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1:03

You're listening to petrified. This

1:06

episode Melody's

1:09

story hour. You're

1:18

listening to whatever happened to with Meg

1:20

Sherman Dunne Stokes. Whatever

1:22

happened to is sponsored by unclog.

1:25

Sort your inbox Dunne get on top of your

1:27

emails with unclog. This

1:29

episode, Melody Story Hour.

1:34

Hi there. Greetings to

1:37

all our loyal whatever's Dunne

1:39

to all our new recruits Thank

1:41

you so much for braving the

1:44

mild weather to join us at this

1:46

very special recording of whatever

1:49

happened to. I'm sure

1:51

you never suspect by my cam demeanor,

1:54

but this is actually the first time

1:56

we're doing a live show. Now

1:58

to elaborate for those listening at home,

2:01

we're here in London in front

2:03

of an audience of people looking

2:05

to be entertained. So

2:07

they know that I'm not lying. Can I

2:09

ask everyone in the audience to

2:12

give a big cheer? You

2:17

can do better than that. Let's hear

2:19

a few whoos.

2:23

Yeah. That will do.

2:26

So you heard what the man said. I'm Meg

2:28

Sherman, and I'm Laura Stokes.

2:31

And this is

2:32

Whatever happens to You

2:36

dedicated listeners know what we

2:38

do, but there's a lot of people here in this

2:40

theater who probably don't know

2:42

are usual at modus operandi. So

2:44

for all of you out there, staring up at

2:47

me, a beautiful outfit born

2:49

especially for this

2:50

event.

2:50

You look great by the way. Thanks,

2:53

pal. So do you? On

2:55

this show, We do our detective

2:58

work. Yes. Our answering

3:00

machine is stuffed to bursting

3:02

with listeners asking us to

3:04

track down all those one hit wonders

3:07

that never bothered the music charts again.

3:09

Or the TV shows that lasted for one

3:11

season and never showed up on the

3:13

reruns, the books that you

3:15

read, but you can't find anymore. And

3:18

usually, we have a great

3:20

laugh, but nice. Tonight

3:23

is very different. We're

3:26

friends with Rebecca, the lovely

3:28

lady who programs this festival. One

3:31

evening after a few wines, I

3:33

played her the message that came through

3:35

to our answering service because

3:37

it frightened me a little. Diet

3:41

Pepsi Rebecca said that this podcast

3:43

festival was the perfect stage

3:45

for it. It was still a little

3:48

Dunne out when she said this. There was

3:50

a real party atmosphere. I

3:53

was what pedantic people would

3:55

call drunk.

3:57

So I said yes.

4:00

I hope I don't regret it. It

4:02

all started with a film called

4:05

distant drums. It

4:08

all started with this.

4:12

No. Because you're all audio

4:14

fans, I would guess that

4:16

a few of you might be familiar with that

4:18

clip. That is what's known

4:20

as the Will Helm Scream.

4:23

So it was first heard in the nineteen

4:25

fifty one film distant drums.

4:28

When it tore out of a character who was

4:30

dragged away, by an alligator in

4:33

the everglades. That

4:35

very sound. That scream

4:37

was then stored in a sound

4:39

bank. They must have known they got

4:41

a good one. It got its

4:43

name after it was used again for

4:45

a character called Private Willham,

4:48

in the nineteen fifty three film,

4:50

The Charge atfeather River.

4:53

If it sounds familiar, it's because it's been

4:55

used in over four hundred films.

4:58

It was just a little tip base

5:01

when we locked up distant drums

5:03

for a

5:03

listener. It was never

5:05

meant to become the focus. It

5:08

was never meant to open

5:11

the door. I'm

5:14

jumping the gun. Hello? After

5:17

the episode, to get our listers involved

5:19

in the detective work, We challenge them to

5:21

get in touch if they could find a show

5:23

or a movie that used the Willham

5:26

scream. Really simple, silly

5:28

fun. Bryce?

5:30

Mhmm. We had no idea.

5:33

let's say it really started, shall

5:35

we? Live listeners Huddl

5:38

up in your seats. If

5:41

you're listening at home, pull a blanket

5:43

up to your chin. If you're listening

5:46

while I jogging in the dark, You're

5:48

screwed. It's

5:50

time. Let's

5:53

play that mail we received to our

5:55

answering service. You'll

5:57

hear why it gave us the shippers. Shut

6:32

up, not that?

6:41

Hello. I'm

6:43

Edward O'Brien. I'm

6:45

calling you from Avondale Avenue. I'm

6:48

a real person. This is

6:50

a real message. I

6:53

know a show that used the Willhound screen,

6:55

but it's not from TV.

6:58

There's a radio show I heard called

7:00

Melody's Story Hour. I

7:02

found it one night when I was scanning through the

7:04

stations, creep me and

7:08

I hoped I'd never hear it again. But

7:11

I

7:11

did.

