Point Pine Series | CreepCast

[MUSIC] Welcome back to Creepcast. We are going to be doing something that I don't think we've ever done this before. We're going back, so we've read things before. 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 don't think people have wanted us to go back into the Tales from the Gas Station series, who wanted us to finish 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, Gabby, and she even gave us a little exclusive to sweeten the pot. Yeah, so if you remember a while back, we read a story called, let me get it right, every month the parade would pass through my hometown, but we were never allowed to look at it. We read that story and it was pretty awesome. It was about a group of kids who there's prayed the passes through town, and the parents tell all the kids that can't go outside and then a group of them sneak out. 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, one of which is the most upvoted story on No Sleep. My sugar daddy asked me for weird favors, and she wrote the story about the guy who follows me everywhere, about the guy that turns around and just counts down. And we read another one of her stories about if you've seen me please kill me, about the girl who had the boyfriend who slowly became her. We're recording now. Yes, and more recent recording. Everything we've read from Gabby's been awesome, and everyone who has read the rest of her stuff has been like, guys, you liked the first part of the Point Pine series? 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, you should read the rest of it. Yeah, we had a poll on Patreon, what series you wanted to see while we're recording a person and overwhelmingly Point Pine won. We were all wanting to see the rest of Point Pine. So we reached out to Gabby, and Gabby sent us, you know, the whole series that 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. 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, 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 sending up to the Patreon. It does help us out. And also, Gabby, her Reddit profile name is EAPATBP. 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. We're obviously very grateful for her being so cool and giving this exclusive content like this. So as always, but especially now, be sure to support the artist. So let'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 not, 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, little fun vignettes. But there are, I think we're reading like eight or nine of them. So I think eight. So we should 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 in a need of a place to stay in a job and well, beggars can't be choosers. So 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 has 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. It 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. 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, following year, a new floor appears to accommodate the next 12 apartments. Oh, 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, but 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. It seems like a kind of story we're leaning into the tills of the gas station, we're leaning into the vampire hotel. I think 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. Is 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. Because 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. I thought it was them looking to parade from their house or camera. 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 the kid. Right. Yeah. So, I imagine each story in the series is going to be from a different kids point of view. Right. That makes sense. What the fuck is the west side? Not west side stories, but it's like the school, the west side upside down. Yeah, west side school for whatever. Sideway stories from west side schools. Kind of like that vibe. Yeah. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, it's a different perspective. I only know children literature. Yeah, I know. I could only ever reference children's literature. I wish I had something else, but sadly I don't. But there's another, there's another horror story that follows that same convention I can't think of. There's security and frequency. But there's some TV show where it's like the same setting a different perspective throughout. Anyway, the entire first floor houses people who have died outside of the town. You see, anytime a prior resident of Point Pine dies, they wake up again here. 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. Second floor houses the creatures with the eyes that two 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. They're 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 rabie 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 was an Old Man. Has the name within? We piece that one together. Yeah, I figured that one out, thank you. Some of the children collect dead bucks. Others collect less unsettling things like flowers, but some collect dirt from graves and cemetery. On the fourth floor, live all the people who died in 2017 with a 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, stopped going into Windsor Park. Of course, after that, the bell on the tower was just ringing every month and still managed to kill more people, but that's a different story. I 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, 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, it was 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. No one part of the point pine. Yeah, yeah. But she was saying so the parade was. a 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 lay down 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 I what might have happened is that first story she made point bomb was just a filler name and everyone's like this is awesome you should write more there she's like all right I make a series and this is like it's the second entry but to kick off to the series by all this extra lore but almost feel like Windsor Parks familiar why don't uh why don't we ask her editor put it up who would have thought I I bought it because I don't know yet because that's in the future well but yeah we can it just popped up for that but but 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 median point in time who would have thought on the fifth floor are the invisible vampires but we don't talk about them else all right all right all right all right invisible vampires you're invisible ginger vampire that's a deadly combo that's a rough thing to do that's a problem the sixth floor appeared this year and so far tenets of that floor were not of one specific species and they don't seem to have anything in common first family to appear is in 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 Cukies. Cukies. Cukies. Cukies. Cukies. Cukies. Cukies. Cukies. Cukies. Cukies. Cukies. Cukies. Cukies - I don't know if that's the coco, just coco? That's what a millisecond Google search did, but I have no idea. April brought a family of coco's that almost gave me a hard attack the first time that I saw them. They were by far the most horrifying residents of the building. They're huge red eyes that rattled around in their skulls. They're 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 Cronens, the mummy. Does that not literally sound like Lee Cronens, the mummy is so loud, gosh. Also, the rattling, the dead skin. Lee Cronens, the mummy. Lee Cronens, the point, pine place. - Want real quick nonsense. - Don't bring him into this. - You feel like a creepy monster, like the and then nature. What you follow, who knows? - The kind of, who knows? - Oh, Lee Cronens, the mummy. - Yeah, it's like, and then someone throws, cut someone throwing up. - If you didn't-- - Through the walls, you're just like, what? - If you didn't attach the mummy to it, I would have believed, well, I guess I still could, I just, if it was, 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. 'Cause yeah, it did have a creepypasta vibe to it. Lee Cronens, the creepypasta. - Lee Cronens, the creepypasta. - Put in a very, put in a very loud sound effect. (dramatic music) - Don't bring him in. (laughs) In May, a seemingly more normal looking family moved in, which terrified me just a bit more than the kukus 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 had routinely set fires in the building, but other than that, it appeared to stay out of everyone else's way. Last month, brought the window goes, which were, ew, 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. Day, 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 the door suddenly appeared. Apartment number 68. I took a few deep breaths to prepare myself for whatever kiddiest monster would answer the door and then lifted my hand a 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 to all in blonde with a tattoo of a rose on her left forearm. - Hi, I'm the owner of this building, the landlord. - My name's Eric. - Extended my hand out, bracing myself for some sort of heat or coldness or shock. - I'm Gwen, nice to meet you. - Checked my hand with a strong grip. It was a normal handshake, but I wasn't gonna 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, 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 turned at the sound of footsteps to see two kids and another woman walk out into the kitchen. - This 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, do you have any questions? - Kids took off, so I stood there with Gwen and Laura. - Oh yeah, so, what are the rules? Are we allowed to 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? - What are you? I don't mean to be offensive anything. I just like to know. - Lauren, Gwen