S1E8 - Keep the Light On - Operation Proxy Decay - Delta Green AP - Dead Letter Bureau

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The following document was discovered in Baguio Depot in the early 1900s or late 1800s.

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It can't be dated, but the paper and the language in the document point to that era.

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This is a fragment of what could be found.

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most unsettling of all the recent developments.

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The congregation has come to believe the intelligence within the jar is not a prisoner but

a guide.

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They claim it speaks to them in these shared dreams, that it shows them visions of a

verdant path to a world beyond their own.

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They have taken to calling it their shepherd, leaving offerings of strange swamp flora and

animal bones at its base, while one must be careful not to lend credence to such a

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primitive superstition.

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The compelling nature of the shared hallucinatory experience cannot be easily dismissed by

the rational mind.

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It is a phenomenon that warrants further, more rigorous scientific study.

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Can you roll your sanity?

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Sanity current is 54 and I got a 400 again.

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Wild.

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Well, yeah, I was like, wait a minute, sometimes that's good.

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A lot of times that's not good to get that.

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So, all right, what do we got?

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Yeah, you don't lose any Sam at all just by witnessing this, but you look down and see it

and it is.

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incomprehensibly strange to see this pattern on something natural.

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Does it look like something used to be there but isn't now?

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Or did it just kind of form in that space in particular?

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Go ahead and roll your unnatural plus 20%.

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perfect.

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So we're just looking for 20, not even close, 79.

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it's hard to say, again, that the incomprehensible nature of it starts to get to you a

little bit.

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No sanity roll right now, but it's a little overwhelming to witness.

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Over to Agent Ryan, you see Barone walk past you up to the altar.

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What are you doing?

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Am I having the same sort of reaction or feelings as they are?

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You're not.

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In fact, you don't know what Barone's doing.

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They're just walking up there to you.

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OK.

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I'm going to kind of follow, kind of conservatively follow them towards the altar.

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And I'm going to ask her, like, hey, what do you see up there?

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Well, for the second time today, I am not sure.

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It just looks kind of like a uh big swirl, per se, that doesn't look like it should be

here.

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Sorry, I didn't mean to charge in the room before you.

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I just saw that Del let you go in alone, and I didn't think that was a good idea.

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I blinked, and now I'm, she turns around and looks around, and I made my way up here,

apparently.

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and I'll kind of walk back over kind of down more towards Ryan.

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I don't know if you do or don't want to take a look at that.

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was just kind of strange.

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A swirl is all I could say.

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I think I do want to take a look at that.

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And so I walk up there myself and kind of scope it out.

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Yeah, go ahead and roll your sand.

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67 out of 68.

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Oh my God.

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Whoa.

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you look down, you don't quite get what Agent Barone is saying, but you get that this is

very strange.

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Yeah, that's just a large swirl of fungus embedded into the floorboards and rot.

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And then it coalesces on this point in between the podium and the altar behind it.

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Does the fungus look similar to the fungus we saw earlier?

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Go ahead and give me a forensics role.

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uh

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Got it 44 out of 64.

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That's also critical success, right?

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It is, yeah.

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It doesn't look like that other fungus necessarily.

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This is more of a rot.

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But as you get close to it, the sunlight bounces off of something and shows almost like a

sheen of purple, uh almost like pollen.

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that is on the top of it.

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And you can see it floating around the air as well.

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kind of spore-like?

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Spore-like, yeah.

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Can I reach down and touch the fungus?

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Does it react to me in any way?

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Roll your power as you do that.

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Oh, three, got it.

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as soon as you touch it, you feel the sensation of your body dissolve almost into the

fungus.

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It's like you dropped into a pool, but that pool was this fungus.

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You immediately feel like you're in it.

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Your mind becomes almost joyfully unmade and it's absorbed in something vast green.

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and it feels that way for what seems to be days to you until you also feel something

hungry in it.

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You feel a hunger in you and then you snap back out of it.

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But there is something strange about this fungus.

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when I come out of it, I'm like, OK.

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That was weird.

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I guess I asked for an experience, and I just got one.

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Don't touch the fungus.

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And I'm talking to Agent Barone.

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Yeah, mean, fair enough.

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I don't think I would think to.

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What did you feel?

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How long was I gone?

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How long was I away?

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What do mean?

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You've been there literally the entire time.

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You haven't gotten anywhere.

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That is so weird.

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I feel like I just went on a trip somewhere for a few days.

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um A place I can't really describe, but an OK feeling, but just took me somewhere out of

here.

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I wasn't here for a long time.

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Yeah, maybe they weren't joking when they said this place was full of uh...

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full of hoodoo and...

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whatever.

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Agent Sandusky, outside.

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Are you coming in to join them?

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You still searching around the church?

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I would definitely make a full canvassing loop.

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I think I was also curious when uh Ryan started prying at a way to get in.

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If Cheryl had been looking any way over here, I'm kind of just curious about her because I

don't exactly know what her business is and I know she didn't seem particularly interested

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in the church, but again, not really clear.

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what is or isn't her business that I should or shouldn't be stepping in.

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So I'm kind of just running the perimeter at this point.

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I may, if I still ain't heard nothing from the inside, no cathunks, no exclamations, I may

give just like a rap on the siding so they can perhaps hear.

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before that, give me a search role.

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All right.

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Nope.

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Yeah, looking over at Cheryl, she does sneak glances back at you.

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She doesn't seem particularly, put out by you going into the church.

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It would be hard for her to notice because you were on the backside.

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She could have heard the board coming off, but it hasn't piqued her interest quite yet.

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inside the church.

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As you two are talking, both of you give me another...

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roll.

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It failed 85 out of 80.

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Crit failed.

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88 out of 55.

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you're in here talking and agent Ryan's words start to sound like a distant echo to you,

agent Barone.

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You feel uneasy and lightheaded.

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The air starts to feel thick.

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That ecstasy you were in earlier, that brief moment of elation is nowhere to be found.

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And you, through your feet, you swear you feel the thrumming of something dire under you,

under the floorboards, reaching up through your feet, just zhing, zhing, pulling at you.

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All right.

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whoo.

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Yeah.

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So more, more feelings.

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Also, we should probably do, do two things.

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One, get out of here or two, rip up the floorboards and see what's underneath in this

exact moment.

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Can't really tell which is the better path.

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Brian, what do you think?

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And she's swaying kind of oozy a little bit.

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Yeah, I think I I mean, I'm most inclined of going towards this spiral and kind of seeing

if I can see anything like in the spiral or is the fungus moving at all?

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No, it's not.

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And are you standing by the spout right now?

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I am.

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Yeah, I'm kind of standing and like peering into the center of what the spiral seems to

be.

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The overhead shot would have Ryan standing right in the middle of it, having just touched

it, and you, Barone, are probably a little off to the side of it, outside of the main

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spiral.

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Okay, here's a crazy idea.

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uh Let's scratch that itch a bit.

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Is there...

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you know, marks the spot type thing.

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Do you wanna, how do you feel about breaking through that bad boy and seeing what's

directly under that spiral?

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What are you proposing?

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I maybe grab that metal pipe behind you and do a little crack crack down below.

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Yeah, let's do it.

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Let's see what's below.

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outside Dell knocks on the window at this moment.

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Oh, uh, hey, Del, it's, there's definitely some stuff in here.

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It's, uh, getting a little weird.

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I'm not sure if you should or should not come in, but you're welcome to, if you'd like.

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Um, I don't know.

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It's, it's seeming, uh, it's seeming a little strange in here, but we are going to dig in

a little bit and see if we can find anything.

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I'll come around and supervise.

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Are you sure you should be doing that?

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I'll come back to the back door and I'll rest it open.

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um In fact, I'm going to take the rest of the boards off conspicuousness be damned, I

guess.

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And maybe just like give a little wave so that some of these spores kind of like waft in

the sunlight and I am

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going to regard them as though they are not themselves.

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um Because, slightly intoxicated sounding baron said it's getting a little weird in here,

so like, I'm not really inclined to be in the thick of it.

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Yeah, firmly staying on the outside, ah but keeping watch.

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There's plenty of things you could use in here to break this open.

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There's not a lot of metal, but there's other wood you could use for leverage.

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You have an assault rifle, but if Dell wants to lend it, there are ways.

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uh What's your approach so we can calculate how much time it'll take?

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I'm fine trying the pipe, give it little bang and see what happens.

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imagining there's like in pews right there's like a where you sit and then there's like a

metal runner underneath that's like extra structure and that's where I imagine we get the

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metal from is like the bottom of a pew that is rotted away or something like that but if

there's no like metal metal around well we could definitely find something else I think uh

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before Agent Ryan starts into it maybe a little a little too little too late style type

thing but I like to take um something and

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and wrap it around my face to at least lessen any more intoxication from these dusts

before we dig any further.

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Sure, you're masked up.

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You have a little cloth around your face.

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So you wrap something around your face, you do find a metal pipe.

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I just rolled a luck roll for the environment and it is there and it is in the pews and

you can start prying away.

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Both of you give me strength times five or athletics as you're doing this work.

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Great.

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So strength times 5 is 65.

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And I got a 50 flat.

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So success.

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Success on my side, 26 out of 55.

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Awesome.

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Yeah, you, this is gonna take about a half an hour to fully get.

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This isn't the right tool.

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It's not a crowbar, but you're able to start working at it and getting floorboards out.

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And about three floorboards in, you notice that the wood is fully consumed by this black

rot.

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It's...

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like dingy and gross, but it maintains its hardness, which is very strange.

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It's not rotten to the point of disintegrating.

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So it's still very hard and maintains its original structure.

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And you start pulling these out and below the boards, you see a giant wooden box.

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Not giant, excuse me, this, about two feet wide.

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two by two by two.

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Okay, I'm putting on my gloves and I'm gonna hoist this box out from below and bring it

up.

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no, that's, yeah, that's not a bad idea.

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Definitely, uh, strap up if you can.

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Um, I don't happen to have gloves on me as well, do I?

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When you got the, yeah, when you got the swamp gear, you have that type of glove, not a,

what do they call, nylon or whatever, plastic glove.

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Neoprene, there you go.

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Yeah, awesome.

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Yeah, I'll just assist Ryan and him to make it a little easier by like, you know, peeling

back some of the boards where the box is getting caught and make sure that he can pull it

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up.

