Best of 2023: Blood and Snow - A Brutal Blizzard Hides the Flesh Hungry Truth!

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Hey, my spooky is it's your
host and narrator, Enrique Kuto here,

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and yes, I'm on my little
sabbatical to northern Michigan, relaxing in the

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freezing cold snow, and I wanted
to leave you a little something to enjoy,

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which you may have missed if you're
a new listener or just started listening

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in October. This one is a
very fun and very extensive horror story all

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about blood and snow. It's by
Rob Fields, a part of the Strickfield

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universe. It's a whole lot of
fun and it was the first ever weekly

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Spooky novella. So it's good and
long. So get yourself cozy, find

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yourself a cup of hot cocoa,
and get yourself ready for a terrifying tale

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of zombies, ice, chemical spills, family betrayal, and that just barely

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scrapes the surface as we dive into
our story after these quick words, blood

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and Snow by Rob Fields. Prologue
perspective Veronica Grande. I managed to escape

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from Ridgeway Heights and was feeling relief
at having escaped the killer. I kept

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replaying the events in my head that
had happened prior to escaping from Grande Estate,

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my new home. I remembered I
had finished having sex with my boyfriend

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before the shit went down. I
had to hide him quickly before throwing my

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few scraps of clothes on and making
my escape. Even in my present situation,

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I was still amazed how I,
of all people, had inherited Oliver

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Grande's entire fortune. Remembering even further
back, I recalled how my mother had

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raised me since giving birth. Mom
was a maid who worked hard to keep

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a roof over our heads and food
on the table. When I was finally

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old enough to work myself, I
went out and got an after school job

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to help contribute to paying our bills. And then, on that one fateful

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day it was a fairy tale that
just happened. I answered the door to

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see two middle aged men wearing what
appeared to be expensive suits. My mother,

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whose name Isabella Sableson, was scared
that these men were there to kill

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both of us. Those fears were
quickly put to rest when one of the

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men gave Mom the big Manila envelope. As she read the contents, the

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men explained they were lawyers on retainer
from Oliver Grande, one of the richest

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men in the country. I'd say
his wealth and power was quite comparable to

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the Mirons who live over in Strickfield. On that day, I learned that

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Oliver Grande and Mom had had an
affair when she worked for him as a

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maid at Grande estate. When Abella
told Oliver that she was pregnant with his

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child, the two of them had
a huge fight that ended with her leaving

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the mansion. Devastated, Mom was
left on her own to raise the child

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growing within her womb. The lawyers
explained to us that Oliver had come to

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regret ever sending Abella away. He
had desired her and wanted to marry her,

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but he had let the mantle of
prestige get the better of him so

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much so that he could never see
what he truly had with Mom. The

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gasp and the bewildered look on Mom's
face only confirmed what the lawyers told her

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and what was on the papers.
Oliver Grande had passed away and left his

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entire fortune to me. For years, I knew I was Veronica Grande,

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but I never knew the real reason
why my last name was different from moms.

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The men explained that Oliver my father
left his entire fortune to me,

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to atone for the great wrong he
had done in sending Mom away all those

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years ago, and for not being
a father to me himself. I couldn't

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believe it myself when Mom let me
read the documents. To be honest,

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I was used to my lot in
life. I wasn't the most popular girl

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at Ridgewood Heights South High School,
but I had a nice circle of friends.

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Me and Mom were just getting by, but at least we had each

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other. It still hasn't sunk in
yet that I was now wealthy, beyond

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my wildest dreams. No sooner had
Mom and I moved into Grande estate,

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I would quickly learn that there were
other Grande family members who felt I had

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absolutely no right to any of my
father's fortune. What's so there was no

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way to contest the will. However, the envelope also contained a copy of

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a DNA test that was taken on
me. Unbeknownst to either Mom or me.

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The test proved that I was,
in fact Oliver Grande's biological daughter and

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his youngest child. Now the entire
fortune was mine and mine alone. Of

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course, I was going to share
it with Mom. I mean, why

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wouldn't I? I hadn't even been
living in Grande Estate a full week when

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someone dressed in all black kicked in
my bedroom door. I had only managed

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to put on shorts and a T
shirt before the killer started shooting at me.

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I managed to duck. Then I
shoved the killer down and fled.

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I screamed for Mom, but I
was never able to find her. As

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I dodged gunshot after gunshot, I
realized I had no other choice but to

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flee Grande Estate. I did feel
comfort in knowing that the killer hadn't found

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my boyfriend, and at the same
time I was very worried about Mom.

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I ran to the garage and grabbed
a keyfob to one of the new vehicles.

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There, I found the correct car
by pressing the horn button. As

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I got into the car, I
just missed getting shot in the head.

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I managed to make it out of
the garage and out onto the road.

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It wasn't long before another vehicle was
pursuing me. I was panicking since I

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never drove an advanced sports car before. Eventually I calmed down and told myself

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to drive it like a normal car. Fortunately for me, the sports car

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had an automatic transmission. Eventually,
I lost my pursuer and continued to speed

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down the road. As I was
trying to determine who could possibly want to

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kill me, I saw it was
starting to snow. Nothing to worry about

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at the moment. As I kept
driving faster and faster, the snow started

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to blow and come down hard.
Then I I was getting closer to the

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Strickfield area and remembered hearing how that
village almost always seemed to be the one

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place where winter liked to settle down. Every year they got hit with a

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blizzard or two, maybe more.
I started to feel I was sliding a

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little and saw the roads had quickly
become white. I couldn't believe how fast

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winter could truly happen around Strickfield or
in much of Feldner County. I really

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didn't want to have to slow down. If I did, I knew it

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would only be a matter of time
before the killer would catch up to me

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again. When I started to slide
again, I knew I had no choice

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but to slow down. I turned
on to a main highway and crossed in

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to Feldner County. I could hear
the gusting winds as I continued to struggle

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to stay on the road. I
even had the windshield wipers going fast and

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the defroster on full. I gasped
and felt my heart sink when I saw

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familiar headlights behind me and knew that
the killer had finally caught up with me.

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Even though I'd turned off, I
could see the vehicle chasing me was

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the hummer I passed in the garage
on the way to this car. That

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hummer could easily handle the snowy conditions. My sports car couldn't. I shrieked

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when the hummer rear ended me.
Leave me alone, I yelled over my

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shoulder. The hummer rear ended me
again. I cried out and felt my

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heart pounding when the car started to
slide. I fought to maintain control and

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straighten the car. Realizing I could
either let the hummer keep striking me or

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take a chance with the speed of
my vehicle, I slammed the accelerator down.

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No sooner was I leaving the Hummer
behind. I started to spin fast.

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This time I had no way of
controlling the vehicle. I continued to

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spin until I finally went off the
road. The car slid down on a

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small hill, until the driver's side
slammed into a tree. The engine died

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almost immediately. Oh Jesus, please, no, I groaned. It was

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then when I looked and saw the
hummer's lights out the passenger side. No.

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I quickly moved to the passenger side
door and started to push it open.

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The winds were making it harder for
me to push open enough just to

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get outside. When I finally did, the door slam shut hard and fast.

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I shrieked when the windshield glass suddenly
shattered, and knew the killer had

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fired a gun at me. I
screamed again as I ran into the woods.

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As fast as I was running,
I could feel how freezing cold it

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really was. I never had the
time to put on anything suitable for this

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raging blizzard. I managed to snag
a jacket, but it was only made

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for autumn. I knew I had
to keep going in spite of the freezing

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te temperatures and how damp and numb
my bare feet were. I shrieked again

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when the bullet narrowly missed me and
hit a tree as I passed. I

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forced myself to keep running, but
knew I couldn't run for much longer.

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The frigid cold was really starting to
get to me. I knew it would

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only be a matter of time before
I'd likely drop over. As I came

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to a small creek, I groaned
and knew I didn't have a choice.

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I cried out at the frigidness of
the water on my bare feet. I

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managed to make it to the other
side, only to feel the immediate heat

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of the bullet that had hit me
in the back of my right shoulder.

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I screamed and fell on to my
side. The pain hurt so much that

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I began to cry. I could
already feel the tears freezing on my face.

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Just the same, I forced myself
to get back on my feet and

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keep moving to preserve my life.
I could feel my blood pouring out from

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my wound. I was also feeling
quite soaked. Now. The snow and

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winds continued to blast me in spite
of the fact that I was in a

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forest. I groaned at my injury
and how bitterly cold my feet were.

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I was wondering if they were frostbitten
by now, even in the darkness,

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I could see they were still flesh
colored. But for how much longer?

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I knew I couldn't stay out here. I had to keep running and find

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shelter. Then I heard the gun
shot and felt the searing pain in my

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lower left back. Again, I
staggered and fell. My blood was making

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the gathering snow around me red.
As I forced myself to get up,

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I took one more gunshot on my
right side. I screamed my loudest when

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I felt the bullet had gone into
my stomach. I knew now I was

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as good as dead. How far
was I from the nearest town, How

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far was Strickfield? For that matter, Even if I could get to a

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house and call for help, I
knew no emergency services would reach me in

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time, especially with a blizzard going
on. Still, I wasn't going to

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make things easy for the killer.
I forced myself to get back to my

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feet and keep running. Just die, Veronica, The killer yelled behind me.

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You have no right to any of
Oliver's money, no right. The

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mask the killer was wearing was muffling
the voice. I called on every last

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ounce of strength I had left and
sprinted through the woods. I dodged one

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more bullet as I kept running.
For a brief moment, I could actually

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feel my body heat warming me As
I kept running and running. After several

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minutes, fatigue and blood loss were
finally catching up to me. I moved

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and hid behind a big tree.
I could see the shape of the killer,

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but I couldn't tell if it was
a man or a woman. I

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knew there would be no way to
determine the killer's identity before I would finally

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die, and that was if the
killer would catch me and actually give me

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the satisfaction of unmasking before shooting me
for the final time. I remained where

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I was and continued to hope the
killer wouldn't find me. It was then

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when I looked and saw the big
river there, and it showed no signs

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of freezing. I wasn't sure if
I was delusional now, but I could

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swear there was a faint, reddish
green glow coming from the water itself.

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Funny thing the water was actually warming
me. Then I shook my head and

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knew this couldn't be possible. My
pain now became too much for me,

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and I began to cry again.
I was mortally wounded, improbably to the

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point where I was about to finish
bleeding out. I cried more when I

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knew I was being hunted like an
animal and for money. All I ever

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wanted was a better life for me
and Mom. And then when we finally

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got it, I lowered myself and
sat against my big tree. If I

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was going to die, I would
die with the warmth of this water beside

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me. And then I felt my
eyes rolling up into my skull as I

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finally died, or so I thought. I wasn't sure how long I was

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dead, but I would later determine
that a huge gust of wind had blown

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my body right into that warm river. I think I may have floated out

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into the seemingly glowing yet murky waters
before I finally sank below the surface and

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remained motionless for several minutes. Unfor
fortunately, neither the killer nor I had

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any knowledge of this part of Feldner
County. Maybe if we'd known, we

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might have made it a point to
avoid this very area that came to be

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known as the backwoods of Strickfield.
Most unfortunately, neither of us knew of

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the horrors that awaited us in here, and there was certainly no way of

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knowing that years ago, toxic waste
had emptied from a corroded barrel that was

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dropped here and had rolled into this
very river. The toxic waste had mixed

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with the water and contaminated it to
a point where those who lived in the

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backwoods here never went anywhere near it
for any reason. As the warm,

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murky bath continued to soak my body
for several minutes, who would know for

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sure exactly what kind of mutations would
come as a result. And then finally

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felt myself starting to twitch. Then
again and again, I opened my eyes

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and felt the waters warm embrace all
around me. I soon lifted my arms

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and felt my hand break the surface. I made a tight fist and knew

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something had happened. I knew somehow
that I was changed when I emerged from

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the waters that became my cocoon.
I knew it was time to get revenge

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on the fucker who murdered me.
Don't go away weakly, Spooky will be

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right back, The killer growled and
roared in frustration. How could I have

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possibly gotten away? Right? I
mean? The killer knew I'd taken three

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lethal shots from the high powered rifle
used. The killer had seen plenty of

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my blood and knew I was seriously
hurt, Yet I managed to get away.

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The blizzard continued its raging fury even
though the killer was warmly dressed.

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I could only guess there was no
returning to Ridgeway Heights until there was one

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hundred percent certainty that I was confirmed
dead. That meant a positive ID.

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It was a short time later when
the killer heard the sounds of my laughter.

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The killer stopped and raised the rifle. Who is that? Then my

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laughter was heard again. I must
have sounded like an innocent girl, Veronica,

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The killer growled, show yourself,
let me put you out of your

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goddamn misery. The killer heard my
innocent laughter again and saw my dark shape

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in the trees. The killer took
quick aim and fired missed me. I

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sang in a voice you'd hear in
scary mood, and laughed innocently again.

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You think I'm playing games here,
Veronica, The killer roared. You had

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no right, you goddamn bitch,
no right to any of Oliver's wealth.

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But the killer could only hear my
innocent laughter one more time. When the

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killer saw my dark shape again in
the trees, it only resulted in another

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wasted bullet. The killer heard my
innocent laughter yet again and turned to run.

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When my innocent laughter came the loudest
yet, the killer groaned upon tripping

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and falling forward. Goddamn it,
the killer muttered and reached for the rifle.

