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discretion advised. Who's

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that? Uh? Dr Edwards?

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Vet over and Rehobeth. Why

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is a vet calling you? There's been

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an attack? What kind of attack?

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Farmer over there? He's got a dozen or so cows

0:28

on his property and woke up this morning to find them

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all eviscerated, just

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like the last time. You

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don't have any pets, I mean, you've never had

0:37

any pets. Why is this guy calling you? Dr

0:39

Edwards? He's still alive.

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I was like, no, no, no, it's his son. He took

0:43

over his practice a while ago. I told him to call me

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if he ever saw anything strange. And

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he saw something strange, we

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should probably head over there Oakley Farms, he said,

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so Vipping Olivia, you two should

0:56

stay here. Get yourself cleaned up.

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Now, hold on, both of you look like

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you've been through the ring. No ship. We

1:03

were attacked by a giant dog

1:05

three hours ago. And I just found out I have a grandfather

1:07

who suddenly back from the dead. So

1:09

I think I look pretty good considering back

1:12

up giant dog. That's what we were trying to tell

1:15

you before when we were attacked,

1:17

leaving the words it it attacked

1:19

us, Jeremy, it was. It

1:22

was real. Yeah, I

1:24

swear it was real. I believe you.

1:28

I'm sorry I didn't

1:30

before I get it. I barely

1:33

believe it now myself. I

1:35

wonder. I wonder if the dog is wount

1:37

attack the cows and the horses from last

1:39

year. Last year, I don't remember

1:41

finding anything about animal attacks from last

1:43

year. He means nine. That's

1:46

gonna take some getting used to. Yeah, well we

1:48

all have to just so. Yeah, how

1:50

are we supposed to do that? Nana? You've

1:52

had what at forty years, forty

1:55

years during what you could have told any of us the truth?

1:57

You know what? Just don't Okay, I'm gonna go home and

1:59

try to forget that monsters are real apparently,

2:01

and then everything I thought I knew about my

2:04

family is wrong. Olivia,

2:06

Please, just shit. I

2:09

need to deal with this, of course, but

2:12

we need to go to Oakley Farms, see what happened

2:14

before, the evidence the case more. Who cares,

2:16

it's it's just a couple of cows.

2:18

It's hardly more important than this. It's just a

2:20

couple of cows for now. If it's

2:22

the same dog that attacked us in Freetown,

2:25

it already made its way through Rehobeth. Who knows

2:27

where it could be by now? It could do a

2:29

lot of damage very quickly. Are

2:31

we never going to get a fucking break? I

2:33

think we should go check it out. If

2:36

it's really the same dog. We know it doesn't just

2:38

attack other animals, and if it's not,

2:41

then you've got more than one

2:43

monster on our hands. Hey,

3:25

there, your live.

3:27

I'm going to leave in a second, Okay, I just I

3:30

needed to catch my breath or something. I'm already

3:32

fucking exhausted, and I really don't want to crash my

3:34

car. Why don't you come inside?

3:36

And is it really him?

3:38

Is it really him? Is that man

3:41

really Thomas Bradshot? It's

3:44

him? How? How

3:49

well we're still trying to figure that out? He was

3:51

trapped in some kind of in between place, in

3:54

between what this

3:56

world and another one? Oh?

3:58

Come on, I'm serious. Live

4:01

You know when Vippen and I were

4:04

driving over here, I kept talking about

4:06

how all the stories you told me were

4:08

real, that I couldn't believe

4:10

it, and you were never lying to me. With any

4:12

of that stuff. I never had any solid

4:14

proof until now, just a feeling.

4:17

But you were always honest with me

4:19

about that feeling, about about there being

4:21

something dangerous out there. I wanted

4:24

to keep you safe. Then why lie

4:26

about him? I didn't If you knew

4:28

he was still alive, I didn't.

4:30

I swear I didn't, but I hoped. But

4:34

that's all it ever was until yesterday. You

4:36

knew he was my grandfather. I mean,

4:38

unless, of course, you had a very active dating

4:40

life in nineteen I'm

4:43

assuming you knew. I knew, I

4:46

knew we were. We were

4:48

together for over a year by the time I found out

4:50

I was pregnant Nanna. Wasn't

4:53

he married? Yeah,

4:58

he was, but it

5:00

had been rocky for a while.

