Touched by a Vampire

Enter the cold embrace of the undead on this edition of Octoberpod AM classic horror podcast. Your horror host Edward October rises from the grave to chill your blood with tales of enchantment and vampires!
   
First up: The lines between true crime & blood-splattered fantasy blur in author Whitney Zahar's true account of Satanic Panic in the 1990s: "Touched by a Vampire" Then, Edward October sits for a spell with the ladies of Witches Talking Tarot to discuss horror movies, magic, the Warrens, and even The Lord of the Rings.  Plus: A classic tale of love, obsession, and bloodsuckers in a cliffside cottage.  Featuring special guests Jennifer (Haunted Happenstance); Amber & Maddie (Witches Talking Tarot); and a tale from the pen of Whitney Zahar.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Others love, Oh Shity trying again.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
The sound you hear is the role of a twelve
sided die. You're playing D and D with your friends
in a basement rumpus room. The year is nineteen ninety six.
There's a flickering COR's light sign over the bar and
movie posters for Young Guns, Predator, the Lost Boys, and
Dirty Dancing hanging on the wood paneled walls. Behind the bar,

(00:36):
There's a locked cabinet where your friend's dad hides his
stash of vintage playboys. The Smashing Pumpkins play faintly through
miniature speakers hooked up to a seedy disc man. The
stink of pizza hut hangs heavy in the air, and
you can still taste the grape soda you wash down
your slice of stuffed crust with. This is the start

(01:02):
of October Pod. The story that follows is a fictionalized
recounting of true events. The facts of the case have
been altered to protect the privacy and dignity of the
real victims, survivors, and their families. Oh one more thing.

(01:26):
The following tale contains subject matter which some listeners may
find disturbing, including references to animal cruelty, alcoholism and drug abuse.
Listener discretion is advised.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
I was a scaredy cat as a child. I didn't
like horror at all. Even some of the spooky comedy
movies of the nineteen eighties wrightened me. Maybe I had
too vivid of an imagination. Shocking visuals tended to stay
rooted in the wrinkles of my brain, whether through TV
and movies or fantastic imagery in books. Perhaps that's the

(02:25):
story for another time. But I loved stories. I loved
fairy tales, mythology, and folklore. Maybe I liked that every
culture had fascinating beliefs about how the world worked. I
also liked that when everything seemed darkest, there was always hope,
and those stories people stood up and fought back. I
longed for that in my tiny suburban life. Anyway, I

(02:49):
let my love for stories and culture guide my interest
in the paranormal. I became quite a paranormal enthusiast at
a young age, A devote of the Dewey decimal classifications
zero zero, way, one point nine, and one point thirty.
In the library, I read up on Poltergeist, Bigfoot, UFOs, hauntings,
and everything in between. I was a massive fan of

(03:09):
sightings and unsolved mysteries, never once guessing that my boring
suburban life would brush up against one of those mysteries.
In nineteen ninety five, I was a senior in high school.
I was getting good grades and was excited about going
to college. I had a small intimate circle of friends,
and one of them asked if we were interested in
trying a tabletop role playing me. What do you mean

(03:30):
by that, I asked, Do you mean like pretending to
be someone else? Well, yes, answered my friend. But it's
more than you create a character, make decisions, and play
as that character. I will be the game master. So
I'm giving you, guys the setting, the rules, and the
basics of the plot. The rest is up to the

(03:51):
role of a eye. Isn't this like Dungeons and Dragons?
Asked another friend. Well?

Speaker 4 (03:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Touched by a Vampire written especially for October Pod by
Whitney Zahar, inspired by her own True Experiences starring Jennifer Creator,
host of Haunted Happenstance, with additional narration by Edward October.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
I had heard of Dungeons and Dragons. I remember watching
the cartoon show on Saturday morning, but I'd also seen
the movie Mazes and Monsters, which showed a young Tom
Hanks playing a kid who lost all sense of reality
due to playing a fantasy tabletop roleplaying game, a thinly
veiled caricature of dungeons and dragons. I also remember, when
I was still going to a church a few years prior,

(04:53):
a so called cult cop did a presentation for several
local youth groups about Satanism and cults. He warned us,
some presciable young teens about the dangers of dungeons and
dragons with its occult symbols, magical spells, and fearsome creatures.
He also wonders about the song bad Dance by Prints
for some odd reason, but I digress. I didn't know

(05:15):
what to think. My parents were moderate people. They had
a strong community and their Methodist church, but I never
thought of them as creachy. These were the dark days
of the Satanic panic, but my parents didn't badger me
all that much. I trusted my friends. They were intelligent,
kind hearted, and creative people. The guy who said he
would be the game master was level headed and lovely. Also,

(05:38):
I was in theater classes at school. The way he
described tabletop roleplaying games sounded like the scaffolding exercises we
did in drama class regarding character development and motivation. It
sounded like it would help me with my improvisation skills.
I turned to my friends with an impish grin and said.

Speaker 5 (05:54):
Let's do it.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
Jonathan Frantishica Water was not born a monster. His mother
was a Czech who had emigrated to the United States
in nineteen sixty nine. His father, Brother Levi Atwater, was
a fire and brimstone preacher. Without a church. He preached
his fringe fundamentalist brand of Pentecostalism in high school gymnasiums,

(06:20):
bingo hall basements, or off the tailgate of a pickup truck.
Brother Levi's sermons were unvaryingly grotesque, often drawn from apocrypha
as much as from the Gospels, usually lapsing into incoherence.
As Brother Levi was prone to speak in tongues. It
is unknown whether his angelic speech should be attributed to

(06:44):
the intervention of the Holy Spirit or to the influence
of grain alcohol. Brother Levi's faith emphasized the importance the
Holy communion, and he begged his tiny flock to eat
the flesh of Crist and drinking his blood every Sunday.
The blood across Jesus was shed for you, he would say.

(07:07):
Only by drinking his blood will you find salvation, he
would say.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
My friends and I spent every Friday night during my
senior year in that furnished attic room at my house
playing a game called Palladian Rifts and occasionally dipping our
toes into advanced sunge's and dragons. I had so much fun.
It was nothing I expected. It was much more about creativity, friendship,
and memories. We all graduated high school and kept hanging

(07:34):
out together over the summer, but continued our Risks campaign,
which was taking a darker turn in the story. Our
band of heroes was running a foul of a plot
involving vampires, and I was in heaven. I loved vampires
next to ghosts. Vampires were my favorite monster. Yes, I
love the gothesthetic, the allure and the romance of being

(07:55):
swept away and possessed by a dark force whose ancient
will and focus is solely on the object of their desire.
I loved Durracula, the book and the movies. During my
senior year, our fall playing was Dracula. I tried to
read Stephen King Salem's Lot, but wasn't quite into it
since I was only in the ninth grade when I
read it. I was a vowedly team Damon when the

(08:17):
Vampire Diary series were just a handful of young adult novels.
I loved how the Rift system portrayed vampires. If you
wanted the suave, sophisticated, deadly monsters, you had the Master Vampire.
But there was more to it. Vampires were a result
of being connected to an alien vampire intelligence, and they

