Ep.187 – The House That Killed Me - It's NOT Abandoned!

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the world to me. But now, my friends, it's time for something

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a little bit more scary. No
one lives here. Think about that sentence

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when you walk into a house or
look at a building that's overgrown and unkempt.

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No one lives here. The English
language can be funny sometimes, but

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other times it can be downright terrify. Fine, what's that You want to

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be scared? Come with me.
You will experience tales over opera, ghosts

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and death. It is not recommend
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And the reason I bring that up
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it, but also I bring it
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trying to capture scary things on camera
and how that can go wrong. And

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we'll get to it right after these
quick words The How That Killed Me by

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Bruce Haney. There are many different
paths to fame that one can follow.

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You can get the attention you crave
from writing, acting, directing, or

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posting to social media. There are
some people who are famous just for posting

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photos of their lives online or making
the exact same ten second video on TikTok

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that everyone else already has. Brandon's
attempt for fame took the video path.

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His channel was titled Abandoned with Brandon. Before his final video, he had

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built his channel up to one thousand
followers. After the final video was uploaded,

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his subscribership jumped up to one hundred
thousand. Though everyone knew that he

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would never post another video. That
final clip received fifteen million views. Previously,

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his highest viewed video had twenty thousand
and was titled Overnight at the Witches

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House. You see Brandon's online niche
was that he made abandoned places videos.

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The Witches House was a surprise hit
for Brandon, though twenty thousand was nobody's

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idea of a hit anymore, but
Brandon was proud of it. He had

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been making videos for just over a
year and this was his first taste of

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success. He was late to the
game, he knew, but he just

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turned twenty years old and finally was
free enough from his parents hold to start

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traveling and doing with his life whatever
he wanted. For him, that meant

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making the types of videos that he
loved watching. He had been watching urban

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exploration videos since he was a kid. He still loved them, but he

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didn't realize that so many of the
cool abandoned places had already been explored and

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exploited for online hits and likes,
but the Witch's House did well. He

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just posted it a month ago,
and he was getting new subscribers daily.

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Three things led to the success of
that video. The first was that this

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was a new, abandoned place that
nobody had seen. The second were the

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symbols he found inside. The third
part of that success was the thumbnail he

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chose for the video. He took
a photo from the kitchen into the bedroom,

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where you could see the details of
a face that looked like a witch.

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Webb. Sleuths in the comments were
able to figure out right away that

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it was not, in fact a
witch face, but a novelty item known

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as a laffin head that was sold
in souvenir shops in the nineteen seventies.

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The laffin heads were a gag item. They had a little reservoir in them

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that you filled with water, and
if someone pulled the pull me string,

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it would spit water at them,
and then a voice of someone laughing would

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play while the time moved in and
out and the eyes opened and closed.

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Okay, it wasn't a real face, but those laughing heads were nightmare fuel

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with their black eyes, creepy laugh
and wrinkled skin. Now, with the

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little successes video got, the place
had been discovered in Brandon's favorite creator,

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The Forgotten Past, made a video
there that got a half a million views.

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If this was a few years ago, that number wouldn't be that notable,

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but abandoned videos are now passe,
and having over one hundred thousand views

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for that type of video was great. The success of the Witch's House video

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led to his final production. A
viewer with the online handle lost and Alone

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sent him a message stating that he
knew of a practically untouched abandoned house in

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eastern Oregon that hadn't been vandalized,
had not been filmed, and best of

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all, the owners abandoned the house, leaving everything behind. That's what got

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views. Nobody wants to see an
abandoned house for the rot alone. They

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want to see how people used to
live, or find glimpses of creepy things

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like old rotten dolls or hidden rooms. Brandon corresponded back and forth with Lost

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and Alone, gathering info. He
wanted to know how rotten the house was.

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He had never explored a house in
Oregon because he heard that because of

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all the rainfall, abandoned houses fell
apart before they were old enough to be

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worth exploring. That's the Pacific Northwest
for you. Brandon didn't know that eastern

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Oregon is mostly desert and got much
less rain than the area surrounded by Portland

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did. Lost and Alone confirmed that
it wasn't rotten and told Brandon where he

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could meet him so that they could
drive out there together. Brandon didn't like

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this idea, but he desperately wanted
to build on the success of the Witch

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House. Who knows, maybe they'll
find creepy books and symbols on the walls

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there. It annoyed Brandon that people
in the comments on his videos theorized that

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he drew the symbols himself. He
didn't. He held the abandoned Code of

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Ethics sacred document, not destroy or
alter. He considered himself an explorer,

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not a criminal. They met at
a gas station twenty miles from the house.

