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Joe The Ghost Guy: good evening And welcome. to a knight. Unlike any other. tonight. It's Halloween.
Joe The Ghost Guy: On one night. A one year. when children dressed as monsters. when Jack -O -Lantern.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Glow. and darkened porches. And when the living. pretend. The death. is something to laugh about.
Joe The Ghost Guy: but What if? I do. tell you. That there is somewhere. In this world. There is a town.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Where Halloween... is not celebrated. at no child. is allowed. outside.
Joe The Ghost Guy: After sunset. where every window is covered. every door. is locked. And every. Family knows one.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Terrible rule.
Joe The Ghost Guy: answer that after
Joe The Ghost Guy: because The things that knock. They are not. children. They earn. They're not wearing any costume. Peace out.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And they're not. as soon asking for candy. They are ASCII. to be lit. inside.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Night. I'm going to tell you. About one. little town. called Haluk. creek. A place.
Joe The Ghost Guy: wholly disappear. from every map. in 1978. A place. were the entire neighborhood.
Joe The Ghost Guy: was found. empty. on the morning. of November 1st. Dinner tables were all set. Television. We're still on.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Coffee. but still warm. and every front door. was Danny. wide open. There were no bodies to be found.
Joe The Ghost Guy: There was no blood No signs of a struggle happening Only one message. scratched, inside.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Every. Door. We let them. in. It read.
Joe The Ghost Guy: This. is what happened.
Joe The Ghost Guy: on October 31st. 1978 Hollow Creek was a small isolated town.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Surrounded mild. A black man. forest. Its population was just over. 800. There is only one church one schoolhouse.
Joe The Ghost Guy: One. Cemetery. and an old abandoned Victorian mansion. Just. on the end. of Willow Lane.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Mention. had stood empty. for nearly a century. It's... Windows were broken. its walls.
Joe The Ghost Guy: were covered with dead vines. And it's enormous. Front door was painted a deep. unnatural.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Red. The townspeople called it. the house of the hollow children. Nobody understands. No one remembers. Who?
Joe The Ghost Guy: had given The house that name. But everyone knew. the story. back in 1888 on Halloween night.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Seven children. had supposedly Vanished. during a celebration. at the mansion. their parents.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Search the surrounding woods. for weeks. The sheriff. Organize search parties. Every sewer?
Joe The Ghost Guy: Every well. and every bending building. was examined and searched. but the children. or never. Pow.
Joe The Ghost Guy: According to legend, Exactly one year the missing children. Return. At midnight.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Walk through the town. wearing the same Halloween costumes that they had worn. when they disappear. Her faces were pale.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Their eyes are dark. and their little hands. carried empty candy buckets.
Joe The Ghost Guy: in No. knocked on every door. The families who refused to answer. They survived. the families.
Joe The Ghost Guy: to open the doors. Wow. They were never seen again. And for 90 years, the people of Apollo Creek.
Joe The Ghost Guy: forward. Same tradition. No Halloween decoration. No costume. Shh. No trick or treaty.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And. Absolutely. No one is to answer the door. After midnight.
Joe The Ghost Guy: That's until. The Halloween. of 1978. When a young family moved into town. I'm broke.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Every room. imaginable.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Thomas and Evelyn Carter arrived the in hollow creek with their two children. 12 -year -old Daniel with seven -year -old Sophie.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Yeah. purchased. an old farmhouse. just beyond. the town square. It was beautiful. A white two -story home.
Joe The Ghost Guy: with the large porch. at an Apple Orchard. and a winding driveway. But there was something particular about it though.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Every room had a lock. on the inside even the Cossacks.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Even the bathroom. in the basement. door. had seemed to be shut. Come a slab when he discovered
Joe The Ghost Guy: Who lived here before us must have been afraid of something. But ever. Was it rapid? because inside the kitchen cupboard she found an old photograph.
