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1:22

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Just working out the details on it. Other

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1:56

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You should be able to find that on your podcatcher.

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Especially if you search the number 5,

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On to the outdoorsy horror. I

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have four stories and a poem

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for you for this offering. Receive

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it thus and happy camping.

2:17

The 13

2:33

steps down to hell were located

2:36

in Maltby Cemetery in Washington. There

2:39

used to be a staircase that began at ground

2:41

level and descended down under the earth. It

2:45

was said to be a low grade entrance to the tomb

2:47

of a wealthy local family. According

2:50

to the legend, you had to go to the cemetery

2:52

late at night and walk down these

2:55

13 steps. While

2:57

descending the steps, you wouldn't be

2:59

able to hear anything. Once

3:02

you had reached the bottom, if you turned around,

3:06

you would be confronted by a vision of

3:08

hell. They

3:10

say that the vision would drive you insane.

3:14

Those who watched people performing this ritual

3:16

said that they witnessed the person stop at the bottom,

3:20

turn around, and then collapse

3:22

to their knees in horror. According

3:27

to some reports, several children emerged

3:29

nearly comatose from the steps, and

3:32

many of them never uttered another word.

3:37

The 13 steps no longer

3:39

exist. As

3:42

the story goes, they were bulldozed or

3:44

filled in with concrete years ago. Since

3:47

then, there have been severe, no

3:50

trespassing limitations on the cemetery,

3:52

and even rumors of kids making expeditions

3:55

late at night to Maltby Cemetery,

3:58

armed with shovels, hoping to unearth

4:01

the thirteen steps down to hell. My

4:04

girlfriend and I wanted to see this for ourselves.

4:07

You have to go down these thirteen steps,

4:09

and then you see a little chair. If

4:12

you sit in the chair, it automatically means

4:14

that you've sold your soul to the devil. Sounds

4:17

really creepy. I was at church

4:19

with my friend, and his pastor said that

4:21

he went there when he was sixteen years old, and

4:24

it was the worst experience of his entire life.

4:27

A group of us headed out to the cemetery in Maltby.

4:31

We made sure we got there as close to midnight as possible.

4:34

After about an hour of searching around in the dark,

4:36

we finally found it. In

4:39

the moonlight, you couldn't see the bottom

4:41

of the steps. We tried

4:43

using flashlight, and we still couldn't

4:46

see the bottom. It was frightening,

4:48

and one of the girls was so freaked out that she

4:51

couldn't even look down into the staircase. I

4:54

decided I was going to go for it, but

4:57

as I walked down the first two steps, I

4:59

started to feel sick. After

5:03

the next two steps, I felt lightheaded.

5:07

When I got to the sixth step, I became

5:10

so cold that I could barely

5:12

breathe, and I could hear muffled

5:14

yelling and screaming. I

5:17

was not going any further. I couldn't

5:19

even take the next step. When

5:22

I turned to climb back up, I

5:24

could feel something pushing on my

5:26

back, and I couldn't see out

5:29

up to my friends clearly. When

5:32

I finally reached the top of the staircase, I

5:34

realized the yelling and screaming was

5:37

coming from my friends. They

5:39

were screaming that I had disappeared

5:42

when I went down. I'm

5:44

six feet tall. I couldn't have been

5:46

out of sight after having only gone

5:48

down halfway. Needless

5:52

to say, we were all completely

5:54

freaked out and got out of there as quickly as

5:56

possible. To this day,

5:58

every now and then, I was so scared. I dream

6:01

about the 13 steps that lead down to hell,

6:04

and I always wake up

6:06

in a cold sweat. Side

6:09

note, there is also a 13-step

6:12

cemetery in Palo called

6:15

Pleasant Ridge Cemetery. There

6:17

is a set of stairs leading up to the cemetery

6:20

gate that has 12 steps, but

6:23

at night, a 13th step

6:25

is said to appear. Clown

6:30

at Mid-M

6:52

There was a man who wanted to hire a clown

6:54

for his son's birthday party. He

6:56

asked around at work, and one of his colleagues,

6:59

Sergio, gave him the number of a clown

7:02

who, he said, came highly recommended.

7:06

The man called the number and arranged for the clown

7:08

to come over on Saturday and entertain the

7:10

kids at the party. However,

7:13

when Saturday came around, it was

7:15

raining, and the clown didn't show up. The

7:19

children all grew bored of waiting and went

7:21

home early. His

7:23

son was terribly disappointed and

7:26

ran upstairs to his bedroom in tears.