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Lost and Alone turned out to be
a twenty two year old guy named

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Dan who just started his own channel
and thought he could benefit from making his

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first video with somebody who had already
been doing it for a while. Before

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they left the gas station, Brandon
informed Dan that he would follow him in

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his own car. Dan was okay
with this, saying, I just didn't

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want to give you the directions and
then you make the video without me.

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I get that. It's cool.
I'm excited to see the place. Brandon

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responded, Oh, you're going to
love it. The has been abandoned since

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the sixties. I believe my father
said it was abandoned when he was a

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little kid, and that none of
them dared go near it because it was

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supposedly haunted, you know, because
of the murders and deaths. Dan explained.

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This made Brandon nervous, as this
was the first time this fact had

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ever been mentioned. He questioned Dan
about it, murders plural. Dan sighed

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and said, yeah, five people
have died in the house. Wow,

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did they catch the killer? Dan
sighed again and told him yes and no.

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The first two people who died were
killed by their mother after their father

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left. She resisted arrest when the
police came and was shot and killed.

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The house hasn't had anyone live in
it since. Brandon thought to himself,

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what about the other two deaths.
The drive to the destination was rough,

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but the air conditioning in his car
made it bare. The heat was the

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only part of the exploration that he
wasn't looking forward to. His dashboard informed

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him that the outside temperature was one
hundred degrees fahrenheit. The drive was ten

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miles of asphalt and then another ten
miles of gravel and dirt roads, some

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with pretty deep ruts. They saw
only a handful of houses that looked abandoned

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as well, except for the late
model vehicles parked in the driveways. Brandon

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wondered to himself why someone would live
out this far. The only other signs

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of life along the route were some
grazing cows, some birds, and he

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thought that he may have seen a
coyote. Being that this was the eastern

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part of Oregon and much of the
land was empty, he found himself thinking

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about the old stage coaches and schooners
that probably traveled this way on their journey

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west to the more populated areas during
the Oregon Trail days. Brandon then thought

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to himself, I wonder how many
people died of dysenteria around here. Brandon's

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tripodometer, which he had reset at
the gas station, showed that they had

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driven eighteen miles. He was getting
excited that they were almost there. That

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was when Dan stopped his truck in
the road and jumped out and started walking

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towards Brandon. Come check out the
road. I don't know if your little

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car is going to make it past
these ruts, Dan said. Brandon got

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out of his vehicle and cursed himself
for not paying more to rent a pickup

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truck or at least an suv.
What's another fifty bucks on the credit card.

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Brandon walked up and looked at the
rut, which was about eight inches

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deep, and told Dan, I
think I can make that as long as

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I hit the rut at the right
angle. With that, they both got

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in their respective vehicles. Dan drove
right through the rut, but Brandon's rental

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car got stuck. After a bit
of discussion, Brandon decided to jump in

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Dan's truck and continue. The car
would be a problem for later. They

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could pull it out in the dark, but they couldn't film in the dark,

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so documenting the house was deemed more
pressing. We just have to watch

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out for the coyotes when we're pulling
that car out, Dan told Brandon.

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I always heard that coyotes don't really
attack humans, Brandon replied, typically no,

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but my buddy got chased by one
around these parts, and I've never

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quite trusted them ever since. Dan
replied. Brandon was frustrated with himself for

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not being prepared and for taking an
unnecessary risk and trying to drive through that

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rut. Those emotions drifted away when
they got to the house. It was

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beautiful. It was a two story
home in the Gothic style with a rusty

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wrought iron fence around it. The
paint had long been beaten away from the

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wind and the sand, leaving a
ghost of itself behind. Most of the

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windows were unbroken, and since they
are in the desert, no ivy or

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trees blocked the view of the architecture. It had the class sick arched roof

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with the decorative trim that was mostly
intact. Brandon thought this was a real

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lost gem and knew that it would
make for a great video regardless of what