5:03

And when we found out about the baby, he

5:05

told his wife and they

5:08

were getting divorced and we were

5:10

going to be a family, and

5:12

then he went missing. So so what

5:15

you decided just to act like he

5:17

never existed, Like

5:20

like mom just came out of nowhere,

5:22

and he always told her and

5:24

to ask that he was dead. I

5:27

thought he was. I

5:30

thought he was, But why keep

5:33

his identity a secret. He

5:35

wasn't just some guy, he was someone you

5:38

loved someone who had a son. That's

5:41

why. That's

5:43

why, Olivia Jeremy

5:46

is why I kept it a secret. It

5:49

was a big case Thomas

5:52

go and missing, a

5:54

huge local news story. They

5:57

talked about it for months and months, and

6:00

the circumstances around it brought all kinds

6:02

of folks from around the country to report

6:05

on it or do their amateur investigations,

6:08

and well it, uh, you know,

6:10

it put a lot of attention on the Bradshaws,

6:13

and you

6:16

know, the wife and son who got left behind. And

6:21

I I

6:23

couldn't. I couldn't let Thomas's

6:25

name get dragged through the mud.

6:28

And I couldn't bring that

6:30

chaos into your mom's life when she was

6:33

just a baby. So I

6:36

just told everybody was an old flame in

6:38

Boston who I had reconnected with, and

6:42

if I had honest about it,

6:44

it would have become part of the story and we would

6:46

have had to leave Bridgewater entirely and

6:49

find any kind of peace, and

6:53

and you'd never leave, right,

6:56

not until you found out what really happened.

6:59

Yeah, So,

7:03

so what did really happen? He

7:06

just got like Captain America Frozen

7:08

in Time? Who's that? God?

7:11

Nancy? A movie for once? In your life. I mean he

7:14

looks like he's thirty. Yeah.

7:18

Yeah, a time it

7:21

passed differently wherever he was.

7:23

And the truth is, we don't really understand

7:26

that place yet. But

7:29

Celeste and the gathering they

7:31

had a better idea, some kind of doorway

7:34

or like a pass through to the other side. And

7:36

then the children of Titchuba wanted to open it,

7:39

but Celeste and her people they were trying to keep

7:41

it closed, keep it closed, and and

7:43

and and trapped Thomas. No,

7:45

no, no, I think Celeste was trying to get him

7:47

out and close whatever gate he

7:49

had come through. We

7:52

think that dog came in the same way. Okay,

7:55

so okay, okay, okay, let me get with the street.

7:57

You're old boyfriend was

8:00

pushed into a paranormal waiting room

8:02

for some other side by a

8:04

bunch of goth babies and

8:07

and then pulled out of that place with a giant

8:09

black dog that might be going around to vice

8:11

rating cows. Pretty

8:14

much though, based on what happened

8:16

to Vippen, the dog may have been here first.

8:20

How why Because

8:22

the veil is getting thinner. That's

8:25

what's a less said, which means I

8:27

think it means whatever wall has

8:29

been protecting us from what's on the other side

8:33

might not be standing anymore. Are

8:42

we sure this is right? An

8:45

said, the east edge of the property. It looks like the

8:47

fence line is down in that field. Are

8:53

you sure you're okay? I'm fine? I

8:55

think. Are you okay?

8:58

Okay is the kind of relative term

9:00

at this particular juncture. So

9:05

you said, Um, something like this has happened

9:07

before over at Shiner Farms. One

9:10

side of their property ran along Freetown forest

9:12

and a few horses were torn into

9:15

I remember and telling me about that. It

9:17

was seventy nine, you said, honestly,

9:20

I'm not sure it could have been this year. Uh,

9:24

it was hot when we went from

9:26

the farm. I know that much August. Second,

9:29

how did you know? I think I remember

9:32

reading that file one of several

9:34

animal mutilations that happened that summer in

9:36

fall. Jeremy, You've

9:38

got yourself quite a partner here that

9:40

I do. Oh, we never

9:42

actually got to the introduction party.

