Ep.249 – Terror On Your Radio Dial - Tune in and YOU'RE DEAD

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Radio has always been one of the
great mysteries of our modern world. Waves

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going through the air that you can't
see and you can't hear without a special

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box to decode them. But what
if those waves don't just carry your favorite

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songs, but could carry something more
devious and dangerous, something that might even

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be dead. What's that you want
to be scared to? Come with me.

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You will experience tales over opera,
ghosts, and death. Death.

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It is not recommended at the foot
of wee get hard heart listen as in

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the dark, it's more fun at
that way way. 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 your host and

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narrator, Enrique Kuto, and we
have quite the scare fest for you tonight.

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A story that reminds me of the
good old days of sleepovers and campfire

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stories. As you can imagine,
when I was a young man, I

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loved spinning a yarn for my friends
at school or wherever I could. Really,

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a good scary story is a terrible
thing to waste. It needs to

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be shared, and tonight's is a
family friendly affair. So if you're listening

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in the car with little ones,
they might get a little scared, but

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they won't hear anything too juicy.
But before we get to that show,

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I just want to say a huge
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Spookies Tomb of Terror. There are
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hanging out enjoying the scarier side of
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many of our authors, so why
not join us. It's a lot of

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fun. But now, my friends, something is coming over the scare waves,

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ready to terrify us after these quick
words Terror on your radio dial by

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Bruce Haney. Josh had always wanted
to see a ghost. He was obsessed

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with the idea of seeing something otherworldly. At only twelve years old, He

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consumed all the supernatural related media he
could find, which wasn't much in nineteen

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ninety two. He had all his
brother's old comic books. Most of them

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were superhero comics, but there were
a few issues of Things Beyond This World

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that he cherished and read over and
over again. Josh was also a frequent

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visitor to the horror section of Boring
en Core. Yes, Josh lived in

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a small town known as Boring,
Oregon, which he found boring, so

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the idea of ghosts and otherworldly things
was an escape for him. Josh tried

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to search the historical archives of the
local newspaper for stories, but found little,

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and it was more time consuming than
a kid his age could handle.

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But he did know of the Getter
House. All kids knew about that house.

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It wasn't much to behold. It
didn't have fancy architecture, no gargoyles

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or iron rod fencing, but the
house did show its age. The weathered

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wood of the three story house had
many layers of peeling paint and numerous layers

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of shingles on its time worn roof. A house like that always had its

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legends. The main one was of
an amateur electrical engineer who lived in the

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house in the nineteen forties and was
obsessed with the power of radio and was

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using his modified Ham radio equipment to
try to reach the other side. Josh

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did find one mention of this man
in the papers when he had looked.

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In nineteen forty nine, the Boring
Herald had a small blurb that read Boring

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man is insane. Carl Getter of
Boring was arrested today after several alleged attacks

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on neighbors and his family. He
was committed to the asylum and will be

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taken there late this evening or early
tomorrow. Josh had been making plans to

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visit the house, but before he
got his nerve up, a family moved

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in. Luckily for Josh, they
had a kid his age, named Mike.

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Josh was quick to make friends with
him. Once the friendship was established,

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he suggested a sleepover. Mike would
agree, but always wanted to have

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it at Josh's house. After the
third time of having it at his house,

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Josh insisted they have it at Mike's. Dude, we will have way

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better snack choices at your house.
Mike argued, Yeah, but my parents

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are always hovering and probably wouldn't approve
of us staying up late to watch horror

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movies. Josh argued back, and
then remembered something Mike had told him,

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so he added, Plus, you're
the one that bragged you have your own

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television. Josh argued, yeah,
but it's just my parents' old nineteen inch

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set and the colors bleed. Mike
explained, your own television in your room

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beats a front room television with hovering
parents any day. Josh replied fine.

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Mike said that night was perfect for
the sleepover because late night host Madame Goulette

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was showing two back to back ghost
flicks on Channel five. Josh, of

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course, loved horror movies that involved
ghosts. Mike was more of a monster

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kid. One of the reasons that
Mike might not have cared for ghosts was

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because his house was haunted and Mike
had seen a spirit. When Josh first

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became friendly with Mike, he asked
him if he had seen any ghosts there.