(08:38):
had the potential to become more savage and monstrous. I
also explored Vampire the Masquerie, another tabletop role playing game
that relied on character development and narrative storytelling. You could
say nineteen ninety five to nineteen ninety six was my
year of the Vampire. How little did I know at
the time that monsters were real. My role playing crew

(08:59):
also played Magic the Gathering Laser Tag and that was
how I met this guy. He had a D and
D character named Draven Thunderbelt, so I just called him Draven.
He was a Navy recruit in his early twenties and
cute in a rugged way. He played in the Laser
Tag leagues and for whatever reason we hooked up. I
was eighteen years old, so I could legally go to
the dance club, and that's what our dates were. He

(09:20):
also taught me how to worllerbly. We made out a
few times, but never went all the way, which in retrospect,
that was a very good thing.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
No one ever remembers Jonathan Attwater's first victim, eleven year
old in Gushka. She was the family dog in Gushka,
was part poodle, part traveling salesman, as brother Levi would
describe her, and she was the first lasting friend John's
mother made when she arrived in America, so she named

(09:54):
the dog after a Polish girl she'd known back in
the Old Country. Following his mother the's death, brother Levi
had tried unsuccessfully to pray her cancer away. In Gushka
became the closest thing to a mother figure in John's life.
John was almost morbidly devoted to his mother, but with

(10:15):
her gone, brother Levi was free to impose his harsh
discipline and twisted beliefs on his son. Levi forced John
to study his own medieval interpretations of Christianity whenever John
wasn't in school. Public schools incidentally, were institutions. Levi regarded

(10:37):
with some suspicion when Ingushka, already an old dog, drew
close to the end of her life. Sources are unclear
as to whether she was terminally ill or had suffered
a debilitating injury. John staged a grotesque communion ritual, during
which John ate in Gushka's flesh and drank her blood.

(11:02):
John would later admit this was an attempt to force
the dog's soul to pass into his body.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
One night, he introduced me to a friend of his
name with John. John was lanky, dressed in black, with
brown hair and sharp features. I guess I would call
him attractive. He was very courteous and polite towards me
and never behaved inappropriately. Draven seemed okay with John, paying
attention to me. Before I left for the first year
of college, John told me that Draven loved me and

(11:38):
wanted to get me a promise ring. Dravan even visited
me at school, and I visited him when I returned
on break. I was out one night with Draven and
John during that break, giving them a ride home. From
the back seat, John spoke up and said, I need
to tell you something you're Draven's girl and part of
my life too. I think you have a special sensitivity

(11:59):
which makes you trust worthy in my eyes. I glanced
into my rear view mirror for a moment. John's reflection
was rehathed in shadows, rendering him invisible. Then he said,
I'm a vampire. I'm a vampire. Somehow, I kept focus

(12:20):
on driving, occasionally glancing back in the rear view mirror.
I said nothing, just listening to John explain himself. He
called himself a psychic vampire, and which he subsisted on
energy rather than blood. He found me fascinating because of
my bright aura, but I could rest easy. He meant
no harm to me. He then told me he was
the elder vampire of a clan with a long history

(12:42):
from ancient Europe. His mother, I learned, had been from
Poland or Czechoslovakia or somewhere. Apparently, there were several of
these vampire clans all over the world. They had different
powers and weaknesses, but the eldness could be thousands of
years old. John said the vampire clans existed parallel to humans,
a shadow of society that influenced human history for millennia. However,

(13:05):
the average human had no clue they existed thanks to
rules called the masquerie, which concealed vampires from humanity. What
was I supposed to think? I was an eighteen year
old girl alone in the car with two guys, and
one of them had just claimed he was a vampire.
At the time, I only wanted to drop them off
at their place and get home myself. I said nothing

(13:26):
except thank you for sharing that with me. It's not
like the books when the monster does the big reveal
to their significant other and all is wonder in awe.
John wasn't my boyfriend. He was hardly more than a
friendly acquaintance. Draven and I hadn't even been dating that long,
and Draveon was sitting in the car perfectly fine with
all the crazy bullshit that John was spouting at me.

(13:48):
After dropping them off, I drove home with my hand shaking.
I couldn't believe what John had said. When you run
in gaming groups and theater clubs like I did, you
encounter your fair share of people who claimed to be
something they're not. I get it. Sometimes the character you
portray is infinitely more interesting than the person you really are.
Some people have met over the years are uncomfortable in

(14:08):
their skin. Sometimes it's a rush to pretend you're someone
out lily. There's nothing wrong with that as long as
you know it's just a game, a play, a fictional
story that you're helping create. But I got the impression
John believed every word of the awful mythology he had
created around himself.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
Crystal Henderson, aged seventeen, would never be able to articulate
precisely what it was that attracted her to John Atwater,
the boy she knew as Lord frantishek he was handsome,
well handsome enough, and he filled her mind with such

(14:53):
wonderful notions. He swept into her life like a black angel.
Up until that point, she felt as though she'd been
living her life as some sort of alien creature, utterly
unable to relate to anyone else around her. Then at

(15:15):
last she'd found another one of her kind, another member
of a clan that she'd been a part of all
her life, without even knowing the world of mystery and
magic and shadow he revealed to her was such a
liberating escape from her depressing home life, a home life

(15:37):
spent parenting her younger siblings for a father who was
always working and a stepmother who'd gotten hooked on percocets
following a near fatal automobile accident. But with Lord frontishek
she could be a child of the night, free to worship,
unashamed at the altar of blood and seek life everlast.

(16:05):
The body of Crystal Hinderson would be found on July twelfth,
nineteen ninety four, as part of an all too brief
missing person's investigation. All the signs of a ritual killing
were present. The body had been placed fetishistically on a
crude pentagram sketched in chalk on the concrete behind an

(16:25):
abandoned radio shack. Glyphs and a cult graffiti could be
found all around the crime scene, though not all of
them were related to the murder. The county coroner would
later state that Cristel's body had been completely exsanguinated, the
only such case he'd seen in a long and storied career,

(16:45):
though precious little of her blood was present at the
crime scene. John Atwater would eventually confess to this murder
in an unsuccessful attempt by his lawyers to reduce a
lengthy prison sentence. He explained that he'd caught Crystal Henderson's
blood in a bucket as it gushed from a wound
in her neck. The blood, he said, was part of

(17:07):
a batch he'd frozen for future consumption.

Speaker 6 (17:12):
Oh on, my wife.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
It was hard to take John at his word. After
getting some distance from the situation and returning to college,
I realized he used terminology you'd ripped off from the
tabletop roleplaying game Vampire the Masquerade. Words like elder clan,
masquerade and embrace, or the act of stiring a vampire
filled John's descriptions and came straight from the game. I

(17:37):
had been reading about Vampire the Masquerade for a while,
and soon I would be playing the game. So yes,
I hadn't inkling that John was bullshitting me. And yet
it would be fantastic if vampires, dragons, unicorns, werewolves, and
all of the fantastical creatures existed in the real world.
What if magic in some form israel. This may be

(17:59):
the real world, But I can assure you that monsters
are real too. I think, if anything, my love of
tabletop roleplaying games and these stories taught me that even
real monsters can be defeated. I found out later from
a mutual acquaintance that Draven was cheating on me. Oh,
but she isn't as pretty as you are, the acquaintance
assured me.

