In short
Point Pine Oaks, a supernatural apartment building in the town of Point Pine, where new apartments appear on the 13th and residents are non-human. The episode centers on the “Every 13th of the month, a new apartment appears in my building” entry, plus series lore that explains the building’s floors, recurring deaths, and a time-loop/recursion affecting humans.
Guest backgrounds
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Key claims
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- In Point Pine Oaks, apartments appear without residents “moving in,” and non-human residents occupy specific floors.
- Humans are not allowed to live in Point Pine Oaks; leaving results in banishment, and dying outside causes you to wake up back in Point Pine.
- A time/loop effect keeps repeating around noon for the new apartment’s “owner/landlord” Eric and his family, implying something about humans being placed incorrectly.
Notable examples
- Floor breakdown: dead outsiders (1st), wide-eyed green-skinned creatures running the farmer’s market (2nd), child tooth collectors (3rd), 2017 bell-tower dead (4th), “invisible vampires” (5th).
- New 6th-floor tenants: Gwen/Laura and kids; they appear normal but are trapped in a repeating sequence.
- Series crossover: Lee (from the parade story) appears; Cody and Reed are tied to the parade and sacrifices; the episode later shows Cody being locked out when the parade begins.
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Chapters
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0:00 to 0:55
Delve into the mysterious Point Pine Oaks and its eerie residents.
“Chronic migraine is 15 or more headache days a month, each lasting 4 hours or more.”
Exploring Point Pine: The Premise
4:43 to 7:30
Delve into the mysterious Point Pine Oaks and its eerie residents.
“It's been a while since we've done a long series like this.”
The Residents of Point Pine Oaks
7:30 to 10:40
Uncover the diverse and strange inhabitants of Point Pine Oaks.
“Because the first one had nothing to do with the apartment complex.”
The Horrors Within Point Pine
10:40 to 14:03
Explore the terrifying details of the building's haunting history.
“On the fifth floor are the invisible vampires, but we don't talk about them.”
Introduction to Point Pine's New Residents
14:03 to 19:03
Explore the eerie interactions with the new residents in the Point Pine building.
“that was like nails on a chalkboard at 600 % volume.”
The Mystery of Point Pine
19:04 to 25:56
Delve into the strange occurrences and the nature of the town's inhabitants.
“It's a small town in the middle of nowhere.”
The Mystery of Point Pine
25:57 to 28:09
Delve into the strange occurrences and the nature of the town's inhabitants.
“Got off and made my way down to the doors, stopping as I reached out to open it.”
The Mystery of Point Pine
28:17 to 29:44
Delve into the strange occurrences and the nature of the town's inhabitants.
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The Mystery of Point Pine
29:48 to 30:09
Delve into the strange occurrences and the nature of the town's inhabitants.
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A Strange Encounter in Point Pine
30:09 to 31:36
Explore the eerie occurrences and supernatural elements in Point Pine.
“Footsteps approached and then the door opened up in front of me.”
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Discussion of the Supernatural Loop
31:36 to 32:32
Delve into the analysis of the time loop and its implications for characters.
“So what do you think that loop is for them?”
Thoughts on Lee Cronin's Work
32:32 to 34:31
Engage in a humorous critique of Lee Cronin's movies and narrative style.
“I will say this one felt a bit campier compared to the first one.”
Cody's Return and the Town's Reaction
34:31 to 39:48
Examine the arrival of Cody and the community's mixed feelings towards him.
“Or, actually, more realistically, because it's a YouTube comment, it was not bad.”
Chaos at the Farmer's Market
39:48 to 42:00
Experience the tension and supernatural elements at the farmer's market.
“There were a lot of people around today, more than usual at least.”
Point Pine's Chorus of Voices
42:00 to 46:09
Experience the eerie atmosphere as the protagonist runs from a haunting melody.
“Cody and Reed must have noticed too because they stopped talking and looked around.”
Point Pine's Chorus of Voices
46:17 to 47:29
Experience the eerie atmosphere as the protagonist runs from a haunting melody.
“It unlocks new ways for you to pay get rewarded and easily grow or manage your money on your own terms Oh, oh yeah.”
The Day the Angel Came
47:29 to 56:00
An angel descends into Point Pine to prevent a looming disaster.
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The Unusual Burger Joint
56:00 to 1:00:00
Explore the quirky menu and atmosphere of a fictional burger restaurant.
“I'm just looking for a burger with fries.”
The Story Behind Point Pine
1:00:00 to 1:04:48
Delve into the mysterious origins and eerie elements of the Point Pine narrative.
“If I didn't see a Jeep Patriot drive through the front doors of that place.”
Meet the Collectors of Point Pine
1:04:48 to 1:10:01
Learn about the unusual collectors in Point Pine and their strange habits.
“If I listen really closely, I can hear the worried conversations of the other patients.”
Lee's Encounter and the Collectors
1:10:01 to 1:11:47
Lee navigates unsettling interactions with Mary Lou and the collectors in Point Pine.
“Mary Lou sighed again, then reached out and placed her hand on my arm.”
Family Conversations About the Visitor
1:11:48 to 1:14:04
Lee's family discusses the eerie warnings and rumors about the visitor and the collectors.
“and set the pie down on the kitchen table.”
The Mysterious Flyer and the Visitor's Arrival
1:14:05 to 1:16:48
A flyer warning residents about the visitor causes fear and anxiety leading up to his arrival.
“My parents spent the majority of the day questioning what Mary Lou and the rest of the collectors were talking about.”
The Visitor's Creepy Presence
1:16:49 to 1:19:08
Lee experiences the unsettling presence of the visitor and the eerie morning silence breaks with a scream.
“Finally, the town alarms went off and I climbed out of bed and made my way downstairs.”
The Horrifying Scene on the Lawn
1:19:09 to 1:23:36
The community confronts a horrifying scene involving the Humphreys family and a twisted flyer.
“Does that mean the Humphreys like suffocate because they don't have noses or mouths or are they just like kept alive in the state?”
The Dancing Bears: A New Threat
1:23:37 to 1:24:03
The town faces a bizarre and menacing presence of dancing bears that escalates into chaos.
The Terrifying Teddy Bear Incident
1:24:03 to 1:26:54
Experience a chilling encounter with a seemingly innocent dancing bear that reveals a gruesome secret.
“I stepped back and waited, but nothing happened.”
The Transformation into a Clown
1:26:54 to 1:29:37
Witness the horrifying transformation of the bear into a clown and the chaos that ensues.
“I looked up to see that the dancing bear on the street corner across from ours had also fallen over.”
Discussion on the Anomalous Beings
1:29:37 to 1:32:28
Engage in a dialogue about the nature and motivations of the supernatural creatures in Point Pine.
“Do you want to give us a hot hot hot impression?”
Cassandra's Fear of Pumpkins
1:32:28 to 1:36:57
Explore the backstory of Cassandra Wolfhard and her irrational fear of pumpkins amidst the town's strange happenings.
“Due to recent violent events, pumpkins are no longer allowed in Point Pine.”
Aftermath of Pumpkin Destruction
1:36:57 to 1:38:03
Delve into the aftermath of Cassandra's encounter with pumpkins and the mysterious pumpkin monster.
“She kept crying and saying that the pumpkins were going to want revenge.”
Cassandra's Encounter with the Pumpkin Monster
1:38:03 to 1:45:14
Cassandra, in a hospital gown, runs from a pumpkin monster, causing chaos in the neighborhood.
“someone called the police claiming that there was a girl in a hospital gown wailing and running barefoot down the street it was Cassandra and when they caught up to her she said she was running from the pumpkin monster.”
Aftermath of the Pumpkin Incident
1:45:15 to 1:47:35
The town reacts to Cassandra's tragic accident with pumpkins and her haunting presence.
“The girl who's afraid of pumpkins gets tortured with pumpkins, and then Pumpkin Monster gets her.”
Meeting Robert Ford in the Woods
1:47:36 to 1:52:00
A character gets lost in the woods and meets Robert Ford, a mythical child from Point Pine's history.
“Cold air had pretty much killed my buzz at this point and the fear began to creep in.”
The Dark History of Point Pine
1:52:00 to 1:58:20
Discover the unsettling origin story of Point Pine and its secrets.
“I suppose our problems are different then.”
Confrontation and Consequences
1:58:20 to 2:02:48
Explore the dire consequences of the settlers' beliefs and actions.
“You know how you have to hide, and then you know where to hide, but they didn't know anything.”
Reflecting on the Narrative
2:02:48 to 2:05:04
Engage in a discussion about the series and potential future directions.
“that's the end she should upload that one that one was really good what the fuck is going on with Cody well Cody's like a harbinger of something he either is what happened though To what?”
Speculation and Theories
2:05:04 to 2:06:00
Speculate on character connections and unresolved questions in the story.
“I do think the Point Pine series works best, in my opinion, as I like the connection between all the characters.”
Exploring Point Pine's Narrative Depths
2:06:00 to 2:08:36
The hosts discuss the interconnected stories within the Point Pine series and their impact on character attachment.
Excitement for Future Installments
2:08:36 to 2:09:16
The hosts express their enthusiasm for more content from the Point Pine series and engage in playful banter about it.
“Aren't you just the luckiest little duck, huh?”
Excitement for Future Installments
2:10:42 to 2:11:06
The hosts express their enthusiasm for more content from the Point Pine series and engage in playful banter about it.
“Close your eyes, exhale, feel your body relax, and let go of whatever you're carrying today.”
Transcript
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1:45welcome back to creep cast we are going to be doing something i think i don't think we've ever done this before we're going back so we've read things before we're like that was fun and usually we don't go into the sequels or anything this is the first time i think we've gone back into a series i know people have wanted us to go back into like the tales from the gas station series people want us to finish the the person the thing in my basement whatever and all that stuff but this was one that we were pretty excited and we've been talking to the author uh gabby and she even gave us a little exclusive so she did sweeten the pot yeah so if you'll remember a while back we read a story called let me get it right uh every month the parade would pass through my hometown but we were never allowed to look at it.
2:27We read that story and it was pretty awesome. It was about a group of kids who there's a parade that passes through town and the parents tell all the kids they can't go outside so then a group of them sneak out and it seems to be we never see what it is but it seems to be a sort of sacrifice saying that the kids inducted into it's like this small town has to appease some ancient deity. Very cool. We also read two other stories from her in that same episode uh one of which is the most up most upvoted story on no sleep my sugar daddy asked me for weird favors and uh she wrote the story about the guy who follows me everywhere about the guy that turns around just counts down and we read another one of her stories about if you see me please kill me about the girl who had the boyfriend who slowly became her um so every recording yeah yes and more recent recording everything we've read from gabby's been awesome uh and everyone who has read the rest of her stuff has been like guys you like the first part of the point pine series the uh the one about the parade you have to read the rest of it well the reason that's what we're going to do the reason that we're even diving back into this too is that the patreon was they were like you should read the rest yeah we had a we had a poll on patreon what you what like series you wanted to see while we're recording in person and overwhelmingly point pine one everyone wanted to see the rest of point pine so we reached out to Gabby and Gabby sent us you know the whole series said we could read it and she gave us another Point Pine entry she's never posted called the history of Point Pine so I'm pretty excited well the first one we're reading today is every 13th of the month a new apartment appears in my building uh guys if you're listening on Apple Podcasts or Spotify please give us a nice rating there or consider listening there it does help us out and also you know uh to our patrons thank you for voting on this for our read today and also if you're looking to get some extra content and also support the channel please consider signing up to the patreon it does help us out and uh also gabby uh her reddit profile name is e-a-p-a-t-b-p um i have no idea what that means or how to pronounce it but it'll be linked in the description you can read all of her stories uh we're obviously very grateful for her being so cool and giving us exclusive content like this so as always but especially now, be sure to support the artist.
4:43Let's do it. Let's get into it. Are you ready to begin? It's been a while since we've done a long series like this. Yeah. I know these are usually, I wouldn't say bite-sized stories, but they're like little quick hits that kind of come in and out real quick, like little fun vignettes. But there are, I think we're reading like eight or nine of them. I think eight. So strap in. Strap in. Let's begin. Every 13th of the month, a new apartment appears in my building. I inherited Point Pine Oaks from my grandfather after my father wanted nothing to do with it. I, on the other hand, was broke and in need of a place to stay and a job, and well, beggars can't be choosers.
5:25So that's the answer to the question that I get asked any time that I'm out and about on the street of our town. How on earth did you get stuck with that place? Everyone can see what Point Pine Oaks is, which is an apartment building that is six stories tall, with 12 apartments on each floor. The outside of the building looks pretty normal. It's just a brick building at the end of a briar road, which is a cul-de-sac that contains no other buildings on the street except for Point Pine Oaks. My grandfather bought the building in late 2013. It had been abandoned for over three decades, and the town was eager for someone to buy it.
6:00It became his passion project, and he fixed up in January of 2014. And the building soon became the biggest apartment building in all of Point Pine. Any resident of Point Pine knows that the Oaks are anything but normal, however. For starters, no one ever decides to move in. If people want an apartment, they have to go all the way to the opposite side of town where the apartment complex is. You see, people don't move into the Oaks. They just kind of appear. Every 13th of the month, a new apartment appears until each floor has 12 rooms. And then, the following year, a new floor appears to accommodate the next 12 apartments.
6:42Oh, and I suppose I should also mention, none of the residents are human. At least, not normal, living humans. My grandfather made it very clear to me that humans do not live in Point Pine Oaks, with the exception of the owner, which is now me. he never explained to me why humans are not allowed in the oaks and i never really asked because it just felt like the kind of rule that you follow without asking any questions seems like a kind of story we're leaning into the tales of the gas station we're leaning into the vampire hotel i think uh so given that our first story in the series was about a child whose parents had a role for them if i had to guess every point pine entry is going to be from a different point of view in the town.
