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The job sounded simple, clean, some parts carry some blocks
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make a little summer money. But Frank Chopsky's locked shed
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had rules, His pink concrete house had secrets, and the
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boys who helped him build it never stopped to ask
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what made the blocks so heavy?
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What's that You want to be scared? Come with me.
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You will experience tales over our roam, ghosts and death gut.
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It is not recommended for the week at art Listeners
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in the dark. It's more fun at that way. Wait,
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this is Weekly Speaking.
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Hello, my spookies. It's Wednesday, and you know what that means.
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It's time for a little spooky in your weekly. I'm
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your host and narrator, Enrique Kuto, and we have quite
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the creepy summer tale just for you tonight, something to
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help your blood run cold no matter how warm it
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is outside. But before we get to that, I want
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to say thank you all so much for joining us
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here tonight. You are the hardcore spookies who truly celebrate
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Now is a perfect time to show your support for
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the show. But now, as for tonight. Summer jobs are
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supposed to be boring. You show up, you sweat, you
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get paid, maybe you complain a little, maybe you laugh
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with your friends, and maybe, if you're lucky, you walk
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away with enough cash to make the whole thing worth it.
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But every once in a while, a job finds you
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a strange man with a stranger smile, a locked shed
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nobody is allowed to enter, a pile of concrete blocks
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dyed a soft, cheerful pink. At first, it all seems
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harmless enough, but when three friends start wondering what their
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boss is really mixing behind that shed, they learn that
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some houses aren't haunted after they're built. Some houses are
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simply built haunted. So get cozy as we head to
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our new job. Concrete Evidence by Gary Dee up in Ontario, Canada.
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My nightmare began harmlessly enough on that fine, warm summer's day,
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but then quickly evolved as it inevitably spiraled into the cold,
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lifeless corpse of a traveling circus freak show spectacle that
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it truly was. Back when I was around eighteen or
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so and living near Toronto, Ontario, Canada, I experienced one
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particularly hot and very humid summer for which the associated
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bizarre and disturbing details and memories remained shockingly vivid and
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forever burned deeply into my brain. At the time, I
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was hanging out with a couple of new friends i'd
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just met in high school, and we were all busily
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and frankly quite desperately trying to find summer jobs. And
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just like me, Todd and Izzy were both brash mouthy
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fuckers who ironically enough also possessed my same insane, dark
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and warped sense of humor. One day, while we were
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all just kind of chilling at a local park, we
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watched as a rusty, old piece of sh shit Chevy
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pickup truck slowly pulled into the parking lot. At first
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we heard the telltale sound of gravel crunching under heavy
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rubber tires, and then all we could hear was John
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Cougar Mellencamp's Pink Houses loudly blaring out from his car stereo.
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Next thing we know, this weird, scruffy looking dude with
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these wild screwy eyes that kept darting all over the
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place steps out of the truck after knocking some dirt
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out from the tread of his work boots by kicking
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them against his front bumper. He then looks, or actually
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more like glares over at us, and proceeds to slowly
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and clumsily hobble his way across the grass and over
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to where we're all standing on first, looking at him,
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and based on the filthy, badly stained clothes he was wearing,
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he looked like some down and out homeless guy, you know,
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like the kind you'd see rolling out of a dumpster
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in an alleyway somewhere, getting ready for an exciting night
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out involving the picking up of salvageable cigarette butts and
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foraging through the sidewalk garbage receptacles for any even remotely
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edible remnants of food. And whenever I really think back
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on it, you know, about my very first impression of
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this guy on initially meeting him, I'm convinced that he
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actually looked a hell of a lot like an older
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and much creepier if that's possible version of Gary Busey.
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If you can imagine that and know what I mean.
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This complete whack job just stood there uncomfortably staring at us,
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taking his sweet creepy time to carefully look each one
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of us up and down, And as things almost reached
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the point of no return, meaning being such a complete
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and bizarre clusterfuck of awkwardness as to be totally beyond repair,
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he finally said something as he stroked his stubbly, badly
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wrinkled ass chin. The name's Frank, Frank Chopsky, and I'm
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here to make your day. He then dropped his hand
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from his damp, hasty white face and proceeded to smile
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the absolute creepiest smile that you could ever imagine. Izzy
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Todd and I, all, with our eyebrows raised, looked at
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each other as we slowly started to back away. As
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soon as he sensed our reluctance, he then quickly dropped
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his insidious smile and replaced it with a mouth that
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appeared much more serious and business like what you boys
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think about making some good money and for and practically nothing.
