Nov. 21, 2025
Thanksgiving Nightmares: 6 Thanksgiving Horror Stories of Killer Turkeys, Family & Terror
We’re serving up a full plate of Thanksgiving horror stories—killer turkeys, cursed family dinners, and cozy traditions that turn disturbingly dark. This feature-length Thanksgiving horror podcast special is made for holiday travel, late-night cooking, or hiding from your relatives while you lose yourself in a long, chilling anthology of spooky tales.
Inside this Weekly Spooky Thanksgiving horror compilation, you’ll hear:
• “Thanksgiving Dinner” — by Rachael Redolfi
A cop comes home to quiet Monticello, Indiana for Thanksgiving… but her picture-perfect small town and deeply religious family are hiding tensions ready to explode. When dinner is finally served, the secrets on the table may be far more dangerous than anything in the oven. Perfect for fans of small-town horror and family-gathering gone wrong stories.
• “Turkey Shoot” — by David O’Hanlon
A small-town sheriff, a rookie deputy, and a jumpy coroner investigate a mutilated body and a missing turkey hunter. Out in the woods, they discover that something is hunting them back—and this year’s Thanksgiving bird has a lot more bite than anyone bargained for. A brutal, fun killer turkey story with slasher energy.
• “Fiendsgiving” — by Rob Fields
A toxic friend group races to make it to an exclusive Thanksgiving-night party, desperate to stay on their queen bee’s good side. But once they arrive, jealousies, grudges, and cruel games morph into something far deadlier, turning “friendsgiving” into a bloody, supernatural trap. Ideal for listeners who love holiday party horror.
• “Turkey Terror” — by Douglas Waltz
Raised in a family that celebrates Thanksgiving by hunting their own bird, one man treks through the frozen Upper Peninsula determined to end the tradition forever. At an isolated cave on the shore of Lake Superior, he learns why no one talks about the last hunt… and what really stalks the snow. A chilling slice of winter wilderness horror.
• “Homecoming” — by Rob Fields
Strickfield teens Bella and Einny can’t wait to escape their cursed hometown for Thanksgiving break. But Strickfield doesn’t let go so easily. As family, old enemies, and something far darker close in, their holiday road trip turns into a deadly homecoming they may not survive. Great for fans of YA-style supernatural horror and small-town curses.
• “The Real First Thanksgiving” — by Bruce Haney
A woman wakes in a black room lit only by a TV stuck on strange, Thanksgiving-themed programming and a painting of the Mayflower that seems to shift when she looks away. As she pieces together her captivity, another Thanksgiving story unfolds—about a young man, a brutal family fight, and a holiday tradition with roots in something much older and crueler. A moody blend of psychological horror and folk horror.
If you love free horror podcasts, scary Thanksgiving stories, killer turkey horror, creepy pilgrims, haunted families, and long-form spooky audio to binge, this Weekly Spooky Thanksgiving special belongs in your holiday playlist. Press play and make your feast a little bloodier.
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Hello, my spookys, would it even be Thanksgiving without some binging?
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I'm Enrique Kuto, and tonight we're doing something special. While
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everybody else is worrying about basting turkeys and avoiding awkward
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small talk with relatives that they only see once a year,
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we're serving up what really matters, a big, heaping plate
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of horror. This is our Thanksgiving compilation, packed with tales
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of family dinners gone wrong, small towns with big, bloody secrets,
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and holiday traditions that should have stayed bury in the past.
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We've got cops on nightmare calls, hunters who find the
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wrong kind of prey, and dinner guests you definitely did
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not invite, plus a few pilgrims who make your pushy
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aunt downright harmless. So, whether you're listening on the Friday
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before the big day, while you travel, cook, or hide
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from humanity, entirely allow us to keep you company with
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over three hours of Thanksgiving terror. Just think of this
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episode as your spooky side dish less, gravy more graveyards.
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Now turn down the lights and maybe take one last
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look at the turkey in the oven, just to make
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sure it isn't looking back at you. Now let's kick
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off the food and fear with a story by cutting
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deep into horror's own Rachel Ridolphi Thanksgiving Dinner by Rachel Ridolfi,
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a weekly spooky original. Monticello, Indiana, just an hour and
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a half from the Infamous Gear and still less than
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three hours from Chicago. It was a small town with
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a population that barely scratched five thousand men, women, and children.
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Most residents grew up together, worked together, went to school together. Hell,
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most of them even frequented the same five churches. That's
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why when Sophia got the chance to move, she chose Monticello,
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just close enough to home that she could visit her
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family if she chose to, but usually she chose not to.
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She loved her family, but they were a thorn in
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her side. Chicago wasn't quite her speed. There was just
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too much going on all the time, and she just
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couldn't cope with all of that, not anymore. Aside from
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being constantly high strung from all the work she had
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to do for the city, she also found herself increasingly
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depressed dealing with the less than responsible members of her precinct,
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with the recommendation of her chief, and with a little
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bit of finagling. When a position opened up, Sophia got
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herself a cushy job in Monticello, Indiana. She considered it
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cushy because she really didn't have to do much or
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deal with much, aside from the odd noise complaint or
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writing your standard parking tickets. Sure, in the summer she
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would have to work a little harder to control traffic
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or stave off the common drunken tourist, but for the
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most part, she really didn't have to work that hard.