7:14

I always found it. In

7:17

different places on the dial, there's

7:20

a woman I know who heard it too, but

7:23

she died. At least

7:25

I hope she's dead. You wouldn't want to be

7:27

alive after what happened to her.

7:31

She said she thought it was from the eighties,

7:33

but It's much

7:36

older,

7:38

much much older. I

7:42

have recording of this. Dunne

7:48

sorry. Because

7:51

you are going to be so,

7:54

so sorry. Here.

8:05

Please. Dunne

8:07

listen. Hello?

8:22

So the bloody answering

8:25

service cuts them off. Now,

8:28

you can imagine my interest was

8:30

peaked. It didn't fit

8:32

the parameters of the podcast as

8:34

is. Mhmm. We do happy happy

8:37

silly stuff, but come on, like,

8:41

So step one, I looked up Ed

8:43

O'Brien. There are hundreds. I

8:46

looked up Edward O'Brien at

8:48

the address he gave, Avondale Dunne.

8:51

Transact, there is no such address. So

8:54

then, I looked up the

8:56

show, Melody's story

8:59

hour. Nothing.

9:01

Nothing official anyway, but there's always

9:04

something. Like, it's rare you won't

9:06

find anything. This

9:08

was almost rare. Looking

9:11

for our show and not for my girlfriend

9:14

who has to sleep behind me while I sit up and bed with

9:16

laptop screen glowing on my face.

9:18

I have infinite patience. I

9:21

enjoy scrolling through all message boards

9:23

for

9:23

hours. There's always something

9:26

on message boards.

9:27

So there was a couple of mentions on

9:30

Quora in the twenty tens. Hey,

9:32

has anyone ever heard of a show Melody's

9:35

Story Hour? No

9:37

response. Some stuff on redis.

9:40

Some other message boards, but it was always

9:42

a dead no one And

9:46

then, I find five

9:48

sentences that encourage me that

9:50

this thing exists. On

9:54

message board, posted by

9:57

screaming banshee Dunne

9:59

mere seven months ago at one forty

10:01

five AM I quote, Does

10:04

anyone remember that old timey

10:06

radio show, Melody Story

10:09

Air, used to thick, freaked

10:11

a Dunne balls off Underneath

10:14

were the reply posed by curious

10:16

Georgia 205 AM, two

10:19

night hours not able to sleep, on

10:21

message boards late at night,

10:24

it read, my brother's

10:27

friends used to talk about that

10:29

all the time. He did

10:31

though. Little bro died

10:33

in his sleep.

10:35

The same minutes there

10:37

was a response from screaming banshee.

10:40

As if they'd been watching the computer,

10:43

like a hawk, watching

10:46

and waiting for someone to reply.

10:50

In a sleep, why?

10:54

Bro, do you think you can die from

10:56

bad dreams? I

10:58

get this one all the time. it

11:01

starts with that melody voice saying

11:04

hello, the

11:07

very Hello. We

11:09

just heard there folks. Reply

11:13

from curious George twenty minutes

11:15

later, obviously not as invested.

11:18

Little Zoo's heart stopped, said school,

11:21

his hair Dunne twice, never

11:23

heard the show myself. Same

11:26

minutes watching the boys

11:29

waiting. This. I

11:32

have a tape of it recorded.

11:36

Do you wanna come to my house and

11:38

ever listen? And

11:40

then a phone number

11:43

like a phone number just

11:46

posted willy nilly on the Internet,

11:49

now caring who rang, maybe wanting

11:51

anyone to ring. No. I don't

11:53

know if curious rang, but

11:55

I did. Not

11:58

at two AM though, at nine

12:00

PM last Dunne. Do

12:03

you wanna know what I heard? Even

12:07

better? Do you wanna hear?

12:10

It's the same thing I hear every time I

12:12

ring. The same vaguely

12:15

disturbing thing. Let's

12:19

ring it right now. How

12:26

did Gail Avenue? So

12:39

far, I've done all the talking. Pretty

12:42

rude. So for the uninitiated,

12:45

we're a small but wonderful team

12:48

here at whatever happened to. You've

12:50

already heard our brilliant producer,

12:52

Liam, introduce the show. And

12:55

now, I would like to draw

12:57

your attention to Laura

12:59

Stokes.

13:00

Or the detective as

13:02

the fans know her.

13:04

You can call me bombshell either. I'm

13:06

not picky.

13:07

Laura is our secret weapon.

13:10

know people calling me a weapon. I'm

13:12

not so mad about

13:13

it. How

13:14

are you this by night, Laura? I'm

13:17

up to my eyes work because

13:19

you are a hard task master. Hard

13:21

task mistress. You're a nightmare.

13:24

How about that? Naimo is a good word considering.