Joe The Ghost Guy: It showed. If family. standing on the exact same porch. A father. A mother. and two children.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Outrest in how we costume. On the back someone had written October. March 31, 1949
Joe The Ghost Guy: Underneath it said, our last Halloween together.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Beneath those words whereas was another sentence. Great. and somewhat look like a child's handwriting.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Don't let the little girl. and
Joe The Ghost Guy: Evelyn showed the photograph to Thomas. Ishraf. Hmm. Probably some old Halloween prank. Someone polled.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Night. Well, I'm packing Sophia Sophie's bedroom I believe. heard something beneath the floorboard.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Shit stop moving The scratching. Stop. Tea. Then Cain. a tiny voice.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Then froze. It sounded interesting. Exactly like Sophie.
Joe The Ghost Guy: It's dark down here.
Joe The Ghost Guy: God bless you. hurried into the hallway. Sophie. was standing outside her bedroom.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Are you calling me?
Joe The Ghost Guy: Lynn felt her stomach tighten.
Joe The Ghost Guy: I wasn't calling you, sweetheart.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Sophie frowned.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Who's the little... Yeah. underneath Like this.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Have a good one. turned towards the bedroom. and slowly. very slowly. She looked inside.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Nothing. My dad was empty. The curtains moved gently. in the breeze. Bye. beneath the bed. Too small.
Joe The Ghost Guy: White hand. for gripping in their wooden frame. and something. the darkness.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Something in the darkness. whispered.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Good night. arrived. beneath a blood. Red sunset. restraints. of Hollow Creek. were deserted.
Joe The Ghost Guy: every town. store Post early. every porch light. but went dark. and the church bells. We can't bring it.
Joe The Ghost Guy: at six o 'clock. Thomas stopped the entire town. was ridiculous. He had bought pumpkins. on paper.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Skull Tales. from the front porch. and place the ball at cannon. Beside the front door. and those people.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Need to learn. And he told. These people. need to learn how to enjoy Halloween. He said.
Joe The Ghost Guy: 30.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Someone not.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Thomas. Open the door. An elderly woman. standing on the poor. Her face. was pale.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Our hands. trembling.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Peace. Take those decorations down.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Thomas smiled. It's Halloween. Have fun.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Amen. past you.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Not the pumpkin. scout teams. at the bowl of candy. Then her expression changed.
Joe The Ghost Guy: why It's just candy and decoration. What could go wrong?
Joe The Ghost Guy: Haven't tried it, Sam.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Thomas shook his head.
Joe The Ghost Guy: I did OOF It's Halloween. A woman. Grabbed his arm. a finger in the house. How painful.
Joe The Ghost Guy: into a skin.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Let's do it when midnight comes. you will hear children outside your door. They will cry. They will pay.
Joe The Ghost Guy: They will sound like someone you love.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Thanks. filled with tears.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And no matter what they say...
Joe The Ghost Guy: She leaned. Close.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Too bad. Au revoir. the door for no reason. at all.
Joe The Ghost Guy: before Thomas could answer the woman. let go of his arm. and hurried away. at 815.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The telephone rang. Thomas answered. Hello?
Joe The Ghost Guy: Nothing. Yeah. The sound of children laughing. Dozens of them. their laughter.
Joe The Ghost Guy: grew Louder. and louder. until Thomas Pull the receiver. away from his ear. Get your little girl's voice. whispered.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Check the tree, Mr. Bye guys!
Joe The Ghost Guy: Thomas went cold. Who is this?
Joe The Ghost Guy: Girl. Giggle.
Joe The Ghost Guy: but I like your pump. So long.
Joe The Ghost Guy: How do you know my name?
Joe The Ghost Guy: Laughter stopped. End. a different voice answered. Eat deep. Dry voice. a voice.
Joe The Ghost Guy: thank you sounded like someone speaking through. A mouthful of dirt.
