Welcome to Paranormal Nightshift, the podcast that delves into the eerie and unexplained. Join us as we explore tales of the supernatural and share chilling stories from our listeners. In today’s episode, we dive into a gripping narrative titled ‘Deaths Must Be Paid.’
On a girl’s 16th birthday, Samantha receives an unexpected gift from her long-lost mother. Four letters, carefully preserved, offer a glimpse into her parents’ secretive past. As Samantha reads each letter, she unravels a story of danger, occult practices, and sacrifices. Her parents’ involvement with a group dabbling in Ouija boards takes a sinister turn, leading to a desperate escape to protect their unborn child.
As Samantha grapples with the shocking revelations, she learns of the looming threat that surrounds her. The letters warn of people seeking to harm her, and a promise made by her parents that comes at a terrifying cost. With each letter, Samantha’s understanding of her past deepens, and the horror lurking in her present becomes undeniable.
But as the tension escalates, strange occurrences start to unfold. Mysterious figures gather outside her home, leaving Samantha trapped in her room, questioning her safety and her very existence. The final entry in the journal hints at an ominous presence within the house itself, leaving the listener with an unsettling feeling that there is more to this story than meets the eye.
Join us on this spine-tingling journey into the unknown as we explore the mysteries of ‘Deaths Must Be Paid.’ If you have your own paranormal story to share, don’t hesitate to reach out. And don’t forget, you can grab your own Paranormal Nightshift stickers from our link tree. Thank you for tuning in, and we hope you enjoy this episode of Paranormal Nightshift.
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Welcome to Paranormal night
shift.
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You’re home for all things that
go bump in the night and your
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fan story is told here.
Today’s story Deaths Must Be
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Paid.
The four letters Samantha writes
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in Happy 16th Birthday.
At least that’s what everybody
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kept telling me.
I lived with my grandmother.
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I never had a lot of information
about my mom and dad other than
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that my dad had walked out on my
mom when she became pregnant,
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and my mom had complications
during labor and didn’t make it.
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But my grandmother did her best.
It was my 16th birthday and she
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tried to make it as nice as
possible.
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It was every girl’s dream, you
know?
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But we had a party and and
whatnot.
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She brought cupcakes to school.
All my friends gave me gifts,
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but I still just didn’t feel
right.
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It was my 16th birthday and I
didn’t know anything about my
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parents.
That’s why I was so surprised
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when I was about to go to bed.
My grandmother said I have one
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more gift from you.
It’s from your mom.
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You have to promise whatever you
do, don’t tell me anything about
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it.
This is your gift and this is
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for you Gift from my mom.
I was so excited.
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I didn’t have anything from my
mom except for a worn out
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picture that my grandmother had.
I kept it right above my bed,
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but this was this was from her.
It was 4 letters that my
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grandmother had given me, 4
individually labeled letters and
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they were in my mom’s
handwriting.
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This was going to be a glimpse
into my mom’s life.
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My mom was going to be able to
talk to me.
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This was this was going to be
amazing.
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I was so excited.
I took the letters out of my
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grandmother’s hands and and ran
upstairs.
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But my grandmother yelled at me
do as the letters say.
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Just read one at a time, please.
That’s how your mom would have
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wanted it.
I did.
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I sat on my bed and I read the
1st letter and this is what it
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said.
Hi, sweetheart.
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Happy birthday.
I hope you’ve had a wonderful
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day.
I wish that I could be there
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with you to celebrate, but I
just.
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I just can’t.
I hope your grandmother is
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taking care of you.
I know that you have heard
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things about me and your dad,
but I need you to understand
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you’ve only heard a little bit.
You’re old enough now to
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understand the truth.
Your dad and I both are still
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alive.
We had to hide from your father.
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We got involved in some bad
things and his past came back to
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get us.
I had to run.
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But I knew that you would be
safe with your grandmother.
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Whatever you do, always listen
to your grandmother.
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I have to run.
Sweetheart.
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I love you.
Happy birthday.
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What a, what a load of crack
that they’re both they’re alive,
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they’re both still alive, and
they just, they just left me
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here like trash, like I’m I’m to
be forgotten about.
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What kind of past did my father
have that that he couldn’t tell
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me that she couldn’t tell me
what was going on?
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They’ve never came to see me.
They’ve never done anything.
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I was.
I was so livid.
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I wanted to rip up the letter,
read the other three right away.
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But I remembered the letter
said.
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Do what my grandmother tells me
to and I’ll be okay.
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Grandma didn’t ask what was in
the letter.
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She just seemed to know.
She said, did you get some
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insight?
I said yes.
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Then I went to bed.
I laid in bed that night
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thinking about opening the other
three letters.
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But I wanted to do what was
right.
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I wanted to do what my mom said.
If there was some level of
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danger that that the 16 years
followed, then then maybe I
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should have just done what she
just told me to do.
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I slept with the letters in my
hand that night, and I didn’t
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sleep really much at all.
But I couldn’t wait to open the
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next letter The next day, letter
two, I woke up that day so
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anxious.
I couldn’t wait to open the
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letter and learn more about my
mom and dad.
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What kind of things were going
on?
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What was what was happening in
my dad’s past that caught up
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with them?
This is what the letter read.
