Murder Mansion — Escape-Room Detective Bethany Martinson Trapped in Grimm Manor

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Hello, my spookies. I have
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year is the full mini series of
Murder Mansion, assembled for your listening pleasure

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right now. I hope it helps
you start off your weekend on the right

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foot with a good, healthy scare. Without further ado, let's get to

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the story of Murder Mansion. Murder
Mansion by Rob Fields. It's Fourth of

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July night. I'm thinking maybe coming
home from Shore City today wasn't such a

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hot idea. The weather app on
my smartphone said it wasn't supposed to rain

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today. Just goes to show you
you can't always believe weather reports. I'm

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driving in what seems like a torrential
downpour, or as I'm on my way

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back to Strickfield University. I spend
a week in Shore City. You'd think

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that I was out on the beaches
there, especially close to the Fourth of

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July weekend. Not at all.
While I could probably turn a lot of

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heads in a bikini, I wasn't
there for that kind of vacation. No,

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I was working out a very challenging
escape room. In fact, it

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was one of the more better built
ones I've done, especially when it was

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a contest with big money involved.
When it comes to escape room contests,

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I enter as many as I know
I can drive to. I really don't

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have a choice. If you could
take a good look at me, you'd

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probably be thinking that you'd want to
date me. However, once we'd go

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on said date, you'd soon wish
you'd never met me. The main reason

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is that I eat way way too
much. Ever. See Shaggy Rogers in

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the Scooby Do cartoons. If so, you've seen how much he eats,

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and he's a cartoon. Thanks to
my ultra high metabolism, I have to

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stuff my face the way Shaggy does. In fact, that's what I'm doing

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right now. I've got two huge
bags of bacon double cheeseburgers in the passenger

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seat, well now one. I've
just finished the first bag, and there

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are fifteen burgers apiece in both bags. I'm not even feeling full yet.

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This is part of the reason why
I do escape room contests for prize money.

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I work at the library at Strickfield
U to both make a little money

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and get discounts. I have a
scholarship that covers all my academic costs,

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but it doesn't cover much in terms
of my food, not when I have

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to eat so much of it.
I won five grand in beating that escape

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room in Shore City, but it's
gonna be gone before too long. I'm

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going to have to look for some
new contests when I get back to my

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dorm. These burgers are delicious,
but the ones that Denoyer's grill are so

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much better. Thinking about it,
maybe I should have ordered three bags of

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burgers. I've already eaten three more
out of the second bag, and keep

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in mind that these are not sliders. Let's face it, the life of

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Bethany Martinsen is a very lonely one. No guy wants to date me because

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of both my monstrous appetite and my
mutant brain. I've come to find that

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guys don't really like girls who are
much smarter than them. In fact,

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I have a superior IQ. I
got to skip two grades in high school.

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I'm only nineteen and I'm a sophomore
university. And then there are other

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guys that don't want a date.
A throwback to the nineteen sixties, ever

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see the kind of clothes the Scooby
Gang war Well picture Daphane's dress but red

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purple leggings like hers. Red and
tan pumps, a white scarf, a

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blue headband, and Catie lensed glasses. I'm listening to the Mamas and the

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Papas on the oldies station. To
put it mildly, I just don't fit

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in with many of today's trends.
Also, I've had girls from the Kappa

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Sorority give me a hard time.
They've seen me eat at a few all

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you can eat buffets and started calling
me Bethany the Boar. I swear people

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can be so stupid and sometimes even
I don't understand people. Still, I

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keep my head up high and keep
moving forward. I don't know what those

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girls will do if they manage to
graduate. But me, I'm a detective.

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I'll always have work. I just
have to find things that pay.

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Thankfully, i've been able to find
one escape room contest after another. In

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addition to the escape room contests,
I've also been able to make some money

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helping police departments solve their toughest cases. Solving the cases gets me rewards,

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truth be told, I don't like
taking the rewards, but I've got to

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eat. Speaking of eating, I've
just finished my last bacon double cheeseburger,

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two big bags of burgers, and
I'm still not content. I'll be back

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in Strickfield in a little while.
Denoyer's Grill here I come. Thinking about

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those big cheeseburger platters is already making
my stomach growl with anticipation. The rain's

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really coming down now. I just
have to take it easy so I don't

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go off the road. I want
to make it to Denoyer's Grill alive.

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I see the sign that says I'm
only five miles from Strickfield now. However,

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I only manage two before I come
up to the big detour sign in

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the middle of the road. WHOA, I utter when I see the bridge

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over the Castalia River is washed out
completely. I remember driving across that bridge

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when I left Strickfield to go to
Shore City. I'll have to follow the

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detour to get back into the village. I turn off and drive along a

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very curvy road. The storm continues
to grow more and more. The lightning

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flashes are more and more frequent,
and the rain is coming down in heavy,

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thick sheets. My eyes quickly open
wide when I realize I'm being directed

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into the backwoods. You wouldn't believe
how many horror stories I've heard about this

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area floating around campus. There are
even a few Strickfield websites that have made

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creepy pastas out of some of them, including stories about ghouls and cannibals.

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As a detective, I not only
saw real world cases, but I also

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dabble in the supernatural. I've actually
debunked quite a few urban legends and haunted

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houses. Do I sound like I
could be Dana Scully from the X Files.

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Well, I wouldn't go that far. She's a skeptic to my being

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a believer. I've actually found few
houses that were really haunted in my life.

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None of them were in Strickfield.
I'm still thinking about my very first

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one, which was an old woman
who came back to take revenge on her

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grandson for murdering her to claim her
fortune. I still get the creeps just

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thinking about it. I'd pull over
and just wait out the storm, but

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I'm still hungry and need to get
to Denoyer's grill. I've got the windshield

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wipers working overtime here, but i
still can't see much of anything except the

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rain and the lightning. As I'm
rounding a long curve, a huge flash

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of lightning illuminates the road ahead.
Of me, just enough for me to

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see a car right in the middle
of the road. I scream and jam

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on the brakes. Then I feel
the impact and my car dies. I

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know I'm okay thanks to my seat
belt. I take a deep breath and

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compose myself. I'm going to have
to call the police and have them come

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out here and clear this. Only
that's not going to happen. My smartphone's

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screen is so badly damaged now that
pieces of it just fell off. It

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must have hit just right against something
in the crash. No way I'll be

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able to use it. Well,
I can't just sit here in my car,

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not in the backwoods of Strickfield.
I don't have an umbrella, so

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it looks like I'm taking an impromptu
shower. I get out of my car

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to check the damage. It's dark, but I can see enough of the

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other car to scream. You're not
going to believe this, but the other

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car is all burned up. In
fact, there are three skeletons sitting inside.

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The only thing I can figure is
the car hit a tree and exploded

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based on how totaled the front of
the car looks. Whoever these three people

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were didn't have a chance of getting
out and burned right down to their bones.

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As for the fire itself, I
guess the rain put it out.

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I really don't have a choice.
I've got to try to find a house

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somewhere so I can call the police
and report this. I hope they can

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come asap. I'm okay now,
but my ultra high metabolism will burn up

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all those burgers. I ate eventually, I'm going to be very hungry again.

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I just pick a direction and start
walking. It's really windy here.

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I walk for about fifteen minutes before
the lightning flashes and reveals what looks like

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a plantation, like the kind you
read about in Civil War history. The

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huge mansion looks like it's definitely from
that era. I would have never guessed

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the backwards had mansions. But I
can't be choosy, not in my situation.

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I need to at least take shelter
inside. Hopefully somebody's home so I

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can use a phone. I may
even have to trouble them for some food.

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The wind blows even harder as I'm
on the front porch. I'm ready

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to knock on one of the French
doors. Then I notice one of them

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is just slightly open. I push
on it to find it opens easily and

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quickly step inside. The house is
nicely lit, seems to have some kind

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of electrical power. HULLO. I
call out, is anyone home? I

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call out some more, but get
no replies. No, I spoke too

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soon. The door I came in
through suddenly slams shut behind me. I

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turned back to the doors and try
to open them. Neither of the doors

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nor the handles will budge. I
moved to the windows, but there are

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no latches to open them. Looks
like I'm trapped in here. I'll take

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it for right now. Since I'm
out of the storm, I don't have

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a choice. I'm going to have
to explore my new shelter. I'm dripping

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all over the floor as I start
walking. I might as well have just

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come out of a swimming pool after
being in it with my clothes on.

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Every now and then I call out
and hope someone will hear me. After

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walking around for several minutes, I
finally come into a huge living room.

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Yes, there are actually people in
here. I already recognize three of them.

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In fact, I've seen these middle
aged men before many times. The

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first one is John Riddle, who
used to work for the sixth Precinct of

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the Erie City Police Department. The
second is Brian Davenport, who used to

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work for the tenth Precinct of the
Shore City PD. The last one is

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Ed Smith, who used to work
for the second Precinct of Dayton PD.

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I say used to because I got
them all fired. Remember when I told

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you police departments sometimes call me in
to solve really tough cases. That's what

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happened to these guys. They're all
former detectives. After I solved what were

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supposed to be some really tough serial
killer cases, I'd read the top news

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stories about the cases being broken.
I would also hear from my contacts that

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each detective had been fired. According
to them, I made solving the cases

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look so easy, you'd think I'd
never see them in again. Right,

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Nope. Remember how I told you
that I enter escape room contests. These

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guys have been at nearly every single
one of them. They work together to

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try to win the cash prizes.
I keep winning at the escape rooms and

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claiming the prizes myself. For my
part, it's nothing personal. The men,

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however, have taken it quite personal
and still resent me to this day.

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Even their looks right now are resentful. They hate me because I'm so

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much smarter than them, not to
toot my own horn, and I'm young

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enough to be a daughter to each
of them. A sh it was only

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the wind. You're safe, weekly
spooky, We'll be right back. Well,

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look what the cat dragged in?
John Riddle sneers, you didn't tell

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me your daughter was coming. Ed
Smith jokes with Brian Davenport. Brian groans

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and bumps him with his elbow.
Piss off. I immediately noticed the three

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men aren't wet in the slightest.
Maybe they've been here a while, who

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can say for sure. Then I
see an older couple sitting in their own

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comfy chairs who look to be in
their seventies. Both have gray hair,

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and a man doesn't have a beard. They're dressed in clothes that match this

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plantation. I'm sorry, I tell
them, is this your house? I

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didn't mean to just walk on in, but I had an accident out on

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the main road. Do you have
a phone I can use to call for

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help? The man replies to me, storm's nasty out there, ain't it.

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Sorry to be the bear of bad
news, young lady, But there

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ain't no phone in this house,
never has been. You're more than welcome

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to wait out the storm here.
I sigh. No phone, that's what

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he said. Ed Smith says rudely, and don't look to us for a

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phone. Even if our phone's got
a signal here, we still wouldn't let

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you use one. Brian Davenport adds. The woman looks at me, now,

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oh, you poor thing. She
gets up. Come on and I'll

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get you some fresh clothes to wear. She raises her finger. You'll catch

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your death of cold if you stay
in them wet clothes. Not to mention,

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you'll keep drippin all over my carpets. Now come on, I let

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her take me with her. After
changing into dry clothes, which look like

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the same fashions that Dorothy and her
husband are wearing, the woman brings me

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back to the living room. Well
she looks just like you back in your

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younger years, Dorothy. The man
says, Now you don't go gettin no

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ideas, August grimam. She scolds
you keep your hands off this young chicken.

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August laughs a little and tells me
to have a seat. I sit

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on a couch across from the three
men. Yup, I think we got

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everybody here that needs to be here. August says, then I remember those

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front doors are locked tight. I
couldn't open them again. Yeah, they

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tend to stick like that when it
rains heavy like such way the house has

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always been, August replies. Anyway, y'all want to go back out in

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that storm? I sigh. Not
really. Then it's all settled, Dorothy

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says with finality, August, I'm
thinking maybe it's time y'all share a little

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story with our guests. Don't mind
if I do. August points to a

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portrait of a bearded man above the
fireplace that there's Beauregard Grim, the founder

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of this here home. It's known
only to a handful of people that he

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deserted the Civil War. Just didn't
believe the way them other Confederate people believed,

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and he deserted. It took him
some time, but he ended up

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here in the north, came to
this here spot on the map, and

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decided to call it home. Began
as a normal house. Beauregard made his

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life in fortune making traps. Now
we ain't just talking about stuff like bear

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and mouse traps here, No,
he made actual traps that could keep a

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man locked up good and tight.
Then as he built his glorious plantation,

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he gets himself an idea. I
done told you he made his fortune here.

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He never done trusted nobody, So
he decided to build special rooms in

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here at grim MANA built special kinds
of traps out of them, He did,

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you get caught in one of them
rooms, You better be able to

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figure your way out. If y'all
want to live as a legend goes,

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If you're able to find and solve
all the rooms, y'all get that fortune.

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All these selves, many have tried. He leans forward in his chair.

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All of them failed. In spite
of the warnings Dorothy and I gave.

