Summer of the Demon pt 2: Cursed Objects & Horror Revelations

0:00 Our summer mini series continues with Kiewee Richter learning the truth about the cursed Double Zero, Jersey, Greg Branlake's missing body, and the demon stalking Camp Red Feather because the monster is back on the field and no one is safe. What's that you want to be scared? He Come with me. You will experience tales over our roam.

0:40 Ghosts and death. It is not recommended for the week at art Listeners in the dark. It's more fun at. That way way. This is Weekly Speaking. Hello, my spookies. It's Wednesday, and you know what that means. It's time for a little spooky in your weekly. I'm your host, Enrique Kuto, and tonight we bring you part two of our summer mini series, aptly titled Summer of the Demon. You're not gonna want to miss this because so much is revealed and so much blood is shed.

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2:39 That's Weeklyspooky dot Com slash Join. Your support helps keep the show going for another four hundred episodes. But now, as for tonight, what if the monster chasing you wasn't just back from the dead. What if it left clues behind, a missing body, a vanishing jersey, a box of journals filled with obsession, rage, and secrets nobody was ever supposed to read. Pee Wee Richter thought surviving the demon once made him lucky, but at Camp Redfeather, luck is running out because the demon isn't hiding in nightmares anymore. He's in the daylight last time. On Summer of the Demon, Eddie pee Wee Richter recounts how he braved the Demon and won the state championship for Strickfield High. His life hasn't been the same since. The following summer, Eddie and some of his teammates are at a football camp to practice playing at Strickfield U in the fall. Eddie still has nightmares about the championship. Gar Aim, the Demon returns to wreak havoc at the camp, killing the former quarterback of Strickfield High. Unable to cope, Eddie tries to escape

4:11 the camp, only for the Demon to intercept him. Knowing that he has to do something, Eddie returns to Strickfield and breaks into Greg Brandlake's house. Finding some of his old journals, Eddie reads an entry regarding the jersey that transformed Greg into the Demon. Eddie is soon ambushed and shocked into unconsciousness as the Demon found Eddie again for the final confrontation. Let's find out In Summer of the Demon Part two by Rob Fields. I wake up and see I'm on a bed still in Greg Brandlake's room.

4:55 The lights are on and I'm seeing an older couple, both wearing paja ammas and slippers. Easy, son, The man says, what are you doing in our house? The woman demands. When I see the man's got a gun, I raise my hands. I ain't here to rob you. The man puts the gun down on Greg's desk. I'm not going to shoot you. I only stunned you with a taser. I'm not arresting you because you're peewee richter. See. I'm with Strickfield PD. You were in the state championship game that night at Strickfield Academy. I nod and point to them, and if you two were there, you saw what happened to Greg. The couple glances at each other. Then the woman sighs. The man holds up the journal I was looking at. Greg's been keeping these since he started playing football.

5:55 May I ask what you were looking for in them? I sigh. You're not going to believe me, son, we saw what happened to Greg on the field that night, just like you. Mister Branlake reminds me the demon's back. I blurret out. When Greg's parents stare at me in disbelief, I tell them what happened at Camp Redfeather. Was he wearing that Micknight jersey? Mister Branlake demands, sir, you can't not see that double zero or those glowing red eyes. I answer, but that's why I came here to see if I could find out anything about that jersey. I think I found something in the journals before you busted me.

6:46 I really feel bad now. I know what I did was wrong, and if you have to arrest me, I get it. I said, I'm not going to arrest you, son. Mister Brandlake said, come downstairs. I got some things to share with you. I get off the bed and follow them downstairs. Missus Brandlake tells me to sit on the couch. I read all of Greg's journals, mister Branlake says, sitting down. Greg bought that Micknight jersey at this junk store called Tinkers. Ever hear of it, I shake my head, can't say I have. Mister Branlake continues, Greg saw that jersey and spent a lot of money to get it. It was no secret he was struggling with coach Crandon. I think his game suffered because of him. He nearly lost his quarterback position because of what you did at the Battle of Strickfield. When I look scared, mister Branlake raises his hand a little relax, son, you were just playing the game.

