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Okay, so I can't lie. I

1:33

can't lie early, early on. I

1:36

don't exactly know what to

1:38

do with people. Other

1:40

people. And

1:43

I suppose, I don't know, folk, kids, on

1:45

the playground or whatever. I

1:47

suppose they're sending signals to me, hints

1:50

on what to say, to

1:52

do, to where. No one seems

1:55

to know that language. But

1:58

I live in my house. ahead in

2:01

those brief periods of time when life

2:03

pulls me out of my own mind.

2:07

Life, life just leaves me

2:09

standing there bewildered,

2:11

confused, tongue-tied, uncertain as to

2:13

why these kids are looking

2:15

at me and what

2:18

they expect me to do and for what

2:20

reason is everyone screaming and why is the

2:22

ball rolling toward me? Kick! What?

2:31

What? In

2:36

case I'm super stuck, I

2:38

have a social brain drug to whom

2:40

I can turn to for answers. My

2:43

brother. They speak

2:46

that the kids' communication

2:49

system will break loose. One.

2:54

One's a natural hustler. More

2:57

lawns, shoveling snow, whatever. He always,

2:59

but always has money and his

3:01

pocket knows exactly when to walk

3:03

away and he knows when to

3:05

run. The

3:08

other brother, he loves the ladies

3:11

and that love turns into

3:13

an art. So

3:15

I talk to them both as

3:17

a child, as a teen, and

3:19

as an adult to

3:22

help get me out of my head. One,

3:30

he's Mr. Tactical Man. First you

3:32

buy the property and then you

3:34

buy the rides. Never

3:37

the other way around. Mother, I'm

3:39

gonna tell him. I

3:42

don't know if she likes me. We

3:44

were. She loves you. I know. She

3:47

wants to look at me. I'm

3:50

gonna ask now. Walk

3:53

us that into the bar and block our

3:55

knees, our body. Always point toward

3:57

whatever you are in the room. Oh

4:01

my god. No way. No

4:04

way. Alright then.

4:06

Come on. So

4:10

of course, as a grown man, I

4:12

have them both on speeder dial. I

4:15

can hear what they are going to say even

4:17

before I call them. Please

4:19

tell me you've left Dr. Walmord

4:22

dead. Duh. Don't

4:24

let that dog eat her. Let her

4:27

go to you. I

4:30

know what they are going to say, but

4:32

I laugh. I argue. I push back. Now

4:35

fools, this time y'all listen to me.

4:37

I'm the older brother. Both

4:39

of them howling together. Don't pull

4:42

that red nonsense. All

4:44

of us giggling at each other. I

4:48

hear them. I hear the sweet of

4:50

dad. I hear them. Though

4:54

both of their numbers are still at

4:56

the top of my speed dial, I'll

4:58

never press the call button.

5:03

I never rang to say hello because I'd

5:07

held my sister close

5:10

and lived till I could no longer stand

5:13

at both of their memorial services.

5:17

I have. I

5:19

have, but still, still

5:22

we have long conversations into the

5:24

night, advice, threats,

5:26

reminiscences. Then

5:29

they walk away. One

5:31

with his arm around the other's shoulder. Where

5:34

y'all going? See

5:37

on the flip side. They say.

5:43

Well, I'll write there. I'll

5:45

be here. Or

6:00

even their fallen brothers. Stokesters.

6:07

Now. Now.

6:32

Nae Nae is in school. It's another day he's sitting at his desk

6:34

in class in his career day. His

6:43

teacher is leading the kids in a discussion about

6:45

their futures. Spooky. Spooky.

6:50

Spooky. Spooky.

6:54

Spooky. Spooky.

6:59

Spooky. Today

7:06

at class, they made us all

7:08

get up and tell everybody what

7:10

we wanted to be when we grow up.

7:14

And when I got up there, I said that I wanted to

7:16

be a mother. They

7:18

started laughing so loud. And

7:22

they were repeating, he'll never be a mother, you

7:24

can't be a mother. And

7:27

I didn't understand. Because

7:29

at home, I

7:31

was being a mother. I'm

7:34

taking care of my little sister, I'm the one

7:36

feeding her when my mother can't, and she's having

7:38

to make all the dinner for the rest of

7:40

everybody else. So

7:43

I don't understand what they mean by I can't

7:45

be a mother. And

7:50

my brothers really love going out into other fields

7:53

and doing the farming, which I'm really not interested

7:55

in it. My

8:02

brothers are helping my father on the farm,

8:04

building fence. I'm

8:07

hanging out in the sandbox, and

8:10

I'm creating roadways and

8:12

homes and little communities.