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It really felt like the only time she was working
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was May through August. Once the chilly September air hit,
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everything quieted down and she got a chance to relax.
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Sitting in her cruisers, she got a text on her phone.
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Are you coming or not? The text message from her
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brother bellowed. Sophia grimaced at her phone, sighed and stretched out.
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It had been a long shift already. She really didn't
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feel like dealing with her family. She glanced at a
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picture on her dashboard before opening up her phone and responding, no,
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I'm not coming, the drive is too long, capped back
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three dots. Someone honked across the street and she glanced
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up one elderly driver was taking too long to make
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a left turn to light. She decided to ignore it.
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The response finally chimed, dinner starts at six. Just say
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you don't want to see us. Okay, fine, I don't
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want to see you. She hastily pounded back, then hit send.
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She was working the double anyway. Chief Lewis called off sick,
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and she'd taken his shift. Even if she wanted to
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see her family, she couldn't. Her black coffee gave off
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big puffs of heat vapor. She took a huge, scolding
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gulp and hissed fuck her at her phone before glancing
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back up at traffic. The picture on her dashboard glowered
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at her in monochromatic tones. The elderly driver had figured
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out the problem in traffic was moving along fine. It
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was never busy during noon anyway, but during the holiday
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season it was so slow she could almost take a nap.
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Another ding. She glanced at the home screen of her phone,
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which had the banner of but Grandma really misses you
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her and Mom. She honestly debated opening up that message.
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It had been a whole year since her brother had
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attempted an honest to God conversation with her. She was
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curious to see what he would try to pull this time.
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Officer Cortes, please report.
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A familiar and friendly voice, chimed, Nancy was always too polite.
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If she didn't end a call with please, Sophia would
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be suspicious. Officer Cortes reporting, Sophia said back, we have
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a request for a welfare check at nineteen eleven East Davidson, Please,
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Nancy said. Sophia plugged it into her GPS. It was
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less than three miles away. Now, this one here is
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a doozy, Nancy continued. Probably should have just called animal control,
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if you please. Officer Cortes talked back through the receiver.
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If you needed animal control, you should have just called them.
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Why am I going here? Well, to be honest, Nancy droned.
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If she wasn't drone, something was wrong.
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Perfectly honest, mind you. The animal isn't of the utmost.
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Concerned, all right, then?
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So what is Norman Roberts. He ain't been in contact
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with his neighbor and his dog is still outside, if
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you please. Abigail White called and said he hadn't been
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seen over twelve days.
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Sophia started her car and the engine of her cruiser
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grumbled to life when she followed the directions on her GPS.
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Oh good, you are going. I'll let Chief Lewis know
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he don't need to go all the way.
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Down there, Nancy said. Sophia paused, furrowed her brows, hissed
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into the radio. You didn't disturb him, did you.
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Oh, I've been keeping him updated on all activity in the.
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Town, Nancy chortled back cheerily. Sophia sighed, pinched her brow
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at a stop sign, and groan. Let him know I'm
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handling it, and then just stop please, he needs his rest.
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Oh sure, Nancy chirped. Sophia headed forward and followed the
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directions on her phone.
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I guess this chemo ain't easy after.
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All, the dispatcher noted, No, it's not, Sophia reassured, trying
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not to look at the picture of her father. Sophia
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took a turn, waited at a traffic light, and took
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another sip of her coffee. Well paved roads gave way
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to gravel as she headed towards the trailer park. The
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soy fields were barren and empty. A corpse of oak
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trees with vibrant orange leaves towered near a fence line,
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and a few crows glowered at her from their perch
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on the phone lines. The road was bumpy, and her
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cruiser had a rough time hopping over all the potholes.
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Monticello was doing well, but not well enough to buy
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new SUVs for the police or repave all the roads.
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And even as well as the city was doing, it
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still had its rough areas, just like any city around
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the world. Sofia just counted herself lucky that this particular
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city didn't have many of the other issues as elsewhere
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in the country. While driving past a barren grove of trees,
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her phone chimed again, another message from her brother, this
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time insisting Dad would want you here. That almost set
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her off. Feeling the blood pounding heart in her arms
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and burning the sense of rage in her chest, she paused,
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took a deep breath, and counted one, two, three, four, five.
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She released the breath, glanced at the picture of her
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father in uniform she kept in the car and scowled,
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grumbling to herself, Now he's trying to use you against me.
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She wouldn't dignify her brother's harassment with a response. She
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turned a corner at the entrance of the trailer park
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and followed each left hand turned until she came to
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the address she was looking for. An elderly woman definitely
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passed her seventies, rushed out of a trailer and swarmed
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Sophia's SUV. Are you here for Norm, the woman asked.