13:28

Tell the people about yourselves. R

13:30

dear Meg described earlier how she has

13:32

infinite patience. That's relatively

13:34

true. Oi. Oi. I, however,

13:37

am obsessive. I

13:39

find this

13:40

stuff, she can't.

13:41

Yeah. Like I said, our secret -- That's what

13:43

I say. -- over in.

13:47

So while I've find mention

13:49

of Melody's story, Eric, in the conversation

13:52

between screaming banshee and

13:54

curious George

13:55

online, we still hadn't found

13:57

the show. What did you find Laura?

14:00

Tell these lovely people. I

14:02

found Avondale Avenue.

14:05

Nice. It took a bit of

14:07

digging. The reason why you couldn't

14:09

originally locate Abondale Avenue is

14:11

that, well, it's not

14:13

there anymore. There was a

14:15

rezoning years ago. Town

14:18

planners bulldozed a small town to

14:20

the ground to build a massive

14:22

motorway. I take it. That wasn't

14:24

any time recently. Oh, good segue.

14:26

Thank you.

14:27

It was in nineteen eighty six.

14:30

So it's a motorway now.

14:32

I mean,

14:32

you're very good at pretending you don't know.

14:34

It really helps with the show moving a

14:36

lot. I mean, it's episode twenty two, you're gonna

14:38

die you know, you sure do. No. It's

14:40

not a motorway. The motorway is right beside

14:43

it

14:43

though. No. The exact spot where

14:45

Avondale Avenue was, it's

14:47

the site.

14:48

Dunne

14:49

I'm not even joking here, of a

14:51

massive slaughterhouse. Wow.

14:55

We heard a few whos there. Did

14:58

you maybe

15:00

go there by any chance? You

15:03

know, I did. It's derelict,

15:05

Dunne. I had a harbor fence.

15:07

It's a huge building. All the cattle

15:10

Dunne and pens are still there. And

15:12

believe it or not, you can still smell the blood.

15:15

It's right beside the motorway though. So you can

15:17

hear the traffic whizzing past. As

15:20

I stood there in the gloom, I could

15:22

imagine all the pigs waiting to be slaughtered.

15:25

And then I heard the sounds of people driving

15:27

by on their way to work or the beach

15:29

oblivious that there was this house of death

15:32

by the motorway. That's very evocative.

15:34

Yeah. Well, it's episode twenty two. I've got

15:36

it Dunne, and So anyway, that

15:38

left a problem with the message board. If

15:40

screaming banshee was inviting

15:43

curious George to come over and hear

15:45

the recording in his

15:46

house, on Avondale Dunne. That

15:49

location was a long gone. So

15:51

it didn't add up. No. I mean, there's only

15:54

one thing for us. Find

15:56

curious George.

15:58

So it was a case of scaring the boards, looking

16:00

for other posts by the same Dunne,

16:03

easy enough to find, curious

16:05

was a big poster. Any

16:07

entertainment based chats, there he was,

16:10

and he was disturbingly what we'd

16:12

referred to as an in

16:13

cell. Like,

16:15

he hated the female ghostbusters. Stop.

16:18

Can you believe?

16:21

We went through enough posts He

16:23

was always linking to Facebook groups.

16:25

Most of them had a very few members.

16:28

They were kind of niche interests, let's

16:30

say, So with a bit of cross referencing,

16:32

it was easy enough to find one person who

16:34

was in the mall, Daniel

16:37

Harrison. Here is

16:39

George George Harrison

16:42

maybe. Well, it was worth

16:44

a shot. I made up a fake profile

16:46

and sent him a message. I pretended

16:49

that we had a lot in common, one

16:51

being that we didn't have any friends other

16:54

being that pulling female ghostbusters,

16:57

of course. And after

16:59

we chatted for while about the problems of woke,

17:01

popular culture, I asked

17:04

him speaking of problematic Dunne,

17:06

clunky, I know. If he'd ever

17:09

heard of the Melody's hour,

17:12

he stopped replying. Nothing

17:15

for a few days. And then, lo

17:17

and

17:18

behold, he asked where I

17:20

lived and if I wanted to meet.

17:24

According to his Facebook profile,

17:27

he was twenty eight. The person

17:29

who met me for coffee Dunne

17:32

not look twenty eight. He

17:34

looked exhausted, bone

17:37

thin, sunken eyes.

17:40

He said, he didn't sleep anymore.