7:26Is it going to be in the town or is it going to be in the apartment complex? The town. Because the first one had nothing to do with the apartment complex. I thought the first one was a house. No, the first one was kids at school who snuck out to see the parade. I thought it was them looking at the parade from their house. I can't remember. No, they run over to the side of the bank and they lay down and they all close their eyes but one of them looks and they all come over and take that kid. So I imagine each story in the series is going to be from a different kid's point of view. Right. I mean, that makes sense.
7:57It's like, what the fuck is the West Side? Not West Side Stories, but it's like the school. Wayside, Upside Down, Sideways. Yeah, Wayside School for whatever. Sideways Stories from Wayside School. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kind of like that vibe. Yeah. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, it's a different perspective. I only know children literature by that. Yeah, I know. I can tell. I can only ever reference children's literature. Wish I had something else, but sadly I don't. But there's another horror story that follows that same convention. I can't think of, uh, there's a Caryllian frequency, but there's some TV show where it's like the same setting, but different perspectives throughout.
8:31Anyway, the entire first floor houses people who have died outside of the town. You see, any time a prior resident of Point Pine dies, they wake up again here at Point Pine. Usually they're putting some secluded house up in the mountains, but for reasons unknown, they all ended up here at the Point Pine Oaks in 2014. The second floor houses the creatures with the eyes that are too wide, teeth that are too sharp, and skin that is too green. They first appeared in Point Pine in 2015 and have been in charge of the farmer's market since. They're relatively nice and tend to mind their own business, but that doesn't mean that they don't still freak me out every time I see them in the building.
9:11Their incredibly long arms dragging the floor. On the third floor is where the collectors live. the leader of the collectors is a 10 year old mary lou birmingham mary lou is the one who collects children's teeth of course she doesn't take them right out of their mouths that would be horrifying she sneaks into their homes after their baby teeth fall out and takes them from under their pillows instead like the tooth fairy most of the collectors are children with the exception of old man jones who is an old man as the name would indicate we pieced that one together Yeah, I figured that one out. Thank you.
9:48Some of the children collect dead bugs. Others collect less unsettling things, like flowers, but some collect the dirt from graves in the cemetery. On the fourth floor, live all the people who died in 2017 when the bell tower appeared in Windsor Park. No one ever figured out what the deal was with that bell tower, but exactly 12 people died that year as soon as they saw it. Once the people of Point Pine picked up on the pattern, they stopped going into Windsor Park. Of course, after that, the bell on the tower would just ring every month and still manage to kill more people, but that's a different story.
10:21I like to think, too, that if this is the first entry of the story, it'd be kind of cool if that was what was setting up every story. I feel like Windsor Park got mentioned in the first one. Oh, maybe. I mean, don't ask me. I can't fucking remember anything. But I will say, like, using this as a fun catalyst of being like, here's all these interesting people that live in this apartment and then now every other story subsequently afterwards is going to be the happening to why those people died and showed up here that'd be kind of fun well it might be that she made the first story the parade one and just use point pine as a filler name and then everyone was like this is great you should write more in there harry was point the first point pine thing that we read was it the parade was the first story but was that the first first story of it or is the or is the apartment building the first story that the parade is the first story the parade is the first story of the series because she's we read other story like shorter stories from her yeah that weren't part of the point pine series yeah yeah but she was saying so the um the parade was the first story and then we're gonna go back and read all the ones that are like in that kind of world and then so i have them laid out in the sheet in order from the author of like how it should go plus the bonus story at the end yeah yeah yeah yeah um but the what might have happened is that first story she made point by was just to fill her name and everyone's like this is awesome you should write more there she's like all right i'll make a series and this is like it's the second entry but it's the kickoff to the series by all this extra lore but i almost feel like windsor park's familiar why don't uh why don't we ask her editor put it up who would have thought i i wouldn't because i don't know yet because that's in the future well yeah we can it just popped up for them but about in the when the post goes up it'd be in the past for me but it's currently in the future yeah well that At that median point in time, who would have thought?
12:31On the fifth floor are the invisible vampires, but we don't talk about them. Well, all right. I don't blame you. Invisible vampires? You're invisible and you're a vampire? That's a deadly combo. That's a rough thing to deal with. That's a problem. The sixth floor appeared this year, and so far, tenants of that floor were not of one specific species, and they don't seem to have anything in common. First family to appear is no mouths and communicate by somehow talking inside my head. February, one of the sacrifices from the Point Pine Parade showed up. March, it was a headless man. April brought a family of...
13:08Kook... Kook... Kookies? What is it? Kookies? Kookies? Kook... Kookies? Kook... Kook... Kook... Kooks? I don't fucking know, dude. April brought a family of kookies that almost gave me a heart attack the first time I saw them. It's a... El kookuy is a mythical shapeshifting boogeyman in Spanish and Latin American folklore used to scare children into behaving or sleeping. Oh, of course. Not sure if that's the... It's also pronounced coco as well. I don't know. I don't know if that's the correct name. Cocu? Just coco? That's what a millisecond Google search did, but I have no idea. April brought a family of Cocos that almost gave me a heart attack the first time that I saw them.
13:52They were by far the most horrifying residents of the building. Their huge red eyes that rattled around in their skulls, their decaying black skin that was crawling with maggots. Upon opening their mouths, the building shook with a horrible screeching sound that was like nails on a chalkboard at 600 % volume. Sounds like Lee Cronin's The Mummy.
14:14Does that not literally sound like Lee Cronin's The Mummy? The mummy. It was so loud. Gosh. Also, the rattling, the dead skin. Lee Cronin's the mummy. Lee Cronin's the point pine place. Real quick, not to - Don't bring him into this. It didn't feel like a creepy monster, though. Like, the and then nature of, like, she falls in the window. Oh, Lee Cronin's the mummy? And then someone throws - Cut to someone throwing up. If you didn't - Went through the walls, and you're just like, what? If you didn't attach the mummy to it, I would have believed - Well, I guess I still could - If it was like, this is a random town, this is a ritual they do, I'd be like, they probably took this from a creepypasta.
14:52Because it did have a creepypasta vibe, too. Lee Cronin's the creepypasta. Lee Cronin's the creepypasta. Put in a very loud sound effect. Lee Cronin's the creepcast.
15:14Don't bring him in. in may a seemingly more normal looking family moved in which terrified me just a bit more than the cuckoos had until they invited me to dinner and i watched their lower jaws drop to their shoulders as each one ate an entire raw chicken in one bite june brought a demon who would routinely set fires in the building but other than that it appeared to stay out of everyone else's way last month brought the wendigos which was which were by far the hardest to deal with we had to come up with an agreement that they would only eat the undead folks on the first floor since they would just wake up in their apartments again the next day and therefore they wouldn't technically be hurting anybody.
15:56Today the new apartment didn't appear until noon. This was odd because they usually appear right at the midnight on the 13th. I stood on the sixth floor staring at the empty wall until a door suddenly appeared. Apartment number 68. I took a few deep breaths to prepare myself for whatever hideous monster would answer the door and then lifted my hand to knock coming what called from inside i heard footsteps approach and then the door opened up in front of me hi there was a woman standing in the apartment she looked normal enough tall and blonde with the tattoo of a rose on her left forearm uh hi i'm the owner of this building the landlord my name's eric i extended my hand out bracing myself for some sort of heat or coldness or shock I'm Gwen.
16:39Nice to meet you. I shook my hand with a strong grip. It was a normal handshake, but I wasn't going to relax just yet. I needed to give it a few minutes to know what exactly these new residents were. Oh, come in. I'll introduce you to my family. Slowly followed her into the apartment. I looked around. It seemed pretty normal. Again, all the apartments seemed normal. It's things that live inside that aren't normal. Hey guys, come out here. Gwen called into the apartment. Would you like some water? Oh, no thanks. I turn at the sound of footsteps to see two kids and another woman walk out into the kitchen.
17:11This is my wife, Laura, and our kids, Kimberly and Christopher. Nice to meet you. Laura stuck her hand out and I shook it. Again, it was normal. I'm Eric, the owner of the building. Nice to meet you. There's a brief moment of awkward silence. So, uh, do you have any questions? Kids took off as I stood there with Gwen and Laura. Oh yeah, so what are the rules? Are we allowed to, you know, paint the walls and hang stuff up? Oh yeah, I mean you can decorate this place however you want. Awesome! So, if you don't mind me asking... What are you? Excuse me? W - What are you? I mean, I don't mean to be offensive or anything, I'd just like to know.
17:49Lauren and Gwen exchange looks. Like, lesbians? Are you allowed to ask that? Gwen asks, narrowing her eyebrows. No, I mean like, what are you? I know you're not human. Lauren's - Eric is either extremely based or -
18:07Lee Cronin's the Eric. Sigma, Sigma edit, like, no, but like, I know you're not human. No, I mean, I don't care, I'm just saying, are you guys like, what, bug people? No, the, uh, yeah, Lee Cronin's the lesbians. This is an average conversation that I have on every day, and then I step out of the Subaru and it reinforces the lesbian claims. I thought you were gonna say this is an average conversation Nick has every day. No, this is - So what are you? So what are you, people? Laura laughed. Not human. What do you think we are, like mythical creatures? Well, I don't know. That's why I'm asking. I mean, your neighbors are Wendigos and there's a family of Cocos down the hall.
18:47Is this some kind of joke? Is it because we're new? No. Well, then we're just regular humans. I stared at them. Haven't you ever seen a human before? Not a regular one, at least. Not in this building. Okay, now you're freaking me out. Do you not know where you are? Well, sure, we're in Colorado, right? No, this isn't Colorado. What do you mean? Where are we then? Point Pine. Where? You're in Point Pine. It's a small town in the middle of nowhere. Do you think it's people that don't know that they're dead yet? Could be people that don't know that they're dead. Little Beetlejuice meme. Could be a teleport thing.
19:26Could be a time limit. The Anne Hathaway and Ian McGregor movie. Guys, our house? Our street? Our neighborhood has been... ...has been... is gone! I have to keep explaining the references. And then E. McGregor running away from a dinosaur? Last night we went to go see The Mummy. Lee Cronin's The Mummy. Lee Cronin's The Mummy. And it was awful. It was terrible. And we did put up a... We put a video on Patreon of us reacting to it. It was so bad that we recorded us talking about it. It's like a 40 minutes of me and Hunter talking about how bad the movie was. parking lot. Yeah. So if you want to pay money for that, it's on Patreon.
20:07That's just more so we didn't know where else to put it. That's catharsis for us. But it was so bad. That's why I keep saying Lee Cronin's the blank. And also there was a trailer before it of, I kid you not, Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway whose street is teleported to a dinosaur land. And now it's a normal American suburb, but there's dinosaurs now. Oh my God, run!
20:38I thought all of the trailers looked so bad. Which honestly, which hold on. That one can be campy fun. The potential to have a street teleported to dinosaur land. How are they going to play? You know the problem with Lee Cronin's The Mummy? I mean, there's a lot of problems. But a problem was it did not know what it was. It was far too serious for the campiness of the story and stuff like that. Yeah, I think that it was trying to do like a Evil Dead 2 black comedy thing. But the thing with Evil Dead 2 is that it's like slapstick humor with Ash. No, it should have been black comedy, but it wasn't.
21:07No, that's what I'm saying. I think that it should have been. Yeah, yeah. Or like the original Mummy, the Brendan Fraser one. That movie knew what it was. I would say that's like a horror comedy. Yeah, exactly. But when it wants to be funny, it knows what it's doing. With like beating and characters like that. The trailers, this is going to, sorry to derail this, but the trailers to this were so bad. Heinous. I seriously believe The Passenger looks like one of the worst movies. It probably will be. Let me finish my thought. Not all time, but the year or whatever. The dinosaur one. There's no way that film takes itself too seriously.
21:43100 % it does. There's no way. 100%. If Jurassic Park doesn't take itself that seriously. If it was Anne Hathaway and Mark Wahlberg, I would agree. Okay, yeah. Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor. They're playing that to be like, these are serious. These are actors. Yeah. That kind of thing. It's going to be this whole story about family, too. Yeah, yeah. Don't get me wrong. It's not going to be a grisly horror thing. Yeah. But I do believe it's going to. They're going to try to do like a less. Because Jurassic Park was kind of campy and fun. Yeah, it knew what it was. Yeah. But it's not going to be that.
22:19I don't think it'll be that. I think it'll at least match Jurassic Park. I think they're going to try to be scary. Even Jurassic World, they still knew what they were with all the dramatic shots and action segments and stuff. I don't think I've seen Jurassic World. I didn't like any of the sequels, but the first Jurassic World, it was fun. I knew what it wanted to be. All I know is the passenger. I, editor, put up, is the passenger a... Is that a creepypasta? That is a creepypasta. That has to be a creepypasta. Well, yeah, it's the old story of the hitchhiker in the passenger seat. You're driving alone at night.
22:48Well, that's why at first I was like, oh my God. You see him doing that every time you drive right. At first I was like, oh my god, is this a fucking left-right game movie? That's what I thought when I first saw it. Because the whole thing, too, is like, oh, don't look at him. Yeah. Right? So then the whole thing is that it keeps doing the repeat. Yeah. I was like, oh, shit. I don't know if I called it. I actually got kind of hyped for a second. I was like, oh, damn. And then it cuts to this. Vroom. And then the third one. And he does. Also, I hate that every fucking horror movie trailer has to be people just screaming.