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That's baby stuff. I don't believe
in ghosts, Mike had said,

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and then laughed. But Josh thought
Mike might have been hiding something behind that

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laughter. Later, as the two
became closer, Mike revealed that he had

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seen something spooky in the house.
I only saw something once. It was

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late at night, and it was
when we first arrived with all our stuff

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after the long drive from our old
house. We were supposed to get here

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in the afternoon and get stuff unloaded, but my dad get us lost taking

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one of his shortcuts. We were
all tired, but we had to unload

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some stuff into the house, at
least the bedding. I had made a

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couple of trips, and then while
my parents were setting up a makeshift area

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for us to sleep, I went
back out to the moving van to grab

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my radio to see if there were
any cool stations in this burb. As

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you know, was a waste of
time. I checked AM and FM.

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But while I was messing with the
antenna of the radio trying to find stations,

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I looked up to the window of
the room, the one that's mine

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now, and I saw a man
and he stared back at me. I

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stared for a moment, and then
he smiled. Then from my radio,

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I heard him say welcome home.
Mike finished, Then what, Josh asked?

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That was all he got to say. Because I was so freaked out,

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I dropped my radio. Mike explained, So what did you do?

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Josh asked, I ran to my
parents. They thought I was crazy,

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but they searched the house anyways,
but found nothing. Mike said, did

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you ever try to reach him again? Josh asked, My radio hasn't worked

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since it still plays cassettes all right, but the radio part's broken, Mike

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explained. For the sleepover, because
of Mike's story, Josh brought his own

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radio. He also brought a book
called True Facts about Ghosts. The book

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was more or less a parody of
those books for kids, like Dinosaur Facts

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or bird Facts, the kind with
very few words and many full page color

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photos. Josh knew it was a
bit tongue in cheek, but thought that

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it had some truth to it.
Before Josh arrived at Mike's house, he

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decided that he wouldn't talk about ghosts
right away. He would wait until the

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first movie of the night. So
sometime during thirteen ghosts. Since it was

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a sleepover situation, they didn't have
to eat dinner with Mike's folks. They

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got frozen pizza and generic root beer, which they took up to Mike's room

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to eat. Mike's room was a
typical eighties boys room, socks on the

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floor, magazine cutouts of rock bands
on his walls. His only full sized

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poster was of a hot ride.
Josh had been hoping to feel spooky vibes

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as soon as they entered his room, since it was where the ghost had

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been, but everything seemed normal.
Josh waited all night as they ate pizza

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and played video games. Finally,
Madam Goulette's Dark Theater started. She introduced

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Thirteen Ghosts by telling them how the
director had a gimmick for when it had

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played in the theaters. The gimmick
was a pair of glasses that you would

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put on so that you could see
the ghosts. Josh decided that this was

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as cue. Maybe that's not too
far off, Josh said. Mike finished

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chewing his pizza and then slurped some
rupier. What Mike asked, Maybe you

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need a device to see or interact
with ghosts, like you and your radio

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with the radio. You heard him
speak, Josh finished, Dude, ghosts

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aren't real. I was just tired
and it was a new place. Come

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on, Mike said, are you
scared to talk about it because we're in

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the room where you saw him,
Josh asked, just shut up about it.

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Mike replied, and then looked around
the room, half expecting to see

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the figure again. Josh knew that
Mike was afraid, so it was kind

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of mean of him to then say, did you know a guy that lived

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here was found insane and taken to
an asylum. Mike's first response was to

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punch Josh in the shoulder and then
replied with dude, I said shut up.

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The boys found the second movie boring. It was called The Terror.

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It had a couple of big names
in the cast, but had little else

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going for it. Since they were
both bored, Josh opened his backpack and

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brought out his radio and the ghost
book. Mike laughed, come on,

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what's with that kid's book? He
asked. It's the only book that the

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school library had on ghosts, so
give me a break. Josh explained,

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You are not going to let this
ghost thing go, are you? Mike

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said, as he took the book
from him and started looking through it.

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There are many kinds of ghosts.
There are vengeful ghosts, residual ghosts,

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poltergeists, and there are ghosts that
are not ghosts at all, like demons

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that are pretending to be ghosts.
Mike read aloud and then laughed. This

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book is a joke, Mike said. While Mike looked through the book,

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Josh turned on the radio and slowly
scrolled from the band's left side to the

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right, scanning and listening for other
worldly voices. Mike looked up at Josh

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with a raised eyebrow but said nothing. At this time of night, the

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sounds that came from it were mostly
talk radio and old timey music that Josh

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assumed was either Beethoven or Mozart,
since that was all he knew of.