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Only now the killer saw one of
my bare legs and feet right next

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to it. The killer looked up
and saw me. Now, I was

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still wearing the shorts and t shirt
I had put on after having sex with

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my boyfriend, and I didn't appear
to be the least bit cold. Even

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more, my entire body, including
my hair, was as white as snow.

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My nails, fingers, and toes
or solid black. For the record,

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none of my nails were polished.
I would later learn that my toxic

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eyes were a bluish gray with green
irises. The killer could see the gunshot

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wounds on my body, but that
I was no longer bleeding, nor was

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I feeling any pain. The killer
quickly grabbed the rifle and stood up.

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I just stood there as the killer
aimed at me and pulled the trigger.

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Click. Then I smiled sweetly and
laughed innocently again. Aw Suddenly, my

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cute face turned into one of utter
rage as I rushed at my murderer.

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I easily jumped on my prey,
and we were soon wrestling in the snow.

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Get off me, you bitch,
the killer yelled, but I was

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in no mood for small talk.
I wanted to tear the mask right off

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my killer and see who it was. However, I hadn't counted on the

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killer having a second weapon, a
handgun. I cried out. When I

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took a bullet right in the head, I fell and landed on my back.

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I must have laid there for several
minutes. The killer managed to reload

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the rifle while not taking their eyes
off of me. Suddenly, I sat

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up sharply and screamed. Even though
the killer screamed in response, I still

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couldn't tell if it was a man
or a woman with the mask covering their

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mouth. However, the killer did
point the rifle at me and shoot,

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and I was flat on my back
again. The killer again moved away from

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me, the rifle ready. I
still wasn't feeling like taking my death lying

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down and sat up again. I
got back to my feet and glared the

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killer down. But the killer wasn't
going to just let me come for my

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revenge and emptied the rest of the
rifle into me. I pointed right at

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the killer. Now you can't kill
me. I tightened my fists. I'm

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already dead, the killer finally got
the message. I mean, I was

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only shot several times and had inky
blue blood all over me. When the

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killer turned and ran away, I
howled with rage. Now my hunter had

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become the hunted. I chased the
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Unfortunately for me, the killer made
it back inside and locked the doors.

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All I managed to do was shattered
the driver's side window out before the

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killer managed to get away. Feeling
mad as hell, I tightened my fists

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and howled so loudly that I was
sure anybody who was dumb enough to be

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out and about in these woods had
to have heard me. Ah these woods.

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I knew right then and there that
I could never return to Ridgeway Heights

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again. The backwoods of Strickfield would
forever be my new home. One year

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later, Perspective a Bella Sableson.
It was a little over a year ago

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that my daughter's car was found out
in the backwoods area of Strickfield. Veronica

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managed to get more than one hundred
miles away the night she fled from Grande

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Estate. She was eventually found by
her pursuer when the police searched for her

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after the blizzard was over, they
managed to find the fall jacket she was

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wearing, partially buried under some snow. There were no signs of Veronica herself.

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However, the police reports and newspapers
said that my daughter was never found

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and may still be out in those
Strickfield backwoods somewhere. She never returned to

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Grande Estate, and I never got
so much as a phone call or a

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text from her. Now it's finally
come down to this. I'm sitting in

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an suv with four others who are
going to help me find Veronica. I

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never got close to any of them, however, when I told them I

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was planning to come to Strickfield to
look for Veronica, and why they agreed

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to come with me. You know
what this means to find Veronica, I

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tell them. The driver, Amos
Coulp, glanced at me in the rear

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view mirror. We'll find her.
I know. I want to find Veronica

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just as badly as you do.
But you didn't have to rent a cabin

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for us to. I start to
say, don't worry about it. Amos

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interrupts. Turns out the trapper owns
the cabin owed me a favor, so

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I'm just calling it in. Besides, it's better than paying for a motel

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or hotel and having to keep driving
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With this cabin, we're only a
few miles away from those backwoods.

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Veronica disappeared in We're All Good at
Bella. Trina had her arms folded in

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front of her and didn't speak much
during the trip. I wish Veronica would

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have called the house or let us
know somehow that she's all right. I

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don't get it. She inherited all
of Grandea, a state, and all

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that money. Not even a week
later she disappears out here. That's why

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we're going to investigate those backwoods just
outside of Strickfield, I say, putting

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a hand on her shoulder. Why
didn't the state police thoroughly investigate that area

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when they found Veronica's car, Tristan
asked, sitting on the other side of

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me, I mean, I get
it was during a blizzard in all,

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but just saying that's just it,
Morgan says, riding shotgun. It was

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during a blizzard. It would have
been hard to try and look for somebody

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during a bad blizzard like that,
especially in a heavily wooded area like those

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backwoods assistance may be paying off.
I say, I've been spreading the word

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around on social media. I've even
taken some trips to Strickfield myself. Then

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that phone call finally came last week
from someone that said they saw my daughter

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somewhere in that same wooded area where
her car was found over a year ago.

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I groan. I will not rest
until I find Veronica. It's important

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that I find her well. We
want to know what happened to Veronica too.

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Trina replies, not much further to
the cabin, Amos says. It's

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not long after we cross the Feldner
County line. Amos turns off onto a

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dirt road and drives a short distance
before we turn up the drive that goes

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to the cabin. When Amos stops, we get out of the suv and

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bring our bags inside. We keep
our backpacks with our gear in the car.

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As soon as we're all inside,
we get startled when someone else is

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coming in the back door, an
older man appearing to be in his early

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fifties. Can we help you,
sir, I ask. Amos puts a

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gentle hand on my shoulder. It's
okayah, Bella, this is Tom Barlow,

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the trapper who's letting us have the
cabin. The man smiles, I

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just want to make sure y'all got
here before I took off. Then he

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looks us all over. So what
brings y'all this way? Some hunting and

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fishing? Probably some hunting, Amos
tells him. In those woods just off

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the main highway. He points in
the direction that way. Tom's face suddenly

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drops. Tell me, y'all ain't
serious. He points in the same direction.

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Ain't nobody told you none about them
woods outside Strickfield? What about them?

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Trina asks? They're just normal woods? Right. Tom looks at all

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of us. Now, if I
didn't know better, I'd say he's probably

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thinking we're not right or something.
Ain't none of you ever been to Strickfield.

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There's all kinds of stories that go
on in them backwoods outside of Strickfield.

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Those that have been in there and
live to tell about it, well,

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even they'll tell you all the things
they seen in them woods. Like

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what Morgan asks? Like what Tom
repeats with some surprise, young lady.

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There are stories about things ranging from
acts of cannibalism to strange creatures. There

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have even been talks about some little
children walking around in there, ones that

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came back from the dead. We
listen as Tom tells us a story he

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heard about a little backwoods boy named
Billy McCracken, and how he was killed

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and came back to life. Also
how he turned some other kids living in

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the backwoods into things like him.
I don't know none what brought him back

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to life, but there was a
man who saw him and almost didn't make

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it out of there. Yeah,
Mike Cruz was his name. Then Tom

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gets agitated. Look, I ain't
making this shit up. I'm telling y'all

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right now, you do not want
to go in them woods. The rest

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of us are looking at each other. Then I talked to Tom. Listen,

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I know you mean well, but
my daughter disappeared into those woods over

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a year ago, and I got
a tip saying she was seen in those

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same woods just recently. We're just
here to find her. Tom studies us

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for a second. Look, ma'am, I can understand where you're coming from.

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I do. I got two boys
on my own. I suppose i'd

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want to look for him too if
they turned up missing. But you're talking

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about them backwoods over there now.
I can't stop y'all from going into them

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woods. But if y'all go in
there, I ain't promising you you're gonna

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come back out the same. Some
people become changed, and many people they

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just don't come back out again.
Ever, Tom turns and opens the back

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door. He motions for us to
come to him. We go out onto

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the back porch. Also, take
a good look at that sky. There's

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a blizzard coming soon, pretty mean
one from the looks of it, probably

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gonna reach here in the next hour. You go into them woods, especially

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in that shit, don't plan on
anybody coming for y'all. Then Morgan speaks

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up, Come on, it can't
be all that bad. I read Strickfield's

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own mayor lives out in those woods. You don't hear anything about Mayor Patrick

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Gunter going missing. Tom just looks
at us now. Like I said,

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I can't stop y'all, But remember
I warned you. Nobody says anything for

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a little bit. When Tom sees
we're not moved by what he said,

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he groans and shakes his head a
little. Then he hands Amos the keys.

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If you'd have told me about this
before I agreed to let you use

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the cabin, i'd have said no, but I owe you for helping me

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when my truck broke down a few
months ago. We talked to Tom for

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a little bit longer, then he
leaves, telling us he wants to get

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back to Strickfield before the blizzard hits. We watch him get into his truck

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that he had parked out back and
take off. Now it's just us.

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Was he really expecting us to believe
all that shit about about what he just

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told us? Tristan asked, I
groan, I don't give a flying fuck

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if there's a maniac with a hockey
mask walking around in those woods. One

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way or another. I'm going to
find Veronica. When I finally see her,

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alive or dead, then and only
then will I give up searching for

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her. If all of you were
still coming with me, then we're going

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in. If not, we didn't
come over one hundred miles with you just

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to leave you here and head back
home. Tristan tells me, like you

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said, we gotta find Veronica.
I look at all of them and see

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they have every intention of sticking with
me. Get everything unpacked, then we'll

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leave here and head into those woods. What was this tip you got,

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Trina asks me. I got a
phone call from a man who says he

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saw Veronica back in the woods.
I answer, I dig into my purse

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and pull a few things out.
This is a picture of Veronica I posted

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on social media and on missing posters
I tacked up. Then I raise a

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small piece of notebook paper. The
man who called me gave me this address.

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He lives in those backwoods there somewhere. We need to get to this

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place and talk to him. I
groan, Why didn't I think to ask

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for directions? The others don't question
me any further. The truth was,

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I already knew a blizzard was coming
this way, but I refuse to wait

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one more moment. After I got
that phone call. As soon as everybody's

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ready, we leave the cabin.
We get back into the suv and had

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towards the backwoods of Strickfield. Weekly
Spooky will be right back after these quick

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messages. Perspective, Trina, It
sure got dark fast once Amos drove us

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into the woods. I can't help
looking behind us and seeing those nasty looking

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clouds moving really fast, almost as
if they're sealing the way out of here.

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I can't help thinking about what Tom
Barlow told us. I don't know.

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He didn't seem like he was fucked
in the head or on something.

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I mean, I think I did
smell a little pot on him, but

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a couple of us do pot.
In fact, Morgan and I both shared

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a smoke before we left the cabin, just the same. Neither of us

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go on talking about things like walking, dead kids and stuff. I look

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out the window and see the trees
waving as the winds are picking up more

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and more. Yeah, it's definitely
going to be a bad storm. I

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look up front. Anything on the
GPS, amos. I'm using the GPS

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that came with the car. He
replies. I even tried a few GPS

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programs on my phone. None of
them have anything on the roads back here.

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You'd think there'd be at least something. There's nobody walking around out here,

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or we could ask somebody for directions. Tristan mutters, I'm even trying

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to use my own phone. I
say, I punched in the address Abella

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told us, but nothing's showing up. Shit. I got no bars,

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now me either, Morgan groans,
damn it. Everybody else confirms they've got

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no bars on their smartphones. I'm
about to ask Abella how she got the

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phone call, but then I see
wires on the poles and know the people

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living out here are probably using landlines. A Bella sighs hard. Now I'm

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not going back one way or another. I'm finding this address and getting some

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answers. We tell her we're with
her, and then it starts snowing.

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It's not going to be long before
everything gets white fast. We soon stop

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at an intersection. I can't read
that road sign, Tristan says. Then

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he gets out and goes to look
at it up close. He comes back

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and gets in. I think that, says Skeeter Road. We need to

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find old Dutch road. Abella reminds
us. Guess we'll just have to keep

406
00:34:36.519 --> 00:34:39.519
driving around and here until we find
it, or unless we find somebody.

407
00:34:39.719 --> 00:34:44.519
Amos says, glad. We pulled
off for gas before we hit the cabin.

408
00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:47.039
We got a full tank, so
we should be good. If we

409
00:34:47.119 --> 00:34:52.079
get low, we can always leave
here and head into Strickfield. We take

410
00:34:52.119 --> 00:34:55.960
a vote in our unanimous and heading
down Skeeter Road. Amos turns and takes

411
00:34:57.039 --> 00:35:00.400
us further into the backwoods. I
look out the window and see it's really

412
00:35:00.519 --> 00:35:05.440
dark now, the snow is really
coming down, and the wind is picking

413
00:35:05.519 --> 00:35:10.079
up. I have a very bad
feeling about this. We've been driving down

414
00:35:10.119 --> 00:35:15.719
one road after another. We can
read some of the road signs. The

415
00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:17.440
ones we can't. We have to
get out and read them under the car's

416
00:35:17.480 --> 00:35:22.400
headlights. This time it's my turn
to get out and read the next sign.

417
00:35:22.239 --> 00:35:25.400
It's hard to open my door with
the wind blowing hard against it.

418
00:35:25.920 --> 00:35:30.280
When I do get it open and
get out, I slip and fall flat

419
00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:32.559
on my ass. I get back
on my feet again and look at the

420
00:35:32.599 --> 00:35:37.360
sign. It's not old Dutch road. I get back in the car and

421
00:35:37.400 --> 00:35:42.920
we continue on. We come by
a few more roads and still don't find

422
00:35:42.920 --> 00:35:47.119
the right one. We still don't
see anybody out here. We've passed a

423
00:35:47.199 --> 00:35:52.519
few houses and cabins, even some
trailers, but they all look dark.