Joe The Ghost Guy: We have been waiting for your family.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and the phone. went dead. And then... The doorbell rang.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Ding dong. Ding dong.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Thomas looked at the clock. Level 59 Yeah.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Then it turned. Amen. Elves. of the church began to ring.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Outside. This is a thick. grow through the orchard. the porch light. flicker.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and from somewhere beyond the trees. came out. came the sounds. children singing.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Check the tree. Give us something good.
Joe The Ghost Guy: in a pause.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And... the song changed.
Joe The Ghost Guy: but a trace may
Joe The Ghost Guy: and theor nice inside Or someone you love will I would surely die.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Thomas stepped. forward in the window. Evelyn grabbed his arm.
Joe The Ghost Guy: He pulled back the curtain. And son. suddenly staring at the end of the driveway. There were six children. One was dressed as a clown.
Joe The Ghost Guy: One was a witch. The other a pirate the other. A princess. And the final one. was a skeleton.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and the little girl. Wearing a white. Rabbit cost you. They stood perfectly still. They're Kenny Buckets.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Honk from your hand. Peace. their hands. were tilted downward. Thomas squinted. I figured.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Something was wrong. The clowns. Shoes were covered in mud. The pirates cost you. was dripping in water.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The prince's address. The stain was something dark. And the rabbit? Well, the rabbit was holding a small.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Dirty shovel. And all six. children. raised their heads. Thomas. humbled backwards.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Cat? No faces. No eyes. No noses. Not even a mouth. Just a smooth.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Pale skin. stretch across their skulls. Except for the rabbit. A little girl. and the rabbit. costume.
Joe The Ghost Guy: I don't know. a enormous wide mouth. and it stretched from one ear to the other.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and with Rose. of time. tiny. needle -like. team. Achievements smiling.
Joe The Ghost Guy: I grow. Raised one hand. and wave. And then she whispered something. Thomas couldn't hear it through the glass.
Joe The Ghost Guy: But Sophie... standing behind him. began to cry. because she heard every word.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Huh? That's the girl from underneath my bed.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Little rabbit. tilted her head. and opened her mouth wider. and spoke in Sophie's voice.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Don't you let me in!
Joe The Ghost Guy: Promise. Pull the curtain. Shut. Everybody. upstairs. Now!
Joe The Ghost Guy: Family. brushed up. towards the state. staircase. But as Evelyn... reached the first step. Hounds. Many strange noise in love.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Wet. gargling sound. like an enormous. animal. taking its first breath. The wallpaper began to ripple.
Joe The Ghost Guy: to wooden floorboards. rose and fell. and the walls. started moving. Daniel screamed. The house is breathing.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Thomas gathered the children. but up the hallway. stretched. The staircase seemed to move further and further away.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The family. ran towards it.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Can't be. 20 feet. 30 feet. Yeah. Never got. Yet it never got closer. behind them the front door.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Rattle.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Good. Came the voices.
Joe The Ghost Guy: See ya. but
Joe The Ghost Guy: and then A voice. of Evelyn. voice that Evelyn recognized. It was her mother's voice. Mother.
Joe The Ghost Guy: had died six years earlier.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Evelyn? Sweetheart?
Joe The Ghost Guy: start. stopped
Joe The Ghost Guy: Please open this door, darling. It's so cool. all outside.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Here's Phil. Evelyn Sides. Thomas grabbed her shoulders. That's not your mother. But the voice continued.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Remember when you were little? Remember how I say to you when you were a bright
Joe The Ghost Guy: And then... it became and then the singing began. Exact lullaby. Evan's mother used to sing. Every no.
Joe The Ghost Guy: every word. Perfect. Evelyn. Soft. Mommy.
Joe The Ghost Guy: My voice suddenly changed. It became harsh. Angry. Ancient.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And the door. I can. Right. I don't raise your... to be disobedient.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The entire house. show. and from the entire hallway. A little girl began laughing.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Sophie was the first to see her. Standing and on. the top of the staircase. A small figure. in a dirty white rabbit costume.
