped the chair and the man was dead. His
feeble weak body couldn't take the pain.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
I like skinning them without any wounds. It's a quite
merciful method, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
He took off the dog leash from his neck and
came to put me on it as his next raw
material that I used my brain.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
It was my only weapon.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Then I told him I would like to have the
sandwich made by my wife before he starts starving me.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Hm, fair enough, I'll bring your bag to you.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
He brought me my bag and I started looking into it.
I was unmarried. Who was all a lie? To buy
time from my possible killer.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
I had to check your bag for a knife or
a gun.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Hope you don't mind. I don't need a knife or
a gun, son of a psycho.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I grabbed the most poisonous chemical bottle I could find
and splash the liquid on his face. He screamed and
fell to the floor, holding his face.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
It's burning.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
I got up and started running upstairs. I remembered seeing
a balcony in the top bedroom. I reached it and
jumped straight from the balcony. Once I got into the car,
I started the engine. I heard a long click and
the farmhouse's main door opened. As I reversed the car,
I could see the man standing on the porch. His
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half face was melted, yet he watched me with one
eye and then waved at me. I never went back
to that farm. This was meant to be the best
decision of our lives. Ay and my darling wife Maria
had just acquired a two hector strip of land sitting
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in a small village in the state side of Nevada.
We had always craved to experience life in the country,
and seeing as she was doing three months, it seemed
like the best time to make the move. The property
came at a steel price, and to make things even
more interesting, the realtor said it already had a cornfield
on it. It was too good to be true. But if
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only I had known the truth, I would have torn
up those deed papers there and then when we arrived,
the scenery was just as gorgeous and serene as we
had dreamed. A small cottage was in front of us,
and we could see the cornfield towering over it from behind.
Maria walked towards the house with our pet dog, Rex,
while I carried out the.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Rest of our stuff from the trunk.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Suddenly, the dog began to bark incessantly, like it had
just seen the mailman.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
It bolted to the back of the house. Rex come back.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Maria called out, and she went after him. I was
still very much preoccupied with the heavy bags when I
suddenly heard a loud shriek. It was Maria's voice. My
heart skipped a beat forthwith I dropped everything and raced.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
To the back of the house. Upon reaching there.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Maria was panting heavily with her hand on her chest,
while Rex seemed a lot more docile.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
What is it, I hastily asked.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Oh, I'm sorry, honey, I was just frightened by the scarecrow.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Maria responded, But what I muttered to myself upon lifting
my eyes, I was also left traumatized by the most
disturbing and hideous looking scarecrows I had ever seen in
my life, and they were pegged all over the cornfield. Ultimately,
it seemed like a problem for another day, so we
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just left it alone and made our way into the house.
Later that evening, we heard two resounding knocks on our
front door. We had only just moved in, so we
definitely weren't expecting any visitors. I approached the door and
swung it open. It was an offbeat and tattered looking
old man, and he had a dirty inverted cross around
his neck. He just stared at me with a blank
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expression on his face. Can I help you with something?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
I asked. You cannot help me, but I can help you.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
He responded. He forcefully dragged my hand, took the cross
off his neck, and placed it in my open palm.
He was pretty strong for a man his age. I
felt harassed imediately retracted my hand. Hey, get your hands
off me, I barked, an outrage.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
There's no time to waste sud. The harvest is almost
upon us. Hang the cross on your door post, or
dire consequences shall.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Follow, the old man ominously warned. I was still trying
to figure out what was happening. Before I could ask
any questions, he turned and fled into the darkness. It
was a very curious encounter, but not one I had
the energy for. I shook my head and slammed the
door close.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Honey, who was at the door?
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Nobody, sweetheart, mister prankster, I responded. I momentarily glanced at
the cross and callously tossed it to the fireplace. By midnight,
I was awakened by a very strange sound. It sounded
like a clanging bell. I went downstairs in my pj's
and drowsy eye to investigate. The sound was coming from
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a grandfather clock in the living room. But what was
most curious was the fact that I had never noticed
the clock up until that night. The clock was also
concealing a hidden door that had been chained shut. As
I approached the clock, my eyes were drawn to window,
where I met an even more bizarre site. The scarecrows
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were all missing from their wooden posts. They were impossible
to miss earlier, but at that moment I couldn't even
see one. Maybe it was just the extra glass of
wine I had earlier. I turned around and stumbled back upstairs.