424
00:35:53.079 --> 00:35:57.880
You'd think there'd be somebody home in
these places. I mean, it's not

425
00:35:57.960 --> 00:36:00.639
like it's late at night or something. With that blizzard, it almost makes

426
00:36:00.639 --> 00:36:05.480
it seem like it's night back here. I look at my watch and see

427
00:36:05.519 --> 00:36:10.000
it's just after four o'clock. Thinking
about slipping, Amos has four wheel drive

428
00:36:10.079 --> 00:36:15.760
on on the suv. I can't
believe how slippery it is now. I

429
00:36:15.800 --> 00:36:20.800
can hear the wind blowing fierce as
the snow keeps coming down. Amos also

430
00:36:20.880 --> 00:36:24.239
has the windshield wipers going. Looking
at the roads, though, I'm thinking

431
00:36:24.280 --> 00:36:29.480
it's only a matter of time before
they're two snow covered and we won't be

432
00:36:29.519 --> 00:36:32.719
able to keep driving on them.
I'd be lying if I said these woods

433
00:36:32.719 --> 00:36:37.119
didn't look scary. I don't know
how many miles these woods are, but

434
00:36:37.199 --> 00:36:42.480
it seems like we've been in here
a long time. As big as these

435
00:36:42.519 --> 00:36:45.840
woods are, we might as well
be looking for a needle in a haystack.

436
00:36:45.360 --> 00:36:51.079
Tristan mutters when he hears Abella sigh, He quickly looks her way.

437
00:36:51.760 --> 00:36:55.679
Sorry, you still want to keep
going, Abella, Amos asks, This

438
00:36:55.760 --> 00:37:00.840
weather's only getting worse and the roads
are getting real bad. Abella clinches her

439
00:37:00.840 --> 00:37:06.159
fist. Veronica is my daughter,
and we will find her. God damn

440
00:37:06.199 --> 00:37:10.519
it. Yeah, her mind's definitely
made up. Guess that would explain why

441
00:37:10.599 --> 00:37:15.320
she packed provisions in her backpack and
had us do the same. Another road

442
00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:20.159
coming up, Morgan says, the
sign's got snow on it. I'll have

443
00:37:20.159 --> 00:37:23.599
to get out and brush it off. Amos slows down and stops. Then

444
00:37:23.679 --> 00:37:28.519
Morgan gets out and has to stand
on the front bumper to reach the sign.

445
00:37:29.039 --> 00:37:31.559
She brushes it off. What's the
name of that road again, Abella,

446
00:37:32.159 --> 00:37:37.039
She calls out, old Dutch Road. Abella calls back, this is

447
00:37:37.079 --> 00:37:42.599
it. We hear her cheer old
Dutch Road. She gets back down and

448
00:37:42.639 --> 00:37:46.280
comes back in. Now we just
need to pick a direction. We'll go

449
00:37:46.440 --> 00:37:51.199
left and see what the house numbers
are. Amos says, we need to

450
00:37:51.239 --> 00:37:55.159
look for twenty one Old Dutch Road. Abella tells us. Amos turns left

451
00:37:55.159 --> 00:38:00.239
and starts driving again. It takes
a few minutes before we finally come up

452
00:38:00.280 --> 00:38:05.679
to the first house looks more like
a hut. Amos stops since it's on

453
00:38:05.760 --> 00:38:08.400
my side. I get out and
try to look at the mailbox. There's

454
00:38:08.440 --> 00:38:13.840
no number on it. I open
the box, no mail. I walk

455
00:38:13.920 --> 00:38:16.000
up to the house. I have
to do some looking, but I eventually

456
00:38:16.039 --> 00:38:21.239
find the rusted out numbers next to
the door. I turn and go back

457
00:38:21.280 --> 00:38:24.519
to the car. Fifteen. I
tell Abella when I get back in,

458
00:38:25.239 --> 00:38:28.320
we'll have to go to the next
place to see if we're going in the

459
00:38:28.360 --> 00:38:32.079
right direction for sure or not on
it. Amos replies and gets us going

460
00:38:32.119 --> 00:38:37.280
again. We go further down the
road. That snow's just coming down so

461
00:38:37.519 --> 00:38:45.079
fast Amos is even taking his time. It's then when the headlights reveal the

462
00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:51.079
next house directly ahead. What the
headlights couldn't have shown us was that the

463
00:38:51.199 --> 00:38:54.800
road ahead was curved. We would
end up finding out the hard way when

464
00:38:54.840 --> 00:39:00.920
we'd suddenly feel the car dip fast. What the hell? Well, Amos

465
00:39:00.960 --> 00:39:05.960
scrumbles. He shifts into reverse,
but we're quickly finding out we're stuck.

466
00:39:06.920 --> 00:39:10.920
Shit. Morgan, Tristan and I
get out and take a look. I

467
00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:15.679
quickly look back at Amos when he
rolls his window down. I tell him,

468
00:39:16.039 --> 00:39:21.039
small ditch. There was so much
snow we couldn't see it. We

469
00:39:21.079 --> 00:39:24.159
don't hear Amos groaning, but we
can see the front tires spinning in the

470
00:39:24.199 --> 00:39:30.119
car, not moving. To put
it mildly, we're fucked. When Amos

471
00:39:30.159 --> 00:39:34.880
turns the motor off, we all
get out and head to the back to

472
00:39:34.920 --> 00:39:38.199
get our backpacks. There's no mailbox
out here at the road, but I

473
00:39:38.280 --> 00:39:42.760
head up to the house to check
the address. When I reach the front

474
00:39:42.800 --> 00:39:45.360
porch, I look for any kind
of a number. I even brush off

475
00:39:45.400 --> 00:39:51.440
the sides at the door. There's
no mailbox here either. I even try

476
00:39:51.519 --> 00:39:55.360
knocking on the door a few times, with no success. I shriek when

477
00:39:55.400 --> 00:40:01.159
somebody puts a hand on my shoulder. It's a I can't find any house

478
00:40:01.239 --> 00:40:07.159
number. I tell her, I
don't think anybody lives here. Abella motions

479
00:40:07.159 --> 00:40:10.360
for me to move aside. Then
she turns the knob and opens the door.

480
00:40:12.480 --> 00:40:16.519
We go inside and confirm that nobody
lives here. The furniture looks broken

481
00:40:16.599 --> 00:40:22.280
and battered. The place looks like
it hasn't been cleaned in years. At

482
00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:24.519
least it's a good place to get
in out of the snow and talk about

483
00:40:24.880 --> 00:40:30.360
what we're going to do next.
God damn it, Amos growls. Nothing

484
00:40:30.400 --> 00:40:34.679
we can do about it, buddy, Tristan tells him. The best we

485
00:40:34.719 --> 00:40:37.119
can do is walk till we get
out of here and maybe make it to

486
00:40:37.159 --> 00:40:44.519
Strickfield. We don't even know where
Strickfield is, Amos replies, I point

487
00:40:44.559 --> 00:40:47.679
in the direction. I think it's
that way. I saw the compass on

488
00:40:47.719 --> 00:40:52.159
your dashboard, Amos. Abella gets
us to try looking around for anything that

489
00:40:52.239 --> 00:40:57.880
might have this address on it.
After looking in all the rooms, there's

490
00:40:57.920 --> 00:41:02.280
nothing to be found, not even
a bill. Tristan mutters, assuming they

491
00:41:02.320 --> 00:41:07.679
even get bills out here, what
are we doing now. Morgan asks,

492
00:41:08.239 --> 00:41:13.159
we don't have a choice. Abella
says, we have to find twenty one.

493
00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:16.760
She looks at us, Now you
know what, you people don't have

494
00:41:16.800 --> 00:41:21.760
to come with me. Just stay
in here and keep out of the blizzard.

495
00:41:22.360 --> 00:41:25.480
Amos puts his hand on Abella's shoulder. I'm going with you, me

496
00:41:25.599 --> 00:41:30.719
too, I say. I guess
we're heading back out. Morgan mutters.

497
00:41:31.440 --> 00:41:35.960
As a plan is being discussed,
I can't help looking out at what was

498
00:41:36.039 --> 00:41:39.559
probably the kitchen window. Just out
of curiosity, I turn one of the

499
00:41:39.599 --> 00:41:45.920
faucet taps. Much to my surprise, water actually trickles out. The people

500
00:41:45.960 --> 00:41:50.440
that live out in the country use
well water, meaning they're not hooked up

501
00:41:50.440 --> 00:41:53.679
to the city and paying water bills. After I shut the water back off,

502
00:41:54.039 --> 00:42:00.039
my eyes are suddenly wide open.
Something's moving behind the tree by what

503
00:42:00.119 --> 00:42:06.480
looks like a firewood pile outside.
When the others turn to me, I

504
00:42:06.559 --> 00:42:10.840
tell them what I discovered. Yeah, there is something moving, Morgan says,

505
00:42:12.480 --> 00:42:17.400
is that a person? And then
the figure comes out enough for us

506
00:42:17.400 --> 00:42:22.760
to see that it is a person. If we didn't know better, we'd

507
00:42:22.800 --> 00:42:30.960
swear it was a girl wearing just
shorts and a T shirt. Is that

508
00:42:31.679 --> 00:42:37.239
is that Veronica a Bella stammers.
We don't waste any time and have to

509
00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:40.679
exit through the front door since there's
no back one. We trudged through the

510
00:42:40.719 --> 00:42:45.719
snow and head out back. The
person isn't there now. When we get

511
00:42:45.719 --> 00:42:50.880
to where we thought we saw her, Amos quickly points to them footprints.

512
00:42:51.199 --> 00:42:55.840
He quickly says, looks like whoever
it is is walking barefoot. I turn

513
00:42:55.880 --> 00:43:00.679
and move. Well, let's follow
them. As we move and follow the

514
00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:06.280
footprints, Abella calls out, Veronica, Veronica, it's mom. We came

515
00:43:06.280 --> 00:43:09.239
out here to find you. We
continue to follow the tracks through some more

516
00:43:09.280 --> 00:43:15.000
of the forest. Eventually we come
to another house. This one makes me

517
00:43:15.079 --> 00:43:20.760
think of the story Hansol and Gretel. It's not a candy house with a

518
00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:24.960
witch living inside, but this place
is definitely not on any path or road.

519
00:43:25.440 --> 00:43:30.199
The footprints lead right to the house. When we reach it, we

520
00:43:30.280 --> 00:43:36.320
can see the front window is broken
out. There's no glass around. Looking

521
00:43:36.360 --> 00:43:40.119
inside, this place looks like the
last house we were in. Whoever it

522
00:43:40.159 --> 00:43:45.559
is? When in here, Morgan
says, what footprints here? We all

523
00:43:45.559 --> 00:43:49.440
climb in through the front window.
It's then when we hear some ruckus.

524
00:43:50.199 --> 00:43:52.719
I move away from the others and
head to the back of the house.

525
00:43:52.280 --> 00:43:55.400
The others are right behind me.
When we get there, we see that

526
00:43:55.440 --> 00:44:00.320
the back door is wide open.
She's back outside. A belly yells go.

527
00:44:01.440 --> 00:44:05.519
I sprint out of the house ahead
of everybody. Now I can see

528
00:44:05.519 --> 00:44:08.280
the person running. I got this, I yell over my shoulder. I

529
00:44:08.320 --> 00:44:12.679
can see the long white hair,
and I know for sure it's a woman.

530
00:44:13.159 --> 00:44:19.360
If I didn't know better, i'd
swear she's got white skin. I

531
00:44:19.400 --> 00:44:23.760
don't mean what society calls white skin. I mean she's just as white as

532
00:44:23.800 --> 00:44:29.920
the snow. Stop, Veronica,
is that you stop? I yell,

533
00:44:30.559 --> 00:44:35.119
whoever this is can really run,
even in bare feet and in the snow.

534
00:44:35.719 --> 00:44:37.639
I'm a track star at my high
school, but she's making me look

535
00:44:37.679 --> 00:44:42.480
bad. I'm still ahead of the
others, though. I follow the girl

536
00:44:42.519 --> 00:44:49.440
through some thicker woods now and then
I hear some laughing sounds like a young

537
00:44:49.480 --> 00:44:52.960
girl who's happy as can be.
I see the footprints again and pick up

538
00:44:52.960 --> 00:44:58.519
the trail. I'm surprised this girl
can walk out here barefoot, let alone

539
00:44:58.519 --> 00:45:02.519
in the clothes she's wearing. Wait
a minute, Abella said that was what

540
00:45:02.599 --> 00:45:07.880
she was wearing when she fled from
Grande Estate that night and ended up getting

541
00:45:07.920 --> 00:45:12.800
lost in here. Veronica, Please, I call out. If it's you,

542
00:45:13.039 --> 00:45:15.480
just stop. Your mom's been really
worried about you all this time.

543
00:45:16.280 --> 00:45:21.960
She hasn't given up on you.
Please. I hear the happy laughter again

544
00:45:22.239 --> 00:45:27.079
as I keep following the footprints.
It's getting frustrating since it's really dark.

545
00:45:27.480 --> 00:45:31.719
It's gotta be sunset by now shit. I quickly take off my backpack and

546
00:45:31.760 --> 00:45:37.119
go for the flashlight inside. I
turn it on and see the footprints again.