23:19That's all it is. all of them. Can there not be any... That's why sometimes you're like... Not Kane Pixels the Backrooms. And you're like, oh, I have a good feeling about this trailer is whenever it's like, oh, it's a horror film, but it's not just screaming at my face the whole time. Also, I about lost my fucking mind when that old bitch from Insidious popped up in that trailer. I was like, oh, God. You have a gift. You're like, oh, God. There was a trailer for a horror movie and it was like, what's this? ghost family and then the insidious medium pops up. As soon as I saw it from Jason Bloom and James Wan, I was like, oh, fuck.
24:01Well, at the end of the Lee Cronin's The Mummy, that showing up in the credits was the most sense the night had made. When I have to sit through the 75 minute long intro that Blumhouse makes you sit through getting on other films. That's how I knew. That Blumhouse tag is horrible. Oh, it's the worst. It starts with the most cheesy Michael Myers. Remember all of our fucking box. That's Jason Blum basically taking a giant mirror, putting it up on the wall, and he's just jacking off and coming all over the mirror. I think that... I'm Jason Blum! I think early in the studio, there was a... I liked the first Insidious when it came out.
24:34I thought it was fine. It's when it became a million sequels. I was like... It's hard to look back with anything in hindsight now with what has happened. I know. I get it. You know? I get it. Yeah. So, it is what it is. Also, Point Pine. Yeah. Laura ran to the window in the living room and pulled the curtains back and gasped. What is it? My ass turned around. Their window had a view of some of the buildings in the town below, along with a giant sign right outside. Welcome to Point Pine. Population unknown. I don't understand. Yeah, me neither. How did we get here? I shrugged. I don't really know how people get here.
25:16They sort of just show up. Okay, then how do we get to Colorado? Laura asked, backing away from the window. You don't. What do you mean? You can't willingly leave Point Pine once you're here. Everyone who leaves gets banished, and even then, when you die out there, you just wake up and you're stuck here again. Went inside, and Laura ran her hands through her black hair. So you don't know why we're here? Shook my head. But if you really are just human, then this can't be good. After a few minutes of silence, I left the apartment and decided to go outside and get some fresh air. Just, alright, I'll leave them with that.
25:51To come to whatever conclusion they were. Well, I must be on my way. I stepped onto the elevator and pressed the button to the first floor. Got off and made my way down to the doors, stopping as I reached out to open it. I looked down at the watch on my wrist. Still noon, but that wasn't possible. I'd been up in the apartment for at least 20 minutes, but that wasn't the only thing that was wrong. It was pitch black outside. I couldn't even see the sidewalk right outside the door, or the giant tree that was a few feet in front of the building. I pressed my forehead against the glass, squinting to see if I could make out something in the darkness.
26:28Suddenly, someone crashed right into the glass, causing me to jump back at least a few feet in fright. Holy shit! Hey, open the door! I walked closer and realized that I recognized the person who was outside. It was Lee. everyone knew who he was since he had lost his eyes to the point pine parade years ago lee open the door i guarantee you lee was the kid from the first one because i can't remember what happened to him if his eyes got taken or if he was taken away but i guess he lived and his eyes were just oh yeah yeah yeah lee cronins no the lee no it's time to talk about something scary your health i know i don't go in the doctor as much as i should if i'm feeling sick i'll just lie in bed and sleep it away but that's only because i don't want to have to deal with the appointments insurance and blah blah blah blah blah that's why i have zocdoc zocdoc is a free app and website where you can search and compare high quality in-network doctors choose the right one for your needs and click to instantly book an appointment we're talking about in-network appointments with more than a hundred thousand health care providers across every specialty from mental health to dental health eye care to skin care and much more and the nice thing about zoc doc is that you can filter for doctors that take your insurance are nearby and are highly rated it's super easy to use and you can find an appointment time that works for you with the right doctor for your needs plus zoc doc appointments happen fast typically within just 24 to 72 hours of booking you can even score same day appointments you don't want to admit it but you should probably see a doctor so stop putting off those doctor's appointments and go to zocdoc.com creepcast to find and instantly book a top rated doctor today that's z-o-c-d-o-c.com slash creepcast zocdoc.com creepcast thank you zoc doc for sponsoring the episode back to our spooky story
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30:53I reached out and knocked. Coming. I called from inside. Footsteps approached and then the door opened up in front of me. Hi. Gwen? Yeah, who are you? Uh, Eric, we just spoke. I'm sorry, you must have been confused there's someone else. I didn't reply. Staring into the apartment as Laura and the kids came out. That was at least an hour ago, but the same chain of events keeps repeating every few minutes, and the time has not moved past noon. I don't know how to undo it. I don't even know what it is. I'm pretty sure I know what's causing it, though. Humans shouldn't live in Point Pine Oaks. Cool.
31:35All right, well, that's the first one. So what do you think that loop is for them? I think that people aren't supposed to be there. It's a supernatural, you know, hotel, effectively. Sure, but they definitely were put there. Yes, something put them there. or something went wrong, and I think it may coincide with the guy running to the door and something. There's like a darkness over the town. Maybe lead at something he's not supposed to, and now some entity's pulling him back. Maybe that glitch caused people to appear in the new hotel room or something like that. I like the tie-in to the parade earlier.
32:06Yeah, I feel like it was not very invasive. If you've never read the parade one, you still weren't lost. It's not beating you over the head with like, oh, you have to go read this one. Yeah, I agree. I like that one. Hopefully we see Eric again. I'd like to know how Eric... Because Eric's just a regular guy, right? Yeah. To an extent. He's a regular guy who lives in a supernatural town. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like I said before, it's like adult gravity falls. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I will say this one felt a bit campier compared to the first one. I thought the first one was a lot more like, oh, the parade's coming, don't fucking look at it.
32:41You know, this one's very much just like, there's ghouls, dragons, and goblins walking around. We're all pals. Yeah. They creep me out, but it is what it is. And then the lesbians come, and that's when danger truly starts. Yeah, I know you despise fun. How many times have you said that in your life? You? I looked at the camera of the viewer. Lee Cronin's the lesbians. God. That actually... That would be incredible. I honestly, I would go see Lee Cronin's the lesbians. Lee Cronin's the lesbians. Either just back in Cairo again. They're in Egypt. What the hell is this?
33:21They're just throwing up and there's fucking pus and everything everywhere. It was one of the grossest movies I've seen. Maybe not one of the grossest, but I was just needlessly like, oh my God, come on. It was assault on the senses. It was so loud. It was just not nice to look at. A lesbian shitting on the floor and then crawling, punching through the floorboards and crawling out from the room. i i i'm willing to believe that not everyone was seeing it but they should have at least had one person spot her coming through the thing i mean obviously how is there not one there's just no way in a quiet yeah do you see something come through the the ceiling all out of context i you know what though i'm glad that it's gonna be like what are they talking actually do you think that we're making it more we're making it more well the patreon appealing to go see lee cronin's the mummy so you know what we're talking about the patreon video will be out before this comes out Oh, yeah.
34:13Well, not everyone who watches this is a patron. I'm saying that. That's true. I'm saying that people are going to be like, little girl crawling through the floorboard. What are you talking? Like, that kind of thing. No. I think they're going to be like, so the movie's bad. Got it. We'll see. I wouldn't sell Lee Cronin's The... I bet you, Ethan, there's going to be some... Yeah, so I actually ended up watching Lee Cronin's The Mummy because of the podcast. And, yeah, those guys were right. Or, actually, more realistically, because it's a YouTube comment, it was not bad. Yeah. It was scary. I actually liked it better than all the other movies.
34:46I couldn't believe how bad the dad actor was. Yeah. He's in some other stuff. I've seen him in the midsummer. Yep. Yeah, you're right. Which also, I want to tell you a story off camera. I guess just add her. You can cut it.
35:07Interesting. All right. There's a new guy in town and we don't like him. yep next entry new guy in town we don't like him how you doing isaiah doing good all right need anything
35:33we don't really know when he got here he was just here this morning although i guess he could have gotten here sometime last night or even earlier today but of course we wouldn't know since we don't wake up until 8 13 a.m i guess if he got here before then he would have snucked in unnoticed we don't like him i can't speak for everybody but everyone i've spoken to would agree we aren't too fond of strangers popping in out of the blue makes us nervous how did he find us we don't know why he's here although i've heard that he's been claiming that he's from here still he's been out there in the outside world for way too long new to us even if we aren't new to him i heard someone say that his name was cody i don't know anyone named cody and i've lived here for over 10 years cody is hyperlinked what happens when you click on it oh it takes you back to the first one was cody one of the characters in there um cody cody uh i mean i'm just scrolling lee was the person in that story i see who looked um oh cody was the the protagonist from that first story it seems like yeah because they're saying look at us cody do what i thought his name was eric i thought it was well yeah he's right cody is the protagonist i think and then he went out with some friends and erica's the oh in the parade in the parade story okay sorry yeah cody lee cody and his friends went out cody was the one writing the first story lee was the one who looked and as we saw got his eyes taken so that what happened is he probably left and now he came back to point pine and people are like i don't fucking know you and he's like i'm from here yeah yeah oh yeah okay at the end he says uh uh minutes after we left my parents acted like point pine never existed so the story ends with his parents getting him out of there because he saw the parade yeah i see and now he's come back later on i got it i first saw him while i was on my morning run he was walking up briar road road that leads to the point pine oaks and i stopped for a second watching him that's how i knew he wasn't from here anyone who's from here would know that point pine oaks has been stuck in a time loop for the past four months i'd also know that the point pine oaks doesn't take guests at least not guests who would walk in and ask for a room it's so funny it's like anyone from here knows about the time distortion that's kind of fun, though.
37:53I stood on the corner until he walked back down the road. What are you doing? I didn't used to be here. Gestured towards the Oaks. Yeah. I'm assuming it's not a normal apartment building. He said, walking closer to me. Right. I'm looking for someone. Think you can help me? I looked around the empty street. I don't know you. Yeah. I haven't been back here in 15 years. 15 years. Gosh, that's a long time. Not that much has changed, though. I said nothing. Anyway, I'm looking for my dad. He died about seven months ago. Well, if he's dead, then why are you looking for him? Don't you know where he is?
38:30In the ground somewhere? No? He stared at me. Everyone knows you never really leave Point Pine. He was right, but I wasn't going to help him. Sorry. I wouldn't even know where to start looking. That was a lie. I knew exactly where to start looking. He was probably in one of the houses up in the mountains or in the oaks. That's fine. I'll go find people that I know. They should still be here. Have fun with your walk. I watched as he walked away towards the center of town where most of the shops were. He stopped a few feet away and slowly turned back to look at me. Hey, has a parade happened this month?
39:05It made me nervous that he knew about that. No. I mumbled something that I didn't quite catch and continued walking. I was too anxious to finish my run, so I went home instead. I heard Cody's back. My father was on the phone as I walked into the kitchen. Haven't seen that boy in years. It's not like he managed to show up here. Crazy, ain't it? Looked up and saw me. I'll call you back. How was your run? Who's Cody? Just a boy. Was it cold out? I met him. Cody, I met him on my run. Sad. He's looking for his father. Right. Is he that Cody? Deli didn't want to talk about it. I'm going to the farmer's market.
39:49Hmm. There were a lot of people around today, more than usual at least. I walked around a few stands, trying my best to avoid the creature's green skin, wide eyes, and sharp teeth, which was hard since they were in charge of the farmer's market. I was at a produce stand when I saw Cody again. Everyone got quiet and started whispering among themselves. I hid behind a wooden pole before he saw me, and I didn't want to be seen speaking to him. Reed? Everyone looked towards Cody as he walked up to Reed, who was in the middle of buying something. Cody? So she did know him. Cody? Cody? Cody? Hey! Lee Cronin's the Reed.
40:30So she did know him, which meant he was telling the truth. He was from Point Pond. That still didn't seem to make anyone any friendlier towards him, though. I thought you... The parade... I knew Reed had been in the parade years ago, and it only just appeared in February of this year. Point Pine Oaks. Yeah, I'm back. I'm looking for my father. Do you have any idea where I could find him? He's at the Oaks. First floor. I see him from time to time. The Oaks? Yeah, but you can't go in there. I figured. I could tell him for you, though. I live there. What about Lee? He... He's somewhere around here.
41:05She was right. He was. Somewhere being the time loop at the Oaks. I wondered why she didn't specify that. That's interesting. So in the first story, we have the three characters, Lee, Cody, and Reed, who go. And Reed was the one who was in the parade, right? She's supposed to be the sacrifice. And that's the one who's mentioned in the last one. Like, one of the girls from, or one of the people that got sacrificed just showed up here, and that's Reed. But for some reason, she can come and go and isn't in the time loop. Probably because she's dead. Well, she also works at the, or she lives at the Oaks on the Hill, right?
41:41No, she lives in the apartment building. Yeah, she's the one that appeared. But I think probably because she's dead. It's only humans that are in the loop. Which would explain why it's Lee, the tenant, and the family upstairs. All the monsters can probably come and go. I looked around and I noticed that no one else was speaking. It was dead silent. Cody and Reed must have noticed too because they stopped talking and looked around. I don't think they like me much. He was right. We didn't. I saw him again later that day. so I was leaving the Point Pine library. I'd just returned some books and my father had checked out on gardening and I saw him talking to Mr.