Speaker 7 (18:19):
Whatever.

Speaker 3 (18:20):
I had moved on by that point. Anyway, I never
heard from John again after that night. He didn't have
my contact information in the first place, and since Draven
and I weren't together, there was no reason for us interact.
I heard nothing more about John until the summer of
nineteen ninety six.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
To consume one's blood was to acquire their soul. But
John Attwater's own reckoning, he had acquired six souls, all
of them girls and women aged sixteen to twenty three,
most of them runaways and transience, some groomed as recruits
for his vampire clan to be his slaves and concubines

(18:58):
and whatever after life awaited him. The state could do
whatever it wanted with him, because John was content knowing
that beyond this life, a kingdom befitting a black angel
awaited him, with the souls of his victims bound to him,
catering to his every whim and desire. Though Jonathan Frantishik

(19:21):
Atwater was supposed to remain behind bars for several decades,
his fellow inmates had other plans. Atwater was stabbed eighty
four times by a pair of white nationalists armed with
sharpened toothbrushes who disapproved of his rather as a Tek
Beliefs brother. Levi Atwater, in spite of disowning John after

(19:43):
his horrible crimes came to light, he didn't even attend
the trial, claimed his son's body and gave it a
humble burial at a nearly forgotten graveyard in the foothills
of County. Levi Atwater is alive and well and holds
a position of some importance at a prosperous Northern Virginia megachurch.

(20:03):
He remarried in twenty thirteen and his stepfather to three
adult step children, with grand babies on the way.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
John proved to the world how much of a monster
he was. I found out that he had been arrested
and later convicted of several ritual killings. So much for
all that energy vampire horseshit. He even appeared on an
episode of Unsolved Mysteries in nineteen ninety seven. It turned
out he used the same story he told me to
lure girls about my age to join his vampire family.

(20:32):
He gathered about thirty girls into his group and ended
up killing and drinking the blood of four of them.
I think I knew one of the victims. She was
my sister's age. He convinced these girls that he was
their family, loved them, and all they had to do
was give themselves to him. John may not have been
a real vampire, but he certainly was a predator. My god,

(20:53):
what if? What was it that protected me from this trap?
Was there something about me that made me different from
these other girls? Or was it just dumb luck? To
this day, I don't know how complicit Draven was in
the whole thing. Were he and John and a lunt
together in another reality? I could be a victim and

(21:13):
accomplice or something else in this story, Or perhaps just
perhaps there is something to me having a bright aura.
After all, you.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
Have been listening to Touched by a Vampire, written by
Whitney Zehar from her own personal experiences. Whitney is the
co host of the peri Unity podcast. Find the pari
Unity podcast on all major podcast platforms. Whitney also wrote
these awesome books, The Safe Room and Nova, as well

(21:53):
as a bunch of short stories, some of which are
collected in the anthologies Autumn Tales and Women of the Woods.
Check out her author's page on Amazon. Finally, it wouldn't
be an Octoberpod vampire story without our dear friend and
returning narrator, Jennifer. She is the creator host of an
impeccable podcast called Haunted Happenstance, which you can find at

(22:16):
Haunted Happenstance dot libson That's l I B S y
n dot com. I'll be back with the intermission. Keep
it right here. Monsters do have their place in the zoo,

(23:00):
in your nightmares, in the deep, in your favorite horror movies,
but not on your phone during an ad break. Politically
motivated interests are seeking to influence you through the ads
placed on this podcast. Hi, I'm your host, Edward October,
reminding you that we have very limited control over the

(23:21):
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I and the makers of October Pod repudiate any entity
advertised which seeks to promote hatred, anti American, or anti

(23:42):
democratic sentiments, or the spread of misinformation. Now, with that
in mind, October Pod will return after this brief ad break.
It's intermission time, folks. I'm your host, mister Edward October.

(24:02):
A few months ago, I called in and chatted with
Amber and Maddie of the podcast which is Talking Taro.
What began as a personal tarot reading spun off into
a free wheeling conversation about horror movies, serial killers, ed
and Lorraine Morn, and even Lord of the Rings. Keen
listeners will hear us planning to adapt Amber's true Haunted

(24:24):
Doll story for a future October pod episode, an episode
which dropped a few weeks back if you missed it.
What follows are some excerpts from that conversation. Oh one
more thing. My end of the conversation was conducted over
the phone. I couldn't get my mic configured properly, so
please overlook the imperfections in audio quality. Okay, let's get

(24:50):
to it.

Speaker 8 (24:57):
Taro is a toll we use. It doesn't not tell
the future.

Speaker 9 (25:01):
It reads the energies that exist right now, in the
here and now. So we can't change the past, and
we can only change the present so much as what
we're aware of and what we do going forward. So
Taro is a tool to guide us in what the
energies around us right now are saying is going to

(25:22):
happen in our future if we keep down the exact
straight path.

Speaker 10 (25:26):
We're going through.

Speaker 9 (25:27):
Our own ability to manifest our own destiny, our own
ability to make personal choices and identify what's going on
and make choices to change that.

Speaker 8 (25:35):
This is a tool just to help us make those
choices in the future.

Speaker 9 (25:39):
Not everything that is set is set in stone.

Speaker 11 (25:45):
The Tarot character and living my guy is named Solitaire,
which is kind of a classy, classy name for a
taro read character.

Speaker 9 (25:53):
I do like that that is actually class act right
there with the cards and everything.

Speaker 10 (26:01):
Yeah, that's not too bad.

Speaker 12 (26:02):
I know.

Speaker 10 (26:03):
There's like somebody good head.

Speaker 11 (26:06):
Oh yeah, the Holly gooodhead. In Moon Raker, there is
pussy Galore.

Speaker 8 (26:14):
Obviously comes from right because this is.

Speaker 6 (26:20):
A honey Rider. Yeah, bb doll you see for your
eyes on.

Speaker 9 (26:27):
So to have done this on purpose, well ab so
much double on Tandra on purpose because like these movies
originated in what like the sixties, where there was a
lot you actually couldn't say I mean, like you know, Lenny,
a whole lot of.

Speaker 8 (26:43):
Times because of stuff you couldn't say, I like Zena on.

Speaker 6 (26:47):
Atop, well, there's in the world is not enough.

Speaker 11 (26:53):
Denise Richard's plays Christmas Jones and you're like, oh, this
isn't funny.

Speaker 6 (26:58):
But then at the very end.

Speaker 11 (26:59):
Where she and Bond are in bed, he goes, you know,
well what they say isn't true, and she's like, what's that.

Speaker 6 (27:09):
It's like, I thought Christmas only comes once a year, but.