547
00:45:37.239 --> 00:45:42.639
I hear the happy laughter one more
time. When I turn around,

548
00:45:43.280 --> 00:45:49.559
I finally see her and gasp.
Her skin and hair are snowy white.

549
00:45:50.119 --> 00:45:57.440
Her eyes look so evil. Where
her eyes should have been white, they

550
00:45:57.440 --> 00:46:01.960
were like a grayish color. Her
eyes themselves were sickening green. Her nails

551
00:46:01.960 --> 00:46:09.119
are completely black, fingers and toes. It's definitely Veronica, though, Oh

552
00:46:09.159 --> 00:46:14.079
my god, what happened to you? Veronica just looks at me. Now

553
00:46:15.599 --> 00:46:22.239
treea, she whispers eerily. Before
I can call out to the others,

554
00:46:22.840 --> 00:46:25.480
Veronica leaps at me and takes me
down, making me drop the flashlight.

555
00:46:25.800 --> 00:46:30.880
I groan and struggle to get her
off of me, but Veronica quickly overpowers

556
00:46:30.880 --> 00:46:35.639
me and pins my wrists down.
Oh fuck, my wrists suddenly burn with

557
00:46:35.719 --> 00:46:40.360
the cold from her hands. I
continue to struggle against her, but I

558
00:46:40.400 --> 00:46:45.960
can't believe how incredibly strong she is. Get off of me, I shriek,

559
00:46:45.280 --> 00:46:52.119
help help me. Veronica looks at
me softly. Trina, she whispers

560
00:46:52.159 --> 00:46:58.639
again. We look at each other
for several seconds. Then she looks sad

561
00:47:00.360 --> 00:47:06.480
hungry. Her hands are so cold
they really burn my wrists to where they

562
00:47:06.519 --> 00:47:12.119
feel like they're frostbitten. And then
I'm feeling even more pain. When Veronica

563
00:47:12.199 --> 00:47:17.880
lowers her head and bites right into
my throat, I can't even scream to

564
00:47:17.960 --> 00:47:22.039
try and call for help again.
As soon as I feel the flesh on

565
00:47:22.079 --> 00:47:28.280
my throat torn away, I stop
struggling against whatever this thing that once was

566
00:47:28.400 --> 00:47:36.039
Veronica is and feel my life slipping
away. I lose more and more control

567
00:47:36.119 --> 00:47:46.599
over my body, and then everything
gets gets dark forever. More scares are

568
00:47:46.599 --> 00:47:57.519
coming right back. When weakly Spooky
returns, perspective a misculp. It's really

569
00:47:57.559 --> 00:48:00.800
hard trying to keep up with Trina
in hiking boots. I'm surprised she can

570
00:48:00.880 --> 00:48:06.199
run in the snow like she does. Guess that's what comes with being on

571
00:48:06.239 --> 00:48:09.719
the track team at Ridgewood Heights South
High It's also dark to where we have

572
00:48:09.800 --> 00:48:15.199
to use our flashlights. Now we
keep calling out for Trina. Abella keeps

573
00:48:15.239 --> 00:48:21.760
calling out for Veronica. Now I'm
confused. If that girl we saw was

574
00:48:21.920 --> 00:48:24.800
Veronica, then why the hell didn't
she ever try to get in touch with

575
00:48:25.880 --> 00:48:32.199
anyone instead. Veronica's really been living
here in these woods for a whole year.

576
00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:37.559
If that is her, then how
she's surviving. I know Veronica has

577
00:48:37.599 --> 00:48:40.920
never been much of a hunter.
She didn't even like when I talked about

578
00:48:42.000 --> 00:48:46.239
hunting. We keep following the tracks
made by both Trina and the barefoot girl.

579
00:48:46.800 --> 00:48:52.119
We finally reach a point where there's
blood in the snow. There's also

580
00:48:52.199 --> 00:48:58.760
a broken flashlight. We don't see
anyone here, not a soul. But

581
00:48:58.840 --> 00:49:02.440
then I noticed something out of the
ordinary. You guys, see how Trina's

582
00:49:02.440 --> 00:49:07.280
tracks end here, I point out, But look the ones of the bare

583
00:49:07.320 --> 00:49:13.800
feet they're the only ones that keep
going from here. Tristan gets a little

584
00:49:13.800 --> 00:49:17.800
scared. Now, you don't suppose
whatever that girl was got Trina, do

585
00:49:17.920 --> 00:49:24.559
you? I really don't know for
sure, I tell him Trina. Tristan

586
00:49:24.679 --> 00:49:30.280
calls out Morgan and Abella also call
out for Trina. Abella continues to call

587
00:49:30.320 --> 00:49:36.599
out for Veronica, but nobody answers
back. Trina's gotta be able to hear

588
00:49:36.679 --> 00:49:40.320
us. I mean she couldn't have
gone that far away. Still, seeing

589
00:49:40.360 --> 00:49:45.559
the blood and broken flashlight here makes
me wonder. After a little bit,

590
00:49:45.679 --> 00:49:52.280
we stop calling out for Trina.
Ah, she's dead, man, Tristan

591
00:49:52.400 --> 00:49:55.800
says, shaking his head quickly.
She's gotta be dead. She ain't calling

592
00:49:55.960 --> 00:50:00.880
back to us. I think that
girl must have gotten her. She shouldn't

593
00:50:00.880 --> 00:50:05.760
have gone off by herself. I
raise my hand, Tristan, don't okay.

594
00:50:06.239 --> 00:50:08.840
We can't afford to be losing our
shit, not out here. We

595
00:50:08.920 --> 00:50:14.559
have to keep going, Abella tells
us, but Trina. Morgan tries to

596
00:50:14.559 --> 00:50:17.199
say, but I put my hand
on Morgan's shoulder. We'll look for her.

597
00:50:17.519 --> 00:50:22.559
She can't have gone far. But
I think Morgan was believing Tristan.

598
00:50:22.559 --> 00:50:27.440
I don't like this. I think
something did happen to Trina. There's no

599
00:50:27.480 --> 00:50:31.400
way she wouldn't answer back again.
Abella tells us we can go back and

600
00:50:31.480 --> 00:50:36.159
get out of the blizzard. I
didn't think things would happen like this.

601
00:50:37.360 --> 00:50:39.880
No, we got to stick together
now, I say, we don't know

602
00:50:39.920 --> 00:50:45.039
what's going on out here with Trina
missing. The others are quick to agree

603
00:50:45.039 --> 00:50:50.000
with me. Still, I'm beginning
to think Tristan's right. Something either attacked

604
00:50:50.000 --> 00:50:55.559
Trina or possibly killed her. I'm
almost afraid of what we'll find out.

605
00:50:57.320 --> 00:51:01.159
We move and follow the single set
of footprints. At times we do see

606
00:51:01.239 --> 00:51:06.880
some drops of blood. Then the
trail gets cold. When the footprints and

607
00:51:06.920 --> 00:51:10.480
the blood drops end at a small
river, we have no idea which way

608
00:51:10.519 --> 00:51:15.719
to go. It's dark and the
snow and winds keep blowing. What's more

609
00:51:15.920 --> 00:51:20.000
is that we're stuck in these woods
with the car not being able to go

610
00:51:20.079 --> 00:51:23.960
anywhere, and on top of that, we lost Trina. What do you

611
00:51:24.000 --> 00:51:28.679
guys want to do? I ask, way I see it. We can

612
00:51:28.719 --> 00:51:32.440
go about this two ways. One
we can split up in twos and pick

613
00:51:32.480 --> 00:51:38.440
a direction, or two we stick
together safety in numbers. I have to

614
00:51:38.480 --> 00:51:44.079
know if that's Veronica A Bella snaps, I'm going this way. I'll go

615
00:51:44.159 --> 00:51:47.960
with you, Morgan says, following
her. Then Tristan bumps my arm.

616
00:51:49.679 --> 00:51:52.960
We better go the other way.
We can cover more ground. I groan

617
00:51:53.079 --> 00:51:59.559
and follow Tristan. I'm telling you, I got a very bad feeling about

618
00:51:59.559 --> 00:52:04.320
this. I say, I think
we should follow the women, But what

619
00:52:04.360 --> 00:52:07.519
if we all end up going the
wrong way? Tristan asks. Then it

620
00:52:07.599 --> 00:52:15.000
hits me, you know what if
this girl's hunting us. If that's the

621
00:52:15.039 --> 00:52:19.639
case, it probably won't matter what
direction we end up going. Tristan gives

622
00:52:19.639 --> 00:52:22.960
me a funny look. Why would
that girl be hunting us? What do

623
00:52:23.000 --> 00:52:28.840
we got that she wants? I
groan. I don't know. Something just

624
00:52:28.920 --> 00:52:34.039
feels wrong about all of this.
We gotta try and find Veronica. Tristan

625
00:52:34.159 --> 00:52:38.480
reminds me, we've come this far. Once we find Veronica, Abella gets

626
00:52:38.480 --> 00:52:44.639
what she's been wanting, and everything'll
be good for everybody. We just gotta

627
00:52:44.679 --> 00:52:49.920
find Veronica. You know that,
I know. I snapped back. You

628
00:52:50.000 --> 00:52:53.360
don't have to keep reminding me we
should have come looking for when it's not

629
00:52:53.639 --> 00:52:59.599
a blizzard. We both keep arguing
about being here during the blizzard and waiting.

630
00:53:00.239 --> 00:53:04.840
One thing about Tristan, he's about
his headstrong is a damn woman.

631
00:53:05.639 --> 00:53:08.639
Veronica was pretty headstrong too. Ain't
no wonder she ended up getting all the

632
00:53:08.639 --> 00:53:14.239
way out here that night. We
keep following the river without our phones.

633
00:53:14.280 --> 00:53:16.800
We don't know where the hell we
are. There's no sun or moon.

634
00:53:17.559 --> 00:53:21.920
It's dark as shit out here,
and the snow keeps blowing and drifting.

635
00:53:22.440 --> 00:53:25.440
I look up at the sky and
can't see jack or shit. Okay,

636
00:53:25.920 --> 00:53:30.639
I can see those dark clouds up
there that's bringing this blizzard down all over

637
00:53:30.679 --> 00:53:35.440
Feltner County. Why this county gets
the shit end of that deal every winter?

638
00:53:35.559 --> 00:53:38.880
I'll never know. I'm gonna go
across the water. Tristan says,

639
00:53:39.400 --> 00:53:44.519
maybe we'll do better finding tracks if
we each take a side. Whatever,

640
00:53:44.880 --> 00:53:50.039
I grumble. Tristan quickly moves across
the water. It ain't frozen yet,

641
00:53:50.039 --> 00:53:52.760
but I can see it's freezing along
the top at the ends. Tristan and

642
00:53:52.800 --> 00:53:59.400
I use our flashlights to keep lighting
our way. Amus over here, Tristan

643
00:53:59.480 --> 00:54:02.000
calls out. I turn and move
across the water to get to him.

644
00:54:02.239 --> 00:54:07.599
I shine my light where his is
and see those footprints hes found made by

645
00:54:07.639 --> 00:54:13.320
bare feet. Let's go, I
say, before the snow covers em up.

646
00:54:14.000 --> 00:54:16.440
We move and follow the tracks.
I shine my light ahead. No

647
00:54:16.559 --> 00:54:21.320
sign of the girl. We keep
following the fresh tracks as far as they'll

648
00:54:21.360 --> 00:54:24.320
take us. I can't believe that
girl can move so fast in the shit.

649
00:54:24.719 --> 00:54:30.400
Tristan mutters, these backwoods people can
probably do a lot of shitting here.

650
00:54:30.760 --> 00:54:34.800
I say, hell, they're probably
making their own gas to power their

651
00:54:34.800 --> 00:54:37.440
houses and trailers. These are probably
the kind of people that live in a

652
00:54:37.440 --> 00:54:43.119
world all their own, not going
into civilization unless they absolutely have to,

653
00:54:44.280 --> 00:54:47.719
Like the Amish. Tristan asks,
kind of cept, you don't want to

654
00:54:47.760 --> 00:54:52.719
be planned in a day around this
place like you would in Amish country.

655
00:54:52.920 --> 00:54:55.760
We keep following the tracks. It
takes many, many minutes, but the

656
00:54:55.800 --> 00:55:00.159
tracks end at a large, two
story house. Like the house we were

657
00:55:00.199 --> 00:55:04.599
at earlier, this one looks like
it hasn't been lived in for god knows

658
00:55:04.639 --> 00:55:07.840
how long. Makes me wonder how
many people actually do live here in these

659
00:55:07.840 --> 00:55:13.119
woods. I say, this is
the third place we've been at that's abandoned.

660
00:55:13.960 --> 00:55:16.280
We both know we gotta check it
out. We find the front door

661
00:55:16.360 --> 00:55:22.079
easily opens. Once we're inside,
I gotta help Tristan push the door shut,

662
00:55:22.320 --> 00:55:25.280
since that wind keeps raging with the
snow. We finally get the door

663
00:55:25.360 --> 00:55:29.760
closed. At least the windows are
still good here, so we have a

664
00:55:29.800 --> 00:55:35.440
little shelter from the storm. I'll
head upstairs. Tristan says, I think

665
00:55:35.519 --> 00:55:38.800
we should stick together. I say, I'll be okay. Then he picks

666
00:55:38.880 --> 00:55:44.800
up a board. Got this with
me. My gut tells me I should

667
00:55:44.840 --> 00:55:49.159
go up with him, but he's
already nearly up the stairs. A shit,

668
00:55:49.679 --> 00:55:52.760
I mutter. I grab my own
two by four and keep it ready

669
00:55:52.800 --> 00:55:59.480
as I look around downstairs, and
then I see wet footprints, bare feet.