exchange looks. - Like, lesbians? Are you allowed to ask that? - When asked Narrow into her eyebrows? - No, I mean like, what are you? I know you're not human. - Eric is either extremely based or. - Say, "Cronins" the Eric. - Sigma edit, like, no, but like, I know you're not human. - No, I mean, I don't care. I'm just saying it. Are you guys like, what, bug people? - No, the, yeah, Lee Cronins, the lesbians. - This is an average conversation that I have on every day. And then I step out of the Subaru and then it reads forward to the lesbians on Amazon. - No, they're gonna say, this is an average conversation that he has every day. - No, this is-- - So what are you-- - 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 windigos and there's a family of cocos down the hall. Is this something that a 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. - Well, 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. - It'll be a teleport thing. - Yeah, it'll be a time where-- In Halfway and Ian McGregor movie. - Guys, our house, our street, our neighborhood. - I have to keep explaining the references. - Has being is gone. - I have to keep explaining the references to any Ian McGregor running away from a dinosaur. - Last night when it's good. - Last night when it's good to go see the mummy. - Well, the cronins, thank you. - The cronins of the mummy. - And it was awful, it was terrible. And we did put up a, we put a video on Patreon of us like react to it. - It was so bad that we recorded a talk. - It's like 40 minutes of me and Hunter talking about how bad the moon is. - The AMC parking lot. - Yeah. - So if you want to pay money for that, it's on the page. - That was a real, that'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 he keeps saying Lee cronins the blank. And also, there was a trailer before it of I kid you not, you and McGregor and Ian Halfway who street is teleported to a dinosaur land. And now it's, it's a normal American suburb but there's dinosaurs now. - Oh my god, run. - I thought all of the trailers looks so bad. - Which honestly, which hold on. That one can be campy fine. The potential to have a street teleported to dinosaur land, how are they gonna play, you know the problem with Lee cronins 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 and black comedy. - No, that's what I was saying. And I think that it like, it should have been. - Yeah, yeah. - Or like the original mummy, the Brendan Frazier one. That movie knew what it was. - That's, I would say that's like a horror comedy. - Yeah, exactly. But when it wants to be funny, it knows what it's doing. - It's like being in a church, it's like the trailers. This is gonna, sorry to derail this, but the trailers to this were so bad. - Hainus. - I seriously believe that. - I love it. I seriously believe the passenger looks like one of the worst movies it probably will be let me finish my thought not of all time the like the year or whatever the The dinosaur one there's no way that film takes itself too seriously 100% it does There's no 100% because if they because you would Jurassic Park doesn't take it was and halfway if it was and halfway Mark Wahlberg I would agree. Okay. Yeah and halfway you McGregor their point. They're pulling that to be like these are serious These are actors. Yeah. That kind of it. It's gonna be this whole story about family to yeah. Yeah, don't wrong It's not gonna be a grizzly. It's not gonna be a grizzly Horsing. Yeah, but I do believe it's going to they're gonna try to do like a Like a less count like because Jurassic Park head was kind of campy and fun. I knew what it was. Yeah, but it's not gonna be that I don't think it'll be that I think I'll be I'll think it'll at least match dress 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 like action segments and so if I get it I don't think I've seen Jurassic World. I didn't like any of the sequels, but the first Jurassic World like it It was fun. Yeah, what it wanted to be. I always know is the passenger. I Editor put up is the passenger a is that a creep that that is a creepypastum that has to be a Well, yeah, it's the old story of the hitchhiker in the passenger seat you're driving alone Well, that's why I first I was like oh my god. You see him doing that at first I 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? And so then the whole thing isn't it keeps doing the repeat? Yeah, I was like oh shit No, I don't know if I can type for a second. I was like oh damn and then it and then it cuts to the And then the third of who he does Also, I hate that every fucking horror movie trailer That's all it is Can there not be any that's why that's why sometimes I have a cane pixels the back room And you're like oh, I have a good feeling about this this trailer is whenever it's it's like oh it's a horror film But it's 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 There's a trailer for a horror movie and it was like what's this? It's like kind of ghost family and then the insidious like medium pops up It's like alright as soon as I saw it from James want or from Jason Bloom and James Wan I was like oh fuck. Well, that's this while at the end of the leak Ronan's the mummy That showing up in the credits was the most since the night had made Well, yeah, when I had to sit through the 75 minute long intro that Bloom House makes you sit through that getting Of other films and Sidious goes to Egypt. That's how I knew that bloom house tag is horrible It's the worst. It's just like the most cheesy Michael remember all of our fucking box That's Jason Bloom basically taking a giant mirror putting up on the wall He's just jacking off and coming all over the mirror. I think that I'm Jason Bloom early in the studio There's a couple I liked the first insidious and it came out. I thought it's fine. It's when it became a million sequels I was like It's hard to it's hard to look back with anything in hindsight now with what has happened. I know I get it You know So it is what it is also All right, we got point pine. Yeah Laura ran to the window in the living room and pulled the curtains back and gas What is it when asked her and around their window had a view of some of the buildings in the down below Along with a giant sign right outside Welcome to point pine population unknown Hi, I don't understand. Yeah, me neither How do we get here? I'm shrugs. I don't really know how people get here They sort of just show up. Okay, then how do we get to Colorado? Laura asked back in way from the window. You don't What do you mean can't willingly leave point pine once you're here? Everyone who leaves gets banished and even then and even then when he died out there You just wake up and you're stuck here again When inside and Laura ran her hands through a black hair So you don't know why we're here? Check 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 pressure or just all right I'll leave them with that. It's a gum to whatever conclusion. They will 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 Stopped as I reached out to open it. I looked down at the watch on my wrist still noon, but that wasn't possible I've 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 Couldn't even see the sidewalk right outside the door or a 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 Suddenly someone crashed right into the glass causing me to jump back at least a few feet and fright Holy shit! Hey, over 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! Over the door! I guarantee you Lee was the kid from the first one because I can't remember what happened to him Maybe his eyes got taken or if he was stuck in a way, but I guess he lived in his eyes. 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Uh, Eric, we just spoke I'm sorry, you must have made confused there's someone else I never apply It's during the department's lore 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 - Human shouldn't live in point-pinox. - Cool. - All 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 hotel effectively. - Sure, but they definitely were put there. - Yes, something put them there. 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 had something he's not supposed to and now some entities pulling him back. Maybe that glitch caused people to appear in the new hotel room or something like that. I like the tie into the parade earlier. - Yeah, 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 like to know what, how Eric, 'cause Eric's just a regular guy, right? - Yeah, that would do an extent. He's a regular guy who lives in a supernatural. - Yeah, yeah. - Like I said before, it's like adult gravity falls. - 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 though the parade's coming, don't fucking look at it. You know, this one's very much just like, there's ghouls, dragons, and goblins. Fucking around, we're all pals. - Yeah. - You know, they creep me out, but it is what it is. - Yeah, I know you need to come in. - That's what the day starts. - That's what truly starts. - Yeah, I know you're despised. - How many times have you said that in your life? You? Just, I looked at the camera in the viewer. - Lee Kronin's the lesbians. - Oh God. (laughing) - That actually would be. - I honestly, I would go see Lee Kronin's lesbians. (laughing) - Lee Kronin's the lesbians. Either just back in Cairo again. They're in Egypt. - What the hell is this? (laughing) - They're just throwing up and like, there's fucking puss at everything everywhere. It was like one of the grossest movies I've seen. And maybe not one of the grossest, but I was just like needlessly, you're like, "Oh my God, come on." - It was assault on the senses. It was so loud, it was just not nice to look at. - It was lesbian, like, shitting on the floor and then crawling, like, punching through the floorboards and crawling out from the room. - I, I'm willing to believe that not everyone would have seen it, but they should have at least had one person spot her coming through the thing. - How is there not one? - There's just no way in a quiet, yeah. Do you see something coming through the ceiling? - All out of context. 