Terrifying & True | Black-Eyed Children — Doorstep Encounters and an Internet Urban Legend

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It's midnight and there's a knock,
knock, knock on your door. You

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look through the people and it's two
unaccompanied children. You open the door because

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if they were your children, you
would want someone to open their door.

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But as they raise their heads,
you realize their eyes are all black and

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maybe they're not human. What you
were about to put you Based on witness

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accounts, testimon piece, and public
record, this is terrifying and true.

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A parallel universe, third dimension,
or maybe a world that exists with in

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ours, except that we cannot see
it. We've all been bombarded with stories

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of the unknown for our entire lives, theories and legends of the existing,

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Yet the non existing world has always
been a topic. We can't help but

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be intrigued towards tonight. We're drawn
towards the black Eyed Children. It's hard

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to say if these children are real, and if they are real, whether

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or not they're a part of a
paranormal universe, but either way, they're

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really creepy and just might make it
hard for you to sleep tonight, like

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it has so many others. We're
telling that story after these quick words from

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our sponsors, Legends of the Black
Eyed Children go back to night ninety six,

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when incidents of their encounters were first
reported in a ghost related mailing list

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out of Texas. These children had
entirely black eyes and dead like pale skin.

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Just the horrors of the way they
looked were enough to scare anyone away.

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It's said that these children would usually
appear near residential areas. They would

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either beg for money or hitchhike.
On most occasions, they would try and

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indulge people in conversation or ask them
to do something for them. While it's

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usually hard to say no to children
in need, these kids are specifically spooky

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and far from anything human. Anyone
in their same mind would run for their

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lives instead of stopping and helping them. There aren't many accounts of what they

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sound like or where they go after
scare someone, which is exactly what makes

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this tale so interesting. We can't
for sure tell if these kids are supernatural,

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extraterrestrial, or maybe some kind of
a unfortunate deformation, and of course

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they could simply not exist at all. In one bone chilling event reported about

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the black eyed children, a mother
in Vermont made the unfortunate mistake of inviting

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two toddlers with black eyes into her
home in January of two thousand and sixteen.

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She heard a soft knock on the
front door as a blizzard raged outside.

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Two kids, a girl and a
boy, begged to use her phone

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as they stood there shivering. The
woman welcomed them, even though she did

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suspect something was shady and proceeded to
get her phone. The mother noticed the

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children's eyes were totally black when they
came into the living room, where there

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was more light. Her husband's nose
started to bleed as she gaped in horror

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at them, and at that moment
the power went out. The kids finally

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announced their parents arrival in Unison.
After what seemed like a lifetime, The

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woman saw the two silently leave her
home and get into a plain black sedan

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driven by a man in a suit. The woman's spouse was given a serious

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skin cancer diagnosis not long after the
bizarre meeting, and she herself started having

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frequent nosebleeds along with a host of
other health problems. She believed the black

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eyed children she unintentionally allowed into their
home are to blame for her deteriorating health,

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as well as that of her husband. In another encounter, a twelve

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year old child had a terrifying event
in a store parking lot on March seventeenth,

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two thousand and eight. He observed
a child walking across the parking lot

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as he waited in his mother's truck
for her to finish getting a hair cut.

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The boy pounded on the window until
the other boy turned because he thought

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it was a friend from school.
The child in the truck realized it wasn't

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his pal and watched in disbelief as
the odd kid approached and peered through the

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window. The child only needed to
take one look into the other boy's intensely

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dark eyes to realize he was staring
into the face of evil. The black

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eyed child pleaded, you must let
me in. The youngster in the car

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cowered under the glove box in a
panic. The boy with the black eyes

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ultimately vanished. After some time,
the boy's mother informed her son that the

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black eyed child had entered the salon
and demanded the keys to her car.

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Luckily, for all, the boy's
mother resisted. But that's not all.