Speaker 10 (27:15):
Oh my dude, I love that. The Redhead's name is
Strawberry Fields.

Speaker 6 (27:21):
Strawberry Fields, yeah, are you.

Speaker 11 (27:25):
What's stupid about that is that her name is not
You only see her name the credits in the movie.
They just call her Agent Fields and they never say
her first name.

Speaker 6 (27:35):
They're like missed opportunity.

Speaker 9 (27:37):
Why, Yeah, that is a missed opportunity. Like I am
just not into James Bond movies, Like yeah, like older movies.
It's at whatever my mom watched, so like I saw,
like I think Metropolis it was a Francis four couple
of movie that was weird. I saw that a lot
growing up, and it's like imprinted in very very young memories.

Speaker 6 (27:59):
And watch The Beast Silent the Silent film Metropolis.

Speaker 9 (28:04):
Maybe my mom likes old My mom liked old stuff
and that was the eighties, and I was like faturistic, and.

Speaker 6 (28:15):
I'm thinking, I think I'm thinking of a different movie,
I think.

Speaker 9 (28:18):
But yeah, because like I highly doubt it was silent
because I don't think like we watched it before I
was old enough to read.

Speaker 8 (28:25):
I know that, like for sure, like that was you know, yeah,
it was like, oh now you've got me.

Speaker 6 (28:30):
Now now my head is stuck.

Speaker 9 (28:32):
It's kind of figure out google it, right, I'm like,
because people were I'm pretty sure the guy from Pumpkinhead
was in this when he was younger, but I'm not positive.
It might have been somebody just like him. Yeah, yeah,
it might not be Lance. It might be somebody that
like very striking resemblance to Lance.

Speaker 8 (28:48):
But like it was.

Speaker 10 (28:53):
Twenty seven.

Speaker 8 (28:55):
This one, I think there might have been was there real?

Speaker 10 (28:58):
This must be the Silence film?

Speaker 8 (29:00):
Yeah that was is there?

Speaker 6 (29:02):
Eighties?

Speaker 11 (29:03):
They took the silent Metropolis movie and put like a
rock score on top of it and maybe the colorized it.

Speaker 13 (29:11):
Okay, like my parents problem it says it's like an
influential German science fiction film.

Speaker 8 (29:17):
Where Okay, I will I will find this film after I'm.

Speaker 11 (29:20):
Done, like Metropolis is one of the most influential movies ever.
Like the design for C three po comes from it,
and a lot of like production design and Blade Runner
and shots from from Blade Runner comes right out of Metropolis.

Speaker 14 (29:38):
It's I can see I think, I think we're talking
about different Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I know I've seen
Metropolis and the remake thing with the music that that
sounds like my dad was like, he's a big Pink
Floy guy, and and that sounds it was.

Speaker 6 (29:55):
A band like that. It wasn't Pink Floyd, but it
was like it was.

Speaker 8 (29:58):
Like and my dad.

Speaker 11 (30:00):
Injurine Dream more like, uh, you know, one of those guys.

Speaker 10 (30:09):
Like he made like gas chambers out of the Blind.

Speaker 6 (30:13):
Recently, I recently heard that a lot of the AHH.

Speaker 11 (30:17):
Holmes story was kind of fabricated by journalists at the time,
Like I kind of the house and they found well,
you know, if they found a table in the room,
they'd be like, oh, this must have been his torture table,
you know, and like really embellishing all of the details

(30:37):
they found. I'm a big I'm a big old time
radio fan. And there's an episode of of a show
called Lights Out.

Speaker 6 (30:47):
There's called Murder Castle I think is the name of it,
and it's it's a very much like hh Holmes.

Speaker 11 (30:53):
It's a guy who like keeps hiring governesses and like
he'll lead them down into a room full of wet
cement and cement them over and like all of this
like weird, like.

Speaker 10 (31:06):
But people are people do like that. That's what just
shocks me is the fact that people have and do
do ship.

Speaker 9 (31:14):
Like, Oh, that's so horrific. I mean, yeah, it doesn't happen.
It's just horrific. And I'm all like.

Speaker 13 (31:20):
Oh, that's I really like what the press does.

Speaker 11 (31:24):
Like I mean, like Lizzie Boyd, everybody remembers the Lizzie
Boordon case and everybody remembers the nursery rhyme about Lizzie Bordon.

Speaker 6 (31:34):
But Lizzie Borton was acquitted.

Speaker 10 (31:36):
Well, and yeah, it doesn't matter I did it or not.

Speaker 9 (31:39):
Everybody has decided, well, it's a good story. Like I've
watched so many like Christina Ricci adaptations TV shows. I
really I shouldn't because it like paints her as like
the psychopath.

Speaker 13 (31:51):
Well it's like, uh, the Black Dolia, you know what
they're like. Everybody knows the Black Dolia and there's been
I don't know if it was proven that it was
for dentist, but like everybody has their own theories on
what happened. Pretty sure it.

Speaker 8 (32:07):
Wasn't like my sides are early. Sorry.

Speaker 11 (32:14):
Sorry, I was listening to a podcast a while back
then that went into it was it was actually the
segment that I listened to was talking about, uh, the
crime novelist James L.

Speaker 6 (32:28):
Roy and his sort of obsession with the Black Dahlia,
and it was weird.

Speaker 11 (32:33):
It was it was kind of wild because the Black
Dahlia happened at about the same time as his own
mother was killed, and so he kind of got into
like crime writing as a way to sort of and
looking into black Dahlia as a way to sort of
process his grief and feelings about his own mother through

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the Black Dolliy. So it was like he investigated the
Black dolli murder is like a proxy for investigating because
on mother's murder.

Speaker 9 (33:04):
But well, that's really interesting because I mean Dominic Dunn.
We'll talk about this more in a couple of weeks viewers,
But like Dominic Dunn when his daughter was killed, she
was the big sister on the Pultugeist movies, but when
she was murdered by her boyfriend, Like now we know
of him as a true crime writer because like he
investigated that and other things because he was like the

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justice system isn't enough and it was a way for
him to heal from what happened to his daughter. And
I mean, I'm pretty sure he does crime specials like
to this day.

Speaker 8 (33:37):
The culture curse bullshit or yeah, we're gonna be covering
that in a.

Speaker 6 (33:41):
Couple of les.

Speaker 11 (33:42):
Yeah, awesome, awesome, Yeah, we're excited.

Speaker 9 (33:51):
She is convinced that Sam Wise and Proto are like
a couple, and I mean they definitely.

Speaker 6 (33:56):
Have you ever seen that meme? Have you ever seen
the meme of.

Speaker 11 (34:01):
It's the picture of Elijah Wood riding on a segue
smoking a cigarette and a cigarette holder next to a
picture of Sean Aston wearing like eighties Oakley sunglasses, ball
cap and a and a crop top baseball.

Speaker 6 (34:22):
Jersey that shows like his.

Speaker 11 (34:23):
Whole billy like carrying Wood and the caption is remake
Lord of the Rings with this Sam and this Froto.

Speaker 8 (34:33):
That Sam is from fifty First Dates and that is amazing.