9:45

Hipp In Corona, Jeremy's t a. Thomas

9:48

Bradshaw, Jeremy's dad. Yeah,

9:51

it's good to meet you. Hippin's

9:54

been helping me out with this book that I've been writing. And

9:56

he is also an encyclopedia

9:59

of we your Bridgewater happening

10:01

is you're writing a book? I yeah,

10:03

he's me. Can I help you? Are

10:06

you Dr Edwards? I am.

10:09

I'm a friend of Anne Becker's. She had

10:11

to take care of some other business, but she wanted me to

10:13

come. Yes, yes, I see, Come on over,

10:16

Come on over. Um, yep, just

10:18

just hop right over. There's not a break in the fence for

10:20

another half mile. Okay, not

10:29

bad for an old man. Hopped a lot of fences

10:31

in my day. Yeah, that part

10:33

of your job, the

10:36

stories for another time ship.

10:39

Are you okay? Yep, I'm fine. What

10:45

did you say your name was? I'm Jeremy

10:47

Bradshaw. This is my assistant fipp

10:49

In, and this is my

10:53

friend Tom and really

10:56

sent the cavalry. Uh well, she said,

10:58

things sounded pretty serious. Yeah,

11:02

well, you know, take a look yourself.

11:05

Randall came out this morning to check in his stock

11:07

and found this. Oh

11:11

god, oh my god, Jesus,

11:13

God, Jesus. Do you think the smell is bad? Now?

11:15

I gotta figure out how to get these guys out of here before

11:17

the noon sun hits, or things are gonna get really

11:20

ugly. Do

11:22

you know when this happened. Based

11:25

on the level of rigor mortis, I would

11:27

guess six or so hours ago.

11:29

But that would mean are

11:31

you sure it wasn't more recently, maybe in the last

11:33

hour or two. That's pretty unlikely. Um,

11:36

definitely would have to be at least four hours

11:38

ago. Why. Um,

11:40

we heard about another potential attack last night

11:43

a little after that and thought maybe

11:45

maybe it was the same animal. Oh,

11:48

did you get a look at what it was? No

11:51

shame. I'd really like to

11:53

know what could have done this. What exactly

11:56

is the nature of the wounds? Well?

11:58

Um, yeah, come over here.

12:01

Uh, it seems the first

12:04

and fatal injury happened here along

12:06

the neck. That normally when a predator

12:08

attacks like that, we'd see teeth marks all around

12:10

the animal biting down on its praise

12:12

throat. And do

12:15

you think that there's something out there without a job big

12:17

enough to get around a

12:19

cow's neck. No, See,

12:22

that's what's strange. This laceration

12:25

isn't from teeth, so look at it. It's

12:27

clean and long, almost decapitation,

12:30

which makes me think, Okay, it's a person,

12:32

some sort of sicko who's going around trying to chop the heads

12:34

off of cows. A person did

12:37

this. No, again, there's

12:39

this big cut here, but then if

12:41

you look closely, there's four more lines running

12:43

alongside it, one cut on one side

12:46

of the main laceration and three on

12:48

the other. So I thought

12:50

maybe somebody has a very sharp, very

12:52

uneven pitchfork or some kind of I don't

12:55

know, penteddont but you know that feels

12:57

unlikely, especially when you consider the

13:00

to the corpses. Yeah and um and

13:02

mentioned evisceration. Yep, and you're

13:04

looking at it now, so

13:07

you know. I've seen a lot of this kind of stuff

13:09

in my day, wolves getting a dog's or house

13:11

cats. Hell, even foxes can do a number and

13:13

a rabbit. But this

13:16

this is something else. Are

13:19

those ribs uh huh? Cracked

13:21

like a walnut? This

13:23

is where we do see some teeth marks.

13:25

Something bit into the torsoes of the cows and had themselves

13:28

quite the midnight snack. It

13:30

ate the ribs. No, I

13:33

don't think that was the goal, but it

13:35

broke the rib cage to get to the heart and lungs.

13:37

You see eating all the way to the trick. You right,

13:40

The lugs are just gone and

13:42

the hearts took a big chunk out of two of

13:44

them. The other two are completely gone.