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Yeah, Ryan, you pull it up.

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It's pretty heavy and you yank it out, falling backward onto your butt and the box is

fully out.

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There is a latch.

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There's no lock to it.

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And the box itself is not covered in any of the fungus or rot.

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okay.

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So it's not on the box itself is what you're saying?

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Yeah, not on the box itself.

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Think we should haul this out of here so we have a bit more light.

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Open it up.

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I mean, I'm not sure if we should take it out of this church per se, especially if, um,

you know, there's something in the air, that's for sure.

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Maybe we try to keep it contained if at all possible, but maybe near a window, sure.

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Okay.

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I imagine you drag it into that beam of light that's changing from the roof as the time

goes on.

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It's like a kind of a, A time dial as it's kind of moving around the room.

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And you unlatch it, open it.

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Inside, you see a strange metal object.

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with glass around it and a dried brain and brain stem in it.

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There are small ports in the bottom of it.

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Everybody roll their sanity.

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Agent Barone and Agent Ryan, roll your sanity.

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Got it with five.

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Sanity 54 and I got a 001 or 100.

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Dang.

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Nice, that's a critical success, So you will only lose, you'll only lose one sanity

because the critical success.

229

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Agent Ryan, you still have to roll me a D4 for your sand loss.

230

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You can project it too if you would like.

231

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Do you wanna project it on a bond or take the sand?

232

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How many did you say sorry?

233

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Less?

234

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Just a D4, you gotta roll a D4.

235

00:18:58,726 --> 00:18:59,685

Oww.

236

00:19:07,649 --> 00:19:09,232

finding the right dice here.

237

00:19:13,820 --> 00:19:19,822

Okay, you take two sand and you add that two to a natural, Ryan, you add that one to a

natural, right?

238

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How would you steel yourself against seeing something like this?

239

00:19:25,810 --> 00:19:28,993

I mean, I'm very curious, right?

240

00:19:28,993 --> 00:19:36,199

I never imagined that opening a box would just be like a container with a brain inside of

it.

241

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So it's definitely unexpected and it's shocking, but I'm also just like, my curiosity.

242

00:19:44,669 --> 00:19:48,641

is the most powerful thing in my brain at the moment, not anything else.

243

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So I'm just really curious about what this is and what it could be.

244

00:19:55,027 --> 00:19:59,703

Likewise, Agent Barone, this is your first real operation.

245

00:19:59,744 --> 00:20:06,153

You just saw a shriveled up brain in a metal and glass tube.

246

00:20:06,394 --> 00:20:10,760

How do you rationalize that and keep yourself from losing your shit?

247

00:20:11,192 --> 00:20:14,375

Um, I think I, I think I use humor.

248

00:20:15,197 --> 00:20:16,618

yeah, Ryan, no, for sure.

249

00:20:16,618 --> 00:20:18,460

This totally makes a lot of sense.

250

00:20:18,460 --> 00:20:23,246

Creepy Swamp Man, a little bit of fungus in the air, a brain in a tube.

251

00:20:23,246 --> 00:20:23,896

Yeah, totally.

252

00:20:23,896 --> 00:20:28,130

This, is a normal thing for normal day with people like us, right?

253

00:20:28,512 --> 00:20:29,378

Right?

254

00:20:29,378 --> 00:20:37,024

oh Alright, um, is that even a human brain?

255

00:20:37,304 --> 00:20:39,506

And then I'll take a look.

256

00:20:39,506 --> 00:20:40,949

this brain?

257

00:20:42,449 --> 00:20:47,746

So before we jump into that, Del Sandusky, you haven't seen this.

258

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They opened a box.

259

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You see a brief moment on their face past them.

260

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You're not sure about any of this, I'm assuming.

261

00:20:55,014 --> 00:20:56,365

What's your approach?

262

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Not really.

263

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uh I guess as they had been prying up floorboards, I was curious if maybe I might have

been inspecting some of the, like, the structural integrity that you were describing that

264

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seems to be still withheld in this kind of, like, I don't know, living decay.

265

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em But if they are, like, pulling something out and breaking something open...

266

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I I'm inclined to go over when they start exclaiming.

267

00:21:31,585 --> 00:21:38,861

Okay, yeah, give me a sand roll as you peek into this box and see this brain.

268

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Alright.

269

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Mmm.

270

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70.

271

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That sounds bad.

272

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Yeah.

273

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No good.

274

00:21:49,533 --> 00:21:50,536

Romeo D6.

275

00:21:54,235 --> 00:21:57,222

Okay, are you going to project on a bond?

276

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The two is the sand loss?

277

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Otherwise?

278

00:22:02,995 --> 00:22:03,616

Ummm...

279

00:22:03,616 --> 00:22:04,948

That sounds okay.

280

00:22:05,331 --> 00:22:06,101

Okay.

281

00:22:06,424 --> 00:22:06,754

Yeah.

282

00:22:06,754 --> 00:22:12,036

What, what do you experience as you see this to whittle away at your sanity?

283

00:22:12,066 --> 00:22:23,289

Yeah, I see uh no future for this thing, like no possible idea what it could be used for.

284

00:22:23,289 --> 00:22:24,990

That is a black abyss.

285

00:22:24,990 --> 00:22:37,213

And all I see is a thousand possibilities for how it came to be in this place, what thing

it might have come from and what that thing might have experienced in order for it to

286

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appear here as this tool or apparatus or some other

287

00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:43,558

thing, right?

288

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To experience whatever it might have been before it became a thing.

289

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you are completely overwhelmed by what cosmic forces would bring something like this into

being.

290

00:22:56,752 --> 00:23:10,508

And thinking of the subjective experience of the individual whose brain this was, like in

all of that, is an insurmountable thing for you to process right now.

291

00:23:15,706 --> 00:23:20,408

The time is almost 5.30 p.m.

292

00:23:20,811 --> 00:23:22,895

as you've pulled this out.

293

00:23:25,444 --> 00:23:28,454

seems like you have some discussing to do.

294

00:23:31,462 --> 00:23:34,739

On earth do you think you've got your hands on there?

295

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Who'd you think?

296

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I'd call it a brain.

297

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Catch you.

298

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It's a very literal naming actually.

299

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It's a brain in a tube to be more exact.

300

00:23:51,553 --> 00:23:55,086

um What size is this?

301

00:23:55,086 --> 00:23:56,297

Does this belong to?

302

00:23:56,297 --> 00:24:06,807

And she'll kind of like look at it and like hold it up next to either Ryan or Dell and

kind of like look at the size and see if the size is about right for a human or if it's

303

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the right shape for like a uh cranial cavity of a person.

304

00:24:12,820 --> 00:24:16,980

Let's see, let see what a good skill for that is.

305

00:24:18,288 --> 00:24:19,900

Does anybody have any biology?

306

00:24:19,900 --> 00:24:21,760

I don't think so.

307

00:24:22,101 --> 00:24:25,262

There's also, yeah, medicine or forensics seems.

308

00:24:25,754 --> 00:24:31,792

Medicine's a good, anybody who wants to roll medicine or biology on it can.

309

00:24:33,808 --> 00:24:35,076

either of those.

310

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Same.

311

00:24:36,399 --> 00:24:37,359

Okay.

312

00:24:37,576 --> 00:24:38,357

You

313

00:24:38,357 --> 00:24:40,412

Yeah, I mean, you mentioned it was desiccated.

314

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I imagine that that really warps the scale of what we're dealing with, right?

315

00:24:44,512 --> 00:24:46,927

Water content has to be crazy in a-

316

00:24:48,938 --> 00:24:53,937

Did you, um, did you say that we have a camera in one of our packs?

317

00:24:55,572 --> 00:24:59,268

Alright, well maybe let's at least take a picture of this.

318

00:24:59,390 --> 00:25:08,146

I'm not sure if we should wrap it and take it with us or just bury it and let it lay where

it be, but we should at least uh take a picture.

319

00:25:08,447 --> 00:25:20,165

Yeah, I know this is your first operation and Butterfield told you he's not going to tell

you twice, but we don't, not really in the business of letting things be.

320

00:25:20,286 --> 00:25:26,740

So if it come out of the ground, you best have a real good reason for putting it back in

the ground.

321

00:25:26,740 --> 00:25:31,333

And if you don't, then we got to figure something else out.

322

00:25:34,288 --> 00:25:39,044

I snap a photo of it so that we have a record of what we have found.

323

00:25:43,262 --> 00:25:55,625

Okay great, I mean it, yeah this, I guess I'm showing my true colors here, it's definitely

the first time and I go ahead and I set it down and take a step back away from it and

324

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like, do we shoot it, burn it, smash it, uh what do you got?

325

00:26:04,747 --> 00:26:05,684

Yeah.

326

00:26:10,025 --> 00:26:13,266

I mean, I'm a little concerned about...

327

00:26:15,039 --> 00:26:17,272

what might be alerted.

328

00:26:17,834 --> 00:26:25,075

If we were to mishandle this thing at this juncture, shoot, even removing it does sound...

329

00:26:26,699 --> 00:26:28,210

like something to consider.

330

00:26:31,841 --> 00:26:35,300

Is there anything else in that crawl space down there?

331

00:26:35,300 --> 00:26:36,733

Was this the only thing?

332

00:26:38,812 --> 00:26:41,556

You have flashlights you could check it out oh

333

00:26:42,278 --> 00:26:43,331

Uh, yeah, no, sorry.

334

00:26:43,331 --> 00:26:45,706

We got distracted by the brain in a can.

335

00:26:46,169 --> 00:26:48,284

Feel free to take a look.

336

00:26:50,576 --> 00:26:52,967

Yeah, you poking down there with a flashlight.

337

00:26:53,239 --> 00:26:56,798

I am hungry for some more context.

338

00:26:57,178 --> 00:27:17,228

Yeah, you peek your head down there and you notice that the black mold has been in the

entire foundation and from below as you swing your flashlight, it's got little tendrils

339

00:27:17,228 --> 00:27:22,242

that go between the floorboards all along the...

340

00:27:22,242 --> 00:27:24,858

under part of the church.

341

00:27:24,858 --> 00:27:28,003

Are you crawling directly down or are just looking?

342

00:27:28,191 --> 00:27:35,207

No, I think I would hang an L over the edge and just kind of scan, pivot.