Joe The Ghost Guy: her long ears. hung down beside her head. Air P. where black was soiled. and her numerous smile.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Stretch. and possibly why. Thomas stared at her. How did you get inside? The girl giggled.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Then fight as a Sith.
Joe The Ghost Guy: No I didn't She pointed towards the window.
Joe The Ghost Guy: You are pumpkins.
Joe The Ghost Guy: It's the candy bone.
Joe The Ghost Guy: like treats.
Joe The Ghost Guy: towards Sophie.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Your little girl.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Sylvia began screaming. A little girl. Took one step down. than another. Her movements. were wrong.
Joe The Ghost Guy: her needs. and backwards. Her head twisted. Too far to one side. and with every step.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Her bones. Made a sharp. crackling sound.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Thomas. Backed away. What do you want? A little girl stopped smiling. for the first time her voice.
Joe The Ghost Guy: looked almost human. Almost sad.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Want to go home.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Then go. Get out of here.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Please. Shoot. Her head. As she shook her head.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Why not? The Bureau. raised her hand. or fingernails. We're packed. with Black Earth.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Because.
Joe The Ghost Guy: She leaned forward. and whispered,
Joe The Ghost Guy: Somebody buried us while we were still alive.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Night. One out. and something. Grabbed Daniel's ankle. He screamed. Thomas struck a match And that...
Joe The Ghost Guy: tiny, flickering light. He saw dozens of hands. reaching through the floorboards. Small hands. children's hair.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Somewhere pale. Some were gray. somewhere Nothing but bone. All of them. Reaching. grabbing.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Poli and from beneath the house. came a chorus of tiny voices.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Come play with us. down Peace. save my face.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Daniel was dragged. across the floor. is fingernails scraped against the wood. Thomas. Lunge forward.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and cut his wrist.
Joe The Ghost Guy: One. terrible moment Father and Son starting now. into each other's eyes. Daniel whispered,
Joe The Ghost Guy: It's white.
Joe The Ghost Guy: His voice trembled. Cheers. something holding in me.
Joe The Ghost Guy: how much Hold harder. Daniel began Kavim.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Are... Daniel began sobbing.
Joe The Ghost Guy: he's underneath
Joe The Ghost Guy: Ooh. Daniel's eyes white.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Thomas froze. What?
Joe The Ghost Guy: Peace. Me There's other me down on the floor.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And then... The boards split open.
Joe The Ghost Guy: or catapulted. beneath Thomas and Daniel. If... Bell. into darkness. Promise. struck the ground hard.
Joe The Ghost Guy: for several seconds. could barely breathe. Then he heard Daniel crying.
Joe The Ghost Guy: I'm here, son. Thomas. reached into his pocket. Found his lighter. Reflecting. a small frame up here.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and revealed something impossible. There were standing in the basement. are larger than any house itself.
Joe The Ghost Guy: stone corridors stretching in every direction. Balls were covered in children's drawings. pictures of houses Pictures of families.
Joe The Ghost Guy: pictures of smiling pumpkins. and pictures. of a tall black figure. Stand in. behind the little children.
Joe The Ghost Guy: A figure. had no face. only a wrong Freakin' free. Thomas Moo Pulser to one drawing.
Joe The Ghost Guy: underneath it. written in children's letters. were the words. Mr. Halloween. takes the bad children. Daniel pointed towards the far wall.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Yeah, look
Joe The Ghost Guy: Doors. set. 17. small wooden doors.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Painted. Red. each with a child's name carved into it. comments
Joe The Ghost Guy: approach at first. Him only. H5. is second. Jacob H9 A third.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Margaret. eight seven and on the seventh door. A name had been scratched out. underneath it. And now... fresh carve.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Sophie Carter H7.
Joe The Ghost Guy: comments. Staggered backwards. No. Behind him, someone whispered.