670
00:55:59.760 --> 00:56:02.920
That girl's gotta be in this house
somewhere. I stand just outside a

671
00:56:02.960 --> 00:56:08.400
door and quickly fling it open,
just an empty closet. Then I remember

672
00:56:08.440 --> 00:56:13.440
Tristan being upstairs and hall ass up
there. I quickly find him in one

673
00:56:13.440 --> 00:56:16.840
of the bedrooms. I told you, I'll be okay. Tristan snaps that

674
00:56:16.920 --> 00:56:21.400
girl's in this house somewhere, I
say. Then I tell him about the

675
00:56:21.400 --> 00:56:27.480
wet footprints I found. Tristan nods
once okay. We stick together. Then

676
00:56:28.440 --> 00:56:31.519
we move across the upstairs and check
the rooms. They have furniture in them

677
00:56:31.519 --> 00:56:36.159
and enough dust on it to make
you want to choke. Even the blankets

678
00:56:36.159 --> 00:56:39.239
on the beds have dust on them. We check the closets too, They're

679
00:56:39.280 --> 00:56:44.880
either empty or don't have much of
anything in them. We're about to leave

680
00:56:44.920 --> 00:56:52.760
the room when Tristan gets my attention
and I turn around and see Veronica,

681
00:56:53.719 --> 00:56:59.559
is that you? I gasp,
Ready to piss myself? I say,

682
00:56:59.599 --> 00:57:02.079
I'm ready to piss myself because she
looks like something right out of one of

683
00:57:02.119 --> 00:57:07.119
those scary movies. Veronica's hair and
skin's white enough to be chalk, her

684
00:57:07.199 --> 00:57:13.079
nails are all black, and her
eyes are just aw man. She's just

685
00:57:13.159 --> 00:57:16.119
scaring the but Jesus out of me
right now. She's still wet and dripping

686
00:57:16.159 --> 00:57:21.039
from being out in the snow.
Just the way she's looking at us right

687
00:57:21.079 --> 00:57:23.760
now. I ain't no doctor,
but I'd be willing to bet my cabin

688
00:57:23.880 --> 00:57:29.880
back home. She ain't herself anymore. I remember her wearing that outfit she's

689
00:57:29.920 --> 00:57:34.760
wearing right now, from that night
a year ago. Only thing that almost

690
00:57:34.760 --> 00:57:38.039
makes me lose control of my waterworks
is seeing that blood on her face and

691
00:57:38.119 --> 00:57:45.559
t shirt. Aw man. Tristan
drops his flashlight and raises his board to

692
00:57:45.599 --> 00:57:49.960
hit Veronica, but she can actually
move fast. She knocks the board out

693
00:57:49.960 --> 00:57:52.440
of his hands and grabs his wrists. He shrieks and cries out like a

694
00:57:52.480 --> 00:57:58.280
girl. Now your hands are so
cold, he yells, let go of

695
00:57:58.320 --> 00:58:01.400
me, you bitch. Before I
can move to help, Tristan Veronica points

696
00:58:01.480 --> 00:58:07.280
right at me, making me drop
my board. Her voice is this raspy

697
00:58:07.360 --> 00:58:14.239
kind of whisper. You stay right
there. Then she slams Tristan up against

698
00:58:14.280 --> 00:58:19.079
the wall and bites right into his
throat. He screams so loud you'd think

699
00:58:19.119 --> 00:58:23.119
you could actually hear him through that
blizzard outside. Blood squirts everywhere, especially

700
00:58:23.320 --> 00:58:28.840
when Veronica pulls back and has a
chunk of Tristan's throat in her mouth.

701
00:58:30.159 --> 00:58:34.880
Oh man, I scream and quickly
bolt out of the door. Now I'm

702
00:58:34.920 --> 00:58:38.320
hearing Veronica screaming like a banshee.
I'm about to reach the stairs when I

703
00:58:38.360 --> 00:58:45.280
see Oh man, no, I
groan. Trina's right there on the stairway

704
00:58:45.360 --> 00:58:52.679
now, and she looks just like
Veronica, with that white skin, white

705
00:58:52.719 --> 00:59:00.039
hair, black nails, and those
strange eyes, and her throat's bit and

706
00:59:00.159 --> 00:59:07.840
ripped out. Veronica got her too, hungry. Trina utters in that same

707
00:59:07.000 --> 00:59:15.440
choked whisper Veronica has mess. I
hear Veronica groan as she's almost to us.

708
00:59:15.400 --> 00:59:19.119
I quickly shake my head and put
my hands up in front of me.

709
00:59:20.199 --> 00:59:22.880
Veronica, I don't know what happened
to you, but I tried to

710
00:59:22.920 --> 00:59:30.159
save you that night. I really
tried. You gotta believe that. Veronica

711
00:59:30.199 --> 00:59:35.639
howls at me. Then Trina grabs
my arm, making me drop my flashlight.

712
00:59:36.239 --> 00:59:39.079
I scream and shove Trina down the
stairs, my backpack falling off.

713
00:59:39.440 --> 00:59:43.920
Then I follow behind her and eventually
step over her. As I get to

714
00:59:43.960 --> 00:59:47.639
the bottom and get the hell out
of that house. Come back here,

715
00:59:47.719 --> 00:59:53.639
Amos. I hear Veronica shrieking behind
me, right through the winds. I

716
00:59:53.679 --> 00:59:59.119
look and see she's really running after
me, even through the blowing snow.

717
00:59:59.320 --> 01:00:04.000
I can hear her howling at me. Oh Jesus God, I knew it

718
01:00:04.000 --> 01:00:07.320
would only be a matter of time
before Veronica would finally catch up to me.

719
01:00:07.440 --> 01:00:12.360
I ain't never been a fast runner. I mean, I can run,

720
01:00:12.360 --> 01:00:15.800
but I just ain't fast. I
know I'm definitely slower with these boots

721
01:00:15.840 --> 01:00:20.320
on, but I wasn't expecting to
be out here in these woods running for

722
01:00:20.440 --> 01:00:24.719
my life like this. You will
stop, Amos. Veronica's voice sounds like

723
01:00:24.760 --> 01:00:30.840
a real high pitch shriek. Now
you will not escape me. And then,

724
01:00:30.880 --> 01:00:35.079
okay, you can call me crazy, you can even call me a

725
01:00:35.199 --> 01:00:38.360
sissy. I quickly pick up some
snow in my hands. I make a

726
01:00:38.400 --> 01:00:44.079
snowball, and I heave it right
at Veronica. The snowball crashes right into

727
01:00:44.119 --> 01:00:49.079
her chest and makes her stagger.
And make another snowball and heave it to

728
01:00:49.199 --> 01:00:52.800
hit her smack in the face and
knock her on her ass. I turn

729
01:00:52.880 --> 01:00:57.519
and start running again. I manage
to lose her and hide behind a big

730
01:00:57.559 --> 01:01:06.280
tree. Eh ah, man.
I've heard Veronica howl with rage before when

731
01:01:06.280 --> 01:01:12.360
she was really pissed off, But
now now that she's dead and walking,

732
01:01:13.239 --> 01:01:17.400
hearing her talk like that just oh
man, I mutter when I feel I'm

733
01:01:17.400 --> 01:01:22.519
a little warmer in my jeans.
Veronica really did make me lose control of

734
01:01:22.559 --> 01:01:28.559
my waterworks. Can't worry about that
now. I gotta get the fuck away

735
01:01:28.599 --> 01:01:32.639
from here and go find Morgan and
Abella, assuming Veronica didn't already find them

736
01:01:32.719 --> 01:01:49.639
first before finding Tristan and me perspective
Morgan. After having no luck finding Veronica,

737
01:01:49.719 --> 01:01:52.119
Abella and I double back to see
if we could find Amos and Tristan.

738
01:01:52.920 --> 01:01:57.639
Abella doesn't say much of anything,
but I understand what she's feeling.

739
01:01:58.599 --> 01:02:01.039
She just wants to find her daughter
and make things good for everybody here.

740
01:02:01.719 --> 01:02:09.480
Veronica, Abella calls out again,
where are you Veronica? I call out

741
01:02:09.559 --> 01:02:16.320
louder than Abella, Amos, Tristan, Trina. When we don't hear anything,

742
01:02:16.559 --> 01:02:21.320
Abella reaches over and takes my wrist. Are you sure it was a

743
01:02:21.360 --> 01:02:25.199
good idea to bring Amos along.
Amos is a good hunter and tracker,

744
01:02:25.599 --> 01:02:30.320
I remind her. Abella just looks
at me with doubt. I'm telling you,

745
01:02:30.360 --> 01:02:35.280
Abella, he should be able to
find her, I say, and

746
01:02:35.360 --> 01:02:38.360
pull my wrist away. Eventually,
we come up to some tracks that are

747
01:02:38.400 --> 01:02:44.360
almost covered by the blowing snow.
If we follow these, we should catch

748
01:02:44.440 --> 01:02:47.960
up with Tristan and Amos. The
two of us use our flashlights to follow

749
01:02:49.000 --> 01:02:53.039
the tracks. When they split up, Abella goes across the small river to

750
01:02:53.079 --> 01:02:58.519
follow that set. I stick with
my set until I see it also eventually

751
01:02:58.559 --> 01:03:02.280
crosses the water. I meet back
up with Abella for us to follow their

752
01:03:02.360 --> 01:03:09.280
tracks. After some minutes, we
come up to another house. I don't

753
01:03:09.320 --> 01:03:15.280
know about Abella, but something about
that place sure scares me just looking at

754
01:03:15.320 --> 01:03:23.199
it. Don't go away, weekly, Spooky will be right back. Suddenly,

755
01:03:23.239 --> 01:03:28.480
a huge gust of wind blows and
knocks me on my ass. Abella

756
01:03:28.559 --> 01:03:32.000
comes to me and helps me up. You okay, she asks, Yeah,

757
01:03:32.320 --> 01:03:37.559
I reply, I just wasn't expecting
that this blizzard's getting worse and worse,

758
01:03:38.400 --> 01:03:43.519
we might have to take shelter.
I am not stopping until I find

759
01:03:43.639 --> 01:03:47.079
Veronica. Abella yells, she's my
daughter. I'm not stopping until I know

760
01:03:47.199 --> 01:03:52.679
for a fact that she's dead.
You really don't understand how important this is,

761
01:03:52.800 --> 01:03:55.800
do you. I've been looking far
too long for her to just give

762
01:03:55.920 --> 01:04:00.000
up. You know, damn well, I can't afford to give this up.

763
01:04:00.159 --> 01:04:03.679
Now, you know that. Abella
and I just look at each other

764
01:04:03.760 --> 01:04:09.159
for a long moment. Then I
nod. Believe me. I do know.

765
01:04:10.159 --> 01:04:13.639
We should at least check the house, though, and we're going to,

766
01:04:14.360 --> 01:04:16.760
she assures me. The two of
us walk to the house and can

767
01:04:16.800 --> 01:04:21.480
easily go inside. In fact,
the front door is wide open. I

768
01:04:21.559 --> 01:04:28.079
point down to the porchboards. Abella, it looks like people were here already.

769
01:04:29.119 --> 01:04:32.280
Then we're going the same way,
she replies. Now I see this

770
01:04:32.360 --> 01:04:36.480
weird look on her face before she
quickly grabs my arm and pulls me to

771
01:04:36.519 --> 01:04:43.320
her. She turns me around so
I can Trina. I choke out.

772
01:04:44.239 --> 01:04:47.440
Yeah, this thing that's standing in
front of the doorway looks like Trina and

773
01:04:47.599 --> 01:04:53.039
is wearing her clothes, but it's
got these weird colored eyes, and it's

774
01:04:53.079 --> 01:04:58.039
skin and hair or chalk white,
and it has black fingernails. I'm ready

775
01:04:58.079 --> 01:05:00.800
to throw up when I see the
bone that's sticking out of its neck.

776
01:05:00.360 --> 01:05:05.480
It has blood all over the front
of its jacket. I'm so hungry,

777
01:05:06.440 --> 01:05:13.119
Trina says in this choked whisper.
Suddenly, Trina reaches out and grabs my

778
01:05:13.199 --> 01:05:15.039
hand. I cry out as she
pulls me right to her, with a

779
01:05:15.119 --> 01:05:20.000
strength I never even knew she had, making me drop my flashlight. I

780
01:05:20.079 --> 01:05:25.239
knew Trina was a top athlete at
our high school. She goes out running

781
01:05:25.280 --> 01:05:29.320
most every day. She applies herself
in the weight room. She even watches

782
01:05:29.360 --> 01:05:32.119
her diet. But there's no way
in hell that she can be this goddamn

783
01:05:32.199 --> 01:05:38.639
strong. Then I really start screaming
when I feel how incredibly cold her hand

784
01:05:38.719 --> 01:05:43.519
is on mine. It burns.
Abella is trying to help pull me away

785
01:05:43.519 --> 01:05:48.400
from Trina, but this fucking thing
is just so incredibly strong and incredibly cold.