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He went on saying that he'd gladly pay each one
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of us ten dollars an hour simply to help him
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clean the grease and oil off of a bunch of
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old car parts and to carry a shitload of concrete
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blocks across a small field for him. He explained that
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he had a large tool shed out back of a
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piece of property that he owned located on the other
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side of town, where he'd set up one of those
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manual hand crank concrete mixing machines, which he planned on
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using to make somewhere like around four hundred or so
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concrete building blocks with Frank went on to say that
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he wanted to surprise his wife and six kids, who
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were all out of town for about three months visiting
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with family, by building them a brand new house, and
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not just any house, but a special, little pink one.
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He continued on saying that seeing as his wife his
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favorite color was pink because she'd always loved pink carnations,
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that he'd simply just add some pink dye to the
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concrete mix so he'd end up with pink building blocks.
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He claimed to have built a very similar house all
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by himself once before, but seeing as he was much
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older now and had some serious back issues to deal with,
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he just needed someone to help him with the carrying
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of all these concrete blocks from the mixer across a
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field and over to where the house was going up.
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My buddies and I were all broke and desperate for cash,
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so we backed away a bit and briefly discussed it.
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Izzy chimed in first by saying, shit, man, ten bucks
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an hour for each of us just to do that. Hell, yeah,
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I'm in. I immediately agreed, adding, Hey, we've been shooting
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blanks so far, and nobody out there is even hiring
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right now. We'd be stupid not to take this job.
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Sounds pretty easy peasy to me. Let's tell him yes
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before he changes his mind. Todd was always the leery one,
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so cocked his head kind of sideways, nervously bit his lip,
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and then said, hang on a minute. We don't know
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shit about this guy. He looks as fucking creepy as
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they come. He could be a serial killer. Izzy and
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I laughed out loud because we'd heard Todd recite these
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exact same words about a million times before, really, any
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time we met someone new. There was even that time
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when we met like a four foot tall ninety year
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old grandma, which he swore up and down to us
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he'd seen featured on America's Most Wanted for luring little
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boys into her house to never be seen again. Finally,
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we all agreed and walked back over to this Frank
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guy and told him, okay, seemed easy enough, seeing as
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we were all young bucks and still had limber, flexible
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joints and strong backs. We'd certainly carried and moved a
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lot heavier shit in the past and never got paid
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a red fucking cent for it, so hell yeah, why not.
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Frank spent a couple of hours one morning covering us
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on the routine. As he described it, the three of
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us would all just sit and simply wait outside the
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shed until he was ready for us, which was practically
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most of the day, and would then call us over
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when the time was right. Most of the time, all
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we had to do was just sit outside in the
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shade of a big oak tree, cleaning up oil and
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grease from a bunch of old car parts. For him
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with some old rags, so basically just waiting on him
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while he was busy inside the locked shed mixing up
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a recipe of cement, powder, sand, gravel, and a few
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other special ingredients, all inside of the rotating steel drum
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of his small hand crank mixing machine, and once fully mixed,
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he'd then pour the runny slurry mixture into ten individual
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home made two foot wide by one foot high by
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one foot deep steel building block forms. Frank figured that
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if he could manage to make ten blocks per day,
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working five days a week, then he'd have like fifty
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blocks per week, or a grand total of two hundred
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pieces a month, and seeing as he estimated that he
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needed roughly four hundred of them, the whole project would
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likely take about two months to complete, give or take.
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After the concrete mixture had been poured into all the forms,
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he'd then let them sit to cure, meaning harden, over
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the span of the day, and once the concrete had
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set and gotten hard enough, Frank would then turn the
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forms upside down, tap them gently on the sides and
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bottoms with a small mallet, which would then release the
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concrete blocks from their casting forms. Once he'd removed all
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ten of the concrete blocks. He'd then completely cover them
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up by putting them into small, damp burlap sacks, and
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call for us to come over to the front door
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of the shed, where he'd proceed to pass them to
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us one by one, but never ever allowing us to
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as much as set even one foot inside. This always
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seemed to occur later in the day, a little while
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before the sun would set and it got dark out.
