1 00:00:09,275 --> 00:00:11,444 [unsettling music playing] 2 00:00:43,209 --> 00:00:45,270 [male voice] I wanna tell you a story. 3 00:00:44,610 --> 00:00:47,146 [unsettling music continues] 4 00:00:47,213 --> 00:00:49,949 Ever since I was young, 5 00:00:49,982 --> 00:00:52,685 there was something different about my family. 6 00:00:52,752 --> 00:00:53,486 A secret. 7 00:00:56,889 --> 00:01:01,227 Mom reckoned she'd been followed her whole life. 8 00:01:01,294 --> 00:01:03,896 Well, this one time, we're at the beach, 9 00:01:03,963 --> 00:01:08,167 and Mom sees this guy pointing a camera at us. 10 00:01:08,201 --> 00:01:10,336 She starts going off at him, 11 00:01:10,369 --> 00:01:14,607 but he's just frozen watching us. 12 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:19,612 He says, "I'm sorry, this is just the way it has to be." 13 00:01:19,645 --> 00:01:20,279 And then he runs. 14 00:01:22,181 --> 00:01:24,817 Until slam! 15 00:01:24,851 --> 00:01:26,953 He jumps straight in front of a car. 16 00:01:26,986 --> 00:01:29,380 Like it was deliberate. 17 00:01:28,621 --> 00:01:29,288 Dead on impact. 18 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:35,780 After the ambulance takes him away, 19 00:01:36,110 --> 00:01:38,464 I pick up the camera he dropped. 20 00:01:38,497 --> 00:01:41,400 It's a model I've never seen, 21 00:01:41,434 --> 00:01:44,770 and there are thousands of photos on it, 22 00:01:44,837 --> 00:01:47,874 and every single photo 23 00:01:47,907 --> 00:01:51,310 is of Mom and our family. 24 00:01:51,377 --> 00:01:53,980 At the swimming pool, outside our house, 25 00:01:54,046 --> 00:01:56,310 at the movies, the supermarket... 26 00:01:55,615 --> 00:01:58,017 [voice distorts, speeds up] 27 00:01:58,084 --> 00:02:00,119 A photo of my brother smoking a bong. 28 00:02:00,152 --> 00:02:03,956 [voice distorts, speeds up] Mom wasn't crazy. 29 00:02:03,990 --> 00:02:07,770 She had been followed her whole life. But it was impossible-- 30 00:02:08,100 --> 00:02:09,110 [interviewer] Do you think you can send me 31 00:02:08,628 --> 00:02:11,130 these photos, Jarad? 32 00:02:10,630 --> 00:02:13,266 [Jarad] See, we gave the camera to the cops, 33 00:02:13,332 --> 00:02:15,268 but months later, they tell us, 34 00:02:15,334 --> 00:02:17,904 they have no record of this stalker. 35 00:02:17,937 --> 00:02:20,873 Like, he never existed. 36 00:02:20,907 --> 00:02:25,311 And the camera just disappeared. 37 00:02:25,378 --> 00:02:26,712 [interviewer] So you don't have any evidence 38 00:02:26,746 --> 00:02:28,781 of any of this happening? 39 00:02:28,814 --> 00:02:31,484 [Jarad] Oh, don't you get it? 40 00:02:31,670 --> 00:02:34,253 This stalker was a secret agent from the future, 41 00:02:34,287 --> 00:02:36,889 and our family play a really important part 42 00:02:36,956 --> 00:02:38,724 in something that happens in a future timeline. 43 00:02:38,791 --> 00:02:41,327 [interviewer sighs] That's-- 44 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:43,896 That's a pretty big leap, Jarad. 45 00:02:43,963 --> 00:02:46,265 [Jarad] You don't believe me. 46 00:02:46,332 --> 00:02:48,668 I know you, lady. 47 00:02:48,701 --> 00:02:49,902 You think I'm a joke? 48 00:02:49,936 --> 00:02:52,205 You're the joke. 49 00:02:52,238 --> 00:02:54,307 I watched you online. 50 00:02:54,373 --> 00:02:58,044 I know the kind of person you are. 51 00:02:58,077 --> 00:03:02,310 You're a fraud! After the shit you pulled on your last gig, 52 00:03:01,614 --> 00:03:03,683 you should be working at a ****in' donut shop... 53 00:03:03,749 --> 00:03:05,251 [interviewer] Jarad. -...not making the news. 54 00:03:05,284 --> 00:03:06,752 [interviewer] I'm gonna hang up now, okay? 55 00:03:06,786 --> 00:03:07,787 [Jarad] I'm the chosen one, *****! 56 00:03:07,820 --> 00:03:09,455 I'm freakin' Harry Pot-- 57 00:03:09,488 --> 00:03:11,457 [beeping as call disconnects] 58 00:03:11,490 --> 00:03:17,997 [unsettling music continues] 59 00:03:18,030 --> 00:03:21,400 [interviewer] I wanna tell you a story. 60 00:03:21,434 --> 00:03:24,170 All you have to do 61 00:03:24,203 --> 00:03:24,871 is listen. 62 00:03:27,807 --> 00:03:29,408 I would like to publicly apologize 63 00:03:29,442 --> 00:03:32,411 for my recent mistakes 64 00:03:32,445 --> 00:03:35,748 when I was reporting on the history of David Langley. 65 00:03:35,781 --> 00:03:39,952 I failed to corroborate evidence 66 00:03:39,986 --> 00:03:44,323 and thoroughly investigate my key source's background. 67 00:03:44,357 --> 00:03:47,627 And I would like to clarify that 68 00:03:47,660 --> 00:03:51,163 Mr. Langley was cleared of any criminal offenses 69 00:03:51,197 --> 00:03:55,101 related to the claims in my article. 70 00:03:55,168 --> 00:03:59,005 The Evening Journal's objective is to provide open access 71 00:03:59,038 --> 00:04:04,443 to high-quality, independent journalism. 72 00:04:04,477 --> 00:04:08,147 My actions do not reflect The Evening Journal's 73 00:04:08,214 --> 00:04:10,283 operations or integrity. 74 00:04:12,752 --> 00:04:13,920 Thank you for your time. 75 00:04:13,953 --> 00:04:16,289 [single tap at keyboard] 76 00:04:16,322 --> 00:04:20,059 [lips buzzing and trilling] 77 00:04:20,126 --> 00:04:24,830 Chew and chew and chew. 78 00:04:24,864 --> 00:04:26,399 Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. 79 00:04:26,432 --> 00:04:27,867 A peck of pickled... shit. -[phone vibrates] 80 00:04:29,902 --> 00:04:32,405 Welcome to Beyond Believable, 81 00:04:32,438 --> 00:04:34,774 the podcast that investigates 82 00:04:34,807 --> 00:04:37,276 the unbelievable firsthand accounts of... 83 00:04:37,310 --> 00:04:40,079 Beyond Believable, 84 00:04:40,112 --> 00:04:42,448 the show that unmasks the mysteries-- 85 00:04:42,481 --> 00:04:43,783 [phone vibrating] 86 00:04:43,816 --> 00:04:45,818 [interviewer sighs] 87 00:04:45,852 --> 00:04:47,119 This is a clickbait podcast 88 00:04:47,153 --> 00:04:49,355 made for bored, lonely ballbags 89 00:04:49,422 --> 00:04:52,124 with IQ levels below a lobotomized monkey. Enjoy. 90 00:04:52,158 --> 00:04:54,327 I want to expose the truth. 91 00:04:58,810 --> 00:05:02,850 [liquid being poured] 92 00:05:03,180 --> 00:05:05,338 [male voice] Hey, it's me. 93 00:05:05,371 --> 00:05:06,839 I just wanted to officially welcome you to the team. 94 00:05:06,873 --> 00:05:08,107 We're so excited that you're gonna jump on board. 95 00:05:08,140 --> 00:05:09,475 I know it's a little... 96 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:10,877 beneath what you're used to, 97 00:05:10,910 --> 00:05:13,412 a little mystery podcast, but... 98 00:05:13,446 --> 00:05:14,747 I figure with everything going on, it could be 99 00:05:14,780 --> 00:05:16,816 a great opportunity for you. 100 00:05:16,849 --> 00:05:18,651 So, call me when you can. 101 00:05:18,684 --> 00:05:19,252 We can plan your first story-- 102 00:05:19,285 --> 00:05:22,255 [buzzing] 103 00:05:22,288 --> 00:05:25,491 Oh, hey, just checking in to see how you're going. 104 00:05:25,750 --> 00:05:26,492 I'm just, you know, I know you're probably 105 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:28,361 looking for the right story, 106 00:05:28,394 --> 00:05:30,196 something that really sings to you. 107 00:05:30,229 --> 00:05:30,663 But to be honest, we just need to get-- 108 00:05:30,696 --> 00:05:32,865 [vibrates] 109 00:05:32,899 --> 00:05:35,034 Now, seriously. 110 00:05:35,067 --> 00:05:36,736 I've been nice up to this point, 111 00:05:36,769 --> 00:05:38,237 but I stuck my neck out for you 112 00:05:38,271 --> 00:05:40,006 when nobody else would touch you. 113 00:05:40,039 --> 00:05:42,041 I'm getting a lot of heat here, 114 00:05:42,074 --> 00:05:42,742 and I need you to deliver and deliver today-- 115 00:05:42,775 --> 00:05:44,210 [message stops] 116 00:05:44,243 --> 00:05:45,378 [sighs] 117 00:05:48,447 --> 00:05:50,283 [notification chimes] 118 00:05:50,316 --> 00:05:52,919 [somber music playing] 119 00:06:08,868 --> 00:06:11,871 [whoosh] 120 00:06:11,904 --> 00:06:13,220 [notification chimes] 121 00:06:31,390 --> 00:06:33,125 [phone ringing on speaker] 122 00:06:37,296 --> 00:06:38,810 [woman over phone] Hello? 123 00:06:39,140 --> 00:06:42,869 Hi. Is this, uh, Floramae King? 124 00:06:42,902 --> 00:06:46,372 [Floramae] Yes. Who is this, please? 125 00:06:46,405 --> 00:06:49,642 I'm a journalist from a podcast called Beyond Believable. 126 00:06:49,709 --> 00:06:51,911 It's about mysteries that-- 127 00:06:51,944 --> 00:06:53,980 Sorry, I can't hear you well, hon. 128 00:06:54,046 --> 00:06:55,815 Hang on a tick, I'll go into the other room. 129 00:06:55,848 --> 00:06:57,917 [girl over phone] Mom.-No worries. 130 00:06:57,950 --> 00:06:58,818 [Floramae] Put that back before you break it! 131 00:06:58,851 --> 00:07:00,419 Sorry. Yes? 132 00:07:00,453 --> 00:07:03,089 I received a, uh... 133 00:07:03,122 --> 00:07:04,824 well, I guess you'd call it an anonymous tip-off 134 00:07:04,857 --> 00:07:07,660 about a brick. 135 00:07:07,693 --> 00:07:09,328 [Floramae] Is this about Paula's boy? 136 00:07:09,362 --> 00:07:11,297 I told him to stop lobbing bricks 137 00:07:11,330 --> 00:07:12,031 into that empty house on Hunter's Road. 138 00:07:12,064 --> 00:07:14,367 Uh, no. 139 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:16,836 Look. It's probably nothing, 140 00:07:16,869 --> 00:07:19,705 but I received an email about some sort of 141 00:07:19,739 --> 00:07:21,707 specific brick, and you. 142 00:07:24,477 --> 00:07:27,446 [Floramae sighs] 143 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:30,483 Hello, Ms. King, are you there? 144 00:07:30,660 --> 00:07:32,652 The email wasn't very clear, 145 00:07:32,685 --> 00:07:34,854 but they gave me your phone number. 146 00:07:34,921 --> 00:07:37,823 Who gave you my phone number? 147 00:07:37,857 --> 00:07:39,792 As I said, they were anonymous. 148 00:07:39,825 --> 00:07:42,628 My daughter is over for lunch 149 00:07:42,662 --> 00:07:43,790 and I don't think that we should be talking about this. 150 00:07:44,130 --> 00:07:46,098 It won't take a moment. 151 00:07:46,165 --> 00:07:49,268 I just want to ask you a couple of quick questions. 152 00:07:49,335 --> 00:07:51,200 What's this for, again? 153 00:07:50,603 --> 00:07:53,606 It's for a podcast. 154 00:07:53,639 --> 00:07:54,373 I thought you said you were a journalist. 155 00:07:54,407 --> 00:07:57,076 I am. 156 00:07:57,109 --> 00:07:58,744 All I want is a little background information, 157 00:07:58,778 --> 00:08:02,081 and then I will be on my way. 158 00:08:02,114 --> 00:08:04,984 Is there anything you could tell me about it? 159 00:08:05,017 --> 00:08:07,954 [Floramae breathes shakily] The brick was such a long time ago. 160 00:08:07,987 --> 00:08:10,089 When you say brick, 161 00:08:10,122 --> 00:08:11,824 I'm not sure I understand what you mean. 162 00:08:11,858 --> 00:08:15,027 Like, a house brick, or something...? 163 00:08:15,061 --> 00:08:18,898 No. It... 164 00:08:18,931 --> 00:08:21,834 it was like nothing I'd ever seen. 165 00:08:21,868 --> 00:08:26,639 It-- It changed my life.-How? 166 00:08:26,706 --> 00:08:29,876 These aren't good memories. I shouldn't talk about this. 167 00:08:29,909 --> 00:08:30,476 It's a very long time ago, and I don't think I can help you. 168 00:08:30,930 --> 00:08:32,778 Ms. King. 169 00:08:32,812 --> 00:08:33,960 Can I call you Floramae? 170 00:08:35,848 --> 00:08:38,351 [Floramae] I guess. 171 00:08:38,417 --> 00:08:41,754 I'm thinking that if I got this anonymous email, 172 00:08:41,787 --> 00:08:44,156 I wouldn't be surprised if other journalists have too. 173 00:08:44,190 --> 00:08:46,959 - Really? - Mm. 174 00:08:46,993 --> 00:08:49,629 I don't want other people to twist your words, Floramae. 175 00:08:49,662 --> 00:08:51,864 [Floramae sighs] No. 176 00:08:51,898 --> 00:08:54,033 So let me tell your story properly. 177 00:08:54,066 --> 00:08:55,601 It'll only take five minutes, promise. 178 00:08:58,838 --> 00:09:01,440 Okay. Five minutes. 179 00:09:01,474 --> 00:09:03,142 I just wanna let you know I'm recording this. 180 00:09:03,209 --> 00:09:05,077 Is that okay? 181 00:09:05,111 --> 00:09:08,281 Mm-hm. 182 00:09:08,314 --> 00:09:10,616 You said this happened a long time ago. 183 00:09:10,650 --> 00:09:15,370 How long ago are we talking? 184 00:09:14,620 --> 00:09:18,057 It's gotta be close on 20 years, maybe more. 185 00:09:18,124 --> 00:09:19,625 Can you tell me what your life was like back then? 186 00:09:19,659 --> 00:09:21,827 I worked for a family. 187 00:09:21,861 --> 00:09:24,630 Housework, cleaning, looking after their kid. 188 00:09:24,664 --> 00:09:27,700 Nice people, but a bit well-to-do. 189 00:09:27,733 --> 00:09:29,235 - You know the sort. - Sure. 190 00:09:29,268 --> 00:09:32,210 But good employers. 191 00:09:31,604 --> 00:09:33,206 They were even paying to put my girl 192 00:09:33,239 --> 00:09:35,741 on a scholarship to a good school. 193 00:09:35,775 --> 00:09:38,477 They treated her like she was their own daughter. 194 00:09:38,940 --> 00:09:42,248 We were so grateful for everything they gave us. 195 00:09:42,281 --> 00:09:45,451 But something went wrong? 196 00:09:45,484 --> 00:09:48,020 One day, something happened in the house that 197 00:09:48,087 --> 00:09:49,488 I still can't explain. 198 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:49,989 What do you mean? 199 00:09:53,025 --> 00:09:53,760 I don't know if I can say it. 200 00:09:56,229 --> 00:09:58,364 I'm not here to judge you, Floramae. 