7:29

The birthday party was completely ruined.

7:33

The father kept calling the clown's number,

7:35

but there was no answer. Why

7:37

did you recommend such an unreliable

7:40

clown, Sergio? he

7:42

thought bitterly. That

7:45

night, the man and his wife were lying in

7:47

bed, exhausted. The

7:49

party had been a disaster, and he was

7:51

still irritated that the clown had not shown

7:54

up. What time did you tell

7:56

him to come? his wife asked. I

7:59

said, very quickly. Very clearly, Saturday

8:01

at twelve o'clock, he replied.

8:04

Maybe he thought it was twelve at night, said

8:07

his wife. A clown

8:09

at midnight? The

8:13

man laughed out loud. Who would hire

8:15

a clown to come to a birthday party

8:17

at midnight? He turned

8:20

over and drifted off to sleep. At

8:23

midnight, they were awoken by a horrible

8:25

scream. It sounded

8:28

like their son. Something's

8:30

wrong, whispered the mother, turning on

8:32

the light. Stay here, said

8:34

the man jumping out of bed. I'll check on him. Maybe

8:37

he's just having a bad dream. He

8:40

stepped into the hallway and immediately

8:42

stopped in his tracks. There

8:44

was a trail of muddy footprints on

8:47

the floor. They were

8:49

too large to belong to a normal man.

8:52

The footprints looked like clown

8:54

shoes. They led from

8:56

the open window in the bathroom, down

8:59

the hallway to his son's bedroom. A

9:02

clown, thought the horrified

9:04

father. A clown

9:06

at midnight. And

9:09

then, without knowing why, he remembered

9:12

something about Sergio, his friend from

9:14

work, who had recommended the clown. Sergio

9:18

had two sons, but

9:20

one of them had died not long ago, under

9:22

mysterious circumstances. He

9:25

had never discussed it with Sergio himself,

9:27

for obvious reasons. But

9:30

rumors had spread around the office that,

9:32

after several days of intense searching, Sergio's

9:35

son had been found dead in the woods.

9:39

Why had he remembered that just now? With

9:43

a shaking hand, the father reached

9:45

out and opened his son's bedroom door. The

9:49

room was empty. The

9:51

bed was unmade and the window was wide

9:53

open. There were traces

9:55

of mud on the carpet. The

9:58

man let out an anguished howl.

11:53

The

12:00

father dropped the phone and ran out of the house.

12:04

He went into the forest, which stood

12:06

behind the house. When

12:08

he came to a big, gnarled oak tree, he

12:11

suddenly stopped, sank to his

12:13

knees, and began crying

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12:18

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my grandmother told me that she lived through

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it. In

13:23

the early 1960s, there was a

13:25

small town in Mexico where a lot of babies

13:27

just happened to be born around the same

13:29

time. It's

13:32

said that there was a woman who haunted

13:34

the town. She was not

13:36

a ghost. She was one

13:38

of the 200 people that lived in the town

13:40

at the time. People

13:42

say that she was a witch,

13:45

a worshiper of the devil, and

13:47

many people said that she would go out into the fields

13:50

in the middle of the night when everyone was asleep.

13:54

Some local farmers claimed that they

13:56

would see her whenever they would go outside to check

13:58

on their animals. because their animals

14:01

would make a lot of noise whenever she passed by. They

14:04

could never tell who it was because it

14:07

was always pitch black and they couldn't

14:09

see a thing. It

14:11

was a poor town with a couple

14:14

of street lights. People

14:16

weren't so worried about her for a while because

14:19

they saw that she did no harm to

14:21

them. Until something

14:25

terrible happened. One

14:28

night, a married couple slept

14:30

with their baby between them. They

14:32

were so poor that they couldn't afford a mattress

14:35

and had a carpet as their bed. The

14:38

parents didn't sleep too close

14:40

to their baby because they were

14:42

afraid that they would accidentally roll

14:45

over and hurt their child. The

14:47

mother and father were deep into their sleep

14:50

until the mother heard the baby cry

14:52

terribly. It

14:55

shrieked a blood-curdling scream, loud

14:58

enough to wake up my grandmother and grandfather

15:00

who lived next to them. The

15:03

baby cried and the mother woke up

15:05

and tried to put him back to sleep. Whenever

15:08

she went to sleep again, she heard

15:10

the baby cry once more. She

15:14

woke up again and did the same as before.

15:17

This went on for about two more

15:19

times. The mother became

15:22

angry and impatient with her baby because

15:24

she was really tired. The

15:27

father was asleep and would not wake

15:29

up no matter how many times his baby cried.