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They all ended up in their final
resting place. He nods over his

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shoulder, and that there dirt nap
out and back. From there they became

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a part of grim Manor. After
all, it ain't just people looking for

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Beauregard's fortune who come here. Many
of those lost souls who died in the

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area find their way here too,
Yes they do. Now, y'all are

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more than welcome to spend the night
and wait out the storm, long as

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y'all don't go off looking for the
fortune. Y'all shouldn't be having a problem

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getting out of here in the morning, y'all decide to go looking for the

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fortune. Well, then you were
all warned. Could the house being locked

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up tight be a possible trap?
I asked August, done told you,

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honey, He replies them. Doors
like to stick real good when there's a

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storm like that out there, And
we get storms like that quite a bit

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here in Strickfield. Again, y'all
want to go back out in the storm,

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We ain't stopping you. John Riddle
gives me a dirty look. Looks

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like you finally found a place even
you can't escape from. August looks at

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Riddle. Now, how's that?
Riddle points right at me. This little

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freak right here likes to play escape
rooms. She's gotten out of every one.

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August raises an eyelid. My way, Oh really, I didn't appreciate

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Riddle's tone towards me. At least
I can beat the escape rooms. Then

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I glance at all three of the
former detectives. Unlike you, I calm

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down and look at August. I
guess I'll stick it out here tonight and

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walk back to Strickfield in the morning. Can I trouble you for some food.

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I can pay you. Dorothy laughs
a motherly laugh. Come on with

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me, young lady, and I'll
take you in feed you. I hope

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you all have an appetite, because
we got more than enough food here,

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and you keep your money. Ain't
no good here, Thank you, I

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say, and get up to follow
Dorothy. The old woman takes me to

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the biggest kitchen I've ever seen.
There are two huge refrigerators here. As

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soon as she opens one of them, my monster tummy growls with delight.

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I wonder if this sort of thing
happened up into Shaggy when he saw food.

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Okay, I know he's a cartoon, but still eat what you want.

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Dorothy tells me come on back when
you're ready, and I'll show you

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to your room for the night.
I thank the old woman again. When

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she leaves, I open a refrigerator
and grab the big platter of ham.

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Wow. I don't think I've ever
eaten so good in my life. I

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could list everything I ate there,
But again, this is part of the

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reason why guys don't want to date
me. For the record, I did

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eat that entire ham platter. I've
rarely ever been as content as I am

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right now, but I think I
should be good until morning. Then I'm

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going to want Denyer's grill for sure. When it's getting close to midnight,

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August and Dorothy take us and show
us to our rooms. The men ended

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up staying downstairs, but Dorothy takes
me up the extravagant ivy staircase. At

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the top we turn off. Dorothy's
talking to me about life here on the

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plantation. Soon we come to a
bedroom at the end of the hall.

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You'll be quite comfy in here,
honey, she tells me. I thank

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her again for her hospitality and for
putting me up for the night. I

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try to offer payment again, but
she won't hear it. She says good

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night and leaves. I turn and
examine my bedroom for the night. The

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first thing I see is another portrait
of Beauregard Grimm near the four poster bed,

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not the same one as the portrait
in the living room, but just

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as haunting. It's only a picture, Bethany, I tell myself, it

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can't hurt you. I look at
it again and see it's still inanimate.

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I lock my door and undress.
Then I gasp when I see the other

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naked girl in the full length mirror
and walk over to it. Easy the

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Bethany, I tell myself, and
then I notice my reflection's eyes are red

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and my hair is violet. My
eyes are normally green and my hair is

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red. I close my eyes and
tighten my fists. No, no,

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I'm not giving in. Leave me
alone. Then I open my eyes and

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see my reflection still altered. My
dark side is trying to emerge again.

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I didn't want to say anything,
but my inner darkness is the biggest reason

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why I'm not intimate with others.
I've had to struggle with it since my

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early days in high school. It's
grown stronger since then, and it becomes

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more of a struggle to keep it
inside. It can't keep me locked up

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forever, Bethany. My reflection sings
with a Brooklyn accent. I quickly turn

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away from the mirror, get into
bed, and turn off the lamp.

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I wake up when I feel my
tummy growling. Really, I ask it,

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I just fed you a huge feast. I had that dream again about

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being in that hot dog eating contest
last summer at Strickfield County Fair. Winning

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the contest was no problem, but
I still dream about the event. Denoyer's

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grill, put up the hot dogs. I swear I could live at that

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greasy spoon. My tummy starts growling
again. Okay, okay, I'll get

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you some more of that delicious food. I tell it, and get out

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of bed. I put my borrowed
clothes back on and leave my room.

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I walk downstairs and head into the
kitchen. I feel so guilty for stuffing

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my face the way I do,
but I just can't help it. If

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I could actually put on weight,
i'd have been dead from morbid obesity a

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long time ago. Then I laugh
a little when I think that a rich

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man would have to be the one
to marry me. You're being crazy,

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now, Bethany, I tell myself
as I dig into some chocolate silk pie.

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I leave the kitchen feeling content yet
again. Again, you wouldn't believe

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all the food I just hate.
I yawn and no, I can't wait

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to get back into that nice,
comfy bed. However, I decide to

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check out more of this mansion before
I head back upstairs. Might as well,

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right, how often do you actually
get to be in a big mansion

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like this? I walk until I
enter the big living room, looking at

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the windows, the storm just keeps
raging on. Glad I'm in here where

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it's nice and dry. Then I
wish I hadn't thought that last part.

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When the lightning strikes, I scream, like holy hell. When I see

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the bodies of August and Dorothy Grimm
hanging on nooses side by side, the

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lightning flashes again, they're definitely dead. Who the hell would have done this,

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this awful thing? Those people were
so nice. My heart's pounding,

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like when I'm watching horror movies on
those lonely nights, my many lonely nights.

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I can't help crying for the Grims. Now I can't go back to

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bed. I have to solve this
mystery. I have to know who killed

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August and Dorothy Grimm before I can
think about what to do next. I

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feel something land right behind me.
When I turn my head to see what

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it is, the lightning flashes and
reveals I scream in utter horror. When

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I see the ghostly phantasm, wearing
a long black cloak. Its face was

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a ghastly grinning skull. It laughs
a haunting, menacing laugh as it wraps

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its arms around me. I scream
again as I feel it lifting me up

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quickly. And out of sight Ed
Smith. The three of us are making

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our way through grim Manor on the
late fourth of July night. What did

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you really think we were just going
to stay in our rooms for the night.

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The whole point of us coming to
grim Manor was to look for Beauregard

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Grim's fortune. Now we have to
worry about the troublesome Bethany Martinsen. That

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little girl better stay in her bedroom
if she knows what's good for her.

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Yeah, you can tell I'm frustrated
with her. Hell, we all are.

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John Riddle, Brian Davenport and I
were detectives at our respective precincts for

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many years. As a detective,
you're going to get cases that harder than

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hell to solve. We each had
a case involving serial killers or kidnappings.

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For me, it was a serial
killer. I kept looking over the evidence

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in front of me. I'd back
away from it and come back to it

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after calming down. Yet I can't
figure out where the killer is going to

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strike next. The Mayor's not willing
to wait any longer, so the chief

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calls in. Somebody turns out it's
an eighteen year old kid, a girl

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who's a freshman in college. The
chief tells me to work with her like

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a good detective. I'm ready to
take this kid under my wing, but

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then she blows the whole case wide
open after looking at everything on my desk.

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End result, the killer gets nabbed, the girl gets a handsome reward

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from the mayor. I end up
being called into the office to hand in

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my gun and my badge, all
because of some brainy, little red haired

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girl who looks like she's from the
nineteen sixties. I found out the same

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thing happened to John and Brian in
their cities. Now, to be fair,

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I know the kid didn't intentionally get
us fired. She just did what

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she was called in to do.
What pissed us off was the fact that

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she made solving cases look like any
snot nosed kid could have done it.

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She made us look real bad,
and we got fired for it. What

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could the three of us do after
getting fired? No police department would take

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us, not even as beat cops. We ended up meeting at an escape

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room for a contest. Each of
us was willing to see if we truly

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had what it took to be detectives. We saw Bethany there turns out the

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little snots doing escape room contests for
money. The three of us teamed up

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against her, agreeing a three way
split on the prize money. Three heads

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are better than one right. She
still ended up winning by herself. We

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ended up staying together and looking for
lost treasures. We've hit pay dirt in

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many of our hunts. Treasure hunting
turned out to be our thing. Since

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I hate to say it, we
just couldn't beat Bethany Martinsen in escape rooms,

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nobody can beat her. Now that
little bitch is here in grim Manor.

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I hate to say it, but
I believe her when she says she

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stumbled upon this place. As many
times as we've been treasure hunting, we've

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never once seen Bethany around, so
it's just coincidence that she's here. As

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for how we ended up here,
I found an old book telling the story

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of grim Manner's fortune, so we
took a road trip to Strickfield and ended

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up here. I read that this
place is supposed to be haunted, like

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a few of the other treasure sites
we went to with August and Dorothy Grimm

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hung up in the living room.
We got the whole place to ourselves to

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hunt for the fortune. However,
Bethany couldn't leave this house. We tried

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the front door ourselves and they won't
open. This mansion doesn't have any back

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doors that we could find. But
we're here and we ain't leaving until we

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find Beauregard Grim's fortune. We're on
our way up to the attic, good

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to place as any to find treasures, antiques and all. Once we come

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in, we take out our pocket
flashlights and start going through everything with a

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fine tooth comb. We're looking through
dresser drawers and a few closets. There's

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even a picture of that old hag
Dorothy Grimm, hanging on the wall not

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too far from a trunk. Looks
like she's pointing an accusatory finger right at

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me. Hey, check this out, John calls to us. What is

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it? Brian asks. John pushes
against the trunk. It won't move.

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It's probably got a lot of shit
in it. Brian mutters, yeah,

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but it's a trunk. John emphasizes
it's not that big. I should be

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able to move it. John pushes
against the trunk again, still won't move.

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Then I try to help him push
it. John's right, I say,

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there is something with this trunk.
It's like it's nailed to the floor

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or something. Brian joins us.
Now, even with all three of us,

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it still won't move. We're all
middle aged men here, but we

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ain't over the hill just yet.
We finally stop pushing the trunk and stand

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up straight to look at it.
Yeah, I don't get it, I

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say, we might as well go
look in some other rooms. What the

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hell? Brian suddenly asks, what
John demands. Brian points to where the

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door we came in was supposed to
be, except now there ain't no door.

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What the hell, I mutter,
and move to where the door was

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and feel what's now a wall.
Shit, this door's gone. All right,

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unless we can get out of here, we're stuck. Still can't open

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the fucking windows. John hisses,
no latches. What the hell was that?

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Brian calls out what John demands?
Over there, Brian shines his flashlight

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that way. When John and I
shine our lights, we see what Brian

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sees. That's a lot of spiders. John says, I mean, that's

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a lot of spiders. Then I
see something that makes my stomach drop.

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Guys, those ain't just spiders.
They got red spots and hourglass shapes on

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their back. Those are black widows. They'll fucking kill us if we don't

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get out of here fast. Brian
quickly waves a finger. Hey, hey,

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hey, what if this is one
of those trap rooms August Grimm was

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talking about in his story. What
if we got to figure out our way

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out of here, then move it, quickly say, agreeing with him,

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start looking for clues. We ain't
got much time. We're quickly looking and

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re looking at things. We're under
some serious pressure here. We've been through

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many escape rooms, never had our
asses on the line though. We were

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just competing for prize money, which
we never won on account of the little

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redhead. But now ah man killer
spiders. And then I suddenly get a

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flash of an idea. We got
to open that trunk. We tried to

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move the others. Don't give me
shit. We returned to the trunk and

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try to open it. Shit,
those damn bugs are getting closer. John

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hissys, they'll be on us and
under a minute, just shut up and

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work on getting this trunk open,
I yell. Brian finds the two lock

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switches on it that look like part
of the trunk's design and moves them away

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from each other slightly open it.
I pop the lid and look inside.

404
00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:00.760
There's a ladder in here. Let's
move. I get inside first and start

405
00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:05.639
climbing down fast. It ain't long
before the other two are right behind me.

406
00:36:06.079 --> 00:36:07.840
John's the last one, so we
make sure to pull that trunk lid

407
00:36:07.880 --> 00:36:13.280
shut. Don't want any of those
goddamn spiders getting in and following us down.

408
00:36:14.199 --> 00:36:16.760
We keep going down until we reach
the bottom of the ladder and find

409
00:36:16.800 --> 00:36:22.239
we're in another part of the house. We all breathe big sighs of relief

410
00:36:22.239 --> 00:36:27.679
as we manage our first life threatening
escape room. If that little redhead ends

411
00:36:27.760 --> 00:36:31.679
up going into the attic, well, we sure ain't gonna tell her nothing

412
00:36:32.400 --> 00:36:38.360
she can find out for herself.
Good writtence, Bethany. Okay, let's

413
00:36:38.440 --> 00:36:45.039
keep moving, guys, I say
we pick a direction in our corridor and

414
00:36:45.119 --> 00:36:59.679
start searching again. Bethany, it
happened just like that, that phantasm just

415
00:36:59.719 --> 00:37:02.559
snap right up out of the living
room. The next thing I know,

416
00:37:04.119 --> 00:37:08.280
I'm in this dimly lit hallway that
looks like a like a hall of mirrors.