Speaker 10 (34:36):
I love them.

Speaker 9 (34:37):
I love him in just fifty First Dates, I don't
ever think about him that much in that movie because obviously.

Speaker 8 (34:43):
That is Adam Sailor and Drew Barrymore.

Speaker 9 (34:46):
But I do love his character because like he does
wear those mesh tank tops.

Speaker 6 (34:50):
And yes, great, great, So my Tom Bombadil.

Speaker 8 (34:54):
Story, Yes, thank you. I was just about to ask.

Speaker 11 (34:57):
It's kind of a parenting it's kind of a parenting
tip or parenting pack.

Speaker 6 (35:02):
When we when my kid was really little, you know,
we had to.

Speaker 11 (35:08):
Come up with strategies to get him to give up
things that he had outgrown, like his pacifiers and his
certain clothes that he loved that we were outgrown that
he outgrew and stuff like that. So what we did
is that we sort of created Tom Bombadil as like
a Santa Claus or teeth fairy figure. And so we said, hey,

(35:32):
you donate these things to I forget where we put them.

Speaker 6 (35:36):
I don't know if we I don't remember we put them.
So like, hey, if you if you set these things
out for Tom Bombadil, he'll take.

Speaker 11 (35:44):
Them and give them to a kid that needs them
and he'll leave you a present.

Speaker 6 (35:49):
So that's how we got our We used Tom Bombadil
to get you.

Speaker 11 (35:53):
Know, to get our son to stop using this papsifire
and give up stuff like that.

Speaker 8 (36:01):
That is fucking genius.

Speaker 9 (36:03):
Like I'm gonna tell my husband, and I guarantee we're
gonna do that with our grandchildren because, like you, my
younger kid's seventeen, so like our kids are all grown,
but he's already like making plans for when with grandparents,
which is weird because we're like forty, but you know,
it's like, okay, I'm gonna tell him about that. Because
he also tom boondalls his character as well, like.

Speaker 11 (36:26):
There you go, that's yes, but we sort of make
him like a non denominational Santa Claus.

Speaker 9 (36:31):
Figure out, Yes, that is genius because getting kids to
like give up certain things, like you know, like getting them.

Speaker 8 (36:38):
Out of it.

Speaker 9 (36:38):
It's like, oh, I'm still gonna wear this shirt even
though it comes up to like writ he love it?

Speaker 1 (36:44):
Do you know?

Speaker 8 (36:45):
I know? That's so genius.

Speaker 6 (36:52):
And also like Amityville Horror the Original is I love both.

Speaker 10 (36:57):
The Original and with Ryan yan.

Speaker 8 (37:02):
Zam Wow like our first season four.

Speaker 15 (37:06):
Yes, I love them both, but they're both awful. I
mean they're great, but also it's just like I'm so
sick and tired of these men being like the house
isn't haunted, haunted, what is the problem with you?

Speaker 8 (37:23):
But it wasn't.

Speaker 6 (37:24):
Yeah, it.

Speaker 9 (37:27):
Is a movie I you know, love, and I do
love Amityville movies like when I was a kid. I've
watched like all the awful ones too, like Number two,
the number three, and like all of them.

Speaker 11 (37:39):
Now, I just like, you can't hate a movie that's
got a puking nun uh lois Lane doing the most
bizarre like ballet routine ever and it so try.

Speaker 6 (37:56):
You've got Rod Steiger eating up all of the scenery.

Speaker 11 (37:59):
It's it's just beautiful, beautiful trash and it's a very
autumnal you know it is that that is.

Speaker 9 (38:06):
A good point, I don't think like I actually usually
watch Amityville Horror in the supper time because they live
on that lake and there's the boat scene and like
that just makes me associated with summer. But they're topping
wood because it's it is And like.

Speaker 13 (38:22):
I I like the Anio Horror.

Speaker 10 (38:25):
I really do, like I like the movie.

Speaker 13 (38:27):
We're just like you're specifically discussing the movies, like, yeah,
and I do like them. It's just the dad just
makes me so goddamn mad because he's like and.

Speaker 8 (38:37):
All because he's the one that's possessed.

Speaker 9 (38:39):
Of course he doesn't believe it because his possession is like, no,
that's cool.

Speaker 8 (38:43):
Well, and it's like.

Speaker 16 (38:44):
All dads are like, how dare you? We got this
house to twenty thousand dollars and it's like an ancient
plantation house or it's an inch it's a big, old,
like six bedroom house. Why was it twenty thousand? Why
was it so chief?

Speaker 9 (39:00):
You know, like.

Speaker 6 (39:03):
There's a documentary called My Amityville Horror. Yes, it's all
about the kid all grown up?

Speaker 9 (39:13):
Yeah, yeah, I have not it was of the other kid.

Speaker 17 (39:21):
Kid.

Speaker 6 (39:21):
Okay, let's this kid.

Speaker 9 (39:23):
But because I have watched My Amityville Horror. But I
also watched a lot of documentaries.

Speaker 11 (39:28):
About like the King, this is more about how about
the about how the Warrens sort of had an influence
over how the Amby built story was shaped and how
that had.

Speaker 13 (39:46):
Tonight, we are actually talking about Ed and Lorrie Warren tomorrow,
which I'm excited to do because.

Speaker 8 (39:55):
Which is funny because I think it might actually go
out before this. We haven't actually put on. We might
go out before this.

Speaker 13 (40:03):
It might go out the weekend and there.

Speaker 11 (40:11):
It's crazy like watching the Conjuring movies and they're made
out to be like superheroes, but they like, I'm like, you.

Speaker 10 (40:21):
Know, it's like with there, you.

Speaker 6 (40:23):
Know, they're totally different.

Speaker 11 (40:26):
Yeah, you know what real life warrants were, like snake
oil sales, yes, you know, probably internationalist type.

Speaker 13 (40:37):
And how much ship did they spiritually coming in there?

Speaker 8 (40:42):
You know, Oh my god, I can't wait to have
the whole conversation.

Speaker 9 (40:46):
But like, oh my god, like such bad, such pieces
of actual trash.

Speaker 10 (40:53):
I feel like there's a.

Speaker 11 (40:54):
Couple well and didn't like think their stories of Ed
being towards yep, a teenager towards yeah.

Speaker 9 (41:04):
Yeah, and then and then Lorraine making that teenager get
rid of Ed's mistake, even though they're.

Speaker 10 (41:09):
Like, okay, I haven't we're done the research, guys. Spoiler
I think what spoiler?

Speaker 11 (41:15):
There's such Yeah, there's some first.

Speaker 8 (41:20):
Yeah, oh my god.

Speaker 9 (41:21):
Yeah, Like now I know why whenever you like, I
don't know if you ever noticed my face and you're like,
I love and Lorraine, and I'm like why, And it's
because I know them from well, I grew up with
just documentaries that they were involved in, and the movies
came when I was like thirty, you know, actually, yeah,
like in my thirties is when the movies came out,

(41:42):
so like I never mentally put them together when I
watched The Conjuring, because.