343

00:27:36,304 --> 00:27:47,264

Yeah, yeah, you're scanning in the distance, you see something white reflect backlight uh

that you'd probably have to crawl under there to get it.

344

00:27:51,397 --> 00:27:52,298

on a headlamp.

345

00:27:52,298 --> 00:27:57,681

um I'll let the crew know, hey, uh I see something down there.

346

00:27:57,837 --> 00:28:00,637

Any of fixing to get dirty?

347

00:28:00,637 --> 00:28:02,875

I reckon it's my turn if not.

348

00:28:04,931 --> 00:28:06,156

Yeah, go ahead.

349

00:28:06,156 --> 00:28:09,514

If you see anything of interest, just give me a shout and I'll come down with you.

350

00:28:09,514 --> 00:28:11,310

Alright, I'll tie it.

351

00:28:11,310 --> 00:28:13,089

uh, do you need a rope?

352

00:28:13,089 --> 00:28:14,223

Do you need a rope around you?

353

00:28:14,223 --> 00:28:15,691

That worked like real well last time.

354

00:28:15,691 --> 00:28:16,456

Just about to.

355

00:28:16,456 --> 00:28:19,250

Yeah, I'll tie it off through the belt loops.

356

00:28:20,220 --> 00:28:33,860

Yeah, you slip down into the whole, your headlamp, those little tendrils cast shadows in

strange ways all throughout the cavernous undercarriage of this church.

357

00:28:33,900 --> 00:28:46,620

And there is, well, it looks like a bunch of folded paper as you get closer, stuck under

some dirt and just a large stone that's on top of it.

358

00:28:46,803 --> 00:28:59,465

As I'm on my way, like maybe as I drop right into the main hole before I fully progress, I

think I'd like to take a lighter out of my pocket and just kind of like click it on and

359

00:28:59,465 --> 00:29:08,083

give it a subtle wave, not on or in any of the fungus, but just near it and see if there

is any sort of reaction.

360

00:29:09,177 --> 00:29:15,799

It sizzles and one of the tendrils burns and then falls onto just a normal lighter, right?

361

00:29:15,799 --> 00:29:20,475

Again, my goal isn't to try and light something on fire.

362

00:29:20,475 --> 00:29:25,652

It's almost to see if there is any reaction to it, right?

363

00:29:25,652 --> 00:29:28,525

Like a fear or a flinch.

364

00:29:28,841 --> 00:29:44,718

you do a little spark, nothing happens, but the tendril does break off from your influence

and you see it kind of drape over your lighter for a second.

365

00:29:45,219 --> 00:29:45,769

And then.

366

00:29:45,769 --> 00:29:46,462

anymore.

367

00:29:46,462 --> 00:29:47,635

I tossed it on

368

00:29:48,276 --> 00:30:02,351

Okay, yeah, yeah, and it starts to cover the metal part of it, especially the top where

the flint and the tin, I believe it's tin, I'm not, aluminum is, just covers it and

369

00:30:02,351 --> 00:30:04,112

settles there on the ground.

370

00:30:04,641 --> 00:30:14,330

Like I can see the spores actively moving over the metallic parts not as though it is just

Casually falling that way.

371

00:30:14,330 --> 00:30:21,967

Yeah Okay Hey These things got a somewhat of a mind of their own

372

00:30:23,428 --> 00:30:25,415

Couldn't roll your sanity again.

373

00:30:28,039 --> 00:30:29,464

Okay this time.

374

00:30:30,018 --> 00:30:32,049

All right, you don't lose any.

375

00:30:32,489 --> 00:30:35,051

You just saw something weirder.

376

00:30:35,051 --> 00:30:38,152

So you're able to hold it together.

377

00:30:39,293 --> 00:30:46,396

But these tendrils, you hang right next to your face as you're traversing down here.

378

00:30:46,407 --> 00:30:54,133

Yeah, I think I take a moment to like inflate the space between my my mesh and my actual

face, right?

379

00:30:54,133 --> 00:30:57,485

So there's a little bit more buffer as though it would help, right?

380

00:30:57,485 --> 00:31:02,779

But just like deep breath and then go on into the crawl space.

381

00:31:04,281 --> 00:31:07,272

you get to this white object.

382

00:31:07,272 --> 00:31:18,395

It is some folded parchment, thickly folded, and some of it is rotten, not with this, but

is just water damaged.

383

00:31:19,076 --> 00:31:26,227

Seems like a bunch of large pieces of butcher paper have been folded over and over and

over again.

384

00:31:26,227 --> 00:31:28,860

as though this might just be one enormous piece.

385

00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:31,062

Could be, yeah.

386

00:31:38,661 --> 00:31:34,855

Yeah, it's about two inches thick.

387

00:31:34,855 --> 00:31:37,701

So I'll fold it over paper.

388

00:31:39,439 --> 00:31:40,800

Yeah, substantial.

389

00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:50,187

think I am concerned about it falling to pieces uh if I were to try and like, as though it

might like crumple under its own weight.

390

00:31:50,187 --> 00:32:01,825

uh So I'm looking for something that might be akin to like a piece of plywood or a pallet

or something that could be used to kind of like shovel it this way.

391

00:32:03,797 --> 00:32:11,494

Looking around, you see that there are small pieces of stone that you could push it with.

392

00:32:11,494 --> 00:32:16,557

There's no like plate type thing you could just scoop it up with.

393

00:32:16,758 --> 00:32:22,382

Your hands together like this are probably better than anything else you see down here.

394

00:32:22,726 --> 00:32:23,530

Yeah.

395

00:32:25,085 --> 00:32:32,411

Was there anything that looked like it would be a helpful tool back up in the main chapel

or am I just

396

00:32:33,506 --> 00:32:34,832

Yeah, absolutely.

397

00:32:34,832 --> 00:32:36,026

So, yeah.

398

00:32:36,026 --> 00:32:38,508

lid or something like that that might be able to...

399

00:32:38,508 --> 00:32:43,381

Alright, I'll ferry it back out and try and do it the safe way.

400

00:32:43,381 --> 00:32:45,148

Need anything down there, doll?

401

00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:55,334

Yeah, I kinda like, you know, come up in an intoxicating poof and uh grab something big

and flat and be back in a minute.

402

00:32:55,334 --> 00:32:57,326

There's something strange down here.

403

00:32:58,028 --> 00:32:58,584

Yeah.

404

00:32:58,584 --> 00:32:59,674

That tracks.

405

00:32:59,674 --> 00:33:02,245

Yeah, I didn't say much.

406

00:33:03,891 --> 00:33:04,842

to roll for anything.

407

00:33:04,842 --> 00:33:07,303

You're able to lift it up.

408

00:33:07,303 --> 00:33:22,693

The paper does feel like it could disintegrate and get it to the top and you set it out

and everyone sees just this like folded up few inches of butcher paper sitting there that

409

00:33:22,693 --> 00:33:24,854

has a little bit of water damage on it.

410

00:33:25,387 --> 00:33:31,529

but in his little flaky butt isn't necessarily disintegrating on spot.

411

00:33:34,487 --> 00:33:35,231

What you think?

412

00:33:35,231 --> 00:33:39,370

Is like a banner for a town parade or something?

413

00:33:40,092 --> 00:33:42,103

I don't know, can we open it up?

414

00:33:42,103 --> 00:33:44,723

Yeah, I think we ought to.

415

00:33:44,723 --> 00:33:56,111

Just kind of like inspect for where the big folds are and you know maybe grab something

like a to use as a plate to buffer it and start folding it open.

416

00:33:57,553 --> 00:34:06,558

You start unfolding it and the writing on the other side immediately tells you what this

is.

417

00:34:06,558 --> 00:34:09,760

This looks like a giant Torah scroll.

418

00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:19,005

Like there is just what looks to be Hebrew all up and down it and it unfolds and in the

center of it.

419

00:34:19,795 --> 00:34:27,770

there is a unharmed picture, which you pull out.

420

00:34:27,770 --> 00:34:32,153

If anybody wants to look at that picture and describe it for the audience, they can.

421

00:34:35,667 --> 00:34:39,304

What is apparent is the church you're standing in is pictured in it.

422

00:34:43,774 --> 00:34:52,914

Yeah, so it's definitely, you know, an old picture taken probably 1800s.

423

00:34:55,554 --> 00:35:01,775

The church that we're in right now is clearly in the background or, looks like it was

newly built.

424

00:35:01,775 --> 00:35:10,095

And there's a bunch of people gathered in front, probably some sort of ceremony.

425

00:35:10,575 --> 00:35:12,129

The weird

426

00:35:12,129 --> 00:35:26,993

The thing is though, I mean there's a lot of weird things, but looking at some of the

faces pretty closely, they either look to be disfigured or I don't know if the exposure

427

00:35:26,993 --> 00:35:37,162

was off and these people were moving, but something very creepy about the town's people

and there's one man.

428

00:35:37,162 --> 00:35:39,023

um

429

00:35:39,219 --> 00:35:52,815

standing in the very forefront of the photo who has the clearest face out of anybody and

the very creepiest smile that I've ever seen on his face.

430

00:35:53,107 --> 00:36:00,697

Yeah, it's hard to say exactly, but it's almost as though everyone beyond that man shares

the same expression.

431

00:36:05,099 --> 00:36:12,771

Yeah, there's also no indication of any kind of denomination that this church might belong

to.

432

00:36:15,894 --> 00:36:18,615

Is there markings down to the lower right?

433

00:36:21,464 --> 00:36:22,708

There are, yeah.

434

00:36:25,121 --> 00:36:25,584

Uh-huh.

435

00:36:25,584 --> 00:36:27,055

make out what that is.

436

00:36:28,878 --> 00:36:30,478

Do you have any foreign languages?

437

00:36:30,478 --> 00:36:32,805

I don't think anybody does.

438

00:36:33,167 --> 00:36:35,230

Yeah, that's not gonna help.

439

00:36:35,442 --> 00:36:36,642

Ah, damn.

440

00:36:37,932 --> 00:36:39,627

No, nope, do not.

441

00:36:39,923 --> 00:36:41,272

speak American.

442

00:36:41,646 --> 00:36:43,170

Yeah

443

00:36:43,170 --> 00:36:52,872

that you're American, you do recognize that it is, it looks like a blend of Arabic and

Hebrew or some, that type of script.