417
00:37:09.280 --> 00:37:14.480
I've only ever encountered a few of
these in my life, but none

418
00:37:14.480 --> 00:37:19.719
of them have been nearly as creepy
as this one here. My first time

419
00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:22.280
in a hall of mirrors was at
a fair. You just paid a couple

420
00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:27.719
of dollars and you went for a
five minute walk through some hallways with no

421
00:37:27.920 --> 00:37:34.119
mirrored walls and looked at differently distorted
mirrors. Of course, you were just

422
00:37:34.239 --> 00:37:39.119
paying for a little fun and maybe
a slight scare too. My second encounter

423
00:37:39.280 --> 00:37:43.679
was in an escape room I did
just shortly after I cracked that case in

424
00:37:43.800 --> 00:37:49.000
Dayton. I figured I was there, so why not. This escape room

425
00:37:49.079 --> 00:37:52.320
was located near the mall at Fairfield
Commons and it was just for fun.

426
00:37:53.039 --> 00:37:57.599
I ended up being placed with a
group and doing it with them. I

427
00:37:57.639 --> 00:38:00.840
could have easily solved every puzzle,
but I acted like I had to figure

428
00:38:00.840 --> 00:38:06.000
things out the way they did.
Truthfully, I just wanted to see how

429
00:38:06.000 --> 00:38:09.800
well designed the escape room was.
We played a Murder Mansion themed room.

430
00:38:10.679 --> 00:38:15.960
It was actually pretty fun. The
escape rooms that I do for prize money

431
00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:20.239
are built on a grander scale.
Have you ever seen those horror movies that

432
00:38:20.280 --> 00:38:25.119
are about escape rooms, Well,
think of those whoever designed them definitely thought

433
00:38:25.199 --> 00:38:31.599
them out very carefully. Some have
even had puzzles so complicated that most people

434
00:38:31.639 --> 00:38:36.920
gave up. Even the three former
detectives who were in this house had a

435
00:38:36.920 --> 00:38:40.880
hard time on those, and they
usually worked together. They did manage to

436
00:38:40.880 --> 00:38:45.400
figure their way out, but it
took them long enough. The contests I

437
00:38:45.480 --> 00:38:49.880
do are based on time, as
in how long it takes me to go

438
00:38:49.960 --> 00:38:53.199
through the entire experience by solving the
puzzles to get from one room to the

439
00:38:53.239 --> 00:38:59.119
next and finally to the end.
That's how I win my contests. I'm

440
00:38:59.199 --> 00:39:01.760
usually the one who who comps the
least time. The pressure's on for me

441
00:39:01.840 --> 00:39:07.039
to try and complete the escape room
in record speed. It's part of both

442
00:39:07.039 --> 00:39:12.360
the challenge and the fun. And
then of course I have to eat anyway.

443
00:39:12.719 --> 00:39:15.559
The Hall of Mirrors at the Dayton
Escape Room was probably the most challenging

444
00:39:15.639 --> 00:39:22.079
room in there, especially with it
being mirrored walls. One, the mirrors

445
00:39:22.119 --> 00:39:25.920
are there to intentionally confuse you and
throw you off. Second, it's having

446
00:39:25.960 --> 00:39:30.480
to find the puzzle within the mirrors
themselves. It was about midway through the

447
00:39:30.559 --> 00:39:36.280
Murder Mansion experience, but our group
was able to solve the room. Now

448
00:39:36.320 --> 00:39:39.559
I'm walking through a long hall of
mirrors that's in a haunted mansion, no

449
00:39:39.679 --> 00:39:45.280
mirrored walls I'm not exactly counting all
the mirrors here, but they're a lot.

450
00:39:46.199 --> 00:39:50.719
As I walk by them, I
see the usual distortions that you'd find

451
00:39:50.719 --> 00:39:53.519
in any other hall of mirrors like
it. I walk past a mirror that

452
00:39:53.599 --> 00:39:58.800
makes me look really tall and skinny, much like that creepy pasta of the

453
00:39:58.840 --> 00:40:02.199
Slender Man. I walk by another
one and see my head's really distorted.

454
00:40:02.880 --> 00:40:06.599
I have my body, but I
look like I have a head twice my

455
00:40:06.719 --> 00:40:10.480
normal size. I kind of laugh
a little, then I shriek when the

456
00:40:10.519 --> 00:40:15.360
reflection reaches out and almost grabs me. The reflection grins at me and laughs

457
00:40:15.400 --> 00:40:22.920
scornfully. Okay, Bethany, remember
you're in a haunted mansion here. You

458
00:40:23.039 --> 00:40:28.239
got whisked away by a phantasm and
put in here. This hall of mirrors

459
00:40:28.280 --> 00:40:32.639
is going to be anything but a
normal experience. I walk past another mirror

460
00:40:32.679 --> 00:40:37.079
and see there are two of me
standing side by side. The one on

461
00:40:37.159 --> 00:40:40.679
the left, with the red hair
and green eyes looks like a good girl.

462
00:40:42.639 --> 00:40:46.000
The one on the right has violet
hair, red eyes, and looks

463
00:40:46.079 --> 00:40:51.559
evil. I'm careful not to get
too close this time. I have to

464
00:40:51.639 --> 00:40:53.559
quickly hit the floor when the two
reflections try to reach out of the mirror

465
00:40:53.639 --> 00:41:00.800
with elongated arms and snatch me.
Come to us. Their disembodied bind voice

466
00:41:00.800 --> 00:41:05.400
says to me, we're so very
lonely. We just want you to stay

467
00:41:05.440 --> 00:41:13.679
with us, mortal, Are you
afraid? Good? Weekly spooky? We'll

468
00:41:13.719 --> 00:41:19.800
be right back. I quickly get
to my feet and get away from that

469
00:41:19.880 --> 00:41:22.880
mirror. I gulpe when I'm thinking
I may have gotten in way over my

470
00:41:22.960 --> 00:41:29.920
head this time. I've been in
haunted places before, but never quite like

471
00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:34.320
this. I turn around and see
another mirror that makes me look like I'm

472
00:41:34.360 --> 00:41:38.559
a human snake. To my credit, I can actually contort my body in

473
00:41:38.599 --> 00:41:43.760
different positions. For example, I
can lay on my back and actually put

474
00:41:43.760 --> 00:41:49.360
my feet and ankles behind my head
and then rest comfortably. I can even

475
00:41:49.440 --> 00:41:52.880
kneel down and lean back to lower
my head to the floor in between my

476
00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:57.840
calves. It amazes me that I
can do that. Now. Being able

477
00:41:57.840 --> 00:42:00.440
to contort the way I do doesn't
mean undouble jointed. I can only bend

478
00:42:00.440 --> 00:42:06.519
my joints the one way. My
snaky reflection slithers for a little bit,

479
00:42:07.119 --> 00:42:10.320
then comes at me the way an
actual snake would, mouth wide open and

480
00:42:10.400 --> 00:42:15.239
ready to devour me. I quickly
drop to my knees and contort my body

481
00:42:15.280 --> 00:42:17.880
in the latter way I describe to
avoid it. Upon missing me, the

482
00:42:17.920 --> 00:42:23.559
image quickly goes back into the glass. I get back to my feet and

483
00:42:23.679 --> 00:42:29.920
move again. I back myself up
against a wall and feel my heart pounding.

484
00:42:30.039 --> 00:42:34.000
How do you end up in these
situations, Bethany? How do you

485
00:42:34.079 --> 00:42:37.079
end up coming here of all places
and then get the living hell scared out

486
00:42:37.119 --> 00:42:43.320
of you? And I don't mind
telling you I'm really scared. Then I

487
00:42:43.400 --> 00:42:47.679
have a comforting thought and laugh a
little. In the Scooby Doo cartoons,

488
00:42:47.960 --> 00:42:52.880
Shaggy's still very much alive. You'd
think he'd have had a massive heart attack

489
00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:57.119
with all the times those so called
ghosts have scared him half to death.

490
00:42:58.199 --> 00:43:02.840
Nope, he's still alive and well
and devouring all the food he can get

491
00:43:02.880 --> 00:43:08.119
his hands on. Well, I'm
definitely getting out of here. I take

492
00:43:08.119 --> 00:43:15.039
a deep breath and compose myself.
I slowly move away from the wall and

493
00:43:15.199 --> 00:43:22.960
keep walking. Soon I come to
another mirror. Wow, this one really

494
00:43:22.039 --> 00:43:27.800
makes me look big and fat.
I can't help thinking this is probably what

495
00:43:27.840 --> 00:43:30.519
I'd look like if it wasn't for
the fact that I have an ultra high

496
00:43:30.599 --> 00:43:35.159
metabolism, which is why I can't
put on weight no matter how much food

497
00:43:35.199 --> 00:43:38.400
I eat. And those stupid sorority
girls at the Kappa House like to call

498
00:43:38.400 --> 00:43:44.599
me Bethany the Bore, like we're
still in high school or something. Suddenly,

499
00:43:45.440 --> 00:43:49.599
my obese reflection's eyes glow red hot
as she looks right at me.

500
00:43:50.320 --> 00:43:53.960
That's right, Bethany, I'm the
real you, the reflection says, in

501
00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:59.760
a much meaner version of my voice. I just couldn't stop eating like a

502
00:44:00.400 --> 00:44:04.800
pig. Now look at me,
she points right at me. You have

503
00:44:04.880 --> 00:44:07.880
no right to stuff yourself the way
you do and get away with it.

504
00:44:07.519 --> 00:44:12.239
I can't help the way I am. I protest. If I don't eat

505
00:44:12.320 --> 00:44:17.159
the way I do, I'll literally
starve to death. Probably not the best

506
00:44:17.159 --> 00:44:22.639
thing to say. I've really pissed
off my reflection, Bethany the Bore.

507
00:44:23.039 --> 00:44:27.960
Ha, come to me, you
little worm. I'll devour you and take

508
00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:31.159
your place in the mortal realm.
Then I'll show all the people who made

509
00:44:31.199 --> 00:44:37.119
fun of you what Bethany the Bore
is really like. I shake my head

510
00:44:37.199 --> 00:44:44.360
quickly. Hell no. When my
obese reflection starts laughing, long peals of

511
00:44:44.440 --> 00:44:49.639
horrible laughter. I'm having a very
bad feeling about this. Suddenly, the

512
00:44:49.679 --> 00:44:52.719
hall of mirrors starts shaking. I
have to do a little dancing in order

513
00:44:52.760 --> 00:44:57.840
to keep my balance. I cry
out when I feel the floor the whole

514
00:44:57.880 --> 00:45:01.480
hallway starting to slope. I end
up falling on my butt and begin sliding

515
00:45:01.519 --> 00:45:07.800
downward. Come to me, Bethany
the reflection rubs her hands together as she

516
00:45:07.960 --> 00:45:15.280
licks her lips. You're going to
be such a tasty morsel. As I'm

517
00:45:15.400 --> 00:45:21.400
sliding to my death, my mutant
brain suddenly flips on multiple light bulbs.

518
00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:28.320
Each and every mirrored distortion I've seen
are things I've been most afraid of.

519
00:45:29.480 --> 00:45:34.760
I've dreamed about nightmarish figures with big
heads. I've dreamed about nightmarish figures like

520
00:45:34.800 --> 00:45:39.079
the slender Man. I'm deathly afraid
of snakes and spiders. When it comes

521
00:45:39.119 --> 00:45:43.960
to the two versions of me in
the same mirror, I think it's because

522
00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:50.079
I struggle with my darker self.
On one side, I just want to

523
00:45:50.119 --> 00:45:53.360
be my throwback to the nineteen sixties
self and be the girl i've become.

524
00:45:54.800 --> 00:45:59.960
The darker half of me wants to
dress a little bit more down and flaunt

525
00:46:00.079 --> 00:46:05.519
my body at times I've almost given
in to my urges just for the sake

526
00:46:05.559 --> 00:46:08.079
of wanting a man to have me, even if just for one night.

527
00:46:09.199 --> 00:46:15.239
But then I back up and remember
who I am, why I am.

528
00:46:15.760 --> 00:46:22.480
But this reflection here, the morbidly
obese version of me. I've always been

529
00:46:22.519 --> 00:46:29.280
afraid that somehow my ultra high metabolism
will just one day stop, and that

530
00:46:29.360 --> 00:46:35.440
my intense hunger will not. Then
I would truly become the horror I'm sliding

531
00:46:35.480 --> 00:46:40.559
towards. But I have a reassuring
thought. Every doctor I've been a patient

532
00:46:40.599 --> 00:46:45.239
of has told me I'll never be
able to put on weight or stop eating

533
00:46:45.280 --> 00:46:49.119
the way I do. If I
don't eat, I can starve to death

534
00:46:49.639 --> 00:46:53.239
many times faster than a normal person. Every doctor has told me this will

535
00:46:53.320 --> 00:47:00.159
never stop. My ultra high metabolism
will be me until I'm finally dead.

536
00:47:00.199 --> 00:47:04.599
I'm going to have to eat a
buffets in places like Denyer's Grill for the

537
00:47:04.639 --> 00:47:09.360
rest of my life if I want
to live, and I very much want

538
00:47:09.400 --> 00:47:15.000
to live. But these mirrors are
all my worst fears come to life.

539
00:47:15.599 --> 00:47:19.119
Even though the doctors have assured me, I'll never look anything close to my

540
00:47:19.199 --> 00:47:23.119
horrible reflection waiting to eat me.
I still have fears of something like this.

541
00:47:24.239 --> 00:47:29.360
The multiple light bulbs in my head
have also given me the answer to

542
00:47:29.480 --> 00:47:35.440
this hall of mirrors. It's an
escape room. I remember August Grimm's story.