42:18Terrence outside the Point Pine bakery. I stood on the steps of the library, watching. They seemed to be having a normal conversation. Mr. Terrence was laughing at something that Cody had said and it made me wary of him. I already didn't trust Cody. Now I don't trust Mr. Terrence. They continued to talk and I noticed other bystanders giving them weird looks. I decided that it was time for me to leave, and began walking down the steps and onto the sidewalk. That's when the chorus of voices started singing. I took off running immediately, as did the rest of the people standing around. I knew everyone would head for the Point Pine Bar first, since they had recently added locks to their doors, which meant it would get full, and I'd only have to go back and find somewhere else to hide.
43:03Point Pine Middle School was my best bet. It was about two minutes away if I ran fast enough, so I took off in that direction. I ran as the familiar melody filled my ears. It seemed like it was coming from all around me, above me, and below me. I ran faster, seeing the school in the distance. I'm pretty sure that's the parade, right? The parade's what the melody is, I think, yeah. Because they talked about in the parade that everyone hides, and that you have to find there was only a few buildings in town you could hide in when the parade was coming.
43:37Yeah. Yeah. I threw open the doors and walked in. There were only about 20 or so people in here, but I knew it would get full in no time. Sat down on the floor, trying to catch my breath. Marcus, can you watch the doors for me? The parade starts in exactly three minutes. Make sure you lock them and get everyone inside before then. Got back up and Mrs. Monroe handed me the keys. I walked over to the door, propping it open with my body as people ran inside the school. I could see more and more people coming down the street frantically running as the start of the parade got closer and closer Two minutes left Crowd of people had thinned out Now there were only a few people trickling in at the last minute One minute left I could see people coming in the distance and I squinted trying to make out who it was Fifty seconds As the person got closer, I saw it was none other than Cody Forty seconds Began to close the door Twenty seconds Cody picked up his speed, shouting for me to wait.
44:34I kept closing the door slowly. Wait, please! I watched as he got closer and closer, and time seemed to slow down as he desperately ran towards the door. I looked at the time. Ten seconds. Nine. Eight. Seven. Six. Five. I shut the door and locked it. Four. Cody banged on the small glass window. Let me in, please! He cried. Three. I let the small curtain fall and covered up the window. Two. Come on! One. I heard his footsteps as he ran away, but it was too late. There's nowhere else to go now. The parade had already begun. Who was that? Monroe asked. The new guy. He stayed quiet. So did everyone else in the school.
45:19Like I said, we don't like him. I wonder if, uh, do you think that he actually is gone? No, I'm sure he'll show up somewhere. I mean, he survived it once, right? for some reason. You just have to close your eyes and look away, it seems, if you can endure. That's interesting. I like that. It was like, we don't like him. There's this bitterness, and it's like, he may be from here, but he didn't stick around here. So then when he dies, no one has any sympathy for him. Like how isolated this community is, how weird they are of outsiders. Even people from there who've just been gone a while are not accepted.
45:52Probably fucking jealousy. A guy that was able to leave and then come back, They're like fuck this guy. I mean yeah, but I'm an outsider obviously, but I'm just yeah Yeah, you also see the love just like isolated Peoples where it's like you're not us Gone who cares? This episode sponsored by cash app cash app just released a new status for the way people actually spend called cash app green No way, that's awesome It unlocks new ways for you to pay get rewarded and easily grow or manage your money on your own terms Oh, oh yeah. Now when you spend at least$500 a month with Cash App card or Cash App Pay, you earn green status which unlocks benefits like up to$200 of free overdraft coverage.
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47:36No, that was a pretty good update. I like that one. That was fun. The next one's called The Day the Angel Came. Perfect. All right, well, Hunter, are you ready? Yes. For The Day the Angel Came, is I take a sip of my angel cum? No, don't. The rooftop of the Point Pine Hospital overlooks the town and the surrounding woods. In the distance, you can see the sign that welcomes you to Point Pine, although it's too far away to read from up here. Not that it matters. I already know what it says anyway. Welcome to Point Pine. Population unknown. People usually come up here to smoke. I don't smoke, but I like coming up here and looking down at all the people in town who were walking around running errands and whatnot.
48:21They look so small from up here, like ants. Sometimes I imagine a giant foot coming down from the sky and squishing everything in town. It's gruesome, I know, but I've always had an overactive imagination. Besides, it gets boring being in a hospital bed all the time. Beeping of the machines and the smell of antiseptic is enough to make anyone go crazy after a while, so I like to get away for some time. usually that means about 30 minutes before a nurse realizes that i'm missing i'm sure they know where i am by now and i think they like to give me some time before they come up to get me because they normally don't show up until about an hour after i get up here i'm not sure if they're allowed to do that but i appreciate it nonetheless but enough about me story ain't about me at least not really it's about the people of point pine it's about apollo i met apollo a few hours ago on the rooftop of the Point Pine Hospital.
49:17I'd been up there no more than 15 minutes, and I suddenly noticed him standing a few feet away from me, leaning over the edge, staring at the town below us. He was dressed in all black, including a black hat that covered most of his face, and dirty, worn-out boots. I was startled because I hadn't noticed anyone else out here when I came up. It was like he had just appeared out of nowhere. Given the number of odd things that occur in this town, I wouldn't be all that surprised if he had. He was smoking a cigarette, and the wind was blowing the smoke directly into my face. I stifled a cough and turned the other way.
49:52Don't know what it is yet, do they? It's over at him. They continued to look down at smoke. Again, blew it in my face and I tried not to cough. Excuse me? He turned to face me, but I couldn't make out the top half of his face due to the shadow caused by his hat. The doctors, they don't know what you got. He replied, taking another drag from the cigarette. This time, when he excelled and the smoke blew into my face, I coughed. He had an accent, but I couldn't quite place it. Sorry. He tossed the cigarette on the floor and used his heel to put it out. How do you know? I asked after a few minutes of silence.
50:26Because I know a lot of things about a lot of people. I stepped closer to him. Like what? I turned back towards the town below us and pointed off to the right. You see that man over there? In the brown coat, walking out of the library? I squinted and found the man that he was talking about. However, I couldn't tell who it was from up here. He killed his five-year-old son about two months ago and let his wife go to prison for it. Because they're so awful. People are pretty awful, yeah. You know Mr. Terrence? The psychic baker. Yeah, is he a murderer too? He shook his head. No, he's one of the good ones.
51:04But his mother used to torture his sister when they were younger. Mr. Terrence has a sister? Had. She's dead. Has been for a few years. Suicide. There were a few minutes of silence as we watched people walking through town. Who are you? Apollo. I nodded. Major Daphne. Nodded again. How do you know all these things? He sighed. Let's just say I'm not exactly human. So, what are you? An angel. An angel? Yeah, an angel. So, why are you here in Point Pine? Someone's going to do something really bad soon. I need to be here for that. Thought about all the bad things that happened here. Things like the parade and the time loop that lasted a few months.
51:50How bad? Worse than the parade and worse than the time loop. Stared at the people below us. Tiny, the ants, walking around town. Thought again about a giant foot coming down from the sky and destroying everything. What could be worse than the things we'd already seen? three millennial men are going to open a burger restaurant. It's going to be very quirky. Instead of... It's going to be Edison bulbs and high top chairs. Fries are$17 and they're in metal baskets. Instead of meat options, it's going to say protein. It's going to say protein. The appetizers are going to say the shareables. All the sides are going to be family style.
52:32The bathrooms are sitters and squatters. it's gonna be kind of amusing for about two minutes and it's gonna get real old real quick all of the food is gonna come out in that kind of like patchwork plaid white and red design little baskets yeah but it will just be over a plastic basket yeah there's gonna be the uh honking chungus burger but it will come on a metal tray that would actually oh my god on the menu it's gonna have a picture out to the parade
53:02See that car The one driving in the woods
53:12Just imagine I can see the picture in my head behind the counter It's the menu and all three of them are like Yeah so that's awesome Yeah it says like three guys in a dream So the Heisenberger comes with truffle oil And it comes with parmesan grated fries Do you want to add that for a$1 upcharge No. It is always like a$7 up charge minimum. Ain't nothing on that menu. So we have sriracha marshmallow ketchup. Sriracha marshmallow. I nodded as I watched the tiny white car become even smaller as it drove. There's a woman in the car. She's going to kill herself. Why's that? Turned to look at me. This time I could see his face.
53:52His eyes and mouth were like two glowing slits in his face. Backed up. Her husband just took out a loan for a burger restaurant. Oh, my God. The whore. Do it! Wow, she's awesome.
54:17One of our viewers is about to start a burger restaurant. He's real discouraged right now. Yeah. Everyone's gonna wear black aprons And black barber gloves
54:33Everything's gonna be way too silver But also brick Expose brick Expose like HVAC Lines in the ceiling What would the name of the restaurant be? Um
54:49I don't know Six guys because five wasn't enough.
54:57Be like cleavers or something like that. That big picture of a meat cleaver or something. Oh, yeah, yeah. I thought it'd be like, what's something kind of like a little funny? Like a play on the word hamburger, right?
55:14Fam burger Doesn't it make you want to kill yourself Oh, fam. Famburgers, unbelievable, because here, everyone's family. Exactly. Oh, my God. Doesn't that hurt? There's just, everyone's like, why are there bullet casings all over by the front door?
55:33There's a guy. They're on the hospital roof, and they can see someone with a gun walking up, like, machine gun, going to shoot up the place. They'll never make it inside. And the angel's like, you see that guy? He's a hero. God. I was going to say, you see that guy? He's not making it inside. I can't. Yeah. They only serve bison burger? Well, there's an elk. I'm just looking for a burger with fries. Yeah, that's not really how we do things here. That's not how we do things here. There's also, like, the buns are way too big and also way too cooked, but it's, like, grilled buns. They also burn the insignia like their logo on top.
56:17It just says Famburger on top of it. And also instead of man I hate putting Famburger into the ether. Welcome to Famburger. Can I interest you in our hangover special? Yeah. Oh it's got an egg on it. It's a normal burger but there's an egg on it. He's like yeah. There's a guy behind him. He has like lip piercings and stuff and he has the beanie like the bun and the beanie and stuff and like the jacket whatever. Yeah. The glasses and he's just like yeah I'm going to need one of those pronto. Yeah I need a firmware update in the form of a hangover burger. The curly the gelled curly Q mustache. You got two razors.
57:03Sweet girl razors. All of the it's really funny to imagine this restaurant with bodies littered everywhere.
57:14We're kind of doing a whole, I don't know, post-apocalypse kind of day today. It's kind of fun.
57:22It's all bison meat, but you can get the elk burger for a$14 upcharge. You can do elk for$14 upcharge, and we can add truffle pepper on that for a$6 upcharge. And gold shavings. And we do have gold shaving lemonade. Yeah. Yeah. We make our own mics hard here. make our own mics hard but we can't get our alcohol license yet so it's BYOL for the liquor BYOL oh god yeah we don't really care what you do on the patio unless you say that it's so lame just like as soon as he says that you just see a giant blood splatter against the window Yeah, the whole front window. We took you. I feel like I've had that said to me.
58:18Oh my. Places like this. Hey, I'll turn a blind eye. As long as it's not on the camera in here. Hey, as long as I can taste these delicious burgers, who cares? We have a character to do on the patio, so. God. We have a sign-up sheet out back to play the big Jenga. Yeah, so we have Big Jenga and Cornhole in the back. It's always Big Jenga. It's always Big Jenga. It's always Big Jenga. Big Jenga. They're really quirky. They have the Giant Connect Four. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We have Giant Connect Four, Big Jenga, and Cornhole in the back, just in case. Can you put on the game? Yeah, we don't really watch sports ball.
58:57But we do have Harry Potter marathon.
59:04This is my nightmare. That would be hell. That is hell. What's that big section off place in the back? Oh, well, get this. Next month, we're putting in an axe throwing arena. So the axe throwing is back there. So be sure to gobble down your boozy shake while you throw axes. But it's BYOL for the boozy shake. It's BYOL for the boozy shake. But you can do that on the back patio because we don't care. No, seriously. I don't think there's any alcohol in here. Yeah, so we still can't get our liquor license. So kind of a patio boozy shake situation. Yeah, but in here it's more of a fam shake. It's for the kiddos.
59:43This is kind of a kid shake. I know. That stupid minion picture. Meet the chef. Am I putting the burger in a microwave?
59:59This stream started from a conversation we had at Mike's house seven years ago. yeah it all started with a conversation and a dream i never really thought about being a chef once i started talking i realized it was my passion but when i found out i had no personality and no taste i knew this is exactly what i needed to do i thought to myself what's what do i love that's why i legitimately saw that when i lived in round rock texas this is one there's like a one of those kinds of restaurants nearby and it said start with a dream and i had to ask myself what do i love hamburgers it's like that's the one thing you dug up from i mean what are you like what's one thing you love hamburgers do that do what hamburgers do that all right there's like it's just like it's like fam burger and it's written in that so like the signs like they're kind of brown it's written in nickelodeon font no no it's like the sign's kind of brown and then fam burger is like big text thin than big text and like old west font you know and then it says underneath it in like a bow it's like where the good times are always to go yeah we're good or or uh we're hunger we're hunger uh dares to enter where hunger dares enter yeah that is wait no i got i got if i if i saw that i would say oh my god all you who enter abandon hunger here.
1:01:27Oh my god! Ah! No idea. That is terrible. If I didn't see a Jeep Patriot drive through the front doors of that place. Ah! Yeah, just a bunch of homemade nail bombs. Ah! God, shit. The owner's just like stops him. Yeah, there's like there's a truck, there's a V-V-I-E-T. Just coming over the hill 100 miles an hour. Propane tanks lying in the truck. Holy shit. All you who enter abandoned hunger here is so good. All you who enter abandoned hunger is so unbelievable. Oh, my God. Jesus Christ. Oh, my God. Kill us. It would be the other way around. Yeah, because it's abandoned all hunger, ye who enter here.