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November nineteenth, nineteen ninety two,
a man was binge watching evil dead while

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his wife and kid slept peacefully in
the upstairs bedrooms. After the movie,

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he made the decision to go to
bed at one thirty am. His front

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door was suddenly being pounded on loudly, and what was behind the door would

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permanently change his life. A boy
and a girl, ages eight and eleven,

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stood there, barefoot in the Michigan
winter without looking up. Despite his

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confusion, the man let the children
inside so they could call their parents,

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but when he went to give them
the phone, they were gone. He

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initially heard a scream coming from one
of the upstairs bedrooms. He ran upstairs,

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and when he entered his wife's room, he was horrified to see her

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lying in a pool of blood,
hearing bones breaking and skin tearing, and

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he saw the bare feet of those
children he had just let into the house.

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In spite of the man's best efforts, he was powerless to save his

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children and stood helpless behind the door. When the act was finished, the

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door slowly creaked open, and there
stood the barefoot children, covered in blood.

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They stood defiantly with horrible grins and
eyes that were completely black. In

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a suburban area of the United States, a woman was spending Thanksgiving alone when

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she heard a knock at her door
just after seven thirty pm. She opened

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it without looking, assuming it was
one of her neighbors, but there were

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two boys standing in an eerie position, avoiding eye contact and insisting on going

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inside. The oldest of the two
boys persisted until the mother got uneasy,

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and when they finally glanced up,
the woman saw they had completely black eyes.

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They kept knocking on the door after
she slammed it behind her. She

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eventually dozed off during the early hours
of the morning with all the lights on

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as well as her television. But
when she woke up, she discovered that

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the lights had been switched off and
that the television was broadcasting static. Someone

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or something had been inside her home. Like a trend, these stories have

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been surfacing one after the other.
What's astonishing is that these black eyed children

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somehow made it to the United Kingdom
as well. A teenage couple from Staffordshire

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reported a chilling encounter with a black
eyed child. The couple, who was

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seventeen back when the incident occurred,
reported that the ghostly figure of a child

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had been roaming around their tent throughout
the night while they were camping. This

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incident is fairly recent. It occurred
during the summer of two thousand and twenty

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one. The couple had heard movement
outside their tent in the night and dismissed

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it initially until they thought they heard
clear footsteps, and then they made that

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very common mistake of chasing noises and
sounds in a scary location. They went

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out to take a look get whoever. It was, only to be shocked

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as they found a little girl was
running around hiding behind the trees. It

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wasn't until a few minutes later,
when the girl finally stepped out, that

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the couple noticed her eyes. This
also brings me to think that in most

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encounters, people didn't spot the black
eyes immediately. It was only until they

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had actually made a conversation or when
things got out of hand. These children

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probably look very real, and encounters
with them also lead to the victims facing

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a lifetime of consequences. Unlike other
ghostly creatures who appear in front of the

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human eye, these children are harmful. The couple then heard giggling that echoed

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all around them. Scared to death, they ended up hiding in their tent

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again until sunrise. When they got
up and decided to leave at around seven

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am, they saw stones all across
their tent and they were placed at even

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distances from each other. They also
saw a lot of sticks hanging from the

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trees around them. It was obvious
that their encounter the previous night was not

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some kind of misunderstanding. While leaving, they saw a little child with black

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eyes sitting behind a tree, and
the minute they laid eyes on the kid,

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they started screaming with fear and terror. The man recalls hearing the kids

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say, leave us alone. Adding
to the intrigue in that part of England.

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Legend says there was a child who
was murdered in the early nineteen sixties

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and has been around ever since.
Author Lee Brickley released around four books over

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the past decade with stories and research
about these children. He also claims to

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have his own encounters with the black
eyed kids on multiple occasions. His own

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stories might be the reason he got
into researching it in the first place.