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Sophia nodded, stepped out from the car with hardly a
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glance at the photo, and considered leaving her phone in
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the car, but then thought better of it. If this
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was an emergency, she would want her phone, and if
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it wasn't well, it was still set on vibrating wouldn't
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disturb her. The woman, Abigail, bombarded Sophia with a ti
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rate of information. I've been waiting for what seems like forever.
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It's Thanksgiving now, and Norm promised to have dinner with me.
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He always promises, but rarely keeps them. Almost two weeks ago,
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though I made him swear on his mama's grave he'd
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come for Thanksgiving dinner with me, and he ain't said
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a word. Sophia nodded, took out her notepad and wrote
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down any pertinent information she could discern. There was none,
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So the last time you spoke to Norman was twelve
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days ago, she asked, Yes, twelve days ago. Abigail confirmed
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with a nod. He'd just got home from a long
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haul and promised me a visit today. Sophia closed the
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door of her car with a slam, and immediately a
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cacophony of barks sounded from behind the trailer. Within a
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few moments, the entire park was filled with warning howls
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of dogs. He does that when anyone comes over, Abigail explained,
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pointing at the small yard behind the trailer. He's been
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chained up this whole time for almost two weeks. Yeah,
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I just been giving him food and water, Abigail explained,
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looking rather sheepish. Sophia grimaced, before the yelping died down
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and only the baying of Norman's hound remained. Have you
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tried contacting Norman directly, she pried. Abigail nodded. I banged
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on the door, both front and back, and he ain't
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said nothing. She explained. I called him last week, but
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it went straight to voicemail. Sofia nodded and glanced over
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at Norman's trailer. None of the other trailers were in
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the best of shape, but his was the most worn down.
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The paint had peeled off of practically every inch. All
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of the windows had been broken and replaced with plywood.
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The front door itself was held in place with a
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patchwork of duct tape and bungee cords. The trailer sat
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at nearly a forty five degree angle at the left
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corner because the foundation had settled unevenly. She noted a
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security camera duct taped just above the front door, and
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she assumed on instinct there was a twin on the
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other side of the house. She didn't mention this to Abigail.
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Officer Cortez took a step forward and asked, so, when
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was the last time you spoke to him directly. Abigail's
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answer finally raised enough alarm that Sophia had to write
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down the answer just about three weeks ago, right before
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he went on the road, noting it and raising an eyebrow.
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Sofia took another step forward, and the dog in the
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backyard began to growl again. Another noise like a dog growling,
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but very muffled, caught her ear. Sophia nodded and asked,
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does he travel often? Every week? Abigail said, as Sofia
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took another few steps toward the front door. He's a trucker,
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both nodded. Abigail, finding a sense of urgency, yelled back
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at the dog, hush your face, hank the dog out back, whimpered,
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then shut up, while the near silent grumbling indoors still continued.
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The wind picked up and changed direction, and Sophia's nose
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wrinkled when she caught an acrid, metallic scent. Been stinking
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like that for almost a week, Abigail said, seeing her face,
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don't smell good, But it's not a gas leak. No,
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Sophia agreed, definitely not a gas leak. She took a
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step up onto the porch and the dog began barking again.
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The smell definitely wasn't gas, but it wasn't good. It
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was bittersweet and smelled of decomposition. It was the smell
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of death, and she knew it. She'd smelled it before
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when her father passed. And you've tried contacting him directly,
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Sophia pressed, trying to be heard above the hound, her
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hand hovering over the doorknob. Abigail nodded. Every day at
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three pm, when the mail comes, Sophia nodded, opening the door.
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The smell was undeniable. Decomposing flesh was somewhere near by.
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Over the howling barks of the dog, she could still
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hear that growling noise. The door creaked open, The dog
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whimpered and then fell silent, but the growling continued. Norman Roberts.
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She called into the trailer. No answer, this is Officer
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Cortes with Monticello p D. Still nothing but the faint
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growling and the hum of the t V. The living
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room housed an old TV, still running ads, a dilapidated
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recliner with a bowl of popcorn. Flies buzzed around the bowl,
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then dispersed as she walked forward. The room itself was sparse.
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There was furniture, a TV stand and a t V,
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a recliner, even a book shelf, but no books or decorations,
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no pictures, no posters, not even a loose receipt. Every
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step she took echoed around that blank room. The growling
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grew louder, but Sophia couldn't place where it was coming from. First,
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she searched the room to her right, a bedroom. She
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walked slightly uphill against the setting, foundation boards creaking underfoot.
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The bed wasn't a real bed. It lacked a frame
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and was really only a mattress on the floor. A line,
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a nylon cord like the kind used to contain a dog,
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was bolted to the floor near the mattress and extended
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to the door frame of the room. No pictures or
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anything to make the room homie, just the mattress and
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the cord. The windows were enclosed with boards nailed from
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the inside. Hank, the dog, began to whimper when he
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heard the floorboards creak. Sophia called back to the station, Nancy,
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I need you to stay on the line with me.
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Her eyes followed the cord from the far end of
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the room to the door she was standing at, and
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she could still hear Hank's whimpering now and excited yelping,
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as well as the constant grumbling. In that bare bedroom,
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