7:56 I respect that, he sighs. When when Greg started wearing that jersey, he got better and fast. At first I thought he got his confidence back. I couldn't tell you what was inside that jersey, but I knew something bad had got into Greg. He turned on his friends, especially his girlfriend, Katie Kleine. Greg never turned against us, Missus Brandlake added, but George and I knew something was terribly wrong with him. She heavy sighs. When we heard about coach Crandon's murder, we knew Greg did it. Looking in the later journals, Greg was obsessed with getting even with you, mister Branlake says, and based on what happened at the state championship game, not to mention what you told us upstairs.

8:52 I gulp. Do either of you think Greg's back from the dead. I was going to ask you that, Eddie, Missus Branlake answers in a shaky voice. I think about it. Okay. If you're right about the jersey, then what happened after the well after Greg was killed, Missus Branlake finishes for me. She gets up and goes into the den. Then she returns with a copy of the Strickfield Journal. This paper's from two weeks ago. I take the paper and see the headline deceased high school football star missing from grave.

9:39 I feel my heart pounding fast as I try to read the article. Missus Brandlake must have seen how scared I am, because she eases the paper away from me. It was a shock to us too, son, mister Branlake says, Chief Kasmarak called me into the office and told me about it. Then I had the unfortunate responsibility of informing my wife and daughter. I still can't believe it, Missus Brandlake says quietly. I had to ask Greg wasn't buried with that jersey? Was he.

10:25 No? Mister Branlake quickly answers he had it on him that night at the game when he was killed. The hospital Morgue called the station to tell us the jersey had disappeared from there. We never figured out who took it, but that jersey wasn't anywhere near Greg when we had the funeral service and buried him at the funeral home. I even checked under his suit myself. Greg might have returned as the demon. I tell them he's already killed a couple of us at the camp where we're practicing. The bran Lakes both give me a sympathetic look. Now, mister Brandlake gives me a stern one. I hope you're wrong, but if you're looking into it, you can look through the journals or whatever else is in Greg's room. You can even take what you need, so long as you bring everything back when you're finished. We just want Greg to rest in peace. Missus Branlake ads, and if you need me to look into anything for you, son, just give me a call. Mister Branlake ads, thank you, I reply.

11:43 Before they head back up to bed, mister Branlake gives me their phone numbers. I head back up to Greg's room to skim through the journals some more. I end up taking a few select ones before I leave the house time to hitch a ride back back to Camp Red Feather. The next day, like yesterday, I didn't sleep good. I wanted to read through the journals I borrowed, but was too tired. On the field, I'm barely keeping the other players off me. Coach Mercer notices. Come on, Richter, you're better than this. You just showing off or what I wish I was showing off. The only thing keeping me awake are the two cups of coffee I downed in the rec hall and wondering when the Demon is coming back. Coach Mercer gives me a hard time again when Mark Schumer viciously creams me during a play. Come on, Richter, we ain't in the MAAC conference no more. You start out like this against old miss to be fair, Coach Mercer's writing everybody, and he's right. Moving to SEC is a big deal for the Serpents, but those other teams don't have the demon haunting and killing their players. I managed to pull it together and get a few good compliments out of the coach. The end of practice couldn't

13:16 come soon enough. That night, the football team and cheerleaders are at the pool. The guys talked me into putting my trunks on, but I don't get in the water. I can swim. I just have a gut feeling the Demon might show up. I know some of the staff here have seen him. I'm surprised Camp Redfeather hasn't been shut down. Mister Branlake wasn't kidding about Greg wanting to get even with me. It wasn't just me he was obsessed with. He was obsessed with Mick Knight, which was the whole reason why he wanted to play football. I don't think he knew what that jersey could do before he saw it at the shop. But once he felt that power, that was it. Greg got the girls, He got the full ride scholarship offers to top colleges. He became the talk of the high school football scene. If he hadn't been killed, Greg might have breezed his way through college ball and moved on to the NFL. When I see my teammates having fun with the cheerleaders, Charlie Thass comes floating by, Come on, pee, wee get in here.