Speaker 8 (41:48):
Before I watched all the movies for.

Speaker 9 (41:50):
The episode that We're gonna do, I'd only ever seen
the Conjuring, and the Conjuring scared the actual shit out
of me. It was the first time ever that I
almost written my popcorn but an apt and had popcorn
go everywhere. But like, I've never had that happen in
a movie before ever, and that movie stared the ship
out of me. But then like when I was realizing
that this these this couple in the movie is these

(42:14):
people from stuff I watched like in the eighties and nineties,
I was like, oh, it's it makes sense as to why.

Speaker 8 (42:21):
I was like, what, like.

Speaker 13 (42:23):
You said, like with Lizzie Borden that everybody focuses on
the she's a killer.

Speaker 10 (42:28):
She did that. Everybody's focusing on the positive.

Speaker 13 (42:31):
Well, we're making it positive for Ed and Lay everybody
makes it.

Speaker 8 (42:37):
That was her stification in the to do the movies?

Speaker 18 (42:41):
Really did she She's still alive.

Speaker 10 (42:44):
She's still alive, for sure.

Speaker 8 (42:46):
Do your Yeah, I know about.

Speaker 18 (42:55):
May really fifteen maybe though, because like one of the
things that granted, I was probably watching old the documentaries,
but I could have sworn like what I was reading
or the last thing said like and she's still alive.

Speaker 8 (43:09):
But that might have been produced a couple of years.
I don't know how that was.

Speaker 11 (43:14):
I think it's fairly recent. Shoot, yeah, they're kind of problem.

Speaker 12 (43:22):
Yea.

Speaker 6 (43:24):
And that case from the Haunting to the case from
the Conjuring.

Speaker 8 (43:28):
To the Oh my gosh, I think.

Speaker 6 (43:33):
I like, that's my favorite.

Speaker 10 (43:36):
In the movies.

Speaker 9 (43:37):
Well, and it's so funny because i'd never seen The
Conjuring two before, like a week or two ago when
I watched them, and I told Maddie when I was
watching them.

Speaker 8 (43:44):
But like I remember, like I've seen that story.

Speaker 9 (43:48):
On like like Discovery Channel shows and stuff like that
so many times they say, yeah, so I was like
the crazy way that they depicted in the movie, I'm like,
that didn't happen.

Speaker 6 (43:59):
That didn't.

Speaker 9 (44:01):
And I'm like, Okay, yes, this is a it's a movie.
It's a movie. I have happen to be like it's
it's it's based on true events.

Speaker 8 (44:10):
But yeah, like, oh yeah, I.

Speaker 6 (44:14):
Like true.

Speaker 8 (44:16):
Well, one of my stories is actually.

Speaker 11 (44:18):
Based years years is it's just true. I have true
and true issue stories and yours is all true.

Speaker 8 (44:26):
That's fun, fun times.

Speaker 7 (44:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (44:27):
I actually was just telling my most recent scary story
to to Mama De on Pedals of Support last night,
because it happened last.

Speaker 8 (44:36):
September, and it involves a doll named Annabelle.

Speaker 9 (44:39):
So I figure I'll talk about that as well on
our end Lorraine episode.

Speaker 6 (44:46):
To me and we'll wa okay.

Speaker 8 (44:48):
Oh yeah, because this is crazy, like you wouldn't.

Speaker 6 (44:51):
Believe the Hunt for True True Stories.

Speaker 9 (44:55):
Yeah, and it does involve a doll named Annabelle because
our mutual friend yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, she she collects
haunted dolls and this one's named Annabella and it's great.

Speaker 8 (45:07):
So that's creepy and it has no eyeballs, so creepy.

Speaker 11 (45:11):
They get along with the with the Gin from ar
True True podcast. She collects doll heads, so yeah, crapy.

Speaker 5 (45:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (45:22):
She talks about that in the group chat that we're in.

Speaker 11 (45:25):
Yeah, she has like a whole mantle. She's shown me
pictures of just doll heads.

Speaker 6 (45:31):
Okay.

Speaker 9 (45:31):
The dichotomy of different kinds of people who like paranormal ship.
I have a collection of rubber duckies, like I have
a whole, like two shelves of rubber duckies, but dollheads.

Speaker 6 (45:41):
Sucked up I have. I have a collection of post dispensers,
so nice.

Speaker 19 (45:46):
That's that's I'm very not speaky in real life.

Speaker 2 (46:00):
To hear my full tarot reading, listen to the Octaro
BurrH episode of Witches Talking Tarot. You can find them
on YouTube or wherever fine podcasts can be heard. Now,
sit back in a comfortable chair next to the loud

(46:22):
speaker and get ready for your spine to tingle. Our
next tale of the supernatural starts now. I wanted to
be alone. I hastily packed up my knapsack, and taking

(46:47):
the train to Westmoreland. I began my tramp in a
search of solitude, bracing air and romantic surroundings. There are
many places I might have come upon during that early
summer on Dering, but fate was driving me to this
cottage on the moor, and no man can resist his destiny.

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One day I found myself on a wide and pathless
moor near the sea. I had slept the night before
at a small hamlet, but that was already eight miles
behind me, and since I had turned my back upon it,
I had not seen any signs of humanity. I was alone,
with a fair sky above me, a balmy wind blowing

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over stony, heather clad mounds, and nothing to disturb my meditations.
How far the more stretched I had no knowledge. I
only knew that by keeping a straight line, I could
come to the ocean cliffs. Then, perhaps after a time,
arrived at some fishing village. I had provisions in my knapsack,

(47:53):
and being young, I did not fear a night under
the stars. I was inhaling the delicious summer and once
more getting back the vigor and happiness I had lost.
My brains that had been numbed by city life began
to wake up. Thus, hour after hour slid past me

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until I covered about fifteen miles since morning. When I
saw before me in the distance a solitary, stone built
cottage with roughly slated roof, I quickened my steps towards
it with some vague notion of camping there, if possible
to one in search of a quiet, free life. Nothing

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could have possibly been more suitable than this cottage. It
stood on the edge of lofty cliffs, with its front
door facing the moor, and the back yard wall overlooking
the ocean. The sound of the dancing waves struck upon
my ears like a lullaby as I drew near. How
they would thunder when strong gales came on, and the

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sea birds fled shrieking to the shelter of the sedges.
A small garden spread in front, surrounded by a dry
stone wall, just high enough for one to lean lazily
upon when inclined. This garden was a flame color scarlet,
predominating with those other soft shades that cultivated poppies take

(49:17):
on in their blooming. For this was all that the
garden grew. As I approached, taking notice of this singular
assortment of poppies and the orderly cleanness of the windows,
the front door opened and a woman appeared who impressed
me at once favorably as she leisurely came along the

(49:38):
pathway to the gate and drew it back as if
to welcome me. She was of middle age, and when
young must have been remarkably handsome. She was tall and
still shapely, with smooth, clear skin, regular features, and calm
expression that at once put me at easy. She said