444

00:36:52,872 --> 00:36:59,738

You'd probably need to bring this in for analysis based on your current language skills,

but it does say something.

445

00:37:01,753 --> 00:37:03,466

Who's holding the photo right now?

446

00:37:05,725 --> 00:37:11,838

I think I am, ah as I was describing it, getting a closer look.

447

00:37:15,631 --> 00:37:20,131

Ryan, does it, usually when I take photos, we write the date or something on the back.

448

00:37:20,131 --> 00:37:22,247

Does it have a date or anything on it?

449

00:37:22,668 --> 00:37:25,485

and I flip it over to look at the back of it.

450

00:37:25,763 --> 00:37:26,456

There's no date.

451

00:37:26,456 --> 00:37:27,298

Yeah.

452

00:37:29,872 --> 00:37:41,569

scan in the Tora scroll to see if there's perhaps anything that's out of place, any notes

in the margins, anything that may have, um I don't know, bled from something else that was

453

00:37:41,569 --> 00:37:43,310

stored there previously.

454

00:37:44,597 --> 00:37:47,791

As you start unrolling it, this thing is massive.

455

00:37:47,892 --> 00:37:53,619

And there are things, passages in Hebrew that are underlined, circled.

456

00:37:55,671 --> 00:38:01,053

There is parts that are completely bled through where the ink is completely gone.

457

00:38:01,273 --> 00:38:04,134

The one thing you do notice is this is hand copied.

458

00:38:04,134 --> 00:38:08,256

This is not um a printing press product.

459

00:38:08,636 --> 00:38:15,679

And you get to the middle of the Torah and the text.

460

00:38:15,691 --> 00:38:22,157

becomes jarbled again, where this Hebrew, you don't know Hebrew, but you know it is

Hebrew.

461

00:38:22,157 --> 00:38:34,268

And then in the, right in the middle, there's just something else for about probably seven

Western pages of text.

462

00:38:34,469 --> 00:38:41,775

And once you get past that part, as you're unfolding it, there is Hebrew again.

463

00:38:47,064 --> 00:38:52,410

garbled text does it look akin to what is on the photograph?

464

00:38:52,503 --> 00:38:53,919

Yeah, absolutely.

465

00:38:55,717 --> 00:38:56,805

Different ink.

466

00:38:58,084 --> 00:39:00,702

Yes, definitely different.

467

00:39:00,702 --> 00:39:04,332

The picture looks like somebody carved the symbol into the corn.

468

00:39:14,410 --> 00:39:24,798

Del turns around to look and Barone's standing there with the lighter and she's like,

well, do we just burn all of it or some of it or take the picture or burn the whole church

469

00:39:24,798 --> 00:39:25,149

down?

470

00:39:25,149 --> 00:39:27,562

Which, which path we go in there, big guy.

471

00:39:28,670 --> 00:39:36,333

Well, I mean, you know, before this whole thing is said and done, I don't think this thing

is gonna stay standing.

472

00:39:36,333 --> 00:39:38,823

I think that's just got to be a reality.

473

00:39:38,823 --> 00:39:46,676

But I'm not sure that we want to antagonize anyone who's not already antagonized.

474

00:39:47,136 --> 00:39:48,036

You know what I mean?

475

00:39:48,036 --> 00:39:53,318

Like, Cheryl seems pretty cool right now, but if we start setting things on fire, I'm not

sure it stays that way.

476

00:39:55,296 --> 00:40:01,908

And as they're having this conversation, I'm already snapping pictures of like everything

with my camera.

477

00:40:02,684 --> 00:40:03,874

and thank you.

478

00:40:08,540 --> 00:40:15,480

I don't know, there simply doesn't seem to be anything terribly pressing about it, I

suppose is my opinion.

479

00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:18,665

Feels like something we could easily take care of on the way out of town.

480

00:40:18,665 --> 00:40:20,156

I'm open to yours.

481

00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:31,288

So you're saying wrap the brain in the creepy Torah text with the photo of malfigured

people and just throw it in a bag?

482

00:40:32,872 --> 00:40:41,646

Well, I mean, until we know what it's for, I don't know if we can stand to part ways with

it.

483

00:40:42,276 --> 00:40:46,299

Yeah, I don't think that's bad, especially and she peeks out the window.

484

00:40:46,299 --> 00:40:49,451

She's like, that that sounds getting real low.

485

00:40:49,451 --> 00:40:51,182

We have to beat feedback anyways.

486

00:40:51,182 --> 00:41:01,779

ah Maybe we regroup and I forgot to tell you, uh I have a general direction of where the

tracks are going.

487

00:41:01,779 --> 00:41:04,892

So I think we have something to check out later tonight.

488

00:41:04,892 --> 00:41:11,616

But if you're fine with just wrapping this all together and taking it with us, then maybe

we do that.

489

00:41:11,616 --> 00:41:14,101

Scramdiddlydamsle right on out of here.

490

00:41:15,018 --> 00:41:17,241

Please don't make up words like that again.

491

00:41:17,604 --> 00:41:20,266

Well, I was just trying it out, tell dammit.

492

00:41:20,487 --> 00:41:22,469

Now that I know it doesn't work, I won't do it again.

493

00:41:22,469 --> 00:41:25,620

But you can't blame a girl for trying something, right?

494

00:41:25,620 --> 00:41:27,310

No, you could try.

495

00:41:27,310 --> 00:41:31,010

I just hope you have the sense to try something better than that.

496

00:41:32,074 --> 00:41:37,576

I will make sure the next one is vetted thoroughly before I throw it out there.

497

00:41:37,576 --> 00:41:38,508

Thank you.

498

00:41:39,898 --> 00:41:43,220

Agent Ryan got shit for liking Hootie and the Blowfish too.

499

00:41:43,220 --> 00:41:51,463

like, Dell's just a rainin' on the parades.

500

00:41:51,583 --> 00:41:52,754

So you're wrapping this up.

501

00:41:52,754 --> 00:41:55,785

You have a duffel bag you can probably fit this thing into.

502

00:41:55,785 --> 00:41:59,106

It's again about two, or about a foot and a half tall.

503

00:41:59,106 --> 00:42:05,890

And then I would say eight inches wide or like a round circumference-wise.

504

00:42:05,890 --> 00:42:07,932

Yeah, there's plenty of packing space.

505

00:42:07,932 --> 00:42:10,113

You can get it all set up.

506

00:42:11,134 --> 00:42:14,937

It is about 6 p.m.

507

00:42:15,238 --> 00:42:23,464

You're in Oklahoma and it's still pretty hot, but the sun is starting to disappear.

508

00:42:23,865 --> 00:42:25,566

Where do you go from here?

509

00:42:26,829 --> 00:42:36,484

I think on our way out, Barone tries to at least put some stuff back into place, like the

boards that we pried up, kind of back where they were.

510

00:42:36,484 --> 00:42:45,307

And unless anybody wants to do anything else, I think we'll kind of um get to the front

and even try to re-board up the front door.

511

00:42:45,307 --> 00:42:54,841

Like I know she has uh the butt of a knife to try and drive some of those nails back in,

so unless you guys are uh against it.

512

00:42:54,992 --> 00:42:57,304

I think that's probably the move.

513

00:42:58,286 --> 00:43:00,956

Those boards were ornamental anyway.

514

00:43:00,956 --> 00:43:01,796

Yeah.

515

00:43:01,796 --> 00:43:04,576

If you can just tack them back on, that'd be great.

516

00:43:04,861 --> 00:43:18,818

Yeah, probably not a bad idea and I'll start hammered in and once we're done with that,

Barone sits down and um takes out her canteen and takes a big old gulp and passes it over.

517

00:43:18,818 --> 00:43:21,451

She's like, anybody want to swig?

518

00:43:24,557 --> 00:43:26,984

I don't drink, but thank you.

519

00:43:29,538 --> 00:43:30,449

What do you think it is?

520

00:43:30,449 --> 00:43:32,012

I mean, it's just coffee.

521

00:43:32,012 --> 00:43:32,504

do you...

522

00:43:32,504 --> 00:43:33,885

It's fine.

523

00:43:34,142 --> 00:43:34,807

Oh, okay.

524

00:43:34,807 --> 00:43:36,563

Yeah, I'll take a swig then.

525

00:43:36,563 --> 00:43:46,530

You pack everything up, you're able to get in about 15 minutes the floorboards back since

they're so solid and nothing broke apart.

526

00:43:46,530 --> 00:43:47,560

It is like a puzzle.

527

00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:54,195

You're just putting together a little Jenga puzzle of floorboards and you exit the church.

528

00:43:54,195 --> 00:43:56,556

You are firmly in twilight.

529

00:43:57,457 --> 00:44:00,219

Are you going straight back out?

530

00:44:00,219 --> 00:44:04,783

You look over and see that the campfire um is stoked.

531

00:44:04,783 --> 00:44:12,048

Cheryl is sitting down with her back on a log on the ground in front of the fire reading a

book.

532

00:44:12,048 --> 00:44:23,755

The kids uh in the house look like they are in states of either passed out or paranoia,

but they are paying you no mind at this point.

533

00:44:25,122 --> 00:44:27,039

Is this the dumbest thing I ever said?

534

00:44:27,039 --> 00:44:28,963

You tell me if it is.

535

00:44:30,724 --> 00:44:38,555

What if we go back in that church knowing we're the only ones who dare to and ain't nobody

else coming in after us?

536

00:44:39,417 --> 00:44:41,901

Ain't gotta hoover back out of here.

537

00:44:41,901 --> 00:44:46,998

This evening if we don't want to, we could sit right in the middle of it and see what the

hell they get up to.

538

00:44:49,091 --> 00:44:58,789

I am decidedly thankful for a breath of fresh air and I think I'm quite a right being on

the outside for a little while.

539

00:45:03,485 --> 00:45:07,670

Yeah, so that was the idea to camp in the church at night, Del?

540

00:45:08,898 --> 00:45:09,669

Yeah.

541

00:45:13,649 --> 00:45:17,651

I mean it depends Ryan, what um, what do you think?

542

00:45:20,486 --> 00:45:28,289

I'm not particularly fond of the idea of kind of feeling a little tired.

543

00:45:28,529 --> 00:45:30,449

you know, hoofing it out.