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 appealing to go see Lee Kronin's, the mummy, so you know what we're talking about? - The Patreon video will be out before this comes out. - Oh yeah, well that not everyone who watches us is a patron, I'm saying that. I'm saying that people are gonna be like, little girl crawling through the floorboard. What do you talk about like that kind of thing? - No, I think they're gonna be like, so the movie's bad, got it. - We'll see, I went and saw Lee Kronin's, I bet you ate them, there's gonna be some downside. Yeah, so I actually ended up watching Lee Kronin's the mummy because of the podcast. And yeah, those guys were right. Or actually more realistically, 'cause it's a YouTube comment, it was not bad. - Yeah, it would be that. - It was scary, I actually liked it better than like all the other movies. - I couldn't believe how bad the dad actor was. - Yeah. - He did some other stuff, it's a mid-summer. - Yep, yeah, you're right, you're right. - Which also, I wanna tell you a story off camera. I guess you just added, you can cut it. (phone ringing) Interesting. All right, there's a new guy in town, we don't like him? - Yep, next entry. - New guy in town, we don't like him. - How you doing Isaiah? - I'm doing good, all right. Need anything? - We 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 snuck 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 of 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 any one named Cody, and I've lived here for over 10 years. Cody is hyper linked when I was gonna click on it. Oh, it takes you back to the first one. Was Cody one of the characters in there? Cody, Cody, I mean, I'm just scrolling. Lee was the person in that story I see who looked. Oh, Cody was the protagonist from that first story. It seems like. Yeah, 'cause they're saying, look at us Cody. Do what? His name was Eric. Well, yeah, he's right. Cody is the protagonist. I think and then he went out with some friends and Eric is the one. Oh, in the parade story. Oh, okay, sorry. Yeah, Cody Lee, Cody and his friends went out. Cody was the one riding 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. Yeah, I'm from here, yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah, okay. At the end, he says minutes after we left, my parents actually like Point Pine never existed. So the story ends with his parents getting him out of there 'cause he saw the parade. Yeah, I see, and now he's come back later on. I got him. I first saw him while I was on my morning run. He was walking up Briar Road, road that leads to 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. It also know that the Point Pine Oaks doesn't take guests. At least not guests who would walk in and ask for a room. That's so funny. It's like, anyone from here knows about the time to storage. That's kind of fun now, though. I stood on the corner until he walked back down the road. What are you doing? That didn't used to be here. You just stood towards the Oaks? Yeah. I'm assuming it's in our normal apartment building. You said walking closer to me? Right. I'm looking for someone thinking 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, it'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? In 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 know exactly where to start looking. He was probably in one of the houses up at 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. Watch as you walked away towards the center of town, where most of the shops were stopped a few feet away and slowly turned back to look at me. Hey, has a parade happened this month? Maybe nervous that you knew about that. No. Mumbled something that I didn't quite catch. 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. Have you seen that boy in years? It's only he managed to show up here. Crazy, ain't it? Looked up and saw me. I'll call you back. How's your run? Who's Cody? Just a boy. Was it cold out? I met him. Cody, I met him on my run. It's 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. Hmm. There were a lot of people around today, more than usual, at least. But 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 weren't charged with the farmer's market. I was at a produce stand when I saw Cody again. Everyone got quiet and sort of whispering among themselves. I hid behind a wooden pole before he saw me, and I want to be seen speaking to him. Read? Everyone looked towards Cody as he walked up to read, who was in the middle of buying something. Cody? So she did know it. Cody? Cody? Cody? Hey! Link ruins the read. So she did know it. Which man, he was still in the truth. He was from Port Pond. He still didn't seem to make anyone any friendly towards him though. I thought you, the parade, a new read had been in the parade years ago, and it only just appeared in February of this year, Port Pond 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? Lee. He's somewhere around here. She was right. He was. Somewhere being the time loop at the oaks. I wonder 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. that's read. 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, uh, the oaks on the hill, right? No, she lives in, oh, she lives in the, oh, yeah, she's the one that appeared. But I think, probably because she's dead. It's human that are in the loot. Yeah. 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 liked me much. He was right, we didn't. I saw him again later that day, so I was leaving the point pine library. I just returned some books and my father had checked out on gardening and I saw him talking to Mr. Terrence outside the point pine bakery. He stood on the steps of the library, watching. It seemed to be having a normal conversation. Mr. Terrence was laughing at something that Cody had said and it made me wary of him, already to 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 course of voices started singing. 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. Point pine middle school was my best bet. It was about two minutes away if I ran fast enough and 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, below me. I ran faster saying 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's only a few buildings in town you could hide in when the parade was coming. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Through 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. I 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 them. 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, rainically running as the start of the parade got closer and closer. Two minutes left. Proud of people at thinned down. Now there are 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. 40 seconds, began to close the door. 20 seconds. Cody picked up his speed, shouting for me to wait. He had closed in 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. 10 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'll let the small curtain fall and cover it up the window. Two. One. Or just footsteps as he ran away, but it was too late. There's nowhere else to go now. Braided already began. Who's that? This Monroe asked. The new guy. He stayed quiet so did everyone else in the school. Like I said, we don't like him. What do you think that he actually has gone? No, I'm sure he'll show up somewhere. I mean, he survived at 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. I was like, we don't like him. There's just 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 about. Sideers, even people from there who've just been gone a while or not. It's jealousy. I mean, a guy that was able to, a guy that was able to leave and then come back to like, fuck this guy. I mean, yeah, but an outsider obviously, but I'm just, yeah, you also see the love just like isolated peoples where it's like, you're not us. Gone. Who cares? No. This episode sponsored by Cash app. Cash app just released a new status part of the way people actually spend called Cash app green. No way. That's awesome. It unlocks new ways for you to pay. 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I don't smoke, but I like coming up here and looking down at all the people in town who are walking around running errands and whatnot. They look so small from up here, like ants. Sometimes I imagine a giant foot coming down from the sky 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 from some time. Usually, that means about 30 minutes before 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 and about me, at least not really. It's about the people of Point Pond. It's about Apollo. I'm at Apollo a few hours ago on the rooftop of Point Pond Hospital. I'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 had to notice 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 occurred 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 stopped at a cough and turned the other way. I don't know what it is yet, do they? The over at him. They continued to look down and smoke. Again, blue in my face and I tried not to cough. Excuse me? 