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they find inside. The thumbnail of
the house alone would get him a ton

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of clicks, possibly more than the
Witch House video. This house has really

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been abandoned since the sixties and not
vandalized, Brandon asked. Dan replied,

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like I said, everyone is scared
of this house. My friends were afraid

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because of the two kids and mother
who died here. Enough time had passed

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by the time I was a kid
that people started to dare each other to

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go up to the house. But
nobody lasts more than a few minutes in

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there. They would hear a creek
or claim to hear a scream, and

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then they would run back outside.
With a bit of backstory, Brandon was

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ready to film his intro. What's
up, fam, this could be the

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dream spot. If you thought the
Witch's House was cool, you're going to

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love this place. Brandon then took
his camera and faced it towards the house

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for a brief second. Check out
that gothic architecture. This place is sick.

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Hopefully it's as cool on the inside
as it is on the outside.

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Before we go any further, let
me give you a little history of this

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house located in eastern Oregon. That's
all I'm telling you for a location.

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I don't want this place found and
ruined. Before Brandon continued, he lowered

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his voice, knowing he should be
a little more respectful and less animated when

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talking about the deaths this house has
been abandoned since the nineteen sixties after a

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mother killed her two children and then
was gunned down by the police. Five

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people have died in this very house. Brandon suddenly realized that he didn't have

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the whole story. Thinking on his
feet, he decided to ask Dan about

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the other two on camera. He
knew he would show Dan at some point

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during the video to help him get
some views since Dan helped him get to

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this spot. Brandon walked over to
Dan with the camera facing the two of

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them, and then started talking to
the camera. This is Dan from Lost

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End Found. Check out his channel. He's brand new. He found this

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spot, so I'm sure his channel
is one you are going to want to

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follow. Link will be in the
description below. So, Dan, you

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said five people died in this house. You told me about three of them.

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Can you tell everybody about the other
two? Said deaths. Dan looked

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nervous as he made eye contact with
the camera for the first time. Yeah,

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it's really sad. Sarah and Adam
were up here and it was Dan

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stammered a bit. He knew these
people. It was really sad. Adam

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was a buddy of mine, and
Sarah was cool. She was a cool

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person and their bodies were found right
in this house just a few weeks ago.

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Brandon looked over it. Dan shocked. This changed everything for Brandon.

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He couldn't film an abandoned video in
a house where someone just died. Brandon

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turned off the camera and looked at
Dan. People died in that house a

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few weeks ago. I can't film
in this house. That's fucked up.

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You should have told me that,
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issue? I didn't think that would
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was furious, but tried to contain
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know the last two people who died
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it makes me look like an insensitive
asshole to film where someone just died.

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Brandon then stormed off, leaned against
the truck and put his head down,

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grabbing the top of it with his
hands. Whenever he was really frustrated and

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needed to think his way out of
a situation, this is what he did.

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After a moment, Brandon said,
Okay, tell me the story.

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Maybe I can make this work somehow. After a while, Brandon came up

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with a plan to lie and say
that they heard a rumor that the house

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was going to be torn down because
of the incident, and that they have

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to document before that happens. Brandon
didn't feel good about it, but this

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trip was costing him money and he
couldn't walk away with the debt without at

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least getting a video out of it. Okayfam So, normally we wouldn't shoot

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in an abandoned place that had a
recent tragedy, But the rumor going around

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is that this historic house that has
never been documented is going to be torn

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down because of the incident, and
I feel like it's my duty to film

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this place. This house looks amazing
and it needs to be documented before it's

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gone. Brandon and Dan entered through
the agape front door with their cameras in

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hand. Inside they saw a typical
nineteen sixties living room, though it was

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in a state of disrepair. The
glue that held the green flowered wallpaper to

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the wall had long ago lost its
strength, and much of it had peeled

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and fallen to the floor. Brandon
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the place was. The couch was
still there in reasonable condition, though he

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could see where an animal had been
chewing on it. Because of the off

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white stuffing sticking out of one of
the cushions. More impressive was that the

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television was still there. That was
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they snuck into an abandoned house.
The four legs holding it up look worse

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for wear. They were chewed up, Probably rats, Brandon thought, But

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then again he thought if he even
breathed on that television, those legs would

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give out, so maybe it was
something larger. All he knew is that

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he'd better get some photos of it
now before it fell. Brandon turned off

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the recorder on his camera and started
taking photos around the room for use online

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to promote the video. First the
television, then a photo of the round

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analog wall clock with the peeling wallpaper
around it. He thought about changing the

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time to midnight for the photo,
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The next shot he wanted was a
low angle one of the blue couch

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while its white stuffing poked out,
So he bent down and was working on

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getting just the right angle with his
camera when he was startled by the unmistakable

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sound of footsteps above him. He
looked around and realized that Dan was gone.