201 00:09:58,397 --> 00:09:59,165 I just wanna listen. 202 00:10:02,368 --> 00:10:05,071 Well, one day, I came in to find 203 00:10:05,104 --> 00:10:07,306 all this terrible damage to their furniture. 204 00:10:07,373 --> 00:10:09,809 Big, awful scratches across everything. 205 00:10:09,876 --> 00:10:11,878 The dining table was the worst. 206 00:10:11,911 --> 00:10:14,280 It was like somebody was so angry, 207 00:10:14,313 --> 00:10:15,815 they grabbed the sharpest knife they could find 208 00:10:15,848 --> 00:10:18,751 and stabbed and stabbed at the table, 209 00:10:18,784 --> 00:10:21,420 making these big, deep scratches. 210 00:10:21,454 --> 00:10:23,856 Sounds really frightening. 211 00:10:23,890 --> 00:10:27,660 It was, but... but it got worse. 212 00:10:27,693 --> 00:10:29,996 The family thought that my girl Paula had done it. 213 00:10:30,029 --> 00:10:32,832 She was only a kid 214 00:10:32,865 --> 00:10:34,867 and she swore black and blue she didn't, 215 00:10:34,901 --> 00:10:37,737 but they didn't believe her. 216 00:10:37,770 --> 00:10:38,437 Did you think she did it? 217 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:42,240 It makes me ashamed. 218 00:10:44,210 --> 00:10:47,079 Paula never admitted it. 219 00:10:47,113 --> 00:10:49,849 [exhales shakily] There was a lot of pressure, 220 00:10:49,916 --> 00:10:52,418 and I didn't feel that I could stand up to them. 221 00:10:52,451 --> 00:10:55,855 I didn't believe her. 222 00:10:55,922 --> 00:10:57,190 Over the years, I've always wondered... 223 00:11:01,027 --> 00:11:02,962 If she didn't destroy the furniture, who did? 224 00:11:04,797 --> 00:11:07,600 Exactly. 225 00:11:07,667 --> 00:11:09,902 It caused big trouble in the house, 226 00:11:09,936 --> 00:11:11,404 and the family turned on us, 227 00:11:11,437 --> 00:11:14,207 turned on Paula. 228 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:16,375 And I couldn't do anything to stop it. 229 00:11:16,409 --> 00:11:18,711 I couldn't help my little girl, and... 230 00:11:18,744 --> 00:11:21,300 I was such a terrible mother, and... 231 00:11:20,613 --> 00:11:24,250 [Floramae sighs] 232 00:11:24,283 --> 00:11:27,186 And that's when I received the strangest thing. 233 00:11:27,253 --> 00:11:31,023 This black brick. 234 00:11:31,057 --> 00:11:33,192 What do you mean, received it? 235 00:11:33,226 --> 00:11:35,294 How? 236 00:11:35,328 --> 00:11:38,231 [Floramae exclaims] 237 00:11:38,264 --> 00:11:39,498 I--I don't remember. 238 00:11:39,820 --> 00:11:41,901 You don't remember? 239 00:11:41,934 --> 00:11:44,437 It was a long time ago. 240 00:11:44,900 --> 00:11:46,606 It's okay. 241 00:11:46,639 --> 00:11:48,808 Can you tell me what the brick was like? 242 00:11:52,950 --> 00:11:53,980 It was darker than anything I've ever seen 243 00:11:54,046 --> 00:11:55,615 and heavy. 244 00:11:57,750 --> 00:12:00,086 It was special. 245 00:12:00,119 --> 00:12:02,021 As soon as I held it, I felt like 246 00:12:02,088 --> 00:12:03,289 something was changing. 247 00:12:05,992 --> 00:12:06,726 But then... 248 00:12:09,128 --> 00:12:09,629 What happened? 249 00:12:13,150 --> 00:12:14,667 The couple I was working for, 250 00:12:14,700 --> 00:12:17,036 their kid took it from me. 251 00:12:17,069 --> 00:12:18,905 And when the husband saw it, 252 00:12:18,938 --> 00:12:20,740 he thought he could make some money. 253 00:12:20,773 --> 00:12:23,309 He told me it was art. 254 00:12:23,376 --> 00:12:25,244 I'll never forgive him for selling it. 255 00:12:25,278 --> 00:12:27,947 He sold it without your permission? 256 00:12:27,980 --> 00:12:30,082 After they decided my Paula ruined their furniture, 257 00:12:30,116 --> 00:12:32,351 we had to pay for the damage. 258 00:12:32,418 --> 00:12:34,921 So they took the brick as part of the payment. 259 00:12:34,954 --> 00:12:36,622 It makes me wild. 260 00:12:36,656 --> 00:12:38,724 Who'd he sell it to? 261 00:12:38,791 --> 00:12:41,327 Some art collector. 262 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:43,790 Do you remember a name? 263 00:12:44,130 --> 00:12:48,201 Something German. Lang, maybe? 264 00:12:48,234 --> 00:12:50,860 That must've made you feel really awful. 265 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:52,672 I tried to stop it.-Mm. 266 00:12:52,705 --> 00:12:54,807 I told the couple that that brick was mine. 267 00:12:54,874 --> 00:12:56,776 You know, people can't go around 268 00:12:56,809 --> 00:12:58,878 selling what's not theirs, can they? 269 00:12:58,911 --> 00:13:01,080 But as soon as the family found out 270 00:13:01,113 --> 00:13:03,660 I wanted to go to the authorities, 271 00:13:04,330 --> 00:13:06,085 they removed me. 272 00:13:06,118 --> 00:13:07,787 They fired you. 273 00:13:07,820 --> 00:13:10,356 Easy as you please. 274 00:13:10,389 --> 00:13:11,624 Years of service gone. 275 00:13:14,293 --> 00:13:14,660 I never heard from them again. 276 00:13:17,196 --> 00:13:19,999 I never saw the brick again. 277 00:13:20,032 --> 00:13:23,860 What do you think this brick was, Floramae? 278 00:13:24,190 --> 00:13:25,771 [exhales] I'm not sure. 279 00:13:25,838 --> 00:13:28,307 Maybe nothing. 280 00:13:28,374 --> 00:13:29,642 Somebody thought it was interesting enough 281 00:13:29,709 --> 00:13:33,112 to email me about. 282 00:13:33,145 --> 00:13:37,116 And you say the brick was special, right? 283 00:13:37,149 --> 00:13:39,085 What'd it make you feel? 284 00:13:39,118 --> 00:13:42,154 [unsettling music playing] 285 00:13:42,188 --> 00:13:44,390 Sometimes, I think I can still feel it. 286 00:13:44,457 --> 00:13:47,026 That power, 287 00:13:47,059 --> 00:13:51,163 like something unfinished. 288 00:13:51,197 --> 00:13:53,199 I can't explain it. 289 00:13:53,232 --> 00:13:55,601 I don't know. 290 00:13:55,668 --> 00:13:59,105 This was 20 years ago, it's silly. 291 00:13:59,172 --> 00:14:02,808 I thought that there was some kind of power over me. 292 00:14:02,875 --> 00:14:05,144 Yeah, it was probably all in my head. 293 00:14:05,211 --> 00:14:06,812 Sorry if this is a dead-end. 294 00:14:06,879 --> 00:14:10,082 It's okay. 295 00:14:10,116 --> 00:14:11,651 Maybe there's something that will jog your memory. We can-- 296 00:14:11,684 --> 00:14:14,120 [Paula] Mom, come on, lunch is just sitting. 297 00:14:14,153 --> 00:14:16,380 I know, it's getting cold.-[Paula] Who is that? 298 00:14:15,621 --> 00:14:16,956 [Floramae] I'll pop it in the microwave, hon. 299 00:14:16,989 --> 00:14:17,623 - Give it to me. - Hang on a tick. 300 00:14:17,657 --> 00:14:19,158 Hang on, Paula. 301 00:14:19,192 --> 00:14:21,694 Hello, who is this? 302 00:14:21,727 --> 00:14:23,863 Sorry, I was speaking with Floramae-- 303 00:14:23,896 --> 00:14:26,899 Whatever you're selling, leave Mom alone. 304 00:14:26,933 --> 00:14:28,868 - Paula! You don't-- - People need to stop calling. 305 00:14:28,901 --> 00:14:32,004 She doesn't need any more crap in her house. 306 00:14:32,038 --> 00:14:35,208 No, of course. -[Paula] Sorry, it's just... 307 00:14:35,241 --> 00:14:36,642 You understand, right?-[Floramae] Hang on. Paula! 308 00:14:36,709 --> 00:14:40,313 [beeping as call disconnects] 309 00:14:40,379 --> 00:14:41,113 [exhales sharply] 310 00:14:42,650 --> 00:14:44,784 [sighs] 311 00:14:44,817 --> 00:14:47,153 [man] Godmorgen, mit barn. 312 00:14:47,186 --> 00:14:48,688 Just calling to let you know we've made it to... 313 00:14:48,754 --> 00:14:51,791 [man and woman together] Beautiful Copenhagen! 314 00:14:51,824 --> 00:14:54,493 [man] We're alive and well in our very lovely hotel. 315 00:14:54,770 --> 00:14:57,330 [woman] Why do the Danes have to pickle everything? 316 00:14:57,363 --> 00:14:59,498 [dad] And your mother's already complaining about all the fish. 317 00:14:59,820 --> 00:15:00,933 [mom] Darling, we can get you a new jacket, if you like. 318 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:02,902 [dad] She doesn't want a jacket. 319 00:15:02,935 --> 00:15:04,770 [mom] Don't be stupid, of course she does. 320 00:15:04,837 --> 00:15:05,671 [dad] There's some leftovers in the freezer. 321 00:15:05,705 --> 00:15:07,106 [mom] And don't forget, 322 00:15:07,139 --> 00:15:08,407 Ian's tank needs to be cleaned 323 00:15:08,441 --> 00:15:10,977 - twice a week. - [dad laughs] 324 00:15:11,043 --> 00:15:15,414 We heard about the new podcast. Sounds interesting. 325 00:15:15,448 --> 00:15:17,750 Good little diversion after everything that's happened. 326 00:15:17,783 --> 00:15:19,252 Obviously, those *******s at The Evening Journal 327 00:15:19,285 --> 00:15:21,621 had no right to scapegoat you like that. 328 00:15:21,654 --> 00:15:23,289 You know you did the right thing with Langley 329 00:15:23,322 --> 00:15:24,156 and you've got nothing to apologize-- 330 00:15:24,190 --> 00:15:25,070 [stops voicemail playback] 331 00:15:27,026 --> 00:15:29,729 [telephone ringing] 332 00:15:29,795 --> 00:15:32,331 [bubbling] 333 00:15:32,365 --> 00:15:37,003 [telephone ringing] 334 00:15:37,036 --> 00:15:39,038 Lang Contemporary. Frau Schmidt. Guten tag. 335 00:15:39,071 --> 00:15:40,740 [stammers] Hallo, 336 00:15:40,773 --> 00:15:44,277 kann ich bitte mit Klaus Lang sprechen? 337 00:15:44,310 --> 00:15:46,712 - Sorry. - Of course. 338 00:15:46,746 --> 00:15:48,414 May I ask why you are calling? 339 00:15:48,447 --> 00:15:53,352 [hold music plays] 340 00:15:53,419 --> 00:15:55,254 [Klaus] I never thought I would get a call 341 00:15:55,288 --> 00:15:56,720 about these funny little objects of mine. 342 00:15:57,390 --> 00:16:00,159 Hi, Mr. Lang. 343 00:16:00,193 --> 00:16:04,197 I, uh, work for a podcast called Beyond Believable. 344 00:16:04,230 --> 00:16:07,667 It's about unsolved mysteries, hoaxes, that kind of thing. 345 00:16:07,700 --> 00:16:12,371 I, uh, came across a story about a black brick 346 00:16:12,405 --> 00:16:15,708 that you bought from an Australian man many years ago, 347 00:16:15,741 --> 00:16:20,290 and I just wanna corroborate a few details with you. 348 00:16:19,612 --> 00:16:22,148 Most curious. A hoax? I'm not so sure. 349 00:16:22,181 --> 00:16:24,617 Before we go any further, 350 00:16:24,650 --> 00:16:25,952 I'm letting you know I'm recording our conversation 351 00:16:25,985 --> 00:16:27,420 for the podcast. 352 00:16:27,453 --> 00:16:29,288 Do you mind? 353 00:16:29,322 --> 00:16:32,391 You're already recording? 354 00:16:32,458 --> 00:16:33,726 I've found it's always better to ask for forgiveness 355 00:16:33,793 --> 00:16:35,127 than permission. 356 00:16:35,161 --> 00:16:37,463 [Klaus laughs] 357 00:16:37,496 --> 00:16:40,066 I agree entirely. Go ahead. 358 00:16:40,099 --> 00:16:44,437 So you're telling me this object really exists? 359 00:16:44,900 --> 00:16:47,907 Yes, yes, in fact, I have several. 360 00:16:47,940 --> 00:16:50,109 What do you mean, several? 361 00:16:50,142 --> 00:16:51,711 See, I am also very interested 362 00:16:51,744 --> 00:16:54,113 in this phenomenon. 363 00:16:54,146 --> 00:16:55,982 When I was a very young man, 364 00:16:56,015 --> 00:16:58,684 I also received a brick. 365 00:16:58,751 --> 00:17:01,360 You're kidding me. 366 00:17:00,620 --> 00:17:03,256 Not at all, not at all. 367 00:17:03,289 --> 00:17:06,959 And I've been fascinated with them ever since. 368 00:17:06,993 --> 00:17:08,060 So you're saying there's more than one 369 00:17:08,127 --> 00:17:10,496 of these objects out there. 370 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:12,365 I know of at least a dozen around the world, 371 00:17:12,398 --> 00:17:15,034 of which I have a few, 372 00:17:15,067 --> 00:17:17,870 each exactly the same. 373 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:18,404 Most peculiar. Very collectible. 374 00:17:21,641 --> 00:17:24,377 And how did you receive your brick, Mr. Lang? 375 00:17:27,246 --> 00:17:31,851 It was, uh, just, uh, in my house. 376 00:17:31,918 --> 00:17:35,121 Can you, uh, can you describe these bricks? 377 00:17:35,154 --> 00:17:38,070 They are black. 378 00:17:37,623 --> 00:17:40,126 About the size of a gold bar, 379 00:17:40,159 --> 00:17:44,230 but darker than any other object I have seen. 380 00:17:44,297 --> 00:17:47,900 Very heavy, not manmade, but not natural either. 381 00:17:47,934 --> 00:17:50,203 It's either one or the other, no? 382 00:17:50,236 --> 00:17:51,704 I thought like this. 383 00:17:51,737 --> 00:17:53,906 So several years ago, 384 00:17:53,940 --> 00:17:56,142 I took these artifacts to a friend of mine, 385 00:17:56,209 --> 00:17:59,912 and she made scans with the new technology. 386 00:17:59,946 --> 00:18:02,281 They call it volumetric scanning. 387 00:18:02,315 --> 00:18:04,450 You can make a three-dimensional image 388 00:18:04,483 --> 00:18:06,752 of the interior without opening it up. 389 00:18:06,786 --> 00:18:09,720 - Very cool, huh? - And? 390 00:18:10,390 --> 00:18:11,824 I have never seen anything like it. 391 00:18:11,858 --> 00:18:13,893 Uh, the interior of each brick 392 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:16,028 is filled with hundreds of symbols 393 00:18:16,062 --> 00:18:18,130 folded into each other. 394 00:18:17,630 --> 00:18:19,699 Can you send me these scans? 395 00:18:19,732 --> 00:18:22,850 It was years ago. 396 00:18:23,180 --> 00:18:24,437 I'll see if I can dig them up. 397 00:18:24,900 --> 00:18:28,140 Perhaps you can make something of them. 398 00:18:28,207 --> 00:18:31,644 And these symbols... what alphabet is it? 399 00:18:31,711 --> 00:18:36,015 Latin, Arabic, Cyrillic, hieroglyphic? 