786
01:05:49.239 --> 01:05:54.000
Abella finally manages to get me free. I cry out when I see

787
01:05:54.000 --> 01:05:59.639
my hand looks black and feels numb. It's completely frostbitten. Come on,

788
01:05:59.679 --> 01:06:03.440
Morgan, Abella yells, run.
I turn and start running with her.

789
01:06:03.960 --> 01:06:09.719
We don't get far before I'm tackled
from behind. Now Trina's right on top

790
01:06:09.760 --> 01:06:15.159
of me. I'm so hungry,
Morgan, Trina utters. Abella tries reaching

791
01:06:15.199 --> 01:06:19.119
out to push Trina off me.
When she sees Trina's bare hands, she

792
01:06:19.199 --> 01:06:25.039
quickly remembers how my hand got frostbitten
just by her touching bare skin to mine.

793
01:06:25.920 --> 01:06:30.599
Trina hisses at Abella and makes her
back off. You damned all of

794
01:06:30.679 --> 01:06:34.320
us, you bitch. Trina returns
her attention to me and gives me that

795
01:06:34.440 --> 01:06:42.239
demented look of hunger that only a
thing like her can show. Hungry Trina

796
01:06:42.400 --> 01:06:46.000
rasps again. I try fighting her
off, but now I'm the one who

797
01:06:46.079 --> 01:06:50.760
forgot about Trina's exposed skin. She
takes hold of my wrists and makes me

798
01:06:50.840 --> 01:06:56.800
close my eyes and scream at the
top of my lungs. Trina's cold skin

799
01:06:56.920 --> 01:07:01.400
is so painful, God, it
burns. When I open my eyes,

800
01:07:01.519 --> 01:07:09.639
I can see a bellow left me
here to die. I am so totally

801
01:07:09.760 --> 01:07:15.760
fucked. Trina easily slams my arm
to the snowy ground. Then I manage

802
01:07:15.800 --> 01:07:23.360
out one loud, long last scream. When Trina lowers her face and sinks

803
01:07:23.360 --> 01:07:28.519
her teeth right into my neck.
My scream is louder when I feel the

804
01:07:28.599 --> 01:07:31.599
skin at my neck being torn away
from the rest of my body. I

805
01:07:31.639 --> 01:07:36.239
can see my blood squirting upward.
I can also see my torn flesh in

806
01:07:36.280 --> 01:07:42.760
Trina's mouth. When I can't scream
anymore, I'm actually a bit surprised that

807
01:07:42.800 --> 01:07:45.920
I'm not dead yet. I can
feel the life leaving my body as Trina

808
01:07:46.039 --> 01:07:51.559
munches on the flesh she's taken from
me. As my eyes start shaking closed,

809
01:07:53.840 --> 01:08:04.559
I have this this feeling I just
know, just just know, know

810
01:08:04.719 --> 01:08:17.600
that that I feel myself twitching.
I slowly open my eyes. It's still

811
01:08:17.680 --> 01:08:23.920
snowing hard. I twitch some more
and feel really wet on my upper body.

812
01:08:24.880 --> 01:08:29.680
I sit up slowly and see my
jacket is gone, my shirt and

813
01:08:29.720 --> 01:08:34.000
braw were torn open. My chest
is fully exposed, and I mean it's

814
01:08:34.199 --> 01:08:41.119
fully exposed, as in I have
no skin whatsoever. Trina is right there

815
01:08:41.159 --> 01:08:45.199
looking at me and eating more flesh
she took off of my body. By

816
01:08:45.239 --> 01:08:48.399
all rights, I should be royally
pissed off at her doing this horrible thing

817
01:08:48.479 --> 01:08:53.880
to me. I know I'm exactly
like her now. I also know that

818
01:08:53.920 --> 01:09:00.880
I'm getting very hungry and need to
do to somebody what Tree was doing to

819
01:09:00.960 --> 01:09:05.319
me. But that's just it,
isn't it. I can't attack and feed

820
01:09:05.399 --> 01:09:11.279
on Trina, can I? Somehow
I know deep down that it just doesn't

821
01:09:11.279 --> 01:09:16.520
work like that. We can't and
don't eat each other. I slowly move

822
01:09:16.600 --> 01:09:20.520
and stand on my own feet.
I can see my hands are white with

823
01:09:20.640 --> 01:09:27.439
black nails. I feel so comfortably
cold deep inside, and the frigid winds

824
01:09:27.479 --> 01:09:33.239
aren't bothering me at all. Also, I feel so incredibly strong. Trina

825
01:09:33.319 --> 01:09:39.399
finishes eating and points in the direction
we need to go. We get a

826
01:09:39.520 --> 01:09:45.520
bella now. I nod once a
bella. The voice comes out in the

827
01:09:45.560 --> 01:09:51.920
same cold dead tone as Trina's,
almost like a choked whisper. Trina and

828
01:09:51.960 --> 01:09:56.880
I only have to follow the footprints
that Abella's left. We can see in

829
01:09:56.920 --> 01:10:00.800
the dark clearly now and don't need
flashlights. What's bad for a bella is

830
01:10:00.840 --> 01:10:06.479
that we can still walk and run
as normal living people can. Trina and

831
01:10:06.520 --> 01:10:14.159
I only want a bella now.
One way or another, we are going

832
01:10:14.239 --> 01:10:25.560
to kill her. Ass perspective amus
culp. I keep moving through the woods.

833
01:10:25.920 --> 01:10:29.399
I swear this blizzard just keeps getting
worse. You'd think them. Damn

834
01:10:29.439 --> 01:10:32.439
clouds decided to stop right where they
are. I can stay warm in my

835
01:10:32.520 --> 01:10:36.399
winter clothes. But I lost my
backpack back at the house where Veronica and

836
01:10:36.439 --> 01:10:42.800
Trina were. It had my food
in it, assuming it really was Veronica

837
01:10:42.840 --> 01:10:51.079
and Trina. Aa. Oh man, Veronica's getting closer now. She probably

838
01:10:51.079 --> 01:10:56.319
found my trail and is hot after
me. You know, there was a

839
01:10:56.359 --> 01:11:00.239
time when I was glad Veronica Grande
was the kind of person who liked coming

840
01:11:00.319 --> 01:11:04.159
after me. That girl was.
She was really sweet on me. I

841
01:11:04.159 --> 01:11:09.239
know I was sweet on her right
back, maybe even a little too much.

842
01:11:10.119 --> 01:11:15.760
In fact, that's where all this
goddamn trouble started that night. Suddenly

843
01:11:15.800 --> 01:11:20.640
I see something just ahead past some
trees. Yes, there's a cabin just

844
01:11:20.720 --> 01:11:28.159
ahead, lights on inside. That
means somebody's home. I quickly haul ass.

845
01:11:28.520 --> 01:11:30.199
I know I'm supposed to be a
man, but trust me when I

846
01:11:30.239 --> 01:11:33.600
say that, all that shit goes
right out the window when you deal with

847
01:11:33.640 --> 01:11:38.359
what I'm dealing with. Tell me
what a real man you are when those

848
01:11:38.439 --> 01:11:42.880
things are eating you alive. I
finally make it to the door and pound

849
01:11:42.920 --> 01:11:46.000
on it. Help me, let
me in, Please open up. Those

850
01:11:46.039 --> 01:11:50.359
things are right behind me. Oh, man. After a little more pounding,

851
01:11:50.399 --> 01:11:55.680
the door finally opens. There's this
man looking to be in his sixties

852
01:11:55.720 --> 01:11:59.600
standing there. He's got gray hair
and a beard, and is wearing a

853
01:11:59.720 --> 01:12:03.319
dark blue shirt and bib overalls.
I quickly brush right past him and into

854
01:12:03.359 --> 01:12:08.800
the house. I slam the door
shut and lock it. You mind telling

855
01:12:08.880 --> 01:12:13.920
me what intarnation is going on here? The man asks, there's these things

856
01:12:13.920 --> 01:12:16.920
outside? I quickly tell him.
Then I explained to the old man what

857
01:12:17.000 --> 01:12:23.359
those things are. The old man
just looks at me. Didn't think them

858
01:12:23.399 --> 01:12:27.159
dead folks would be out here in
the middle of winter. I just look

859
01:12:27.239 --> 01:12:31.880
right at him. You know about
them things, he nods once. I

860
01:12:31.960 --> 01:12:35.760
sure do, son, all kinds
of bad things in these here woods.

861
01:12:35.800 --> 01:12:40.439
These days never used to be like
that, at least not when I was

862
01:12:40.479 --> 01:12:44.800
a young boy like yourself. Now
we got all kinds of things walking around,

863
01:12:44.800 --> 01:12:48.560
and hear things like ghouls, cannibals, monsters, and even dead folks.

864
01:12:49.399 --> 01:12:54.039
Usually dead folks are down during the
frigid winters we get round these parts.

865
01:12:54.520 --> 01:12:59.279
He raises an eyelid. You done
sure you saw dead folks walking around

866
01:12:59.359 --> 01:13:04.279
out there? I don't know what
them fucking things are. I snap white

867
01:13:04.319 --> 01:13:08.840
skin, white hair, black nails, and they eat people. I seen

868
01:13:08.880 --> 01:13:12.960
them things for myself. I saw
one who was my girlfriend kill and eat

869
01:13:12.960 --> 01:13:15.960
a man right in front of me. She's gonna probably find me and kill

870
01:13:16.000 --> 01:13:19.760
my ass too. The old man
just looks at me for a second.

871
01:13:20.439 --> 01:13:25.520
Then he moves to his fireplace and
takes his shotgun down off from above it.

872
01:13:26.279 --> 01:13:29.800
You better help me secure this place, son. Turns out he's one

873
01:13:29.840 --> 01:13:33.359
of those people who keeps his house
prepared against those things that walk around out

874
01:13:33.399 --> 01:13:38.399
here. He shows me how to
secure the windows with contraptions. He can

875
01:13:38.479 --> 01:13:43.399
just slide across the windows and lock
man. I still think I'm in some

876
01:13:43.560 --> 01:13:47.159
kind of goddamn nightmare and waiting to
wake up. But no, I know

877
01:13:47.279 --> 01:13:51.680
I'm feeling pretty hurt deep down at
seeing my Veronica like that. Then I

878
01:13:51.720 --> 01:14:00.920
hear Veronica's howling, shrieking voice off
in the distance. A must. Both

879
01:14:00.920 --> 01:14:03.239
the old man and me look at
each other. Then he points to the

880
01:14:03.239 --> 01:14:08.079
front door. We just have to
fortify that door, now help me.

881
01:14:09.039 --> 01:14:12.680
We already secured the back door.
Now we move to the front one and

882
01:14:12.720 --> 01:14:15.960
start to apply another contraption to keep
the door solid. That's when we hear

883
01:14:16.039 --> 01:14:21.720
someone knocking hard and screaming, help
let me in, Help me please.

884
01:14:23.479 --> 01:14:27.079
The old man quickly opens the door
and lets Abella in. She turns her

885
01:14:27.119 --> 01:14:30.520
flashlight off and looks at us.
Abella's damn sure surprised to see me here.

886
01:14:31.159 --> 01:14:34.039
She tries to come hug me,
but I point right at her and

887
01:14:34.119 --> 01:14:38.279
shake my head. Come on,
son, help me finish with this door.

888
01:14:38.840 --> 01:14:43.000
The old man quickly tells me yeah. I respond and help him with

889
01:14:43.039 --> 01:14:46.079
getting that contraption across the door.
As soon as the house is finished being

890
01:14:46.119 --> 01:14:50.439
fortified, I turn to the old
man. You sure know what you're doing

891
01:14:50.520 --> 01:14:56.039
out here? You sure all this
is going to keep them things out.

892
01:14:56.560 --> 01:15:00.199
The old man tightens his jaw a
little. You said them dead for fokes

893
01:15:00.239 --> 01:15:02.960
outside? Are strong, didn't you? How strong we talking here? Son?

894
01:15:04.000 --> 01:15:08.319
Strong? I imply, with a
little more force in my voice.

895
01:15:08.920 --> 01:15:13.039
Then I sigh, I honestly don't
think these contraptions will keep him out for

896
01:15:13.119 --> 01:15:16.920
long. Then I noticed Sabella's scared
as hell, just the same. She's

897
01:15:16.960 --> 01:15:23.840
looking around. Then she points to
the old man. Jethrow Carnes, you're

898
01:15:23.880 --> 01:15:27.960
the man I talked to on the
phone. This is twenty one old Dutch

899
01:15:28.039 --> 01:15:31.880
road. She raises a letter envelope
that has the address on it. Jethrow

900
01:15:31.960 --> 01:15:36.680
Carnes nods once. Yes, ma'am, you must be that woman I called

901
01:15:36.720 --> 01:15:41.920
regarding her little girl. Saw the
missing poster on a pole. Didn't think

902
01:15:42.039 --> 01:15:45.640
much of it. I just know
it was mighty cold outside. He moves

903
01:15:45.680 --> 01:15:49.800
to the fireplace and throws a log
onto the fire. Then he faces us

904
01:15:49.880 --> 01:15:55.399
again. I saw someone walking around
out there when I went out to bring

905
01:15:55.439 --> 01:15:59.720
in some more firewood. I swear
I saw her as plain as the nose

906
01:15:59.720 --> 01:16:03.840
of except she looked like what you
just told me. Son. Never saw

907
01:16:03.960 --> 01:16:09.520
snow white dead folks walking around in
these woods till that day. So what

908
01:16:09.680 --> 01:16:14.399
happened? A belly yells. I
grabbed my firewood and got back in here.