8:15

In the distance, but not

8:17

too far away from me. I

8:20

see a little girl. Her

8:23

hair is about shoulder length. But

8:25

I can tell that she's not

8:27

just a regular child. What

8:31

she's wearing is very outdated. Something

8:34

that I would have seen in one

8:36

of my books, like the Boxcar Children. I

8:40

see the little girl walk behind this

8:42

well. It kind of looks

8:45

like a volcano. At the

8:47

very top of this mound of

8:49

earth is a giant

8:51

hole that's been covered by

8:53

a heavy piece of cement.

8:58

So after some time passes, she

9:00

doesn't walk back out from the other

9:03

side. And

9:05

I leave the

9:07

gated fence, and I run around towards

9:10

the well, and

9:12

she's not there. My

9:16

parents remind us repetitively that they did not

9:18

want us playing up on top of the

9:20

well. They don't want us to

9:23

take other kids, just in

9:25

case something were to go wrong, and

9:27

we were to fall inside the well. I

9:30

guess very dangerous. It's

9:32

very deep. Yet,

9:35

it's so inviting. But

9:39

it's a place I'm not supposed to play, so

9:41

I do it a lot in secret. My

9:44

mother's run down to the

9:47

fields to give my father some lunch.

9:50

So I get to stay at home for

9:52

like the 10 minutes that she's gone. And

9:55

I run upstairs as fast as I

9:58

can because I'm so excited. to

10:00

get into her drawers

10:02

and play dress up.

10:04

I love these peach

10:07

pair of bloomers and as

10:09

I put these peach pair of

10:11

bloomers on I recognize

10:14

outside that there's a little

10:17

girl playing jacks

10:21

on top of the well. I don't

10:24

really see her face. I can

10:26

tell she's wearing a dress and

10:29

her feet they're crisscrossed and

10:31

I like the game jacks. I

10:34

get back into my regular clothes,

10:37

run downstairs as fast as I

10:39

can, run outside and there's

10:42

nobody there at the well.

10:45

Huh, I wonder if it's

10:47

that same little girl that I

10:49

keep seeing. I don't

10:53

feel threatened at all by this

10:56

little girl. It's more our

10:59

own little secret

11:01

way of saying

11:04

hello. It's nighttime

11:06

and I still like

11:09

to sleep in my parents room sometimes

11:12

and this evening I was laying

11:14

there and my mom and dad

11:18

were both sleeping. I could tell they

11:20

were sleeping yet I

11:22

could hear somebody

11:25

singing. I feel

11:28

drawn to get up and

11:30

go towards the window and when

11:33

I get over by the window the well

11:36

seems to have a little

11:40

bluish light. I

11:43

see a woman and

11:45

she's singing looking off out

11:48

into the distance and

11:51

she's beautiful. Her

11:54

hair, there's

11:56

a gentle curl to it. She

11:59

is milky. skin. She's

12:02

wearing long, flowy

12:05

garment. I

12:08

rub my eyes with

12:10

the palms of my hands to

12:13

see if I'm really seeing

12:15

what I'm seeing. And the

12:17

sky is really clear. And I

12:21

see a little girl at her

12:23

feet. And

12:26

it's the little girl that I've

12:28

seen many a times before. I

12:33

feel very relaxed and I feel at peace.

12:36

I'm able to close my eyes and I'm

12:39

able to rest and listen to

12:41

her voice. And as I do, I

12:43

must fall asleep because I wake up at the foot

12:45

of the bed. She

12:50

made her appearances when I

12:53

needed her, when

12:55

my mother was asleep and

12:58

I was having a hard

13:00

time sleeping. I'm laying in

13:02

bed. I

13:05

look around the room. It's

13:07

dark. There's the

13:09

nightlight. My

13:11

brothers are to the right

13:14

and to the left of me. All

13:16

of a sudden at the foot of the bed, I

13:19

see a woman glide

13:23

by. I've

13:26

seen her before. She

13:28

is the same woman

13:31

that was singing from the well.

13:33

And she's got that same blue

13:35

light about

13:37

her. I'm holding

13:40

my breath because I don't want her

13:42

to know that I know that she's in

13:44

the room and that I'm awake. From

13:47

the opposite side where I saw her walking,

13:49

she walks across again. So

13:52

I pretend like I'm asleep. And

13:55

as I have my eyes closed, I can hear

13:57

her singing. And she's

14:00

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14:02

in the same space, and her

14:04

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14:06

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woman who owned the

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land and let us live on there and farm

15:46

the land has passed away and

15:49

our house put up for sale. My

15:52

parents are away looking

15:54

for a home in York, Nebraska.