13:47

So what does any

13:49

of this mean? Well, if

13:52

I was going by the evidence alone, I'd

13:55

say some kind of predator with five

13:57

claws sharp enough to make those cuts on the neck,

14:00

strong jaw, with sharp canines, and an

14:02

appetite for bovine insides? Is there

14:05

is there any evidence of more

14:07

teeth than you'd expect? How

14:10

do you mean? Well, if you have to

14:12

guess what kind of like teeth pattern

14:15

you're looking at. Honestly, I

14:18

did a residency at the Maryland Zoo for a year,

14:20

and if it wasn't for the size

14:22

of it, this would look pretty similar

14:25

to a chimpanzee's jaw, certainly comparable

14:27

in strength. Why what what? What? What

14:29

were you expecting? Um?

14:31

Doctor? Do you mind? Would be okay? If I took some

14:34

photos so we can show Anne. Yeah,

14:36

go for it, as long as you don't sell them to

14:38

the paper or anything. I know Randall

14:40

won't mind. He just wants to know what happened to his cows.

14:44

Speaking of which I should go up to the house and

14:46

tell him when I've got so far. Poor

14:48

man couldn't stand a look at them very long, Thank

14:51

you for your time. Dr Edwards. Sure

14:53

sure, I just called the office.

14:55

If you got any more questions or some answers

14:58

of your own, I'll let you know if I'm able to find and anything

15:00

else. Thank you, Thank

15:03

you, This very good of you. Um.

15:07

Look, I don't know what interest

15:09

Anne Becker has in livestock killings, but if

15:12

this really is a person, I would

15:15

certainly feel better knowing someone's looking into it.

15:17

If someone did this, we'll find them.

15:20

Are you a cop to I'm

15:22

a private investigator? And then I worked

15:24

together a lot. Well,

15:27

take your time here. I'll be back after I talked

15:29

to Randall to clear the bodies out. How

15:33

similar is this to what happened to the horses? It's

15:35

pretty similar. I don't remember all the specifics.

15:38

It feels like it was two months ago and

15:40

also forty years ago.

15:43

Yeah, but I won't forget what those horses look like anytime

15:45

soon. I'm sorry,

15:47

Dipen. What is that? Is

15:49

that another one of those phones you were telling me about,

15:52

Jeremy, Oh boy? Um? Yeah,

15:54

it's a smartphone. You

15:56

didn't have those smart phones?

15:59

Yeah? It can. It calls, but honestly,

16:01

people don't want to use them for that anymore. You can

16:03

send messages, go online. You can find

16:06

someone to marry on photos. That little

16:08

thing is a camera. It

16:10

has a camera, yep, and it can take video

16:12

to how Why

16:15

did you ask about the teeth? Oh?

16:17

Um, the dog it had three

16:19

rows of teeth that

16:22

we could see. At least we were

16:24

kind of in a hurry. Maybe you should

16:26

go home, vipp and you have had a long night. No, I

16:28

want to be helpful. You are, you are. It doesn't

16:31

mean you can't take care of yourself. Okay, you're

16:33

one to talk. Hey, I'm fine. If

16:36

anything, this is is the most normal

16:38

thing that I've done in days. I'm just researching this are

16:40

happening in the Bridgewater Triangle. I

16:43

mean sure in this instance, it's not a stoner who

16:45

thought that they were abducted by aliens or someone driving

16:47

down the road late at night convinced that they saw a ghost.

16:49

It's a little tiny bit more

16:52

substantial than that. Hey, hey, Jeremy,

16:54

it's looking at a bunch of cows who

16:56

have had their lungs eaten by

16:59

something apparently with huge

17:01

claws and a jaw strong enough to bite

17:04

through bone. And I am here sidebar

17:07

with my dad who was dead until

17:09

twelve hours ago, and

17:11

he's not looking at a cell phone like it's a fucking

17:13

flying car, which I guess it sort of is. There aren't

17:16

flying cars, are there? No? Sorry,

17:18

Welcome to the shittier version of the future where

17:20

we have climate change and no flying cars. But apparently

17:22

we have lung eating monsters.