544

00:45:31,270 --> 00:45:35,131

I could do it, but it's not going to be my first choice.

545

00:45:35,151 --> 00:45:38,042

I'm also really curious about these people.

546

00:45:38,042 --> 00:45:41,993

I feel like they have more to share.

547

00:45:44,260 --> 00:45:47,633

They look like they're pretty comfy and gonna stay the night.

548

00:45:47,633 --> 00:45:56,902

And I'm just kind of curious as to why, but um either way, you guys decide and I'll follow

you.

549

00:45:57,154 --> 00:46:00,935

Yeah, Barone, it only takes one to say you're uncomfortable with it.

550

00:46:01,037 --> 00:46:03,624

I'm not about to make decisions for us all.

551

00:46:06,857 --> 00:46:10,851

Alright, well, did you want to stay out here regardless?

552

00:46:10,851 --> 00:46:20,492

I mean, I'm opposed to the church specifically, but if you want to post up in one of these

other ones, I'm not too opposed to not having a truck all the way back.

553

00:46:20,492 --> 00:46:22,193

That's up to you.

554

00:46:22,968 --> 00:46:25,269

Yeah, I mean, that seems okay.

555

00:46:25,269 --> 00:46:32,824

I guess I'm perhaps usually overly concerned with being found by people.

556

00:46:32,824 --> 00:46:43,230

If I don't feel like being found, church seemed like maybe it presented a unique

opportunity thusly, I acknowledge where you're coming from.

557

00:46:47,546 --> 00:46:51,337

You could set up a tent out the backside of the church.

558

00:46:51,512 --> 00:46:57,940

Yeah, any of these other vacant buildings are fine by me too, if you fancy.

559

00:46:58,547 --> 00:47:08,116

Yeah, I think making a hole in the wall in one of these buildings that already exists

gives us a little bit more protection and draws less attention than a random tent out in a

560

00:47:08,116 --> 00:47:09,107

field.

561

00:47:09,107 --> 00:47:16,643

maybe perch up somewhere high and roll some cloth out to lay down on or something.

562

00:47:16,814 --> 00:47:20,277

Yeah, I like that squatting something that has a second story.

563

00:47:20,531 --> 00:47:28,328

Yeah, there absolutely is a general store that is dilapidated that has a second story that

you could get into.

564

00:47:31,076 --> 00:47:33,569

Okay, I I don't mind that.

565

00:47:33,569 --> 00:47:44,512

I'll go make a little bird's nest up top, try and get a few boards taken out of windows to

like be able to post up with night vision or binoculars or what have you.

566

00:47:45,725 --> 00:47:46,826

Yeah, sounds good.

567

00:47:46,826 --> 00:48:00,342

I know we didn't really pack too many snacks, em she definitely, and she nods over to the

Stoke fire and she definitely offered a snack or two for us and might maybe take her up on

568

00:48:00,342 --> 00:48:01,123

that.

569

00:48:01,804 --> 00:48:02,593

A light dinner.

570

00:48:02,593 --> 00:48:04,477

stealth roll and we can have them all.

571

00:48:04,819 --> 00:48:05,655

Haha.

572

00:48:06,515 --> 00:48:07,374

you

573

00:48:07,556 --> 00:48:12,019

I'm fine to, you know, I felt like I got along with her pretty well.

574

00:48:12,019 --> 00:48:17,188

I'm fine to go over and see if I can ask for that.

575

00:48:17,513 --> 00:48:18,436

Mm-hmm.

576

00:48:20,105 --> 00:48:23,736

Yeah, you walk up, the fire feels nice.

577

00:48:24,276 --> 00:48:28,918

It's burning some of the humidity away as you get close to it.

578

00:48:29,158 --> 00:48:44,503

And she looks up behind her as you approach and stands up and says, well, did you see a

lot of birds making all that ruckus in the church?

579

00:48:46,254 --> 00:48:48,857

No, we didn't, unfortunately.

580

00:48:48,857 --> 00:48:57,346

um But I think we decided that we're going to hang out here for the night and try to go

out at first thing in the morning.

581

00:48:58,727 --> 00:49:08,395

Okay, well, obviously, you know, it's a free country, so you can make yourself comfortable

wherever.

582

00:49:09,397 --> 00:49:13,481

But you didn't experience anything weird in the church?

583

00:49:13,481 --> 00:49:15,122

Are the stories true?

584

00:49:15,162 --> 00:49:20,527

It was hard for me not to get up and get over there right after telling you that I would

mind my own business.

585

00:49:21,368 --> 00:49:24,230

Sorry if I'm asking too much, but are you ghost hunters?

586

00:49:24,230 --> 00:49:25,271

m

587

00:49:25,335 --> 00:49:27,226

No, no.

588

00:49:27,226 --> 00:49:32,951

I mean, some people describe the red-bellied woodpecker as a ghost because it's so hard to

find.

589

00:49:33,532 --> 00:49:37,015

as for us, mean, we didn't.

590

00:49:37,015 --> 00:49:40,278

definitely, you know, it's an interesting church.

591

00:49:40,278 --> 00:49:43,511

Definitely nobody's been in there for a long time.

592

00:49:43,511 --> 00:49:47,244

But hey, I was going to make a proposal to you.

593

00:49:47,244 --> 00:49:51,929

um I see that your boy, your son, likes music.

594

00:49:51,929 --> 00:49:52,849

Yes?

595

00:49:53,699 --> 00:49:56,034

He's wearing a Limp Bizkit t-shirt, right?

596

00:49:56,187 --> 00:49:57,493

If you could call it music.

597

00:49:57,493 --> 00:50:00,647

um I've heard a few of their songs.

598

00:50:00,647 --> 00:50:02,772

hey, whoa, come on now.

599

00:50:02,772 --> 00:50:03,954

It's all music.

600

00:50:03,954 --> 00:50:05,848

could be hard or soft.

601

00:50:05,848 --> 00:50:07,681

No, it's that good good.

602

00:50:07,742 --> 00:50:09,455

You leave him alone for that.

603

00:50:09,811 --> 00:50:18,460

guess my parents said the same thing about Skinnerd when I was growing up so I can get it

but um I just can't get on board with that sound.

604

00:50:18,460 --> 00:50:20,854

What did you have in mind for music?

605

00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:24,835

Hootie and the Blowfish's Cracked Rear View album.

606

00:50:24,835 --> 00:50:29,998

I don't know if you know of this band or if your son does, but they're amazing.

607

00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:37,904

you know, if you want to check out this, I'd be happy to trade you, you know, this album

for

608

00:50:38,078 --> 00:50:44,571

just a couple of snacks or if you have any extra food or anything that we could take over

with us.

609

00:50:45,043 --> 00:50:45,931

of course.

610

00:50:45,931 --> 00:50:55,018

she opens up a sack and pulls out a handful of Snickers bars and gives them to you.

611

00:50:55,018 --> 00:51:00,282

And she says, they're his favorite, so I pack a bunch of them and they help him.

612

00:51:00,849 --> 00:51:04,769

I don't know, regulate when he's coming down if that's what happens.

613

00:51:04,931 --> 00:51:06,634

But here you can have some.

614

00:51:07,381 --> 00:51:07,854

thanks.

615

00:51:07,854 --> 00:51:09,214

I love milk chocolate.

616

00:51:09,214 --> 00:51:10,993

Appreciate it.

617

00:51:12,977 --> 00:51:18,350

Yeah, and uh there's you're welcome to come by the fire tonight.

618

00:51:18,951 --> 00:51:28,418

You know, I usually try to get him out of here, but it seems like he's staying the night

and you look in there and he's just completely passed out in the other space.

619

00:51:28,418 --> 00:51:31,360

So I'll probably be sleeping here as well.

620

00:51:33,112 --> 00:51:35,567

Wow, you're a really good mom.

621

00:51:35,567 --> 00:51:37,531

Yeah, that's great.

622

00:51:37,531 --> 00:51:45,013

I think we're just gonna hunker up over in this building over here and try to get as much

rest as possible.

623

00:51:46,077 --> 00:51:47,879

All right, well, let me know if you need anything.

624

00:51:47,879 --> 00:51:49,861

And if they get too loud, I'll tell them to quiet down.

625

00:51:49,861 --> 00:51:53,984

You're the first guest they've had in this town.

626

00:51:55,783 --> 00:51:56,603

Yeah, for sure.

627

00:51:56,603 --> 00:51:59,805

em Hey, just shout if you need anything.

628

00:51:59,985 --> 00:52:01,825

We'll come around if we have to.

629

00:52:02,246 --> 00:52:05,627

also, uh that old church is...

630

00:52:05,627 --> 00:52:08,659

It looks nice on the outside, but it's falling apart on the inside.

631

00:52:08,659 --> 00:52:14,531

It's pretty dangerous, so I probably would say uh still try and stay away from it if you

can.

632

00:52:15,241 --> 00:52:24,001

Yeah, you see the, what is it, Chekov's gun go off in her head where she's like, oh, I

should stay out of there.

633

00:52:24,021 --> 00:52:25,621

But no, I'm just kidding.

634

00:52:25,621 --> 00:52:36,321

So she says, yeah, mean, you, the story still put me off, so, but you guys seem to have a

lot of fun in there.

635

00:52:36,701 --> 00:52:40,261

But yeah, again, I'm here to mind me and my son's business.

636

00:52:40,261 --> 00:52:43,701

I don't really wanna concern myself with much else.

637

00:52:46,758 --> 00:52:51,242

So you get up to the second floor and you're packing in for the night.

638

00:52:51,242 --> 00:52:54,628

What are the nighttime plans?

639

00:52:58,626 --> 00:53:03,641

I mean, I have a feeling that things are going to get weird with these people.

640

00:53:03,641 --> 00:53:08,081

And so I'm kind of situating myself on the ground where I'm resting.

641

00:53:08,081 --> 00:53:20,211

But I can also have a straight line view towards where they're staying and can see what

they're up to.

642

00:53:20,211 --> 00:53:21,955

You're on the, good.

643

00:53:21,955 --> 00:53:23,309

where we are staying?

644

00:53:24,965 --> 00:53:26,177

I don't think so.

645

00:53:27,612 --> 00:53:30,146

Yeah, I think we just said we will be around.

646

00:53:30,146 --> 00:53:35,464

So I think that's probably a semi-positive, not to be like, we're up in that third window

from the right.