1:02:24Yeah. Oh.
1:02:30That is 100%. Also, they would have the Saturn eating his son, but it would be a giant burger instead of that person. Yeah.
1:02:39That I would... If a place was self-aware enough to do stuff like that, that would almost be funny. I think it would still... But it has to be done without a breath of knowledge. I think that's impossible. I think that it's all taken in a way where it's like, okay, now that's funny. Yeah. Yeah. That's kind of cool. I get what you did there. Yeah. Yeah. Can you read the he turned to look at me again? Yeah, so anyway, they see the truck coming and the angel's like, that guy's a hero. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:03:05Hey.
1:03:09Where was the dad? He turned to look at me. Because her daughter's sick and the doctors don't know what it is, but they do know that she's dying and that woman would rather run away from her problems and never face them again. What? The door to the roof swung open and two nurses came out When I looked back as they dragged me inside Apollo was nowhere to be found And the only thing that was left of him Was a cigarette he had thrown on the ground Nurses told me I was dying I said my mom wanted to tell me I couldn't get a hold of her But someone saw her steal a car White car, drive off I don't think this is the bad thing that Apollo was talking about It started to get gray outside The sun is getting dimmer and dimmer as the minutes pass I can tell that something's going to happen Everyone's acting jittery and anxious The nurses have started to ask everyone to keep the blinds shut But I've gotten up and taken a few peeks It doesn't seem to be getting any better The temperature has dropped significantly inside the hospital And I heard someone say that the trees and the woods have fused together to form a giant wall around town Not that anyone could leave town before that anyway But now they can't even venture out into the woods I didn't believe Apollo before, but I guess he was right.
1:04:25I got out of bed once. No one was looking because they were too preoccupied with the man next door who was coughing blood. I walked over to the window and pulled back the blinds just a bit. I was face to face with Apollo. It was floating in midair, his eyes glowing. Behind him, dozens of other angels. I didn't tell anyone what I saw. I simply closed the blinds and got back into bed. If I listen really closely, I can hear the worried conversations of the other patients. The nurses seem to be the most worried, though. Keep whispering to one another and looking into my room. I heard one of them say that I'm probably going to die soon.
1:05:03Maybe within the next few days. I'd be relieved if it weren't for the fact nobody ever really leaves Point Pine. So is it coming to a fact that it's like, oh, it almost seems like Point Pine is hell. Yeah, it's like a purgatory. yeah a purgatory kind of thing to where maybe if people die here they just cease to exist entirely yeah it's like um when the angel comes it's like these people show up but angels a stretch of the word it's really like some entity that just transfers you you have to stay in point pine but from one time of life to the other like an arbiter yeah and there was uh what was that thing about the town was covered in what there in the last segment says it's dropped the trees in the woods if you stick out there to form a giant wall so no one can get out everyone's stuck there yeah well they could never leave before or it was like rare someone was able to leave but now it's like there's a wall that you cannot get around yeah all right so if you look at the stories list there's a story called room 813 on gabby's post but when we talked to gabby uh she said to keep it to the mainline entries how she would suggest to read through them plus the bonus story she gave us um so she said go on to the next one to point pine's newest visitors that's what we're going to do but there's bonus stories on the master list that's going to be linked in the description that include things like room 813 so if you want even more point pine there's like bonus side stuff there should be two of them i think i think there's i think there's two of them that gabby recommended we don't read for this straight run through uh but if you want to check them out they're on that master list so there's even more point pine but you know obviously if the author says there's a better way to read the series we're going to do that so um our next story in order then is point pine's newest visitor came with a warning mary lou burningham took my sister genevieve's tooth this morning she was the one mentioned in the apartment who takes the baby teeth right under the pillow yeah the child she's a child the tooth fairy oh she's a child yeah Because remember, there's only one man, Old Man Jones.
1:07:06Oh, of course. Of course. I saw her leaving the house when I got up to make breakfast. I only saw the back of her head as she walked out of the front door. But I would recognize those bright red curls anywhere. This wasn't anything out of the ordinary. At least, not in Point Pine. That's just what the collectors do. Collect stuff. No one really knows why, or what they do with it. Except for Mary Lou. We've seen her wearing jewelry made from the teeth of the people of Point Pine. She obviously doesn't wear all the teeth. That'd be weird. And so I've always wondered what she did with the rest of them.
1:07:41That's a quick line. Like, it'd be weird if she wore all the teeth. Some teeth are fine. Wearing a couple is fine. Wearing a couple, you know, let a girl have some fun. I wonder if they just mean because there's so many that it'd be like, how would you even wear that? It'd be like just covering her. A giant long cape of teeth. That'd be pretty cool. See a little girl walking down the street. There's like 20 feet of teeth. Yeah. last year when our i'm not i'm not gonna lie probably need to cut this but it says last year when our hamster pennies died i straight up read that as penis last year when our hamster named penis died last back in lee cronin's the mummy is what he's in yeah lee cronin's hamburger yeah lee cronin's the hamburger last year when our hamster pennies died curtis mann came to take it from us he collects dead animals those are the only two collectors that I'm familiar with but there's 12 total and they all live at the Point Pine Oaks with the amount of close-ups too that Lee Cronin's the mummy that'd be a gross movie he would put the camera slightly above them like that he'd put it so close to them or it'd be somebody ordering up close there'd be a little bit of blur and in the background you see someone just like eating a burger it'd be that anyways go ahead let me get Lee Cronin to shoot the Fanburger movie I want to get Lee Cronin for the creep cast we can just call it Lee Cronin's the creep cast episode recently the collectors have been behaving a little weirder than usual today when I went on my run I saw all of them walking in two single file lines down the road I had never seen all 12 of them together at the same time so I stopped to observe they were walking weirdly they put one foot forward and stopped for a second then bring their other foot forward and stop for a second.
1:09:29They walk like that all the way down the road, headed for the shops in the center of Point Pine. I saw them again about an hour later when I walked to the Point Pine Bakery to pick up a pie for my mom. As I was waiting for them to bring my order out, Mary Lou walked up to me. Hey, Lee, she said, sounding a bit sad. Hey, are you all right? Mary Lou sighed and glanced down at the chain she wore around her neck that contained a small glass bottle that was filled with teeth. suddenly that pie didn't sound so appetizing so she's speaking to our narrator and saying lee right yeah so lee is our the person that's our protagonist right now yeah and he's the one who lost his eyes yeah and he's the one who got but he was in a time loop i well i don't think i don't know how much of this is narratively that's true yeah why would i be all right scared at her not really knowing how to answer haven't you heard about the visitor i shook my head slowly and then glanced over to see if anyone was on their way with my pie yet No offense to Mary Lou, but she had a tendency of making people feel uncomfortable.
1:10:28Mary Lou sighed again, then reached out and placed her hand on my arm. She wore a ring with a tooth on it on each of her fingers. Try not to gag. Be cautious with your eyes, Lee. I would hate for you to lose them again. She said, staring at me intently with her huge green eyes. I watched as she walked away. The spot where her hand had rested on my arm felt noticeably colder than the rest of my body, and I rubbed my arm until the feeling went away. I finally got my pie and headed outside. I looked down the road and saw the collectors were back in their two lines, walking in that weird way they had been earlier.
1:11:03I watched them for a few seconds. Mary Lou turned around and we locked eyes. She brought both of her hands up to her face and covered her eyes before turning back around and continuing her walk. I turned around and started walking back home, thinking about how Mary Lou was quite possibly the most unsettling 11-year-old that I had ever met. On the walk home, I overheard a few different conversations about the collectors. The people of Point Pine were starting to become irritated with them, convinced that they were playing some sort of prank on everyone. When I got home, my mom was talking about them too.
1:11:36Can't you believe it? They told Sandra's kid that he needed to keep an eye on his arms because he might lose them. I mean, who says that to an eight-year-old? Mary Lou told me to be cautious with my eyes. He said as I stepped in and set the pie down on the kitchen table. What? My dad snapped. I'm sure it's fine. They're just weird. They told Cody the parade was coming back to get him soon. Cody had come back to Point Pine a few months ago and survived the Point Pine Parade twice now. He'd been staying with us for a while now, but spent most of his time locked in his room in the basement. Okay.
1:12:08So maybe the time loop is just broken. Time loop's broken at some point and Cody lived through the parade incident. Twice. Twice, yeah. She said something about a visitor? What? my dad asked at the same time my mom asked who mary lou she asked me if i heard about the visitor what visitor i don't know she didn't give me a name uh that's interesting because i thought by visitor she was talking about cody i think i thought she was talking about the angel uh she could be yeah just then us god we really ruined it because i'm thinking of like the layout of town in my head right in front of all these decrepit weird buildings and then just an extremely bright big fan burger.
1:12:48It's like the hotel. I went up and dropped the pie on the counter. Mom says, do you see they're opening up another fan burger on Westchester Street? In my head... In my... Another one. In my head, it's built like Gatlinburg where it's a single skinnish strip in the mountains. And at the end of the street, you have the hospital that they're looking on. And then two blocks down on the left, you have Point Oak. Or Oak, the Oakwood, whatever, the apartment building. And then straight beneath the hospital is the flaming red Famburger. The Famburger internment camp. Yes. They forced Cody into the Famburger camp today.
1:13:36Like just when you said she's talking about the angel in my head, I just see the angel looking at Famburger and seeing the truck drive through the wind.
1:13:48My parents, if a burger joint shows up, that's a bear trap. If a burger joint shows in the story, I'm walking off set. It could be like a, if it wanted to be like a greasy spoon though, like a diner kind of place, you know, it wouldn't be Fanburger. We'll see. We'll see. If it does. I'm not, I don't know. We'll see. My parents spent the majority of the day questioning what Mary Lou and the rest of the collectors were talking about. That evening, we all got a flyer slipped under our front doors. I was sitting on the couch when it flew across the floor. I walked over and picked it up. It was a black piece of paper with the words, Beware the visitor, sprawled crudely at the top in white crayon.
1:14:28Below that, in neat writing, also in white crayon, it read the following. Residents of Point Pine, tomorrow at 7 a.m. we will have a visitor. We advise you not interact with him, which shouldn't be a problem since no one is allowed up until 8.13 a.m. But we'll use this time to wander around town and even your homes. If you hear him, simply pretend to be asleep. He is here to take from you. But as long as you don't interact, you'll be fine. Be careful, the collectors. Didn't take long for people to freak out. Sure, we were all used to weird things happening in Point Pine, but how did the collectors know so much about this?
1:15:03Some people walked over the oaks to try and speak to the collectors, but apparently Eric wasn't letting anyone in. Not that I blamed him. After being stuck in that weird time loop with him, I understood his caution when it came to the people that he allowed inside his building. Eventually, people returned to their homes and went to bed. There was an odd feeling like something really bad was going to happen. I tried my best to ignore it and went to bed at my usual time, tossing and turning for a few minutes before finally falling asleep. I awoke when I heard the front door creak open. I turned over in bed and looked at the clock.
1:15:377.55 AM. My heart sped up in my chest as I realized that the visitor was here. I could hear the footsteps coming up the stairs, and I turned so my back was facing my bedroom door, and shut my eyes, trying to even my breathing. As the visitor got closer, I noticed that he was humming a very familiar tune. It took a few minutes before I realized that it was the same music that played whenever the Point Pine Parade started. The visitor never stepped into my bedroom, but I heard him wandering around the rest of the house for what felt like hours. Finally, I heard him walk back out the door. I breathed a sigh of relief as I slowly turned back around to look at the clock.
1:16:178.08 a.m. Five minutes until we could be up. I laid there, staring at the ceiling, waiting for the town alarm to ring. Before it did, however, I heard a scream pierce through the morning silence. It sounded like it was coming from the house next door. Frozen bed, not wanting to take a look and risk seeing something that I shouldn't. Mary Lou's voice kept echoing in my mind as I laid there, waiting for the town alarms to go off. Be cautious with your eyes, Lee. I would hate for you to lose them again. Finally, the town alarms went off and I climbed out of bed and made my way downstairs. The rest of my family, Cody, following me.
1:16:59I walked over to the living room window and pulled the curtains open a few inches to look outside. Most of the neighbors were now out there, crowding on the Humphreys lawn. My dad opened the front door and Cody and I followed after him making our way through the crowd of people to try to see what was going on. We pushed through until we got to the front of the crowd and finally managed to see what the big deal was. On the front lawn was the entire Humphreys family all four of them laying on their backs facing up towards the sky their eyes darting around the crowd of people above them. Their noses and mouths were completely gone Everything below their nose had vanished and was simply replaced with smooth skin.
1:17:40No nose, no nostrils, no lips, just eyes and smooth skin all the way down their faces. Above their heads was a copy of the flyer that I had gotten last night, stuck in the grass by a rusty butcher knife. Only this flyer was a bit different. It was written on white paper in red font, and it read, Welcome the Visitor at the top. The rest of the flyer said as follows. residence of Point Pine. Tomorrow at 7am you will have a visitor. You have been chosen to interact with him. Congratulations! You will use this time to wander around town and even your homes. When you hear him get up and say hello! It's an honor to be chosen.
1:18:16He is here to see you and only you. Be happy. Be nice. And don't put up a fight. It won't be worth it. The visitor. Interesting. So maybe it isn't the angels but at the same time I could see maybe it's like they get smooth faces and do their because that what happened was the angel's face also was smooth and it just had the slits that had the things but it also makes it seem where it's like are the angels there to protect them from the visitor i don't know yeah well it's like the collectors were the ones who were like mary lou seemed sad because she knew the visitor was coming um and then she kind of gave lee a word of caution like i wouldn't want you to lose your eyes, which seemed menacing, but was actually like a good piece of advice.