17:43

On top of other stuff, I

17:45

had to listen to a lot of crap before we got

17:47

to Melody's. I

17:49

didn't want to spook him by asking

17:51

if I could record him. So

17:54

I did it on the slide. Don't

17:57

judge me. I'm just like you. Anyway,

18:01

the recording was terrible, so I

18:03

transcribed it. We care too

18:05

much about audio quality to subject

18:07

you to that supplier recording. So

18:10

here's the page. He said,

18:12

and I quote, I rang

18:14

the number on the notice board, and

18:17

I heard giggling in or an

18:19

Oh, yeah. He says, I Dunne rang the notice,

18:21

the number on the notice board, and screaming

18:23

banshee answered immediately. He

18:26

said he lived alone but I heard

18:28

giggling in the background, impossibly

18:30

high pitched. A couple of times,

18:32

he giggled along with it. He

18:35

used very old fashioned words

18:37

as And, quote, like

18:40

what, I asked. Daniel

18:42

said,

18:43

golly, gosh, or

18:45

my. I couldn't find it on Google

18:47

Maps, so he gave me the directions to

18:50

Avondale. Dunne did I have cassette

18:52

walkman because it was a

18:54

tape. I did have one.

18:57

Then he said to make sure I came

18:59

alone like a big brave

19:01

boy. When I got to where he

19:03

said Avondale Avenue was, it

19:06

wasn't a house. End quote.

19:09

It was a slaughterhouse. Right? I

19:11

asked. Daniel replied, what?

19:14

No. It was a playground,

19:17

on waste ground near blocks of

19:19

flats. When I got there,

19:21

the sun was going down. There

19:23

didn't seem to be anyone around. Just

19:26

rusty slides, rusty swings,

19:29

rusty you name it, but no

19:31

people. I waited there

19:34

for twenty minutes and was

19:36

about to give up. Then I

19:38

saw the tape sitting on a

19:40

stack of stones. This

19:42

stack of stones, I don't know why,

19:44

but it made me think of an altar. I

19:47

went over and picked it up. A

19:50

blank recordable gaseous.

19:53

Was this it? How

19:55

long had it been there? You

19:58

know like those monkey wire frames?

20:01

I just sat underneath it and

20:03

put the tape in the walkman. I

20:05

turned it on and heard this like

20:07

creepy little voice saying hello. And

20:10

that's when the foot scrape

20:13

against the back of my neck. I

20:17

looked up. There was someone

20:20

sitting on top of the monkey bars

20:22

right over me, who had

20:24

been there all the time I was

20:26

there, over twenty minutes

20:29

watching me. Completely silent.

20:32

My heart froze. I

20:35

couldn't make them out properly because the sun

20:37

was behind them. We sat there,

20:39

not speaking. I heard

20:41

a plane overhead. So

20:43

did they? So they looked up

20:46

into the sky to watch a pass. But

20:48

when they looked up, their head

20:51

just kept going back and

20:54

back. And then it fell completely

20:56

back resting between their shoulder

20:58

blades.

21:01

It's a dummy I thought. It

21:03

has to be some kind of dummy, and

21:07

then it starts to climb down the bars.

21:11

I took off, leaping over

21:13

the

21:13

rocks, scaling, or railing in seconds.

21:15

I could hear running after me all the way

21:17

the rhythmic comp of its head slapping

21:20

against its back. I look behind

21:22

me. Sorry, I

21:23

did. I am usually tired of Lot's wife.

21:25

This is where it gets me. This is where

21:27

we lived. Head back into place and

21:29

look at me. But

21:31

there was nothing there. Nothing.

21:35

Every bone in my body was shaking.

21:38

I decided I was never ever going

21:40

to speak about that Dunne, but think about

21:42

it ever again. I

21:44

went straight home and put the tape

21:46

on again

21:48

and again and Dunne

21:51

quote. He

21:54

started laughing hysterically here,

21:56

but he was also crying. I

22:01

need to tell you, Meg. Now

22:04

I was dying to know

22:06

what was on that tape. Daniel said,

22:08

it was a show, just a children's

22:10

radio show. About a girl called

22:13

Melody that lived in a little town and

22:15

talked to all the neighbors who dropped by and

22:17

told Dunne stories. It

22:19

sounded really old, like the nineteen

22:22

fifties or nineteen sixties or something.

22:24

And she used old fashioned words

22:27

like golly Dunne gosh

22:29

and my end

22:31

course. Tell

22:36

the lovely people what we have for Dunne.

22:39

Get ready folks. Curious George

22:42

shared the recording he had

22:44

of Melody's story hour He

22:46

transferred it to an audio file. He

22:48

said it's impossible to be exact. But

22:50

from the quality and the mentions he'd

22:52

found of the show dating back decades,

22:55

it must be at least seventy

22:58

years old, at least.

23:02

Okay, all. Listen up.

23:05

It's Melody's story hour.

23:17

Hello. Green,

23:19

very good. And you're the only

23:22

thing. Oh,

23:24

golly. It's a most beautiful

23:26

game changer. Did

23:29

you know? I've got the lovely Thomas

23:32

Place in the high right

23:34

room. It is.

23:37

Everyone wants to live here.

23:40

And the good room. Is

23:42

there the room for home?

23:45

We can thank Dunne.

23:47

If we have to bless you

23:49

up into a call, we'll

23:52

thank you. If we

23:54

have to pull it on your bone,

23:57

we have fit we have fit you.