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As far as classical music, it
wasn't. While he searched the band,

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he heard Chopin and Tchaikowsky, but
he heard no ghosts. Ghosts have been

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known to affect electromagnetic waves. Mike
read aloud. What does that mean,

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Josh asked, I don't know,
but maybe it has something to do with

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how ghosts can manipulate radio waves.
Mike said, unsure of himself. Did

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you know the insane man was a
ham? Josh asked, A ham?

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Yeah, yeah, an amateur radio
dude. Josh said, why do they

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call them a ham? Mike asked, I don't know. They operate ham

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radios, but why they call the
radio ham? I don't know. I

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didn't check out a book on ham
radios, Josh said, annoyed that he

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didn't know. Mike felt bad that
his guest was getting upset, so against

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his better judgment, he decided that
he would help him and show some interest.

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Did you check AM? Mike asked, No, just FM. Josh

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replied, I think I was on
AM when I heard him, Mike said.

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Josh started to scan through the airwaves
on AM, and then Mike tried

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to talk to the ghost. Hello, Hello, ghost. Mike said,

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no response from the radio. It's
not going to work. Did you really

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see a ghost? Josh asked,
Try adjusting the antenna. I was messing

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with it at the time. I
was pointing it towards my room. I

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think that's north. Try north,
Mike said. Josh followed his directions.

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After a few seconds, the static
got a little louder. Josh adjusted the

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antenna. While he turned the tuner
left and right. Under the normal static,

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he could hear a buzz that seemed
to get louder as he moved to

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the right. Once the buzz was
at its peak, he turned the volume

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up a little more and moved the
antenna around. Then the buzzing stopped.

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Mike and Josh froze and listened intently. Mike felt goosebumps forming on his arms.

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Josh thought about adjusting the antenna a
little bit more or turning the tuner

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back to the left a bit,
but neither moved, and eventually, clear

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as day, they heard, Hello, boys, the ghost spoke. The

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voice came from the radio, but
the boys looked around for the man.

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So far he hadn't appeared. Who
are you, Josh asked, I am

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mister Gitter. Mister Gitter replied,
what do you want? Mike asked,

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you reached out to me. Mister
Geitter replied, and then laughed to himself.

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As he laughed, mister Getter started
to fade into existence near the window.

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The two boys watched, and suddenly
they no longer had any more questions

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to ask. Mister Getter was nicely
dressed in pressed slacks, and a sweater

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with only one blemish. Right where
his heart should be, there was a

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large hole that had blood dripping from
it every second or so. Like his

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heart was still pumping ever so slightly. The two boys watched as the blood

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stained the sweater further. Mister Gitter
noticed their fascination. Oh this old thing,

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mister Getter said, while poking his
finger through the hole in his chest.

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Sometimes the cost of intellectual intrigue is
hi. Mister Getter continued and laughed

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loudly, revealing teeth that were still
white, but looked larger than normal as

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his gums had receded, revealing the
roots of his teeth. Josh thought to

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himself, how do those teeth even
stay in? Mister Getter floated towards the

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two boys. Are you ready to
come to the other side, mister Gitter

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asked. Mike was terrified and snatched
the radio away. Get out of my

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room, Mike yelled, and then
turned the dial as quickly as he could.

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Mister Gitter disappeared as soon as the
channel was switched. It will continue

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to rain for the next four days. Sunday might possibly have a break,

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so plan on getting all those outside
chores done. Then, but a female

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voice said on the radio before Mike
turned it off. Both of the boys

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were relieved. Let's never do that
again. Josh said yeah. Mike agreed,

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but they were young and their wills
were not great. Before the night

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was through, they had made a
plan to contact him one more time so

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that they could record his voice on
Josh's radio, something to impress the other

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kids with at school on Monday morning, neither of the boys had a fresh

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cassette, but Josh knew the trick
where you put tape over a hole in

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the side so that the player would
think it was a blank tape. It

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took Mike a while to decide which
of his tapes he would sacrifice. He

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decided on Bruce Springsteen's Born in the
USA, Side A. It wasn't one

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of his favorites. He did side
A over side B because b had Glory

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Days on it, which he liked. By the time the second movie had

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ended, they were ready. They
might have tried to waste more time to

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build up their nerve, but all
the television stations had gone off the air

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for the night. With nothing else
to do, they decided it was time

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to reach back out to mister Gitter. Mike handed the tape to Josh,

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who wasted no time putting it in
and hitting the record button. Then he

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turned the tuner to find mister Gitter
again. It took him a few minutes,

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but he never looked at the dial
when he had tuned him in the

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first time. Hello again, boys, mister Gitter's voice said out of the

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speaker. Before he could speak again, Josh pulled out his ghost book to

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ask mister Getter some questions. Uh
are you a vengeful spirit? A poltergeist?