15:33

The fifth time that the baby cried, his

15:36

mother ignored it. The

15:38

baby cried for another couple of minutes. The

15:41

mother continued to ignore her baby until she

15:45

subconsciously heard someone walking

15:47

outside. She

15:49

heard the door squeak open slowly. Then

15:54

it shut loudly. The door was made of thick metal,

15:57

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16:01

finally woke her and her husband up as well. When

16:05

she looked for her baby, she saw that

16:07

he was quiet and thought that he was

16:10

sleeping. The mother asked

16:12

her husband why he wouldn't wake up before. He

16:15

said that he never heard anything. When

16:18

the mother went to hold her baby, she

16:20

saw that he was cold. She

16:23

kissed her baby to try and wake him up, but

16:26

he wouldn't.

16:27

The baby was dead. When

16:30

she took off his blanket, she

16:33

saw that his stomach and arms had

16:35

scratch marks. Someone

16:38

was hurting her child while he was

16:40

sleeping.

16:42

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16:44

the witch killed him.

16:50

She killed my son. The

16:54

mother swore that she heard a woman

16:56

giveling. After

16:58

that, many parents held

17:00

their children close to them whenever they slept.

17:04

Sometimes children would cry in the

17:06

middle of the night out of nowhere and

17:08

their mothers would begin to pray. The

17:11

children, who could speak, said

17:14

that they would feel someone grabbing them. The

17:17

witch would leave after. It

17:21

wasn't until years later that two

17:23

children died, a brother and a sister.

17:27

Except it was in a river in the town.

17:31

One man swore that he saw a woman

17:33

pushing the boy and girl's heads into

17:35

the water and laughing when

17:38

she did so. He

17:40

yelled at her to leave them alone and

17:42

ran to stop her. She

17:44

kept laughing at him and was singing as

17:46

he ran towards her. The

17:49

wedding almost reached her. She

17:52

was gone and the boy and girl's

17:54

bodies were floating on the water. People

17:59

began to suspect. women

18:01

who could be the witch. But

18:04

coincidentally, many people

18:06

left the town around that time to move

18:08

to other places. She

18:11

could have been one of them.

18:26

Suspension Bridge My

18:34

buddy told me a story once about

18:36

a time when he lived in Japan in

18:38

a horrible event that he experienced

18:41

while there. At

18:44

the time he was 17 years old

18:46

and had managed to find himself a summer

18:49

job working in a store that sold electrical

18:51

goods. One day

18:53

after work, the manager of the store

18:56

decided to bring all of the employees out

18:58

for dinner. The restaurant

19:00

they were going to was up in the mountains, and

19:02

to get there, they had to cross an old

19:04

suspension bridge that stretched across

19:06

a deep valley. There

19:09

were five of them in total, so they decided

19:11

to take two cars. The

19:14

manager drove the car in front with two

19:16

teenage boys inside. My

19:18

friend drove the car behind and his

19:20

colleague was in the passenger seat. They

19:24

started out straight after work, but

19:26

the manager took a wrong turn, so by

19:28

the time they reached the suspension bridge, it

19:30

was almost twilight. There

19:33

was a light rain and the bridge was

19:35

covered in a strange, wispy

19:38

fog. The manager

19:40

drove across the suspension bridge and

19:42

my friend followed close behind in the other

19:44

car. However, when they

19:46

reached the center of the bridge, the

19:49

manager's car came to a sudden halt.

19:52

The two people in the car behind were

19:54

puzzled. They couldn't understand

19:56

why their boss had stopped in the middle

19:58

of the bridge. After

20:01

waiting a few minutes, they began

20:03

to get impatient. Since

20:05

they showed no signs of moving, my

20:07

friend was about to get out and see what the

20:09

trouble was. Just

20:12

then, they saw the rear door

20:14

of the car in front open and the two boys

20:16

who were sitting in the back seat got out.

20:20

My friend opened his door and was about to

20:22

ask them what was wrong, but the words

20:24

died in his throat. He

20:27

heard the boys screaming their lungs out.

20:30

Suddenly, the two young men joined hands

20:32

and started to run like crazy. They

20:35

rushed over to the side of the suspension bridge

20:38

and threw themselves over the guard rail.