647

00:53:35,464 --> 00:53:38,158

ah So cool, into that.

648

00:53:38,345 --> 00:53:41,779

You're around the corner and down toward the edge of town.

649

00:53:41,779 --> 00:53:48,708

Like the general store is right on, it's like inviting people into the town back in its

prime.

650

00:53:48,708 --> 00:53:54,014

And it's right next to that creek that you first crossed to get into this area.

651

00:53:56,248 --> 00:54:03,501

From that rooftop crow's nest kind of area, would I be able to use the night vision scope?

652

00:54:03,501 --> 00:54:10,122

Not affixed to any sort of weapon, just to be able to keep watch on the goings-ons in

town.

653

00:54:10,483 --> 00:54:11,811

Yeah, of course.

654

00:54:14,844 --> 00:54:16,695

Yeah, I mean, I don't think that's a bad idea.

655

00:54:16,695 --> 00:54:26,222

Like maybe we should, you know, two heavy sleepers, one person kind of um watching to make

sure we don't miss anything through the nighttime.

656

00:54:26,222 --> 00:54:29,474

And I think if that dirt bike comes through here, ain't nobody sleeping.

657

00:54:29,474 --> 00:54:38,010

But besides that, you know, maybe one person kind of watching out for a little bit is,

it's not a bad idea.

658

00:54:39,237 --> 00:54:40,189

agreed.

659

00:54:40,898 --> 00:54:44,525

Yeah, I does anybody, I will certainly take first shift.

660

00:54:44,525 --> 00:54:47,160

Does anybody feel like taking second?

661

00:54:47,382 --> 00:54:51,809

You let me know who I should wake up and not like everybody has to play a part.

662

00:54:52,376 --> 00:54:55,499

Uh, yeah, I'll take the split shift in the middle there.

663

00:54:55,499 --> 00:54:57,033

No problems there.

664

00:54:57,518 --> 00:54:58,530

That's fine.

665

00:54:58,616 --> 00:55:00,381

Yeah, yeah, all right.

666

00:55:02,957 --> 00:55:06,623

And I'm already snoring and asleep.

667

00:55:08,152 --> 00:55:09,867

makes that decision easier.

668

00:55:13,023 --> 00:55:13,943

you

669

00:55:17,321 --> 00:55:19,816

Cool, so let me roll for a few things.

670

00:55:25,407 --> 00:55:29,425

Okay, so first shift, Udel, second shift, Barone.

671

00:55:29,938 --> 00:55:30,765

around.

672

00:55:32,851 --> 00:55:33,791

All right.

673

00:55:34,613 --> 00:55:36,093

You settle in.

674

00:55:36,234 --> 00:55:42,900

This isn't the most comfortable place to sleep, but it's not the ground of the desert

around Jerome, Arizona.

675

00:55:42,900 --> 00:55:45,032

There's actual wood floorboards.

676

00:55:45,032 --> 00:55:51,017

So it feels pretty good, Agent Ryan, as you lie down to get some rest.

677

00:55:51,017 --> 00:55:54,670

You've had a long day, a lot of exertion.

678

00:55:55,791 --> 00:55:59,617

And, Barone, you're able to get to sleep no problem as well.

679

00:55:59,617 --> 00:56:05,244

Go ahead and give me an alertness, Agent Zendeski, for your watch.

680

00:56:05,244 --> 00:56:07,388

Pretty pretty please.

681

00:56:08,012 --> 00:56:11,540

Yeah, 41 is less than 63 the last time I checked.

682

00:56:11,937 --> 00:56:13,209

Yes, yes, yes.

683

00:56:13,209 --> 00:56:15,072

You're getting towards the end of your watch.

684

00:56:15,072 --> 00:56:19,234

And so it's about passing 1.30 AM.

685

00:56:19,234 --> 00:56:23,628

the fire on the other side of town through your scope has calmed down.

686

00:56:23,628 --> 00:56:26,830

They're probably asleep over there is your guess.

687

00:56:27,111 --> 00:56:34,387

And you're crouched up in this perch and the darkness besides the scope is absolute,

right?

688

00:56:34,387 --> 00:56:35,718

It's a pressing darkness.

689

00:56:35,718 --> 00:56:43,083

There's no lights in this ghost town other than that fire and what you see from the stars

and the limited moon view that you have.

690

00:56:44,285 --> 00:56:48,308

Then you start hearing a sound.

691

00:56:48,866 --> 00:56:50,628

And it's not a sound that...

692

00:56:52,810 --> 00:57:01,184

is near you, it's something that is floating on the thickness of the air your way.

693

00:57:02,500 --> 00:57:05,546

It starts vibrating in your ears.

694

00:57:06,747 --> 00:57:15,632

It's like a chanting, but you can't make out any of the syllables or annunciations other

than just the vibration of it.

695

00:57:18,041 --> 00:57:30,058

Um, if it is a chanting, almost like a wordless song, does it have uh an animalistic tinge

to it?

696

00:57:30,058 --> 00:57:32,591

Like it is maybe not entirely human?

697

00:57:33,828 --> 00:57:36,510

It's hard to tell from this distance.

698

00:57:36,711 --> 00:57:40,934

It is undoubtedly in the swamp.

699

00:57:40,934 --> 00:57:42,976

It's not coming from the town.

700

00:57:43,593 --> 00:57:53,847

but like no indication if it is like maybe more like whale song or bird song or it just

sounds like sam-

701

00:57:55,054 --> 00:57:57,848

You have some unnatural at this point, right?

702

00:57:58,730 --> 00:58:00,152

Yeah, give it a roll.

703

00:58:02,598 --> 00:58:04,878

wasn't hoping you'd ask for that.

704

00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:09,940

Yeah, yeah, it's, you're too far away.

705

00:58:09,940 --> 00:58:20,632

You assume that were you to get closer, you'd be able to pick out more of the uh nuance of

what the sound is.

706

00:58:21,683 --> 00:58:26,735

This feels like a reasonable midway point for the night anyway, maybe.

707

00:58:27,336 --> 00:58:30,898

Like, Buron wouldn't be too pissed if we traded right now.

708

00:58:30,898 --> 00:58:36,471

So I'll get you up and we'll see what we think about this together.

709

00:58:37,930 --> 00:58:38,170

Hmm?

710

00:58:38,170 --> 00:58:38,642

Gah?

711

00:58:38,642 --> 00:58:39,042

What?

712

00:58:39,042 --> 00:58:39,463

Gah.

713

00:58:39,463 --> 00:58:41,586

Oh, Del.

714

00:58:41,587 --> 00:58:42,148

Thanks.

715

00:58:42,148 --> 00:58:43,349

Uh...

716

00:58:43,531 --> 00:58:44,712

Yeah, I was out.

717

00:58:44,875 --> 00:58:45,778

Hey, shh!

718

00:58:45,778 --> 00:58:46,838

You hear that?

719

00:58:46,838 --> 00:58:47,761

to tell her?

720

00:58:47,761 --> 00:58:49,087

Um...

721

00:58:49,087 --> 00:58:49,988

Hmm?

722

00:58:51,215 --> 00:58:53,119

And can Barone hear too?

723

00:58:54,350 --> 00:58:56,865

From inside, he was up on a perch.

724

00:58:56,865 --> 00:58:58,228

You cannot hear it from inside.

725

00:58:58,228 --> 00:58:59,891

Del, you can't either.

726

00:59:00,361 --> 00:59:13,100

Imagine, yeah, maybe there's just like almost a little bit of residue clinging to my ears,

almost like tinnitus, and I will uh bring all kind of like, know, drag you hurriedly like,

727

00:59:13,100 --> 00:59:15,053

hey, hey, hey, you don't wanna miss this.

728

00:59:15,053 --> 00:59:17,025

I don't know what is going

729

00:59:18,588 --> 00:59:20,645

Is it a red-bellied woodpecker?

730

00:59:20,645 --> 00:59:22,261

Yeah, I think it might be.

731

00:59:22,261 --> 00:59:24,496

It's our lucky day.

732

00:59:25,049 --> 00:59:26,230

Yeah, no, one sec.

733

00:59:26,230 --> 00:59:32,996

oh She grabs her pistol, slides her boots on, tucks her pants in, ties it up and like, all

right, I'm coming, I'm coming.

734

00:59:35,443 --> 00:59:47,655

Yeah, yeah, I will shuttle her up to the roof and, you know, once our breath stills again,

we just kind of hold it and listen for the oozing sound on the wind.

735

00:59:48,206 --> 00:59:52,760

Yeah, the vibrations meet your ear, Agent Barone.

736

00:59:53,321 --> 01:00:00,949

You feel that sense of elation from these strange echoes of what you feel like you

experienced in the church.

737

01:00:01,190 --> 01:00:03,513

This is a chanting.

738

01:00:03,513 --> 01:00:08,077

It almost gives you that joyous feeling again.

739

01:00:08,555 --> 01:00:09,959

It doesn't quite...

740

01:00:10,001 --> 01:00:21,866

pull you into the same space as being in the church did, but this is very reminiscent of

what you felt internally made into song form somewhere out there on the swamp.

741

01:00:24,524 --> 01:00:32,169

I mean it doesn't make me as happy as like the breakdown of vulgar monstrosity but you

know that sounds real nice to me.

742

01:00:32,169 --> 01:00:35,115

ah Maybe a little too nice.

743

01:00:35,115 --> 01:00:36,948

What direction is it coming from?

744

01:00:39,143 --> 01:00:46,023

It is coming from just the area of the swamp south of you.

745

01:00:46,283 --> 01:00:50,323

Your guess is probably around where you saw all those footprints.

746

01:00:51,476 --> 01:00:58,315

and where I saw the water, the thing in the water, is it over in that direction?

747

01:01:00,326 --> 01:01:01,100

Yeah.

748

01:01:01,100 --> 01:01:03,933

So like 20, 20, 30 minute hike from here.

749

01:01:04,246 --> 01:01:09,229

Yeah, just kind of the back where we came from because I was like right off the trail.

750

01:01:10,530 --> 01:01:11,631

Okay.

751

01:01:13,973 --> 01:01:22,548

I'm not sure how we feel about night adventures per se, but that is definitely not normal.

752

01:01:24,030 --> 01:01:24,881

Yeah.

