May 6, 2026

Concrete Evidence: A Creepy Summer Job Horror Story About a House with Secrets

Concrete Evidence: A Creepy Summer Job Horror Story About a House with Secrets
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A strange man. A summer job that sounds too easy. A locked shed. A half-built pink concrete house. And three teenage friends who slowly realize they may be helping a killer build something far more horrifying than a home.

In this gruesome and darkly funny episode of Weekly Spooky, a group of broke teenagers near Toronto, Ontario are desperate for summer work when they meet Frank Chopski — a bizarre, wild-eyed stranger with a rusty truck, a creepy little pink teddy bear, and an offer that seems impossible to refuse. Ten dollars an hour just to clean old car parts and carry concrete blocks across a field? Easy money.

But Frank is secretive about his locked shed. He never lets the boys inside. He guards his tools. He hauls out garbage bags, towels, saws, hatchets, and heavy handmade concrete blocks dyed a strange shade of pink. And as the summer drags on, the friends begin to notice disturbing details embedded inside the blocks they’ve been carrying by hand.

What starts as a weird summer job becomes a horrifying discovery of body horror, serial killer madness, hidden evidence, and a house literally built out of secrets.

If you love scary stories about creepy strangers, summer job horror, serial killer fiction, body horror, dark humor, disturbing mysteries, killer next door stories, and gruesome twist endings, this episode is ready to pour the concrete, smooth the edges, and seal something terrible inside forever.

Come for the easy money, my spookies… but don’t look too closely at the walls.

Concrete Evidence — by Gary D up in Ontario, Canada

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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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here tonight. You are the hardcore spookies who truly celebrate

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Halloween all year long, just like me, and I am

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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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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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Trust me,