My mind was probably just playing tricks on me. I
observed the same phenomenon over a span of three days.
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By nighttime, the scarecrows were gone, but by morning they
would all return. I was bewildered. The villagers certainly put
a lot of effort into their pranks, at least that's
what I believed. It was an until Rex went missing
that I knew things had really gotten out of hand.
I eventually found his decaying and maggot infested body lying
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in the foot of one of those scarecrows within the cornfield.
Blood was splattered all over the cornstalks, and a blood
drenched cleaver was lying besida.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Who could have done such a thing?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I was still trying to figure out how to explain
it to Maria when I suddenly bumped into the creepy
old man again.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Did you hang the cross like I told you?
Speaker 1 (12:32):
He abruptly asked, Uh, No, I burnt it, I responded,
almost unapologetically.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
The old man hissed, such was the fate of your predecessors.
Prepare your household.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
The harvest will beget after the eleventh hour.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Hey, wait a minute, do you know what happened to
my Before my eyes could transition from Rex's body and back,
the old man had vanished without a trace. By midnight,
just as he had said, I was awakened by the
same clanging sound, but this time it was accompanied by
a heavy ruckus coming from the cornfield. I peeped through
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the window to investigate, and a cold chill gripped my spine.
It was unreal, it was petrifying. I became weak to
my knees. The scarecrows were alive. Each of them wielded
a crude farming tool, but it didn't look like they.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Intended to plant seeds.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
In a panic, I grabbed my wife and hastily sprinted
down the stairs. But before I could reach the front door,
and axe was driven through it. They had encompassed the
house and were forcefully trying to break in. Our last
option was the eerie looking door behind the grandfather clock.
It was mysteriously now unlocked. We frantically charged into it.
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The door closed by itself. Within the room, we found
dark scrolls, ancient relics, fetish ornaments, and sinister looking books,
all of which seemed to make mention of a curse,
and an ancient ritual called the Harvest. From what we
could gather, if we had just placed the cross on
our doorpost like the old man had cautioned, it would
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have been exempt from the reckoning, but since I was reluctant,
our fate would pretty much be similar to our multitude
of predecessors, who were either rotting away or had already
turned into piles of ashy bones within the cryptic room.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
God help us, Hi.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
I'm Paris, and last weekend was the strangest weekend of
my life. I was blissfully sleeping in the car while
my boyfriend Clark was driving. We were headed to this
beautiful farmhouse next to a lake. It was our much
needed break after a month long busy work schedule. I
had closed my eyes and was enjoying the breeze when
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Clark suddenly applied the brakes of the car. I hit
my head on the dashboard and woke up with a
shock to see Clark closed his eyes in fear.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Clark, what the hell? What happened?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
He opened his eyes and was even more terrified. I
kept asking him what happened, but he didn't reply. He
just got out of the car in a hurry and
went out looking for something. I followed him out and
was losing my patience with Clark's behavior. He looked around
and said, where did he go?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
He was right here.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Who are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
There's no one here. He came out of nowhere. I
got scared and stopped. But now he's missing.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
I thought Clark might have dozed off while riding and
had a daydream. I told Clark to take a break
from driving and I took the wheels. He was still
worried and looking around, so I put on the radio
and our favorite dance number was playing. I started to
massage Clark's neck and told him to relax, and just
when he was about to close his eyes, we arrived
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at the gate of the farmhouse, and what we saw
at the gate gave us a shock. There was an
old man holding a rifle and waiting for us. I
got tense to looking at his rifle and asked him
what the rifle is for. He looked at me with
his rock like face and told me for the wolves,
I'm mister Parker. Welcome a farmhouse where times stands still.
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The farmhouse was exactly like we had imagined. I told
Clark to forget about what happened and have fun. Clark
and I went inside, and the place and its decor
was straight out of a fairy tale. I was happy
and rushed to hug Clark, but mister Parker walked in
between with the luggage and scared the hell out of me.