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He once saw a kid with black
eyes who vanished minutes after being spotted by

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him. This is one of those
rare instances where the child was reported to

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have completely vanished into thin air.
Lee Brickley writes, quote, I believe

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the woods are haunted with many spirits
of the dead. There are also lots

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of monster sightings that happen here,
and I think those creatures come from another,

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much darker place. Stories like these
are obviously traumatic for the victims,

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but at the same time they become
a sensation in the entertainment industry. Everything

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about our days mostly storytelling, and
who wouldn't want to turn an urban legend

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into a major motion picture. Throughout
the history of cinema, one simple line

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has helped many horror films reach massive
success based on true events. While most

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people dismissed these stories, many ghost
hunters took the matter more seriously. These

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spooky kids have a bigger picture to
them than just being ghosts. Some experts

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called them monsters, vampires, and
other legendary creatures of the night. The

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problem here is that no one has
been able to actually touch or feel the

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creatures, let alone capture them on
video or in a photograph to prove their

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existence. One more encounter I found
particularly interesting was back in two thousand and

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ten, a man called no Edic
saw two black eyed teenagers outside his office

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in Ohio. He was working a
night shift and decided to take a break

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to smoke a cigarette. He went
outside and saw two boys across the streets

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staring straight at him. After a
while of feeling uneasy, Noadick went back

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to work inside the office. A
while later, he noticed on the security

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monitors that the boys were standing outside
at the office door, staring right at

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the camera indicating for him to come
outside. Annoyed, Noadic decided to call

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the police and report the boys,
but as if the boys knew what he

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was up to, they indicated for
him to not do anything of that sort,

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since they only needed to make a
call from his phone. Regardless,

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Noadick ended up calling the police when
the boys didn't leave, and kept a

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constant eye on them through the screen. When the police arrived, they couldn't

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find any evidence of those children he
had seen on the screen. So what

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are the black Eyed children? Are
they supernatural paranormal of another world? Well,

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the fact is there's no real evidence
of the black Eyed children. That's

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right. Every account you just heard
was the stuff of modern legend, even

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in our era of constant information being
accessible from all over the world. The

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Black Eyed Children are a bunch of
stories with no one claiming they actually happened

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to them. For the most part, every story I read to you here

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to day had no specific name,
just a date. That should always be

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a red flag that a story may
not be entirely true. But that being

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said, I wanted to do an
episode about the Black Eyed Children because,

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simply put, legends and folklore are
wonderful. I love listening and learning about

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legends, folklore, folk tales,
anything like that. Well, the Black

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Eyed Children is a more modern take, but it is folklore nonetheless, But

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that doesn't make the stories any less
exciting to hear. I hope that while

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you were sitting down and listening to
this program you were feeling very creeped out

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and wondering if you were going to
hear a knock on your door too.

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But at the end of the day, the Black Eyed Children is a folk

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tale spread by the Internet incredibly fast, and most likely nothing more. I

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hope you didn't mind me pulling a
little bit of a fast one on you

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all this week. Sometimes I just
love the folklore more than I care about

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it being one true. That's why
I made sure to come clean at the

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end that these are entirely unsubstantiated.
But they're a whole hell of a lot

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of fun and definitely a welcome break
from some of the harsher true crime stories

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we cover here even I am a
human being and need a little bit of

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a break from carnage, mayhem and
murder. But what about you out there?

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Have you heard about the Black Eyed
Children or other modern folklore like the

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Rake or maybe Jeff the Killer.
They're fun stuff, probably not real,

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but very fun to listen to,
and honestly, I'd love to hear about

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your favorite terrifying folklore and hey,
if we find enough about it, maybe

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we'll even do a whole episode dedicated
to it. You can email us at

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Weekly Spooky at gmail dot com with
any and all of your terrifying and true

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or only hopefully true stories. We'd
love to hear them. I hope you're

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all doing very well as the summer
is getting hotter and hotter. But here

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at Weekly Spooky we always keep things
chilling. So until next time, stay

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safe, stay cool, and whatever
you do, don't answer the door for

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the Black Eyed Children. Just trust
me on this one. Terrifying and True

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is narrated by Enrique Kuto. It's
executive produced by Rob Fields, produced by

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Daniel Wilder, with the original theme
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