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Your father and I were just
kids.
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We were young and we were in
love, and we did what a lot of
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kids did.
We were kind of social outcast.
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We found a group of people that
accepted us, very gothy people.
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They played around with Ouija
boards and magic and kind of
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occulty things.
It was all really cool, a lot of
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unadulterated fun, if you know
what I mean.
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But one night it took a weird
turn.
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We played with a Ouija board and
there was a session.
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We contacted something.
I don’t know what, but we
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contacted it and your dad and I
both decided it was it was time
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to get away from this group.
We we left, but shortly after I
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I became pregnant with you and
the group started to find us.
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We knew we had to, to skedaddle.
We knew we had to get out of
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town because they wanted you and
I wasn’t going to let them have
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you.
That’s it.
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That’s the end of the letter.
They got involved with some goth
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kids playing with a Ouija board
and some people were going to
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hurt you.
That doesn’t justify 16 years of
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you not being involved in my
life.
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I was so mad.
I was so upset.
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I didn’t know what to say.
I wanted to open the other two
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letters, but I just.
I just couldn’t.
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I was so mad at her that that
these kids, these teenagers were
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going to endanger you and you
can walk out on me.
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That was ridiculous.
I was so mad the rest of the
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day.
Even my grandmother came to me
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and said I can’t ask you about
the letters.
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I promised that I wouldn’t but
understand everything they did,
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they did for you.
I didn’t sleep much that night.
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I kept thinking maybe maybe they
did come in contact with
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something.
I never cared for Ouija boards
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of the occult myself, but I’ve
heard these horrible stories.
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Maybe.
Maybe the group of people that
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they were with did want to hurt
me.
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Maybe that’s why my mom put me
with my grandmother.
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Maybe they knew that this was
the only way I’d be safe.
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I couldn’t wait to open.
Letter three.
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Letter three.
Sweetheart, I I know it’s hard
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to understand, but your father
was dangerous.
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These people were dangerous.
I became pregnant.
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And your father and the leader
of the group made a deal.
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Whatever we contacted that
night, they wanted you.
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The group wanted you as a
sacrifice.
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Every time I tried to get away,
your father kept bringing me
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back into the group.
The more pregnant I became, and
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the more I showed, the more the
group started to cater to us.
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They wanted you to be ready, to
be sacrificed to to whatever
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they contacted.
You have to stay away.
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But now you’re 16 years old.
You’re the same age I was when I
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became pregnant.
I don’t know what to tell you.
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I’m so sorry.
So much that I wish I could
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explain.
But your father became dangerous
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every time they had this
conversation.
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It was that you were going to be
sacrificed.
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You had to be sacrificed.
No matter what you do, no matter
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what you see, there will be
people coming for you.
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You have to promise me that you
will stay put.
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You have to promise me that you
will stay at your grandmother’s
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house.
No matter what these people they
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know about you.
Your father told them.
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I ran off.
And.
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And I I hid you.
I hid you here with your
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grandmother.
She’s the only one who can keep
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you safe.
Please stay put no matter what.
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Stay where you’re at.
Sacrifice.
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These these people, whatever
they contacted, I didn’t really
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know what she was talking about.
Day four.
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I felt weird.
I didn’t feel right.
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I told my grandmother that I
just needed to stay home from
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school.
I just wanted to be where I knew
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I’d be safe.
I stayed in my room all day.
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Grandma just continued to bring
me stuff and and cater to me.
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She knew that I didn’t feel
right, but I waited.
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I waited to to read the letter.
Just all of this sacrifice
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people, they were.
They wanted to hurt me.
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None of this made any sense to
me.
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I stood at my window, just
trying to make sense of this.
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And that’s when I started to see
it.
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People, just people in the
neighborhood looking up at me.
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Everybody seemed to be looking
at me.
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There was people that I didn’t
recognize that just were in the
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the streets, just walking around
the neighborhood all day long
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that they were looking at me.
And then they started to gather.
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The sun went down.
More people, they they started
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to gather.
They were in our yard.
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They started to to be in our
yard.
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They they made themselves known.
Grandma, Grandma.
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I yelled and I went to the door.
But but the door was locked.
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I was, I was trapped.
It was locked from the outside.
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What is going on?
Grandma let me out, let me out.
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The people, they they gathered
in our yard, more of them.
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There had to be 100 people in
our front yard and and I was
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trapped.
I was trapped in my room.
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Nobody, nobody could hear me.
Where was she?
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What was going on?
The The letter said I’d be safe.
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The letter said that I’d be safe
here.
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The the letters.
I still hadn’t read the 4th
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letter.
Sweetheart, I am so sorry.
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I wish I could be there with you
right now to keep you company
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and reassure you.
But understand your life will be
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sacrificed for something more
powerful than you’d ever
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understand.
Thank you for obeying and saying
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put and making it so easy to
find you.
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Your father and I made a promise
and debts must be paid.
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That was the final entry in this
journal that I’ve just found.
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My name is Kathy.
We just moved into this house
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and this is my room.
I found this journal underneath
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a bookshelf.
I hope that she got away, but
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there’s things about this house
that don’t make sense and I have
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a feeling that she didn’t.
Oh, I absolutely love this
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story.
Thank you so much.
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