Joe The Ghost Guy: She is always supposed to be ours.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Thomas turn Stand in the darkness. was an enormous man. At least 8 feet tall.
Joe The Ghost Guy: People wearing black. funeral soup. His arms. I'm almost into his knees.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and his head was covered by a rotting Jacqueline. inside the pumpkin. To burden eyes. Stared out.
Joe The Ghost Guy: the creature. slowly raised one hand. and pointed towards Daniel.
Joe The Ghost Guy: One child to replace another.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and I began to scream. Pumpkin headed figure. Step forward. A Harvest. must continue.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Peace. Grab Daniel. and ran. behind the armor. A creature began walking. slowly. deliberately.
Joe The Ghost Guy: It's... heavy footsteps. and echo through the underground corridor. but Fight. Third.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Thomas looked over his shoulder. The preacher was still far behind. a win. He looked again. It was closer.
Joe The Ghost Guy: much closer. And... Then he heard a voice echo through the basement. A voice. made from hundreds of whispering children.
Joe The Ghost Guy: from Halloween.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Thomas Farron. A staircase. He pushed Daniel forward. Go find your mother.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Daniel Klein I must follow. just before you reach the top. something hot as coke. He looked down.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Be long. Bye. hand. Edit. emerged from the darkness. its fingers wrapped around his ankle. A harvester.
Joe The Ghost Guy: stood behind and beneath him. Jack ran on his face. and brighter. and inside the hollowed mound. Thomas saw something moving.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Basins. Dozens of faces. children. pressing against. The inside of the pumpkin. screaming silently.
Joe The Ghost Guy: their hands pushing outward. I sold the pumpkin. It was made out there. Stretch Skin. Amen. One face pushed further.
Joe The Ghost Guy: than the others. A little girl. She looked at me. directly at Thomas. and whispered,
Joe The Ghost Guy: Harvester. Tightness grip. Thomas Spree then The creature opened its mouth. and the voices.
Joe The Ghost Guy: of seven children Spoke together
Joe The Ghost Guy: Thomas. Kicked free. He scrambled up the stairs. and slammed the door. For one moment. Everything was quiet.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And then...
Joe The Ghost Guy: choice Push her from the other side.
Joe The Ghost Guy: will come upstairs when you're sleeping.
Joe The Ghost Guy: upstairs. everyone. had held Sophie tightly. A little girl was shaking. Perfect. Her face was pale. Her eyes.
Joe The Ghost Guy: were wet with tears. Thomas Rush. into the room. We have to get out of here. Now.
Joe The Ghost Guy: grab their children. But Evelyn didn't move. She was staring at Sophie.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Hamas?
Joe The Ghost Guy: Right.
Joe The Ghost Guy: There's something wrong.
Joe The Ghost Guy: So free. Slowly turn. towards her mother.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Mommy?
Joe The Ghost Guy: then swallow.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Sophie has a birthmark.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Tom stared.
Joe The Ghost Guy: What are you talking about?
Joe The Ghost Guy: Behind your left ear. There's a little red birthmark. His head ever since she was born.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Then gently. Push the child's hair aside. There was nothing there. No birthmark. No scar. Nothing.
Joe The Ghost Guy: A little gross. A smile.
Joe The Ghost Guy: a Good news. Siri.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Evelyn backed away.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Where's my daughter?
Joe The Ghost Guy: Ciao.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Tilted her head.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Right here.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Evelyn began screaming.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Where is she?
Joe The Ghost Guy: The little girl smiled wide. And it waited. until the corners of the mouth reached her ears. then She spoke.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Not in Sophie's voice. but in the voice of the little rabbit girl.
Joe The Ghost Guy: She's downstairs with the other children.
Joe The Ghost Guy: the children's body began to twist Her arms spin backwards. Her neck stretched. Her skin, darkish.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Her eyes. became two enormous black bears. She crawled up the wall. onto the ceiling. and started down.