753

01:01:25,507 --> 01:01:26,169

Yeah.

754

01:01:26,169 --> 01:01:28,326

No, it's not, is it?

755

01:01:31,134 --> 01:01:37,800

Is this, uh well, hey, is there anything that's like visibly off about Barone?

756

01:01:37,800 --> 01:01:44,156

Like something where, like, does she look like she was intoxicated by encountering this

sound?

757

01:01:45,243 --> 01:01:47,573

You'd need to roll human intelligence, but...

758

01:01:47,573 --> 01:01:50,143

oh

759

01:01:51,198 --> 01:01:53,275

One of these days it is gonna happen.

760

01:01:53,275 --> 01:01:56,845

Yeah, his next character is going to be a psychotherapist.

761

01:01:57,226 --> 01:02:04,731

Well, yeah, may or may not already have something in mind, but no, Dell is gonna be a

fucking god by the end of this.

762

01:02:04,731 --> 01:02:06,224

I get D4 every session.

763

01:02:06,224 --> 01:02:07,523

Who else could say that?

764

01:02:07,523 --> 01:02:09,044

That's true, that's true.

765

01:02:09,044 --> 01:02:17,170

Yeah, Barone is not, doesn't look intoxicated the way you saw her in the church.

766

01:02:17,611 --> 01:02:23,495

So, but there is, Barone's picking up on more than you are from it.

767

01:02:23,628 --> 01:02:27,248

Yeah, did seem like a more visceral reaction.

768

01:02:29,048 --> 01:02:42,852

So I think I'm going to go lie down under the pretense that Barone is on watch, but I'm

gonna watch Barone for the next hour and a half or so.

769

01:02:44,886 --> 01:02:52,472

Awesome, yeah, as Del goes off, Barone's gonna be like, alright, well, sleep tight, Del.

770

01:02:52,472 --> 01:02:55,254

I'll just listen for that, see if anything changes.

771

01:02:55,254 --> 01:03:00,478

I'll let you know um if anything goes crazy, but hopefully I won't see you till the

morning.

772

01:03:00,478 --> 01:03:10,446

And she'll kinda just tuck in up there on top of the watch post and listen to the sounds

of the night.

773

01:03:10,634 --> 01:03:14,129

Yeah, please don't look for an excuse to go knocking.

774

01:03:15,906 --> 01:03:16,775

Promise.

775

01:03:16,775 --> 01:03:19,348

It's like one of his eyes is open as he says that.

776

01:03:26,097 --> 01:03:29,909

You sit back and you're up on the perch.

777

01:03:29,909 --> 01:03:33,110

Del seemingly has went to sleep.

778

01:03:33,110 --> 01:03:35,791

Agent Ryan is snoring a little bit.

779

01:03:36,871 --> 01:03:40,032

You hear that song.

780

01:03:40,032 --> 01:03:42,013

doesn't crescendo.

781

01:03:42,013 --> 01:03:43,873

It's very hard to pick out.

782

01:03:43,873 --> 01:03:46,834

Like you have to stop and listen for it.

783

01:03:46,834 --> 01:03:48,435

It's pretty far out there.

784

01:03:48,435 --> 01:03:53,356

uh And it just continues and continues without.

785

01:03:54,128 --> 01:04:01,411

any sort of exhaustion over and over again, you start to feel a structure to it.

786

01:04:01,411 --> 01:04:10,774

And it's a structure of ups and downs more than specific words that you can pick out, but

it's starting to wringing your head a little bit.

787

01:04:11,695 --> 01:04:13,976

Go ahead and roll alertness.

788

01:04:17,191 --> 01:04:25,969

sure let's see alertness is 80 so ding dang good and we got of course yeah I got 94

789

01:04:26,034 --> 01:04:35,020

Okay, you are a little tired and you fall asleep up there.

790

01:04:35,020 --> 01:04:38,012

Yeah.

791

01:04:39,023 --> 01:04:42,763

Was it by any chance before Dell fell asleep?

792

01:04:43,853 --> 01:04:45,493

All right.

793

01:04:46,256 --> 01:04:47,076

No.

794

01:04:47,464 --> 01:04:48,344

Okay.

795

01:04:48,586 --> 01:04:52,170

Yeah, you fall asleep and...

796

01:04:55,114 --> 01:05:01,356

You wake up about an hour later and the chanting has stopped.

797

01:05:02,821 --> 01:05:03,966

I wake up an hour later.

798

01:05:03,966 --> 01:05:04,739

Yeah.

799

01:05:06,443 --> 01:05:19,183

Shit god and she'll um Get up and stand up kind of at that the just the post area and if

the chanting stopped I think the first thing she'll do is listen for anything else in the

800

01:05:19,183 --> 01:05:27,469

immediate area and try to pick up on on Anything that might have gotten closer when she

fell asleep

801

01:05:27,552 --> 01:05:29,771

Okay, yeah, do the alertness again.

802

01:05:30,055 --> 01:05:35,075

Okay, just still that sweet, 80, nice and high.

803

01:05:38,839 --> 01:05:40,939

83.

804

01:05:42,132 --> 01:05:45,444

Yeah, you're listening, you know, with an 80, it's very high.

805

01:05:45,444 --> 01:05:52,437

So you would still, be able to hear that the chanting has stopped, but so has the swamp.

806

01:05:52,437 --> 01:05:56,879

Like there's no crickets, there's no cicadas.

807

01:05:57,059 --> 01:06:06,423

There is a serene silence that has covered it like a security blanket smothering it.

808

01:06:06,603 --> 01:06:08,984

So no sound can come out.

809

01:06:10,057 --> 01:06:17,532

And just to be clear, a serene, nice and calm, not a creepy, eerie emptiness of sound,

correct?

810

01:06:17,532 --> 01:06:20,347

We're on the positive quiet side.

811

01:06:21,516 --> 01:06:25,517

Barone feels that the silence is serene, yes.

812

01:06:25,871 --> 01:06:27,792

great, okay.

813

01:06:28,513 --> 01:06:30,494

Well, all right.

814

01:06:30,494 --> 01:06:31,995

No harm, no foul, I guess.

815

01:06:31,995 --> 01:06:38,159

uh And then I'll uh make my way down to uh Ryan, to wake up Agent Ryan.

816

01:06:40,741 --> 01:06:42,736

Is it, well, I guess is it time?

817

01:06:43,424 --> 01:06:44,545

It's about 4 a.m.

818

01:06:44,545 --> 01:06:45,560

in the morning.

819

01:06:46,781 --> 01:06:51,034

Okay, so yeah, probably pretty close to Ryan.

820

01:06:51,055 --> 01:06:59,683

I'll try to make it like uh a hurried uh rush, like I'm not gonna like saunter on over.

821

01:06:59,683 --> 01:07:03,787

I think I'm going to like get to Ryan decently quickly.

822

01:07:03,787 --> 01:07:10,693

uh And I'll go ahead and kneel down and like poke him in the back.

823

01:07:10,693 --> 01:07:13,305

Hey, Ryan, Ryan, it's time to wake up.

824

01:07:15,139 --> 01:07:16,041

What?

825

01:07:17,436 --> 01:07:17,876

hey.

826

01:07:17,876 --> 01:07:19,978

Sorry, good morning sleepyhead.

827

01:07:19,978 --> 01:07:23,741

ah So I made a boo-boo.

828

01:07:23,741 --> 01:07:27,064

I think uh I'm a bit tired, more tired than I thought.

829

01:07:27,064 --> 01:07:30,206

uh I fell asleep here at the end of the shift.

830

01:07:30,206 --> 01:07:34,570

I'm not sure how long I was out, but I gotta crash.

831

01:07:34,570 --> 01:07:35,510

I have to crash.

832

01:07:35,510 --> 01:07:36,631

I'm so sorry.

833

01:07:36,631 --> 01:07:37,851

Oh.

834

01:07:37,891 --> 01:07:38,831

Okay.

835

01:07:39,311 --> 01:07:43,451

Yeah, let me put my pants on and get up here.

836

01:07:44,731 --> 01:07:47,682

god, and she stands up and turns around and blocks away.

837

01:07:47,682 --> 01:08:00,314

Uh, just so you know, we didn't want to bug you, but, uh, there was some chanting, uh, out

in the swamp, which was, well, I thought it was very rhythmic and kind of nice, but it

838

01:08:00,314 --> 01:08:06,477

was, it was definitely back in the direction of the creepy, uh, green form.

839

01:08:06,777 --> 01:08:08,288

Dell and I didn't want to worry you.

840

01:08:08,288 --> 01:08:13,727

And since it wasn't coming any closer, we didn't want to wake you, but it's-

841

01:08:13,727 --> 01:08:15,772

It stopped now.

842

01:08:16,763 --> 01:08:17,544

chanting?

843

01:08:17,544 --> 01:08:25,071

Like multiples of something saying something together?

844

01:08:25,168 --> 01:08:29,351

I mean, think generally it's hard to chant alone, but uh yeah, probably.

845

01:08:29,351 --> 01:08:44,051

um We didn't really want to dig any closer in the night, but yeah, there's something

there, but I haven't seen anything until I fell asleep and then saw the inside of my

846

01:08:44,051 --> 01:08:47,003

eyelids, but I think we're in the clear.

847

01:08:47,856 --> 01:08:50,022

Okay, go get some rest.

848

01:08:51,465 --> 01:08:52,846

Thanks, I appreciate it.

849

01:08:52,846 --> 01:09:01,979

We were just up there and I'll kind of point to the to the spot that we were we were up I

assume it's like a down a tree and up a thing and kind of over a little bit

850

01:09:03,353 --> 01:09:05,477

Yeah, so I'll head that way.

851

01:09:06,370 --> 01:09:10,936

Yeah, you get to the top and you're greeted with absolute silence.

852

01:09:12,913 --> 01:09:15,375

And I'm like, chanting?

853

01:09:15,676 --> 01:09:16,916

OK.

854

01:09:16,937 --> 01:09:19,329

That sounds cool and kind of creepy.

855

01:09:19,329 --> 01:09:26,025

I'm a little bummed that I missed it, but also relieved that it's not happening anymore on

my shift.

856

01:09:27,940 --> 01:09:29,218

Roll alertness.

857

01:09:33,673 --> 01:09:39,813

I got 36 out of 44.

