Voyage Media Recommends: The Gentleman From Hell

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[SPEAKER_03]: Are you?

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[SPEAKER_03]: The side.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Tonight, on Call of the Weird, the enduring mystery of the Cold Sparrow

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[SPEAKER_01]: In a bizarre and chilling case that has perplexed authorities and experts for over two decades, the small country town of Cold Sparrow experienced one of the largest master's appearances in modern history, leaving behind only unanswered questions and a lingering sense of unease.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Cold Sparrow, once acquired an unassuming town, found itself at the center of global attention 24 years ago,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Among them was its most conspicuous resident, billionaire Benjamin Viers, known for his eccentricities and reclusive lifestyle.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The disappearance of Viers, along with the entire population, turned cold sparrow from the mayor's speck on the map to the subject of one of the most baffling mysteries the world has ever seen.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Despite extensive investigations, authorities remain as baffled today as they were on the day the town's population disappeared.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Over the years, there is a range from cult activity to mass kidnapping, but none have brought investigators any closer to understanding what happened to the residents of Cold Sparrow.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The case, which has seen numerous leads in tips over the years, none of which have planned out continues to be a source of speculation and intrigue.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Experts and various fields have tried to be used together the puzzle.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But the lack of evidence and the sheer implausibility of the situation have left even the most seasoned detectors and researchers at a loss.

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[SPEAKER_01]: As the years have passed, the story of Cold Sparrow has become something of a legend, a modern day mystery that challenges our understanding of what is possible.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The disappearance of an entire town, especially one with a figure as inigmatic as Benjamin V.

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[SPEAKER_01]: remains a haunting reminder of the limits of our knowledge and the enduring power of the unknown.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The false door was right where Philis said it would be.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The vault that revealed was massive.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There were all sorts of books, cassette, journals, even what looked like some sketchbooks.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This was exactly the mother load we were looking for.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We tried with long road to get here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The fee is mansion.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Between this moment and the start of the old thing were a ton of false starts and dead ends.

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[SPEAKER_01]: A weed soldier threw it all.

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[SPEAKER_01]: primarily because the money was good and the story was compelling, which for me is a prerequisite for taking a job.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's hard to pay attention to details when the story is a snooze.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I was getting up and made so, I needed to keep things interesting.

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[SPEAKER_01]: When I sort of do the spoils, I couldn't help but cite either surroundings.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The place had been abandoned for a while, but not long enough to take a look of a writing prop on it, mansion.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Manchin was an understatement for the place, which is more on the order of a castle than anything else.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yet, even though the aesthetic wasn't sufficiently more rose to comparable even ghosts, there was something to the sprawl of the interior, behind the Navy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: At despite its size, it was given a secret even bigger than itself.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But the first time in a string of blue Mondays, I was about to know something of the mind of the guy, I got through so much trouble to find.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I assisted through stacks of media with a something suitable for a proper introduction.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It took me a bit, largely some of the stuff was dated.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I eventually came to a journal mart, a brand new chapter.

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[SPEAKER_01]: According to the date, it should have been written around the same time been inherited as father's wealth, which, as a blind spot, I was looking to clear up, so, perfect place to start.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Diarrhea and 3-1, the first of any consequence.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Despite embracing risks and leveraging what I believed to be my talents, my achievements were no greater than those of someone who spent 35 years, I really liked that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The only distinction between such a person and me was my persistent illusion of hope.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I held a firm belief that, with the enough determination and a sliver of opportunity, perhaps a stroke of luck, my moment would arrive, but it never did.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I was a writer devoid of a published work, a man whose name held no significance in anyone's memory,

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[SPEAKER_02]: In essence, I was a kin to static, a presence easily ignored, flesh, blood and bone notwithstanding.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Thirty-five years of life had passed.

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[SPEAKER_02]: My endeavors barely rippling the waters, followed by the undisturbed calm of seas never ventured upon.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The letter had been resting on my counter for a while, existing in a perpetual state of uncertainty.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Unlike other items upon my counter, letters always held a dual nature.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They were shrouding as cat and paper form, simultaneously potential useful news, or an unwelcome bill.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Often the envelopes exterior hinted at its contents, but not always.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This particular letter sent by Charlie Priest Esquire suggested it was likely a bill.

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[SPEAKER_02]: What compelled me to finally open it was the handwritten address.

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[SPEAKER_02]: A personal touch that indicated either a shrewd, or financially constrained lawyer.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Having read the letter, I realized that not only was shouting as cat alive and well, it was also bearing gifts.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The letter read.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Dear Benjamin, I hope this letter finds you in good health and high spirits.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I am reaching out to you today to convey some news that might come as a surprise, given the circumstances of your family history.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Please allow me to share this information with sensitivity and understanding for the complex emotions that may evoke.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Regrettably, I must inform you that your father, Edward, passed away recently.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It seems time has a way of moving forward, unceasingly, sometimes bringing with it a change that we could neither foresee nor prepare for.