909
01:16:14.840 --> 01:16:18.319
Jethro tells her already had the windows
and doors taken care of, just

910
01:16:18.399 --> 01:16:21.880
had to secure the front door,
had a gun, but she never tried

911
01:16:21.920 --> 01:16:27.600
coming in here. He points in
a direction. I remembered that missing poster

912
01:16:27.680 --> 01:16:30.720
and gave you a call. Figured
it was the right thing to do.

913
01:16:30.479 --> 01:16:35.960
He looks sad. Now had two
kids myself, now they are gone.

914
01:16:38.119 --> 01:16:43.000
One's a ghoul and the other ones
one of them dead folks that walk round

915
01:16:43.079 --> 01:16:47.119
during the warmer weather. He sighs
now, we got a deal with dead

916
01:16:47.119 --> 01:16:51.880
folks walking in the winter too.
Like I said, things didn't used to

917
01:16:51.960 --> 01:16:58.760
be this way out here when I
was a boy. Now Jethro points in

918
01:16:58.800 --> 01:17:02.079
another direction. I think it's all
because of that river just a few miles

919
01:17:02.119 --> 01:17:06.119
from here. Used to make for
damn good fishing. Then some foul stuff

920
01:17:06.199 --> 01:17:10.560
got in that river and changed it, killed all the fish in the water.

921
01:17:10.680 --> 01:17:15.159
Hell, wasn't too long ago.
I saw that looney silas blanket ship

922
01:17:15.239 --> 01:17:18.359
went back in there and dropped some
dead kid in that river. Saw it

923
01:17:18.399 --> 01:17:23.079
was little Billy McCracken. Had to
come back here and try and get some

924
01:17:23.119 --> 01:17:27.720
stuff to get him out. Problem
there was. He was gone when I

925
01:17:27.760 --> 01:17:30.960
got back. I knew right then
and there that that kid got out of

926
01:17:31.000 --> 01:17:35.880
the river himself, came back from
the dead and was walking around. I

927
01:17:35.920 --> 01:17:40.319
should know, because I was a
part of the posse that done killed all

928
01:17:40.359 --> 01:17:45.760
them dead kids, little Billy McCracken. Mate never found little McCracken himself,

929
01:17:45.800 --> 01:17:51.439
though Jethro looked sad again, ma'am, I'm thinking your baby girl ended up

930
01:17:51.439 --> 01:17:57.000
in that fowl river somehow changed her
into a different kind of dead folk,

931
01:17:58.000 --> 01:18:01.720
one that walks around in the middle
of winter. It was quiet again for

932
01:18:01.760 --> 01:18:05.319
a little bit. You could hear
the snow hitting the cabin and the windows

933
01:18:05.359 --> 01:18:15.920
howling. And then amos ah man
I groan, Veronica's almost here. What

934
01:18:15.960 --> 01:18:21.000
the hell happened to Veronica? Abella
shrieks slam, bang, thud, crash,

935
01:18:21.159 --> 01:18:27.199
boom. Oh, man I groan. Veronica is here for sure,

936
01:18:27.399 --> 01:18:31.760
She's right at the front door.
More scares are coming right back when weekly

937
01:18:31.840 --> 01:18:45.439
Spooky returns. Amos, I hear
you in there. I hear Veronica rasp

938
01:18:45.159 --> 01:18:49.960
come out. Veronica is still pounding
at the front door. Then we hear

939
01:18:50.039 --> 01:18:55.640
something else pounding at one of the
windows. Are you in there, Abella,

940
01:18:56.319 --> 01:19:00.399
you bitch? Aw man I point
in that direction. There's another one

941
01:19:00.399 --> 01:19:04.920
of those things there. Sounds like
Trina. I look at Jethro. I

942
01:19:04.960 --> 01:19:10.359
saw what Veronica did to Trina.
She can turn people into those things like

943
01:19:10.439 --> 01:19:15.800
her. And then another one pounds
at the other door. Hungry shit,

944
01:19:15.960 --> 01:19:21.520
that's Tristan. One more of them
starts pounding on another window. Let us

945
01:19:21.560 --> 01:19:27.199
in, Amos, oh, Lord
Jesus Christ, not Morgan too. I

946
01:19:27.239 --> 01:19:32.520
look at Abella and Jethro looks like
Veronica's made herself an army. Abella groans,

947
01:19:33.399 --> 01:19:39.000
my god, what happened to Veronica? I point right at her.

948
01:19:39.319 --> 01:19:43.199
Why don't you tell us what happened
to Veronica? Abella looks at me,

949
01:19:43.279 --> 01:19:47.199
all pissed off. What the hell
does that mean? I tighten my fists.

950
01:19:48.239 --> 01:19:54.760
I was there at Grande Estate that
night, in Veronica's bedroom. I

951
01:19:54.840 --> 01:19:59.600
know what you did a year ago. I know it was you who came

952
01:19:59.640 --> 01:20:04.560
to kill Veronica that night. Abella's
really pissed at me. Now you've got

953
01:20:04.600 --> 01:20:09.359
some nerve, amos culp you,
son of a bitch. I grin at

954
01:20:09.359 --> 01:20:14.079
Abella. Now, yeah, I
do, don't. I problem here is

955
01:20:14.159 --> 01:20:18.359
my nerve and yours are two completely
different things, you see. Jethro looks

956
01:20:18.399 --> 01:20:24.600
worried the way them dead folks are
pounding. You might be right about my

957
01:20:24.720 --> 01:20:28.399
fortification, son, I reckon,
they'll be in here before too long.

958
01:20:29.039 --> 01:20:31.960
He nods to a closet door.
There's another gun and shells in there.

959
01:20:32.399 --> 01:20:35.640
Better move it. I quickly get
to the closet and open the door.

960
01:20:35.920 --> 01:20:39.640
I find the shotgun in there,
in a box of AMMO beside it.

961
01:20:40.000 --> 01:20:44.279
I load the gun and come to
stand with Jethro. Jethro looks at Abella,

962
01:20:45.319 --> 01:20:47.680
sorry, I ain't got no gun
for you, young lady. Then

963
01:20:47.760 --> 01:20:53.760
Abella shows she's full of surprises.
She unzips her jacket and pulls a handgun

964
01:20:53.800 --> 01:20:59.000
out. Before either Jethro or me
knows what to do next, Abella shoots

965
01:20:59.000 --> 01:21:02.319
the old man right in the head
and blows his brains everywhere. His body

966
01:21:02.359 --> 01:21:06.680
falls to the floor fast. Then
she quickly turns her gun on me and

967
01:21:06.720 --> 01:21:12.680
shoots me too. I spin fast
and fall over, losing my shotgun.

968
01:21:12.920 --> 01:21:15.920
I ain't dead yet. She just
got me in the shoulder. Then she

969
01:21:16.039 --> 01:21:19.840
comes and presses her knee right on
me and points her gun in my face.

970
01:21:20.880 --> 01:21:25.720
I don't know how you found out, Amos. Abella says, you're

971
01:21:25.800 --> 01:21:30.479
right. I wanted my daughter killed
that night a year ago. Oliver Grande's

972
01:21:30.479 --> 01:21:34.479
money was mine. Veronica had no
right to it whatsoever. Too bad,

973
01:21:34.520 --> 01:21:45.600
you're not going to live long enough
to tell anyone the whole truth. Perspective,

974
01:21:45.079 --> 01:21:50.399
a Bella sableson, I put my
handgun in Amos's face. You say

975
01:21:50.439 --> 01:21:55.960
you know I killed Veronica. I
know it was you, you fucking bitch.

976
01:21:56.279 --> 01:22:00.319
Amos shouts, I was under her
bed that night. I didn't know

977
01:22:00.399 --> 01:22:04.720
it, but Veronica and I were
in love we'd just finished being real sweet

978
01:22:04.720 --> 01:22:10.279
on each other when Veronica saw some
people out in the yard all wearing black.

979
01:22:11.039 --> 01:22:13.680
She knew those people were coming to
kill her and told me to get

980
01:22:13.760 --> 01:22:18.439
under the bed. Wasn't long before
you showed up. Maybe Veronica didn't catch

981
01:22:18.479 --> 01:22:21.359
it, but I knew it was
you, since I could smell that same

982
01:22:21.600 --> 01:22:28.359
cheap perfume you're wearing now. He
shakes his head slowly. I can't believe

983
01:22:28.359 --> 01:22:33.319
what a cold, heartless bitch you
really are. A bella surprise, What

984
01:22:34.119 --> 01:22:38.159
did you really think? I came
all the way out here in this shit

985
01:22:38.279 --> 01:22:43.600
storm to find Veronica to bring her
back home safely. Veronica had no right

986
01:22:43.640 --> 01:22:47.399
to Oliver's fortune. That fortune was
mine and mine alone. Oliver promised me

987
01:22:47.479 --> 01:22:51.560
that, yes, you know that
Oliver had an affair with me. You

988
01:22:51.680 --> 01:22:56.920
know I was just a maid that
Oliver really took a liking to. Knowing

989
01:22:56.960 --> 01:23:00.279
Oliver wanted to be with me,
I simply played his heart strings. What

990
01:23:00.439 --> 01:23:06.000
was my motive? Money? Of
course, Oliver had billions upon billions of

991
01:23:06.039 --> 01:23:10.720
dollars. I was just a maid
who had to work just to get thrown

992
01:23:10.800 --> 01:23:15.079
a few scraps to survive. I
knew if I played my cards, right,

993
01:23:15.319 --> 01:23:18.479
I could become Oliver's new wife and
have access to all that money.

994
01:23:19.039 --> 01:23:23.600
Of course, you already knew there
was a bit of a problem with my

995
01:23:23.720 --> 01:23:28.520
plan. My birth control didn't work
when it needed to, which resulted in

996
01:23:28.560 --> 01:23:31.439
my getting pregnant. Just the same, I figured I could use my pregnancy

997
01:23:32.079 --> 01:23:36.520
to my advantage. The problem,
however, was that Oliver Grande came from

998
01:23:36.560 --> 01:23:42.039
a proper bloodline to where he would
mingle with women from other proper blood lines

999
01:23:42.079 --> 01:23:46.680
for the purposes of having children to
carry on those proper bloodlines. Once I

1000
01:23:46.760 --> 01:23:51.159
revealed my pregnancy to Oliver, showing
him the hospital results and telling him that

1001
01:23:51.239 --> 01:23:56.479
he was the only man I had
slept with, he told me he couldn't

1002
01:23:56.520 --> 01:24:00.520
marry me. Oliver and I had
a very heated argument about it. Then

1003
01:24:00.560 --> 01:24:03.079
he calls me out, saying I
only wanted to be with him for his

1004
01:24:03.159 --> 01:24:08.800
money. However, he wasn't going
to just cast me off. He told

1005
01:24:08.800 --> 01:24:11.720
me that I would have to raise
our daughter and that he would provide for

1006
01:24:11.800 --> 01:24:15.199
both of us. However, I
could never come back to Grande Estate again.

1007
01:24:16.000 --> 01:24:19.640
Oliver's offer was this. He told
me that if I showed I could

1008
01:24:19.720 --> 01:24:24.159
love and support our child, if
he saw that I was the best mother

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01:24:24.239 --> 01:24:27.880
to our child I could be,
then he would leave both our child and

1010
01:24:28.000 --> 01:24:33.279
me his entire fortune. So I
carried Veronica to term. I even had

1011
01:24:33.319 --> 01:24:41.000
to give Veronica Oliver's name. Another
condition. She was officially Veronica Grande,

1012
01:24:41.039 --> 01:24:45.880
not Veronica Sableson. Oliver would send
me money that I would use to care

1013
01:24:45.920 --> 01:24:48.960
for Veronica. I did everything in
my power to make sure that little spawn

1014
01:24:49.039 --> 01:24:54.920
from hell got everything she needed or
wanted. I had given Veronica the best

1015
01:24:55.039 --> 01:24:59.720
years of my life, making her
think I loved her so much as for

1016
01:24:59.760 --> 01:25:03.600
all himself. He stayed on at
Grande Estate with his proper wife and all

1017
01:25:03.680 --> 01:25:09.119
his proper children that he made with
her, none of which he loved in

1018
01:25:09.199 --> 01:25:14.520
the slightest Fast forward to a little
over a year ago, Oliver had finally

1019
01:25:14.640 --> 01:25:18.239
died of old age, exactly six
months after his proper wife died. His

1020
01:25:18.319 --> 01:25:23.680
will had already been made. You'd
think Oliver would have kept his promise to

1021
01:25:23.760 --> 01:25:29.479
me and left his fortune all to
me and Veronica. He left his entire

1022
01:25:29.640 --> 01:25:34.279
fortune to Veronica alone. Not only
was I upset about this, I don't

1023
01:25:34.319 --> 01:25:40.800
mind telling you Oliver's children from his
proper marriage also flew into a rage.

1024
01:25:40.840 --> 01:25:44.039
I was there at the reading of
the will and saw them. They were

1025
01:25:44.079 --> 01:25:47.560
none too thrilled at learning that Veronica
was their half sibling. As far as

1026
01:25:47.600 --> 01:25:54.560
they were concerned, Veronica was not
a pure blooded proper grande and wasn't entitled

1027
01:25:54.560 --> 01:26:00.199
to any of their father's money.
However, there was a stipulation in the

1028
01:26:00.199 --> 01:26:04.880
will that stated, upon Veronica's death, the entire fortune would become mine and

1029
01:26:05.000 --> 01:26:11.399
mine alone. At first, the
children from this pure blood marriage wanted to

1030
01:26:11.439 --> 01:26:15.000
turn on me. However, I
made them an offer they couldn't refuse.