1:19:00And then everyone else got the note that's like, hey, do not interact. But then the target is like, why don't you get up? Say hi to it. Yeah. Yeah. So one of them. Definitely more menacing. Does that mean the Humphreys like suffocate because they don't have noses or mouths or are they just like kept alive in the state? I can't tell. I can't tell if it's all up in the air. There's a lot of different ways you could read it. I mean, you could read it as like a purgatory thing of like, is it their existence like being sucked out of the place or do they lose their identity there? Do they like lose the shell that they inhabit in this body?
1:19:28Or is it a thing where they're just, yeah, stealing their identity or just torturing them? Yeah. The next one's called the things in the giant bear costumes won't stop handing out popcorn. Excellent. Kind of a turn. A little bit different from the last one, but you know what? That's what it's all about. I hate the carnival. The obnoxious music that's trying way too hard to sound happy, The hundreds of colorful blinding lights, the mix of popcorn, sweets, peanuts, and sticky sweaty children. I hate all of it. Of course, because I hate the carnival, it makes perfect sense that I live in Point Pine, where everyone else adores it so much that there's always a carnival in town.
1:20:09It's like the universe wants to torture me. I'm usually able to tolerate it. I just don't go. It's the perfect plan, and so far, it's worked out exceptionally well for me. And then, they added the dancing bears. they look like normal brown teddy bears with black eyes and a red bow tie only these are about seven feet tall i saw the first one in the middle of town while i was picking up groceries it was standing outside the bakery slowly swaying in place while that stupid carnival music played through some speakers that seemed to be located inside the costume as i got closer to the giant dancing bear i thought about kicking whoever had this fantastic idea right in the teeth when i passed the bear it held out a bucket of popcorn towards me seemingly manifesting out of thin air it kept swaying as it held the bucket out towards me staring at me with its stupid beady eyes yeah no thanks i scoffed pushing it aside bear dropped the bucket and the popcorn spilled all over the sidewalk dumbass mumbled as i kept walking the next time i went into town there were three bears all identical all swain and all were playing the same stupid carnival music i think the best part about this was that the music was not playing simultaneously making the already lousy tune sound even worse which i didn't really know was possible until now every time a person passed by the bears they would pull a bucket of popcorn out of nowhere and offer it to the bystanders every single idiot took it of course i rolled my eyes as their stupid faces filled with joy.
1:21:43After about three days of this, the smell of popcorn was everywhere. I swear, it was in my skin at that point. It was nauseating. One step outside and you were hit with the smell of popcorn. And it even started to seep into my home. All I could smell was popcorn. Single semi-tolerable thing was now also ruined, which only further forced my hatred. And still, the bears continued to multiply like bunnies. There is now one on every street corner, even the neighborhoods. The stupid carnival music could be heard everywhere in town. It was so irritating that I thought about jamming something in my ears for some relief.
1:22:21The next time I went out, popcorn filled the streets. It was everywhere. It looked like Olive Point Pine was a popcorn machine. A popcorn machine that incessantly played carnival music. i could tell that even the other people who usually love the carnival were getting tired of it no one was taking the popcorn anymore and they weren't even going outside now i was sitting in my living room trying to watch a movie and tune out the music when a scream pierced through both of the sounds it startled me i ran to the window and looked outside where a woman was pointing down the street at one of the dancing bears and screaming one by one my neighbors started to come out of their homes to investigate the murderous screams and i saw andy kobart take one look down the street and throw up all over his rose bushes seeing that piqued my interest so i stepped out of my house out into the popcorn fumes that sat heavily over point pine i walked out onto my popcorn covered lawn and looked down the street a giant dancing teddy bear was still there but whoever it was under the costume had removed the head and was holding it in their hands as they danced oh and the person in the costume didn't have a head all that came out of the top of the costume was a neck that appeared to have sewn together at the top where the head should be i stared at the headless dancing person as they moved the giant teddy bear head around they swayed on the street corner they had been out there for so long now that the carnival music was no longer happy and bubbly now it was distorted creepy we all stood outside our homes staring at the headless dancer at the end of the street not knowing what to do when weird things happen in point pine we're usually warned about them in advance and on the off chance that we aren't warned someone or multiple someones die a scream erupted from the next street signaling that the dancing bear had removed its head andy's husband marwin walked down the street towards the bear his feet crunching down on all the popcorn i watched as he went up to the bear and a bucket of popcorn appeared in mid-air and fell onto marwin's head i stifled a laugh as he threw the bucket aside marwin reached over and took the bear head away from the dancer turning it over to examine it shook it a few times and i expected a head to fall out and roll onto the popcorn but it appeared to be empty suddenly the dancing bear reached out and grabbed marwin's arm with one of its teddy bear arms marwin backed up trying to get away but wasn't able to what the fuck man shouted as they tried to shake the teddy bear off and he ran down the street towards marwin and attempted to pry the bear away from marwin why is this thing so fucking strong i mean it's a bear welled in tears i rolled my eyes and ran over taking out a small pocket knife i carried in my pocket to cut off the teddy bear arm the knife tore through the fabric cutting off about six inches of the arm sliced right through the arm was empty what the arwin grabbed the now limp piece of fabric and looked inside of it they don't even have arms he was right whoever was in the costume had a neck no head and apparently no arms the entire arm that i'd cut was now limp and flapping around as the teddy bear swayed as if all the stuffing had been taken out i walked up to the teddy bear again and sank my knife into the chest, dragging it down a few inches, and he gasped.
1:25:47I stepped back and waited, but nothing happened. I looked back at my neighbors, who were fixated on the teddy bear. After a few minutes, the carnival music stopped, and the bear froze in place. I took a few steps back, and suddenly, blood began pouring out of the gash in its chest, spilling down the front of the suit and onto the popcorn on the ground. After that, chunks of stuff began to tumble out of the same gash falling onto the popcorn with a sick splattering sound. We looked closer at the things that were spilling out of the giant teddy bear and finally realized what it was. They were organs.
1:26:23Organs were falling out of the teddy bear. Is that a liver? Yeah. And that's a heart. Yeah. Lovely. When all the insides stopped falling out of the teddy bear, it crumbled in on itself and sank to the floor, covering the popcorn like a rug. Is it dead? Someone called from behind me. I don't fucking know. At least the music stopped. We all stood in silence in the middle of the popcorn-covered road and stared at the pile of blood and organs. Andy threw up on someone else's yard, and then Marwin took him back into the house. Hey, look! I looked up to see that the dancing bear on the street corner across from ours had also fallen over.
1:27:00Everyone in that neighborhood simply stared at the empty bear costume. The music is stopping. I listened as the music that had been coming from the bears got quieter and quieter It seemed that killing one of them would kill them all I breathed a sigh of relief and immediately regretted it As my nose filled with the smell of blood and popcorn I coughed and gagged but controlled myself Before I started throwing up on people's property like Andy I walked back down the street And toward my house Just as I was about to step onto my porch Felt the ground begin to shake I held on to the stair railing and looked back just in time to hear a loud pop see Felicity Green fall backward onto the popcorn in the street.
1:27:41There was a giant hole in the middle of her chest that was still slightly smoking. There was another pop nearby and the house next door's living room window exploded. When the fresh hell was that? Someone called as people ran over to Felicity's smoking dead body. It was a kernel. There's no way a kernel just ripped a hole in Felicity's chest. Well, it was a really big kernel. amidst the voices that were shouting at each other from across the street there were another two pops i stared at the ground intently and managed to see one colonel pop up into the air and land a few feet away making a crack in the sidewalk as the popcorn around the area burned up and started smoking now it smelled like burnt popcorn i walked back toward the street closer i got the hotter the area felt the roads were heating up point pine was now an actual popcorn machine i backed up and headed towards my house as the popping started to increase sending flaming hot kernels everywhere i ran inside and locked my door heading to my living room window and pulling the curtains back to look outside everyone was now in their homes and all that was left in the street was burned popcorn in felicity's body which was still smoking and now appeared to be cooking from the heat that was coming from the road i glanced down the street where the loose organs were now beginning to move closer to each other, forming a body as each organ took its place.
1:29:03A new costume began to form around the organs, this time taking the shape of a circus clown instead of a teddy bear. It was wearing bright yellow clown shoes, a white and red striped outfit, and blue suspenders and a rainbow wig. The clown's face was painted white with pink circles on the cheeks and a black diamond that surrounded each eye. Carnival music started up again, and the clown jumped up and down the road. yelling hot hot hot every time its feet landed on the hot street after a few minutes it caught me staring and waved at me as it's headed to 360. skipped towards my house stopping in front of the sidewalk and i stared as a bucket of popcorn appeared out of nowhere and he held it out towards me when i didn't move the clown dropped the bucket on my lawn and then turned around and made his way across the street jumping and clicking his heels together every step while he shouted hot hot hot in a loud cheery voice.
1:29:57Do you want to give us a hot hot hot impression? Hot hot hot hot hot hot! There you go. He kept jumping and clicking in his heels as he made his way towards Felicity. Hot hot hot hot hot! Hot hot hot hot hot hot! Jump click. Finally reached Felicity's body and leaned down tearing off her entire arm with ease and then taking a huge bite from the middle of it. Bone and all. He stared at me while he ate the arm and the carnival music slowly grew louder and louder as all the other dead bears transformed into one. I hate the carnival. I'll be completely honest. What the fuck even was that entry? So that entry was, there's like this anomalous thing that shows up that takes on an appearance that people like.
1:30:38Everyone wants to eat popcorn, right? And then when the facade's up, when someone recognizes him as like not just nice bear costumes, it's like, all right, well, time to reset and just become something else. Well, it feels like the cohesion of the story so far was kind of broke. Well, like, so the first one with the parade, it felt like an entry, like the parade, where it was kind of like just a moment, you know, but we've had so many to where I was just like, it just kind of felt like a bit more random in terms of the linear structure of what we've been reading so far. Unless the carnival is the thing that is popping up that people are like, you gotta watch, are those the visitors kind of thing?
1:31:14No, I think it's each its own thing. I think it's just like the town's full of different supernatural creatures, each with their own thing going on. This is just a thing that wanted people to eat a bunch of popcorn so that it could maybe... Seems like it infects them, right? Because all the people who ate the popcorn would get killed. Like an infection or like a way to gain trust for them to continue. Maybe it had some eventual plan it was going to get to. But once someone kills the bear, it's like, all right, well, that plan's done. new plan like gonna become a clown or so it's like it wants to appeal to humanity but it doesn't understand that it's not doing it right it's like oh people like bear costumes and popcorn we'll do that and then it's like oh well that didn't work okay they're like clowns we'll be clowns now it's like they just are just mimicking without understanding how to make the mimicry yeah yeah that's what i think it could just as easily be like a puppy or like a cute kid or something like that this next one is was the supposed last one before the our secret entry before the uh entry that she never uploaded so apparently this was the last entry to the point pine place which was the due to recent violent events pumpkins are no longer allowed on point pine uh but we luckily have one more after this so all right so last public story in uh the point Pine series.
1:32:35Are you ready? Yep. Due to recent violent events, pumpkins are no longer allowed in Point Pine. It all started when Cassandra Wolfhard killed a pumpkin sprout. I didn't know Cassandra personally, but I knew of her. She was friends with Tom's sister and Tom was friends with me. All that I know about Cassandra, I've learned against my will, passing comments from adults or other kids at school. That Wolfhard girl, that's a picky eater if I've ever seen one. One thing that everyone in town knew was that Cassandra hated pumpkins. She literally could not stay on the side of them. I once watched her start screaming at the top of her lungs when a barista at the Point Pine Cafe offered her a pumpkin spice latte.
1:33:15That girl was weird, and her hatred of pumpkins was the weird cherry on top of the weird sundae that was Cassandra Wolfhardt. Tom said that any time Cassandra came over during the fall season, she would avoid looking into their backyard. Apparently, the first time she went over, she saw their pumpkin patch and went wide as a ghost before she passed out on their kitchen floor. She showed me a dent that she swears was made by her head hitting the wooden floorboards, but Tom is kind of a liar sometimes, so I just go along with most of what he says. I knew about the other girls at school who liked to play pranks on Cassandra.
1:33:51One day, they filled her locker with pumpkin guts, and when she opened it, she threw up in the middle of the hallway. I have to say that at first I found Cassandra to be a little ridiculous But now I feel bad for her So many people constantly terrorize her with her biggest fear I think about what I would do if someone was dangling me off a cliff as a joke And I realize that I'd probably react the same way that Cassandra has Last week I was at Tom's house while Cassandra was there hanging out with his sister Megan Even from Tom's room I could overhear Cassandra complaining about pumpkin spice season Ivan heard her gag a few times after she said the word pumpkin Cassandra left before dinner that day Once she found out that Tom's mother was serving pumpkin bread for dessert Boy, that girl sure hates pumpkins You put your soul into that one That was powerful Boy, that girl sure hates pumpkins A lot of passion to that Tom's dad chuckled as she went out the front door Why did Tom become my new favorite character?