543
00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:40.440
Beauregard created specific trap rooms for the
purpose of keeping his fortune safe.

544
00:47:40.519 --> 00:47:45.800
But I'm not after his fortune.
Still, that phantasm snatched me up and

545
00:47:45.880 --> 00:47:51.440
put me in here. The answer
to this escape room isn't anything like looking

546
00:47:51.480 --> 00:47:57.519
for clues on the walls or in
magazines or even patterns. Now this is

547
00:47:57.559 --> 00:48:02.280
an actual haunted house escape room.
The rules are so much different here and

548
00:48:02.400 --> 00:48:07.559
yet so much the same. I
know the answer to this escape room.

549
00:48:08.360 --> 00:48:15.679
I must face my fears, but
I'm really scared as hell. As I

550
00:48:15.719 --> 00:48:20.039
reach the mirror, I gasp and
feel my darker half emerging. I feel

551
00:48:20.039 --> 00:48:24.599
myself sinking deep into my own body
now until I feel like a passenger.

552
00:48:25.519 --> 00:48:30.960
I can still see through my eyes
as a spectator, looking my horrible double

553
00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:35.519
in the face. Bethany's gone,
now, you fat fuck. Now you

554
00:48:35.639 --> 00:48:39.280
gotta deal with Harpy. I hear
myself say, with a Brooklyn accent,

555
00:48:40.320 --> 00:48:45.320
you want to devour Harpy. Well, here I am. I feel myself

556
00:48:45.360 --> 00:48:50.440
holding out my arms as if presenting
myself. Go ahead and try to devour

557
00:48:50.519 --> 00:48:53.519
Harpy. Won't be a lot of
meat on the bones. Then I hold

558
00:48:53.599 --> 00:48:58.159
up my finger. You want to
know the real difference between you and me.

559
00:48:58.800 --> 00:49:01.400
Harpy can get laid when whatever she
wants to, So can Bethy.

560
00:49:02.199 --> 00:49:07.840
What about you? Or do you
actually have to lay down and smother somebody

561
00:49:07.880 --> 00:49:12.440
to say you got laid? Stop
that you don't talk to me like that.

562
00:49:13.199 --> 00:49:16.239
I am Bethany the Bore. I'll
kill and devour you. Well.

563
00:49:16.280 --> 00:49:21.280
I'm right here, fat lady.
I see myself pointing right at my double

564
00:49:22.039 --> 00:49:24.599
Harpy. Ain't afraid of you,
Harpy, ain't afraid of nothing. I

565
00:49:24.639 --> 00:49:30.199
see people like you every day through
Bethy's eyes, always throwing you weight around

566
00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:34.280
and making people feel less than they
are. You're trying to do that same

567
00:49:34.360 --> 00:49:38.199
thing to Bethy. Those Kappa Sorority
bitches are just like you. And right

568
00:49:38.239 --> 00:49:45.559
now, Harpy's gonna tell you just
one thing. Fuck you. The reflection

569
00:49:45.800 --> 00:49:50.280
roars and tries to grab me,
but I feel myself looking right at her

570
00:49:50.280 --> 00:49:54.280
now, and without fear, I
point at her sharply back the fuck off,

571
00:49:54.320 --> 00:49:59.920
fatty. Nobody touches, Harpy unless
I want you to. When Bethany

572
00:50:00.079 --> 00:50:04.800
the bore backs off, I feel
myself walking to the mirror and stepping through

573
00:50:04.800 --> 00:50:09.119
it. My obese reflection sputters and
protests as I do before I finish going

574
00:50:09.159 --> 00:50:13.559
through. I just managed to see
a number at the top of the mirror,

575
00:50:14.519 --> 00:50:17.559
thirty eight. I think I would
do well to remember that number.

576
00:50:19.639 --> 00:50:25.559
Suddenly the scenery changes. I'm in
a hallway now. I remember that grim

577
00:50:25.559 --> 00:50:30.360
Manor has three floors. I think
I'm on the top floor, and then

578
00:50:30.400 --> 00:50:36.320
I have to focus to rain in
my dark half. I normally don't use

579
00:50:36.360 --> 00:50:39.199
bad language like that. It worked
for me this time, but I don't

580
00:50:39.199 --> 00:50:43.960
want to become that person. I
don't want to be a vengeful Harpy.

581
00:50:45.400 --> 00:50:49.760
I'm Bethany Martinsen, and I love
who I've become, even if I do

582
00:50:49.880 --> 00:50:52.920
eat way too much in order to
live. I don't want to leave.

583
00:50:53.519 --> 00:51:00.079
Harpy snaps go away, Bethy.
No, I'm the one in control me.

584
00:51:00.719 --> 00:51:02.960
I won't let you ruin my life. I yell as I take over

585
00:51:04.039 --> 00:51:08.519
again. I take some deep breaths. When I realize I'm in full control

586
00:51:08.559 --> 00:51:14.719
of my body again, I'll be
back Bethy, I hear harpy singing in

587
00:51:14.760 --> 00:51:20.440
my head now, I scream in
total fear when that phantasm suddenly flies right

588
00:51:20.480 --> 00:51:23.559
at me from out of nowhere and
grabs me again. It takes me right

589
00:51:23.599 --> 00:51:30.599
to the banister overlooking the first floor. The phanfasm laughs hysterically as it lifts

590
00:51:30.639 --> 00:51:36.599
me over its head and throws me
over the banister. I scream even louder

591
00:51:36.960 --> 00:51:49.079
as I fall to my death.
Ed Smith. We turn down one corridor

592
00:51:49.199 --> 00:51:52.480
right after another. It's like we're
in some kind of maze or something.

593
00:51:53.159 --> 00:51:59.320
We've been through worse scenarios to get
treasures. Our pocket flashlights keep lighting our

594
00:51:59.360 --> 00:52:04.760
way. We've been walking down these
forever. John Riddle complains, how do

595
00:52:04.800 --> 00:52:07.880
we know we haven't been down this
one already? We can't just stay down

596
00:52:07.920 --> 00:52:12.840
here, Brian Davenport points out,
we got to find our way out of

597
00:52:12.880 --> 00:52:16.239
here. For all we know,
maybe we're in another escape room. I

598
00:52:16.280 --> 00:52:21.840
can't imagine all these corridors being a
whole other escape room. I say,

599
00:52:22.480 --> 00:52:27.039
I'd still rather be walking around wherever
the hell we are than have to deal

600
00:52:27.079 --> 00:52:31.159
with all those spiders. I'll never
be able to forget those damned things.

601
00:52:31.679 --> 00:52:37.440
Brian mutters, especially since we almost
died up in that attic. We're still

602
00:52:37.480 --> 00:52:40.519
alive. John mutters, so let's
find our way out of here and find

603
00:52:40.519 --> 00:52:45.360
that old man's fortune. But where
the hell are we? I wonder?

604
00:52:46.239 --> 00:52:50.559
I know this mansion's huge, but
it seems like we've been going down this

605
00:52:50.679 --> 00:52:54.400
corridor for a long time. We
can't be going down one long corridor.

606
00:52:54.880 --> 00:53:00.920
John argues, we made a few
turns. Remember well, we need to

607
00:53:00.920 --> 00:53:02.559
find our way out of here and
back into the house itself, or that

608
00:53:02.679 --> 00:53:07.159
damn college Brad is gonna beat us
out again. Brian is quick to point

609
00:53:07.199 --> 00:53:12.920
out, and how the fuck do
you suppose we do that? John demands,

610
00:53:13.480 --> 00:53:16.039
guys, come on, I snap, we got out of worse spots

611
00:53:16.039 --> 00:53:21.719
than this. We come up to
another corridor for a little bit. We

612
00:53:21.880 --> 00:53:24.880
argue on whether to take it or
not. There's even talk about us splitting

613
00:53:25.000 --> 00:53:30.840
up and going in different directions.
I don't suggest we do that. I

614
00:53:30.960 --> 00:53:36.800
say, remember we're in a haunted
house here. The best thing to do

615
00:53:36.880 --> 00:53:42.079
is stick together. We split up, we may never get out of here.

616
00:53:45.039 --> 00:53:50.039
Now, come on, let's turn
here. One way or another,

617
00:53:50.079 --> 00:53:52.800
we're bound to find our way out
of here. John and Brian follow me

618
00:53:52.880 --> 00:53:59.440
down this new corridor. We walk
for a few minutes before we finally come

619
00:53:59.480 --> 00:54:04.159
to a door. I push it
open, and we're back in the house.

620
00:54:05.039 --> 00:54:08.400
It's a hallway, I say,
with excitement, about goddamn time.

621
00:54:08.519 --> 00:54:13.400
Brian mutters as he comes out,
I thought we'd never get out of that

622
00:54:13.480 --> 00:54:19.079
shit. John adds. We shine
our pocket flashlights around. The storm is

623
00:54:19.119 --> 00:54:22.800
still raging outside and interesting. Fourth
of July. This turned out to be

624
00:54:23.920 --> 00:54:29.119
it was raining cats and dogs when
I picked up John and Brian. I'm

625
00:54:29.159 --> 00:54:32.519
surprised there weren't multiple floods when we
came to Strickfield, and that lightning was

626
00:54:32.559 --> 00:54:40.800
horrendous. Suddenly the lightning flashes and
makes us all cry out. We get

627
00:54:40.840 --> 00:54:46.320
calm and I close the door.
Turns out it's a full length portrait of

628
00:54:46.360 --> 00:54:53.280
a young woman. Maybe it's Beauregard's
wife, maybe it's a daughter. Who

629
00:54:53.360 --> 00:55:00.039
can say for sure which way.
John asks, well, we're back in

630
00:55:00.079 --> 00:55:05.679
the house itself. I reply,
I say, we just move around all

631
00:55:05.719 --> 00:55:09.039
the floors and search each room if
we have to. We can't possibly search

632
00:55:09.079 --> 00:55:15.000
all the rooms before morning. Brian
points out, well, we're going to

633
00:55:15.039 --> 00:55:19.159
have to try and find something.
John says, how do we know Bethany

634
00:55:19.280 --> 00:55:22.719
isn't out looking for the fortune herself. Do we know where a room is?

635
00:55:23.480 --> 00:55:28.519
I ask? We never saw where
the old woman took her. John

636
00:55:28.599 --> 00:55:32.639
mutters, I think she's on the
second floor somewhere. Brian's quick to say

637
00:55:34.199 --> 00:55:37.920
we can find her and make sure
she stays put. We don't really decide

638
00:55:37.960 --> 00:55:42.360
what we're going to do when this
thing suddenly drops right in our circle.

639
00:55:43.239 --> 00:55:46.800
It looks like a cloaked Oh shit, we all scream when we see the

640
00:55:46.880 --> 00:55:52.960
skull underneath its shroud. I ain't
sure if this is death himself coming for

641
00:55:52.039 --> 00:55:57.039
us or what, but we quickly
turn and run. We hear that ghostly

642
00:55:57.079 --> 00:56:00.679
thing chasing us down and laughing it's
at us. Off. We make it

643
00:56:00.719 --> 00:56:04.840
to the big stairway at the center
of the house and quickly run up,

644
00:56:04.880 --> 00:56:08.159
taking multiple steps at once. We
turn off and start running some more.

645
00:56:08.880 --> 00:56:14.519
The ghost is right there now.
It flew up and intercepted us. Shit,

646
00:56:15.079 --> 00:56:19.039
we all yelled together. We turn
around and run down the west wing.

647
00:56:19.719 --> 00:56:22.239
I get the idea to open the
first door so we can all run

648
00:56:22.280 --> 00:56:29.400
inside. That turns out to be
a very bad thing. A skeletal woman

649
00:56:29.519 --> 00:56:35.000
is standing there wearing what looks like
what's left of her wedding dress. She

650
00:56:35.159 --> 00:56:40.360
glares right at us with her dead
eyeballs. Then a groom appears right next

651
00:56:40.360 --> 00:56:46.280
to her, looking a lot worse
than his bride. This room is occupied.

652
00:56:46.840 --> 00:56:52.400
The groom yells in a guttural voice. We scream again when he slams

653
00:56:52.440 --> 00:56:58.239
the door in our faces. We
don't really have time to think as we

654
00:56:58.239 --> 00:57:02.079
hear that ghost almost on us again
again. Why does that goddamn thing have

655
00:57:02.159 --> 00:57:07.440
to laugh all the time. We
reach another door and I try the knob.

656
00:57:07.719 --> 00:57:13.280
When we walk in, we see
some people gathered around a table.