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she could give me both a sitting and bedroom and
invited me inside to see them. As I looked at
her smooth black hair and cool brown eyes, I felt
that I would not be too particular about the accommodation
with such a landlady. I was sure to find what
I was seeking here. The room surpassed my expectation, dainty

(50:23):
white curtains and bedding with the perfume of lavender about them,
a sitting room, homely yet cozy without being crowded. With
a sigh of infinite relief, I flung down my knapsack
and clinched the bargain. As she was a widow with
one daughter, whom I did not see that first day

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as she was unwell and confined to her own room.
But on the next day she was somewhat better, and
then we met. The meals they served me were simple ones,
yet they suited me delicious milk and butter with home
made scones, fresh eggs and bacon. After a hearty tea,

(51:04):
I went to bed in a condition of perfect content
with my quarters. Yet happy and tired out as I was,
I had by no means a comfortable night. This I
put down to the strange bed. Of course, I did sleep,
But my sleep was filled with dreams so wild that

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I woke late and unrefreshed. A good walk on the
moor would surely restore me. The loneliness of the moor
with the singing of the ocean had gripped my heart
with a wistful longing. The incongruity of those flaunting and
evanescent poppy flowers dashing the giddy tints in the face

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of that sober gray heath touched me with a shiver.
As I approached the cottage, I had worked up a
fine appetite for breakfast. It was over breakfast that I
was introduced to the landlady's daughter, Ariadne, and in that
moment I succumbed instantly to her weird charms. She was

(52:13):
in somewhat better health this morning and felt well enough
to breakfast with me. In fact, we would eat all
of our meals together while I was a lodger there.
Ariadne was not beautiful in any conventional sense, her complexion
being too lividly white and her expression too set to
be quite pleasant at first sight. Yet, as her mother

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had informed me, she had been ill for some time,
which accounted for that slight defect. Her features were not regular,
Her hair and eyes seemed too black with that strangely
white skin, and her lips a trifle too red. Her
beauty was more haunting than classical, other worldly alien. Arietne

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rose from her chair as her mother introduced her, and
smiled while she held out her hand for me to clasp,
Cold and delicate and soft as a snowflake, A faint
thrill tingled over me and rested on my heart, stopping
for the moment in its beating. This contact seemed also
to have affected her as it did me. A clear

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flush like a white flame, lighted up her face so
that it glowed. Her black eyes became softer as our
glances crossed, and her scarlet lips grew moist. She was
a living woman now, while before she had seemed half
a corpse. She permitted her slender hand to remain in

(53:55):
mine longer than most people do at an introduction, and
then she slowly withdrew it, still holding me with steadfast
eyes for a second or two afterwards. Fathomless, velvety eyes
these were, yet before they were shifted from mine, they
appeared to have absorbed all my will power and made
me her abject slave. They looked like deep, dark pools

(54:19):
of clear water. Yet they filled me with fire and
deprived me of strength. I sank languidly into my chair,
as if in a swoon. Yet I ate a hearty breakfast,
and although she hardly tasted anything, this strange girl rose
much refreshed and with a slight glow of color on
her cheeks. I had come here seeking solitude, but since

(54:43):
I had seen Ariadne, it seemed as if I had
come for her. Only She was not very lively. She
answered my questions and monosyllables, yet she was insinuating and
appeared to lead my thoughts in her direction. Indeed, she
spoke to me with her eyes. I cannot describe her minutely.

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I only know that from the first glance and touch
she gave me, I was bewitched and could think of
nothing but her. It was a rapid, distracting and devouring

(55:27):
infestation that possessed me all day long. I followed her
about like a lapdog. Every night I dreamed of that white,
glowing face, those steadfast black eyes, those moist scarlet lips.
And each morning I rose feeling more languid than I
had the day before. Sometimes I dreamt that she was

(55:49):
kissing me with those red lips, while I shivered at
the contact of her silky black tresses as they covered
my throat. Sometimes I dreamed that we were floating in
the air, her arms about me and her long hair
enveloping us both like an inky cloud, while I lay

(56:10):
helpless as an infant. Ariadne went with me after breakfast
on that first day to the moor, and before we
came back, I had confessed my love and received her assent.
I held her in my arms, and had taken her
kisses in answer to mine. I never once thought it

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strange that all this had happened so quickly. She was mine,
or rather I was hers. Without a pause, I told
her it was fate that had sent me to her,
for I had no doubts about my love, and she
replied that I had restored her to life, acting upon

(56:56):
Ariadne's advice and also from a natural shotiness. I did
not inform her mother how quickly matters had progressed between us. Yet,
although we both acted as circumspectly as possible, I had
no doubt my Landlady could see how engrossed we were
in each other. Lovers are not unlike ostriches in the

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clumsiness of their concealment. I was not afraid of asking
for Ariadne's hand so far as social position was concerned.
After all, there could be no real objection to our marriage.
They lived in this lonely spot for the sake of
their health, and kept no servant because they could not
get any to take service so far away from other humanity.

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My coming had surely been opportune and welcome to both
mother and daughter. For our decorum, however, I resolved to
delay my confession for a week or two until some
favorable opportunity of doing so discreetly presented itself. Meanwhile, Ariadne
and I passed the days in the thoroughly idle fashion

(58:01):
of a lotus eater. Each night I retired to bed thirstily,
drinking down a warm nightcap. It tasted like an exceedingly
tart mulled wine, which was always waiting on the bedside table.
Each morning, I rose languid from the disturbing dreams, with
no thought for anything outside my love. Ariadne grew stronger

(58:24):
every day while I appeared to be taking her place
as the invalid. Yet I was more frantically in love
than ever, and only happy when I was at her side.
She was my lone star, my only joy, my life.
We did not travel great distances, for I liked best

(58:45):
to lie on the dry heath and watch her glowing
face and intense eyes while I listened to the surging
of the distant waves. Love made me lazy, like a
housecat basking in the sunshine. I had been enchanted quickly.

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My disenchantment came with equal speed, although it was long
before the poison left my blood altogether. One night, about
a couple of weeks after my coming to the cottage,
I returned from a moonlight walk with Ariadne. The night

(59:28):
was warm and the moon full, so I left my
bedroom window open to let in what little air there was.
I was more fatigued than usual, so much so that
I had only strength enough to remove my boots and
coat before I flung myself on the coverlet and fell
instantly asleep, without first tasting the night cap, which was

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my usual custom to imbibe. I had a ghastly dream
this night. I thought I saw a monster bat with
the face of Ariadne fly into the open window and
to fasten its needle, sharp white teeth and scarlet lips
on my arm. I tried to beat the horror away,

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but could not, for I seemed chained and enthralled in
some damnable ecstasy. As the beast sucked my blood with
a gruesome rapture, I looked out dreamily and saw a
line of dead bodies of young men lying on the floor,
each with a red mark on their arms, on the

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same spot where the vampire was then sucking me. In
a flash, I understood the reason for my strange weakness,
and at the same moment, a sudden prick of pain
roused me from my dreamy pleasure. The vampire, in her eagerness,
had bitten a little too deeply that night, unaware that

(01:00:53):
I had not consumed the drug that had been dissolved
in my night cap. As I woke, I saw her
fully field by the moonlight, with our black tresses flowing,
tangled with gore, her red lips glued to my arm.
With a shriek of horror, I dashed her backwards, getting
one last glimpse of her savage eyes, glowing white face,

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and blood stained red lips. You have been listening to
the vampire made by Hume nisbit narrated by Edward October.
Stick around after the credits for a brief word from
some of our fellow indie podcasters, creators and friends. There

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may even be some bloopers, outtakes, and bonus content as well.
You have been listening to October Pod. October Pod is produced,
edited and directed by Edward October. The series co producers
are m J McAdams and Amber Jordan. Logo and banner
graphics by Jessica Good Edward October. Character design by Nick Calavera.