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. You 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. Dost a cigarette on the floor and used his heel to put it out. How do you know? I asked for a few minutes of silence. Because I know a lot of things about a lot of people. Step closer to him. Like what? Turned back towards the town below us and pointed off to the right. You see that man over there? In the brown code 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. It's awful. People are pretty awful. Yeah, you know Mr. Terrence, the psychic baker. Yeah, is he a murderer too? Sugar's head. No, he's one of the good ones. What does Mother used to torture a sister when they were younger? Mr. Terrence is a sister? Had. She's dead. Has been for a few years, suicide. But we're a few minutes of silence as we watch people walking through town. Who are you? Apollo. I nodded. You're deafening. Nodded again. How do you know all these things? He's died. Was a say I'm not exactly human. So what are you an angel an angel? Yeah, an angel So why are you here and point pine? Someone's gonna do something really bad soon. I need to be here for that Not about all the bad things that happened here things like the parade and the time loop that lasted a few months How bad? Worse than the parade and worse than the time loop Stared at the people below us. I need ants all getting around town Not again about a giant foot coming down from the sky and destroying everything What can be worse than things we'd already seen? Three millennial men are going to open a burger restaurant It's gonna be very quirky instead of it's gonna be Edison bulbs and high-top chairs For I was $17 and they're in metal baskets instead of made options. It's gonna say protein The appetizers are gonna say the shareables. It's good All the sides are gonna be family style the bathrooms are ciders 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 Yeah, little baskets. Yeah, yeah, but it will just be over a plastic basket Yeah, there's gonna be the Hunk and youngest burger 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 See that car the one driving in the woods Just a man I can see the picture my head behind the counter. It's the menu and all three of them are like Like like yeah, so that's awesome. Yeah, it says like three guys in a dream So so the Heisenberg it comes with truffle oil and it comes with Parmesan grated fries You want to add that for it's $1 up charge? No It is always like a $7 up charge minimum Ain't nothing on that menu one dollar. So you have to watch a marshmallow catch up I nodded as I watch the tiny white car become even smaller as it drove There's a woman in the car. She's gonna kill herself Why is that turned to look at me this time I could see his face His eyes a mouth like two glowing slits in his face back though Her husband just took out a loan for a burger restaurant Oh my god Wow, she's awesome This one there's one of our viewers is about to start a burger restaurant. He's real discouraged right? Yeah Everyone's gonna wear black aprons and black barber gloves Everything's gonna be way too silver but also break exposed break exposed like H back lines in the ceiling. What was that? What was the name of the restaurant me? I Don't know six guys because five wasn't enough You like be like cleavers or something like that Meat cleaver something oh, yeah, yeah, I thought it'd be like what's something kind of like a little funny like a play on I had the word hamburger, right? Fam burger Doesn't make you want to kill yourself fam fam burgers unbelievable cuz everyone cuz here everyone's family. Exactly. Oh my god There's just air like why are there bullet casings all over by the front door? There's a guy they're on the hospital group and they can see someone with a gun walking up like yeah, she can just shoot out the place It's angels like you see that guy. He's a hero I was gonna say you see that guy. He's not making an inside They only serve bison burger Well, I'm just looking for a burger with fries. Yeah, that's not really how we let's know how we get 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 of it on top just says fam burger on top of it and also instead Man, I hate putting fam burger into the ether Looking to fam burger interest you in our hangover special. Yeah, it's got an egg on it It's an egg on it. Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna. There's a guy behind me. It's like lip piercings and stuff and He has the beanie like the bun and the beanie and stuff and like the the jacket whatever Yeah, he has the the the glasses and he's just like yeah, I'm gonna need one of those pronto Yeah, I need a firm. We're I need a firmware update in the form of a hangover burger The curly the jailed curly you must ask I've got two raisers All of the it's really funny to imagine this restaurant with bodies lettered. Oh yeah Doing a whole I don't know post-apocalyptic kind of day today. It's kind of fun. The It's it's all bison meat, but you can get the elk burger for a $14 up charge We can do elk for $14 up charge and we can add a truffle pepper on that for $6 off charge and gold chavings gold and we do and we do have gold chaving lemonade. Yeah, we make our own mics hard here But we can't get our alcoholized this yet, so it's b-i-o-l for the liquor Yeah, we don't really care what you do on the patio. Let's just say that I'm so late. Just like I said he says that you just see a giant blood splatter Hey, I'll turn I'll turn a blind eye As long as it's not on the camera. Hey, it's long as I can taste these delicious burger. Who cares? Oh God We have a sign-up sheet out back for it to play the big Jenga. Yes, we have big Jenga and Cork on the back always big Jenga It's always big Jenga big real and quirky. They have the giant connects forward. Oh, yeah Yeah, we have giant connect for a big Jenga and corn hole in the back just in case Keep out of the game. Yeah, we don't really Watch sports ball But we do have Harry Potter marathon Ah That would be hell that is what's that big section off He's in the back. Oh, we'll get this next month. We're putting in an axe throwing arena So the axe thing's back there say, yeah, be sure to go down your boozy shake while you throw axes But it's b-y-o-l for the boozy shake, but you can do that on the back patio cuz we don't care Wow, I don't think there's any alcohol in here. Yes, so we still can't get our liquor. Oh, yeah, so Kind of a patio be boozy shake situation. Yeah, but in here. It's more of a famed shake It's for the kids for the kid. Oh, this is kind of a kid shake. You know That's super menu Meet the chef I put in the burger in a microwave We started the this was the stream started from a conversation. We had it at Mike sales seven years ago Yeah, you'd 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 what 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 what do I love? That's why I I literally 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's a 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 do 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 the kind of Brain it's written a Nickelodeon font. No, no, it's like the science kind of brown and then Fam burger is like big text thin then big text and like old West You know, and then it says underneath it and like a bow. It's like where the good times are always to go Yeah, we're good under or or we're we're hunger we're hunger dares to enter we're hunger dares in earth That is what I got if I if I saw that I would say oh my god all you enter a band and hunger (screams) - I'd say, if I didn't see a Jeep Patriot drive to the front door, is that a place? (laughs) Yeah, just a bunch of male bombs. (screams) (laughs) The owner's just like, stops him. (laughs) There's a truck, there's a VBI, Jesus. Coming over the hill, a hundred miles an hour, propane takes line in the truck. - Holy shit. (laughs) - All the E-U-Entero panting longer here. - All the E-U-Entero panting longer here. - So, abandoned hunter is so unbelievable. Oh my God, Jesus Christ. - Oh God, kill us. (laughs) - Might know he was sitting the other way around, but yeah, 'cause it's abandoned all hunger you who enter here, yeah. - Yeah. (laughs) - That is a hundred percent. - Also, they would have the Saturn eating his son, but it would be a giant burger and sort of that. - Yeah. (laughs) If a place was self-aware enough to do stuff like that, that would almost be funny. - I think it would still be. - But it has to be done without a breath. - I think there's impossible. I think that it's all taken away. Where it's like, okay, that's funny. - Yeah. - Yeah, that's kind of cool. - I can get what you did there. - Yeah. - Can you read the, he turned, look at me again. - Yeah, so anyway, they see the truck coming and the angel's like, the guy's a hero. - Yeah, yeah. (laughs) - Hey. (laughs) - Where was it? - He turned the look at me. - Because her daughter's sick and the doctor 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. He said my mom wanted to tell me. Couldn't get hold of her, but someone saw her steal a car, why car, drive off. I don't think this is the bad thing that Apollo was talking about. I started to get gray outside. The sun is getting dimmer and dimmer as the minutes pass. I could tell that something's going to happen. Everyone's acting jittery and anxious. The nurses started to ask everyone to keep the blind shot, but I've gotten up and taken a few peaks. It doesn't seem to be getting any better. The temperature drops 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. I got out of bed once. No one was looking because it 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 mid-air, eyes glowing. Behind him, dozens of other angels. I didn't tell anyone what I saw. Simply close the blinds and got back into bed. But I listened 