Joe The Ghost Guy: I stared down at them. family. Then she whispered,
Joe The Ghost Guy: So take care.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Silly. craft. and hundreds. Tiny hands. Push through the plaster. The house filled with laughter.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Children laughing. Crying. screaming and singing.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The voices grew louder. until the walls themselves screamed. seemed to scream. Thomas remembered the 7.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Red Doors in the basement. And you are understood now. the missing children. We're trapped there.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and the harvester needed new trowel to keep it. them in prison. He grabbed it. Iron Fireplace Poker. and turned to Evelyn.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Take Daniel. Go outside.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Sophie.
Joe The Ghost Guy: I almost looked towards the basement. I'll bring her home. he does he the Senate. the staircase. The basement. was silent.
Joe The Ghost Guy: is 17. Red door is still open. And be on now. He could hear. reload. Little girl crying.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Thomas Wren. towards the voice.
Joe The Ghost Guy: fee.
Joe The Ghost Guy: bottle pool He entered a small room. There was a wooden door. or there was a wooden chair.
Joe The Ghost Guy: A candle. in a low growth city. with her back towards him. She wore. Sophie's yellow nightgown Her hair was tied.
Joe The Ghost Guy: the same blue We have been. Evelyn had put in that morning. Thomas. dropped to her knees. Oh, sweetheart. and reach for or shoulder.
Joe The Ghost Guy: But before he... touched her. The girl. Misperve.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Daddy?
Joe The Ghost Guy: Yes, baby
Joe The Ghost Guy: Why did you leave me here?
Joe The Ghost Guy: Thomas's eyes. filled with tears. I'm so sorry, honey. I'm so sorry.
Joe The Ghost Guy: You love me?
Joe The Ghost Guy: more than anything in the whole wide world. Hello girl. began laughing.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Sloth. Dry. Horrible rap. Thomas froze. It's your turn. and the Thing.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Serene. on the chair. was not Sophie. It has Sophie's hair. A hat swept his night down.
Joe The Ghost Guy: I had Sophie's hands. but the face. was at first ancient. shriveled mask of skin stretch across the skull.
Joe The Ghost Guy: for its size. were stitched shut. The lips had been. sewn together with black thread.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And yet... It's both.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The Candle When now?
Joe The Ghost Guy: Yeah. Candle relit. Promise. was no longer in the basement. He stood in the hallway. The Endless Home.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Thousands of doctor of thousands of doors stretched, into the darkness Behind each door. Someone was crying.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Fine. Another, someone was laughing. Find another. someone else Pondering. desperately against the word.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Thomas. hurt his daughter.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Around. He ran towards the boys. but another door. Hold out.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Over here.
Joe The Ghost Guy: than another.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and another.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Assume every door. was screaming in Sophie's voice. hundreds of low perils. Oh, Peggy. of praying. all pleading with him.
Joe The Ghost Guy: to open their doors. Thomas. Covered his eyes. Stop.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Sicko Boys avoidings Spoke behind
Joe The Ghost Guy: Amen.
Joe The Ghost Guy: a turd Sometimes. at the end of the hallway. It was the harvester. Okay. and his shoulders burned.
Joe The Ghost Guy: like a furnace.
Joe The Ghost Guy: baby. door.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Thomas shook his head. No.
Joe The Ghost Guy: CHEW!
Joe The Ghost Guy: Where is my daughter? the creature raised One. wrong finger. and pointed towards the door behind Thomas.
Joe The Ghost Guy: It was smaller than any others. painted white. on the front of the PAMRIT MESSAGE one who loves You will never ask.
Joe The Ghost Guy: You to open the door Kama stared. Then he Understood. The voices behind the doors.
Joe The Ghost Guy: weren't so...
Joe The Ghost Guy: They were tracks. Every voice. begged him to enter. Every voice. Try to make him choose.