17:26

But but but silver

17:28

lining. You can carry a computer in your

17:30

pocket, so it's not all bad. Oh,

17:33

you know, maybe we should all go home. Oh no,

17:35

no, no, no, no no. We have to investigate

17:37

a monster attack, Vippen, because that's what we

17:39

do now. We are bovine murder

17:42

detectives. Wait,

17:44

the cows, what about them? Not? No, not these

17:46

ones, the ones in nineteen forty What

17:49

what do you mean the cows in nineteen four

17:51

Alden told me a few weeks before he got lost,

17:53

his neighbor's cows got torn apart. He

17:56

was just a kid, of course, so it's not like he saw

17:58

them, but it was a big deal in the brohood.

18:01

I'd forgotten about that. It feels like he told me so long

18:03

ago. Who is a boy who was

18:05

trapped in the in between space with my dad? What

18:08

he's still trapped Jeremy with

18:10

god knows what kind of monsters roaming around and there

18:13

with him. I thought you said you never actually saw anything

18:15

in there, just shadow. But now he's in there alone

18:18

with Celeste dead. I don't know what could happen.

18:21

We'll figure it out. But what if we're

18:23

already running out of time. We're looking at two potential

18:26

monsters now, and it's only been eight or

18:28

so hours since the veil opened and I came out. What

18:31

if he's already dead? We have no reason to believe

18:33

that. Look, maybe Vippen

18:36

is right. Maybe we're all of it. You

18:39

just got back. You should be resting

18:41

arrest when we have a plan to get

18:43

Alden. Dad, Dad,

18:48

Dad? Are you okay? So

18:52

I'm fine, I'm fine. Come on, let's

18:55

get away from the smell. It's

18:57

clearly not I can handle some dead animals.

19:00

I'm not new to this. Ah,

19:03

I just haven't had anything to eat in forty years.

19:06

Parogies may have been ambusious. Guys,

19:10

someone's coming. Ship. It's Haddock, Haddock,

19:13

Officer Haddock, Captain Haddock. Now good

19:16

for him. We should get out. Ship

19:18

ship ship ship okay,

19:22

uh, Dad, you need to get out of here. I told

19:24

you, I'm fine, you might recognize

19:26

you, but hey, they haven't take my car. Get get

19:28

back to Anne's. I'll meet you there. Dad.

19:30

We cannot explain this, not right now, Pip. I'll

19:33

take care of him. I

19:52

really appreciate you staying to help Outlive.

19:55

I don't know what's happening nowhere. Any of this is going

19:57

to lead. But this kid

19:59

that Amas was with, he seems to be really important

20:02

to him. Well, I found him, you

20:04

did. It wasn't that hard. Honestly, there

20:06

are only so many missing kids stories from nineteen

20:09

and obviously it was a pretty big deal.

20:11

So what does it say? All then, age seven

20:13

goes missing one day from his own backyard and

20:15

it is never found again. There's a town

20:17

wide search for him for weeks but nothing.

20:20

Christ Yeah, well

20:23

we found Ethan Olivia. He's okay, Yeah,

20:26

yeah, I know. I'm just I'm happy he's

20:28

getting out of here. He is. Dad's

20:30

taking him to his parents. It's just for

20:32

a little while. That's good. It's

20:34

good. Part of me feels like I

20:37

should go with them. Maybe

20:40

you No, No, I am in this now,

20:42

and and someone has to stick around to tell

20:44

mom about all of this. Live.

20:46

You can't get what tell my

20:49

mom that her dad is alively. I'm not keeping

20:51

this from her, especially not when she

20:54

when any of us could still be in danger.

20:56

Ethan safe. That

20:59

doesn't mean whatever tried to take him isn't going

21:01

to try and take someone else. Your mom is

21:03

not going to get taken. How do you know there's

21:06

clearly a pattern here, I'm looking at it.

21:08

You think that's what happened aldn Sure seems like

21:10

it. And Alden wasn't even in the woods, so this

21:13

could happen to anyone. Was

21:15

his house near Freetown or Ham?

21:18

He lived in Rehobeth. There's

21:20

probably woods there, I guess, and probably

21:22

even more in the forties, but nothing to the

21:25

extent of Freetown. And he just vanished

21:27

from his backyard, no evidence

21:29

left behind. I mean, the article isn't exactly

21:32

the same as a police report. But no, there

21:34

weren't any witnesses except his sister. She

21:37

didn't see anything, but she heard

21:39

bells and when she went outside, her

21:41

brother was gone. How

21:44

old was she? So

21:47

she could have been making this up? But why would she?