23:59

If we have to take out the

24:01

middle part start, they call us

24:04

on. Well,

24:06

thank you. Oh,

24:09

there's somebody at my door.

24:12

The the that

24:16

time he brings babies tied

24:18

up with string. Okay.

24:26

We'll stop it there Mhmm. -- for a moment.

24:31

So it's obvious that Melody's

24:33

a fruitcake Dunne this

24:36

Dunne inappropriate for younger audiences

24:38

and that's especially at that time. What

24:41

what

24:41

we were saying was seventy years old.

24:44

Right. Yeah.

24:46

Okay. There was a moment at the very end

24:48

of the clip. Did anyone

24:50

catch us? A

24:54

scream. Well,

24:56

we isolated the audio, so let's

24:58

listen to it again.

25:05

So we reversed searched the

25:07

sound. It's actually kind of well

25:09

known in certain circles. This

25:11

is the captured scream of

25:14

Philip Rush. It

25:16

was recorded by a news crew

25:19

just before Roche jumped off a

25:21

balcony after starting a fire in

25:23

his apartment. In nineteen

25:25

ninety eight. And

25:27

apparently, Malady's story hour

25:29

was made far before nineteen ninety

25:31

eight. But that isn't

25:34

the only odd inclusion. Right?

25:37

There are quite few through Dunne.

25:40

there's one that, well,

25:42

for our purposes, was

25:45

particularly disturbing.

25:48

It's when mister Dunne, the

25:50

baker makes

25:51

an appearance. Let's

25:53

play it and you'll see if you find

25:55

something familiar. We're having

25:57

it too, Carsey, today. And

25:59

we're gonna find him who says, hey.

26:03

Let's see. And mister Nothing

26:05

at home. Oh,

26:07

mister Nothing. If

26:10

you don't anybody have the cancer,

26:26

Yes. No

26:31

problem. You're a great customer. I'm

26:35

sorry. What do you want?

26:37

Oh, goodness. You can take

26:39

care of it. How

26:43

how can I tantalize your taste

26:45

buds with a very special

26:48

sweet treats? I

26:52

want a big cake

26:55

covered in gimmee chocolate.

27:02

I mean, it's Edward O'Brien. Like,

27:05

I'm sure it's Edward O'Brien. Well,

27:08

I wasn't at first because

27:10

it can be any

27:11

voice. People sound familiar,

27:14

and the quality isn't perfect. So

27:16

I thought Mac could not be right,

27:19

but this convinced me.

27:22

And when should have been delivered?

27:26

You know where I live, and it turned

27:28

nothing. You can barely

27:30

afford. Now, take

27:32

out your little pencil so I

27:35

think you write it down.

27:37

I want to make sure you remember.

27:41

Of course. You leave

27:43

us. Can

27:45

you read it alone? I

27:48

beg your pardon?

27:52

You live at Avondale

27:55

Avenue in

27:57

tiny town?

27:58

Correct. No. Can't

28:01

you beat mister Gerdau to the train

28:03

station and wait for your delivery

28:06

after hours?

28:08

That's him. That's

28:10

Ed O'Brien. The audio tape that Ed O'Brien

28:12

sent to Daniel Harrison. The

28:14

one that he said was about seventy years old.

28:17

Had Ed O'Brien honest.

28:21

I got the chills at first, and

28:24

then I got really angry. No.

28:26

She did. She was pissed.

28:27

Ugh. I mean, this whole thing was a hoax

28:30

cooked up by Edward O'Brien and

28:32

I we'd wasted hours

28:35

on it.

28:35

Right? I mean, it was good hoax, though.

28:38

Too good. He'd obviously

28:41

created this recording Dunne built

28:43

up a mythology, a thumb form

28:45

of attention grabbing. People

28:48

would do anything for a bit of attention. Like,

28:50

host a

28:51

podcast. You

28:53

are a live wire. So

28:56

we decided we'd let it drop. Back

28:58

to the normal run of the mail, whatever

29:01

happened to show. There

29:03

were one hit wonders to look up.

29:05

Do you remember a deep blue something?

29:07

Yeah.

29:09

What about breakfast, the Tiffany?

29:12

Bodge. Bodge. Bodge. Bodge.

29:14

It's not a hoax. Or

29:17

else, why would we be dragging you

29:19

find people here to NICE? It's

29:22

not

29:22

over. Because let's not forget

29:25

about curious George. I

29:26

think it was all of like three

29:29

days I count down. There was no

29:31

talk into her. I gave her a cooling

29:33

off

29:33

period, and then I reminded her

29:35

about curious Yes. So

29:37

we were taking it that Edward O'Brien

29:40

was screaming banshee. Okay.