14:33 It's still too hot out to just sit around out there. I smile a little, Yeah, you ain't wrong. When Chase Randall approaches the pool, all eyes are on her and fast. Then my jaw drops fast, but not because of Chase's provocative bikini. The demons coming out of the thick bushes nearby. Look out, I yell to him. The demon leaps and lands in the pool as Chase and I are helping people get out, but the demon reaches Biff Errands before we can. Didn't anybody ever tell you never to go swimming after dinner? The demon jeers, get off me, you fuck her, Biff yells. Now they both disappear under the water.

15:26 Soon the pool is turning blood red. Everybody's screaming when body parts come up to the surface like flotation devices. When the demon resurfaces, more people gasp. When he's got Biff head in hand, Go out for a pass, go deep. When the Demon's got his eyes on Kim Tolman, a cheerleader. She's too scared to run away. I try and help her, but suddenly I feel myself being forced to the ground. The demon leaped out of the water and clobbered me. Penalty too many men on the field, Pee wee. The demon jeers, pinning me down with a knee on my back.

16:12 Get off me, I yell, just stop. You want your revenge, then take me. The demon ignores me and tells Kim, I told you to go long. The demon throws Biff's head right into Kim's stomach. The demon throws Biff's head right into Kim's midsection. She only gasps for a moment before bleeding from her stomach. With Biff's head lodged in there. Her mouth's bleeding as she falls to her knees. As she drops on her side, the demon gets off me and moves to her. Kim wasn't dead yet. When he makes a punt, her head immediately fly right off her body and soars out to the field, eventually splitting the uprights.

17:07 Now the demon grabs me and lifts me up. I'm still scared, but I'm also pissed off at how he killed Biff and Kim just like that. I told you, a little man, you die when I say so, not before. Why don't you go for a little swim and cool off? No, I scream When he throws me in the bloody pool, I sink to the bottom of the deep end and make myself come back up. Even though the blood was diluted by the water, I still had red all over me. When I climbed out of the pool. The demons on the other side of the pool and points at me.

17:52 Now that's blood, sweat and tears. The demon laughs cruelly before he turned and heads back into the trees. I want to go after him. But what would I even do? How would I bring the demon down? I feel so helpless, and I start crying. The next afternoon practice was called off. Coach Mercer didn't even try getting people motivated when he saw how messed up we all were at breakfast. I take the journals and head out to be alone. When I find a big tree, I park it and start reading again. I find an entry where Greg says he's got it all now. He even dumped Katie Kleine after he got into a huge fight. Katie learned Greg was sleeping with another girl right under her nose. I couldn't find her name, but Greg called her his vicious vixen.

19:03 I hear a movement nearby. Then there's this huge shadow looming right over me. Oh no, the demon found me again. I'm so dead. I don't even bother grabbing the journals and spring up to run, but I don't get far. When I'm tackled back to the ground. I scream as I'm being turned on my back. Only it's not the Demon. It's a girl, maybe a young woman. I know. I've never seen her at this camp. Still, there's something about her.

19:52 Who are you? I ask, trying to save face. Ah, what's the point. She definitely heard heard me scream, She saw me get scared. I know you, she tells me, matter of factly. Who else could I be? Then? I know you're Jessica Branlake. Correct. She gets off me and takes my hand to help me up. Jessica is a head taller than me. Okay, pretty much everybody here at Camp Redfeather is a head taller than me, but Jessica's easily the tallest girl I've ever seen. What are you doing here? I ask?