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[SPEAKER_02]: In the wake of his passing, there is a silver lining that connects you to a part of his legacy.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Your father has a master considerable fortune over his lifetime, and he has named you as the soul beneficiary to his estate.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This news might bring forth a whirlwind of emotions.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You may need time to process, not only the reality of his passing, but also the sudden shift in your financial landscape.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It is my sincere hope that this inheritance can serve as a bridge to healing, perhaps offering a chance to understand and rediscover the aspects of your father that remain distant for so long.

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[SPEAKER_02]: As the executor of your father's will, I am here to assist you in navigating the legal and procedural aspects of this inheritance.

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[SPEAKER_02]: we can move at a pace that suits you, ensuring that you have the space to come to terms with this new development in your life.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I would be more than happy to meet with you, to discuss this matter in more detail, either in person or over a phone call, as per your convenience.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Please remember, there is no right or wrong way to feel or proceed in the situation.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This is your journey, and I'm here to support you in any way that I can.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Looking forward to hearing from you soon, take all the time you need.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yours sincerely, Charlie, Christ.

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[SPEAKER_08]: Hello, sir.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Can I help you?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, my name is Benjamin Vierz.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I called earlier.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Yes, of course.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Please head right through that door.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Mr. Press is waiting for you.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you very much.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Mr. Press, I'm Benjamin Vierz.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We spoke on the phone.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, hello Benjamin.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Please come right in and take a seat, won't you?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you very much.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Please call me Charlie, you know I hope you don't mind me saying, but you look just like your father right down to the stubble inspecticles.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't mind it all, because I can't say if that's a good old ban observation.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You see, I didn't really know the man, to be quite honest.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, to be equally honest, I didn't even know the old so-and-so had a son, so we're even.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So, um, what are the formalities in a situation like this?

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[SPEAKER_02]: There, just some signatures here and there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, that seems easy enough.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There are a few things, though, just stipulations that are wrong, but by no means troublesome, considering.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Considering.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Considering, after this, you're damn near an richest man in the county if not the state.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Your father was a bit of a eccentric, I guess.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You wanted to make sure you stayed in a house, you know, lived where he lived.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He insisted upon it in several places throughout the will.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, there's no problems there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I fully intend on moving into the house.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, well, that's easy enough then.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I just thought, well, with the accent and all.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I left England some time ago.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I came here for my schooling.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, there you have it then.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The only other thing was that you listen to in private and order your tape that your father left for you.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I take it that's not customary to the traditional process.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Not really, but I've had strange requests.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, I ready to room for you shortly after you phone.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So, once we're all done with crossing teas and dot nice, I'll get you right in there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Back sounds fun.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well then, let's get down to business.

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[SPEAKER_02]: After you turn to play around, you work and have a seat right over there on the couch.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'll be in my office when you finish.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Would you like a drink or anything while you listen?

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[SPEAKER_02]: No, no, that's very kind of you, but... Would you mind terribly if I smoke to one I listen?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Not at all, sir.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Smoking myself.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That's why all the fire detectives have expired batteries.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Hmm.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I, um, see you shortly then.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It didn't take long for the lawyer to start cozying up to me, no doubt hoping I'd secure his services as my father had.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But to be quite honest, I was as ignorant of legal formalities as I was of opulence.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But I suppose I'd learn my way about both in time.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There was an ominous quality to the moment, waiting to hear my father's voice for the first time.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't want to make a moment out of it, so I simply pushed play on the machine and took my seat upon the sofa, cigarette and hand.

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[SPEAKER_02]: My son.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You have every right to your apathy, and or dislike of me, and the fortune I am bequeathing to you, all no doubt have been well earned.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You should be aware that, well you know nothing of me, I have been watching you.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Unfortified by the good fortune, I have known my entire life.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But I believe wealth is no healthy means by which to come into the world.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I speak from experience certainly.

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[SPEAKER_02]: No good has come from my fortune.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Only the cloistered obsessions of the idle rich, the doldrums of a will unchallenged,

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[SPEAKER_02]: You have vision, and the will to see it done, and now you have the means.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There are no more limitations, Benjamin.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Save this.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You must stay in the house for at least one year.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There are secrets you must learn, so that, in time, you will understand.

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[SPEAKER_02]: As I listened to the voice of my dead father, I began to feel strange, mildly dizzy, and there was something else too, in the background of the recording, a murmuring, even a chanting, barely perceptible, I assumed it to be an artifact of vintage technology.