1:34:58No, his dad Yeah, yeah Or Tom's dad, yeah Yeah, yeah, Tom's dad, yeah Tom's dad would stop Famburger Yeah He's that kind of guy I have a gun And a dream
1:35:16Tom's dad, you rule I have to make it to heaven I can't
1:35:30blood for the blood god minutes must be made a few days after that cassandra's brothers managed to carry her to tom's pumpkin patch in her sleep when she woke up surrounded by pumpkins she screamed so loud that she woke up everyone in the neighborhood yeah so when's uh when so you can't be awake before 8 13 but when do you have to be in bed by. It's like if she wakes up at 2am in a pumpkin patch is she donezo? It just sucks for her. I would assume. I don't know. They haven't really established that. Hey, we pranked Cassandra by killing her in the pumpkin patch. Epic prank, bitch. We fed her to the blood god.
1:36:17Exactly. Tom's dad shot her with his pellet gun.
1:36:24it had to be done it had to happen they all rushed out to find her slamming her fist over the pumpkins punching holes into a few of them she had apparently broken off a few nails doing this and severely cut up and bruised her hands in the process they had to call the police and the paramedics to tear her away from the pumpkin patch and then sedate her so they could transport her to the hospital since her brothers had filmed it they were in some big trouble with the cops and their parents. Mae, she said she tried to go visit Cassandra, but she wouldn't even talk to her. She kept crying and saying that the pumpkins were going to want revenge.
1:37:04All I'm sad is we did our history homework. Revenge for what? For what she did to them, duh. She basically murdered a bunch of pumpkins, Hayley. I saw what it looked like afterward. She literally destroyed a whole pumpkin patch. I looked up at Tom, who was highlighted in a textbook. Yeah, but they're pumpkins. Like, they don't care. She doesn't think that. I mumbled with a highlighter cap in his mouth. I didn't hear much about Cassandra for the rest of the day, but the following morning, when Tom's parents went outside to clean up the mess, they found that all the pumpkin debris was already gone.
1:37:38You mean someone just cleaned it up? I asked Tom over the phone. I guess. What else could have happened? I didn't say anything because honestly I don't know maybe someone just felt bad and had decided to help Tom's family out by cleaning up Cassandra's mess it wasn't likely that she would clean up after herself at least not without having some sort of breakdown following morning at 4 a.m someone called the police claiming that there was a girl in a hospital gown wailing and running barefoot down the street it was Cassandra and when they caught up to her she said she was running from the pumpkin monster.
1:38:15He had made it all the way to our neighborhood.
1:38:23I'm about to read the line. She was running from the hospital, and I just pictured her running by Famburger, which is on the front left corner of the hospital.
1:38:38Like, there's a literal pumpkin monster behind her. The three guys are out front, just like, arms crossed watching her on the patio smoking weed what you do on the patio hey don't let it shut the door don't let it draft in they have the churro Disney fans outside they roll tobacco cigarettes it was Cassandra she had made it all the way to our neighborhood from the hospital and collapsed on her front lawn I washed through my bedroom windows, the police talked to Cassandra and her parents for a few minutes. Something caught my eye off to the left, and I looked over to see Tom waving me down. I ran downstairs and out the front door to meet him.
1:39:22What's going on? She says there's a pumpkin monster out to get her. Tom grinned. Maybe all the teasing caught up to her and she finally broke. I looked over at the rest of the neighbors who had been drawn outside onto the street by the cops and the crazy girl in a hospital gown or maybe not tom trailed off glanced back at him and saw he was pointing towards one of the running paths that came out of the woods and between two of the houses on the street there was movement in the trees and a flash of orange before something came out of the woods what the fuck was that oh my god it's here the pumpkin monster is here please you have to help me i don't want to die sandra wailed as she saw it for once sandra wasn't crazy the thing that had come out of the woods was, in fact, a pumpkin monster.
1:40:05It was about seven feet tall and made out of broken pumpkins from Tom's pumpkin patch. Pumpkin pieces were crudely molded together to form feet, legs, torso, arms, hands, a neck, and finally a head. It had pumpkin guts draped all over it, hanging off its body and leaving a trail of them all over the ground. It stopped in the middle of the street and people began to go back into their homes. It seemed to look around for a while, moving its lopsided, half-smashed pumpkin head from side to side, even though it had no eyes or any other facial features. After a few seconds, it headed straight towards Cassandra, who screamed so loud I thought my eardrums were going to burst.
1:40:45It began to awkwardly make its way towards her home, taking wide steps and fumbling as it tried to speed up. Oh, hell no. Is that a Russian accent? Was it Russian? No. That's what it says. Oh, hell no. I'm talking about your intonation on the character. Your assumption. Oh, is he Russian? Oh, hell no. No, no. Oh, hell no. I'm trying to attack you directly, Hunter. Oh, hell no. All right. Is that Russian? It shook the ground with each step. Is that better? I held onto a nearby fence for balance. The police pulled out their guns and shot at it a few times, but they continued to walk unfazed. Cassandra darted between two of the officers and headed towards Tom and me.
1:41:32What is she doing? Why is she running this way? The pumpkin monster pivoted and began making its way towards us as well. Cassandra ran past us, looking back towards the monster for a second. She continued to run down the street, and Tom and I moved out of the monster's way as it chased after her. After a few seconds, Tom took off after it as well. Where are you going? Don't you want to see what happens? I hesitated for a second before I followed. Hey, come back here. An officer called after us. I do think it's kind of like so much stuff happens in the town. Clearly this is like, you know, goosebumps, fun, pumpkin monster thing, but it's, uh, it's funny how so much death and weird stuff happens in town that their friend is like, yeah, pumpkin deity is going to get her.
1:42:17Don't you want to watch? Don't you want to see her get like eviscerated by a pumpkin person? Yeah. It feels like this is like a Carly Beth from Goosebumps mixed in with Sandlot, the guy running at the end away from the dog. Yeah. It's giving me that vibe. Yeah. So now all I'm hearing is Wipeout playing, Oh, Wipeout! You know, whatever that deal. Isn't that what they play at the end when he's running? It's like, do-do-do-do-do. Oh, yeah. I thought you were talking about the TV show Wipeout. That's why. Yeah, you're the song. Yes. I was like. In the 1992 film, they're watching clips of Wipeout. the boom boom boom yeah I got it he rushed the hell fuck fuck big stretch god damn we made it to the end of the street just in time to see Cassandra trip and roll down the small hill we stopped and listened to her screams as she kept rolling down the hill no fucking way Tom whispered we kept watching as Cassandra rolled straight into another pumpkin patch her head making contact with the biggest pumpkin and slamming right through it with a dull thud.
1:43:25Oh my god, she's dead. The pumpkin monster tripped down the field, falling over Cassandra's lifeless body and falling apart all over her in the pumpkin patch. Cops finally caught up and raced down the hill to check on Cassandra, but I was right, she had died. Not even an hour later, there was a town-wide announcement. No more pumpkins in Point Pine, ever. Tom and I watched from the top of the hill as people carried the pumpkins away to burn them at the edges of town. Someone had already taken Cassandra's body away but left the pumpkin that her head had smashed through. For days, all that anyone talked about was Cassandra's freak accident.
1:44:03That night, Cassandra was seen again. Multiple people reported seeing her walking around town, sobbing and asking for help. I was one of them. I heard her cries in the middle of the night, looked out my bedroom window to see her standing in the middle of the road right outside her house. She was dirty and bruised. covered in pumpkin guts, dried up blood. She cried loudly, gasping for breath while she screamed. Someone help me, please! Please, I hate pumpkins! I continued to watch as no one, not even her parents, turned on their lights or even looked outside. Sandra fell to her knees in the middle of the road, continuing to cry before finally falling face first, her forehead pressed to the road.
1:44:46Please, I hate them. She continued to cry for a few minutes and I backed away from the window and got back into bed. After a few minutes, she started to scream. She's done this every single night since she died. She screams about how we should have listened to her. Getting rid of the pumpkins now won't stop anything. She claims that they'll come back and that we're all going to die. I guess one thing that kind of sucks about Point Pine is that the dead never really leave. That's a fun entry. I like it. The girl who's afraid of pumpkins gets tortured with pumpkins, and then Pumpkin Monster gets her.
1:45:21Again, very goosebumps. Yeah. What? What is it? Yeah. Did you not like it? You were vibing? No, it is fun. It is very goosebumps. I wish that they all had that cadence. If that's supposed to be... So the next thing that we're reading is a secret entry. That was the last one, right? Publicly, yeah. In the point pine entry. I kind of wish that they were all... I just wish there was a bit more cohesion between all of them. Like, I liked the last three, or the last two were, like, the first one where it's like, hey, there's a parade. I like the idea of this town being a place where it's like, all this weird shit happens.
1:45:55No one's going to be fazed by a pumpkin monster. Yeah. But people are still tortured, and they're, you know. It's, like, still a horror story for whoever's being affected. Sure. You know? But the stuff that's, like, all cohesive throughout the middle section of it feels like that was just kind of thrown. Which I don't know. Maybe there's something added here. I mean each one was kind of like it's own each entry was it's own vignette did you not feel like it was building towards something? other than something bad is going to happen but I think that the entire everything with Point Pines building towards something bad is going to happen I don't think it was building towards anything it was just vignettes because each story was from a different perspective of a different thing happening like the only thing that happened twice was the parade but the second time wasn't even really about the parade as much as it was like how much the town hates outsiders i think the way that the characters were interwoven made it seem like there was something that was coming in i could see that i didn't really get that to me it was more so just like yeah here's a guy from this other story doing another thing because it's and if anything that was reinforcing to me like yeah no matter what these guys go through it is just one of many yeah and i guess if that's the case if that's if that's what we're saying then i wish it was just somebody entirely new you know because bringing it back to people that we've known that's like oh well this guy's come back he he's been gone he came back and people are like oh weirded out by it that's fine but it's like i i just kind of wish they were all just random vignettes of just different people in this area but i can understand that uh yeah this next one the last one here is a entry that has never been published we get to read it here the history of point pine a prayer to the wrong god for the final entry of the point pine series again you can check out the other uh episode in the link in the description on the master list but this is the one that was sent directly to us by gabby which thank you very much gabby thank you gabby the history of point pine a prayer to the wrong god in the middle of the dark and cold forest began to think this was my end i was gonna die here in the middle of nowhere and i would have the dumbest obituary in the whole town wilmer moore age 22 loving brother and son got lost in the woods while getting high and froze to death in the middle of the night like an idiot.
1:48:05Cold air had pretty much killed my buzz at this point and the fear began to creep in. I fought hard to stop it because I wasn't completely alert and the last thing I needed was to get paranoid. I hyper-focused on my steps putting one foot in front of the other. I decided a few minutes back that I was going to pick a direction and head that way in a straight line. I figured that was my best shot and I would eventually either hit the road that led into town or I'd fall off a cliff. At this point, I'd welcome either one of those options. I couldn't see the moon, and I remember thinking it was because of the weed at first, but as I scanned the night sky, I realized it was absent.
1:48:45It's funny. It's like, there's no moon. I must be pretty... Oh, no, it is gone. Got it. The moon is, in fact, gone. It seems like the point behind place. I mean, if it is like a purgatory, but it does feel like it's just existing and nothing. Yeah. Like, it's definitely not in our world. Well, that's kind of the thought I got by the darkness that was around the oak that one day before it disappeared. Yeah, it feels like it's in space floating somewhere. Maybe tonight's a new moon, I thought. It was easy to hold on to that explanation, given the fact that I had no idea when the cycles of the moon happened.
1:49:16Then I began to fear that I had died. And this darkness, as well as the fear that came with it, was my personal hell somehow. I don't know how long I walked before I saw it. Small, dim light off in the distance. My first thought was that I was seeing the light that remained on Point Pine Bakery, but it was different, and I still wasn't seeing any of the other buildings in town, so it couldn't have been that. As I continued heading towards it, it was in the path, the direction I'd chosen, I soon realized that it was a porch light, and I'd walked right up to a small cabin that was hidden amongst the trees.
1:49:52I had seen things that were a lot weirder than this before, so I walked up and knocked on the door. when it opened i recognized the occupant it was robert ford the oldest child a lot of people thought he was a myth another creepy story that was made up by someone years ago and easily believed because it paled in comparison to some of the other things that took place in point pine robert was said to have been a child since 1598 he's seen in some older photographs that can be found in the archives of the library detailing some of the town's history of course the photographs only go back so far, but it's widely believed that he was a child long before those images were taken.
1:50:33As I stared at Robert, I realized that before this, I had not believed in his existence. I had seen the images, we all had, as they were part of our curriculum in school, but I didn't believe that he was real, until I was face to face with him there, the dark and cold forest. He asked? He asked after waiting for me to speak. I'm lost. He stepped aside and let me in. The inside of the cabin was what you'd expect. Small kitchen, couch, radio, and a bed. There was room off to the back, which I assume was some sort of bathroom. I sat on the couch. Did you come from town? Robert asked. He didn't sit.
1:51:11I nodded. I'm also high. Of course. I stared at him, and he stared at me. Would you like some water? I nodded, and he walked over to his kitchen. He was a boy. I looked to be around 11 or so, but I was never really good with kids who were guessing their ages. How old are you? The question slipped out of my mouth as soon as I thought it. That depends on the answer that you're looking for. Robert replied as he handed me a cup of water. I took a sip. It was room temperature, but it felt rude to complain. Have you always been a child? Have you always been your age? Shook my head no. Neither have I.
1:51:49When did you stop aging? When I was 12. I was close. Off by one year. Is it weird? Being like a child your whole life? Well, I'm not really a child. I just look like one. That's problematic. I suppose our problems are different then. Drink the rest of the water. How come you never come into town? Some people think you don't exist. They think all these images of you are photoshopped. I exist for a reason other than being a citizen of Point Pine. What reason? Hubbard sat down on the floor in front of me. First across applesauce. Do they still teach the history of Point Pine in school? Yeah. They tell us about the settlers who came here and how secluded it was.