21:49

And why bills? There

21:53

was a sound with the floating lights

21:55

and home from Dighton Rock,

21:57

but I don't remember hearing any bell.

22:00

Maybe you couldn't, and maybe it's

22:02

one of those things only young people can hear. Well

22:08

live. We will tell your

22:10

mom at some point, but this is all gonna be so

22:15

hard to explain that. Well,

22:17

it's not going to get any easier the more you

22:19

wait. And I can't keep this from

22:21

her. I don't want to, So you

22:24

have to tell her, like extremely soon,

22:27

or I will. Okay,

22:30

I understand. Wait, what

22:34

what's wrong? I remember reading

22:36

something in Vippin's notebook last night. He's

22:38

got notes upon notes about every

22:40

weird thing that's ever happened in Bridgewater and more.

22:43

And I think I remember something about

22:46

bells. Well, what was it? I

22:48

don't know, but his notebook is still in my car. Mr

22:57

Bradshaw, I thought that was Captain

23:00

and Haddock. What are you doing here? I

23:03

could ask you the same thing. Dead cows

23:05

are hardly urgent police

23:07

business, are they? Especially not for Captain

23:11

Randall is the owner, and

23:13

he's an old friend. He called

23:16

me in a panic this morning, worry that someone's

23:18

trying to destroy his livelihood. But

23:21

it's an animal attack, now, I

23:23

mean most likely, yeah, it almost always

23:25

is. But you know how it is with

23:27

favorites. Your friends. Yeah, sure,

23:30

what about you? Are you taking

23:33

a class outside? Uh? No,

23:35

no, no, I just I

23:38

thought it could be some interesting color for a book that I'm

23:40

working on about the area. Oh why,

23:43

I look forward to reading that. We're

23:45

friends. Um, those are just some

23:48

colleagues who wanted to come

23:50

along with they had they had to run

23:53

off to get to their classes, which

23:56

I, uh should

23:58

also be doing too. So okay,

24:01

take care. It's

24:04

weird stuff in it. Mm

24:07

hmm all of this, uh this

24:11

animal mutilation business, it's

24:13

weird. Yeah, it's very strange. I'm

24:17

surprised An Becker's not with you. It

24:19

seems right up her street. I

24:23

guess she's focused on other things. Yeah,

24:25

I must be. I was glad

24:27

to hear her grandson have been released from the hospital.

24:31

Yeah, me too. Be

24:36

careful, Mr Bradshaw, excuse

24:38

me. Becker likes

24:42

getting tangled up in all this weird

24:44

stuff. It doesn't mean

24:46

you have to. It

24:48

might not be good for a person of your stature. Why

24:53

are you telling me this. I

24:56

have seen a lot of good

24:58

people fall under her spell. H She

25:02

has polluted the healthy skepticism

25:04

of more than one officer.

25:09

Okay, ah, thank

25:12

you for your concern. Anytime,

25:15

Randall, I'll be right

25:17

there. So long,

25:20

Mr Bradshaw, take care now,

25:23

take care, Randall. Have

25:25

a couple of questions, of

25:30

course, still haven't charged it? Well,

25:34

I guess I'm walking. We're

25:45

almost there. Great. So

25:55

is it weird being back? No?

25:59

Yeah, yes,

26:02

that's definitely one way to describe

26:05

it. It's still feels

26:08

not quite real. I know what

26:10

you mean. I mean no, obviously,

26:13

I don't. I can't imagine what you've

26:15

been through, what it's like to be lost for forty

26:17

years and then come back and everything is

26:20

smartphones, you know. Yeah,

26:24

it's good that you had company at least. Well,

26:27

no, it's not good that a little

26:30

boy is trapped in there, obviously, But

26:33

you know you weren't alone.

26:36

That's true. I wasn't alone. Do

26:39

you have kids with me?