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[SPEAKER_02]: A clinical desire to understand it all, if only to dispel the dread of not knowing your most recent manuscript, beneath it all as searchable answers, reads as if a page torn from my very mind, though after inspecting it, I can see that your mind is by far the keener between us.

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[SPEAKER_02]: still, I can see that my obsessions have become you as well, but perhaps, unlike myself, you will acquire some peace with them by satisfying them once and for all.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This, my lost son,

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[SPEAKER_02]: I wish you well on the rest of your journey.

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[SPEAKER_02]: For if you will listening to this, mine has at last come to an end.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Farewell, Benjamin.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Perhaps we will meet again in a world or welcoming than this one.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The first time I'd ever heard my father's voice, and only really had to say to me was, goodbye.

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[SPEAKER_04]: You can keep me in suspense, so you're going to tell me what you found.

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[SPEAKER_01]: About a metric ton of men's personal journals all sorts of cassettes and whatnot, just what Phyllis said they'd be going through all this stuff's gonna take forever.

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[SPEAKER_01]: How's the city look?

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[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, you know, you seem one ghost ten you see them all, though the place does the pretty good for being abandoned as long as it has.

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[SPEAKER_04]: By the way, I found the spot where the FBI set up a shop where they collected evidence.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Probably been gone through by every thrill-seeker and legend trooper within a hundred miles of here.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Uh, doubt there's anything left to find.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but it doesn't hurt to check.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You never know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Not like someone couldn't drop evidence on the way out of a crime scene.

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[SPEAKER_04]: He says, maize, am I ever going to hear the internet?

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[SPEAKER_04]: And I wonder who it was to call it last love.

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[SPEAKER_04]: You were me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, I never doubted your business acumen for a second.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, I'm going to head out and set it to generator.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Keep an eye on for Phyllis.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I told her to meet us at the mansion, but the city's set up like a maze.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I might have even had to consult the map a few times myself to find the place.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, she is a psychic, so I think it shall manage.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Come on, pick up, pick up.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Hello.

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[SPEAKER_06]: You've reached me on the Oats of Apex Intelligent Solutions.

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[SPEAKER_06]: I'm currently unavailable, but please leave a call back number and a brief message and I'll be sure to return your call.

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[SPEAKER_06]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Ugh, it's me, Phyllis.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I must have turned down the wrong road.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I can't be more than a few minutes away from you, too.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm just outside of Cold Sparrow, somewhere in the pitch pot woods.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Comment back as soon as you get this.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't care if I quit.

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[SPEAKER_03]: If I'm going to be lost in the woods, I'm at least going to have a cigarette.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Hurry up boys, call me back, won't you?

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[SPEAKER_03]: What the?

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[UNKNOWN]: It's time to take a picture of the devil's.

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[SPEAKER_08]: It's time to take a picture of the devil's.

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[SPEAKER_08]: All the horror's on the surface.

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[SPEAKER_03]: is... someone out there?

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[SPEAKER_07]: Hey, Phyllis, I'll do as soon as I got the message.

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[SPEAKER_07]: Reception is garbage out here.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So I'm realising that and once you turn on to pitch point drive, there's no online maps of these other roads.

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[SPEAKER_05]: Thus, I'm afraid I have no idea where I am.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm very particular about how I choose to quit things.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Now, please, just hurry up and come get me.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Won't you?

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[SPEAKER_05]: Sure thing.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Let me there and I... Leon?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Down, lousy service.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Fill this my dear.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I've a feeling you're not going to enjoy this one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Come on, you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a doorknob.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That low water in power.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Phyllis got herself lost in the woods, apparently he's agged when she should as agged, headed out to bring her in now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So much for being psychic.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I got the journey up and running so I'll be inside when you get back.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Sure thing, be back in just a few.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The three of us have worked a lot of cases together, but not like this one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You can't wait to see an entire town of people go missing, not since the lost colony and row a nook at any rate.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, we were only being paid to hunt for the one guy, the rich one, in the years.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And after the snippet I had read from one of his hidden journals, it was about time I heard the guy's actual voice.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The mini cassettes were no particular water, so I just swiped the first one to caught my eye.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was died old.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Existential Obsessive.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The loneliness is the inaudent that some of absence is one experiences as an outlier, but also faith, trust, camaraderie, or even truth.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I am alone because I cannot make peace with my own ignorance.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The ignorance that all of us must reckon and eventually yield to.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I have not, because I cannot.

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[SPEAKER_02]: My stubbornness is inscribed upon my very genes, or so current science will have us all believe.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Disorder, they say.

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[SPEAKER_02]: probably short for that matter.

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[SPEAKER_02]: One medicine after the next, and still that yawning vacancy.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I must know why.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Where do we come from?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Why are we even here?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Where will we go when the sun ceases to rise?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Is there a heaven or God forbid?

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[SPEAKER_02]: A hell.

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