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Then the three of us would all take turns, working
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in a kind of rotation, with two of us grabbing
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each end of a block and then slowly shuffling along
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carrying them out to the location across the field where
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the new Pink house was being built, which was roughly
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some fifty yards away. Frank insisted on having them all
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carried individually by hand, as opposed to what we all
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thought and suggested would be a much simpler way, which
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was to just wheel them over in his wheelbarrow. Unfortunately,
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Frank was a stubborn old coot and just wouldn't have it.
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We were really surprised at how heavy these small blocks
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actually were, and there was absolutely no way that one
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person could ever carry one on their own. After carrying
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about the first couple dozen or so, we kind of
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got the hang of it, and our muscles slowly became
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accustomed to the routine and repetition of the associated struggle
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and strain. We carried out this same repetitive procedure almost
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every day throughout the entire summer, working pretty much every
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day from sun up to sundown. He had told our
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parents that we'd gotten jobs as general labors, having to
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perform the simple task of mostly polishing grease off of
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auto parts and then just occasionally asked to carry what
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were basically a bunch of large rocks across a field.
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At first, our parents were a little worried and leary,
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but we assured them that they had nothing to worry
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about because they really didn't weigh that much, and because
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we knew what we were doing, and we also reminded
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them of the fact that we were each getting ten
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dollars an hour, which was great money at the time.
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Frank slowly built the house block by block and room
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by room, and as each room was completed, he'd then
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nail up wooden plaque, which he said had the first
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name of one of his beloved children on it. First
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there was Charlene, then Thomas, and followed by Ashley and Eric.
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He had a kind of scaffolding set up all around
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the house, covered in thick sheets of white frosted plastic
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which kinda draped over everything, And on top of that,
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he'd also put up a ten foot chain link fence
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with barbed wire on top all around the entire property.
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Frank claimed that he didn't want any nosy neighbors or
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passers by seeing whatever the hell he was doing, none
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of their goddamn business. As he described it to us
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several times, the only really weird thing about all of
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this was that whenever he ever heard any of us
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approaching the shed, or if we happened to knock on
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the door to ask him an important question, he'd go
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ballistic and completely ape shit, screaming bloody murder and warning
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us to stay the fuck away. Not sure what the
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hell that was all about, we were also curious as
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to why he entered the shed each and every morning,
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pushing a large black wheelbarrow out in front of him,
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containing a large drumliner plastic garbage bagger to stuffed full
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of whatever, as well as what appeared to be a
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small hatchet, a long handled mallet, a bunch of towels,
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a metal bucket, and a large handsaw. He never ever
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allowed us to set as much as a toenail inside
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of that shed, saying that this was his private and
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personal space which nobody had the right to enter, and
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when the workday was done, he'd always yell through the
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locked shed door, now we'll see you boys, bright and
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early tomorrow morning, you hear, to which we'd all then
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immediately reply in unison, yes, sir. After the first couple
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of weeks or so, it really started to bug the
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shit out of us as to how over the top
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protective and secretive he was about his stupid shed. What
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the hell was going on in there? Anyway, Our curiosity
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finally got the better of us, so we decided one day,
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at the end of our shift to just pretend to
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walk away and head home. But what we actually did
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was hide behind a couple of large tree trunks on
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the edge of the property so we could just sit
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and watch. As it turned out, Izzy didn't come in
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to work with us that day as he'd had a
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nasty run in with Frank the day before, so on
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this particular morning, when we arrived for work, Frank immediately
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told us that he'd told Izzy to just stay home
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for the day, you know, to sit and think long
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and hard about the shit he'd said to him earlier.