657
00:57:14.639 --> 00:57:20.199
Looks like they're playing cards. They're
smoking cigars and have glasses of iced liquor

658
00:57:20.239 --> 00:57:24.119
at their places. We scream again
when they all raise their heads to reveal

659
00:57:25.039 --> 00:57:30.679
they're all skeletons, wearing clothes from
back in the Civil War. Do you

660
00:57:30.840 --> 00:57:35.559
mind? We're trying to play a
game here? The skeleton dealing the cards

661
00:57:35.679 --> 00:57:39.280
yells, go find your own game. Another one adds, there's plenty of

662
00:57:39.400 --> 00:57:43.920
rooms in this house, and you
pick hours to come in. Another one

663
00:57:44.000 --> 00:57:47.400
mutters, we quickly turn and get
out of that room. We're running again

664
00:57:47.440 --> 00:57:53.400
and end up going back downstairs again. That damn ghost intercepts us. It

665
00:57:53.440 --> 00:58:00.280
never says one word, just keeps
laughing like crazy. We turn and run

666
00:58:00.320 --> 00:58:04.559
down another hallway, realizing that ghost
is almost on us. I try one

667
00:58:04.559 --> 00:58:07.239
more door, nobody there to scare
the living shit out of us. This

668
00:58:07.360 --> 00:58:12.719
time, we all go through the
doorway and I slam the door shut behind

669
00:58:12.800 --> 00:58:16.840
us. Even that don't help.
The ghost suddenly floats right through the door

670
00:58:17.719 --> 00:58:22.159
and glares right at us. We
turn and run for another door. John

671
00:58:22.239 --> 00:58:28.679
opens it and we run outside into
a brightly lit courtyard and back into the

672
00:58:28.760 --> 00:58:35.159
storm. Aw shit, Brian groans, Jesus, John complains, We turn

673
00:58:35.199 --> 00:58:38.599
around to see that ghost floating at
the doorway we came through. Guess we

674
00:58:38.679 --> 00:58:44.000
really don't have a choice here.
We either stay out here in the storm,

675
00:58:44.360 --> 00:58:49.719
or we take our chances with that
ghost. It ain't coming for us

676
00:58:49.760 --> 00:58:53.519
now, John says, but look
at what's behind us. I say,

677
00:58:54.440 --> 00:59:00.679
we're out here at a graveyard.
Do you think bo we're going grim might

678
00:59:00.719 --> 00:59:05.639
have hit his fortune in the graveyard? Brian asks, we can't possibly search

679
00:59:05.719 --> 00:59:09.719
every graveview idiot, John yells,
We'll be here forever trying to do that.

680
00:59:10.519 --> 00:59:15.119
What time is it? Anyway,
we dig into our back pockets for

681
00:59:15.159 --> 00:59:20.599
our smartphones. What the hell,
I growl, I can't find my fucking

682
00:59:20.719 --> 00:59:27.679
phone me either, John groans shit. Brian mutters, you know what,

683
00:59:28.679 --> 00:59:32.039
just forget about this goddamn shit.
John yells, we ain't never gonna find

684
00:59:32.079 --> 00:59:37.719
the fortune way too many goddamn ghosts
here. Yeah, Ed, let's just

685
00:59:37.800 --> 00:59:43.239
go on home. Brian agrees.
Maybe we can try another day when the

686
00:59:43.280 --> 00:59:49.119
weather's better. Keyword here. Day. We try to go around the house

687
00:59:49.159 --> 00:59:52.199
on the other side, but that
ghost quickly moves to block our way each

688
00:59:52.280 --> 00:59:57.320
time. We got no choice but
to find a fence or a wall on

689
00:59:57.360 --> 01:00:00.760
the sides and get out that way. We turn and start walking to enter

690
01:00:00.800 --> 01:00:07.360
the graveyard. We seem to be
getting farther away from the mansion. We're

691
01:00:07.440 --> 01:00:12.639
walking and walking, but we never
hit a fence or wall. I mean

692
01:00:13.440 --> 01:00:16.679
we turned to the side right,
we turned back around and returned to the

693
01:00:16.679 --> 01:00:22.719
courtyard. Then we run into the
graveyard on the other side again, no

694
01:00:22.840 --> 01:00:29.199
wall or fence. It's like we
ain't getting nowhere. We're totally fucked.

695
01:00:29.599 --> 01:00:34.440
John yells, God damn it.
I really don't want to agree with John

696
01:00:34.480 --> 01:00:38.320
on this, but I think he's
right. This haunted house isn't gonna let

697
01:00:38.400 --> 01:00:45.199
us leave. We're stuck here in
this raging storm. But if we try

698
01:00:45.239 --> 01:00:52.559
to go back inside, that ghost
is still there waiting for us. John's

699
01:00:52.639 --> 01:00:59.800
right in saying we're fucked. Boy, are we ever fucked? All we

700
01:00:59.880 --> 01:01:05.840
can do is keep trying to walk
the graveyard and hope to find a way

701
01:01:05.880 --> 01:01:14.960
out. Bethany, I'm still screaming
when I open my eyes and see I'm

702
01:01:15.000 --> 01:01:21.840
in a room lit entirely by candlelight, and my extreme fear suddenly turns into

703
01:01:22.039 --> 01:01:29.039
extreme delight. I'm practically drooling now
when I see I'm in the biggest dining

704
01:01:29.119 --> 01:01:32.760
room I've ever seen in my life. The table is huge and has lots

705
01:01:34.320 --> 01:01:37.559
and lots of food on it.
Why does food have to be my favorite

706
01:01:37.599 --> 01:01:45.639
pastime? As I'm looking at this
beautiful, bountiful, delicious spread, Okay,

707
01:01:45.679 --> 01:01:47.400
I'll be honest here, I hate
having to eat as much food as

708
01:01:47.400 --> 01:01:52.360
I do, but at the same
time, I just love to eat.

709
01:01:52.760 --> 01:01:55.840
There's even plenty to drink here too. I'm about to sit down and help

710
01:01:55.880 --> 01:02:01.119
myself to what looks like roast duck. But then, and this is very

711
01:02:01.239 --> 01:02:07.719
uncommon with me, the light bulbs
in my mutant brain come on and tell

712
01:02:07.800 --> 01:02:12.880
me not to touch any of this
food. I remember that I'm in a

713
01:02:13.119 --> 01:02:17.840
haunted house and that things from ghosts
to other manifestations are trying to kill me.

714
01:02:19.519 --> 01:02:22.960
What's to say this banquet isn't here
to tempt me? Okay, I

715
01:02:23.039 --> 01:02:30.000
am tempted, but still I think
I may be in another escape room here.

716
01:02:31.119 --> 01:02:35.360
I look and see I can easily
walk out of here in either direction.

717
01:02:36.119 --> 01:02:38.400
But what kind of an escape room
just lets you walk out freely?

718
01:02:39.679 --> 01:02:45.920
In my experience with escape rooms,
things are seldom as they seem. This

719
01:02:45.000 --> 01:02:51.679
buffet was definitely placed here to tempt
me. Specifically, I've eaten two huge

720
01:02:51.760 --> 01:02:57.199
meals here earlier, so something here
knows that I eat to live and live

721
01:02:57.239 --> 01:03:00.119
to eat. I look around the
dining room, and I'm quite thankful for

722
01:03:00.199 --> 01:03:05.239
the candlelight. The lightning flashes next
to me at the window and makes me

723
01:03:05.280 --> 01:03:13.719
shriek. Rainwater continues to splash against
the windows. I'm surprised this house hasn't

724
01:03:13.800 --> 01:03:17.280
sunk into a big mud pit as
hard as it's been raining. I come

725
01:03:17.280 --> 01:03:22.280
to a serving platter on wheels and
pop the top to see roast turkey with

726
01:03:22.360 --> 01:03:27.920
stuffing and savory gravy. It's like
this room knows what I enjoy and is

727
01:03:27.960 --> 01:03:32.599
tempting me with it. And then
something gets my attention. Aside from the

728
01:03:32.639 --> 01:03:37.679
storm. There's a Greek mythology book
sitting here on a little table at the

729
01:03:37.719 --> 01:03:43.519
wall. I do a once around
and look for other books. There's only

730
01:03:43.559 --> 01:03:47.559
the one mythology book. It's rather
odd that a hard bound book is in

731
01:03:47.679 --> 01:03:52.239
such an extravagant dining room. This
has to be some kind of clue.

732
01:03:52.880 --> 01:03:57.920
I pick it up and see it's
bookmarked. I open the book to see

733
01:03:57.960 --> 01:04:01.559
it's the story of Persephone that's marked. For those of you who have never

734
01:04:01.599 --> 01:04:06.400
read Greek mythology, Persephone was the
daughter of the goddess Demeter, who ruled

735
01:04:06.400 --> 01:04:12.559
over agriculture and harvest. One day, Persephone was kidnapped and taken to the

736
01:04:12.639 --> 01:04:16.360
underworld by Hades, the lord of
the dead. When Demeter found out,

737
01:04:16.719 --> 01:04:21.880
she refused to let trees and other
vegetation grow their plentiful bounties until her daughter

738
01:04:23.000 --> 01:04:27.840
was returned. After Zeus, Persephone's
father and king of the gods, had

739
01:04:27.960 --> 01:04:32.639
ordered Hades to return his daughter to
Demeter. Hades reluctantly agreed. However,

740
01:04:33.239 --> 01:04:39.360
he had a condition Persephone must not
have eaten any food while in the realm

741
01:04:39.400 --> 01:04:44.519
of the dead. To Persephone's dismay, it was revealed that she had eaten

742
01:04:44.639 --> 01:04:48.440
four pomegranate seeds. Persephone would have
to spend one month out of the year

743
01:04:48.920 --> 01:04:55.440
in the underworld for each seed she
had eaten. She married Hades and became

744
01:04:55.559 --> 01:04:59.480
the Queen of the Underworld. She
spent four months in the underworld for the

745
01:04:59.480 --> 01:05:02.119
seeds e but the rest of the
year she would get to spend with her

746
01:05:02.159 --> 01:05:14.480
mother. You're not safe yet,
weekly Spooky will be right back. I'm

747
01:05:14.519 --> 01:05:17.440
thinking more about this story and how
it pertains to me and this room.

748
01:05:18.719 --> 01:05:23.679
Of course, all I have to
do is eat this very food in front

749
01:05:23.719 --> 01:05:27.920
of me. I'm the Persephone of
this particular story. The food placed before

750
01:05:27.960 --> 01:05:30.599
me is the food of the dead. Remember, I'm in a house of

751
01:05:30.679 --> 01:05:34.960
the dead. Yes, I ate
the food from the refrigerators in the kitchen

752
01:05:35.000 --> 01:05:40.480
earlier, but it's not the same
thing. I'm still alive and solving escape

753
01:05:40.519 --> 01:05:45.000
rooms, and this particular room isn't
about basic escape here. No, it's

754
01:05:45.039 --> 01:05:50.280
about escaping your innermost wants. I
want to eat as much of this delicious

755
01:05:50.280 --> 01:05:55.039
food as I can, so badly. I can still smell how appealing it

756
01:05:55.079 --> 01:05:59.360
is. But the food in this
particular room is the bait and trap for

757
01:05:59.440 --> 01:06:03.480
me. If I eat it,
I'll end up becoming like Persephone. I'll

758
01:06:03.480 --> 01:06:10.239
be condemned to live in this haunted
mansion for the rest of eternity. This

759
01:06:10.320 --> 01:06:15.159
is one time I'm going to have
to turn down food. Escape rooms usually

760
01:06:15.159 --> 01:06:19.039
provide one or more hard to find
clues. This mythology book was the clue

761
01:06:19.079 --> 01:06:24.239
to my solving this room. I
close the book and put it back down.

762
01:06:24.880 --> 01:06:28.880
Then I quickly pick it back up
and look at the spine. There's

763
01:06:28.920 --> 01:06:32.519
a number on it. Six.
There was a number for me to find

764
01:06:32.519 --> 01:06:36.760
in that hall of mirrors I escaped
from. Now I have two numbers.

765
01:06:38.239 --> 01:06:43.840
Suddenly I'm given another jump scare as
the lightning flashes again. Then I look

766
01:06:43.920 --> 01:06:47.400
and see that a section of wall
across the table is opening up. This

767
01:06:47.559 --> 01:06:51.440
is a definite confirmation that I've solved
this room and that I have to go

768
01:06:51.519 --> 01:06:56.760
through that opening to continue. There's
no way I could just leave here and

769
01:06:56.800 --> 01:07:00.280
go back up to my room.
I'm sure the spirits of this house won't

770
01:07:00.320 --> 01:07:05.280
let me, especially if that phantasm
returns for me. I have no choice.

771
01:07:05.480 --> 01:07:11.360
And then I feel my darker half
pushing me, making me move to

772
01:07:11.440 --> 01:07:15.880
the secret door. I'm still very
scared, but I let my darker half

773
01:07:15.960 --> 01:07:21.000
move me. I walk around the
table and walk through the secret door.

774
01:07:23.039 --> 01:07:28.159
Once I'm through, the door slowly
closes behind me until it's shut tight.

775
01:07:29.280 --> 01:07:33.559
The lights come on to reveal I'm
in a gallery. There's no question this

776
01:07:33.719 --> 01:07:39.400
is the next escape room. I'm
quick to notice things are quite crazy when

777
01:07:39.400 --> 01:07:44.519
it comes to this particular gallery.
For one thing, the carpeting has many

778
01:07:44.559 --> 01:07:48.960
different colored patterns. Actually, there
isn't a set pattern. It's like somebody

779
01:07:49.119 --> 01:07:53.719
just through some paint on the floor
and went from one end to the other,

780
01:07:54.199 --> 01:07:58.400
then threw a different colored paint down
and did some more. There are

781
01:07:58.440 --> 01:08:03.159
also statues and portraits that are pointing
in different directions. In the center of

782
01:08:03.199 --> 01:08:10.480
the far wall is a beautiful marble
fireplace with a fire burning bright, and

783
01:08:10.519 --> 01:08:15.159
there's no door. I scream as
a disembodied voice speaks to me, the

784
01:08:15.239 --> 01:08:21.640
only way to your freedom is the
one not traveled. Choose wrong, and

785
01:08:21.720 --> 01:08:29.680
it will spell certain doom. From
there you shall remain here with us forever.