26:43

No, I am twenty five years old. That's

26:45

the hr I was when I had Jeremy. Really,

26:48

yeah, I guess that

26:50

makes sense. Actually, you

26:53

still look. I know I

26:55

should have expected, and I watched Olden

26:57

stay seven for well

27:00

for a long time. I'm

27:03

sorry. That must have been

27:05

really hard. I guess stuff just kind

27:07

of becomes normal after a while. Humans

27:10

can be capable of enormous amounts of adaptation.

27:13

Did Alton adapt? I

27:15

mean to be that young? Almost

27:18

all he's ever known. He

27:20

doesn't remember much from his disappearance, just that

27:22

he was standing in his backyard and the next moment

27:24

he was in the in between. Did all

27:27

didn't see any lights or

27:30

hear any voices? Not

27:33

not that he remembers. He remembers

27:35

there being mushrooms

27:38

in his backyard, which he thought was strange. She'd

27:40

never seen them before. Mushrooms.

27:42

Yeah, he didn't eat them, trust me, that

27:44

was a theory for a while. Does he

27:47

remember how they were growing?

27:50

What were the mushrooms in bunches

27:52

or in a line? Or I

27:55

think he said, in a circle? Oh

27:58

my god, what my god?

28:00

Of course what what? Of course? We're

28:03

here? Come on, wait,

28:07

phipp him Thomas,

28:11

you're back, good hip. Oh my god,

28:13

I think I figured something else. Okay, what's

28:15

got the kids all worked out? I could ask you the same

28:18

thing. Okay, there were bells when the boy

28:20

in nineteen went missing? Bells? Wait what his

28:23

sister heard bells? And I looked in your notebook

28:25

and well, I'm not sure I totally get it all, but it's

28:27

a farealm. Yes, how there

28:29

was a circle of mushrooms in his backyard. That's

28:31

what the boy, that's what Alden saw, and

28:34

that's another sign. Yeah, so

28:36

that's what we're dealing with, the fayrealm, like like

28:39

the actual faarrealm, I think. So

28:42

whoa can someone please explained

28:45

to me what the hell you two are talking about? The

28:47

pharrealm, the fairy realm, the other world,

28:49

whatever you want to call it. It's another world

28:52

us magical supernatural ones

28:54

separate from ours, but accessible through

28:57

portals like fairy rings, like circles

28:59

of mushrooms. Though if

29:01

it really is real, I guess that begs the question of

29:03

it. The fairy rings or wormholes is the pharom

29:05

in other dimension, Time and spaces have to be weird

29:07

in the other world, that's all controlled by the fake wort and they're

29:10

very capricious. But that still doesn't explain

29:12

how the rings VI focus

29:15

up kids, right, yeah, focus. It

29:18

is where the fairies live, basically,

29:21

and a whole other host of supernatural

29:23

creatures. Jeremy really is the one who wait, where

29:26

is Jeremy? Wait?

29:37

Wait hey hey ah

29:40

shit bad

29:43

luck man? Uh yeah,

29:48

yeah, life is really just one

29:51

thing after another. Sorry, I would have held it

29:54

for you if I had seen you. No,

29:56

that's all right, it's just it's been one of those

29:59

mornings, um or weeks

30:01

months. Really sorry.

30:04

Sorry, my weird day is not your

30:07

problem. Did

30:09

you just come from Oakley Farm? Yeah?

30:11

I did. That's where I'm headed. Yeah

30:14

did you? Oh? Did you

30:17

see it? See what the

30:19

cows? How do you know about

30:22

the cows? I'm being so weird. I'm

30:25

a legend tripper too. It's

30:27

nice to meet you. I nice

30:30

to meet you. I'm I'm actually a professor. Oh,

30:33

oh gosh, I'm I just assumed

30:36

that's that's fine. Uh, you are

30:39

a legend tripper. You've heard of the Bridgewater

30:41

Triangle of course. Yeah, that's

30:44

what I teach. Oh, so you're

30:47

a cool professor. I'm pretty

30:49

sure there's no such thing. Well,

30:52

then I don't need to explain why animal

30:55

eviscerations are interesting, especially

30:57

here. No, you don't.

31:00

So your legend tripping

31:03

involves going to look at dead farm animals.