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You see, Frank was a total nut job, to say
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the least. We tried our best to ignore all of
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his bizarre little ticks, peculiarities, and other odd behaviors, and
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the strangest one by far had to be his complete
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infatuation with a filthy, grease stained, tiny pink teddy bear
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that he always seemed to have pinned to the collar
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of his shirt. We'd constantly catch him touching it, stroking it,
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and fondling its furry little belly while either humming or
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singing this creepy, repetitive lullaby like. We'd be in the
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middle of an important conversation when he'd suddenly, out of
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the blue, just lose complete focus, drift off, have the
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pupils of his eyes twitch and roll up under his eyelids,
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and then once again be fully absorbed and immersed in
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his disturbing little pink teddy bear fetish. And it was
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during one of these so called teddy bear trances that
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Izzy made the big, stupid and unforgivable mistake of actually
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opening his mouth to give his two cents on the matter.
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You're a freaky little fuck, aren't you, he said to Frank, mockingly,
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followed by his trademark cocky, condescending little laugh, playing and
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messing around with a wee little teddy bear like that
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at your age, like you're a fucking five year old.
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Come on, Frank, act your fucking age. I winced as
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Izzy said those final words, and then watched as Frank's friendly,
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doting smile quickly transformed into a frightening and very angry,
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teeth bared scowl. He just glared straight at Izzy for
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what seemed like a full minute without blinking an eye
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or uttering a single word, before finally growling out, calmly
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and very methodically in a kind of Southern drawl. Careful
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with your tongue, boy, because you should never pull a
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mad dog's tail unless you like running and then bleeding out.
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And then Frank quickly walked away. If there's one thing
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I learned early on in life and made damn sure
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never to forget, it was to never ever call out
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a complete whack job or maniac on all the weird
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ass shit they do trust me. I know because I've
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got a long, nasty scar sitting on the back of
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my head that's always there to remind me. Frank, to
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be honest with you could only be best described as follows.
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A complete and utter psychopath wrapped up tightly inside of
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a raving lunatic, safely confined within a tight straight jacket
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of unhinged paranoia, accompanied by a steaming side order of
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full blown three ring circus freak show, and last but
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not least, sprinkled generously with a multi colored and multi
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personalitied serving of obsessive, compulsive, pink little Teddy Bear fixation insanity.
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Oh yes, my friends, this most certainly was Frank Chopsky
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in a nutshell, with particular emphasis on the word nut.
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As the sun started to set and the shadows grew
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longer and longer, we watched anxiously from behind the trees.
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As the shed door slowly cracked open a bit. Frank
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carefully poked his head out, and then, with a guilty
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look on his face, turned both right and then left,
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and then quickly right and left again, before finally setting
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a single foot outside. We strained our eyes in the
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low light conditions just as the sun started to disappear
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over the horizon. Suddenly the shed door swung fully open,
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and we watched as Frank came waltzing out. He was
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pushing his black wheelbarrow out in front of him, crammed
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full of his usual array of drumliner, garbage bags, hatchet, saw,
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and whatever the fuck Elsie had in there. But something
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new suddenly caught our eyes. We could see some large
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white towels stained all over in a bright crimson red.
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Like what the actual fuck? We both squinted and blinked
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our eyes over and over again, and then turned to
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look at each other. Are you fucking seeing the shit?
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I squeaked out as I watched Tod's jaw drop down
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and mouth open wide. He looked like some giant, over eager,
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starved venus flytrap. We turned back to look at Frank
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and watched as he meticulously wiped and scrubbed clean the hatchet,
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the saw, and finally the long handled mallet. He looked
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quite at ease and appeared to be happily whistling while
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he worked. We strained our ears and listened closely, then
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faintly heard and immediately recognized the tune he was whistling.
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It was none other than the same fucked up, eerie
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little teddy bear lullaby that we'd constantly heard him humming
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and singing. We watched as he loaded everything into his
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truck and then slowly drove off, and instead of heading home,
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we decided to head on over to snoop around that
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damn shed of his. Luckily, we both always carried our
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pen flashlights with us. The sun had gone down now
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and it was pitch dark out. We looked each other
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in the eyes and then set off across the field.