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 gonna die soon, maybe within the next few days. I'd be relieved, but 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 wear. Maybe if people die here, they just cease to exist entirely. - Oh, yeah, it's like when the angel comes, it's like these people show up, but angels of stretch of the word. It's really like some entity that just transfers you. You have to stay in point pine, but from one pound of life to the other. Like an orbiter, yeah. And what was that thing about? The town was covered in what? They're in the last segment says, "Straught, the trees and the woods "of use together before a giant wall." - No one can get out. - No, everyone's stuck there, yeah. Well, they could never leave before, or it was like where 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 story's list, there's a story called Room 813 on Gabby's Post, but when we talked to Gabby, she said to keep it to the mainline entries, how she would suggest to read through them, plus the bonus story she gave us. So she said, "Go on to the next one "to point pine's newest visitors." That's what we're gonna do, but there's bonus stories on the master list. It's gonna 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 there's two. - I think there's two of them that Gabby recommended. We don't read for this straight run through, but if you wanna check them out, they're on that master list. So there's even more point pine, but obviously if the author says there's a better way to read the series, we're gonna do that. So 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, yep. - The child, she's a child. - The tooth fairy. Oh, she's a child? - Yeah. - Mary Lou, oh. - Dude, 'cause remember, there's only one man, Old Man Jones. - Old Man. - Old Man, 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 with people of point pine. She obviously doesn't wear all the teeth that'd be weird, and so I've always wondered what she'd do with the rest of them. - It's actually a quick lie. It'd be weird if she wore all the teeth. - The teeth were in a couple's fine, but-- - Wearing a couple, you know, let a girl have some-- - I wonder if they just mean because there's so many that'd be like, how would she even wear them? - It'd be like just covering 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. - Last year, when our, I'm not gonna lie. Probably need to cut this, but it says last year when our hamster Penny's died, I straight up breathed out his penis. Last year, when our hamster named Penny's died. (laughing) Lesh. - You're back in the burger room. - No, no. - Back in Lee Kronens of Miami is what you's in. - Yeah, Lee Kronens fan burgers. - Yeah, Lee Kronens the hamburger. - Last year when our hamster Penny's 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, and that Lee Kronens the mummy. That'd be a gross movie. - He would put the camera slightly above them, like that. He put it so close to them, or it'd be somebody ordering up close. There'd be a little bit of blur in the background. You see someone just like eating a burger. Maybe that. Anyways, good. - We get Lee Kronens to shoot the fan burger movie. - I wanna get Lee Kronens for the creep cast, so we can just call it Lee Kronens the creep cast. - Yeah, yeah. - 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'd put one foot forward and stop for a second, then bring their other foot forward and stop for a second. They walked 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, pick up a pie from my mom. As I was waiting for them to bring my order out, Mary Lee walked up to me. - Hey Lee. - She said, sounding a bit sad. - Hey. - Are you all right? - Mary Lou's side and lands down to the chain she wore around her neck that contained a small glass bottle that was filled with teeth. Suddenly, that pited and 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 it. - But he was at a time loop. - 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? - Stared at her. Not really knowing how to answer. - Have 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. Mary Lee's side again, then reached out and placed her hand on my arm. She wore a ring with the tooth on it. Each of her fingers tried not to gag. - Be cautious with your eyes Lee. I would hate for you to lose them again. - She said, staring at me intently, they're 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. I watched them for a few seconds. Mary Lou turned around and we locked eyes. I 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. "Can't you believe it?" Detailed Sontras 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." 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 that 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, so 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." That's interesting because I thought by a visitor, she was talking about Cody. "I think she -- I thought she was talking about the angel." "It was cut me." "Yeah." "Just in 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 were buildings and then just an extremely bright, big fan burger." "A fan burger." "It's a cross." "Yeah, I just -- Yeah." "Mom -- I wouldn't have dropped the pie on the counter." "Mom says -- do you see there opening up another fan burger on West Chester Street?" "In my head." "In my -- another one." "In my head." It's like built like Gatlinburg where it's a single like skinny strip in the mountains. "Oh, sure. Yeah, yeah." "And at the end of the street you have the hospital that they're looking on. And then like two blocks down on the left, you have point oak, or oak, the oak wood, whatever, the apartment building. And then straight beneath the hospital is the flaming red fan burger." "Yeah, the fan burger internment camp." "Yes." "They forced -- they forced -- they forced Codian to the fan burger camp." "Like just when you said that she's talking about the angel in my head, I just see the angel looking at fan burger and seeing the truck driving through the living." "My parents, if a burger joint shows up, that's a bear trap." "If a burger joint -- I'm not even dry, if a bear -- if a burger joint shows on the story I'm walking, I said." "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 fan burgers." "We'll see." "We'll see." "Of if it does." "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." It sprawled crudely at the top of my crayon. Below that, a neat riding, also on my crayon, it read the following. "Rest is a point pine. To our out 7am, we will have a visitor. We advise you not interact with him. Which shouldn't be a problem since no one is allowed up -- since no one is allowed up until 8.30am. But we use this time to wander around town at 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. It didn't take long for people to freak out. Sure, we were all used to weird things happening in a point pine, but how did the collectors know so much about this? Some people walked over the oaks to try and speak to the collectors, but apparently, Eric wasn't letting anyone in. Now 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. Trying my best to ignore it went to bed at my usual time, tossing and turning for a few minutes before finally falling asleep. I woke when I heard the front door creak open, turned over and bed and looked at the clock at 7.55am. 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, 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 the sigh of relief as I slowly turned back around to look at the clock at 8.08am, 5 minutes until we could be up. I laid there, staring at the ceiling, waiting for the town alarm to ring. Or it did, however, I heard a scream pierced 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 into 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. Rest of my family, Cody, following me. I 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 Humphries lawn. My dad opened the front door and Cody and I followed after him, making our way through with 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, the entire Humphries family, all four of them, laying on their backs facing up towards the sky, their eyes starting 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. No 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." Rest of the flyer said his follows. Residents of Point Pine, tomorrow at 7 a.m. you will have a visitor. You have been chosen to interact with him. Congratulations! You will use this time to wander on town at even your homes. When you hear him, get up and say hello. It's an honor to be chosen. He is here to see you and only you. Be happy. Be nice. I 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 what happened was the angels face also was smooth and it just had the slits that had the things. But it also makes it seem where it's like all the angels there to protect them from the visitor. I don't know. Well, it's like the collectors were the ones who were like Mary Lou seems sad as she knew the visitor was coming and then she kind of gave a lee of 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. And 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. And one of them. Definitely more menacing. Does that mean the Humphreys like suffocate because they don't have nose as a mouse 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 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? Or is it a thing where they're just 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." Kind of. Kind of a turn. Kind of a turn. 