400 00:18:36,082 --> 00:18:39,785 Each brick has its own unique set of symbols. 401 00:18:39,819 --> 00:18:43,356 But in mine, I see a symbol that reminds me of a scar 402 00:18:43,389 --> 00:18:46,859 that I have had since I was a small boy. 403 00:18:46,893 --> 00:18:50,062 It makes me think this brick is speaking directly to me. 404 00:18:52,732 --> 00:18:55,600 What do you mean? 405 00:18:55,850 --> 00:18:58,704 Well, you see, uh...[laughs] 406 00:18:58,738 --> 00:19:00,640 You probably think I'm crazy. 407 00:19:00,706 --> 00:19:04,043 No. G-go on, please. 408 00:19:04,076 --> 00:19:08,047 For a while, I thought I was completely verruckt, 409 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:09,182 crazy as a cuckoo. 410 00:19:09,248 --> 00:19:12,685 [laughter] 411 00:19:12,752 --> 00:19:15,488 Many... many years ago, 412 00:19:15,710 --> 00:19:17,690 just before I received my brick, 413 00:19:17,723 --> 00:19:20,393 I-I had a very strange, uh, what do you call it, 414 00:19:20,459 --> 00:19:22,461 like a-- like a dream when you are awake. 415 00:19:22,495 --> 00:19:25,164 Uh, daydream? 416 00:19:25,198 --> 00:19:29,180 Yeah, but it felt real. 417 00:19:28,601 --> 00:19:31,370 A vision. 418 00:19:31,404 --> 00:19:35,240 This awful creature appeared in my bathroom. 419 00:19:34,607 --> 00:19:36,409 Sorry, did you-- a creature? 420 00:19:36,442 --> 00:19:39,312 [unsettling music playing] 421 00:19:39,378 --> 00:19:41,414 It was a man, 422 00:19:41,447 --> 00:19:45,985 but grotesque, awful. 423 00:19:46,018 --> 00:19:49,822 A face like wet bread. 424 00:19:49,856 --> 00:19:53,392 And it was most extraordinary, but somehow, 425 00:19:53,459 --> 00:19:57,630 I knew this creature was my brother. 426 00:19:57,663 --> 00:20:00,032 An awful, ugly version of him, 427 00:20:00,066 --> 00:20:03,903 this thing would never say a word. 428 00:20:03,936 --> 00:20:07,240 But I knew it was my brother all the same. 429 00:20:07,273 --> 00:20:09,775 How? 430 00:20:09,809 --> 00:20:12,979 A feeling. 431 00:20:13,045 --> 00:20:14,947 It was connected to me and I to it. 432 00:20:14,981 --> 00:20:17,817 [unsettling music continues] 433 00:20:17,850 --> 00:20:19,852 My brother was a teenager when he died. 434 00:20:19,919 --> 00:20:22,488 He had a bad heart. 435 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:26,392 Time was always against us. 436 00:20:26,459 --> 00:20:31,130 That creature in my bathtub watching me, 437 00:20:30,630 --> 00:20:31,931 telling me what I have always known. 438 00:20:38,437 --> 00:20:39,172 Which is? 439 00:20:42,742 --> 00:20:43,976 A part of me wanted him to die. 440 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:54,253 He was so clever and strong and loved. 441 00:20:54,287 --> 00:20:56,789 I could never compete. 442 00:20:56,822 --> 00:20:58,057 But then, he died. 443 00:20:58,124 --> 00:21:00,493 I felt... 444 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:02,395 happy. 445 00:21:02,461 --> 00:21:03,396 Relieved. 446 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:10,837 [Klaus sighs] And after this terrible vision, 447 00:21:10,870 --> 00:21:13,272 that's when I received the brick. 448 00:21:16,609 --> 00:21:18,911 But this vision was just your imagination, right? 449 00:21:18,945 --> 00:21:22,281 It wasn't actually real. 450 00:21:22,315 --> 00:21:24,670 The logical thinking part of my brain knew it wasn't real, 451 00:21:25,340 --> 00:21:27,954 but in my heart, it felt differently. 452 00:21:27,987 --> 00:21:32,658 It was like a hallucination. 453 00:21:32,692 --> 00:21:35,061 Even after I locked the brick away all those years ago, 454 00:21:35,127 --> 00:21:37,363 it still haunts me. 455 00:21:37,396 --> 00:21:41,767 A little less, but it's there. 456 00:21:41,834 --> 00:21:44,170 What makes you think you're not crazy, Mr. Lang? 457 00:21:44,203 --> 00:21:46,873 [Klaus laughs] 458 00:21:46,906 --> 00:21:49,242 You're right, yeah. 459 00:21:49,275 --> 00:21:50,877 A madman never thinks he's mad. 460 00:21:50,910 --> 00:21:52,278 [Klaus laughs] 461 00:21:52,311 --> 00:21:54,747 But I am normally 462 00:21:54,780 --> 00:21:57,320 a very straight-ahead kind of guy. 463 00:21:56,616 --> 00:21:58,284 No drink, no drugs. 464 00:21:58,317 --> 00:21:59,690 I like reality very much. 465 00:22:00,350 --> 00:22:02,488 [Klaus laughs] 466 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:05,625 And you think this vision is connected to the brick? 467 00:22:05,658 --> 00:22:07,293 I'm certain of it. 468 00:22:07,326 --> 00:22:10,463 [unsettling music playing] 469 00:22:10,496 --> 00:22:12,140 You don't believe me. 470 00:22:11,631 --> 00:22:12,665 [laughs] 471 00:22:15,101 --> 00:22:18,204 - No. - Okay. Very good. 472 00:22:18,237 --> 00:22:20,640 You are an investigator of the facts, 473 00:22:20,706 --> 00:22:21,807 not some silly conspiracy cuckoo. 474 00:22:24,110 --> 00:22:25,912 But know this: 475 00:22:25,945 --> 00:22:28,314 I am a good man. 476 00:22:28,381 --> 00:22:30,850 I do believe in the truth, in facts, 477 00:22:30,917 --> 00:22:32,618 and when I held this brick, 478 00:22:32,652 --> 00:22:36,088 it felt like something or someone 479 00:22:36,122 --> 00:22:36,889 was trying to talk to me. 480 00:22:40,090 --> 00:22:41,194 A message from far away. 481 00:22:43,729 --> 00:22:48,034 Are you saying you think this brick is alien? 482 00:22:48,067 --> 00:22:50,937 If you don't believe me, I am happy to send you a brick. 483 00:22:51,003 --> 00:22:55,041 - Really? - Ja. For a small fee. 484 00:22:55,074 --> 00:22:56,909 [laughs] You're selling them. 485 00:22:56,943 --> 00:22:59,145 Of course! Of course. 486 00:22:59,212 --> 00:23:01,480 I'm a businessman, after all. 487 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:02,949 I am willing to offer a good deal 488 00:23:02,982 --> 00:23:04,984 to a smart girl like you. 489 00:23:05,017 --> 00:23:08,855 Well, thank you, but, uh, 490 00:23:08,921 --> 00:23:10,730 I think I have everything I need. 491 00:23:11,060 --> 00:23:13,760 Very well. 492 00:23:14,090 --> 00:23:16,162 I hope you find what you're looking for. 493 00:23:16,195 --> 00:23:18,497 [pensive music playing] 494 00:23:18,810 --> 00:23:20,600 Mr. Lang, just... 495 00:23:20,666 --> 00:23:23,736 - Just one more thing. - Ja. 496 00:23:23,769 --> 00:23:26,000 That brick from Australia, the man you bought it from 497 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:28,140 sold it without permission. 498 00:23:28,207 --> 00:23:30,276 It was his housekeeper's, originally. 499 00:23:30,309 --> 00:23:30,943 Did you know that? 500 00:23:34,881 --> 00:23:37,450 Throw a rock and you will hit a gallery 501 00:23:37,483 --> 00:23:41,360 filled with stolen artwork. 502 00:23:40,620 --> 00:23:43,389 It was once a German pastime. 503 00:23:43,456 --> 00:23:44,657 I'm sure it's challenging to remain ethical 504 00:23:44,690 --> 00:23:47,994 in your industry. 505 00:23:48,027 --> 00:23:49,962 I really am quite busy, 506 00:23:49,996 --> 00:23:51,731 so if you have nothing else you need... 507 00:23:51,764 --> 00:23:55,101 Yes, thank you, um... 508 00:23:55,167 --> 00:23:56,202 thank you for your time, Mr. Lang. 509 00:23:56,235 --> 00:23:58,004 Guten tag. 510 00:23:58,037 --> 00:24:00,900 [distant thunder] 511 00:24:01,230 --> 00:24:04,477 [unsettling music playing] 512 00:24:04,940 --> 00:24:07,914 [interviewer] So you're telling me this object really exists? 513 00:24:07,947 --> 00:24:09,115 [Floramae] It was like nothing I'd ever seen. 514 00:24:09,148 --> 00:24:12,318 It changed my life. 515 00:24:12,351 --> 00:24:14,153 [Klaus] I never thought I would get a call 516 00:24:14,187 --> 00:24:16,789 about these funny little objects of mine. 517 00:24:16,822 --> 00:24:18,740 [Floramae] That's when I received the strangest thing, 518 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:20,893 this black brick. 519 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:22,962 [Klaus] About the size of a gold bar, 520 00:24:22,995 --> 00:24:25,164 darker than any other object I have seen. 521 00:24:25,198 --> 00:24:27,433 [voice speeds up, distorts] 522 00:24:27,500 --> 00:24:29,235 [interviewer] How did you receive your brick? 523 00:24:29,268 --> 00:24:31,904 [Klaus laughs] You probably think I'm crazy. 524 00:24:31,938 --> 00:24:33,639 [Floramae] The brick was such a long time ago. 525 00:24:33,706 --> 00:24:36,108 [Klaus] It felt like something or someone 526 00:24:36,142 --> 00:24:37,810 was trying to talk to me. 527 00:24:37,877 --> 00:24:40,313 [Floramae's voice speeds up, distorts] 528 00:24:40,379 --> 00:24:41,881 I thought that there was some kind of power over me. 529 00:24:41,914 --> 00:24:45,151 [Klaus] A message from far away. 530 00:24:45,184 --> 00:24:45,651 [Floramae] Yeah, it was probably all in my head. 531 00:24:45,685 --> 00:24:48,754 [sighs] 532 00:24:48,788 --> 00:24:51,157 [man laughs] Come on, it can't be that bad. 533 00:24:51,190 --> 00:24:54,360 [interviewer] Honestly, it's bad, Scott. 534 00:24:54,393 --> 00:24:58,998 Anonymous emails and visions and weird scratchings. 535 00:24:59,031 --> 00:25:01,000 Oh, and let's not forget the brick. 536 00:25:01,033 --> 00:25:04,737 I mean, come on, it's ridiculous. 537 00:25:04,770 --> 00:25:07,273 - A brick. - [Scott laughs] 538 00:25:07,306 --> 00:25:08,875 Even the woman says it herself, 539 00:25:08,908 --> 00:25:11,077 it was probably "all in my head." 540 00:25:11,110 --> 00:25:14,247 [Scott] Oh yeah. I know. 541 00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:16,660 I can't release this. 542 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:18,684 Tyler is going to fire me. 543 00:25:18,751 --> 00:25:22,370 Maybe that's not so bad. 544 00:25:21,621 --> 00:25:25,124 Maybe you need a rest. A reset. 545 00:25:25,157 --> 00:25:27,293 Seriously? Seriously, you think I should let Tyler fire me? 546 00:25:27,326 --> 00:25:29,729 [Scott] No... no. 547 00:25:29,795 --> 00:25:31,810 But after everything that's happened 548 00:25:32,140 --> 00:25:33,866 and the whole Langley thing, 549 00:25:33,900 --> 00:25:35,201 did you ever wonder if maybe-- 550 00:25:35,234 --> 00:25:38,204 My career is completely destroyed? 551 00:25:38,237 --> 00:25:40,406 Maybe you need a break. 552 00:25:40,439 --> 00:25:42,775 [sighs] 553 00:25:42,808 --> 00:25:44,710 Why does everyone keep saying this? 554 00:25:44,744 --> 00:25:46,045 I don't need a break. 555 00:25:46,078 --> 00:25:46,879 I need a story. 556 00:25:49,916 --> 00:25:52,151 I can't hide away like I did something wrong, Scott. 557 00:25:52,185 --> 00:25:55,755 No, but... these things take a toll. 558 00:25:55,788 --> 00:25:58,824 I miss you. 559 00:25:58,858 --> 00:26:01,627 I know this isn't fair, but the article and then-- 560 00:26:01,661 --> 00:26:04,363 That Langley article was important. 561 00:26:04,397 --> 00:26:08,868 - It was the truth. - Okay, okay. 562 00:26:08,901 --> 00:26:10,770 You know, Langley's cheer squad is camped outside my flat now. 563 00:26:10,837 --> 00:26:13,372 What? Jesus. 564 00:26:13,406 --> 00:26:14,707 Yeah. Some hero must have doxed me. 565 00:26:17,410 --> 00:26:21,247 I've gone back to Mom and Dad's for a bit. 566 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,449 I thought coming back here would help. 567 00:26:23,482 --> 00:26:26,018 Some time alone, find a story, but... 568 00:26:28,710 --> 00:26:32,124 I am stuck. 569 00:26:32,158 --> 00:26:34,460 It's okay to admit that you're exhausted. 570 00:26:34,493 --> 00:26:38,064 I'm not exhausted. I am humiliated. 571 00:26:38,130 --> 00:26:39,932 I tried to do the right thing, and look where it got me. 572 00:26:39,999 --> 00:26:41,901 I know. But... 573 00:26:41,934 --> 00:26:44,937 [Scott sighs] 574 00:26:45,004 --> 00:26:45,605 This kind of work isn't for everyone. 575 00:26:51,110 --> 00:26:53,980 I've just got to make a story that will make people listen. 576 00:26:54,046 --> 00:26:54,714 That is it. 577 00:26:57,350 --> 00:26:57,817 [sighs deeply] 578 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:03,022 [Floramae] Sometimes, I think I can still feel it, 579 00:27:03,089 --> 00:27:05,725 that power, 580 00:27:05,791 --> 00:27:10,396 like something unfinished. 581 00:27:10,463 --> 00:27:13,830 I can't explain it. I don't know. 582 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:17,370 This was 20 years ago, it's silly. 583 00:27:17,403 --> 00:27:21,040 I thought that there was some kind of power over me. 584 00:27:21,073 --> 00:27:21,774 Yeah, it was probably all in my head. 585 00:27:26,879 --> 00:27:28,314 Yeah, it was probably all in my head. 586 00:27:28,381 --> 00:27:32,084 [tapping at keys] 587 00:27:32,118 --> 00:27:34,754 I can't explain it. 588 00:27:34,787 --> 00:27:36,422 I don't know, this was 20 years a-- 589 00:27:38,858 --> 00:27:41,961 [clicking] 590 00:27:47,033 --> 00:27:49,902 Something unfinished. 591 00:27:49,936 --> 00:27:50,736 Some kind of power over me. 592 00:27:54,740 --> 00:27:57,877 Something unfinished. 593 00:27:57,910 --> 00:27:59,712 Some kind of power over me. 594 00:27:59,745 --> 00:28:01,614 [unsettling music playing] 595 00:28:11,023 --> 00:28:13,292 [interviewer] As I listen to Floramae and Klaus 596 00:28:13,326 --> 00:28:15,780 describe their experiences 597 00:28:16,110 --> 00:28:18,764 with these powerful, dark objects, 598 00:28:18,831 --> 00:28:22,235 I feel a kind of terror creep over me. 599 00:28:22,268 --> 00:28:25,037 Who sent this anonymous email 600 00:28:25,071 --> 00:28:26,210 and what do they want me to find? 601 00:28:28,641 --> 00:28:32,044 Floramae's words haunt me. 602 00:28:32,078 --> 00:28:33,246 An object filled with unknowable power. 