1:52:31They set up a town far enough away from everyone else. They were never bothered, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Then the bad stuff started happening. Ah, so they changed the story again. Again? Yes. The last time someone came around here, they told me a different version. It seems like the version you were taught differs even from the original. Wait, so what's the original? Are you sure you want to know? Why wouldn't I? You can unlearn things. And sometimes, certain kinds of knowledge can be a burden or a curse. Ignorance is bliss, as they say. I will say so far, this is probably my, one of my favorite setups.
1:53:16I really love the idea of like, there's like this immortal child. Cause everything's so weird in town, but it's like the Oracle who's seen everything. Who like remembers the old history that keeps getting buried and stuff like that. I think that's a fun setup. In another situation, I would have been deeply unsettled by Robert's demeanor. I want to know. I nodded, leaning in towards him. Okay then. But please remember that you asked me for this. I nodded again, and he began. European settlers ended up in Point Pine years ago, but not because they liked the isolation. They got lost on the way to their actual destination, Jamestown, Virginia.
1:53:55I was very, very, very young then, so the details of this are a bit murky. But some of these settlers believed they had arrived in Virginia, and some swore that they had seen sign leading them to the destination. Once they were here, however, in Point Pine, they realized that they were wrong. They weren't in Virginia at all. They decided to stop here and rest, but that ended up being the worst decision they could have possibly made. By the time morning came, the road they had followed into the area was gone. It had disappeared, and the sign that they'd sworn was leading them to Janestown had changed and now said something else.
1:54:31Welcome to Point Pine, population unknown. A few people tried to leave the town. They tried walking through the forest, but they got lost and not all of them made it back. Outside, the winds picked up a bit. I could hear the sound of the trees rustling in the night. Very quickly, the settlers realized that there was something very wrong with the land. There was a reason why this place was so isolated. Why even the natives have left it alone, with remnants of dilapidated buildings and homes scattered across the land. Once they realized they couldn't safely leave, They had no choice but to stay and build.
1:55:07They needed to find water and food, and so they searched, and they found something. Not the something they were looking for, but something to help them. Robert paused. He dragged his fingers across the floor of the cabin slowly. What did they find? They thought it was God. They prayed and brought offerings. They prayed for food, and a herd of sheep came wandering out of the forest. They prayed for water and it began to spray from the earth. So they kept praying and they kept bringing in offerings, mainly food and crops, once they had those. Soon, though, people started to get sick. More specifically, the children.
1:55:48He stopped. Look at me in the eye. They prayed for the children. Some prayed harder than others. Offered more than others. Made deeper promises. They thought this thing was God. So when their children were saved, when their child woke up the next morning completely fine, they had no reason to think that something sinister was coming, or they had brought it upon themselves. So it wasn't God? It was a God, just not the God they wanted. Which God was it then? Robert shook his head. Other things. Other gods. One more in return. Other gods are not always good or just. Sometimes, or just Sometimes they're not gods at all But always know how to convince you that they are I stared at him Wanted him to explain, but I knew he wouldn't Soon, things began to happen People would die, and they wouldn't be dead People would hear things and see things It didn't take long for people to make the connection to realize that What they had been praying to was not God they intended to praise But it was far too late and other people didn't care.
1:56:59Other people had different ideas. They didn't fear this thing. Instead, they saw it as a resource, as a way to get things they wanted, things they couldn't get any other way. Like what? What kinds of things? After I almost died, my mother became paranoid. She was afraid that I would be taken away from her at any minute. And when she found out that she wasn't able to have any more children, the fear intensified. It consumed her! So she became a believer in this God, a devout follower, willing to do whatever it took in order to keep her children safe and alive. I'm eating this up. This is what I wanted out of this.
1:57:38I had been alive for about 16 years before my father realized what she had done. And even then, he did not know the full scope of it. Even now, the deal she made is not entirely clear to me. All I know is that my father, with the limited details he had had, the assumptions he had made, became enraged. And one night he confronted her. They fought for what felt like hours, but it was so long that I couldn't really tell you. I don't know if my mother eventually confessed the magnitude of her crimes to him, or if the anger was too much for him to control, but that night, before the sun rose, my mother was dead.
1:58:19The next day the parade started. It was devastating. You know how it works. You know how you have to hide, and then you know where to hide, but they didn't know anything. They didn't know they couldn't look. They didn't know it needed to sacrifice. Did you see it? I asked. Throat was dry again, but I didn't want Robert to stop telling me the story. I've seen it, yes. It took hours to clean up the dead bodies after the parade came through. That's what it did to the first time It killed everyone in its path It lit a fire inside them Oh, and they cooked from the inside out The smell of cooked flesh lingered in the air for weeks after that As a reminder The next time that music started, we ran There were less casualties that time What happened the second time?
1:59:12Yeah, I was thinking about Lee and his eyes Arbor cleared his throat and looked around the cabin towards the window on the far left wall. He didn't answer. Why don't they teach us this? Why do they change the story? I was picking up on the idea that he didn't want to tell me what happened the second time. Like I said, ignorance is bliss. He sat in silence for a while. I thought he would continue. Tell me more details, but he didn't. I mentally kicked myself, figuring that I had ruined my chances of learning more with my questions. I stopped myself from asking anything else as I sat there thinking about what he had just revealed to me.
1:59:51You'll have to leave soon. He said, breaking the silence. What? I apologize. I don't mean to be rude, but you'll have to go. He stood up and held the empty cup back out to him. Can I have some water? He took it and walked back to his kitchen. So how do I get back? He handed me the cup and I drank it all in large, rushed gulps. He took the cup for me and opened the door, motioning for me to step outside. Can you point me in the direction of town? I got lost earlier when I was smoking in the woods. Robert shook his head. It won't matter. You'll never make it back. Rose in the doorway. What do you mean?
2:00:29There are some things that you can't know. Like I said before, this is some knowledge that is cursed. What you learned here tonight wouldn't do anyone to point pie in any good. Why do you think I'm out here? Why do you think they stopped letting me go back into town? Why do you think they change the story every few years? So what am I supposed to do? I can't live out in the woods. I'll starve or I'll freeze to death. Robert shrugged. I tried to warn you. That was barely even a warning. I want to go home. I realized I was shouting, my exasperation echoing in the night. You can't! You need to get out of my house!
2:01:07I stepped out into the forest. The sun was rising, but that didn't seem right. I've been inside Robert's cabin for that long. Good luck, Wilmer. Turned around as Robert was closing his door. Cody made it back. He paused. How long ago? A few months. My palms were beginning to sweat as the paranoia began to creep in. Glanced towards the west. He was remembering something. Then you're going to be very glad that you're out of that town. Ah, interesting. With that, he shut the door and the singing began. I fell to the floor and wrapped my hands over my head, shielding my eyes from what was to come, but it never came.
2:01:49The chorus continued, like usual, only louder, like the melody was coming from the ground, the trees and leaves, like it was coming from inside of me, but the parade never came. After a few minutes, the music stopped, and I peeked. Seeing nothing, I stood back up and noticed that Robert's cabin was gone. I looked around, thinking I'd somehow gotten lost, though I knew that was impossible as I hadn't moved a single inch. Even though there was more light now, the woods felt quieter and more dangerous than before. I felt lonelier somehow too, emptier than they had felt when I'd first gotten lost, before I even found Robert.
2:02:28I thought about what he said, about how I would never go back. his voice repeated in my head as I tried to calm myself down finally I looked toward the direction Robert had looked before he shut the door in my face and began walking again hoping to eventually hit town as I prayed to whatever god was listening that would make it back home that's the end she should upload that one that one was really good what the fuck is going on with Cody well Cody's like a harbinger of something he either is what happened though To what? We never figure out what it is Well clearly this isn't the end of the series Yeah I'm curious When was the last time that she wrote one?
2:03:09Well it was six years ago without master list posts but she said I'll update the list as I keep going and maybe they start working on other projects because there are comments from like two months ago saying why did you never continue this Don't pull George R.R. Martin on us Please don't I need to know. Gabby, so she wrote a lot of no sleep. It looks like maybe the Point Pines, like the sequels, weren't getting a ton of attention. She went back to standalones, and they were getting more attention. So I totally get that as a creator, being like, this isn't working. I'll go somewhere else. Well, even if you don't finish it, send me a DM.
2:03:45Send me an email. Yeah, so after – Give me an update on – Well, what's funny is, so she went back to posting, like, standalone stories and she has been making bank because like she did the woman in my family give birth differently 4.1 000 upvotes she's making bank she did well reddit likes bank bank as in i mean like us bank could you cash this check for me please okay yeah i didn't mean that conversion the usd to karma gold i didn't mean that in the reddit sense i have to save my save a little bit my credibility here. I didn't mean that in the red sense. I meant that in that people kept clicking and step reading.
2:04:24She's been doing very good. This is four years ago. My sisters and I have been locked in an attic for 24 hours. 2.8 thousand. She has an extremely dedicated fan base. And let's also keep in mind, the most upvoted story on No Sleep. 100%. I'm not questioning that she's not. I'm upset because I want to know. Send me an email. I'm saying that I understand why if people aren't reading your sequels to Point Pine, you move on to standalone. I get that. But hopefully with this video... I think you can do both. I think you can do both too, but I hope that this gets interest in Point Pine. That she continues it.
2:04:58And she should absolutely... Gabby, you should absolutely post that last entry. I think that might be my favorite entry. I like that one a lot. That was fun. I do think the Point Pine series works best, in my opinion, as I like the connection between all the characters. Like, it can be new characters but they're interwoven. I was having fun when it was intertwining in that way. I think if she has an eventual goal, because they talk about once you leave Point Pine, you can never come back. Somehow Cody comes back right after his dad dies. We don't get any explanation on that yet. So I think Cody is a sort of like a prophet almost or a harbinger come back to the town.
2:05:33So I think there's more that can be done there. So I think it makes sense to have some stories that mention Cody, if he's going to be so big in later entries. But then that in line with the kid where he's like, you're going to be thankful you're not in that town then. and yeah you also have a line from the angel that something bad's coming yeah that's what i mean is there's a lot of unanswered questions right now don't pull george r martin please let us give a little something i will say too though that the three the three main characters that we had that was lee cody and uh reed the uh i i like that it could be anybody in the town but it's just a small connection between them it just it adds a level of cohesion that's why i was just like with the bear one it is what it is the carnival and all that kind of stuff and the pumpkin one it that's fine but i do think like that lack of that kind of intertwining was it took me out because i was getting so uh invested into that even even even the one lee is barely in the apartment when he just keeps flying out into the goddamn loop all the time but even that was a fun like a little oh yeah i'll give you a little more but yeah no it's a lot of fun i call me yeah well i don't know about that but give me a call i really i really know about that just give me a call one call hey this what happened oh okay cool i really liked um that i loved the last one i love the direction that it is uh that he was a kid when the first settlers got there and they keep changing the story because people can't know it and they prayed to a god and like his mother was a first convert and you can see how somehow his mother prayed really hard that he wouldn't die and it looks like she got her wish because he's still alive even now yeah i imagine that cody probably intertwined with that boy out there in the woods somewhere yeah yeah yeah there's a lot of fun stuff there and then i love at the end when the stoner's like trying to find he's like so i prayed to whatever god would listen it's like we hear about the mistakes that led to this in the first place where you know they're so desperate to get back to civilization or they're so desperate to survive that everyone prayed to this being that was good enough of a god for a time and then the story ends with the stoner doing the same thing it's like well it may not be for the best but i'm scared right now so i'm gonna have some a nice cheese campness to the story that i think is good that once again it harkens back to tales from the gas station and uh tales from a lonely broadcast station that i think people really resonate with i think also once again fun i think having characters that are that keep popping up makes it more to to where i think you get you become more attached to those characters and stuff but i will say the point pine the point pine town itself is just a fun backdrop that i think uh it'd be cool to keep exploring i still think you can once again do standalone stories and still just dip into that i would selfishly i would love to see way more point pine stuff like i said in the master list there's another point pine entry for you all to read if you're interested uh and also please support you know gabby of course and all that stuff uh she certainly deserves it gabby please post this and please keep writing this series how about that let's say i'm literally i'm going to email you my phone number let's say then i expect to call let's say this gabby if you finish the point pine series or something like that.
2:08:32We'll cover it. We'll do a return to Point Pine. God. We'll do the rest. Lucky you. Hey, Gabby. Aren't you just the luckiest little duck, huh? Hey, guys. I'm saying because I'm excited and I want to read more of it. Hey, no. We'll cover it. Okay. Why not? This one on us. You know what? We'll do that for you. You know what, Gabby? You put in all the work and we'll read it. You know what, Gabby? Truffle fries for free. Yeah, you know what? Truffle fries. Harry Potter marathon on the back. You know what, Gabby? B-Y-O-L. shakes are on us. Yeah, B-Y-O shakes are on us. Better than all hunger. Guys, thank you so much.
2:09:07If you're listening on Apple Podcasts and Spotify right now, thank you so much. Consider giving us a nice rating. And hey, to our patrons, thank you so much for supporting. We appreciate you. Until next time, guys, we will see you in the next one. Stay creep, bitch! I'm adding a bitch for now on. I don't like that. I don't give a fuck. That's a little too violent. I don't fucking care. Be sure to bomb your local... Jesus! Be sure to bomb your local... We'll read it for you.
2:09:38I was going to say, be sure to bomb your local burger joint. But yeah, that's it. Whatever. Yeah, on us, Gabby. Bye!
2:10:01Thank you.
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