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. It's like the universe wants to torture me. I'm usually able to tolerate it. I just don't go. It's a 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 7 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 B.D. eyes. Yeah, no thanks. I scoffed, pushing it aside, the bear dropped the bucket, and the popcorn spilled all over the sidewalk. Dumbass. Mumbled as I kept walking. Next time I went into town, there were three bears, all identical, all swaying, 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 And the already lousy tunes sound even worse, which I didn't really know was possible. 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 and I rolled my eyes as their stupid faces filled with joy. After about 3 days of this the smell of popcorn was everywhere. I swear it was in my skin at that point. It was nauseating. Once up outside and you were cute 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's 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. The next time I went out popcorn filled the streets. It was everywhere. It looked like all of point pine was a popcorn machine. Popcorn machine that incessently played carnival music. I could tell that even the other people who usually loved 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 Cobart take one look down the street and throw up all over his rose bushes. Seeing that peaked my interest so I stepped out of my house out into the popcorn fumes that set heavily over point pine. I walked out onto my popcorn covered lawn and looked down the street. The 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 to say 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 with a 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 also 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 someone's die. A scream erupted from the next street signaling that the dancing bear had removed its head. Andy's husband Marwen 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 into Marwen's head. I stifled a laugh and see through the bucket aside. Marwen 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 Marwen's arm with one of its teddy bear arms. Marwen backed up trying to get away but wasn't able to. What the fuck man? Shout as they tried to shake the teddy bear off. Andy ran down the street towards Marwen and attempted to pry the bear away from Marwen. 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. It sliced right through. The arm was empty. What the? Arwen 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 had cut was now limp and flapping around as the teddy bear swayed as if all the stuff 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. Step 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 six splattering sound. I looked closer at the things that were spilling out of the giant teddy bear and finally realized what it was. They were organs. Organs were falling out of the teddy bear. Is that a liver? Yeah, and that's a heart. Yeah, lovely. When all the inside 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 also had 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 the Mars had also fallen over. Everyone in that neighborhood simply stared at the empty bear costume. The music is stopping. I listened to 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 toured 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 to see Felicity Greene fall backward onto the popcorn in the street. There was a giant hole in the middle of her chest that was still slightly smoking. There was another pop nearby and the house next towards living room window exploded. When the fresh hell was that? Someone called this 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 kernel 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 down 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 appear 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. 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 wide and red striped outfit and blue suspenders and a rainbow wig. Clowns 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 it's feet landed on the hot street. After a few minutes, it caught me staring and waved at me as it's headed to 360. Skip 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!" and a loud cheery voice. Do you want to give us a hot, hot, hot impression? There you go. He kept jumping and clicking his heels as he made his way towards Felicity. Jump, click. Finally, reached Felicity's body and leaned down, tearing off her entire arm with these and then taking a huge bite from the middle of it, boning all. He stared at me while he ate the arm and the carnival music slowly grew louder and louder, so all the other dead bears transformed into one. I hate the carnival. I'll be completely honest, what the fuck even was that entry? That entry was, there's this anomalous thing that shows up that takes on an appearance of people like. You don't want to eat popcorn, right? Then when the facade's up, when someone recognizes him, it's not just nice bear costumes. It's like, all right, well, time to reset and just because of those. Well, it feels like the cohesion of the story so far was kind of broke. Well, 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? I think it's each its own thing. I think it's just like the town's full of like different supernatural creatures each with their own thing going on. This is just the thing that wanted people to eat a bunch of popcorn so that it could maybe, seems like an effect. 'cause all the people who like it to popcorn get killed. Like an infection or like a way to gain trust for them to continue, maybe it had some eventual plan it was gonna 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 something. 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 in popcorn, we'll do that. And then it's like, oh, 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, yeah. Kind of thing, yeah. That's why I think it could just as easily be like a puppy or like a cute kid or something like that. This next one was the supposed last one before the, or secret entry. Before the 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 the point pine. But we luckily have one more after this. So, all right. So last public story in the point pine series, are you ready? Yep. Due to recent violent events, pumpkins are no longer allowed on point pine. It all started when Cassandra Wolfhard killed the pumpkins brown. I didn't know Cassandra personally, but I knew of her. She was friends with Tom Sister and Tom was friends with me. All that I know about Cassandra, I've learned against my will, passing comments from adults for other kids at school. That Wolfhardt girl. And I was 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. That girl was weird, and her hatred of pumpkins was the weird cherry on top of the weird Sunday 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 like to play pranks on Cassandra. One day, they filled her locker with pumpkin guts, and when she opened it, she threw up in the middle of the hallway. After saying that at first, I found Cassandra to be a little ridiculous, but now I feel bad for her. So many people constantly terrorized her with her biggest fear. I think about what I would do if someone was dangling me off a cliff as a joke. I realized that I'd probably react the same way that Cassandra has. Last week, as 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 spy season. I even 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 said she hates pumpkin too. You put your soul into that one, though, that was powerful. Boy, that girl sure hates pumpkins. Well, I'm passionate about. Tom's dad shuckled as she went out the front door. Why did Tom become a new favorite character? No, his dad, right? Or Tom's dad, yeah, yeah, it's Tom's dad, yeah. Tom's dad would stop fan burger. Yeah, he's that kind of guy. I have a gun. Hit a dream. (laughing) Tom's dad, you rule. I have to make it to heaven. (laughing) Blood for the blood, God. (laughing) And it's must be made. A few days after that. Cassandra's brothers managed to carry her to Tom's pumpkin patch and her sleep when she woke up surrounded by pumpkins. She screamed so loud that she woke up everyone in the neighborhood. So you can't be awake before 813, but when do you have to be in bed by? 'Cause it's like if she wakes up at 2 a.m. in a pumpkin patch, is she done so? That just sucks for her. Right, you assume. I don't know, they haven't really established that. Hey, we prank Cassandra by killing her in the pumpkin patch. - Yeah, we prank bitch. We fed her to the blood, God. (laughing) Tom's dad shot her with his pellet gun. (laughing) It hadn't been done. It hadn't been, it hadn't happened. 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 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. - May, she said she tried to get, may say she tried to go visit Cassandra, but she wouldn't even talk to her. She kept crying and saying the pumpkins were going, she kept crying and saying that the pumpkins were gonna want revenge. Well, I'm sad as we did our history homework. - Revenge for what? For what she did to them, duh. - She basically murdered a bunch of pumpkins, Hailey. I saw what it looked like afterward. She literally destroyed a whole pumpkin patch. - I looked up at Tom, it was highlighted in a textbook. - Yeah, but they're pumpkins, like they don't care. - She doesn't think that. - Mumbled was a highlighter tap 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. - You 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 cut up her, she said she was running from the pumpkin monster. She had made it all the way to our neighborhood from-- I'm about to read the line. She was running from the hospital. And I just pictured her running by famerker, which is on the front left corner of the hospital. (laughs) Like there's a literal pumpkin monster behind her. The three guys are out front just like arms crossed. Watching her. - On the patio. - On the patio. - Yeah, smoking weed. - Yeah, so what should you do on the patio, A? Don't let it, shut the door, don't let it draft in. (laughs) - They have the Truro Disney fans outside. They rolled to back off cigarettes. (laughs) It was Cassandra. She had made it all the way to our neighborhood from the hospital and collapsed on her front lawn. I watched 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. Grand downstairs and out the front door to meet him. What's going on? She says there's a pumpkin monster out together. I'm grand. 