786
01:08:30.039 --> 01:08:35.279
Suddenly I feel the vengeful Harpy trying
to take control again. No,

787
01:08:35.399 --> 01:08:41.000
Harpy, no, I yell.
It's my body too, Bethy. I

788
01:08:41.039 --> 01:08:45.319
hear her say in my head with
her Brooklyn accent, and Harpy wants out.

789
01:08:45.000 --> 01:08:49.399
No, I yell again. Not
now. I feel Harpy pulling me

790
01:08:49.520 --> 01:08:54.479
back down into my body as she's
trying to emerge again. I have to

791
01:08:54.520 --> 01:08:58.920
fight to remain in control and keep
my darker half from fully emerging. Once

792
01:08:58.960 --> 01:09:03.159
I feel fully in control again,
I keep taking in soothing, deep breaths

793
01:09:03.800 --> 01:09:08.560
until I feel fine again. Not
only do I have to fight with my

794
01:09:08.640 --> 01:09:13.279
hunger, I have to fight with
my inner darkness too. You can't keep

795
01:09:13.319 --> 01:09:18.359
Harpie inside forever, Sissy, she
sings, leave me alone. I snap.

796
01:09:19.119 --> 01:09:23.399
I wait a moment to see if
there's any trap that will automatically start

797
01:09:23.479 --> 01:09:28.199
up, but nothing happens. I've
got as much time as I need to

798
01:09:28.199 --> 01:09:31.560
try and get out of here.
The problem is that I need to find

799
01:09:31.600 --> 01:09:35.199
the correct way out, and I've
got to do it right the first time.

800
01:09:35.880 --> 01:09:40.760
Something tells me I won't be able
to pick the wrong way and manage

801
01:09:40.800 --> 01:09:46.119
to back away. One wrong choice
and I'm dead. I'm studying everything in

802
01:09:46.159 --> 01:09:50.359
this room carefully. I'm checking out
where the statues and the figures are pointing.

803
01:09:50.640 --> 01:09:55.800
I'm even looking at the patterns on
the floor. Clearly each pattern is

804
01:09:55.840 --> 01:09:59.960
a path. That part's easy to
figure out, but I need to fight

805
01:10:00.239 --> 01:10:02.640
the correct one to get out of
here. I can take my time and

806
01:10:02.720 --> 01:10:06.920
think, since there are no traps
to make me move along faster. I'm

807
01:10:06.960 --> 01:10:11.640
eyeballing the different paths, which all
end at a part of the wall.

808
01:10:12.520 --> 01:10:15.359
This leads me to believe that there
are multiple secret doors in this room.

809
01:10:15.760 --> 01:10:19.880
Again, I try to follow the
directions where the paintings and statues are pointing,

810
01:10:20.520 --> 01:10:25.600
but there really isn't a clear path. Also, there aren't any windows

811
01:10:25.600 --> 01:10:30.159
for me to try and climb out
of. No, there's no backing out

812
01:10:30.159 --> 01:10:34.039
of this particular escape room. I
have to solve it. Then I think

813
01:10:34.079 --> 01:10:39.560
about what that voice told me.
The only path to your freedom is the

814
01:10:39.600 --> 01:10:45.239
one not traveled. But aren't all
of these paths indicated in some way?

815
01:10:45.159 --> 01:10:48.439
Right about now, I'm ready to
say I'm sick and tired of doing escape

816
01:10:48.520 --> 01:10:51.520
rooms, but I know if I
get out of here, the first thing

817
01:10:51.560 --> 01:10:57.199
I'm going to do after eating at
Denoyer's Grill will be to look for other

818
01:10:57.319 --> 01:11:00.399
escape room contests to sign up for. I guess these things will always be

819
01:11:00.600 --> 01:11:05.439
my addiction. And then the lights
come on in my mutant brain one more

820
01:11:05.479 --> 01:11:11.000
time. I'm thinking about this thing
way too hard. In fact, this

821
01:11:11.119 --> 01:11:15.119
room is a lot easier than it
seems. I've just made the connection with

822
01:11:15.159 --> 01:11:19.720
the patterns. The paintings and statues
all have very light hues on them that

823
01:11:19.800 --> 01:11:25.640
all match their particular colored floor patterns. But then I see the ones that

824
01:11:25.680 --> 01:11:30.760
don't have any kind of hue and
look carefully. There's no indicated path on

825
01:11:30.800 --> 01:11:36.640
the floor to follow, the one
not traveled. I follow the directions right

826
01:11:36.680 --> 01:11:42.399
to the fireplace. The fire's burning
brightly in here, but something's not right

827
01:11:42.439 --> 01:11:45.720
about this. I can see the
fire flickering, I can hear the wood

828
01:11:45.800 --> 01:11:54.000
cracking and popping. However I'm not
feeling the fire. There should be heat.

829
01:11:55.239 --> 01:11:59.720
I lower myself enough to be able
to walk inside. The flames are

830
01:11:59.720 --> 01:12:03.039
touched me now, but they don't
burn me. And then I know I've

831
01:12:03.079 --> 01:12:08.359
solved this escape room when I see
the number engraved on the inner wall,

832
01:12:09.359 --> 01:12:14.640
twenty four. Then a secret panel
opens. Once I've passed through the fire,

833
01:12:15.279 --> 01:12:18.279
I go through the doorway and find
myself in a downstairs hallway. The

834
01:12:18.319 --> 01:12:24.479
panel closes right behind me shortly after. I can't believe I've gotten this far.

835
01:12:25.239 --> 01:12:29.560
Well, wait a minute, Bethany, why the disbelief? You solve

836
01:12:29.680 --> 01:12:32.520
escape rooms and puzzles for a living
day after day. It seems like you've

837
01:12:32.560 --> 01:12:38.359
always got some kind of a problem
placed before you, and you always always

838
01:12:38.399 --> 01:12:43.479
manage to solve it. That's all
you do is solve puzzles. Even you

839
01:12:43.640 --> 01:12:46.760
helping the police is solving puzzles.
You always manage to connect the dots,

840
01:12:47.600 --> 01:12:51.840
even finding money to somehow pay for
what your scholarship doesn't cover as a puzzle.

841
01:12:53.880 --> 01:12:57.079
Is that what I've been placed on
this planet to do? Is there

842
01:12:57.199 --> 01:13:02.600
some sort of supreme being who created
me just to solve puzzles and eat and

843
01:13:02.640 --> 01:13:08.520
to fight my inner darkness that curses
me? I suppose the Grand scheme of

844
01:13:08.560 --> 01:13:13.560
life is the one puzzle I never
have been able to solve, isn't it.

845
01:13:14.720 --> 01:13:17.199
Where do I fit in the grand
scheme of life? Why do I

846
01:13:17.239 --> 01:13:21.520
have such blessed intelligence and can be
so happy, go lucky in the face

847
01:13:21.560 --> 01:13:27.920
of danger and the people who persecute
me. I guess I'll just have to

848
01:13:27.960 --> 01:13:30.960
get out of this horrible place to
be able to try and find answers to

849
01:13:30.000 --> 01:13:34.159
those questions. I walk around until
I find myself back in the big living

850
01:13:34.239 --> 01:13:40.800
room. Now I'm looking at that
portrait of Beauregard Grim again. I'm feeling

851
01:13:40.840 --> 01:13:45.439
there's something about it. It's not
that it feels like he's looking right at

852
01:13:45.479 --> 01:13:49.079
me, No, it's something else. Then I look at the places where

853
01:13:49.079 --> 01:13:56.640
I saw August and Dorothy Grimm hanging. They're not there now. I gulp,

854
01:13:57.680 --> 01:14:01.079
Oh, God, you scared back. I hear Harpy taunting me in

855
01:14:01.119 --> 01:14:05.600
my head. You can always let
Harpy out. Harpy ain't scared of nothing

856
01:14:05.920 --> 01:14:11.800
but poor Bethy, such a little
fraidie cat. Why are you doing this

857
01:14:11.800 --> 01:14:15.319
to me? I demand? What
did I ever do to you? I

858
01:14:15.399 --> 01:14:17.840
shake my head quickly. No,
I'm not talking to you. You're just

859
01:14:17.920 --> 01:14:23.319
my other personality. You don't really
have a life. Yeah, keep telling

860
01:14:23.359 --> 01:14:28.640
yourself that, my darling sister,
she returns. You and I are really

861
01:14:28.680 --> 01:14:32.520
gonna get to know each other in
the coming months. Suddenly I hear that

862
01:14:33.199 --> 01:14:41.159
fiendish, awful, menacing laughter again. I look to see that the phanfasm

863
01:14:41.600 --> 01:14:45.000
is quickly making its way towards me. I scream in horror as I turn

864
01:14:45.039 --> 01:14:50.279
and run, but it doesn't have
to touch me this time. I manage

865
01:14:50.319 --> 01:14:55.319
to get myself maybe twenty feet away
before the floor opens up below me fast

866
01:14:55.600 --> 01:15:00.000
and I fall into a dark pit. Somehow I manage to survive being thrown

867
01:15:00.039 --> 01:15:05.159
off that banister earlier. But now
I scream at the top of my lungs

868
01:15:05.800 --> 01:15:17.039
as I truly fall to my death. I don't know what really happened.

869
01:15:18.079 --> 01:15:24.199
I just know that I fell into
this black void. I couldn't see a

870
01:15:24.239 --> 01:15:28.800
floor or anything. Now I sit
up and see I'm in what looks like

871
01:15:29.199 --> 01:15:33.680
an attic. I stand up and
look around. How many attics have I

872
01:15:33.760 --> 01:15:39.279
been in in my life? I
remember how Mom and Dad set me up

873
01:15:39.319 --> 01:15:43.359
in the attic when we moved to
North Ridgeway. That was around the time

874
01:15:43.399 --> 01:15:46.520
when they were having me tested so
that people in white coats could tell me

875
01:15:46.920 --> 01:15:51.560
I have a mutant brain and belong
in a special school for the gifted.

876
01:15:53.720 --> 01:15:58.640
Now that I'm in this particular attic, I'm reminded that I'm potentially in terrible

877
01:15:58.720 --> 01:16:02.880
danger. It's obvious I'm in another
escape room and have to figure my way

878
01:16:02.880 --> 01:16:09.119
out. Then I see the obvious
door and make my way to it.

879
01:16:10.159 --> 01:16:14.600
I grab the knob and start to
open it. Suddenly the door yanks itself

880
01:16:14.640 --> 01:16:18.960
out of my hand and slams shut. Ah, come on, I mutter,

881
01:16:19.880 --> 01:16:29.439
and then the weirdest thing happens.
The door suddenly becomes sucked right into

882
01:16:29.479 --> 01:16:33.880
the wall until it's gone, and
now there's only the wall itself, like

883
01:16:33.920 --> 01:16:40.439
there was never a door to begin
with. Remembering this house has power,

884
01:16:40.680 --> 01:16:44.560
I look around and find a light
switch. After turning the lights on,

885
01:16:45.000 --> 01:16:48.920
I look around some more. I
see something weird in the far corner,

886
01:16:49.000 --> 01:16:55.439
near the window, like something's moving. I walk to it and see a

887
01:16:55.479 --> 01:17:00.680
full length mirror behind some stuff.
I gasp at the reflection looking back at

888
01:17:00.680 --> 01:17:05.840
me now with purple hair and red
eyes. Remembering that hall of mirrors,

889
01:17:06.079 --> 01:17:11.279
I quickly back away from it.
You can never escape me, Bethy.

890
01:17:11.840 --> 01:17:16.600
My reflection has a Brooklyn accent.
You and me are together for life.

891
01:17:16.680 --> 01:17:21.520
I shake my head quickly. Go
away, Harpy, You're evil. Why

892
01:17:21.520 --> 01:17:27.399
are you torturing me like this?
Call Harpy what you want. I just

893
01:17:27.439 --> 01:17:30.640
want to experience life the way you
do. You can't keep me locked away

894
01:17:30.640 --> 01:17:35.439
in our body forever, Sissy.
It's just as much Harpy's body as it

895
01:17:35.479 --> 01:17:42.039
is yours. I tighten my fists. No, you're evil. How do

896
01:17:42.119 --> 01:17:46.600
I know you didn't kill August and
Dorothy Grimm. Harpy laughs and smiles her

897
01:17:46.640 --> 01:17:51.159
wicked smile. Accuse, Harpy,
all you want, Bethy, However,

898
01:17:51.680 --> 01:17:56.359
you got a bigger problem to deal
with right now. She points to her

899
01:17:56.439 --> 01:18:00.720
right, my left, look,
I see the florist star to move in

900
01:18:00.800 --> 01:18:05.840
that other corner, and then my
stomach drops fast spiders. I scream,

901
01:18:06.159 --> 01:18:11.840
Oh my god, not spiders.
My heart really is pounding and I'm so

902
01:18:12.039 --> 01:18:15.279
dizzy. Then my eyes roll up
in the back of my head as I

903
01:18:15.399 --> 01:18:25.279
pass out from extreme fright. I
open up my eyes and sit up.