15:57

My siblings are at Friends.

16:01

Instead of me being home alone, I'm with

16:04

a babysitter. I'm

16:07

a Capricorn. I was always wanting to be older

16:09

when I was younger. So it was

16:12

very important to me to be able

16:14

to have this time alone with Bridget

16:16

because it made me feel like an

16:19

adult. I'm

16:21

nine years old. My

16:23

babysitter is 15.

16:26

She wasn't able to drive on her own yet.

16:29

We were planning later

16:32

on that evening to do

16:34

facials and hair. And

16:37

I was all about doing

16:39

some hair and getting some makeup

16:41

on and doing some facials.

16:47

We had KGROR on 99.9 on the

16:49

radio and it played all the popular

16:51

songs. The

16:56

feeding of a heart, the only

16:58

sound. Since

17:01

you're alone now, alone now. I

17:11

love that song so much. My

17:13

babysitter is sitting across from me

17:15

on the counter having her chili.

17:19

I set my goal of chili down because I'd finished

17:21

it and I decided

17:23

to open up to Bridget and let

17:25

her know that Lorde was just being

17:27

a terror in school.

17:30

And she had had this game

17:32

where everybody could play

17:34

together as long as they had a purse.

17:37

When I brought my purse to school, they had

17:40

decided that it was no longer time to play

17:42

with purses and they excluded me again. So

17:45

I felt really shitty about

17:47

being excluded. She

17:50

sits up on the kitchen counter and

17:52

she looks at me and she says,

17:54

You don't have to worry about any

17:56

of those girls. Once you're

17:58

in high school, things will be fine. You

18:01

don't have to worry about staying here in this town

18:03

either. You've got a lot

18:05

that you can do. And

18:09

she starts to head over towards the

18:11

table to sit with me when

18:16

the music turns off. And

18:22

so we look at each other, and I

18:25

think that's strange. So

18:28

she leaves, and she goes

18:31

and turns the

18:33

music back on. She

18:35

goes to say something to me when the

18:37

music turns back off. Bridget

18:41

goes, it must be a fuse or

18:43

something, and the

18:45

radio turns back off. Then

18:50

the radio turns off. We're

18:54

just still. Everything

18:57

is still as if

18:59

the pause button has

19:01

been hit. It

19:03

feels as if there is another presence in the house.

19:09

And then we hear the

19:11

footsteps of somebody

19:13

in the house going

19:16

up the staircase, shutting

19:19

the door, opening

19:22

the door, and we hear

19:25

footsteps again. Come

19:27

down the stairs. She's

19:31

the first one to become

19:34

unfrozen and responds by

19:36

grabbing the cordless phone

19:40

and grabbing my hand. And

19:43

she takes me into the bathroom and shuts

19:45

the door. She

19:50

calls her father, and I'm

19:52

sitting there looking at her. Bridget

19:57

hangs up the phone, and she

19:59

looks at me. And she says

20:01

to me, I have

20:05

to go get our shoes and

20:07

we have to get out of here. We

20:09

need to run and we need to climb

20:11

a tree and we need to keep an

20:13

eye on the house until dad can come

20:15

and get us. Oh

20:20

my god, my shoes are under

20:22

the stairs. So

20:25

we wait until

20:27

we hear the sounds of the

20:30

footsteps going up the stairs and

20:33

the door shut and

20:35

Bridget takes off running as fast

20:37

as she possibly can. She

20:42

goes and she grabs those shoes and she gets

20:44

back and I see her

20:46

face as she's running. I run

20:48

with her and we run out

20:50

the back door and once we're

20:52

outside we put our shoes

20:54

on and then we run for the trees.

20:59

I just keep thinking you can go faster, you can

21:01

go faster, you can go faster. Behind

21:03

you, behind you, remember what your dad

21:05

said when you were in a race. Don't look behind,

21:08

they're going to slow you down. I

21:10

just kept running until we get to the tree

21:12

and we climbed that tree so fast.

21:15

Up in the tree and I am keeping an eye

21:18

on the house. I

21:22

keep my eyes on the doors, I

21:25

keep my eyes on the windows and

21:30

then I see that

21:32

my sister's room, the

21:35

nursery, has four windows

21:39

and I can tell that there's movement,

21:41

that there's somebody in that room. I

21:43

can see their shadow moving. I'm

21:47

able to make out a head, shoulders,

21:50

an arms, a thick body.