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 the hospital gown. - Or maybe not. - Tom trailed off. Go ahead and smack at him and saw he was pointing towards one of the running paths that came out of the woods in 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's here, please, get to help me! I don't wanna die! - Cassandra wailed as she saw it. For once, Cassandra wasn't crazy. The thing that had come out of the woods was, in fact, a pumpkin monster. It was about something 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. That pumpkin cut straped 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. With screams so loud, I thought my eardrums were going to burst. It 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 a Russian? - No. - So it says, "Oh, hell no!" - I'm talking about your intonation on the character, your assumption. - Is he Russian? - Oh, hell no! - No, no, I'm trying to attack you directly, hunter. - Oh, hell no! - All right. - Is that Russian? - It shook the ground with each step, and 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 on face. Sandra Darden. Between two of the officers and headed towards Tom and me. What is she doing? Why is she running this way? Pumpka Monster pivoted and began making its way towards us as well. Sandra ran past us, came 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 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, it's funny how so much death and weird stuff happens in town. That they're friends like, yeah, pumpkin DAD is going to get her. Don't you want to watch? Don't you want to see her get like a bit serrated by a pumpkin person? Yeah, it feels like this is like a Carly Beth from Goosebumps mixed in with a Sandlot. The guy running at the end from the, away from the dog. Yeah, yeah, it's giving that vibe. Yeah. So now it's, now all I'm experiencing is wipe out playing. Oh, wipe out. Bernan, Bernan, Bernan, Bernan. You know, whatever that is. It's not what they played during the, uh, at the end of the, when he's running. It's like, dude, I thought you were talking about the TV show wipeout. That's what, yeah, you're the song. Yes, the, in the 19, 1992 film, they're watching clips of wipe out the boom, boom, boom. Oh, I, yeah, I got it. The Russian, the, the hell though. Oh, fuck, back. That big stretch. Goddamn. We made it to the end of the street just in time to see Kitsa Sandra trip and roll down the small hill. He stopped and listened to her screams and she kept rolling down the hill. No fucking way. Pum whispered, we kept watching as Kisandra rolled straight into another pumpkin patch, her head making contact with the biggest pumpkin and slamming right through it with a dull thud. My God, she's dead. The pumpkin monster tripped down the field, falling over Kisandra's lifeless body and falling apart all over her in the pumpkin patch. Cops finally caught up and raised down the hill to check on Kisandra, but I was right, she had died. Not even an hour later, there's a townwide announcement. No more pumpkins and point pine ever. Pum 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 Kisandra's body away but left the pumpkin that her head is smashed through. Her days, all that anyone talked about was Kisandra's freak accident. That night, Sandra was seen again. Multiple people reported seeing her walking around town, sobbing, 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 starting bruised, covered in pumpkin guts, dried up blood. She cried loudly, gasping for breath while she screamed. "So 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, before her head pressed to the road. She continued to cry for a few minutes and I backed away from the window, 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. Guess one thing that kind of sucks about Point Pine is that the dead never really leave. That's a fun hit. Tria like it. The girl who's afraid of pumpkins gets tortured with pumpkins and then pumpkin monster gets her. Again, very goosebumps. Yeah. What? What is it? Yeah. You don't like it. You're reviving? No, it is fun. It is very goosebumps. I just, I wish that they all had that cake, like if that's supposed to be, so the next thing that we're reading is a secret entry. That was the last one, right? In the Point Pine. 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 like the last three or the last two were like the first one where it's like, there's a parade. I like the idea of this town being a place where it's like, all this weird shit happens. No one's going to be phased by a pumpkin monster, but people are still tortured in their, you know. It's still a horror story for whoever's being affected, you know. But the stuff that's like all cohesive throughout the, the middle of 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 its own, each entry was built into something. 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. Like that. I don't think it was going towards anything. It was just vignettes. Cause 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 it's the way that the characters were interwoven made it seem like there was something that was coming in. I can 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. Cause, 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 it's like, oh, well, this guy's come back. He's been gone. He came back and people are like, oh, weird out by it. That's fine. But it's like, I just kind of wish they were all just random vignettes of just different people in this area. But I can understand the, 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 episode 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 going to die here in the middle of nowhere. And I would have the dumbest obituary in the whole town. Wilmermore, 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. Cold 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, and 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. That'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. Which does seem like the point-pine place, I mean, if it is like a purgatory, but it does feel like it's just existing and nothing. Yeah. It's definitely not in our world. Well, that's kind of the thought I got by the darkness I 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 for you to hold onto that explanation, given the fact that I had no idea when the cycles of the moon happened. Then 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 the 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 had 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. I 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. As 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, till I was face to face with him there, the dark and cold forest. Yes? Yes, after waiting for me to speak. I'm lost. Step 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. I nodded. I'm also high. Of course. I stared at him and he stared at me. I nodded and he walked over to his kitchen. He was a boy. It looked to be around 11 or so, but I was never really good with kids or guessing their ages. How old were you? and slipped out of my mouth as soon as I thought it. - That depends on the answer that you're looking for. - Forever replied as he had to be a cup of water. Took a sip. It was room temperature, but felt weird to complain. - Have you always been a child? - Have you always been your age? - Check my head now. - Neither have I. - When did you stop aging? - When I was 12. - I was close, off by one year. - Is it weird being 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're never coming to town? Some people think you don't exist. To think all these images of you are photoshopped. - I exist for a reason other than being a citizen of Point Pine. - What reason? - I've been sat down on the floor in front of me or it's cross apple sauce. - Do they still teach the history of Point Pine in school? - Yeah. They tell us about the sellers you came here and how secluded it was. They set up a town far enough away from everyone else. They were never bothered, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Then the bad stuff started to happen. - 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. - Hmm, hmm. - I will say so far this is probably one of my favorite setups. I really love the idea of like, there's like this immortal child because everything's so weird in town. But it's like the oracle who's seen everything. We 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, he? - And nodded again, and he began. - European settlers ended up in Point Pine years ago. But not because they liked the isolation. They got lost in the way to their actual destination. - Jamestown Virginia. - I was very, very, very young then. So the details of this are a bit murky. But some of these settlers believed they arrived in Virginia. It's 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, their road, they had followed into the area was gone. It had disappeared, and the sign that they swore was leading them to Jamestown had changed, and now it's something else. 