603 00:28:36,115 --> 00:28:36,849 What do these bricks want from us? 604 00:28:39,151 --> 00:28:41,687 To solve this mystery, 605 00:28:41,754 --> 00:28:42,688 I need your help, listeners. 606 00:28:44,957 --> 00:28:47,693 I wanna know, 607 00:28:47,727 --> 00:28:49,962 is there anyone out there that knows anything, 608 00:28:49,996 --> 00:28:53,733 anything at all, about these bricks? 609 00:28:53,766 --> 00:28:58,104 And can we uncover the dark forces behind them 610 00:28:58,171 --> 00:29:00,106 before it's too late? 611 00:29:00,139 --> 00:29:01,774 [unsettling music continues] 612 00:29:10,917 --> 00:29:13,350 [clicking] 613 00:29:16,189 --> 00:29:18,057 [whoosh] 614 00:29:18,124 --> 00:29:19,125 [sighs] 615 00:29:19,158 --> 00:29:19,825 Okay. 616 00:29:21,661 --> 00:29:23,029 [sighs deeply] 617 00:29:26,365 --> 00:29:28,067 What do you reckon, Ian? 618 00:29:28,100 --> 00:29:30,937 Good idea? Bad idea? 619 00:29:31,003 --> 00:29:32,438 [bubbling] 620 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:34,407 Undecided, huh? 621 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:34,807 [notification chime] 622 00:29:38,211 --> 00:29:39,812 [click] 623 00:29:39,879 --> 00:29:42,982 [unsettling music playing] 624 00:29:43,015 --> 00:29:44,851 [sighs] 625 00:29:48,654 --> 00:29:50,730 [clicks] 626 00:29:51,060 --> 00:29:52,825 [somber music playing] 627 00:29:56,495 --> 00:29:59,699 [rapidly reverberating rhythm] 628 00:30:04,704 --> 00:30:06,639 [whispers] Happy birthday. 629 00:30:06,706 --> 00:30:08,040 [news anchor speaking indistinctly over TV] 630 00:30:12,445 --> 00:30:13,079 [notification chimes] 631 00:30:15,014 --> 00:30:16,415 [news continues indistinctly] 632 00:30:22,154 --> 00:30:22,989 [interviewer gasps] 633 00:30:30,730 --> 00:30:33,900 Are you saying you also have one of these objects? 634 00:30:33,933 --> 00:30:36,202 [American woman] Yes, ma'am. I received it two years ago. 635 00:30:36,235 --> 00:30:38,604 And you don't know Floramae or Klaus Lang? 636 00:30:38,671 --> 00:30:40,740 Never heard of 'em. 637 00:30:40,773 --> 00:30:43,209 But when I listened to your podcast, 638 00:30:43,242 --> 00:30:45,444 I thought, "Laura Sully, that's that damned rock." 639 00:30:45,478 --> 00:30:47,113 It feels like I've been waiting years 640 00:30:47,146 --> 00:30:49,949 to talk to somebody like you. 641 00:30:49,982 --> 00:30:53,986 Okay, then, um... how did it all start? 642 00:30:54,020 --> 00:30:58,191 A bit over two years ago, I got ill. 643 00:30:58,224 --> 00:30:59,458 Stopped eating. Felt like hell. 644 00:30:59,492 --> 00:31:01,360 Did you see a doctor? 645 00:31:01,394 --> 00:31:03,029 Every doctor in town, 646 00:31:03,062 --> 00:31:04,997 but no amount of scans 647 00:31:05,031 --> 00:31:06,432 or tests found a thing, 648 00:31:06,499 --> 00:31:08,334 but... 649 00:31:08,367 --> 00:31:10,203 I can't shake it, 650 00:31:10,236 --> 00:31:13,372 this weight hanging on me. 651 00:31:13,406 --> 00:31:15,641 It's the visions that really get me. 652 00:31:15,708 --> 00:31:17,109 You also get visions? 653 00:31:17,143 --> 00:31:19,078 Yes, ma'am. 654 00:31:19,111 --> 00:31:21,247 I call it hijacking. 655 00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:23,749 It feels violent. Invasive. 656 00:31:23,783 --> 00:31:26,953 And what do you see? 657 00:31:26,986 --> 00:31:28,710 Well, it's hard to know exactly when the vision starts 658 00:31:29,380 --> 00:31:32,750 and reality ends. 659 00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:34,060 It's always when I'm coming to work. 660 00:31:34,126 --> 00:31:36,796 I'm a financial consultant. 661 00:31:36,829 --> 00:31:40,499 Work in one of the tallest buildings in Ohio. 662 00:31:40,830 --> 00:31:44,904 I know I'm having this vision because there's a smell. 663 00:31:44,937 --> 00:31:47,220 It's really weird, but I can really smell it. 664 00:31:46,606 --> 00:31:47,273 What kind of smell? 665 00:31:50,209 --> 00:31:54,213 Um... best way I can describe it is rotting meat, 666 00:31:54,247 --> 00:31:58,330 like, old, rancid meat left out in the sun. 667 00:31:57,617 --> 00:32:01,487 [unsettling music playing] 668 00:32:01,710 --> 00:32:03,489 As I walk through my floor, 669 00:32:03,730 --> 00:32:06,692 I realize the whole office is empty. 670 00:32:06,726 --> 00:32:09,161 I'm spooked. 671 00:32:09,195 --> 00:32:15,201 It's just silent. It's deathly silent. 672 00:32:15,234 --> 00:32:17,770 Except for this wind whistling straight through the building. 673 00:32:17,837 --> 00:32:21,607 [wind howls] 674 00:32:21,641 --> 00:32:25,211 So I keep walking straight into my beautiful office. 675 00:32:25,244 --> 00:32:29,282 View of the city, all those streets below. 676 00:32:29,315 --> 00:32:31,817 There's a window, closed tight but still this wind, 677 00:32:31,851 --> 00:32:34,987 and I know-- don't ask me how, but I just-- 678 00:32:35,021 --> 00:32:38,224 I know the only thing that could stop 679 00:32:38,291 --> 00:32:40,660 this awful, empty feeling would be to keep walking 680 00:32:40,693 --> 00:32:42,628 straight out that window. 681 00:32:42,662 --> 00:32:44,997 [echoing thud] 682 00:32:45,031 --> 00:32:47,500 So that's what I do. 683 00:32:47,830 --> 00:32:48,601 And just before I hit the ground, 684 00:32:48,668 --> 00:32:49,936 I wake up and I'm at work. 685 00:32:50,002 --> 00:32:52,438 [unsettling music continues] 686 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:54,740 And people tell me that I have been 687 00:32:54,774 --> 00:32:57,076 walking through the building the whole time, 688 00:32:57,109 --> 00:32:59,245 talking to folks like there is nothing wrong, 689 00:32:59,278 --> 00:33:01,447 as though none of it ever happened. 690 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:04,750 Like I just dreamt all of it up. 691 00:33:04,784 --> 00:33:07,153 And that's when I stopped eating. 692 00:33:07,186 --> 00:33:10,256 That's when I received the black rock. 693 00:33:10,289 --> 00:33:10,857 [interviewer clears throat] Tell me about it. 694 00:33:14,293 --> 00:33:17,196 This rock ain't like anything I've ever seen or felt. 695 00:33:17,230 --> 00:33:21,000 It's more than just an object. 696 00:33:21,033 --> 00:33:24,403 It wants something from me. 697 00:33:24,437 --> 00:33:27,740 Do you still have it? 698 00:33:27,773 --> 00:33:30,810 It's sitting right in front of me. 699 00:33:30,877 --> 00:33:34,480 Could you, uh, could you send me a photograph of it? 700 00:33:34,970 --> 00:33:34,947 I don't see why not. 701 00:33:37,850 --> 00:33:40,419 Have you ever tried to get rid of it? 702 00:33:40,453 --> 00:33:43,122 Destroy it? 703 00:33:43,155 --> 00:33:44,790 Yeah, of course, I've thought about it, 704 00:33:44,824 --> 00:33:47,727 smashing the thing. 705 00:33:47,793 --> 00:33:50,630 Yeah. Anything to make it stop. 706 00:33:50,663 --> 00:33:52,999 But then, this... 707 00:33:53,032 --> 00:33:55,234 this feeling hits me, and... 708 00:33:59,038 --> 00:33:59,906 It's trying to tell me something 709 00:33:59,939 --> 00:34:01,707 and I gotta listen. 710 00:34:01,741 --> 00:34:03,643 [heartbeat-like rhythm pulses] 711 00:34:03,709 --> 00:34:07,970 What's it telling you? 712 00:34:08,300 --> 00:34:10,416 Something awful is coming, truly... 713 00:34:13,452 --> 00:34:16,720 Oh, I'm sorry, sorry. 714 00:34:17,390 --> 00:34:20,793 I'm sorry, I, uh, I hope this is helpful. 715 00:34:20,826 --> 00:34:22,695 How did you find it, Laura? 716 00:34:22,728 --> 00:34:25,198 What do you mean? 717 00:34:25,231 --> 00:34:26,766 Well, you say you received it, 718 00:34:26,832 --> 00:34:29,035 but how? 719 00:34:29,068 --> 00:34:32,371 Did it just turn up one day? 720 00:34:32,405 --> 00:34:35,408 Was it in a package or something? 721 00:34:35,441 --> 00:34:38,711 Uh, look, I-- I can't tell you that, 722 00:34:38,744 --> 00:34:43,115 it was just-- it was there, that's all. 723 00:34:43,149 --> 00:34:45,451 I need you to tell me everything, Laura, I-- 724 00:34:45,484 --> 00:34:47,753 I need to be able to verify your story. 725 00:34:47,787 --> 00:34:48,688 Uh, you think I'm making this up? 726 00:34:48,754 --> 00:34:51,791 No, of course not. 727 00:34:51,824 --> 00:34:53,860 But it is important that I have all the information. 728 00:34:53,893 --> 00:34:57,363 Look, maybe you can't understand, 729 00:34:57,396 --> 00:35:00,150 but there are some things that I just can't talk about. 730 00:35:00,490 --> 00:35:00,233 Simple as that. 731 00:35:03,035 --> 00:35:05,371 You can't or you won't, Laura? 732 00:35:05,404 --> 00:35:07,900 Look, I-- I have told you what I can. 733 00:35:08,230 --> 00:35:10,042 Uh, my kids are coming back from school 734 00:35:10,076 --> 00:35:11,777 and I just gotta go, so I'm-- I'm sorry... 735 00:35:11,811 --> 00:35:14,747 - No, please, Laura. - Please! 736 00:35:14,780 --> 00:35:16,983 Please! Please just help me. 737 00:35:17,016 --> 00:35:17,617 I can't keep living like this, please! 738 00:35:17,650 --> 00:35:19,352 Laura! 739 00:35:19,418 --> 00:35:20,786 [beeping as call disconnects] 740 00:35:22,855 --> 00:35:24,824 [bubbling] 741 00:35:27,493 --> 00:35:28,661 [printer clicking and whirring] 742 00:35:42,041 --> 00:35:44,310 This is Floramae King. 743 00:35:44,377 --> 00:35:47,146 My daughter Paula just played me your podcast. 744 00:35:47,213 --> 00:35:50,283 You changed my words around, and I... 745 00:35:50,316 --> 00:35:53,690 I don't want that family to hear me say those things. 746 00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:55,988 They were so angry last time.-[man 1] My friend refuses 747 00:35:56,022 --> 00:35:59,058 to tell me where it came from, like he is scared. 748 00:35:59,125 --> 00:36:02,128 [woman 1] The last we heard was she's in a secure facility. 749 00:36:02,161 --> 00:36:04,463 [man 2] Aliens are comin', and they want to destroy... 750 00:36:04,497 --> 00:36:06,399 [woman 2] Eight months after, we received this black rock. 751 00:36:06,432 --> 00:36:07,733 The operations manager in Dubai received one... 752 00:36:07,767 --> 00:36:09,335 [man 3] My father believed the stone 753 00:36:09,368 --> 00:36:10,770 was an omen sent from the dead. 754 00:36:10,837 --> 00:36:13,890 He won't tell me how he got it. 755 00:36:14,230 --> 00:36:15,107 [woman 3] We are all scared that we will get one next. 756 00:36:15,141 --> 00:36:18,811 But why? What is this rock? What does it want? 757 00:36:18,878 --> 00:36:21,614 [man 2] Every civilization has an end, and this is ours! 758 00:36:21,647 --> 00:36:23,616 [man 2] Are you listening to me? 759 00:36:23,649 --> 00:36:28,321 [montage of voices and email notifications] 760 00:36:28,354 --> 00:36:31,190 [man 4] You have to stop this podcast! 761 00:36:31,224 --> 00:36:33,125 [interviewer] When did your grandfather receive the brick? 762 00:36:33,159 --> 00:36:35,194 [man 4] You're making it worse. The brick is spreading. 763 00:36:35,228 --> 00:36:36,996 We shouldn't be talking about this. 764 00:36:37,029 --> 00:36:39,765 [interviewer] Just a couple more minutes. 765 00:36:39,832 --> 00:36:43,703 Did your grandfather ever tell you how he received it 766 00:36:43,736 --> 00:36:46,606 or if someone gave it to him? 767 00:36:46,639 --> 00:36:50,250 [man 4] He refused. 768 00:36:49,609 --> 00:36:52,712 He said we wouldn't believe it. That he was ashamed. 769 00:36:52,745 --> 00:36:56,115 Other people talk about getting visions. 770 00:36:56,148 --> 00:36:59,685 Has your grandfather ever experienced anything like that? 771 00:36:59,752 --> 00:37:02,355 I told him I wouldn't tell anyone. 772 00:37:02,421 --> 00:37:04,724 I only called to warn you! 773 00:37:04,790 --> 00:37:07,860 I'm trying to understand what these bricks are, 774 00:37:07,894 --> 00:37:10,062 but you have to tell me what has happened. 775 00:37:13,733 --> 00:37:16,169 Let me help you. 776 00:37:16,202 --> 00:37:18,880 We can speak off the record. 777 00:37:19,210 --> 00:37:20,773 [faint traffic sounds] 778 00:37:20,806 --> 00:37:21,407 You won't record us? 779 00:37:24,277 --> 00:37:24,977 I won't record us. 780 00:37:27,647 --> 00:37:31,017 Okay... okay. 781 00:37:31,083 --> 00:37:33,786 We can talk, but not for long. 782 00:37:33,819 --> 00:37:38,124 [man breathing shakily] 783 00:37:38,157 --> 00:37:43,129 My grandfather has been having these visions, yes? 784 00:37:43,162 --> 00:37:45,731 [unsettling music playing] 785 00:37:45,765 --> 00:37:48,000 Many years ago, 786 00:37:48,034 --> 00:37:50,403 my grandfather had an affair 787 00:37:50,436 --> 00:37:53,372 and fathered a son with another woman. 788 00:37:53,406 --> 00:37:55,408 We never knew. 789 00:37:55,441 --> 00:37:58,277 Years later, 790 00:37:58,311 --> 00:38:02,014 he sees this woman at a shopping mall. 791 00:38:02,081 --> 00:38:07,486 She has her son, his son, with her. 792 00:38:07,700 --> 00:38:09,422 But the boy looks at him like a stranger. 793 00:38:12,225 --> 00:38:14,026 He never saw them again. 794 00:38:14,060 --> 00:38:18,130 [unsettling music continues] 795 00:38:17,630 --> 00:38:20,833 One night a few months ago, 796 00:38:20,867 --> 00:38:25,204 I found my grandfather in the dining room alone. 797 00:38:25,238 --> 00:38:30,443 I have never seen him look so frightened. 798 00:38:30,476 --> 00:38:33,212 He was whispering to an empty chair, saying, 799 00:38:33,246 --> 00:38:37,683 "I am sorry, I am sorry," over and over again. 