858

01:09:40,058 --> 01:09:44,082

All right, yeah, not on your shift, your ass.

859

01:09:44,303 --> 01:09:59,641

You hear a single voice, loud, tear up from the swamp, nothing else in this absolute

silence, just chanting the same few phrases.

860

01:09:59,641 --> 01:10:01,743

over and over again.

861

01:10:01,743 --> 01:10:11,061

You can make out where the words begin and end, but the sounds in the middle are nothing

to you other than strange guttural growls.

862

01:10:11,061 --> 01:10:15,344

It is no longer a group chanting quietly.

863

01:10:15,795 --> 01:10:19,288

like somebody shouting at God from the earth.

864

01:10:21,211 --> 01:10:23,523

Yeah, I mean, I'm thoroughly freaked out.

865

01:10:23,523 --> 01:10:28,015

I'm also very curious.

866

01:10:28,296 --> 01:10:33,069

Can I see the Cheryl and like the kids from where we are?

867

01:10:33,380 --> 01:10:35,880

You can't, there are fires around the corner.

868

01:10:36,000 --> 01:10:39,260

It's burned down though, it's quiet over there.

869

01:10:39,951 --> 01:10:44,902

Okay, can I just like go out into town and start walking towards them?

870

01:10:44,942 --> 01:10:54,280

Of course, yeah, you grab your night vision, drop it down and are looking and you see them

all asleep inside that house now, Cheryl included.

871

01:10:54,367 --> 01:10:55,307

OK.

872

01:10:56,188 --> 01:10:58,978

I don't think I'm inclined to wake them.

873

01:10:58,978 --> 01:11:03,370

And also, I'm trying to make sure that my sleeping partners are safe.

874

01:11:03,370 --> 01:11:10,532

So I start walking back towards where I just was.

875

01:11:10,532 --> 01:11:21,915

But I walk a little past it, towards the sound that I'm hearing, just to see if I can see

anything or determine how far away it is.

876

01:11:22,356 --> 01:11:27,859

Yeah, you get to the edge of the river and stop and listen.

877

01:11:28,260 --> 01:11:38,856

Earlier in the caverns of the town, checking on Cheryl, you couldn't hear the chanting,

but now on the edge of town, it starts to reach your ears again.

878

01:11:38,856 --> 01:11:47,972

And yeah, it's a single voice rising and falling with the rhythm of some great.

879

01:11:47,972 --> 01:11:52,335

thumping heart almost is like, ja ja, ja ja, ja ja.

880

01:11:53,077 --> 01:11:56,930

And the words are completely alien that you can pick out.

881

01:11:56,930 --> 01:11:59,192

Nothing you've ever seen yet.

882

01:11:59,192 --> 01:12:04,949

There's this terrible purpose that hits you while you're listening to them.

883

01:12:04,949 --> 01:12:09,133

your hair on your neck stands up, you get goosebumps.

884

01:12:09,133 --> 01:12:13,016

uh These don't feel like...

885

01:12:13,060 --> 01:12:23,851

words of worship for a distant God, but they're like almost a lover's intimate, breathless

yearning going into the skies from wherever this is coming from.

886

01:12:25,938 --> 01:12:30,650

OK, does it seem like it's pretty close to where I'm standing?

887

01:12:31,118 --> 01:12:33,218

Or a ways out into the swamp?

888

01:12:34,928 --> 01:12:42,996

It's hard to tell, it's loud from where you're at, loud enough to start picking out some

of the nuance of it.

889

01:12:45,610 --> 01:12:50,888

And do I see anything with my night vision looking out in that direction?

890

01:12:50,888 --> 01:12:57,945

look past the area that's along the river that is just sawgrass.

891

01:12:58,066 --> 01:13:03,864

You would have to delve into the sawgrass again to find it.

892

01:13:04,284 --> 01:13:07,720

OK, I'm not going to do that solo.

893

01:13:07,720 --> 01:13:13,614

um OK.

894

01:13:15,654 --> 01:13:30,925

I think I just kind of stand there for a little while and continue listening to it, just

more so because it's really interesting to me, but also trying to remember what it is that

895

01:13:30,925 --> 01:13:33,518

they're saying so that I can repeat it.

896

01:13:33,752 --> 01:13:36,963

Okay, yeah, go ahead and roll your sanity.

897

01:13:40,718 --> 01:13:45,058

I got 85.

898

01:13:46,038 --> 01:13:47,053

No.

899

01:13:47,053 --> 01:13:50,840

Do you wanna project onto a bond or take this sand loss?

900

01:13:53,290 --> 01:13:55,145

One, so I'll take the sand loss.

901

01:13:55,145 --> 01:13:56,735

Okay, great.

902

01:13:56,777 --> 01:14:09,572

You feel a brief sense of kinship with the chanting, almost like you wanna wander into the

sawgrass without your friends but you're able to steel yourself and stand there as you

903

01:14:09,572 --> 01:14:10,552

listen.

904

01:14:11,033 --> 01:14:16,434

Again, this is a joyful song, even if...

905

01:14:16,434 --> 01:14:18,859

violently uttered to this guy.

906

01:14:18,859 --> 01:14:21,126

It feels holy.

907

01:14:22,819 --> 01:14:24,580

And that's really all you can get from it.

908

01:14:24,580 --> 01:14:26,344

can't pick out words or not.

909

01:14:26,344 --> 01:14:31,727

There's no structure that's meaningful from this distance that can be written down.

910

01:14:31,727 --> 01:14:33,307

Okay.

911

01:14:34,607 --> 01:14:41,607

Yeah, I don't think I'm really inclined to either go towards it or go back at this point.

912

01:14:41,607 --> 01:14:44,295

I'm just taking it in.

913

01:14:44,523 --> 01:14:45,299

Okay.

914

01:14:48,545 --> 01:14:53,488

you start to see the sky turn pink as the sun rises.

915

01:14:53,488 --> 01:14:56,210

and the silence maintains.

916

01:14:56,506 --> 01:15:02,997

almost think it's the buzzing of the insects coming to life all at once, but it's not.

917

01:15:02,997 --> 01:15:09,235

You look up and out of the sun, it feels like as it's rising, you see

918

01:15:09,235 --> 01:15:14,504

just a flash almost of light just rip over you in silence.

919

01:15:14,504 --> 01:15:16,037

It's hard to pick out what it is.

920

01:15:16,037 --> 01:15:17,289

It's so fast.

921

01:15:17,289 --> 01:15:21,074

And it's almost like an impossible triangle seems to drink the.

922

01:15:21,074 --> 01:15:21,650

uh

923

01:15:21,650 --> 01:15:28,845

sunlight and starlight and clouds around it, like it's cloaked or something, but it's hard

to really tell.

924

01:15:28,845 --> 01:15:30,215

It makes no noise.

925

01:15:30,215 --> 01:15:31,496

And you have your night vision.

926

01:15:31,496 --> 01:15:32,550

You even peek through it.

927

01:15:32,550 --> 01:15:33,567

It gives off no heat.

928

01:15:33,567 --> 01:15:41,222

And in fact, you look up and it's just an absolute black ball through the night vision as

it careens over.

929

01:15:41,903 --> 01:15:47,426

And you hear the chanting stop.

930

01:15:48,480 --> 01:15:52,305

and it disappears over the swamp from your vision.

931

01:15:57,464 --> 01:16:00,648

So what I just saw wasn't like the sun rising.

932

01:16:00,648 --> 01:16:05,433

There seemed like there was something else coming up with the sun.

933

01:16:05,474 --> 01:16:06,734

Am I understanding that?

934

01:16:06,734 --> 01:16:08,101

Roll your sanity.

935

01:16:13,255 --> 01:16:15,084

56 got it.

936

01:16:16,292 --> 01:16:17,423

Okay, you still lose one.

937

01:16:17,423 --> 01:16:22,184

What you saw was some sort of object fly out of the sun.

938

01:16:22,544 --> 01:16:34,021

Like it looked like it came out of the sun as it was rising and it was almost a triangle

but it was also kind of a sphere and it flew over you and it looks like it bent the light

939

01:16:34,021 --> 01:16:38,134

around you in strange ways and ripped over.

940

01:16:38,134 --> 01:16:46,801

had in complete silence, you would expect something flying over that close and with that

size to make a sound, but it did not.

941

01:16:49,446 --> 01:16:58,236

Am I like understanding that the chanting that was happening was summoned something that

summoning this thing?

942

01:16:59,651 --> 01:17:01,515

that's an interesting proposition.

943

01:17:01,515 --> 01:17:02,057

I don't know.

944

01:17:02,057 --> 01:17:03,919

Is that the connection you would make?

945

01:17:03,993 --> 01:17:08,013

Well, if the chanting stopped completely after that, think so.

946

01:17:08,013 --> 01:17:10,285

I would probably make that assumption.

947

01:17:10,552 --> 01:17:11,324

Yeah.

948

01:17:12,737 --> 01:17:17,601

And this orb or whatever, was it transparent?

949

01:17:17,601 --> 01:17:19,515

Did it have color to it?

950

01:17:19,515 --> 01:17:25,367

uh I just couldn't really see much because of this light that was surrounding me.

951

01:17:26,031 --> 01:17:36,233

it looked sort of transparent, but it looked more like it sucked in the things around it

as it passed by, like it bent everything behind it.

952

01:17:36,233 --> 01:17:37,465

And where did it go?

953

01:17:37,465 --> 01:17:39,809

Did it go towards the sound that I was hearing?

954

01:17:39,809 --> 01:17:41,882

OK.

955

01:17:41,882 --> 01:17:43,605

Some weird shit's going on out there.

956

01:17:43,605 --> 01:17:54,188

Okay, well I'm gonna go back ah to see if what time it's sunrise so I'm gonna go back and

see if they're awake.

957

01:17:59,139 --> 01:18:01,700

Hey, this is Nick from Dead Letter Bureau.

958

01:18:01,700 --> 01:18:07,244

I'm just dropping in to express my appreciation and thank all of you for being good

listeners.

959

01:18:08,285 --> 01:18:14,359

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960

01:18:14,359 --> 01:18:21,335

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media platform, we would be very honored.

961

01:18:21,335 --> 01:18:23,538

Well, I hope to see you guys in a few weeks.

962

01:18:23,538 --> 01:18:24,583

Thank you for listening.

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