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, and I could hear the sound of the trees wrestling in the night. - Very quickly, the settlers realized 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. They needed to find water and food, and so they searched, and they found something. Not to 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 they began to spray from the earth, so they kept praying, and they kept bringing it offerings, mainly food and crops once they had those. Soon though, people started to get sick. But more specifically, the children stopped looking 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 wasn't then? - Robert Schick has said. - Other things, other gods, one more return. Other gods had 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. - They heard it. I didn't hear 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. He didn't take long for people to make the connection to realize that what they had been praying for to was not God they intended to praise, but it was far too late. And other people didn't care. Other 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 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. - I 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. In one night he confronted her. They thought for what felt like hours, but it was so long that I couldn't really tell you. I don't know if my mother visually confessed the magnitude of her crimes to him, or if the anger was too much into control, but that night before the sun rose. - My mother was dead. The next day the parade started. - You were still stating. - You, you know how it works, you, 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. My throat was dry again, but I didn't want Robert to stop telling me the story. - I've seen it, yes. He took hours to clean up the dead bodies after the parade came through. That's what it did to the first time. He killed everyone in its path. He lit a fire inside them. Nope, 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. They were less casualties that time. - What, what happened the second time? - Yes, thinking about Lee and his eyes. Robert cleared his throat and turned the cabin towards the window on the far left wall. (coughing) And an answer. - Why don't they teach us this? Why do they change the story? - Yes, picking up on the idea that he didn't want to tell me what happened the second time. - Like I said, ignorance is bliss. - Said 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. - You don't have to leave soon. - He said, breaking the silence. - What? - I apologize, it'll mean to be rude, but you'll have to go. - Stood up and held the empty cup back out to him. - Can I have some water? - Took him and walked back to his kitchen. - So how do I get back? - He handed me the cup and I drank it all in large brush gulps. Took the cup from me and opened the door, motioning for me to step outside. - Can you put me in the direction of town? I got lost earlier when I was smoking in the woods. Robert shook his head. - You won't matter, you'll never make it back. Brows in the doorway. What do you mean? - There are some things that you can't know. Like I said before, this is some knowledge that is cursed. Where you learned here tonight wouldn't do anyone to point pine 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 changed the story every few years? - So what am I supposed to do? I can't live out in the woods. I'll starve for a freeze to death. - Robert shrugged. - I tried to warn you. - That was barely even a warning. I wanna go home. - I realized I was shouting. Like the aspiration echoing in the night. - You can't. And you need to get out of my house. - Stepped out into the forest. Some was rising, but that didn't seem right. It had 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. - I paused from beginning to sweat. As the paranoid began to creep in. Blaine's. Close the West, he was remembering something. "You're going to be very glad they drew 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. It never came. Forest continued, like usual, only louder. Like the melody was coming from the ground. 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 peaked. 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 had it moved to single inch. Even though there was more light now, the woods felt quieter and more dangerous than before. But lonely or somehow too, emptier than they had felt when I first got lost, or even found Robert. I 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 was the end. She should upload that one. That one was really good. That was better. That was better. That was better. That was better. What the fuck is going on with Cody? Well, Cody's like a harbinger of something. 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. Yeah. Well, it was six years ago without Masterless Post, but she said I'll update the list as I keep going. Maybe they start working on other projects, because there are comments from two months ago saying why did you never like continue with that? Yeah, but I don't pull a George 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. But even if you don't, well, even if you don't finish it, send me a damn. Send me an email. Yeah. Yeah. 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, bank. It likes bank. Bank has been I mean, you know, US bank. Could you cash this check for me, please? Okay. Yeah. I didn't mean that conversion to USD to Carma gold. I didn't mean that the reddit says. I have to save my save a little bit of my credibility here. I didn't mean that in the reddit. Since I met that and that people kept claiming that she's been doing very good. Yeah. She said she did. This is four years ago. My sister's I've been locked in an attic for 24 hours, 2.8,000 like she has an extremely dedicated family. And let's also keep in mind the most upvoted story on no sleep 100% yeah, I'm not questioning that she's not I'm just I'm upset because I don't know, I'm semi semi I'm saying I'm saying that should mean I'm saying I understand why people aren't reading your sequels to point pine. You move on to sandalotes. 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. And she should abs Gabby. You should absolutely post that last entry. I think that might be my favorite. I like that one a lot of things. Yeah. I do I do think these I like 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 in our woven. Yeah. I was having fun when it was in our inner twining in that way. I think I think if she has an eventual goal because I talk about once you leave point pine, you can never come back. Yeah. 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 profit almost or a harbinger come back to the town. So I think there's more that can be done there. So I think it makes sense to have some stories that mentioned Cody. He's going to be so big and 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's something bad's coming. Yeah. That's what I mean is there's a lot of unanswered questions right now. Don't pull Georgia. I'm Martin. Please let us give a little something. I will say too though that the three main characters that we had that was Lee, Cody and Reed. The 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. 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 invested into that even even the one Lee is barely in the apartment when he more fucker just keeps flying out in the goddamn loophole time. But even that was a fun like a little oh, yeah, I like it a little more, but no, it's a lot of fun. Yeah, call me. Well, I know about that. But I call. I really don't know about that. Just give me a call. One call. Hey, this what happened. Oh, cool. I really liked that. I love the last one. I love the direction that it is that he was a kid when the first subtler Scott 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, imagine that Cody probably intertwined with that boy out there in the woods somewhere. Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot of fun stuff there. And then I love at the end when the stoners 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 going to make 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 tales from the lonely broadcast station that I think people really resonate with. I think also once again, 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, the point, the point, the town itself is just a fun backdrop that I think it'd be cool to keep exploring. I still think you can once again do standalone stories and still just dip into that selfishly move. I would love to see way more point points of, like I said, in the master list, there's another point pine entry for you all to read if you're interested. And also please support, you know, Gabby, of course, and all that stuff, uh, certainly deserves it. Gabby, please post this and please keep riding the series. How about that? Let's say I'm literally, I'm going to email you my phone number, let's say that I expect to call. Let's say this. If you finish the point pine series or something like that, uh, we'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. Hey, no. We'll cover it. Okay. You know why not? This one on it. You know what? Hey, you know what? I'll do that for you. You know what? You put it all the work. And we'll read it. You know what, Gabby? shuffle prize Harry Potter marathon on the back. You know, BYOL shakes around us. Yeah, BYOL shakes. Run us. Uh, guys, thank you so much. If 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. Say, well, that's, I'm adding a bitch to the new for now on. Well, I like that. I'm okay. 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