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Uh? What kind of ghost are
you? Josh asked? What type

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of ghost am I? Mister Gitter
asked, while chuckling to himself. I

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wouldn't call myself a ghost. I
have merely switched from one plane to another,

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a greater plane of existence. Come
with me and see you'll understand shortly

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and all your questions will be answered, mister Getter said as he approached the

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two boys. This was the moment
they panicked about last time. This time

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they remained brave. Josh looked at
the radio dial just in case they did

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panic. One one seven zero,
Am, we will not go with you,

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Josh said firmly. Yeah, Mike
said, sounding less confident. You

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have no choice, mister Geitter informed
them. The two boys exchanged worried glances.

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Bail, Josh asked Mike. Bail. Mike yelled they were chickening out

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again. Josh grabbed the dial and
went to turn it, but it wouldn't

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move. He was a smart boy, though, He pressed the power button

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instead, but there was no luck
there either. It wouldn't Budge Geter was

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getting stronger. Josh dropped the radio, but that act did not stop mister

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Getter. Mister Gitter, in fact
got brighter, becoming nearly as flesh and

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blood as they were. The hole
in his chest even started pumping blood out

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faster, while the lights in the
house began to flicker. In response,

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the boys ran downstairs. Mike's parents
had already gone to bed, so they

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didn't notice the lights were flickering.
His parents did wake up moments later when

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they heard the downstairs radio turn on. The sound of various stations could be

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heard as it tuned itself to one, one, seven zero. Come on,

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boys, everyone is waiting, mister
Giter's voice said, coming out of

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the downstairs radio at full volume.
At that point, mister Getter was powerful

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enough that it didn't matter where the
antenna was pointed. The next sound the

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boys heard as mister Gidter went to
grab them was the door of Mike's parents'

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bedroom opening, but it was too
late. Mister Gidter was able to reach

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the two boys and grab them in
a big bear hug while laughing. The

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volume of his laughter lowered as all
three of them began fading out of our

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world. Mike's dad entered the living
room one second too late. They were

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gone. A moment later, all
six light bulbs above his head in the

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aging chandelier exploded, and he could
have sworn he heard a faint voice coming

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from the radio that laughed while it
said end of broadcast. Mike's parents moved

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away from Boring a few months later
because Josh's parents blamed them for the disappearance

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and seeing them around town at the
Boring country store was hard for them to

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deal with. While managing their own
mourning, Mike's parents couldn't deal with packing

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up their son's room, so they
hired movers who prepared all of Mike's things

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to be donated. One mover even
took the tape from the radio and put

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it back in its case. He
thought about taking the tape. Who would

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know, but the mover was more
of a new wave guy anyway, He

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did empty the kid's piggybank before packing
it. The recording was eventually found by

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accident. A guy bought a bunch
of cheap cassettes from the thrift store for

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a road trip. He was shocked
when instead of hearing Bruce Springsteen, he

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heard weird audio of a creepy man
talking to some kids. He thought it

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was interesting enough that he called into
an AM talk show about conspiracies and the

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supernatural. The host was curious and
had airtime to kill, so he agreed

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to air the tape. So then, once again, mister Gitter's voice came

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across the airwaves. Hello again boys. After this airing, rumors of young

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kids disappearing after playing with their radios
trying to hear mister Gitter started to spread.

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But those are just playground urban legends, aren't they. Well, that

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was a classically scary story. I
really love stories that remind me of that

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simple innocence of the childhood ghost story, and Bruce Haney always delivers. Big

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thanks to Bruce for his terrifying tale
that I got to share with all of

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you, and if you like his
work, give Bruce a little search on

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Amazon. He hasn't written any horror
novels yet, but his writing is top

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notch and I highly recommend you check
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my Spooky's I'm actually on set producing
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monster movie thriller that I think you'll
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let you know when it's available for
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I'm not here for you on Wednesday
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But don't worry. I'll be right
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also stay scared and don't fiddle with
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find something you don't like. For
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