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What a relief It must have been
Dan, he thought. Then Brandon

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went back to framing his shot of
the couch. That is when he saw

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her. Since he was framing an
angled shot from below, the first thing

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he saw was her blue shoes and
white socks. Her pale white legs were

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nearly as white as those socks.
As he pointed his camera up, he

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saw that she had a blue dress
that matches her shoes. She looked normal

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enough until he got to her shoulders, which were covered in blood. Weakly,

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Spooky will be right back after these
quick messages. He saw the source

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of the blood when he looked up
at her and revealed the bleeding dent in

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the side of her head. She
stared back at him with her faint blue

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eyes. At first, he thought
that her eyes were completely white, but

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he could just faintle make out the
light blue irises. As he looked into

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her eyes, she began to open
her mouth. A voice screamed from upstairs.

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Before the little girl could speak,
Brandon was sure the scream was Dan's.

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He looked towards the stairs and then
heard the girl on the couch say

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get out. Brandon swung his head
back in her direction, but she was

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gone. Startled, Brandon threw his
body away from the couch, landing on

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his butt, dropping his camera.
He quickly pushed himself to a standing position.

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He was about to run out of
the house until he remembered Dan's scream

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upstairs. Brandon ran up the stairs
as fast as he could forgetting his camera

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and forgetting to check the stairs for
stability. Luckily for him, the stairs

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were okay. Unlucky for him and
Dan, who was running down the stairs,

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both were moving so fast that they
ran right into each other. Brandon's

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momentum must have been a little more
than Dan's because they were slammed upward on

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the stairs instead of down, which
could have been deadly for both of them.

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Brandon was the first back up,
and he helped Dan to his feet.

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Before Brandon could get his story out, Dan started telling him what had

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happened. Holy fucking shit, I
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He decided to go upstairs and film
his intro so that when he talked to

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the camera it wouldn't ruin Brandon's audio. Once he was upstairs, he found

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a great spot. It was a
room that appeared to be a little boy's.

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A small twin bed sat up against
one wall, and on the floor

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he found little army men. Dan
picked up a few of them and set

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them up on the dresser in a
battle scene, thinking it would look good

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for the background for his intro.
As he was doing this, he heard

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the floorboard behind him creak. He
turned around, expecting to see but instead

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saw a small boy. The child
looked normal enough, a bit pale,

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and his clothes were old fashioned brown
shorts and a white button up shirt.

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Dan asked the boy who he was. The little boy just looked at him

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and then walked past him. Dan
turned to watch the boy, and that

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is when he saw that the back
of the boy's head was bashed in.

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Dan could see the brain and that
the blood from the skull had dripped down

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and turned the whole back of his
shirt crimson. This was when he screamed.

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The boy then turned around and said
nearly the same thing as the girl

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ghost had said to Brandon, it's
not safe. Get out. That's almost

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identical to what happened to me.
I say we should heed the advice,

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Brandon said. Brandon and Dan ran
out of the house to Dan's truck.

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Dan started it and turned on the
air conditioner. It's a bummer to not

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get a video out of this,
but at least the ac feels great.

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Let's get out of here, Brandon
said, we're safe, We're out of

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the house. Tell me what happened
to you, Dan asked. Brandon told

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him the story about the girl with
the dented head on the couch and how

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she too told him to get out. Why do you think they want us

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out of there, Dan asked,
I don't know. Maybe they don't like

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the intrusion. They feel like it's
their home. They might not even know

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they're dead, Brandon replied. Then
a moment passed and Brandon continued, this

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is fucking crazy. Before today,
I didn't even believe in ghosts. Now

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I'm trying to figure out their motivations. Dan looked over at Brandon and said,

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I wonder if my friends are ghosts
too. Did they fail to listen

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to the warnings so they paid the
price? Fuck? I have to go

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back in, Brandon said, why, Dan asks, I left my camera.