800 00:38:40,353 --> 00:38:44,223 He told me that for weeks, every night, 801 00:38:44,290 --> 00:38:48,294 a young boy had sat eating dinner with us. 802 00:38:48,327 --> 00:38:49,662 Only my grandfather could see him. 803 00:38:52,698 --> 00:38:54,700 He believed it was his son haunting him. 804 00:38:59,372 --> 00:39:03,109 A few weeks ago, the boy stopped coming. 805 00:39:03,142 --> 00:39:05,978 The brick is gone. 806 00:39:06,045 --> 00:39:10,116 But my grandfather has changed. 807 00:39:13,686 --> 00:39:18,724 Like he has been replaced with something else. 808 00:39:24,030 --> 00:39:25,932 [man] Hello? 809 00:39:25,998 --> 00:39:27,366 Are you there? Hello? 810 00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:28,935 Um... yes, sorry. 811 00:39:32,238 --> 00:39:34,407 You said your grandfather's brick has disappeared. 812 00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:36,742 I told you, it's gone. 813 00:39:36,776 --> 00:39:39,950 And ever since, he's different. 814 00:39:40,290 --> 00:39:41,147 - [man sighs heavily] - Different how? 815 00:39:41,214 --> 00:39:43,816 There's nothing behind his eyes. 816 00:39:43,850 --> 00:39:47,286 - No soul. - Right. 817 00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:49,755 And now, my father has been getting sick. 818 00:39:49,789 --> 00:39:51,624 The same sick as my grandfather. 819 00:39:51,657 --> 00:39:54,026 He won't eat. Can't work. 820 00:39:54,060 --> 00:39:55,661 I'm so scared he's going to receive 821 00:39:55,695 --> 00:39:58,164 this object as well. 822 00:39:58,197 --> 00:40:00,233 Is he also getting visions? 823 00:40:00,266 --> 00:40:02,401 Yes. He is terrified. 824 00:40:02,435 --> 00:40:03,603 He knows what is coming. 825 00:40:03,669 --> 00:40:06,210 I could be next. 826 00:40:05,605 --> 00:40:07,907 Any of us could be next. 827 00:40:07,940 --> 00:40:09,442 It is spreading like a disease 828 00:40:09,475 --> 00:40:14,290 or an invasion. 829 00:40:13,613 --> 00:40:16,949 This is why it is dangerous to keep doing the podcast. 830 00:40:16,983 --> 00:40:17,683 Don't you understand? 831 00:40:20,753 --> 00:40:23,089 Nobody listens to me. 832 00:40:23,122 --> 00:40:24,490 I go to the police, to the doctors, 833 00:40:24,740 --> 00:40:26,626 to the government, 834 00:40:26,659 --> 00:40:28,060 but they all tell me I'm crazy. 835 00:40:31,130 --> 00:40:33,032 Do you think I am crazy? 836 00:40:35,067 --> 00:40:36,102 No, I don't. 837 00:40:39,038 --> 00:40:43,809 I think you're frightened and confused, 838 00:40:43,876 --> 00:40:45,945 and something is happening that you don't understand, 839 00:40:45,978 --> 00:40:48,781 and you and your family deserve the truth. 840 00:40:52,151 --> 00:40:52,618 Thank you. 841 00:40:55,710 --> 00:40:58,391 But I'm warning you. 842 00:40:58,457 --> 00:41:00,726 You have to stop what you're doing. 843 00:41:00,793 --> 00:41:02,895 You are in danger. 844 00:41:02,962 --> 00:41:03,996 What if the brick comes after you? 845 00:41:04,030 --> 00:41:05,898 I really don't think-- 846 00:41:05,932 --> 00:41:08,000 Please, end this now. 847 00:41:08,034 --> 00:41:08,901 That is all I am asking. 848 00:41:11,270 --> 00:41:13,406 [beeping as call disconnects] 849 00:41:13,439 --> 00:41:15,910 [unsettling music playing] 850 00:41:16,250 --> 00:41:17,643 [juicer roars] 851 00:41:20,112 --> 00:41:22,081 [rain pattering] 852 00:41:28,754 --> 00:41:29,889 [unsettling music playing] 853 00:42:31,617 --> 00:42:35,421 Mm-mm! Who's a lucky boy, Ian? 854 00:42:35,454 --> 00:42:36,656 Yeah, go on, go on! 855 00:42:38,824 --> 00:42:39,750 Eat it, Ian. 856 00:42:44,163 --> 00:42:46,899 [soft mechanical whirring] 857 00:42:56,776 --> 00:42:59,879 [faint gusting of wind] 858 00:42:59,912 --> 00:43:01,414 [insects faintly chirring] 859 00:43:03,015 --> 00:43:03,649 [laughs softly] 860 00:43:26,072 --> 00:43:28,641 [rapid rhythmic reverberation] 861 00:43:40,286 --> 00:43:40,620 [notification chimes] 862 00:43:45,858 --> 00:43:51,931 [slow, rhythmic percussion music playing] 863 00:43:51,998 --> 00:43:55,601 Hi. You've reached Scott Evans, Linguistics, at MIT. 864 00:43:55,668 --> 00:43:56,035 Leave a message and I'll get back to you. Cheers. 865 00:43:56,068 --> 00:43:57,800 [beep] 866 00:43:57,870 --> 00:43:59,672 [interviewer] Hey. 867 00:43:59,705 --> 00:44:03,743 Remember my crazy little brick story? 868 00:44:03,776 --> 00:44:08,147 Well, it's blowing up, and, uh, 869 00:44:08,214 --> 00:44:10,183 I've got some scans I would like you to take a look at. 870 00:44:13,452 --> 00:44:18,224 It's, uh... it's pretty wild, so, open mind, okay? 871 00:44:18,291 --> 00:44:19,859 Let me know. Speak soon. 872 00:44:24,463 --> 00:44:28,201 [deeply inhales, exhales] 873 00:44:28,234 --> 00:44:30,800 [rhythmic percussion music continues, faster] 874 00:44:36,475 --> 00:44:38,744 [eerie, unsettling music] 875 00:44:49,889 --> 00:44:51,740 [faint sounds of storm] 876 00:44:55,328 --> 00:44:59,232 [printer thunking and whirring] 877 00:44:59,265 --> 00:45:03,102 [Scott] Okay. What the hell am I looking at? 878 00:45:03,169 --> 00:45:04,904 Where did you get these from? 879 00:45:04,937 --> 00:45:06,405 [interviewer] An art collector. 880 00:45:06,439 --> 00:45:09,408 What do you think? 881 00:45:09,442 --> 00:45:10,309 [Scott] It's not a language I recognize. 882 00:45:10,376 --> 00:45:13,112 [interviewer] And? 883 00:45:13,145 --> 00:45:14,714 [Scott] Linguistically speaking, they're quite... 884 00:45:14,747 --> 00:45:17,149 unique. 885 00:45:17,183 --> 00:45:19,318 - [interviewer] But? - [Scott] Listen. 886 00:45:19,352 --> 00:45:21,710 Are you quite sure your man the art collector-- 887 00:45:22,370 --> 00:45:22,989 [interviewer] Klaus.-[Scott] Right. 888 00:45:23,022 --> 00:45:26,025 Klaus the art collector. 889 00:45:26,058 --> 00:45:27,693 Are you quite sure he's not having you on? 890 00:45:27,727 --> 00:45:28,694 [interviewer] What do you mean? 891 00:45:28,728 --> 00:45:31,631 [Scott] Oh, come on. 892 00:45:31,664 --> 00:45:33,399 It wouldn't be the first time somebody made something up 893 00:45:33,432 --> 00:45:36,235 for a bit of notoriety, would it? 894 00:45:36,269 --> 00:45:39,071 Have you even seen one of these bricks? 895 00:45:39,105 --> 00:45:42,475 Not personally, but I've got photographs. 896 00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:44,710 [Scott, dubiously] Right. 897 00:45:44,744 --> 00:45:45,950 These people... 898 00:45:49,615 --> 00:45:53,319 I believe they've all had an experience of some kind 899 00:45:53,352 --> 00:45:56,622 - related to this artifact. - [Scott] Mm-hm. 900 00:45:56,656 --> 00:46:01,827 Whether it's an object from Earth or somewhere else-- 901 00:46:01,861 --> 00:46:04,163 You're not serious! Listen-- 902 00:46:04,197 --> 00:46:05,765 I also found an article about a phenomenon 903 00:46:05,831 --> 00:46:08,734 that matches these bricks. 904 00:46:08,768 --> 00:46:10,870 I think the UK government was investigating this 905 00:46:10,903 --> 00:46:14,874 as far back as the '80s, Scott. 906 00:46:14,907 --> 00:46:16,709 One article is hardly a government conspiracy. 907 00:46:16,742 --> 00:46:19,779 This is a good story. 908 00:46:19,812 --> 00:46:21,414 Could you just tell me about the language 909 00:46:21,447 --> 00:46:24,670 - on the scans, please? - [Scott sighs] 910 00:46:25,340 --> 00:46:26,652 It could be some sort of complex 911 00:46:26,686 --> 00:46:28,654 semantographic alphabet, 912 00:46:28,688 --> 00:46:32,792 but it feels untethered from any language I know of. 913 00:46:32,825 --> 00:46:34,894 What, like a completely unknown language? 914 00:46:34,961 --> 00:46:37,330 Not quite. 915 00:46:37,363 --> 00:46:40,333 You say each scan is different. 916 00:46:40,366 --> 00:46:43,769 Yeah. Well, I mean, clearly the same type of symbols, 917 00:46:43,836 --> 00:46:44,704 but each brick's symbols are unique. 918 00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:50,309 On the surface, it seems really random, 919 00:46:50,376 --> 00:46:53,880 but one theory is that the symbols are related 920 00:46:53,913 --> 00:46:56,782 to the person who received it. 921 00:46:56,816 --> 00:47:01,120 Like a personal data set. 922 00:47:01,153 --> 00:47:04,123 Klaus seemed to think so. He... 923 00:47:04,156 --> 00:47:05,992 He recognized symbols that meant something to him 924 00:47:06,025 --> 00:47:08,694 personally. 925 00:47:08,728 --> 00:47:10,630 At the time, I thought he was nuts, 926 00:47:10,663 --> 00:47:12,331 but now, I might actually-- -Hang on. 927 00:47:12,365 --> 00:47:14,734 Even if this is what you think it is, 928 00:47:14,767 --> 00:47:17,937 some kind of alien language or data set or whatever, 929 00:47:18,004 --> 00:47:20,039 no university would touch it 930 00:47:20,072 --> 00:47:22,942 without some sort of authenticity test. 931 00:47:22,975 --> 00:47:25,111 Can you imagine the amount of conlangs we see every year? 932 00:47:25,144 --> 00:47:28,915 [bubbling] 933 00:47:28,948 --> 00:47:32,251 I don't want you to make an idiot of yourself. 934 00:47:32,285 --> 00:47:33,352 What they did to you at The Journal was rubbish, but-- 935 00:47:33,419 --> 00:47:35,922 This has got nothing to do with that. 936 00:47:35,955 --> 00:47:38,057 No? 937 00:47:38,124 --> 00:47:39,125 This is nothing like David Langley. 938 00:47:39,158 --> 00:47:41,194 Isn't it? 939 00:47:41,227 --> 00:47:42,461 You believed he was guilty. 940 00:47:42,495 --> 00:47:46,098 He was guilty. He's a criminal. 941 00:47:46,165 --> 00:47:47,867 But you didn't background-check your source properly 942 00:47:47,900 --> 00:47:49,402 because you wanted to believe it, 943 00:47:49,435 --> 00:47:50,069 didn't you? 944 00:47:53,172 --> 00:47:56,475 You're right, Langley probably was guilty. 945 00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:57,276 But you didn't have the evidence to prove it. 946 00:47:57,310 --> 00:47:59,879 [scoffs] 947 00:47:59,912 --> 00:48:02,248 The public needed to know the truth. 948 00:48:02,281 --> 00:48:03,115 And you needed to be the one who told them. 949 00:48:07,153 --> 00:48:10,890 You know how much I respect you. 950 00:48:10,957 --> 00:48:13,860 But all I'm saying... 951 00:48:13,893 --> 00:48:16,629 Do you really believe this, 952 00:48:16,662 --> 00:48:19,140 or do you just want to believe it? 953 00:48:18,631 --> 00:48:21,767 [unsettling music playing] 954 00:48:21,834 --> 00:48:24,190 [shower running] 955 00:48:26,839 --> 00:48:28,608 [water draining] 956 00:48:35,414 --> 00:48:36,115 [sighs] 957 00:48:40,987 --> 00:48:41,687 [sighs] 958 00:48:45,625 --> 00:48:51,697 [rapid reverberating rhythm] 959 00:48:51,731 --> 00:48:54,834 [sighs] 960 00:48:54,867 --> 00:48:55,600 [soft voice] Knock-knock. 961 00:48:55,850 --> 00:48:57,870 [doorbell chiming] 962 00:48:57,904 --> 00:48:59,705 [water running] 963 00:49:01,707 --> 00:49:03,442 [chime sounds] 964 00:49:07,713 --> 00:49:09,081 [chime sounding] 965 00:49:12,685 --> 00:49:14,287 [audible breathing] 966 00:49:22,461 --> 00:49:23,029 [metal sliding] 967 00:49:34,373 --> 00:49:35,908 [audible breathing] 968 00:49:35,942 --> 00:49:36,609 [beep] 969 00:49:41,214 --> 00:49:43,649 [door opens] 970 00:49:43,683 --> 00:49:45,284 [wind howling softly] 971 00:49:49,255 --> 00:49:50,122 Hello? 972 00:49:54,060 --> 00:49:55,228 Hello? 973 00:49:55,294 --> 00:49:57,029 [dog barking] 974 00:50:10,409 --> 00:50:15,648 [unsettling music playing] 975 00:50:15,681 --> 00:50:19,285 [laughing softly] 976 00:50:22,021 --> 00:50:22,688 Jesus Christ. 977 00:50:35,201 --> 00:50:36,402 [unsettling music continues] 978 00:50:40,940 --> 00:50:41,741 [inhales] 979 00:50:55,254 --> 00:50:55,855 [exhales] 980 00:51:08,334 --> 00:51:11,337 [indistinct chatter on video] 981 00:51:11,370 --> 00:51:12,939 [woman] Sweetie, come over here. 982 00:51:13,005 --> 00:51:14,373 That's it. Come on, everybody. 983 00:51:14,407 --> 00:51:16,108 Cake time. 984 00:51:16,142 --> 00:51:18,911 [indistinct chatter, laughter] 985 00:51:18,945 --> 00:51:21,214 [party people in video] ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪ 986 00:51:21,247 --> 00:51:24,016 ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪ 987 00:51:24,083 --> 00:51:27,353 ♪ Happy birthday Happy birthday ♪ 988 00:51:27,420 --> 00:51:31,657 ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪ 989 00:51:31,691 --> 00:51:33,693 [woman] Blow out the candles. That's it. 990 00:51:33,726 --> 00:51:36,662 [cheering, laughing] 991 00:51:36,696 --> 00:51:39,398 You're a big nine-year-old now. 992 00:51:39,432 --> 00:51:41,267 [young interviewer] Mm-hm. Nine's my favorite number. 993 00:51:41,334 --> 00:51:42,935 It's gonna be the best year ever. 994 00:51:43,002 --> 00:51:46,239 I've wanted to be nine for so long. 995 00:51:46,272 --> 00:51:47,240 [interviewer's dad] What did you get for your birthday? 996 00:51:47,273 --> 00:51:49,475 Um, a remote-controlled car. 997 00:51:49,920 --> 00:51:52,278 - [dad] Yeah? - And a bike. 998 00:51:52,311 --> 00:51:55,114 And some other stuff like books and things that I have to have 999 00:51:55,147 --> 00:51:57,350 'cause they're good for you and make you smart. 1000 00:51:57,416 --> 00:51:59,318 [dad] Yeah, well, you're a very lucky girl, aren't you? 1001 00:51:59,352 --> 00:52:00,786 [young interviewer] And a black brick! 1002 00:52:00,820 --> 00:52:02,622 [dad] What do you mean, darling? 1003 00:52:02,655 --> 00:52:05,157 I got a black brick. It's really pretty. 