20:41

Horrified, my friend rushed over

20:44

to the guard rail and peered over the side, but

20:47

he couldn't see anything because of the mist. The

20:50

drop was over a hundred feet. Nobody

20:54

could survive that. He

20:57

stood there for a few minutes and stunned to

20:59

silence, staring down into the

21:01

foggy abyss. When

21:03

he went over to check the car in front, he

21:06

found the manager crouched over the steering

21:08

wheel, gripping it so tightly that his

21:10

knuckles were white. Tears

21:13

were streaming down his face and he kept muttering

21:16

under his breath over and over. I

21:18

want to do it, but I can't do it. I want to

21:20

do it, but I can't do it. I want to do it, but

21:22

I can't do it. My

21:25

friend called the police and when they arrived,

21:28

they had to pry the manager's hands off

21:30

the steering wheel. They

21:32

took him away in an ambulance, still

21:34

muttering and gibbering as if he had taken

21:37

leave of his sanity. Later

21:40

that night, the bodies of the two young

21:42

men were fished out of the river. My

21:45

friend and his colleague were persistently questioned

21:48

by the police, but they couldn't

21:50

shed any light on the puzzling incident.

21:53

The police seemed to think it was some

21:56

kind of weird suicide pact. After

22:00

that, my friend went to visit the store manager

22:02

who was recovering in a mental hospital. After

22:06

some small talk, he turned

22:08

the conversation to the strange events that

22:10

had taken place that tragic

22:12

summer night. The

22:14

store manager beckoned him closer and

22:17

whispered in his ear. He

22:19

told him that as soon as they were driving

22:22

across the suspension bridge, he

22:24

was shocked to see a woman suddenly emerge

22:27

from the fog. She

22:29

stood right in front of the car and

22:31

he had to slam on the brakes to avoid hitting

22:33

her. The woman had

22:35

long black hair and was dressed

22:38

in a brilliant white shroud. All

22:41

of a sudden he noticed that the mist was creeping

22:44

closer, encircling the car.

22:47

Then from the depths of the wisping

22:50

fog, a group of children

22:52

appeared. They were dressed

22:54

in similar white shrouds and

22:56

their faces were deformed and smeared

22:59

with blood. Before

23:01

they knew what was happening, the grotesque children

23:03

surrounded the car and began

23:06

beating on the windows and doors with their

23:08

fists. The

23:10

children began chanting, Join

23:13

us, join us, join us,

23:16

join us, join

23:19

us, join us, join

23:22

us. The manager

23:24

said that the children's haunting voices

23:27

echoed around in his head and he

23:29

felt powerless to resist. He

23:32

clung on to the steering wheel for dear life.

23:36

At that moment, he dearly wanted

23:38

to die, but some small

23:41

part of them desperately wanted to leave.

23:44

He heard the boys in the back seat screaming

23:46

as the children opened the door and

23:49

dragged them out into the mist. The

23:52

terrified manager had to fight the urge to

23:54

join them in death. After

23:58

hearing this story, my friend was

24:00

shaking with fear. As

24:03

he rose to leave, the manager grabbed

24:05

him roughly by the arm and hissed.

24:08

I think that's what happened, but don't

24:10

tell the police. They'll

24:12

never believe you.

24:14

Sometimes I don't even

24:16

believe myself.

24:19

Just promise me one

24:21

thing. Promise me

24:24

that you will never attempt to cross

24:26

that suspension bridge again, or

24:29

they'll come for you and

24:32

drag you to your death

24:34

as well.

24:53

The

24:58

Narrow Staircase leads the way

25:01

up to the padlocked door, below

25:04

the halls as dark as sin with

25:07

blood stains on the floor. Nobody

25:10

knows who climbed halfway to

25:13

where the stairs are bent. What

25:16

crouching figure waited there

25:18

with murderous intent. And

25:21

no one knows what now ascends the

25:23

thirteenth step and stops and

25:26

flutters like a dying bird

25:29

before it moans and drops.

25:33

One night I stepped into the hall

25:36

reciting whispered prayers, and

25:39

to my horror saw

25:41

what stands upon

25:43

the spiral stairs. Stairfield

26:01

a nutshell and

26:03

now the darkness at the bottom of the stairs

26:14

There's a nasty disease going around

26:17

it seems like it started with some kids at a graveyard The

26:20

first thing it happens is you get a sore throat

26:23

then you get better Then you get a

26:25

fever then you get better Then

26:28

you get fatigued and just keeps

26:30

going like this a baker's dozen times Oh

26:33

because someone walked into a tomb

26:36

and got 13 strips

26:45

There's a comedy club in Mexico where all

26:47

the saucy witches go to drink tequila

26:50

and hear some dark comedy It's

26:53

called La Bruja Ha

27:01

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