904
01:18:25.520 --> 01:18:29.319
Those spiders are almost to Haarpy,
and they ain't coming to me because they

905
01:18:29.399 --> 01:18:33.439
want to get friendly. No,
they're black widows. Harpy's here and she's

906
01:18:33.479 --> 01:18:38.920
in full control. Now, no
way things are ending like this. I

907
01:18:39.000 --> 01:18:42.760
quickly move to my feet, which
actually scares the spiders, so they back

908
01:18:42.840 --> 01:18:47.359
off. Boo. Then more of
the creepies move away. They want nothing

909
01:18:47.399 --> 01:18:51.479
to do with Harpy. They could
get Bethy because she's always been scared of

910
01:18:51.479 --> 01:18:56.960
spiders, but not Harpy. Harpy
ain't scared of nothing. Time to get

911
01:18:57.000 --> 01:19:00.359
out of here. I look around
and see a portrait of Dorothy Grimm to

912
01:19:00.439 --> 01:19:03.680
the left of a trunk on the
floor, and I go examine it.

913
01:19:04.119 --> 01:19:10.640
There's a number there on the frame. Thirty nine numbers are clues the lady

914
01:19:10.680 --> 01:19:15.159
in the portraits pointing right at Harpy. Then I spin around and see the

915
01:19:15.239 --> 01:19:19.000
trunk behind me. The spiders keep
moving around. They want Harpy, but

916
01:19:19.079 --> 01:19:23.800
they're afraid of it. Without another
thought, I grab the lid and rip

917
01:19:23.880 --> 01:19:28.680
it right off. Hey, there's
a ladder in here. I get inside

918
01:19:28.720 --> 01:19:32.319
the trunk and start climbing down.
When Harpy reaches the bottom, she's in

919
01:19:32.359 --> 01:19:38.560
a corridor. Only got two directions
to move. I see the burning torches

920
01:19:38.680 --> 01:19:42.600
lighten the way and follow them.
I turn down one corridor and then another.

921
01:19:43.119 --> 01:19:47.800
Harpy walks for many minutes. Then
I remember August Grim's story about how

922
01:19:48.199 --> 01:19:53.560
people who die in this area come
to this place. Well, Harpy ain't

923
01:19:53.680 --> 01:19:58.199
dying, and Harpy ain't letting Bethy
die neither. But Harpy's got a problem.

924
01:19:58.279 --> 01:20:02.119
Now. Harpy's getting hungry and she's
gotta eat just like Bethy. I'm

925
01:20:02.159 --> 01:20:06.119
thinking lots of sweets, but Harpy's
got to get out of here first.

926
01:20:06.920 --> 01:20:12.079
I follow the torches and come out
a secret panel to end up back in

927
01:20:12.119 --> 01:20:15.439
the house and on the first floor. Suddenly, that phantom that's been shaking

928
01:20:15.520 --> 01:20:21.000
up Bethy appears. Aw It wants
to play with Harpy. I scream and

929
01:20:21.079 --> 01:20:26.600
delight and run. The Phantom starts
chasing, all while laughing, like in

930
01:20:26.640 --> 01:20:32.199
those scary movies Bethy watches, Harpy'll
play with you. I call over my

931
01:20:32.279 --> 01:20:39.159
shoulder, come on. The Phantom
keeps chasing Harpy. I turn down another

932
01:20:39.199 --> 01:20:43.640
hallway and keep running. When I
see the Phantom's hand almost to my shoulder,

933
01:20:43.920 --> 01:20:47.359
I laugh a little, Oh,
you want to play tag? Then

934
01:20:47.439 --> 01:20:51.359
Harpy runs faster. I reach a
door at the end of the hall and

935
01:20:51.399 --> 01:20:56.960
open it. When Harpy slams the
door shut, the Phantom floats right through

936
01:20:57.000 --> 01:21:00.159
it and keeps laughing. Then I
move to another door and open it to

937
01:21:00.239 --> 01:21:05.800
take me out into the storm.
Yes, Harpy is free. I laugh

938
01:21:06.000 --> 01:21:11.840
joyfully as I experience being outside for
the first time ever. Yeah, Harpy's

939
01:21:11.880 --> 01:21:15.159
all wet now, the clothes I'm
wearing are clinging to my sexy chassis.

940
01:21:15.600 --> 01:21:21.359
But now that Phantom ain't chasing Harpy
no more. I want to play with

941
01:21:21.439 --> 01:21:25.800
the Phantom again, but I just
have to be out here. Now,

942
01:21:26.720 --> 01:21:29.960
let me out. God, damn
you, Harpy. Let me out.

943
01:21:30.319 --> 01:21:34.119
Ain't happen in, Bethy, I
say, it's Harpy's body now, and

944
01:21:34.239 --> 01:21:39.920
it's Harpy's world to play in.
I know what happened now. You got

945
01:21:39.920 --> 01:21:44.560
out somehow and killed August and Dorothy
Grimm. I know you did. I

946
01:21:44.680 --> 01:21:47.119
sigh. You know, Bethy,
as much as I want to stay out

947
01:21:47.159 --> 01:21:50.680
here and be free, I think
I'm gonna give you control back. After

948
01:21:50.720 --> 01:21:56.319
of all, you're smart, so
I know you'll learn the truth. I'm

949
01:21:56.319 --> 01:22:00.760
mad. Now, Never point your
fingers at Harpy unless she can back it

950
01:22:00.840 --> 01:22:06.119
up. Bethy, I feel myself
in control again. Oh my god,

951
01:22:06.159 --> 01:22:10.880
it's so cold and wet out here. I hold myself and shiver as I

952
01:22:10.880 --> 01:22:15.079
start to walk a little. Soon
I see three figures making their way toward

953
01:22:15.159 --> 01:22:18.680
me. It's the three former detectives
that I've bested in the escape rooms,

954
01:22:19.479 --> 01:22:25.000
Ed Smith, John Riddle, and
Brian Davenport. When they see me,

955
01:22:25.119 --> 01:22:29.239
they come right to me, forget
about trying to get out through the cemetery.

956
01:22:29.359 --> 01:22:32.960
Kid ed Smith tells me, yeah, we tried and tried. Brian

957
01:22:33.039 --> 01:22:38.680
Davenport says, there just ain't no
way out of here. Looks like you're

958
01:22:38.720 --> 01:22:43.399
stuck here with us, little girl, John Riddle mutters, and then my

959
01:22:43.560 --> 01:22:48.520
muteant brain turns on the light bulbs
again. Something's wrong here. I've read

960
01:22:48.560 --> 01:22:55.159
plenty of science books and seen enough
movies to know that these men aren't wet.

961
01:22:55.199 --> 01:22:59.720
In the slightest It's been raining like
Niagara falls ever since I got within

962
01:22:59.760 --> 01:23:04.680
the thirty miles of Strickfield. Coming
home, the lightning flashes again, same

963
01:23:04.720 --> 01:23:13.039
as earlier. I keep remembering my
accident, the accident. Oh my god,

964
01:23:14.039 --> 01:23:16.520
that's it. I know exactly what
happened with that car in the road.

965
01:23:16.600 --> 01:23:19.840
Now I look at the men.
You want to know why you can't

966
01:23:19.840 --> 01:23:25.840
get out of here. It's really
quite simple. You're all dead. The

967
01:23:25.920 --> 01:23:30.399
men are quite surprised by my statement. Have you finally lost it? Little

968
01:23:30.399 --> 01:23:34.359
girl? Riddle demands, have you
turned stupid? Now? I laugh a

969
01:23:34.399 --> 01:23:39.279
little. Let me point out a
few things here. I raise my hand

970
01:23:39.319 --> 01:23:44.760
and touch my index finger one in
case you haven't noticed. It's raining like

971
01:23:44.800 --> 01:23:49.520
a really good Fourth of July fireworks
show, complete with explosions and booms.

972
01:23:50.239 --> 01:23:55.640
Now, how about you three take
a good look at each other. Your

973
01:23:55.680 --> 01:24:00.880
clothes aren't even wet. The rain's
just sloshing everything, including me. In

974
01:24:00.000 --> 01:24:04.760
fact, I'm cold and soaked right
to my bones. My glasses are wet.

975
01:24:04.800 --> 01:24:09.239
I'm even trying to keep my hair
from matting to my face. Are

976
01:24:09.279 --> 01:24:13.279
we understanding the big picture here?
Yet? The men look at each other

977
01:24:13.359 --> 01:24:17.239
now, then they look back to
me. I tap my second finger two.

978
01:24:18.079 --> 01:24:21.920
I'm hungry. My monster tummy's been
growling for a good half hour.

979
01:24:23.039 --> 01:24:26.399
Now. When was the last time
you three felt like eating a good meal?

980
01:24:26.800 --> 01:24:29.920
Do any of you even like drinking
that cheap liquor? I've smelled on

981
01:24:29.960 --> 01:24:32.640
your breaths at the escape rooms we've
met up in in the past. And

982
01:24:32.760 --> 01:24:38.600
for second, I've eaten two huge
meals since I got here. I tap

983
01:24:38.680 --> 01:24:43.039
my third finger. Three. You
want to know how I actually came to

984
01:24:43.079 --> 01:24:48.840
grim Manor It's how I know that
the three of you are dead. I

985
01:24:48.920 --> 01:24:53.720
tell them about coming home from Shore
City and having to take the detour to

986
01:24:53.760 --> 01:24:57.880
get back home, but then I
ended up hitting a car that was right

987
01:24:57.880 --> 01:25:00.720
out in the middle of the road. I continue. Since my car was

988
01:25:00.760 --> 01:25:04.720
wrecked. I got out and took
a look. The car I hit was

989
01:25:04.800 --> 01:25:15.079
burned out completely. There were three, three charred skeletons inside those skeletons.

990
01:25:15.079 --> 01:25:18.239
Were you three? Weren't they?
Let me guess how this happened here.

991
01:25:18.640 --> 01:25:21.439
You three were on your way out
here, since you liked to hunt for

992
01:25:21.520 --> 01:25:26.960
treasure in addition to trying to best
me in escape rooms. Yeah, I

993
01:25:27.000 --> 01:25:30.039
know all about the treasure hunting.
I've seen your pictures in the papers for

994
01:25:30.119 --> 01:25:34.279
that, and good for you.
By the way, getting back to now,

995
01:25:34.640 --> 01:25:38.880
you three were on your way here
to grim Manor to look for Beauregard

996
01:25:38.920 --> 01:25:43.439
Grim's fortune. The way the front
end of the car was totaled. You

997
01:25:43.560 --> 01:25:46.439
three were going way too fast,
not a good idea on a road that's

998
01:25:46.479 --> 01:25:51.239
really wet with lots of dangerous curves. But you went off the road and

999
01:25:51.359 --> 01:25:56.920
slammed into a tree. Your momentum
brought you back onto the road. The

1000
01:25:57.000 --> 01:26:00.399
car exploded upon either hitting the tree
or when you came to a full stop

1001
01:26:00.439 --> 01:26:05.079
on the road. You three were
burned alive in the vehicle because you couldn't

1002
01:26:05.079 --> 01:26:09.720
get out. I didn't see a
car out front when I came here,

1003
01:26:10.399 --> 01:26:16.079
unless you stashed it somewhere before coming
here. Yourselves prove me wrong. You

1004
01:26:16.199 --> 01:26:21.119
three became ghosts and found your way
here. To grim manor August Grimm said

1005
01:26:21.159 --> 01:26:27.279
that ghosts tend to find their way
here. You three certainly did. I

1006
01:26:27.279 --> 01:26:30.439
don't know how long you were here
before I arrived, but you three didn't

1007
01:26:30.479 --> 01:26:35.319
look the least bit wet. I
was soaked through to my bones. Or

1008
01:26:35.399 --> 01:26:41.319
don't you remember that Dorothy Grimm took
me to get some fresh clothes. I

1009
01:26:41.399 --> 01:26:45.000
tapped my pinky finger. Four,
I reach out to touch the men.

1010
01:26:45.640 --> 01:26:50.560
The look on their faces are priceless. When my hand passes right through each

1011
01:26:50.600 --> 01:26:57.399
of them, I rest my case, I raise my thumb, and five.

1012
01:26:58.239 --> 01:27:02.159
Why did you all get fired from
being detectives? Because you don't pay

1013
01:27:02.239 --> 01:27:11.960
much attention to details, and details
are so very important. If you did

1014
01:27:12.000 --> 01:27:16.239
pay attention to details, you would
have figured this out by yourselves already having

1015
01:27:16.319 --> 01:27:23.319
mentioned details, I've just made a
startling realization. The men are still shocked

1016
01:27:23.319 --> 01:27:28.600
at having been proven their ghosts.
I look at them and wave Tata.

1017
01:27:29.119 --> 01:27:34.560
I'm going back inside to finish solving
this mystery. I turn around and head

1018
01:27:34.640 --> 01:27:40.680
back inside the manner. I walk
until I'm back in the big living room.

1019
01:27:41.560 --> 01:27:45.680
I still don't see the bodies of
August and Dorothy Grimm hanging here.

1020
01:27:45.880 --> 01:27:51.319
Okay, Beauregard Grim, I yell, show yourself. I know the truth.