29:42

Who had gone trawling through responses,

29:45

four responses on this midnight message

29:48

And if so, did Daniel

29:50

Harrison? Curious George. Ever

29:53

speak to him again after that

29:55

delusional playground

29:57

incident. I was hard

29:59

at it while you spent those three days

30:01

slamming up and down and banging

30:03

doors like a big eegers. Come me some slag there,

30:05

Laura. I'd never spoken to Ed,

30:08

but I had spoken to

30:10

George. that man was

30:12

too terrified for this to

30:14

be a hoax. This conversation,

30:17

I did record. I

30:28

thought you might ring again. Thanks for

30:30

answering, Daniel. So do

30:32

you want to go for that

30:35

Maybe soon. Daniel,

30:39

I did some research Dunne I think

30:41

Melody's story hour might be an

30:43

elaborate hoax. That's

30:48

that's the most ridiculous

30:51

thing I ever heard. I think it might

30:53

have been cooked up by screaming banshee,

30:56

and they were playing a trach on you. Then

31:00

what was that thing on the monkey person,

31:02

the playground? You did say the

31:04

sun was in your eyes. You

31:06

people. Did you hear from screaming

31:08

banshee

31:09

again? After what happened

31:11

happened? Did you

31:12

hear from What? Like,

31:13

did I ring Of course,

31:16

they bloody did.

31:16

Dunne did he answer?

31:19

No. No response.

31:24

But then I got a

31:26

call back about twenty minutes later

31:28

from his number. Was it

31:30

him? No. It

31:33

was.

31:36

The police woman.

31:39

She asked who I was, and if I knew the

31:41

deceased, Oh,

31:43

Jesus.

31:45

He'd left his bag on the platform and

31:48

stepped in front of a train. Oh

31:50

my god.

31:52

There was a phone in the bag, but

31:55

she said he had no numbers saved on

31:57

this Dunne no call

31:58

history. So when

32:01

I rise, it was it

32:03

was the first opportunity for them to trace

32:06

who he was

32:07

There were no other ways to identify

32:09

him.

32:14

His Dunne was bad. He

32:17

was in a bad way, but

32:20

somehow knocked his

32:22

head Okay.

32:26

They asked if I could identify the body

32:30

by his face.

32:32

But you didn't know what he looked like.

32:35

Oh, no. Oh,

32:37

he went. Sorry.

32:40

I wanted it to have a look.

32:48

Are you still there? Yes.

32:52

Do you want to know what I saw?

32:58

Yes. See.

33:07

Oh, see. You're

33:09

just the same as me. I

33:12

think all shocked and coy,

33:14

but still wanting

33:16

to know. Are

33:21

you finished laughing? It's

33:24

me holding the cards now. Well,

33:27

I did go down and I did take

33:29

a

33:29

And I went into the

33:32

room with the police woman she pulled back

33:34

the sheet from his face. What

33:40

what did you say?

33:42

Barely honey flashing left. Skin

33:45

and bone. He

33:48

looked old, but

33:50

he wasn't. He

33:54

looked haunted.

34:01

His hair was completely white.

34:05

He looked

34:09

he looked the same as me. Oh,

34:13

I know what I looked like, miss Soakes. I

34:16

know people like you would walk past me in the

34:18

streets.

34:20

I know we're never gonna go for that drink

34:25

because I look like I'm dead already.

34:29

It's what happens when you're terrified

34:31

to go to sleep. It's

34:34

what happens when you can hear her

34:37

voice saying, hello, in

34:41

your room, in the middle of the night,

34:45

It's what happens when it's out

34:47

of your control Dunne you finally

34:49

go unconscious at four AM

34:52

your body physically cat

34:54

stay awake Dunne

34:58

you hear melody rise

35:00

in your ear. Saying

35:07

hello. Did

35:10

you do what to hear that voice? You

35:15

have no idea. But

35:19

I have heard us. You

35:22

gave me the recording. I'm

35:24

so sorry. Oh,

35:26

I'm so sorry. You

35:30

seem like a nice person. I shouldn't have done that.

35:32

I don't know if I'm awake or asleep

35:34

all the

35:35

time. don't know what's real. Do you think

35:37

you should speak to someone, Daniel, like,

35:39

a doctor, get some

35:41

help? Oh,

35:46

I'm going to help myself. Don't

35:50

you worry? Are

36:07

you okay to keep going?

36:14

Well, we don't have much of a choice.

36:17

All these people have bought tickets So

36:19

let's get it done. Dunne

36:22

Harrison hanged himself

36:26

two days after our call, I got a call

36:28

from the police. They had found

36:30

his body in a park hanging

36:32

from a Dunne, and

36:35

mine was the only number. In

36:37

his phone. The

36:40

police want to know if I knew anything about him

36:43

because he was a loner with

36:45

no connections. I

36:48

had nothing to tell them. Well,

36:51

nothing that would make any sense anyway

36:53

because the light he took his own life

36:56

And, please, I

36:58

swear I didn't know the time that he had,

37:01

that that night he'd

37:03

sent me an email. With

37:05

an audio file that

37:07

he wanted to share. Can

37:10

we can we just play it? Yeah.