20:37 Oh? Oh, okay, I know what you're doing here. But how I know you're a cheerleader, but you're not one of ours. Jessica laughs. Correct again, I cheer for Ohio State. She explains how she just pointed to a name on the clipboard at the security station and got into the camp. No problem. Nobody's caught on to me yet. I had to come here when I heard Pee Wee Richter was playing for the Strickfield Serpents, I raised my hands in front of me. Look, I she raises one of her own. Now now, I'm not here to cause no trouble for you.

21:19 When mom and Dad told me about you come into the house. I knew I had to come talk to you. Come on, we both know the demon was coming after you, right. Greg and I never really got along when we were growing up, but he was my baby brother. I'm right there with my parents on wanting closure for him. But what do you want from me? I ask her. She shows me a copy of the Strickfield Journal, the same one Missus Brandlake showed me. Then she sighs, I read this story a bunch of times. It's full of holes. Miranda Mason Phillips is a good reporter, but she don't know everything. Well, I want to know everything. She looks at me devilishly. What do you say you and me work together here? I smirk. Do I have a choice? No, she says flatly. But won't the demon come after you if he sees your here? I ask? She laughs. Oh, believe me, Eddie, if the demon is Greg, he ain't gonna give me no pass because I'm his big sister.

22:33 I told you he and I never got along growing up. Besides, I can tell you things about Greg you ain't gonna find in any of them journals, such as Greg wasn't the nicest person in the world, even before getting the McKnight Jersey. When he got good at football and knew it, he turned into such a douchebag. I couldn't count how many times he threw his football at me whenever he got pissed. Then I ask her, do you know anything about a vicious vixen I just read in a journal? She was the person Greg was seeing behind Katie Klein's back.

23:15 She sighs. I've talked to Katie before, but even I didn't always know who all Greg was dicking. I can tell you for sure he never liked Katie. Probably got with her just to have someone to call his girlfriend. I did hear him tell his friends that Katie was a prude. I'm surprised that never got back to her. Yeah, I read that in the journal before you scared me to death. I admit Jessica's interested. He wrote about the bit he was seeing behind Katie's back. Let me see. I retrieved the journal and see it's still opened to the page. We read the entry together September eighteenth. Seriously, why do I keep Katie around? You'd think i'd be the one trying to have sex with her, but she keeps trying to get it on with me. Of course, I can't think of Katie now when I just met the perfect girl. She sure ain't no nicey nice like Katie.

24:26 When I saw my new girl literally rake her fingernails across another girl's face during a fight, I knew I had to have her. What my new girl quickly learned was that I take what I want. All I had to do was just grab her and kiss her to make her mind. I love talking to her. I know soon we'll be getting it on. I won't name her here in case someone else reads this. Let's call her my vicious Vixen. Problem is I won't be able to keep her if she sees how much Coach Crandon's been affecting my game. My vicious vixen demands a winner. I gotta do something to improve my game fast. I need that vicious vixen. I must keep her. Wow talk about obsession, Jessica says, Oh, it gets better. I tell her. I pick up another journal and flip to the page I want her to read. Check this out October fifteenth. I can't believe how much fortune has shined on me. My ship came in when I got Mick the Demon Nights Jersey.

25:51 I spent nearly everything I had, but this jersey was worth every red scent. Call it an investment that'll pay huge returns. I'm already being offered full rides to colleges like Michigan, Ohio State, Alabama. Not only that, I can keep my vicious vixen. Boy, did Katie turn into a real bitch after I dumped her in front of the other cheerleaders thanks to the jersey? I got it all. I even killed Crandon, but he had it coming for the way he kept riding me. My vicious vixen knew I killed him and couldn't pull me into her bed fast enough. This jersey made McKnight the man he became.

26:40 He had it all, wealth, fame, power, babes, anything he wanted. All he had to do was take it. Now. I got the power, and I'm taking my vicious vixen with me. What good is having everything when you don't have a hottie like her to share it with. My future is now. Jessica and I look at each other. Come on, Eddie, let's work together. We both want to know what's going on. We both want to know if my baby brother's back from the dead. Come on, what do we gotta lose.