21:54

I say to Bridget, do you also see

21:56

this? She replies back to

21:58

me, yes. She tells

22:00

me just to keep watching, making

22:03

sure that nobody comes out

22:05

of the house because it's obvious that somebody

22:07

is in there. We know now that we

22:10

are not alone. In

22:16

the distance I see two vehicles

22:19

approaching. Bridget's

22:21

father arrives in

22:23

the family van. I

22:25

see two police cars coming up

22:28

the driveway. As

22:30

we jump out of the trees and

22:33

we run into the van and we

22:35

start to give hugs to

22:37

Bridget's brothers and sisters, I

22:41

feel really great until I

22:43

notice that

22:45

Bridget's father has a gun and

22:47

that the police also have guns and

22:49

that they're headed into the house. Getting

22:54

those guns changes the whole situation

22:56

and it

22:58

makes it more real in that we're not the

23:00

only ones to be afraid. So

23:05

they come back outside and they ask Bridget and I

23:07

to come inside with them. They

23:10

have us walk upstairs and

23:13

they want

23:16

to ask us some questions and

23:19

I'm curious of

23:21

what these questions would be until

23:23

I see us

23:25

all standing in front of the

23:28

door that enters into my sister's

23:30

room and

23:32

they open the door. My

23:35

sister's mattress is placed up against

23:37

the door and

23:39

they ask us if we did

23:41

this and we

23:44

both said no. They

23:48

knock down the mattress

23:51

and they all enter into the room. I

23:53

can hear them moving around and

23:56

one officer comes out and asks

23:58

for us to come back. into

24:00

the room. On

24:02

the floor, there are

24:04

all of our children's books have

24:07

been taken off of the shelf and

24:10

placed in the middle of the room

24:12

creating a spiral with the books. The

24:16

baby blankets have also been taken out

24:18

and they have been also folded and

24:22

they've also been stacked so

24:24

then it's creating a spiral. My stomach

24:27

felt so sick.

24:30

I felt sick. Then

24:33

the police come over and

24:35

they're like, we've got one more thing that

24:37

we need to ask you. They

24:40

walked us to the back door. And

24:44

the back door was wide open. The

24:50

house felt really different. It

24:53

felt cold. It

24:56

felt empty. I

24:59

feel like the back door being left open was a

25:01

message. That

25:05

motherly spirit that

25:10

brought me comfort through

25:13

those many years of

25:15

being there was gone.

25:19

It was time

25:21

for us to move. I

25:24

felt like I was

25:26

not going to see these entities

25:28

anymore or whatever was

25:32

home was not home anymore

25:34

and that they

25:36

left because we were leaving and

25:39

they must have known that whoever

25:41

had purchased the land and whoever

25:43

was coming in was not there

25:46

for intention of having family and

25:48

having security and safety which is

25:50

what we made there. And it's

25:52

very obvious you go back and

25:55

the house is not

25:57

loved. The house does not have love the

25:59

lady. and does not have love. And

26:02

so when that energy is gone, our

26:05

energy is gone. Then their

26:07

energy is gone. Thank

26:22

you, Nae Nae, for sharing your story with

26:24

the spook folks. If you know

26:27

someone who doesn't feel like they've been in, and

26:30

maybe you feel that way yourself, be

26:32

sure to check out the It Is

26:34

Better Project, the original score

26:36

for that story by Richard Haig.

26:39

Please continue to pay any

26:41

money. And

27:02

there is no beginning, no this. There's

27:05

also no end. If

27:07

never really often. Spook

27:09

returns against the sun at just in time

27:12

for the haunted season, a story to keep

27:14

you up all night. Your

27:17

story, though, let us know

27:19

of your story's fault. It's step judgment

27:21

at the end of the number. The

27:24

couple's afraid you're gonna be won't

27:26

know unless you need to know.

27:30

You'll make an out. Spook

27:32

to spook. Thank

27:40

you, Nae Nae, for making my day out today. Subscribe

27:42

to the amazing Snapchat, the ad-cast,

27:45

and the night team. And I hope you enjoy the night. The

27:48

smallest block of the key that

27:50

always fills coins into the fountain.

27:52

I'm calling my message. Who

27:54

always feeds around like me to take

27:57

those coins out from the fountain. Ha

27:59

ha ha. I present

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Washington and Johnson. Spook

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