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Brandon replied, sighing in frustration,
I'll go with you. You shouldn't

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be in that house alone, Dan
said. Then, after a moment,

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he continued, even though that didn't
protect Adam and Sarah. Dan opened his

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door and got out. You're not
going to turn off the truck, Brandon

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asked. Dan replied, We'll just
be in there a couple of minutes,

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and I want to come back out
to a nice, cool truck. Brandon

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entered the house and walked over to
his camera, right where he left it.

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After he picked it up, he
looked it over to see if there

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was any damage. That was when
Dan started yelling. Adam, Adam,

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Sarah, are you here? Dan
yelled while looking around the room. This

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angered Brandon. Dude, the fuck
you want to alert those creepy kids to

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our presents again. I have my
camera, so let's go, Brandon yelled

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at him. Maybe Adam and Sarah
are ghost too. Dan replied, well,

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I don't want to find out,
and if so, I don't want

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to risk dying here and haunting a
house in the middle a fucking nowhere.

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Suddenly a fact hit Dan, and
he expressed it to Brandon. They were

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found in the cellar. Dan then
ran out of the room looking for access

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to said cellar. Brandon chased after
him into the kitchen. Brandon couldn't help

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but notice how undisturbed and picturesque the
kitchen was He thought to himself, man,

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this would have been a cool video. Then he thought that maybe he

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should be recording this just in case
Dan gohoes psycho on him. Brandon then

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hit the red record button. Dan
found the cellar. It was just off

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of the kitchen. He yelled for
Adam and Sarah again as he swung the

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doors open and ran down the stairs. There wasn't much light except what was

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streaming in from one of the exterior
doors of the cell Brandon started to follow

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Dan down the stairs, but when
he was halfway down, he heard two

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voices say don't. Don't. Brandon
swung back around, camera in hand.

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His camera captured the two ghosts from
earlier, though in his camera they were

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transparent. They continued to stare and
then repeat the phrase from earlier, get

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out, Then they added. Brandon
wanted to leave, but he needed to

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grab Dan. Plus they were right
in the way of him exiting out through

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the kitchen. So he stood stunned, not knowing what to do. But

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suddenly he heard a low growl,
and then another, and then footsteps coming

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back up the stairs. Brandon looked
behind him and could see Dan running up

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as two coyotes chased after him.
Brandon turned back around, ready to run

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through the ghosts, but they were
gone. Brandon and Dan ran up the

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stairs and back into the kitchen.
He grabbed one of the metal framed,

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green flowered pattern chairs and shoved it
against the door to keep the coyotes from

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getting back in. Let's get out
of here to the truck, Brandon yelled.

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Dan didn't need to be told twice. Brandon started running and Dan followed

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right after, but their escape was
stalled when they got to the front doorway

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and saw another coyote standing in their
path. Seeing no other exit, they

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made the poor choice of running upstairs. As they ran, they heard the

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coyote following them. Once they got
to the top landing, the two young

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ghosts appeared again, and then in
unison. They said. This amplified the

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fear that Brandon and Dan were feeling, to the point that they stopped in

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their tracks. The only thing that
got Brandon moving again was hearing the screams

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of Dan behind him. Brandon ran, but stopped right before he was out

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of view of the stairs. He
looked behind just in time to see the

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coyote with its foaming mouth and sharp
teeth biting and tearing into the flesh of

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Dan's left leg. Dan screamed in
agony as the coyote bit down hard and

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yanked him from the stairs. Dan's
screaming did not stop when the coyote let

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go of him. His screams didn't
stop until the coyote bit and ripped the

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flesh from his neck. Once Dan
was dead, the coyote, with its

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blood covered face, looked up the
stairs at Brandon. After seeing this,

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Brandon ran to the first bedroom,
the little Boy's room. He closed the

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door behind him. Brandon felt safe
momentarily. He at least had a little

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time to think. The room had
a window, so he looked out to

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see if climbing was an option.
It wasn't. There was nothing to hang

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on to, nothing to climb down, just a direct drops straight down.