1031
01:26:15.479 --> 01:26:19.800
I would split the fortune with them
equally if they would just help me kill

1032
01:26:20.039 --> 01:26:27.720
Veronica. They all readily agreed.
That's right. Everybody who was here with

1033
01:26:27.800 --> 01:26:32.159
me in the backwoods now, aside
from Amos, they're Oliver's proper children from

1034
01:26:32.239 --> 01:26:38.000
his proper wife. We dressed up
in all black on the night Veronica ran

1035
01:26:38.039 --> 01:26:41.760
away. Oliver taught me how to
hunt when we were seeing each other,

1036
01:26:42.159 --> 01:26:45.840
so I knew how to fire the
rifle. Unfortunately, Veronica was wide awake

1037
01:26:45.920 --> 01:26:50.079
and managed to move before I could
shoot her. Amos just told me why.

1038
01:26:51.000 --> 01:26:56.159
Thanks to that fucking idiot, Veronica
ended up getting away, taking a

1039
01:26:56.159 --> 01:26:59.720
sports car. I grabbed the hummer
and pursued my daughter to these woods outside

1040
01:26:59.720 --> 01:27:02.760
of Streate. You'd think Veronica would
have just fucking died after I shot her

1041
01:27:02.800 --> 01:27:09.840
three times. She did, apparently, but it seems she didn't stay dead.

1042
01:27:10.520 --> 01:27:14.119
I even shot her again and again
when she came for me. I

1043
01:27:14.159 --> 01:27:16.880
barely managed to get away from Veronica. When I ran out of bullets,

1044
01:27:17.319 --> 01:27:21.079
I knew I had to come back
for her and finish what I started.

1045
01:27:23.159 --> 01:27:26.560
In order for me to claim all
of Oliver's money, it has to be

1046
01:27:26.680 --> 01:27:31.880
known that Veronica is quite dead.
Her being whatever spawn of hell she is

1047
01:27:31.960 --> 01:27:36.479
now won't cut it. That's why
I convinced Oliver's pure blooded kids to come

1048
01:27:36.520 --> 01:27:42.840
back in these woods with me.
We needed to kill Veronica to be sure

1049
01:27:43.520 --> 01:27:49.119
she stays dead. Only then can
I claim what's rightfully mine. As for

1050
01:27:49.199 --> 01:27:56.239
Amos, we needed a good tracker. He was a handyman and groundskeeper around

1051
01:27:56.239 --> 01:28:01.159
Grande Estate who knew how to hunt. Morgan suggest of course, and now

1052
01:28:02.119 --> 01:28:06.800
I'm going to kill you, Amos, I growl. You let Veronica get

1053
01:28:06.840 --> 01:28:12.600
away that night, but Amos roars
and manages to grab my wrist. He

1054
01:28:12.680 --> 01:28:15.319
brings me down to the floor.
Even though he's bleeding out, he's still

1055
01:28:15.359 --> 01:28:18.600
fighting me for my gun. Let
go of me, God damn you,

1056
01:28:18.880 --> 01:28:25.159
I yell. It's then when one
of the window fortifications gives way. Then

1057
01:28:25.239 --> 01:28:30.239
the back door comes flying open.
It's not long before those those things are

1058
01:28:30.239 --> 01:28:34.520
all inside. I punch Amos in
the face hard and maintain my handgun.

1059
01:28:34.760 --> 01:28:42.119
I quickly get to my feet.
Oh my fucking Christ. They're so goddamn

1060
01:28:42.159 --> 01:28:45.720
many of them, Veronica, Trina, Tristan, Morgan. They all look

1061
01:28:46.159 --> 01:28:51.760
so disgusting. Aside from Veronica,
they've all got parts of their body eaten

1062
01:28:51.800 --> 01:28:57.840
off. Morgan really looks disgusting,
with her entire rib cage fully exposed,

1063
01:28:58.159 --> 01:29:04.000
her internal organs still inside. Veronica
points right at me. It really hurts

1064
01:29:04.119 --> 01:29:10.399
knowing you never cared about me.
Then she screams, you murdered me.

1065
01:29:10.880 --> 01:29:15.880
You've made me into this. Veronica
looks down at Amos. I can see

1066
01:29:15.920 --> 01:29:20.960
this thing clearly still loves him.
Then she looks back at me, Sorry,

1067
01:29:21.039 --> 01:29:27.920
mom, but you still can't have
my money. I hate Veronica so

1068
01:29:28.119 --> 01:29:31.000
much that I raise the handgun.
I'll finish what I started with you a

1069
01:29:31.079 --> 01:29:36.000
year ago in these woods. Then
I scream and shoot Veronica right between the

1070
01:29:36.039 --> 01:29:46.680
eyes as those other things come right
at me. Epilogue one year later,

1071
01:29:47.279 --> 01:29:55.000
perspective amos culp. I walked into
this place called Denoyer's Grill. I was

1072
01:29:55.039 --> 01:29:59.560
surprised it was even open during that
damn blizzard. Hell, I was surprised

1073
01:29:59.560 --> 01:30:02.760
I was still alive and smelling great
food. I don't mind telling you I

1074
01:30:02.840 --> 01:30:06.640
was still hurting it having been shot
by a bella like that. I think

1075
01:30:06.720 --> 01:30:10.840
it's safe to say I was definitely
the freak in the room when I walked

1076
01:30:10.840 --> 01:30:15.000
into that diner. The man standing
behind the counter asked me if I was

1077
01:30:15.039 --> 01:30:18.439
okay. I shook my head and
told him I really didn't know for sure.

1078
01:30:19.319 --> 01:30:23.640
When I told the man I just
got out of those backwoods, him

1079
01:30:23.680 --> 01:30:28.239
and many of the other customers just
looked right at me. The man,

1080
01:30:28.439 --> 01:30:31.199
David Denoyer, the owner of the
place, quickly got on the phone and

1081
01:30:31.279 --> 01:30:35.000
called for an ambulance for me.
Then he told me to sit down and

1082
01:30:35.039 --> 01:30:41.119
gave me some hot coffee. Denoyer
didn't even try asking me what happened out

1083
01:30:41.119 --> 01:30:45.239
in them backwoods. If you were
out in those backwoods, sir, then

1084
01:30:45.279 --> 01:30:47.720
all I got to say is you're
damn lucky to be sitting here and alive.

1085
01:30:48.359 --> 01:30:54.319
Denoyer tells me very few people go
into those woods and come back out

1086
01:30:54.359 --> 01:30:58.439
with a story to tell, unless
you're our mayor, that is. I

1087
01:30:58.560 --> 01:31:02.800
just kept shaking my head slowly remembering
what happened in those woods. I tried

1088
01:31:02.800 --> 01:31:08.079
telling Denier and anyone else who'd listen. I told them everything that happened with

1089
01:31:08.159 --> 01:31:12.199
Veronica Grande, all that happened a
year ago. As I'm telling you this,

1090
01:31:13.479 --> 01:31:16.680
even today, it still hurts knowing
I'll never see my Veronica again.

1091
01:31:19.079 --> 01:31:26.000
You gotta know, Abella did not
survive those things. Abella ended up emptying

1092
01:31:26.079 --> 01:31:29.960
her handgun, trying to shoot them. All she did was make them bleed

1093
01:31:30.079 --> 01:31:36.279
this blue blood. Then they all
grabbed a hold of Abella and just tore

1094
01:31:36.319 --> 01:31:44.119
her apart. Abella's screams stopped just
that quick. Not that it would have

1095
01:31:44.199 --> 01:31:47.800
mattered. Later, I'd come to
learn that the one thing regarding the backwoods

1096
01:31:47.840 --> 01:31:55.720
of Strickfield is no one will ever
hear you scream. I ended up watching

1097
01:31:55.720 --> 01:31:59.319
as those things just sat on the
floor and ate whatever pieces of Abella they

1098
01:31:59.359 --> 01:32:02.720
had in their hands. I was
so scared I didn't even try to run.

1099
01:32:03.479 --> 01:32:10.159
I almost puked seeing Morgan's exposed belly
getting full. I figured if Veronica

1100
01:32:10.199 --> 01:32:13.920
could find me at that old man's
cabin, those things would have found me

1101
01:32:14.000 --> 01:32:17.800
wherever I tried running to. When
they finished with a bella, all that

1102
01:32:17.920 --> 01:32:26.399
was left were her bones. Then
those things all looked at me. I

1103
01:32:26.439 --> 01:32:30.039
think I lost control of my waterworks
again, knowing they were gonna eat me.

1104
01:32:30.760 --> 01:32:34.720
Tristan, Trina, and Morgan wanted
to, but Veronica told them no.

1105
01:32:35.880 --> 01:32:41.039
Veronica knelt down beside me. She
wanted to take my hand, but

1106
01:32:41.199 --> 01:32:46.079
stopped when she remembered she'd freeze it
right off. Go away from here,

1107
01:32:46.119 --> 01:32:53.319
my love, she rasped, you're
free. I know you truly loved me.

1108
01:32:54.760 --> 01:33:00.600
I shook my head slowly. I
still love you. Veronica bowed her

1109
01:33:00.640 --> 01:33:04.880
head. I think it really hurt
her, saying what she felt she needed

1110
01:33:04.920 --> 01:33:12.199
to say to me. Never return
here ever again. Live your life,

1111
01:33:12.239 --> 01:33:17.199
amos, know that I'll always love
you. Then she lifted her head and

1112
01:33:17.239 --> 01:33:24.840
pointed, go that way. Then
those things left. I made myself get

1113
01:33:24.920 --> 01:33:28.319
up and walked back out in that
blizzard. I saw the four sets of

1114
01:33:28.319 --> 01:33:32.079
footprints where those things went off to. I trusted Veronica and walked the way

1115
01:33:32.159 --> 01:33:36.000
she told me. When I came
out of the woods. I only had

1116
01:33:36.000 --> 01:33:41.960
to walk a few miles before I
came to Denoyer's grill. I've since bought

1117
01:33:42.000 --> 01:33:46.000
Tom Barlow's cabin. Some college students
are here. They just listen to me

1118
01:33:46.119 --> 01:33:50.720
tell them why it's not a good
idea to go into those backwoods. Yeah,

1119
01:33:51.279 --> 01:33:55.960
you just know they ain't gonna listen. Much like when we were all

1120
01:33:56.000 --> 01:34:00.600
here at this cabin last year.
Today, like a year ago, has

1121
01:34:00.640 --> 01:34:03.800
a blizzard about to come down on
us. Just can't catch a break during

1122
01:34:03.840 --> 01:34:09.039
the winter in Feltner County. I
point in the direction of the backwoods.

1123
01:34:09.520 --> 01:34:14.039
I'm telling you people right now,
you go back in there, especially during

1124
01:34:14.079 --> 01:34:16.479
this blizzard. All lay odds,
none of you are gonna make it out

1125
01:34:16.520 --> 01:34:21.720
alive. Those things are in there. They'll trap and eat you when you

1126
01:34:21.840 --> 01:34:27.399
least expect it. That is,
if no ghouls get a hold of you

1127
01:34:27.520 --> 01:34:32.199
first. I know they want to
call me crazy. They just say goodbye

1128
01:34:32.279 --> 01:34:36.239
and tell me they're heading in to
look for game. I shake my head

1129
01:34:36.319 --> 01:34:42.680
slowly and watch them leave. I
try telling them one last time, but

1130
01:34:42.960 --> 01:34:46.079
they ain't listening. I watch as
they pull out of my driveway and head

1131
01:34:46.119 --> 01:34:51.960
towards the backwoods of Strickfield. I
go back in the cabin and look at

1132
01:34:51.960 --> 01:34:59.079
a picture of happier times of Veronica, Grande and me together. Then I

1133
01:34:59.119 --> 01:35:02.000
look towards the back woods and know
those idiots are going to run into Veronica

1134
01:35:02.319 --> 01:35:08.640
and are half siblings. All I
can do is pray they make it out

1135
01:35:08.800 --> 01:35:15.000
and live to tell the tale the
same way I barely did. I put

1136
01:35:15.000 --> 01:35:17.600
the picture of me and Veronica down
and go put another log on the fire

1137
01:35:18.399 --> 01:35:30.600
as the blizzard starts. I hope
you enjoyed, either experiencing that story for

1138
01:35:30.640 --> 01:35:35.279
the first time or revisiting it during
the winter months. I'm really having a

1139
01:35:35.319 --> 01:35:39.560
great time. I needed this break
that I'm taking, so I appreciate everybody

1140
01:35:39.560 --> 01:35:44.359
being so kind and really telling me
I should take a little break. But

1141
01:35:45.359 --> 01:35:47.840
there's no rest for the wicked,
not truly. So There'll be a lot

1142
01:35:47.880 --> 01:35:53.920
of Weekly Spooky coming throughout January and
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1143
01:35:54.680 --> 01:35:59.439
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1144
01:36:00.159 --> 01:36:03.960
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1145
01:36:04.000 --> 01:36:09.880
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1146
01:36:09.920 --> 01:36:14.800
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1149
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