1004 00:52:05,191 --> 00:52:07,994 [dad] A really pretty brick? Wow. 1005 00:52:08,027 --> 00:52:10,830 The birthday fairy was really generous, wasn't she? 1006 00:52:10,863 --> 00:52:13,332 - What do you say? - [young interviewer] Thank you! 1007 00:52:13,366 --> 00:52:14,367 Thank you, thank you! Thank you, thank you! 1008 00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:17,190 Thank you, thank-- 1009 00:52:16,602 --> 00:52:18,871 [audible breathing] 1010 00:52:18,905 --> 00:52:20,773 [dad] Hi, I'm unavailable right now. 1011 00:52:20,806 --> 00:52:23,250 Just leave a message and I'll get back to ya. 1012 00:52:22,608 --> 00:52:26,280 - [voicemail beeps] - Dad, uh-- 1013 00:52:25,611 --> 00:52:28,981 Someone just left a package at the door, and, um, 1014 00:52:29,015 --> 00:52:31,083 and there was a-- there was a video. 1015 00:52:31,117 --> 00:52:33,352 I'm just really confused. 1016 00:52:33,419 --> 00:52:36,822 Can you just call me when you get this, please? 1017 00:52:36,856 --> 00:52:40,726 [people in video] ♪ To you Happy birthday to you ♪ 1018 00:52:40,793 --> 00:52:44,330 ♪ Happy birthday Happy birthday ♪ 1019 00:52:44,363 --> 00:52:48,267 ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪ 1020 00:52:48,334 --> 00:52:50,369 [mom] Blow out the candles. That's it. 1021 00:52:50,403 --> 00:52:53,706 [cheering, laughing] 1022 00:52:53,739 --> 00:52:55,908 [mom] You're a big nine-year-old now. 1023 00:52:55,942 --> 00:52:57,743 [girl] Mm-hm. Nine's my favorite number. 1024 00:52:57,777 --> 00:52:59,612 Gonna be the best year ever. 1025 00:52:59,645 --> 00:53:02,982 I've wanted to be nine for so long. 1026 00:53:03,015 --> 00:53:05,985 [unsettling music playing] 1027 00:53:28,207 --> 00:53:30,309 [Klaus] Oh, the podcaster. 1028 00:53:30,376 --> 00:53:30,910 Why are you ringing me, please? 1029 00:53:33,212 --> 00:53:34,447 I'm ringing because I need to know 1030 00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:35,781 if you're ****ing with me. 1031 00:53:35,815 --> 00:53:38,284 I'm sorry? 1032 00:53:38,317 --> 00:53:39,685 What's happening? You seem very upset. 1033 00:53:39,752 --> 00:53:41,988 Yes, I'm very upset. 1034 00:53:42,021 --> 00:53:44,740 I want to know why I just received a symbol 1035 00:53:45,070 --> 00:53:48,494 from your volumetric scan in a ****ing package 1036 00:53:48,780 --> 00:53:50,663 accompanying a video of me as a nine-year-old 1037 00:53:50,696 --> 00:53:53,232 where I say I received a black brick, 1038 00:53:53,266 --> 00:53:57,003 which makes me think you're ****in' around, 1039 00:53:57,036 --> 00:53:59,405 trying to spook me for some reason. 1040 00:53:59,438 --> 00:54:00,740 I don't know what you're talking about. 1041 00:54:00,773 --> 00:54:02,975 A symbol? You have a brick? 1042 00:54:03,042 --> 00:54:04,277 You can't do this to me. 1043 00:54:04,310 --> 00:54:07,813 I will call the cops. 1044 00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:10,483 - I will ruin your gallery. - I'm doing nothing. 1045 00:54:10,660 --> 00:54:13,319 I'm at the playground with my grandchildren. 1046 00:54:13,352 --> 00:54:15,621 Please listen. I really don't know what you're talking about. 1047 00:54:15,655 --> 00:54:17,123 I'm telling you the truth. 1048 00:54:17,156 --> 00:54:17,990 I have no reason to lie to you. 1049 00:54:22,361 --> 00:54:24,864 You're starting to think this Klaus character 1050 00:54:24,897 --> 00:54:27,033 not so crazy, huh? 1051 00:54:27,066 --> 00:54:28,201 Be straight with me. Are these bricks real? 1052 00:54:28,234 --> 00:54:29,235 Yes. 1053 00:54:33,172 --> 00:54:36,909 How do you know if you're having these visions? 1054 00:54:36,943 --> 00:54:38,744 The bricks have really got under your skin, 1055 00:54:38,778 --> 00:54:39,745 haven't they? 1056 00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:44,350 You ask what is the difference 1057 00:54:44,417 --> 00:54:47,486 between these visions and reality. 1058 00:54:47,700 --> 00:54:50,623 I really don't know. 1059 00:54:50,656 --> 00:54:53,226 Depending on which way you look at it, 1060 00:54:53,292 --> 00:54:56,195 perhaps nothing. 1061 00:54:56,229 --> 00:54:58,898 Klaus, I want you to show me the brick. 1062 00:55:01,767 --> 00:55:04,103 Prove to me they're real. 1063 00:55:04,170 --> 00:55:06,072 Okay. Tomorrow. I can go to my-- 1064 00:55:06,105 --> 00:55:10,076 No. Not tomorrow, now. 1065 00:55:10,109 --> 00:55:11,944 I told you, I'm at a playground. 1066 00:55:11,978 --> 00:55:13,112 My granddaughter just-- 1067 00:55:13,145 --> 00:55:15,181 I'm sure the authorities would be interested 1068 00:55:15,248 --> 00:55:17,016 in checking the provenance certificates 1069 00:55:17,083 --> 00:55:19,151 of the artwork you sell. 1070 00:55:19,185 --> 00:55:21,621 I can make the call 1071 00:55:21,654 --> 00:55:24,724 and see just how interested they might be. 1072 00:55:24,790 --> 00:55:25,224 Are you threatening me? 1073 00:55:25,291 --> 00:55:26,392 Yes, I am. 1074 00:55:33,499 --> 00:55:34,840 You just have to help me, Klaus, please. 1075 00:55:37,837 --> 00:55:39,772 Give me 30 minutes. 1076 00:55:39,839 --> 00:55:40,306 [phone beeps] 1077 00:55:45,044 --> 00:55:46,612 [wind howling softly] 1078 00:55:57,223 --> 00:55:57,890 [beep] 1079 00:56:04,130 --> 00:56:05,810 Hello? 1080 00:56:06,150 --> 00:56:08,734 [wind howling softly] 1081 00:56:08,768 --> 00:56:11,200 If anyone's out there, I'm not scared. 1082 00:56:20,780 --> 00:56:22,415 [microwave humming] 1083 00:56:28,120 --> 00:56:29,288 [microwave beeping] 1084 00:56:29,322 --> 00:56:32,158 [vomiting] 1085 00:56:32,191 --> 00:56:33,359 [spits] 1086 00:56:33,392 --> 00:56:34,126 [coughs] 1087 00:56:36,329 --> 00:56:39,365 [water running] 1088 00:56:39,398 --> 00:56:42,668 [unsettling music playing] 1089 00:56:42,702 --> 00:56:43,860 [breathing shakily] Eat. 1090 00:56:45,872 --> 00:56:48,774 Eat. Come on, Ian. 1091 00:56:48,808 --> 00:56:51,310 [sighs] What is wrong with you, stupid turtle? 1092 00:56:51,377 --> 00:56:54,113 [filter bubbling] 1093 00:56:54,146 --> 00:56:58,284 [unsettling music continues] 1094 00:56:58,317 --> 00:57:00,820 [sighs] 1095 00:57:00,853 --> 00:57:02,488 [cell phone ringing] 1096 00:57:06,359 --> 00:57:08,728 Klaus, what the **** took you so long? 1097 00:57:08,794 --> 00:57:11,931 [Klaus] I'm here in my vault. 1098 00:57:11,998 --> 00:57:13,830 - Just wait. - I haven't 1099 00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:15,101 seen the brick for so long, 1100 00:57:15,167 --> 00:57:16,235 but it looks how I remember. 1101 00:57:16,269 --> 00:57:19,210 Hold on, I need to record this. 1102 00:57:18,604 --> 00:57:23,250 After all these years, it feels the same. 1103 00:57:22,608 --> 00:57:24,410 That awful feeling. 1104 00:57:24,443 --> 00:57:25,912 You said you had a few bricks. 1105 00:57:25,945 --> 00:57:28,648 You've got-- you've got dozens. 1106 00:57:28,681 --> 00:57:31,017 I spent my life collecting, trying to understand, 1107 00:57:31,083 --> 00:57:31,951 but none of it matters now. 1108 00:57:34,620 --> 00:57:35,788 My brother is here. 1109 00:57:35,821 --> 00:57:39,080 [groaning] 1110 00:57:38,624 --> 00:57:40,226 What? 1111 00:57:40,293 --> 00:57:41,627 You can see him? 1112 00:57:41,661 --> 00:57:44,030 I can sense him. 1113 00:57:44,063 --> 00:57:46,899 He's here. 1114 00:57:46,933 --> 00:57:50,860 And this sound, all I can hear is this sound. 1115 00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:51,904 [groaning] 1116 00:57:51,938 --> 00:57:54,240 Klaus, I can't see. 1117 00:57:54,273 --> 00:57:57,143 You need to show me what is happening. 1118 00:57:57,210 --> 00:57:59,912 Please, stop, stop, stop! 1119 00:57:59,946 --> 00:58:02,248 What are you doing? 1120 00:58:02,281 --> 00:58:04,250 It has to end. Yes, it must. 1121 00:58:04,283 --> 00:58:05,985 Klaus, can-- can you hear me? 1122 00:58:06,018 --> 00:58:08,254 Pick up the phone. 1123 00:58:08,287 --> 00:58:11,023 [groaning, thudding] 1124 00:58:18,197 --> 00:58:19,899 [groans] 1125 00:58:19,932 --> 00:58:22,902 [unsettling music continues] 1126 00:58:22,935 --> 00:58:23,870 [groaning] 1127 00:58:23,903 --> 00:58:26,210 Klaus. 1128 00:58:25,605 --> 00:58:26,239 There's nothing... 1129 00:58:29,075 --> 00:58:30,810 [bubbling, squelching] 1130 00:58:30,877 --> 00:58:32,812 Oh my god. 1131 00:58:32,879 --> 00:58:35,281 [rustling] 1132 00:58:35,314 --> 00:58:37,450 [phone beeps] 1133 00:58:37,483 --> 00:58:39,485 ****. 1134 00:58:39,690 --> 00:58:41,354 [audible breathing] 1135 00:58:41,420 --> 00:58:45,070 [phone ringing] 1136 00:58:44,624 --> 00:58:45,391 [female voice] The number you have dialed 1137 00:58:45,458 --> 00:58:47,627 is currently unavailable. 1138 00:58:47,660 --> 00:58:51,364 Please leave a message and try again. 1139 00:58:51,397 --> 00:58:54,066 The number you have dialed is currently unavailable. 1140 00:58:54,100 --> 00:58:55,334 Please leave a message and try again. 1141 00:58:55,368 --> 00:58:59,210 [audible breathing] 1142 00:58:58,604 --> 00:59:02,308 I can sense him. He's here. 1143 00:59:02,375 --> 00:59:05,311 And this sound, all I can hear is this sound. 1144 00:59:05,378 --> 00:59:06,979 Welcome to Beyond Believable. 1145 00:59:07,046 --> 00:59:09,749 [overlapping chatter] 1146 00:59:09,782 --> 00:59:12,318 I believe my life is in danger. 1147 00:59:12,351 --> 00:59:15,154 [woman] But why? What is this rock? What does it want? 1148 00:59:15,188 --> 00:59:16,989 [Klaus] Trying to understand, but none of that matters now. 1149 00:59:17,023 --> 00:59:18,191 [man] Are you listening to me? 1150 00:59:18,224 --> 00:59:19,492 [interviewer] What happened... 1151 00:59:19,750 --> 00:59:21,494 in Klaus Lang's art vault? 1152 00:59:21,770 --> 00:59:22,995 [man] Every civilization has... 1153 00:59:23,029 --> 00:59:25,164 Thank you, thank you! 1154 00:59:25,198 --> 00:59:26,820 And was I the last person to speak to him alive? 1155 00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:29,735 [man] For ****'s sake. 1156 00:59:29,769 --> 00:59:31,270 [Scott] But it feels untethered from any language I know of. 1157 00:59:31,337 --> 00:59:34,230 [man] I only called to warn you. 1158 00:59:33,606 --> 00:59:34,473 [woman] Unlike anything I've ever seen before. 1159 00:59:34,900 --> 00:59:36,776 [overlapping chatter] 1160 00:59:36,809 --> 00:59:39,312 I have to continue this podcast. 1161 00:59:39,378 --> 00:59:41,640 I have to find the truth. 1162 00:59:42,310 --> 00:59:44,450 [Klaus] All I can hear is this sound. 1163 00:59:44,483 --> 00:59:48,855 [man] But my grandfather has changed. 1164 00:59:48,921 --> 00:59:51,791 Something terrible is coming. 1165 00:59:51,824 --> 00:59:53,693 Something... 1166 00:59:53,726 --> 00:59:55,027 [woman] But it was me it chose. 1167 00:59:55,061 --> 00:59:57,630 ...unbelievable. 1168 00:59:57,663 --> 01:00:02,401 [Beyond Believable theme music playing] 1169 01:00:02,435 --> 01:00:04,070 [cell phone ringing] 1170 01:00:05,938 --> 01:00:06,639 [sighs] 1171 01:00:08,107 --> 01:00:09,976 Dad? 1172 01:00:10,042 --> 01:00:11,644 [woman] Ah, sorry, no. 1173 01:00:11,711 --> 01:00:12,612 Is it too early? 1174 01:00:12,645 --> 01:00:14,046 Who is this? 1175 01:00:14,080 --> 01:00:14,747 Shiloh Lowden. 1176 01:00:18,150 --> 01:00:20,350 You wanted to chat about my article from yonks ago. 1177 01:00:19,619 --> 01:00:21,988 Yeah, um... [clears throat] 1178 01:00:22,021 --> 01:00:23,730 Yeah, thank you, uh, for calling me back. 1179 01:00:24,060 --> 01:00:26,492 Um... 1180 01:00:26,760 --> 01:00:29,495 Sorry, I've just had a pretty weird couple of days. 1181 01:00:29,790 --> 01:00:32,031 I can imagine. 1182 01:00:32,064 --> 01:00:34,160 I listened to your last episode. 1183 01:00:34,490 --> 01:00:34,600 You listen to my podcast? 1184 01:00:36,736 --> 01:00:38,900 I did my research. 1185 01:00:38,880 --> 01:00:40,000 Yeah, um... 1186 01:00:39,890 --> 01:00:40,373 [clears throat] 1187 01:00:40,406 --> 01:00:42,308 Right. 1188 01:00:42,375 --> 01:00:44,944 Then you would know that I think 1189 01:00:44,977 --> 01:00:48,047 what you wrote back in 1988 1190 01:00:48,080 --> 01:00:51,784 and what I'm investigating are the same thing. 1191 01:00:51,817 --> 01:00:56,422 Uh, I'm trying to find patterns to understand what's happening, 1192 01:00:56,455 --> 01:00:58,070 and I need to know what you know. 1193 01:00:57,623 --> 01:01:00,126 Right. 1194 01:01:00,159 --> 01:01:02,495 And I thought as a more experienced journalist, 1195 01:01:02,780 --> 01:01:06,032 you would be prepared to share with me. 1196 01:01:06,065 --> 01:01:07,667 I'm not certain I know much that will help you, 1197 01:01:07,700 --> 01:01:09,936 but I'm happy to share. 1198 01:01:10,002 --> 01:01:15,942 Great. Uh, please tell me about the article. 1199 01:01:15,975 --> 01:01:18,778 Well, back when I was working at the Chronicle, 1200 01:01:18,811 --> 01:01:20,246 I had a mate who worked in a hush-hush research department 1201 01:01:20,279 --> 01:01:22,815 at Oxford, government-funded, 1202 01:01:22,849 --> 01:01:25,184 something about international threats, terrorism. 1203 01:01:25,251 --> 01:01:26,819 I mean, this is back in the days of Russia, Reagan, 1204 01:01:26,853 --> 01:01:29,355 the decline of the West. 1205 01:01:29,422 --> 01:01:32,358 My paper would kill for any Cold War scoop. 1206 01:01:32,391 --> 01:01:34,227 So we're out drinking and I get him to tell me 1207 01:01:34,293 --> 01:01:35,728 about a study his team is doing 1208 01:01:35,795 --> 01:01:37,997 into this neurological illness 1209 01:01:38,030 --> 01:01:39,765 that had been detected around the world, 1210 01:01:39,832 --> 01:01:43,169 accompanied by these unexplained objects. 