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Speaker 20 (01:03:06):
Hi. I'm Kayla and my co host Lexi and I
host a podcast called a Little Wicked. We discussed true
crame cases along with cults, conspiracy theories, cryptids, and really
anything that we find strange or interesting to share with
you guys. You can find us on Apple, Spotify, and
anywhere else you listen to podcasts.

Speaker 12 (01:03:24):
Welcome to Chatsunami, a vari to podcast that discusses topics
from gaming, the films, to anime and general interests.

Speaker 7 (01:03:31):
Previously on chat Tsunami, we've analyzed what makes a good
horror game, conducted a retrospective on Pierce Brosnan's runs James Bond,
and listen to us take deep dives into both the
Sonic and Halo franchises.

Speaker 21 (01:03:43):
Also, if you're an anime fan, but don't forget, to
check us out on our sub series Chatsu Nanni, where
we dive into the world of anime. So far, we've
reviewed things like Death Notes, Princess Maninoke, and the hit
Bay Blade series.

Speaker 12 (01:03:53):
If that sounds like you're a cup of tea, then
you can check us out with Spotify, iTunes and no
big podcasts.

Speaker 21 (01:03:59):
Out as always, stay safe.

Speaker 7 (01:04:02):
Stay awesome, and most importantly, stay hydrated.

Speaker 22 (01:04:05):
Yo it'chy boy Shity from award losing podcast Dungeons and Dickheads.
Do you like unhinged, wholesome shenanigans performed by four people
you've never heard of who have no idea how to
D or D, then we're the podcast for you. Search
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choice with a purple one someone stole our name, or

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even better at go to Dungeonsanddickheads dot co dot uk.
That's Dungeonsandickheads dot co dot uk for all the episodes
and some extras. Dungeons of Dickheads is the comedy podcast
for people who don't dn D good and want to
hear people DND worse than them. With so little budget,
they can't make a proper advert but we're having fun anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:04:48):
Testing testing one, two, three, so We may hear some
landscapers leaf blowing in the background, but that's just two
fucking bad. My winter break is coming up, and the
time I'm going to have alone in the house is

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limited because there's always gonna be people in the fucking
house because of Christmas. So we're just going to fix
it and post I'm sorry, not sorry, lean into the
gothic tone here.

Speaker 3 (01:05:27):
In nineteen ninety five, I was a senior in high
school and Whereversville. In nineteen ninety five, I was a
senior in high school and redacted.

Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
Public schools.

Speaker 6 (01:05:44):
Public.

Speaker 2 (01:05:47):
Let's simplify that, including references to animal cruelty and substance abuse.
Listener ooh you hear that fucking pop suspense fair Fair
suspense fanfair mm hmm, what the fuck? Fucking a motherfucker

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mother ship? What the retro podcast for Bold Individualist.

Speaker 9 (01:06:25):
It's loud, which listeners hang out For our Thursday episode,
we're going to cover wands as.

Speaker 8 (01:06:33):
A whole because we thought.

Speaker 9 (01:06:36):
Episode well, it's for this.

Speaker 15 (01:06:39):
Oh, this is.

Speaker 6 (01:06:45):
Exactly boilers outside my house.

Speaker 9 (01:06:53):
I meant to like, I meant to start this reading
by going, all right, now, we're gonna find out about
the man behind the Fu.

Speaker 6 (01:07:05):
I have a remind me later, I have a Tom
Bombadill story.

Speaker 8 (01:07:09):
I will because I love.

Speaker 2 (01:07:11):
How they would thunder when the autumn gales came on,
and the sea birds fled, shrieking to the shelter of
the sedges. When this was to fucking be summertime. Why
are their autumn gales if it's fucking summertime? How they
would thunder when gales came on and the sea birds fled,

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How they would thunder when the autumn gales Probably a
good place for gold sting.

Speaker 6 (01:07:44):
Oh could be bad?

Speaker 2 (01:07:47):
A faint thrill tingled over me and rested on my heart,
stopping for the moment. It's beating imperfections and audio quality
him perfections and audio quality like the mother fu heater
cutting on. I had provisions in my napstat This isn't

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the the on air reading of the title, but this
is the Vampire Maiden airplanes. While I'm reclaim Hohodo thunken.
This is Edward October, creator host of October pod Am.

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But tonight I am running the Elevator of History right now?
Does everyone have all their bits inside?

Speaker 5 (01:08:50):
Good?

Speaker 2 (01:08:51):
Here we go FX Elevator ding first floor, Primordial Ooze
I wouldn't go out there if I were you. The
sunsets are brilliant, but mostly fatal. Fx ding. Second floor
dinosaurs FX roar. I'm sorry, sir, you exceed the weight limit.

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I'm afraid you'll have to wait for the next elevator
of history to come along. Fx ding. Third floor Cave
people FX cave people chanting same to you, sir, fx ding,
fourth floor Early civilizations, Ah, Ancient Greece. Lovely plays here,

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just lovely fx ding. And here we are at the
fourth floor. The Roman Empire, the setting of tonight's story.
Watch your step and mind the guys with the crests
on their helmets and the short swords. Those are centurions,
soldiers and peacekeepers of the Roman Empire. And now, with

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a short overview of the Roman Empire in the second
century b C. Here's Dean, the dad of family plot.
With a shriek of horror. I dashed her backwards, getting
one last glimpse of her savage eyes, glowing white face,
and blood stained red lips. Then I rushed out into

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the night. Then I rushed out to the night. Then
I rushed out to the night, moved on by my
fear and revulsion. I did not pause in my mad
flight until I had left miles between me and that
cursed village on the moor.

Speaker 1 (01:10:47):
Oh shit, trying again, yea.

Speaker 17 (01:11:06):
An anything that you may dance?

Speaker 5 (01:11:20):
Say yet, how much.

Speaker 4 (01:11:52):
Goss?

Speaker 23 (01:12:02):
Try again?

Speaker 17 (01:12:07):
Cheese from seasons, respectation, display.

Speaker 1 (01:12:58):
Of others.

Speaker 23 (01:13:06):
Oh shit, try again, us people, Try again, You say

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the cheese. Do you see.

Speaker 5 (01:14:58):
Any thing okays Neo Nao Junior in this place home,
the space she was d