1021
01:27:51.399 --> 01:27:58.399
Now. Suddenly, the phanfasm that's
been haunting me drops down right in

1022
01:27:58.439 --> 01:28:03.640
front of me and looks me right
in the face. If you're not afraid,

1023
01:28:04.039 --> 01:28:12.000
then you're already dead. Weekly Spooky, We'll be right back. I'm

1024
01:28:12.000 --> 01:28:15.920
not afraid of you anymore. I
tell it defiantly. Get lost. The

1025
01:28:15.960 --> 01:28:21.840
phantasm begins to charge. In seconds, it becomes August Grim. When I

1026
01:28:21.920 --> 01:28:27.399
first entered this house and found all
of you here, you were already ghosts,

1027
01:28:28.199 --> 01:28:32.279
you and your wife and the three
men. I'm the only living person

1028
01:28:32.359 --> 01:28:38.600
here. I tell him, all
this time, August, it's been you.

1029
01:28:39.479 --> 01:28:45.760
I point to the portrait behind him. You are Beauregard Grim. You've

1030
01:28:45.800 --> 01:28:49.439
got a beard there, but you
don't have one now. Or is your

1031
01:28:49.520 --> 01:28:56.039
real name, August Grim? Dorothy's
ghost now appears right beside him. It's

1032
01:28:56.079 --> 01:29:00.479
time you heard the rest of the
story, young lady. August can see

1033
01:29:00.920 --> 01:29:05.119
I'm listening, I reply, you
know now that Dorothy and I are since

1034
01:29:05.159 --> 01:29:11.399
departed, August says, You see, when you're a war deserter, people

1035
01:29:11.439 --> 01:29:15.920
don't tend to forgive and forget.
It'd take some of my fellow soldiers quite

1036
01:29:15.920 --> 01:29:19.520
a while, but they finally came
across me and Dorothy. They did.

1037
01:29:20.479 --> 01:29:25.079
By then, grim Manor had been
standing as you see it. Now,

1038
01:29:25.760 --> 01:29:30.119
those men broke in and found Dorothy
and me. You know what became of

1039
01:29:30.199 --> 01:29:33.199
us from there. I look at
the place where I first saw them hanging.

1040
01:29:34.520 --> 01:29:38.880
I'm so sorry this happened to you
both, I say, with a

1041
01:29:38.920 --> 01:29:43.199
heavy heart. August had the last
laugh, Darlin, Dorothy says, with

1042
01:29:43.279 --> 01:29:47.960
some humor. Greed can make people
do almost anything. They tried looking for

1043
01:29:48.039 --> 01:29:54.159
August's fortune. August is Beauregard's middle
name, in case y'all hadn't figured that

1044
01:29:54.239 --> 01:29:59.960
out yet. Anyway, our murderers
ended up in the trapped rooms and die

1045
01:30:00.159 --> 01:30:02.920
when they couldn't figure their way out. Now their souls are here, just

1046
01:30:03.119 --> 01:30:09.239
like the many others who've come here
and will continue to come here. Then

1047
01:30:09.279 --> 01:30:13.079
I've got my concerns. I wasn't
here to look for your fortune. All

1048
01:30:13.119 --> 01:30:15.520
I wanted to do was get out
of the storm, call for help and

1049
01:30:15.800 --> 01:30:20.239
maybe get some food. Yet you
put me in all those rooms and scared

1050
01:30:20.279 --> 01:30:26.760
the hell out of me. Why
because you was an intelligent young lady,

1051
01:30:27.119 --> 01:30:30.279
August replies, Those men who found
their way here brought you up. They

1052
01:30:30.279 --> 01:30:36.039
did, said you solved trapped rooms. He smiles. We'd never let any

1053
01:30:36.079 --> 01:30:40.439
harm come to you. I just
wanted to see if you could solve and

1054
01:30:40.520 --> 01:30:45.119
survive all the rooms. As of
now, you're the first. Not only

1055
01:30:45.199 --> 01:30:50.079
that, Dorothy ads, you also
found all the numbers. That was my

1056
01:30:50.279 --> 01:30:56.319
idea. That's right, August cheers. And if y'all can figure out how

1057
01:30:56.319 --> 01:30:59.800
to use them, you may just
end up leaving here with my fortune.

1058
01:30:59.800 --> 01:31:04.640
After After all, now I feel
excitement, I can leave. You're a

1059
01:31:04.720 --> 01:31:10.880
mortal child, Dorothy replies. You
were just here to take shelter from the

1060
01:31:10.960 --> 01:31:15.279
storm. Like August said, we'd
never let any harm come to you.

1061
01:31:15.520 --> 01:31:20.720
But you kept me trapped inside this
house, I argue, Ah done told

1062
01:31:20.800 --> 01:31:27.600
you about them front doors twice.
August replies, they tend to stick real

1063
01:31:27.680 --> 01:31:30.119
good, like that when it rains
heavy, when the storm's over, you'll

1064
01:31:30.159 --> 01:31:33.239
be able to walk right on out
of here. If and not for that,

1065
01:31:33.840 --> 01:31:39.079
you'd have been free to go whatever
you liked. Dorothy raises her finger.

1066
01:31:39.520 --> 01:31:42.760
The clothes you were wearing when you
came here are all nice and dry

1067
01:31:42.840 --> 01:31:47.640
now. She looks past me.
Well, it's looking like the storm's clear

1068
01:31:47.760 --> 01:31:53.159
enough. It's gonna be morning soon. She takes my hand in both of

1069
01:31:53.199 --> 01:31:59.560
hers. We gotta be getting along
now. We appreciate you coming and spending

1070
01:31:59.600 --> 01:32:02.720
time here a grim Manor. Ain't
often we get mortals that come here,

1071
01:32:02.760 --> 01:32:09.319
you know. Goodbye to you,
child, August says, don't forget to

1072
01:32:09.359 --> 01:32:15.119
claim what's rightfully yours before you leave. You earned it. August and Dorothy

1073
01:32:15.199 --> 01:32:19.520
disappear, leaving me all alone.
Now I walk through the house and make

1074
01:32:19.560 --> 01:32:26.119
my way to the back doors.
I look outside to the graveyard and see

1075
01:32:26.359 --> 01:32:31.319
nobody's out there. Even the three
former detectives are gone. They're a part

1076
01:32:31.359 --> 01:32:36.600
of grim Manor now and have to
leave when the night's over. They'll return

1077
01:32:36.640 --> 01:32:42.279
when it's sunset. I'm sure I
definitely want my own clothes. I move

1078
01:32:42.319 --> 01:32:45.720
and head back up to my room. I walk in and see my clothes

1079
01:32:45.760 --> 01:32:47.239
are laid out for me at the
foot of the bed, all folded,

1080
01:32:47.359 --> 01:32:53.279
nice and neat. I yawn and
am so tempted to just get naked and

1081
01:32:53.359 --> 01:32:57.640
get back in this comfy bed again. I've been up nearly all night and

1082
01:32:57.720 --> 01:33:01.239
I want to go to sleep.
Then my tummy says, don't even think

1083
01:33:01.279 --> 01:33:05.119
about it. Also, I remember
how Harpy took over in the attic.

1084
01:33:06.000 --> 01:33:11.760
I won't be able to sleep knowing
she can take over again. Then I

1085
01:33:11.840 --> 01:33:16.560
see her in the mirror again,
purple hair and red eyes. You ain't

1086
01:33:16.600 --> 01:33:20.399
never getting rid of Harpy, sissy, she says, Where you go,

1087
01:33:20.880 --> 01:33:26.960
Harpy goes, I groan. I
can't believe I've got multiple personality disorder.

1088
01:33:27.319 --> 01:33:31.880
Why me, Harpy laughs. Harpy's
got personality, honey, But I sure

1089
01:33:31.880 --> 01:33:36.359
ain't one of your personalities. Wake
up, will you? I'm your fucking

1090
01:33:36.520 --> 01:33:43.279
sister. I put my hands to
my ears. I don't hear you have

1091
01:33:43.399 --> 01:33:45.119
it your way. Now, get
us out of here and go eat,

1092
01:33:45.159 --> 01:33:50.279
will you. We ain't done.
We'll never be done. We'll always be

1093
01:33:50.359 --> 01:33:55.960
a part of each other, for
better or worse. When I look in

1094
01:33:56.000 --> 01:34:00.199
the mirror again, Harpy just smirks. I ignore her and remove my soaked

1095
01:34:00.239 --> 01:34:05.159
Civil War era clothes. After putting
my original clothes back on, I wipe

1096
01:34:05.199 --> 01:34:09.960
the remaining rain water off my glasses. When I put them back on,

1097
01:34:10.319 --> 01:34:15.439
I look at the portrait of Beauregard
Grim again. It can't be that easy,

1098
01:34:16.199 --> 01:34:21.119
can it. I reach out and
find I can open the portrait like

1099
01:34:21.199 --> 01:34:27.720
a small door, and there's a
safe here. Yeah. I guess it

1100
01:34:27.880 --> 01:34:32.199
was that easy at least this part. However, I could never open the

1101
01:34:32.239 --> 01:34:38.119
safe without having been through those escape
rooms. That's what those numbers I found

1102
01:34:38.159 --> 01:34:45.359
represent. The combination to the safe
is thirty eight six twenty four thirty nine.

1103
01:34:46.399 --> 01:34:49.960
I quickly work the permutations in my
head and come up with all the

1104
01:34:50.000 --> 01:34:55.560
possible combinations using those four numbers.
I only have to work the dial with

1105
01:34:55.640 --> 01:34:59.600
the order I found the numbers.
I turn the lever and I open the

1106
01:34:59.640 --> 01:35:03.640
safe. My heart is really pounding
now. I take out a few stacks

1107
01:35:03.680 --> 01:35:08.880
of bills from way back when.
This old money's gotta be worth a lot

1108
01:35:08.920 --> 01:35:13.920
in today's money. I almost wondered
if it was worthless Confederate money. But

1109
01:35:13.960 --> 01:35:16.880
it's not. I hadn't given any
thought to hunting for this money. I

1110
01:35:16.920 --> 01:35:23.520
hadn't even known about it until August
Grimm told the story. If those detectives

1111
01:35:23.560 --> 01:35:27.920
were still alive, they'd have many
more reasons to be pissed off at me.

1112
01:35:28.000 --> 01:35:31.319
Now I find two suitcases big enough
to put all of the money in

1113
01:35:31.720 --> 01:35:38.279
and close everything back up. Just
looking at all this money, my tummy

1114
01:35:38.359 --> 01:35:42.560
growls again to remind me of what
I'm going to be spending both this fortune

1115
01:35:42.960 --> 01:35:47.239
and my escape room prize money on. Okay, I'm not likely going to

1116
01:35:47.239 --> 01:35:53.840
eat up all the money for quite
some time. I can honestly say I'm

1117
01:35:53.960 --> 01:35:59.279
rich now, at least for the
time being. When my tummy rumbles and

1118
01:35:59.319 --> 01:36:02.239
starts hurting, I know it's time
to go. I take the suitcases of

1119
01:36:02.279 --> 01:36:06.079
money and head down to the front
doors. I try the knobs and find

1120
01:36:06.159 --> 01:36:13.399
both doors open quite easily. It's
down and the storm is gone. I

1121
01:36:13.439 --> 01:36:16.640
step outside and close the doors behind
me. Then I walk back to the

1122
01:36:16.720 --> 01:36:20.800
road. I'll have to flag somebody
down who can call me a tow truck.

1123
01:36:23.079 --> 01:36:27.199
No way, I cry. When
I reach the road. My car

1124
01:36:27.279 --> 01:36:30.439
is sitting on the side of the
road, and the car I ended up

1125
01:36:30.479 --> 01:36:35.560
hitting isn't even there. My car
doesn't even look damaged. I load the

1126
01:36:35.600 --> 01:36:41.760
suitcases and get in. The car
starts right up. Yes, I shriek

1127
01:36:41.800 --> 01:36:46.199
happily. The downside however, is
that my smartphone is still damaged. I'll

1128
01:36:46.239 --> 01:36:49.159
just have to buy a new one
later on when I'm back in Strickfield.

1129
01:36:49.880 --> 01:36:55.720
I follow the detour signs and eventually
enter Strickfield. I never thought I'd be

1130
01:36:55.760 --> 01:37:00.119
so happy to see this beautiful village
again. My tummy really growls and starts

1131
01:37:00.199 --> 01:37:06.319
hurting more as I make my turn
onto the main road and see Denoyer's Grill.

1132
01:37:08.359 --> 01:37:12.920
I waste no time in getting into
that parking lot and getting inside.

1133
01:37:13.079 --> 01:37:16.880
The smells of heavenly breakfast foods hit
me right in the face. Once I'm

1134
01:37:16.960 --> 01:37:21.359
seated, I order four breakfast platters, two pictures of orange juice, and

1135
01:37:21.399 --> 01:37:27.560
some coffee to get me started.
You get such great value for your money

1136
01:37:27.600 --> 01:37:31.560
here at Denoyer's Grill. That's why
people love coming here so much. That

1137
01:37:32.319 --> 01:37:36.079
and the food is just amazing.
And with all the money I've got,

1138
01:37:38.239 --> 01:37:43.359
I'll be eating good here for quite
some time. This was truly a fourth

1139
01:37:43.399 --> 01:37:50.279
of July to be remembered. Indeed, however, I'm not okay. I

1140
01:37:50.319 --> 01:37:57.600
can still feel the vengeful Harpy inside
me, waiting for her opportunity to take

1141
01:37:57.640 --> 01:38:13.279
over again. I can keep are
contained inside me, but for how much longer m