1211 01:01:43,202 --> 01:01:46,038 What did they suspect the objects were at the time? 1212 01:01:46,072 --> 01:01:47,373 The department had convinced themselves 1213 01:01:47,406 --> 01:01:49,308 it was the Russians, 1214 01:01:49,375 --> 01:01:50,943 absolutely besotted with the idea. 1215 01:01:50,977 --> 01:01:53,279 But you didn't think so? 1216 01:01:53,312 --> 01:01:55,014 My mate fed me a departmental memo 1217 01:01:55,081 --> 01:01:57,016 on the sly, and when I read it, 1218 01:01:57,083 --> 01:01:58,150 I mean, it seemed completely bonkers. 1219 01:01:58,184 --> 01:02:00,486 Why? 1220 01:02:00,700 --> 01:02:02,688 Well, the study claimed that 70% 1221 01:02:02,755 --> 01:02:04,657 of the affected people only developed symptoms 1222 01:02:04,690 --> 01:02:06,459 after hearing about this object, 1223 01:02:06,492 --> 01:02:09,195 whatever it was, from someone else. 1224 01:02:09,228 --> 01:02:11,998 You're talking about a disease spreading 1225 01:02:12,031 --> 01:02:14,700 through people talking about it? 1226 01:02:14,734 --> 01:02:17,190 It was the main line of investigation 1227 01:02:16,602 --> 01:02:18,938 the government was pursuing at the time, 1228 01:02:19,005 --> 01:02:22,275 a kind of viral disease that traveled through sound. 1229 01:02:22,308 --> 01:02:24,377 Now I know the Russians had a lot of tools 1230 01:02:24,410 --> 01:02:25,950 at their disposal, but I don't think even they 1231 01:02:26,280 --> 01:02:26,979 were capable of that. 1232 01:02:27,046 --> 01:02:28,948 Do you still have this memo? 1233 01:02:28,981 --> 01:02:32,151 Sadly, long lost. 1234 01:02:32,185 --> 01:02:35,121 What about your friend, the department source? 1235 01:02:35,154 --> 01:02:36,956 Posted to some faraway place. 1236 01:02:36,989 --> 01:02:38,958 But... 1237 01:02:38,991 --> 01:02:41,394 I did hear he got sick. 1238 01:02:41,460 --> 01:02:43,790 The same sort of sickness. 1239 01:02:44,130 --> 01:02:45,264 [unsettling music playing] 1240 01:02:45,331 --> 01:02:46,098 We lost touch. 1241 01:02:48,601 --> 01:02:50,670 Did you ever form an opinion 1242 01:02:50,703 --> 01:02:55,474 about this illness and these objects? 1243 01:02:55,910 --> 01:02:59,145 To be honest, I didn't think much of it back then. 1244 01:02:59,212 --> 01:03:02,481 Government jumping at shadows. 1245 01:03:02,650 --> 01:03:07,360 But now I've listened to your podcast, 1246 01:03:06,619 --> 01:03:09,622 it's clearly compelling stuff. 1247 01:03:09,655 --> 01:03:10,857 But if my article and your story 1248 01:03:10,890 --> 01:03:13,226 are the same thing, 1249 01:03:13,292 --> 01:03:16,110 you need to be careful. 1250 01:03:15,628 --> 01:03:18,331 What do you mean? 1251 01:03:18,364 --> 01:03:21,067 We have a duty to protect the public. 1252 01:03:21,100 --> 01:03:23,736 [unsettling music continues] 1253 01:03:23,769 --> 01:03:24,870 Not everything needs to be published. 1254 01:03:28,230 --> 01:03:30,276 Of course. 1255 01:03:30,309 --> 01:03:31,744 Thank you so much for your time. 1256 01:03:31,777 --> 01:03:33,446 I think I've got everything I need. 1257 01:03:33,479 --> 01:03:34,080 Good luck. 1258 01:03:36,282 --> 01:03:37,750 [phone thuds] 1259 01:03:37,783 --> 01:03:40,486 [audible breathing] 1260 01:03:40,700 --> 01:03:42,622 [unsettling music continues] 1261 01:03:58,204 --> 01:04:00,900 [man] Holy shit, one hell of an episode. 1262 01:04:01,230 --> 01:04:03,376 These numbers are nuts. Seriously exciting. 1263 01:04:03,409 --> 01:04:04,940 Can't wait for the next ep. Oh, well, listen! 1264 01:04:05,270 --> 01:04:06,779 And the publicity guys, 1265 01:04:06,812 --> 01:04:09,310 they want to know your schedule... 1266 01:04:08,614 --> 01:04:10,983 - [voice fades] - [unsettling music continues] 1267 01:04:21,827 --> 01:04:24,130 [Scott] Hey, I just wanted to check in. 1268 01:04:23,629 --> 01:04:24,730 Is everything all right? 1269 01:04:24,797 --> 01:04:27,767 [interviewer] Yeah. Why? 1270 01:04:27,833 --> 01:04:29,835 I listened to the new episode, 1271 01:04:29,869 --> 01:04:32,438 and you sounded... kind of messed up. 1272 01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:35,240 [laughs] Yeah, that was just, um, 1273 01:04:34,607 --> 01:04:36,375 dramatic license with podcasts. 1274 01:04:36,409 --> 01:04:39,950 Honestly, I am fine. 1275 01:04:40,290 --> 01:04:41,914 - Uh-huh. - Never been better. 1276 01:04:41,948 --> 01:04:42,849 - Right. - Mm. 1277 01:04:45,017 --> 01:04:47,320 I'm not gonna stop, Scott. 1278 01:04:47,353 --> 01:04:51,060 This is finally a real story I've got. 1279 01:04:50,623 --> 01:04:52,825 I've got good numbers and people are really listening. 1280 01:04:52,859 --> 01:04:54,660 Yeah, look, I get that, but-- 1281 01:04:54,694 --> 01:04:58,364 There is something going on. 1282 01:04:58,397 --> 01:05:01,200 I feel like this story could be career-defining. 1283 01:05:01,234 --> 01:05:04,170 It's not that. I'm just, uh-- 1284 01:05:04,203 --> 01:05:06,706 What? You just think this story's bullshit, huh? 1285 01:05:06,739 --> 01:05:08,074 Well-- 1286 01:05:08,107 --> 01:05:09,075 You know, right from the start, 1287 01:05:09,108 --> 01:05:11,711 you hated this podcast. 1288 01:05:11,744 --> 01:05:14,213 Why--why do you always do this? Hmm? 1289 01:05:14,247 --> 01:05:17,083 That's unfair. I'm just worried about you. 1290 01:05:17,116 --> 01:05:19,151 Well, I don't need your ****ing sympathy, 1291 01:05:19,185 --> 01:05:21,754 - I need your support. - I am trying to. 1292 01:05:21,787 --> 01:05:24,056 But you're making it really bloody hard. 1293 01:05:24,123 --> 01:05:26,058 Look, all these symbols 1294 01:05:26,125 --> 01:05:27,860 and videos in the middle of the night, 1295 01:05:27,894 --> 01:05:29,862 have you ever thought it might be someone 1296 01:05:29,896 --> 01:05:32,820 with a grudge trying to mess with you, hmm? 1297 01:05:33,150 --> 01:05:35,170 [unsettling music playing] 1298 01:05:34,600 --> 01:05:35,735 I don't see how. 1299 01:05:41,941 --> 01:05:43,142 [unsettling music continues] 1300 01:05:59,692 --> 01:06:02,862 [typing] 1301 01:06:02,895 --> 01:06:05,264 [unsettling music continues] 1302 01:06:15,208 --> 01:06:16,943 [pages rustle] 1303 01:06:21,814 --> 01:06:22,849 [whispering] 1304 01:06:25,451 --> 01:06:29,380 "Murder cannot be hid long. 1305 01:06:28,621 --> 01:06:30,690 A man's son may, but 1306 01:06:30,723 --> 01:06:32,291 in the end, the truth will out." 1307 01:06:32,325 --> 01:06:35,695 [unsettling music continues] 1308 01:06:35,728 --> 01:06:37,463 [pages rustle] 1309 01:06:42,170 --> 01:06:43,603 "Property of FK." 1310 01:06:43,669 --> 01:06:45,771 [unsettling music continues] 1311 01:06:45,838 --> 01:06:48,040 [indistinct chatter] 1312 01:06:48,074 --> 01:06:49,775 [dad] What do you mean, darling? 1313 01:06:49,809 --> 01:06:52,078 I got a black brick. It's really pretty. 1314 01:06:52,111 --> 01:06:53,980 [dad] A really pretty brick? Wow. 1315 01:06:54,046 --> 01:06:55,414 The birthday-- 1316 01:06:55,448 --> 01:06:59,252 [unsettling music continues] 1317 01:06:59,285 --> 01:07:01,020 [tapping key] 1318 01:07:09,028 --> 01:07:10,630 [unsettling music continues] 1319 01:07:28,147 --> 01:07:29,448 [audible breathing] 1320 01:07:33,486 --> 01:07:35,288 [phone ringing] 1321 01:07:40,793 --> 01:07:43,729 - [Floramae] Hello? - Is this fun for you? 1322 01:07:43,796 --> 01:07:47,733 - Who is this? - ****ing with me like this. 1323 01:07:47,767 --> 01:07:51,270 No! Uh, is this the lady who rang about the brick? 1324 01:07:51,337 --> 01:07:53,773 Did you know you worked for my family when we spoke? 1325 01:07:53,806 --> 01:07:58,270 - What? - Did you know? 1326 01:07:57,610 --> 01:08:00,246 I don't want to talk to you. I heard your podcast. 1327 01:08:00,279 --> 01:08:02,650 I didn't say those things like that. 1328 01:08:03,320 --> 01:08:04,183 You changed what I meant to say. 1329 01:08:04,250 --> 01:08:07,186 What is this, some sort of ****ing revenge plot? 1330 01:08:07,253 --> 01:08:09,622 Payback for my family taking the brick? 1331 01:08:09,655 --> 01:08:11,324 It was you. You're the daughter? 1332 01:08:11,357 --> 01:08:14,227 Yes, I'm the daughter. Jesus. 1333 01:08:14,293 --> 01:08:18,064 You sent me the email. "The truth will out." 1334 01:08:18,130 --> 01:08:21,868 You're FK, Floramae King. You wanted me to find you. 1335 01:08:21,901 --> 01:08:23,336 I don't know what you're talking about-- 1336 01:08:23,369 --> 01:08:25,705 - You sent me the video. - What video? 1337 01:08:25,738 --> 01:08:27,900 The video of my ****ing birthday. 1338 01:08:28,230 --> 01:08:29,208 What other video am I talking about? 1339 01:08:29,242 --> 01:08:31,143 [Paula] Stop harassing my mother. 1340 01:08:31,210 --> 01:08:34,046 [laughs] 1341 01:08:34,080 --> 01:08:36,849 Is this some kind of sick joke? 1342 01:08:36,916 --> 01:08:39,685 Your family is the one harassing me 1343 01:08:39,752 --> 01:08:42,255 over something that happened 20 years ago. 1344 01:08:42,288 --> 01:08:45,157 - Over a ****ing brick! - Why are you calling us? 1345 01:08:45,191 --> 01:08:47,326 You can't get away with this. -Get away with what, exactly? 1346 01:08:47,360 --> 01:08:51,163 Emails. Videos. Terrorizing me. 1347 01:08:51,197 --> 01:08:52,231 What are you talking about? 1348 01:08:52,265 --> 01:08:54,840 [laughs] 1349 01:08:55,170 --> 01:08:56,068 You've made me look like an idiot. 1350 01:08:56,102 --> 01:08:58,237 It's pathetic. 1351 01:08:58,271 --> 01:09:02,240 And if you don't stop harassing me, 1352 01:09:01,607 --> 01:09:04,443 - I'm gonna call the cops. - [Paula] Be my guest. 1353 01:09:04,477 --> 01:09:06,312 You're the people who stole our property. 1354 01:09:06,379 --> 01:09:08,314 Oh, you want an apology? Is that what you want? 1355 01:09:08,381 --> 01:09:11,350 No. 1356 01:09:11,417 --> 01:09:12,952 Well, then tell me what I can do to make you feel better 1357 01:09:12,985 --> 01:09:15,154 and get you out of my life. 1358 01:09:15,188 --> 01:09:17,990 You want some money? 1359 01:09:18,024 --> 01:09:19,725 That's how you solve everything, isn't it? 1360 01:09:19,792 --> 01:09:21,727 For God's sake, stop being so dramatic. 1361 01:09:21,794 --> 01:09:24,630 I've got money, you don't. 1362 01:09:24,664 --> 01:09:26,732 People like you always want something from people like me. 1363 01:09:26,766 --> 01:09:29,180 I don't like it, you don't like it, 1364 01:09:28,601 --> 01:09:31,200 but that is the way the world works. 1365 01:09:30,603 --> 01:09:34,473 [unsettling music continues] 1366 01:09:34,900 --> 01:09:36,976 You're right. 1367 01:09:37,043 --> 01:09:38,277 It's the way the world works. 1368 01:09:44,283 --> 01:09:45,618 And I was just a kid. I didn't have anything to do with 1369 01:09:45,651 --> 01:09:46,018 selling that brick. 1370 01:09:49,155 --> 01:09:50,289 [Paula] You told your parents a lie. 1371 01:09:53,125 --> 01:09:54,861 All those years ago. 1372 01:09:54,894 --> 01:09:56,996 It changed my life. 1373 01:09:57,029 --> 01:09:59,098 What are you talking about? 1374 01:09:59,165 --> 01:10:02,168 Even Mom thought I'd done it. 1375 01:10:02,201 --> 01:10:04,270 She just stood back and let your family take everything. 1376 01:10:04,337 --> 01:10:06,272 [child voice whispering] It was her. She did it. 1377 01:10:06,339 --> 01:10:11,043 Paula, I really don't know what you're talking about. 1378 01:10:11,077 --> 01:10:15,147 You sabotaged my life.-What? 1379 01:10:15,181 --> 01:10:16,148 As soon as your parents paid for that scholarship, 1380 01:10:16,182 --> 01:10:18,317 you hated me. 1381 01:10:18,351 --> 01:10:21,787 You were jealous. Scared. 1382 01:10:21,821 --> 01:10:25,725 I was better than you, and your parents liked me. 1383 01:10:25,791 --> 01:10:28,160 You couldn't stand fighting for their attention. 1384 01:10:28,194 --> 01:10:30,963 You wanted to be special. 1385 01:10:30,997 --> 01:10:31,810 I don't know what you're talking about. 1386 01:10:34,400 --> 01:10:35,034 You do. 1387 01:10:37,236 --> 01:10:38,938 You need to stop. 1388 01:10:39,005 --> 01:10:41,910 Please stop. 1389 01:10:42,240 --> 01:10:42,975 [breathing shakily] 1390 01:10:43,042 --> 01:10:45,811 Stop what? 1391 01:10:45,878 --> 01:10:49,949 [unsettling music continues] 1392 01:10:49,982 --> 01:10:52,318 Nothing I've done gives you the right 1393 01:10:52,351 --> 01:10:55,788 to play this game with me. 1394 01:10:55,821 --> 01:10:58,191 You're sick. 1395 01:10:58,224 --> 01:11:00,059 Oh, ****ing hell, 1396 01:11:00,126 --> 01:11:02,061 something terrible could happen. 1397 01:11:02,128 --> 01:11:04,797 [breathing shakily] 1398 01:11:04,830 --> 01:11:07,400 Something terrible has happened. 1399 01:11:07,433 --> 01:11:09,068 [unsettling music continues] 1400 01:11:15,208 --> 01:11:16,475 [sniffs] 1401 01:11:16,920 --> 01:11:17,610 I don't remember. 1402 01:11:21,113 --> 01:11:21,714 I really don't know what to tell you. 1403 01:11:23,482 --> 01:11:26,752 [audible breathing] 1404 01:11:26,786 --> 01:11:29,720 People like you feed off the world. 1405 01:11:30,390 --> 01:11:31,691 But one day you won't. 1406 01:11:31,724 --> 01:11:32,124 One day, you'll be gone. 1407 01:11:35,895 --> 01:11:37,830 This is your chance to put things right. 1408 01:11:37,864 --> 01:11:38,698 To tell the truth. 1409 01:11:43,102 --> 01:11:45,204 Don't call here again. 1410 01:11:45,238 --> 01:11:46,706 [phone beeps] 1411 01:11:50,810 --> 01:11:52,950 [phone ringing] 1412 01:12:07,770 --> 01:12:09,295 [dad] Hey, sweetie, I got your message. 