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We approached the shed, hoping that we could somehow pry
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open its one and only flimsy blacked out window, or
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maybe try to jimmy the lock, but had no luck
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with either. We then went over to where the house
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was being built and for the very first time, took
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a really close look at the concrete blocks that we'd
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slept there over all these weeks, And as we strained
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our eyes to look at each block, our brains exploded
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in a synaptic lightning storm of disbelief as we suddenly
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started to see up close all of the horrific vomit
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in your mouth, totally fucked up things that dear Frank
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had secretly added to the concrete mix. The first thing
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I spotted was what appeared to be part of a
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broken pair of glasses frames. Weird, I thought, why the
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hell would Frank add this into the concrete mixture. Then
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we noticed a block which appeared to have a big
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tuft of hair hanging out of it, attached to what
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looked to be someone's scalp. Like, what the fuck? We
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kept working our way around all of the blocks, inspecting
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them from all sides, to see what else we could find.
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We had to hurry up because we had no idea
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if raving lunatic Frank could all of a sudden just
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show up unannounced to do who knows what else. All
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at once, Rob let out a disgusted scream. Come here,
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You've You've got to fucking see this, he yelled to me.
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I ran over and looked at what he was shakily
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pointing at. There. Protruding slightly from the side of one
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of the pink concrete blocks was about one inch of
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a human finger and part of a fingernail. Moments later,
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I screamed, oh shit, as I stared down at what
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appeared to be a piece of bloody jawbone with several
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teeth still attached. One disturbing discovery after another left the
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two of us frenzied and feeling like we had to
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throw up five alarm freaked out projectile vomiting. To be exact,
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our pen lights were frantically shining their beams all over
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the place as we tried to comprehend what we were seeing.
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We both started closely examining all of the concrete blocks
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which we'd carried here over many weeks. Very quickly, our
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gasps of pure mind blowing terror filled the otherwise quiet
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night air. We literally gagged in horror as we realized
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that mixed into the concrete that Frank had been so
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careful to secretly prepare was a cornucopia of various human
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body parts. From what we could see in the nervous
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flickering of our penlights, this included countless teeth, various bone fragments,
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tufts of hair, muscle, tendon, intestines, skin, a patchwork of
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various bodily organs, and lastly, lots and lots of blood.
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The pink colored concrete building blocks that Frank had so
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meticulously prepared were pink because of all of the above
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mentioned bloody ingredients. The final nail in the coffin was
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violently hammered in. When we found scrawled onto one of
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Frank's handmade wooden plaques lying on the ground nearby, the
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name Izzy, we both seemed to bellow out a loud
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oh fuck at about the same time before sprinting over
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to and scaling the chain link fence, throwing our jacket
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over the barbed wire, and then running like hell into
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and through the woods to get back home. We told
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our parents everything that had happened, who then called the police,
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but by the time the flashing lights and sirens pulled
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up in front of old Frank's house, he was already
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long gone. A short while later, a long time neighbor
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and occasional drinking buddy of his came forward, saying that
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he was damn certain that Frank had never been married
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and he sure as hell never had any kids. The
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only thing that he said he did remember Frank ever
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saying from time to time, and usually during one of
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their late night heavy drinking sessions, and of course, while
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gently and creepily caressing his little pink teddy bear and
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humming his damn haunting lullaby was that he he'd always
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wanted to live in a house that had good bones
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and to live out the remainder of his days surrounded
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by every body that he'd ever had a strong emotional
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connection with. Well, my spookies, I think we've all had
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bad summer jobs. I mean, maybe you worked retail, had
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to smile at people who thought a coupon from nineteen
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ninety seven was legally binding. Maybe you wash dishes until
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your hands looked like haunted little raisins. Maybe you spent
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eight hours in the sun carrying heavy things for a
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man who seemed just a little too attached to his nonsense.
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But hopefully, hopefully none of you ever helped a lunatic
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build a little pink murder house out of people. That's
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what kind of job experience you don't put on a resume.
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Thank you all so much for joining me in a
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big thank you to Gary up in Ontario for the
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great story. And I'm giving you a little warning, spookies.
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This is episode three hundred and ninety eight. When episode
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four hundred drops, it'll be a very special treat you
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will not want to miss, So make sure you're subscribed
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I need to get back to work. There's so much
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more fear for your ears. I need to cultivate and uh,
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well it's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it.
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So for myself, for my executive producers Bobotopia dot Com
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and Rob Fields, for my producer Dan Wilder, and of
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course my creepy composer Ray Matis. I'll talk at you
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next time.
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Thank you for listening. Make sure to find your way
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back next week weekly, But for now you are safe.
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