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Brandon could see the truck with its
headlights on. He thought about how nice

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that ac would feel. As he
drove away to safety. He thought,

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if I get out, I won't
even come back from my rental car.

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It wasn't long before he heard growling
and scratching at the door. Brandon sat

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on the little boy's bed and faced
his camera towards himself, Well, I

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guess this might be it. I'm
uploading this video uncut because it might be

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the last video I ever make.
Sorry for the lack of music and clean

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cuts. Right now, I'm stuck
in a room with no way to exit

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and a coyote trying to get in
and eat me. I didn't know coyotes

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ever attacked humans. I also didn't
know ghosts were real until today, until

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this house. Brandon started to cry
and then turned off the camera. Brandon

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fiddle with it to upload directly online, and when he was ready to submit

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it, he realized that he needed
to title the video. First. He

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typed the ghost house and then erased
it. Then he typed coyotes and ghosts,

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and then deleted that. Finally,
he typed the house that killed me

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and hit submit. An error popped
up and said no internet connection. Video

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will upload when connected to Wi Fi
or cellular network. Brandon had few options

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for escape. He couldn't go out
the window, and he couldn't go out

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the door. He stomped around frustrated. Then the ghosts showed up again.

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Be quiet, they said. Brandon's
first thought was fuck these ghosts, but

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then he realized they were right.
If he stopped making noise, maybe the

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coyote would leave. This did seemed
to work after an hour, when he

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heard the coyote get up and walk
away. Before exiting, Brandon looked back

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out the window. It was now
dark. He could see the headlights of

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the truck were still on, so
he made his escape. He opened the

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door slowly and walked down the stairs
even slower, making sure not to create

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any creaks. Just as he got
to the bottom of the stairs, he

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saw Dan's mutilated and half eaten body. Brandon wanted to scream, but thought

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to himself, how many coyotes are
there. Brandon stepped over the body and

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made his way to the front door
and stepped outside. Behind him, he

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heard Dan's voice. Do you hear
that? Dan wanted to reply, hear

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what, but he didn't want to
make a sound. Brandon turned around towards

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the voice and saw the ghost of
Dan, who then said, I don't

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hear the truck running any more.
Brandon whipped his head around to look at

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the truck and was happy for a
second because the lights were still on.

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They were dim though at that moment
Brandon realized that the battery would keep the

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lights on for a while after the
motor had ran out of gas. Not

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knowing what to do and at least
knowing that the truck would be safer,

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Brandon ran toward it. He was
within ten feet when the already dim lights

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went out. Fuck. Brandon yelled. The coyotes heard that, and within

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seconds he was pounced on by three
of them. Brandon and Dan's bodies were

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found a few days later when two
officers were out letting locals know that rabies

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was running rampant through the local population
of coyotes. It seems that the test

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results came back Adam and Sarah's dead
bodies and confirmed that the bites were from

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a coyote and that traces of rabies
were found later. After what remained of

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Brandon and Dan were taken to the
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taken in as evidence. At some
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camera, which connected to the open
guest WiFi of the restaurant next door,

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and the footage went online. Within
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and Brandon had his first million plus
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I think that one definitely scratched the
maccab itch that we have at the

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show. And I want to say
thank you again to Bruce Haney for submitting

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his story. And if you want
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to do is email us at Please
Spooky at gmail dot com. We prefer

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stories to be between twenty five hundred
and thirty five hundred words, but send

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in what you got. And a
big thank you to Keith Tomlin for helping

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edit the story, rounding off those
harsh edges so that I can read it

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in my smooth and sultry voice.
And I want to say a huge thank

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you to everybody on Patreon. We
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so much. And if you've been
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to see one hundred. I want
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at fifteen dollars or higher per month
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bring the spooky on the weekly and
it's not always easy, you know.

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The listenership ebbs and flows between now
and Halloween, and I'm so happy to

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have you die hards with us,
listening to the scary stories and having a

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great time just like I am.
But now, my friends, it's time

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for me to get back to work
because we have so many more scary things

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waiting for you, So for myself, for executive producer Rob Fields, our

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producer Dan Wilder, and our composer
Ray Maddis, I will talk at you

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next time. Thank you for listening. Make sure to find your way back

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next week, but for now you
are safe, trust me.