1413 01:12:09,328 --> 01:12:11,197 What on earth are you talking about? A video? 1414 01:12:11,230 --> 01:12:12,398 I spoke to Floramae. 1415 01:12:12,431 --> 01:12:15,101 Who? 1416 01:12:15,167 --> 01:12:17,336 I know you stole the brick. 1417 01:12:17,370 --> 01:12:18,900 What brick? 1418 01:12:18,880 --> 01:12:20,907 The black brick. 1419 01:12:20,940 --> 01:12:22,875 When I was a kid. 1420 01:12:22,909 --> 01:12:25,711 [dad sighs] 1421 01:12:25,745 --> 01:12:27,947 We don't need to talk about this. 1422 01:12:27,980 --> 01:12:30,660 Tell me the truth. 1423 01:12:31,330 --> 01:12:32,451 Darling, look, it was a long time ago. 1424 01:12:32,485 --> 01:12:34,320 It doesn't matter. 1425 01:12:34,353 --> 01:12:37,356 That brick was some art thing. 1426 01:12:37,390 --> 01:12:39,992 The woman didn't know what she had in her hands. 1427 01:12:40,026 --> 01:12:41,894 So you stole it? -We didn't steal anything. 1428 01:12:41,961 --> 01:12:43,462 She was our employee. 1429 01:12:43,496 --> 01:12:45,231 She found it on our property. 1430 01:12:45,264 --> 01:12:47,200 And then on your birthday, 1431 01:12:47,233 --> 01:12:48,201 you picked it up and thought it was yours. 1432 01:12:48,234 --> 01:12:49,835 A present. 1433 01:12:49,869 --> 01:12:50,937 And you weren't wrong. 1434 01:12:51,003 --> 01:12:51,737 It was ours. 1435 01:12:54,740 --> 01:12:56,809 You fired her, Dad. 1436 01:12:56,876 --> 01:13:00,246 [dad scoffs] 1437 01:13:00,279 --> 01:13:02,615 Why are you so upset? Her crazy kid knifed our furniture. 1438 01:13:02,648 --> 01:13:04,330 If that's not a fireable offense, 1439 01:13:03,616 --> 01:13:04,150 I don't know what is. 1440 01:13:06,419 --> 01:13:08,421 Why would she do that? 1441 01:13:08,454 --> 01:13:10,323 Who knows? 1442 01:13:10,356 --> 01:13:12,158 Jealousy? Attention? 1443 01:13:12,191 --> 01:13:14,994 How do you know it was her? 1444 01:13:15,027 --> 01:13:16,896 Well, you told us, sweetie. 1445 01:13:16,963 --> 01:13:20,066 [no audio] 1446 01:13:20,099 --> 01:13:20,867 You were probably too young to remember. 1447 01:13:23,436 --> 01:13:25,204 [exhales shakily] What...? -I mean... 1448 01:13:25,238 --> 01:13:26,439 it was very brave of you to speak up 1449 01:13:27,100 --> 01:13:28,774 with a girl so violent. 1450 01:13:28,808 --> 01:13:31,210 You were so scared. 1451 01:13:31,244 --> 01:13:34,981 Um, no, that--that, uh, that can't be right. 1452 01:13:35,014 --> 01:13:35,681 I did what anyone would do, and I protected us. 1453 01:13:39,485 --> 01:13:40,853 Tell me what happened. 1454 01:13:40,920 --> 01:13:42,121 [dad scoffs] 1455 01:13:42,154 --> 01:13:44,223 Why? 1456 01:13:44,290 --> 01:13:46,158 I want to understand, Dad, it's... 1457 01:13:46,192 --> 01:13:46,726 it's really important. 1458 01:13:51,364 --> 01:13:54,100 Floramae's kid was a nightmare. 1459 01:13:54,166 --> 01:13:55,735 As soon as we saw what she'd done to the furniture, 1460 01:13:55,768 --> 01:13:57,190 we called the police. 1461 01:13:56,602 --> 01:13:58,104 Police? 1462 01:13:58,170 --> 01:14:01,230 She was just a kid. 1463 01:14:00,606 --> 01:14:03,075 It was thousands of dollars of damage. 1464 01:14:03,109 --> 01:14:03,643 Thousands. 1465 01:14:05,978 --> 01:14:06,612 What did the cops do? 1466 01:14:09,315 --> 01:14:11,284 But this was years ago.-Dad. 1467 01:14:11,317 --> 01:14:12,680 Tell me what the cops did. 1468 01:14:15,655 --> 01:14:18,070 They charged her with property damage. 1469 01:14:17,623 --> 01:14:19,192 But because she was so young, 1470 01:14:19,225 --> 01:14:20,993 it was a slap on the wrist, really. 1471 01:14:21,027 --> 01:14:22,662 She and her mother had to pay us back 1472 01:14:22,695 --> 01:14:25,140 for the damage done to the furniture. 1473 01:14:24,630 --> 01:14:26,332 And they didn't have any money, of course. 1474 01:14:26,365 --> 01:14:27,066 So, when the brick came along... 1475 01:14:27,099 --> 01:14:29,835 You took it. 1476 01:14:29,869 --> 01:14:32,939 It was the only object of value they had. 1477 01:14:33,005 --> 01:14:34,807 And with violent outbursts like that, we didn't feel 1478 01:14:34,874 --> 01:14:36,976 we could continue supporting a music scholarship. 1479 01:14:37,043 --> 01:14:40,313 I mean, what if she-- what if she hurt another student? 1480 01:14:40,379 --> 01:14:43,783 All of this over some furniture? 1481 01:14:43,816 --> 01:14:46,986 You don't understand how scary it was. 1482 01:14:47,019 --> 01:14:47,920 You were terrified that she might hurt you. 1483 01:14:51,457 --> 01:14:53,893 And the dining table is my great-grandfather's. 1484 01:14:53,960 --> 01:14:55,862 It has emotional value. 1485 01:14:55,895 --> 01:14:56,696 We could never really fix the damage. 1486 01:15:00,399 --> 01:15:03,336 After everything we gave that kid... 1487 01:15:03,369 --> 01:15:04,437 We were glad to be rid of both of them. 1488 01:15:08,230 --> 01:15:09,609 Darling, look, I don't know why 1489 01:15:09,642 --> 01:15:11,043 you're bringing up such an unhappy memory. 1490 01:15:11,077 --> 01:15:11,940 Let's just-- let's just move on. 1491 01:15:15,448 --> 01:15:16,182 I think... 1492 01:15:17,783 --> 01:15:18,317 I think you... 1493 01:15:21,087 --> 01:15:21,787 I think you got it wrong. 1494 01:15:24,060 --> 01:15:24,023 What? 1495 01:15:28,661 --> 01:15:29,662 About the furniture. It wasn't Paula. 1496 01:15:33,150 --> 01:15:34,367 Sweetie, I don't want to hear about it. 1497 01:15:34,400 --> 01:15:36,769 [unsettling music playing] 1498 01:15:36,836 --> 01:15:39,405 I'm serious, Dad. 1499 01:15:39,438 --> 01:15:43,142 I said let's not talk about it, okay? 1500 01:15:43,209 --> 01:15:45,244 No more talk about the past and this ridiculous brick. 1501 01:15:45,278 --> 01:15:46,112 - Leave it alone. - Yeah, but I wanna talk 1502 01:15:46,145 --> 01:15:48,648 about it. 1503 01:15:48,681 --> 01:15:51,751 This brick just isn't some "art thing." 1504 01:15:51,784 --> 01:15:54,086 It's more than that. 1505 01:15:54,120 --> 01:15:56,189 It means something. 1506 01:15:56,255 --> 01:15:58,057 My podcast is helping-- 1507 01:15:58,124 --> 01:16:00,660 Are you recording this?! 1508 01:16:00,693 --> 01:16:01,360 Turn that bloody thing off now. 1509 01:16:04,363 --> 01:16:05,331 - Why, Dad? - You need to stop 1510 01:16:05,364 --> 01:16:08,600 this rubbish, okay? 1511 01:16:08,840 --> 01:16:11,904 You need to heal, not drag up the past. 1512 01:16:11,938 --> 01:16:14,707 What's the plan? 1513 01:16:14,740 --> 01:16:17,043 Expose your family on some ridiculous podcast? 1514 01:16:19,045 --> 01:16:19,645 Christ. 1515 01:16:22,081 --> 01:16:22,782 I don't know. 1516 01:16:25,818 --> 01:16:26,485 All families have secrets. 1517 01:16:29,355 --> 01:16:29,789 And they should stay that way. 1518 01:16:31,958 --> 01:16:33,659 Understood? 1519 01:16:33,693 --> 01:16:35,795 [phone beeps] 1520 01:16:35,828 --> 01:16:39,398 [unsettling music playing] 1521 01:16:39,432 --> 01:16:41,234 [audible breathing] 1522 01:17:05,625 --> 01:17:07,326 [audible breathing] 1523 01:17:11,030 --> 01:17:12,899 [dramatic music playing] 1524 01:17:54,230 --> 01:17:56,042 Kid was a nightmare. 1525 01:17:56,075 --> 01:17:57,610 As soon as we saw what she'd done to the furniture, 1526 01:17:57,643 --> 01:17:58,144 we called the police. 1527 01:18:02,982 --> 01:18:04,851 [interviewer] About the furniture. It wasn't Paula. 1528 01:18:04,917 --> 01:18:07,420 [interviewer breathing shakily on recording] 1529 01:18:07,453 --> 01:18:08,087 [dad] Sweetie, I don't want to hear about it. 1530 01:18:41,710 --> 01:18:43,456 [audible breathing] 1531 01:18:46,993 --> 01:18:48,961 [gasps] 1532 01:18:48,995 --> 01:18:49,896 [groans] 1533 01:18:51,998 --> 01:18:54,490 [breathing shakily] 1534 01:18:53,666 --> 01:18:54,433 [groans] 1535 01:18:56,702 --> 01:18:59,372 [groaning] 1536 01:18:59,405 --> 01:19:01,910 [sobbing] 1537 01:19:02,240 --> 01:19:05,270 [whimpering] 1538 01:19:04,610 --> 01:19:05,978 [gasping] 1539 01:19:06,045 --> 01:19:08,414 [water running] 1540 01:19:08,447 --> 01:19:10,183 [spits, grunting] 1541 01:19:13,786 --> 01:19:14,921 [spits, gasps] 1542 01:19:14,954 --> 01:19:19,158 [retching] 1543 01:19:19,192 --> 01:19:21,194 [gasping] 1544 01:19:27,033 --> 01:19:29,068 [gasping] 1545 01:19:34,473 --> 01:19:37,810 [gasping] 1546 01:19:37,877 --> 01:19:39,779 [unsettling music playing] 1547 01:19:48,855 --> 01:19:51,157 [gagging] 1548 01:20:04,270 --> 01:20:05,605 [audible breathing] 1549 01:20:42,920 --> 01:20:44,143 [audible breathing] 1550 01:20:49,448 --> 01:20:51,117 [items clattering] 1551 01:20:58,157 --> 01:21:01,100 [rapidly reverberating rhythm] 1552 01:21:29,121 --> 01:21:31,691 [audible breathing] 1553 01:21:31,724 --> 01:21:35,161 [unsettling music playing] 1554 01:21:35,194 --> 01:21:36,162 [grunt, thud] 1555 01:21:36,195 --> 01:21:37,697 [bubbling] 1556 01:21:37,730 --> 01:21:40,333 [thud, bubbling] 1557 01:21:40,366 --> 01:21:42,435 [thud] 1558 01:21:42,600 --> 01:21:44,103 [thudding continues] 1559 01:21:47,807 --> 01:21:49,442 [grunting, panting] 1560 01:21:52,745 --> 01:21:53,880 [grunt, thud] 1561 01:21:53,913 --> 01:21:55,748 [panting] 1562 01:22:09,495 --> 01:22:11,130 [audible breathing] 1563 01:22:21,207 --> 01:22:21,874 [stool scrapes] 1564 01:22:27,113 --> 01:22:28,748 [audible breathing] 1565 01:22:34,353 --> 01:22:36,155 [items clanging] 1566 01:22:46,232 --> 01:22:48,840 [stool scrapes] 1567 01:22:49,180 --> 01:22:50,836 [items clattering] 1568 01:22:50,870 --> 01:22:53,000 [audible breathing] 1569 01:22:57,476 --> 01:23:00,379 [squelching sound] 1570 01:23:00,413 --> 01:23:02,915 [items clattering] 1571 01:23:02,949 --> 01:23:05,318 [audible breathing] 1572 01:23:05,351 --> 01:23:06,652 [cracking] 1573 01:23:06,686 --> 01:23:08,710 [bubbling] 1574 01:23:25,872 --> 01:23:27,440 [bubbling, squelching] 1575 01:23:37,650 --> 01:23:39,085 [whimpers] 1576 01:23:39,118 --> 01:23:40,753 [audible breathing] 1577 01:24:10,416 --> 01:24:12,018 [audible breathing] 1578 01:24:26,432 --> 01:24:26,999 Hello. 1579 01:24:42,648 --> 01:24:43,616 [stool scrapes] 1580 01:24:48,287 --> 01:24:49,088 [stool scrapes softly] 1581 01:24:52,750 --> 01:24:53,226 [sighs] 1582 01:24:55,661 --> 01:24:57,296 [audible breathing] 1583 01:25:01,500 --> 01:25:01,901 [stool scrapes softly] 1584 01:25:15,481 --> 01:25:16,015 [taps recorder] 1585 01:25:30,696 --> 01:25:31,664 What are you? 1586 01:25:35,101 --> 01:25:35,935 Can you understand me? 1587 01:25:42,475 --> 01:25:44,076 I wanna know 1588 01:25:44,110 --> 01:25:45,878 why 1589 01:25:45,912 --> 01:25:48,114 you're here, 1590 01:25:48,147 --> 01:25:49,148 and what you want from me. 1591 01:25:52,418 --> 01:25:53,119 From us. 1592 01:26:01,627 --> 01:26:03,129 [recorder being crushed] 1593 01:26:06,732 --> 01:26:09,235 [clattering] 1594 01:26:09,268 --> 01:26:14,207 [unsettling music playing] 1595 01:26:14,240 --> 01:26:16,042 [audible breathing] 1596 01:26:16,075 --> 01:26:17,910 [beep] 1597 01:26:17,944 --> 01:26:21,214 [soft mechanical whirring] 1598 01:26:28,688 --> 01:26:31,457 [panting] 1599 01:26:31,490 --> 01:26:34,827 [tense music playing] 1600 01:26:47,220 --> 01:26:48,107 [panting, whimpering] 1601 01:26:51,244 --> 01:26:53,079 [gasping] 1602 01:27:01,287 --> 01:27:02,955 [whimpering] 1603 01:27:04,824 --> 01:27:06,626 [tree creaking] 1604 01:27:20,306 --> 01:27:21,474 Shit. 1605 01:27:21,910 --> 01:27:23,910 [panting] 1606 01:27:30,349 --> 01:27:31,851 Please. 1607 01:27:31,918 --> 01:27:34,020 [audible breathing] 1608 01:27:37,390 --> 01:27:37,690 The same. 1609 01:27:44,130 --> 01:27:46,732 Yes, we're the-- we're the same. 1610 01:27:46,766 --> 01:27:48,668 [panting, gasping] 1611 01:28:02,915 --> 01:28:03,950 - Are you gonna hurt me? - Are you gonna hurt me? 1612 01:28:06,185 --> 01:28:06,919 - Shit. - Shit. 1613 01:28:11,457 --> 01:28:12,024 [grunts] 1614 01:28:14,727 --> 01:28:16,963 [both grunting, panting] 1615 01:28:40,686 --> 01:28:41,988 [high-pitched, buzzing sound] 1616 01:28:52,932 --> 01:28:55,334 [soft footsteps] 1617 01:28:55,368 --> 01:28:57,003 [grunts, panting softly] 1618 01:29:03,876 --> 01:29:04,644 [grunts] 1619 01:29:12,652 --> 01:29:14,120 [water lapping softly] 1620 01:29:21,627 --> 01:29:23,296 [thunder rumbles] 1621 01:29:34,640 --> 01:29:36,108 [rocks clattering] 1622 01:30:12,411 --> 01:30:14,046 [audible breathing] 1623 01:30:17,483 --> 01:30:24,740 [soft music playing] 1624 01:30:25,070 --> 01:30:25,658 [interviewer's voice] I wanna tell you a story. 1625 01:30:25,691 --> 01:30:30,363 [unsettling music playing] 1626 01:30:30,396 --> 01:30:33,332 You might not believe it, 1627 01:30:33,366 --> 01:30:35,167 but that doesn't mean it isn't true. 1628 01:30:41,641 --> 01:30:42,475 I need to tell it anyway. 1629 01:30:49,448 --> 01:30:50,149 I have a secret. 1630 01:30:55,321 --> 01:30:57,190 I'm the only one who can share it. 1631 01:31:02,061 --> 01:31:03,629 The only one who is willing. 1632 01:31:09,001 --> 01:31:11,704 And when I tell this story, 1633 01:31:11,737 --> 01:31:12,371 I will change everything. 1634 01:31:25,818 --> 01:31:27,987 All you have to do 1635 01:31:28,020 --> 01:31:28,688 is listen. 1636 01:31:32,024 --> 01:31:33,760 [taps recorder] 1637 01:31:34,090 --> 01:31:36,462 [soft music playing] 1638 01:31:39,765 --> 01:31:42,235 [moody song playing] 1639 01:33:44,023 --> 01:33:46,760 [song fades] 1640 01:33:47,090 --> 01:33:49,362 [unsettling music playing] 1641 01:33:53,699 --> 01:33:59,038 [rapid reverberating rhythm] 1642 01:34:13,119 --> 01:34:14,020 [reverberating rhythm intensifies]