37:12

Sure.

37:15

This is going to be the best

37:17

tea party ever. Mister

37:19

Mountain cake art initiative. And

37:22

it says, no. His ice cream is

37:24

a little greasy. And

37:27

oh, mate. So yeah.

37:37

I thought you might be the first one

37:39

here. I

37:43

said, hey, blank

37:47

empty.

37:52

I'm going to just then.

37:54

Having nothing to say. I

37:57

Thank you so much for the advice.

38:01

I'm happy to be here. Don't

38:06

you stand there hanging

38:09

around.

38:17

So the party goes Dunne

38:20

quite a few people attend. Some

38:22

children. In

38:24

the middle of the party, a dog runs in

38:27

and causes some consternation, but

38:30

That's pretty inconsequential.

38:34

Because the audio of Melody's story

38:37

hour that Daniel Harrison shares

38:39

with Laura before he

38:41

died, had Daniel Harrison on the

38:43

show. So cookies.

38:52

I think it's time. Don't you, Laura? I

38:59

think it's time we tell them about

39:01

caffeineics. And

39:04

Not not yet. I I just I feel

39:06

a bit woozy. These

39:09

stage lights

39:10

I do find them warm. Can

39:15

we give me your hands?

39:20

Okay. You're very warm. Have the water

39:22

of finished my water. Okay. Have

39:24

my water. We're

39:28

nearly there. Okay? You

39:33

get to continue? Yeah.

39:37

Before before we get to the economics,

39:40

Can I tell the fine folk about this

39:42

lovely dress I bought especially for tonight?

39:45

You do exactly what you want love.

39:47

Now, I was going to get brand new outfit for

39:49

tonight because it's our very first live

39:51

episode. But I also had to

39:53

because when I was picking out what to wear,

39:56

Nothing fit me

39:57

anymore. Everything was a little

39:59

too big. I've lost a lot

40:01

of weight recently it's

40:06

it's what I have. It's

40:09

okay. It's

40:13

okay. No one's going anywhere.

40:15

Take your time. It's what happens

40:17

when you can't eat you can't really

40:19

sleep. I mean, obviously,

40:22

I look good now, but I don't think I will

40:25

for much

40:25

longer. You see, I'm really,

40:28

really frightened of going to sleep.

40:32

Okay. So the audio that

40:35

I'm about to play is from the

40:37

end of Melody's T

40:39

Party, and it's not the same.

40:43

Explain. After I listened

40:46

to it, I emailed Meg the audio of

40:48

the show Dunne sent me. I shared the clip.

40:51

But when she got it, it was different.

40:54

It it had changed our

40:55

shirt. That's just shall we? Yeah.

40:57

Okay.

41:00

Oh, no. Thank

41:02

you all for coming. Haven't

41:05

it been just the most well and just

41:07

the last turning. I'm not

41:09

around. Look at

41:11

home. Did you enjoy

41:14

yourself? Please

41:17

don't ignore me. I'm

41:20

talking to you. That's

41:22

it. Stop like that. This

41:25

is him. If the tiny

41:28

town detected, she

41:30

finds all of the little cats some

41:32

dogs and people that come

41:34

missing. She Dunne

41:37

sister things. Did

41:39

you enjoy yourself, missus

41:41

Hones? Oh,

41:45

I had the just the best time I ever did

41:47

have. You need to love a pig.

41:50

You're worthy cuts. I love

41:52

cake. So so much.

41:55

You love it. So much. You are

41:57

practically burning up. I

42:00

hope it's not a stupid thing.

42:05

I'm afraid to go home, Meg. Last

42:08

night, I thought she was in the room.

42:13

Time for coffee mix. Yep.

42:15

Yeah. It's time.

42:20

So when they found

42:22

Daniel Harrison's body hanging

42:24

from the tree, his bag was

42:26

beside him. Just

42:28

like when Ed O'Brien stepped

42:30

in front of the train they find

42:32

his bag on the platform. Inside

42:36

both bags, there was a notepad Dunne

42:39

scribbled all over

42:40

note, both those notepads was

42:43

one word. Cocophonics.

42:47

Now this was a lot

42:49

easier to research than Melody's

42:51

story hour. This was big.

42:54

Kakafenex is a very ancient deity

42:57

in some cultures.

42:59

In others, it is a Dunne. In

43:01

others, it is a God, a

43:04

child God. It is

43:06

no visible shape. It exists

43:09

only in audio. So

43:11

a child god of sounds, a

43:14

child god of music, a

43:16

child god of

43:18

Melody's. The

43:21

first mention of the child guard was

43:23

at a location called the valley of the

43:25

waters, an ancient

43:27

army called upon the coffinics before

43:29

a battle. then as they

43:31

march towards the battlefield, they

43:34

took off all their shoes. They

43:37

put down their weapons. Their

43:39

armor, anything that made sound,

43:42

and over the hill came their enemies

43:44

with their

43:45

roars, their bottle cries.