Joe The Ghost Guy: except one. ETERN towards the narrow. door. At the foreign of the hallway. No sound came from behind it.
Joe The Ghost Guy: You're crying. No pleading. Only silence. harmless. approached. He placed his hand on the knob.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and opened it. inside. Sophie sat on the floor. Alive. Terrifying. Order a little stuffed rabbit.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and when she saw her father. She did not speak. She simply ran into his arms. Thomas held her tightly. and behind them.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The harvester began to scream. It's been so well. at every door in the hallway. Get to us open. The dead.
Joe The Ghost Guy: came out. pouring out.
Joe The Ghost Guy: whole way. filled with figures. children and Rodin Halloween Costumes parents of old -fashioned clothing.
Joe The Ghost Guy: men and women. with empty eye sockets. They're mouths. I'm no pig. Their skin. was gray. their bodies. Moved stiff. a natural jerk.
Joe The Ghost Guy: It crowded the hallway. reaching. Whispering. Aggie. Dang it.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Don't.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Homeless. Carrie Sophie. Courses start games. But. The dead. Paolo. some chrome. Cross Sealy others.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Drag. themselves along the floor. I'm behind them all. harvester cake It's pumping here. split open.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Come on. black shade. unfolded from inside. Something like a spider. Something like a man. Something.
Joe The Ghost Guy: I can never. I love you. In the hole. world of living. It rose above the dead. It's live, scraping.
Joe The Ghost Guy: against the walls. and from its normal mouth. Game 1 Final Command.
Joe The Ghost Guy: work. leaves Halloween.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Thomas reached the front door. I will. and Daniel were waiting. You push. them in outside The fog was thick.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The trees bent towards the house. every pumpkin. along the driveway. I turn. It's face to go. Their card amounts move.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The candles flicker. and together. They whisper.
Joe The Ghost Guy: I almost ran. Edward ran. Daniel ran. and Sophie turned her playing into her Our father's neck. Behind them.
Joe The Ghost Guy: the house began to collapse. The windows exploded. The walls twisted. and from every opening. him screaming.
Joe The Ghost Guy: faces of the dead. And there. Exactly. 1259 EO. the church bells. ring once.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and everything. The house vanished. fog lifted. The pumpkins. When dark.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and the road. was empty. November 1st 1978 at sunrise.
Joe The Ghost Guy: the Carter family. was found. wandering along the highway. outside. Willow Creek. Hello, freak. Thomas was barefooted.
Joe The Ghost Guy: How would your hair have turned? almost completely white. Daniel refused to speak. And Sophie. So. Let go. of her stuffed rabbit.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Please return to Hollow Creek that morning But the town was empty. Every house stood abandoned. Every door was open.
Joe The Ghost Guy: There is no people. No animal. No birds. not even insects. Town's clock. That stopped at midnight.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and in the center of the square. 17 jack -o' -lanterns. I've been arranged in perfect circle. with each company.
Joe The Ghost Guy: contained a single candle. each candle. was still burning. inside the circle. was they wouldn't sign. It read,
Joe The Ghost Guy: Thank you for your children authorities. Never explained what happened. The Carter family moved away. Thomas never spoke about Hollow Creek again.
Joe The Ghost Guy: haven't developed a terrible fear of doorbells. Daniel slept with every light on. and Sophie seemed to recover.
Joe The Ghost Guy: for a while. Until. Halloween my turn.
Joe The Ghost Guy: October. 31st 1979 11 .58pm. Carter Family. lived in a small home.
Joe The Ghost Guy: hundreds of miles. away from Hollow Creek. There were no pumpkins. No decoration. No candy. Every curtain was closed.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Every door was locked. Karma sat in the living room. with a shotgun across his knees. Evelyn. Satsang with Mooji Daniel was upstairs.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And Sophie was... asleep in her bedroom. 1159. A light flicker. Karma stood.