31:06

I know it sounds a little deranged, but anything's

31:08

a clue. You never know what's part of the weird

31:11

Bridgewater Triangle stuff. So

31:13

are you a ghost hunter? I wouldn't

31:15

say that exactly. I'm

31:17

not sure, I believe in ghosts. So what

31:20

then, do you think is going around

31:22

killing livestock? Is it's a vengeful spirit

31:25

or look, well, I'm

31:27

still at the discovery stage. What

31:30

about you. I teach a folklore

31:32

class and I'm writing a book on the

31:34

triangle, so this all just makes very

31:36

interesting thought her. You know that didn't answer my question

31:39

though it didn't. Do

31:43

you believe in this stuff? Mmm?

31:45

I think I'm still at the discovery

31:48

stage. Two hm. Well,

31:50

if you ever want someone to discover things with, you

31:53

should look us up. Paranormal

31:56

Seekers is the name of the forum. Oh yeah,

31:59

I'm familiar you are ye

32:02

uh. You know, if there's

32:04

a website out there that talks about cryptozoology,

32:07

then I've been on it. It sounds like you might not

32:10

hold the highest opinion of us. In

32:12

my experience, those kinds of

32:14

places are often where urban legends

32:16

start, which is interesting in its

32:18

own way. The stories that people make

32:20

up and share can tell us

32:22

a lot about the role of folklore and socialization.

32:25

But it's you know, it's just it's

32:27

hardly reliable historical

32:30

text. Wow, you really

32:32

are a professor. Hum, I'm sorry. You

32:36

know you shouldn't write it off entirely. There's

32:39

been a lot of posting from Bridgewater people recently.

32:42

Apparently something's been happening here.

32:45

Yeah, have have you

32:47

experienced anything? I just got

32:50

here, but a bunch of us from the form have made

32:52

the pilgrimage over the last few weeks. So

32:54

you traveled here for this. There's

32:56

been a rash of sightings seemed worth looking

32:58

into. Hey,

33:01

you should give the form another try. I

33:04

get why you'd want to write those kind of people off,

33:06

but they can be a good source of

33:08

information, definitely

33:10

more forthcoming than the gathering. You

33:13

know about the gathering. The paranormal

33:15

seekers are a pretty well informed group. How

33:18

do you think I found out about the cows hate?

33:21

I don't know how. How did you question?

33:25

Okay, I'm just gonna tell you. The receptionist

33:27

at the VETS office is a frequent poster. Lots

33:31

of folks in Bridgewater keep their eyes and ears open for

33:33

anything strange, and

33:36

some of them don't even make this stuff up. Wow,

33:38

it sounds like I need to find

33:40

those people. Then, yes, you do,

33:43

but don't take too long. Who knows

33:45

how much time we've got, right? Yeah,

33:48

he looks like you're right? Is here? Um?

33:52

Wait? One

33:56

second, there's gonna be an in person meet up

33:58

soon. Check it out, Okay, I

34:00

will um so nice

34:03

to meet you, you two, Jeremy.

34:20

This episode of Bridgewater was written by Lauren

34:22

Shippen and directed by Brendan Patrick

34:24

Hughes Assistant director Sarah

34:26

Klein. Sound designed by Vincent the

34:29

Johnny rema Il Kayali, Josh

34:31

Thane, and Trevor Young, with music

34:34

by Chad Lawson, starring Misha

34:36

Collins as Jeremy Bradshaw, Melissa

34:38

Ponzio as Anne Becker, Alan

34:41

Tutick as Thomas Bradshaw, Karen

34:44

Sony as Vipen Corrana, Sabra

34:46

May as Olivia Hoskins, Cheryl

34:49

Umania as Officer Bautista,

34:52

Will Wheaton as Captain Haddock, Tricia

34:55

Helfer as the Legend Tripper,

34:57

Stephen Guarino as Dr Ed words

35:00

Nandamisu Dumb as Peyton

35:02

Blake, Hillary Burton Morgan as

35:05

Shelley Hoskins, Nicki McCauley

35:07

as Celeste, Then, Victoria Grace

35:10

as Katie Frank's, with additional

35:12

voice acting by Greta Gould, Shelby

35:15

Young, Adam oh Burn, Monty

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Markham, Charlie Bergman, and Tern

35:19

Westbrook. Executive producers Aaron

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Manky, Misha Collins, Lauren Shippin,

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