43:47

Their war anthems,

43:50

and the enemies all died gasping

43:52

in silence, in madness,

43:55

in terror. They

43:58

were slaughtered before a single sword

44:00

could be lifted against their foes because

44:03

they used their swords on themselves.

44:06

And they kill themselves in silence.

44:10

See, after caffeineics was summoned,

44:12

it would take whatever made

44:14

the loudest sound.

44:16

So first, cookoffnix took the voice,

44:20

then it took the mind, then

44:22

the hollow person left,

44:25

finished the job themselves. It

44:28

is said that Kukafenex collected those

44:30

voices, it took in its vast

44:33

library, like a library of

44:35

stark signs. And

44:38

I think this was what attracted Ed's

44:40

attention. To our podcast

44:42

Dunne gave him this idea.

44:46

The Wilhelm Scream, one

44:48

of the most famous stock

44:51

zones. The one scream

44:53

we decided to play

44:56

caused all of this. Oh,

44:59

and in case he was still wondering, it's

45:01

also what he was hinting at with the address

45:04

and why it moved around. Because

45:07

Avondale Avenue isn't really a real

45:09

place. It's a callback.

45:13

The

45:13

slaughterhouse was a sheer coincidence.

45:15

Dunne means

45:18

the value of the water

45:19

is. Good cufflinks can't see.

45:22

It can only hear So whoever

45:24

called upon Gucofonix had to ensure

45:26

their enemy spoke first or

45:28

spoke louder. Take

45:31

the attention of you and pass

45:33

it to someone else

45:35

because Gajafonix is drawn by the most

45:37

beautiful song or the loudest

45:39

voice.

45:41

But

45:41

what is loudness? If we think

45:43

about it, loudness can also be thought

45:45

of as whoever's voice has

45:47

the furthest reach. No.

45:50

I didn't tell the lovely Rebecca

45:53

who runs this festival.

45:55

Why I thought Ed O'Brien contacted

45:57

me? I also didn't

45:59

tell her that after Laura shared that audio

46:02

file with me, I

46:04

started saying things too. Things

46:07

that only Dunne who's going crazy

46:09

would see. I didn't

46:11

tell her that I started to hear a voice saying,

46:15

hello? In

46:17

the noise. I didn't tell

46:19

her that I think Ed O'Brien contacted me,

46:21

so I'd play melody story out to all of

46:23

our listeners because our reach was further than Daniel

46:25

Harrison's my voice was

46:28

louder. He's no

46:30

listeners. We have thousands.

46:33

That may be because I was louder. Could

46:36

complainings would follow me. Ed O'Brien

46:39

and Daniel Harrison and possibly

46:41

many, many people for years and

46:43

years tried to pass that attention

46:45

on to someone else. I'm

46:48

hoping that it can be done. I'm

46:50

hoping that Daniel and Ed just ran

46:52

out of time. Because

46:54

the melody show, the recording.

46:58

It's a live. Okay.

47:00

It's a living thing. When

47:03

you listen, it listens back.

47:05

When you listen, you make

47:07

it aware of you.

47:09

One more thing we didn't tell all of you

47:11

when you listened to Melody's story hour,

47:14

when it listened back to you. Is

47:17

that sometimes what's louder than

47:19

one voice is many.

47:23

I'm going to share the file with you by mail,

47:25

make, because every time it's

47:27

shared, it's different. Every

47:30

time a voice gets caught, it

47:32

gets bigger. That

47:34

last time, the audio file ended

47:37

with Melody's tea party and it ran at

47:39

fifty nine minutes and thirty

47:41

seconds. Okay?

47:45

Sent. there

47:50

it is. Wow.

47:54

The file is exactly one

47:56

hour long.

47:59

Let's just skip to the last thirty seconds.

48:02

think we're about to find out where Melody goes

48:04

after her tea party. Let's

48:06

play it.

48:12

Oh my. The circus is

48:14

in town. Popcorn

48:18

and peanuts and tasty

48:21

ice cream. What's

48:26

equity, elephant? In case they

48:29

tremble you float. Oh, yes,

48:31

everyone. There's a ring left

48:34

a row. She oh, we knows

48:36

how to get a crown

48:38

going. I have everyone

48:40

in the audience to give a

48:42

big cheer. Pass

48:57

it on. God, I hope this

48:59

works.

49:14

Next story will start Michelle McMahon

49:16

as Meg, Margaret McCall of as Laura,

49:19

Liam Garrity as Ed and Dunne, d

49:21

as Dunne. It was produced by Liam Garrity

49:23

written and directed by Peter Dunn.

49:26

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49:28

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