Later in the evening, when we were asleep, I heard
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a loud gunshot and woke up. I came out to
the balcony, thinking mister Parker might have killed a wolf,
but what I saw stunned me. There was a girl
in a white flowing frog like a bride, standing on
the terrace with a rifle in her hand. I was
both surprised and shocked to see her because I thought
there was no other guests in the farmhouse. I yelled
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out to her, Hi. She didn't reply. She just went
away without even looking at me. I thought it was
strange and wanted to find out more about her, so
I came out of the room and was headed towards
the stairs when someone tapped my shoulder. It was mister
Parker to you served at the table by the lake.
Please come, madam.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
I saw a girl on the terrace. Is this the
way up?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
That is a private area, madam. Guests are not allowed there.
Please leave. I found this whole thing very strange, but
I had no choice but to leave. I decided to
get back in the night and check. While having tea,
I told Clark about the girl. He was about to
say something when we saw another girl coming out of
the lake and walking towards the house without even drying
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herself off. We called out to her, but she did
not respond, just like the other girl on the terrace.
I got very curious now and asked mister Parker.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
About the girls.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Guest information is confidential. Get ready for hunting. I did
not understand what he meant by hunting and asked mister Parker.
He said it was part of the farm stay experience.
We both got excited, and a little while later we
entered the woods nearby.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Mister Parker was our navigator.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
He pointed in a direction and Clark took a shot
but missed. It was my turn next. Mister Parker listened
carefully and then pointed in a direction.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
I aimed and took a shot.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
I heard the shrieking of an animal and rushed to look.
But then mister Parker took out a bluetooth speaker from
the ground and told us that it was just a
simulated game, and.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
We had a good laugh about it.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Later that night, mister Parker served us some delicious food.
I casually asked him that I wanted the recipe, and
he looked at me with a cold face and said
it's human meet Curry. We were shocked to hear this,
but then mister Parker burst out into a monstrous laugh
and told me that he'll give me the recipe when
I leave from here. After dinner, I had decided to
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find out more about the girls, but the food mister
Parker served us made us drowsy and put us to
sleep in no time. And then suddenly I heard a
gunshot and woke up. I came out of the balcony
to the same the girl standing on the terrace, like
what happened the previous day. I came out of the
room and was going towards the terrace, when, just like
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the previous day, mister Parker tapped on my shoulder, stopped
me from going upstairs and told me that the tea
is served by the lake. I was at the lake
having tea when I saw the same girl coming out
of the lake and walking away. The same thing was
happening again. I tried to explain it to Clark that
then mister Parker came and called us for the hunting.
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At the hunting, Clark missed the first time, and when
I took a shot, the animals shrieked in pain. But
the mister Parker came and showed the bluetooth speaker. I
told Clark that I've lived this day before. Clark strangely
did not believe me. At dinner, we ate the same
food again. Mister Parker made the same joke again. I
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was getting worried, but when I told Clark, he just
asked me to rest and we slept. I was woken
up again by the gunshot, came out to see the
same girl, and was again stopped at the stairs by
mister Parker. The same girl came out of the pool.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Then we went hunting.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
I shot and mister Parker got the speaker. And then
dinner and we slept again. But this time I woke
up early and went to the terrace and saw the
girl coming out of a room. I walked towards her
to find out what was happening, but she tried to
shoot me. I ran from there and came to my room.
Woke up Clark and told him what had happened, and
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he was shocked. We had to save ourselves, so we
sneaked out of the house started my car, but mister
Parker was at the gate aiming his rifle at us,
and I stopped for a moment and then hit the
accelerator and drove past him as he tried to shoot
at us. We drove away from there, but as we
were about to hit the highway, we saw the same
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man who had stopped Clark before. He told us that
he was also one of the guests there and was
trying to get out. We didn't believe him at first,
but he showed us his ID and begged us to
help him. We asked him what was going on in
that place, and he told us that the farmhouse was
cursed and whoever came there was stuck in a time
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loop and couldn't escape. We were lucky enough to get
out of there alive, and we never returned to that
place ever again.
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