27:22 I just don't want you getting hurt or killed. I tell her he's after me, remember, yeah, and you could get yourself hurt or killed too. Uh huh. You ain't playing that card with me. I know I'm not getting rid of Jessica. When I tell her, fine, we can work together, she hugs me. Not that I'm trying to score with her, but I couldn't help noticing how nice she smells. We go sit under the tree together and read more of the journals. Other than what eggs got in here. We don't learn anything new. Are these all the journals? Jessica asks, No, not all of them? I tell her not when you're hitch hiking from here to Strickfield and back. Well, I got my car here. If we got to leave, she offers, we can go home.

28:21 I smile. We just might have to. She brightens up. Let's go. Since there's no practice today, getting out of this camp won't be a problem. We just have to cross the football field to get to Jessica's car. Looks like some of the guys are working out their aggressions on the field, even though coach Mercer called practice, Hey pee, wee get over here. Charlie Thoss calls out, Nah, I'll be back later, I tell him. When he sees I'm with Jessica, he gives me his wicked grin. Yeah, okay, buddy, I get you well, you have fun. Okay, don't do nothing I wouldn't do. Jessica looks down at me and sees me blushing. You would have thought she'd given me an outrageous look or got pissed. She just smiles devilishly and takes my hand, and I continue to smell that flowery smell of hers. I can't believe she's really holding my hand. It's okay, Eddie, she says softly. Then Jessica's eyes bulge out, the same way mine did last night.

29:42 I look her way and see the demon. Holy crap, he's actually walking around out here in the daylight. Look out. Jessica and I both call out to the guys. Together. They look a and see the demon coming right at them. You would have thought they'd be running away, but Charlie points right at him. You're dead, you son of a bitch. Charlie, no, I call out, You don't know who you're dealing with. He'll kill you. The demon moves to the center of the field from the sidelines. Then he stretches out his massive arms and hands. Ah, don't make me laugh. The guys all scream and run right at him. Jessica and I can't do anything to help. The demon shows Charlie and the others his power as he's grabbing them and flinging them away like they're pillows, and Charlie is easily the biggest of these guys. He doesn't know when to stay down, which was a good thing in helping us win the state championship, but it won't help him against the demon. And then no, Chase, get away, Charlie calls out.

31:08 We all turn and see Chase Randall standing close by. How the hell did she suddenly get there? But the Demon's only a couple of gargantawan steps away from her. When a few of the other players try and tackle the demon again, he stops them both dead by grabbing their hair. Then he makes them scream by digging his fingers into their heads. Next thing we know, those guys are screaming as he's ripping their skulls and spines right out of their heads. Their faces and hair are just hanging there. I can't help it and drop to my knees and throw up Eddie. Jessica shrieks. Chase gawks at the demon as he's holding his new weapons by their spines. Now, look, cheerleader, I got me some pob pobs too. Let me show you how the demon cheers. Chase's eyes grow wide when the Demon starts swinging the heads like their slings. I don't think twice and start running at him. I don't think the demon will kill me, at least not yet.

32:32 It's either me or him now, but he is not getting Chase, And next week my Spookies, Summer of the Demon gets even wilder. Pee wee, Jessica and Chase hit the road looking for answers, but what they find inside Katie Klein's old house may change everything they thought they knew about Gray, the Curse, Jersey, and who really pulled the trigger on Championship Night. But answers come with a price, because in part three, the Demon is done waiting in the shadows. He crashes through windows, storms the field, and turns a football scrimmage into a supernatural bloodbath. So don't miss Summer of the Demon Part three right here next week on Weekly Spooky so make sure you're subscribed on your favorite podcast app, and thank you guys so much for enjoying this summer mini series with me. I look forward to these every year. It's a lot of fun to bring the heat and bring the fear. That's my thing.

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