Joe The Ghost Guy: No. The telephone rang. points. Twice. Three times. How much did I answer?
Joe The Ghost Guy: then HIMSELF
Joe The Ghost Guy: Good. but begin to Cry. from another side of the front door, a little girl whisper.
Joe The Ghost Guy: tree.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Thomas must raised the shotgun. Go away. The voice giggled.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Thomas. back the way. The little girl continued.
Joe The Ghost Guy: You left us behind.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Pause.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and we don't like your left behind
Joe The Ghost Guy: or Handle slowly turn. Thomas screamed. You can't come in. Girl. The girl laughed.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Oh, Mr. Carter.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And she whispered, We don't need -
Joe The Ghost Guy: From upstairs came a scream. Daniel's screen. Thomas Rush. forward towards It's dark days. and before he reached death.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Sophie. appeared at the top She stood perfectly still. Her eyes were black. Her mouth stretched from a normal smile.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Your hands. She held a dirty weight. Rabbit costume. Thomas stared at her.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Sophie?
Joe The Ghost Guy: Girl. tilted her head. and spoke. and then and a voice. did not belong to any child.
Joe The Ghost Guy: You brought Halloween home.
Joe The Ghost Guy: The Carter family. disappeared that No one ever found her home was discovered.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Empty. on the morning. November 1st. front door stood open. The Furniture or subscribe.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and the kitchen table. Sad and small. Orange pumpkin. Carved into its face. was a normal smile.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Inside the pumpkin. was a full of prayer. It showed. Thomas Have a win. Daniel.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and Sophie. standing on that front porch. of an old Victorian mansion. in Hollow Creek. They were dressed in homing costumes.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Smiley. Standing behind them. Was it Tom? Man wearing a black funeral suit. with writing Jacqueline.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Frig. On the back. of the photograph. For five words.
Joe The Ghost Guy: See you next Halloween night.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Now. before I let leave you tonight. I want you to think about something. Every Halloween. Meows. millions and millions of children.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Knock on doors. They... Wear masks. They hide their faces. And they ask strangers to let them. Come closer.
Joe The Ghost Guy: most of them. are innocent. Most of them are simply looking for candy. Psalm.
Joe The Ghost Guy: some somewhere. on some lonely road. and some Fire. They may be a little girl. Very dirty.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Rabbit. White rabbit costume. She may be standing. on your porch. She Be looking.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and she may be holy. and empty. anybody. But if you look carefully. you might notice. Better be. are bare.
Joe The Ghost Guy: It better cost you. Smells of wet earth. And that beneath that rabbit mask. Something is smiling. Something very old.
Joe The Ghost Guy: something. very hungry. So tonight... When the last trick -or -treater Asgard boomed. when the streets are silent.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And the clock. begins creeping towards midnight. Sink carefully. because you may hear it.
Joe The Ghost Guy: and then A little girl's voice.
Joe The Ghost Guy: CHEAT NOOB tree.
Joe The Ghost Guy: Awful.
Joe The Ghost Guy: softly. Right behind your ear. value. though, as you're completely alone. a voice.
Joe The Ghost Guy: A whisper.
Joe The Ghost Guy: the door.
Joe The Ghost Guy: I'm already standing behind you.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And remember... My dear listeners. The most terrifying. thing about Halloween It's not the monsters.
Joe The Ghost Guy: I lean. beneath your bed. It's not the ghost. wandering through the graveyards. And it's not the... knocking at your door.
Joe The Ghost Guy: I pass. that it's something. has been living. inside your house. For a year. Shh. What's your name?
Joe The Ghost Guy: Learn in your voice. memorizing the sound of your footsteps. Great email. particularly. Peace. for the one night.
Joe The Ghost Guy: when the boundary between the living and the dead. become thin enough. reveal itself.
Joe The Ghost Guy: And perhaps... And just perhaps... as you see here. Listen to this story. Minutes. listening to you.
