Episode 9
Episode 9 - Beyond the Dark
Following up on a clear directive from their unnamed Program Handler, the team makes their way to interview the last person to see Darren Hehn alive.
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Transcript
Hello?
Speaker A:What time is it?
Speaker A:Who is it?
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker C:Situation.
Speaker D:Dream, no pants.
Speaker A:Sorry, honey, I have to take this.
Speaker D:Forso.
Speaker D:Seems like our hottest lead so far.
Speaker E:Seems like our only lead.
Speaker D:Yeah, and as the doc said, he has a distaste for authority.
Speaker D:So what do you say we take the least authoritarian looking person here and have them ask some questions?
Speaker D:What do you think, Lenny?
Speaker F:Yeah, I could.
Speaker F:I can try.
Speaker F:That's not really, you know, not really my.
Speaker D:Well, we're glad you're being a real team player here.
Speaker F:Okay.
Speaker D:Yeah, so what we're gonna need from you is relax and not be authoritative.
Speaker D:But hey, maybe you can do a cover like you're looking for some beyond the dark topic info and then.
Speaker D:And then work your way into talking about Darren Henn.
Speaker F:Yeah, if you think so.
Speaker F:I mean, you're definitely the expert here.
Speaker F:I'll like to talk about some of my.
Speaker F:My research at the museum.
Speaker D:Well, you know, don't bore him to death, but funny.
Speaker E:Oh, shush.
Speaker B:Listen, Lenny, what.
Speaker B:What interests you, man?
Speaker F:Well, I.
Speaker F:I mean, honestly, I.
Speaker F:I usually brought in for, you know, my.
Speaker F:My expertise is kind of in esoteric areas.
Speaker F:Archaeology, art history is.
Speaker F:Is usually why.
Speaker F:Why I've been pulled in.
Speaker B:Yeah, and you love.
Speaker B:You love talking about that, right?
Speaker F:Oh, I do, absolutely, yes.
Speaker B:So go in with the same energy as if you're talking about that, but talk about this crazy beyond the dark shit.
Speaker F:Okay.
Speaker B:Yeah, you'll love it.
Speaker F:Yeah, maybe we should all.
Speaker F:I could do that.
Speaker D:Check out this podcast before we get into talking to this guy.
Speaker D:And so we have a.
Speaker B:The blog.
Speaker D:It's a blog vlog.
Speaker D:You're right.
Speaker E:Yeah, my bad.
Speaker B:Let's go read this podcast.
Speaker D:Read this podcast.
Speaker E:Maybe we should set up home base in a hotel or something.
Speaker D:Yeah, that's good.
Speaker D:Maybe we could find another western in this town.
Speaker B:I already got my spot.
Speaker B:Turn to turn to Romeo.
Speaker B:No bugs in it either.
Speaker B:Gives him a wink.
Speaker D:I doubt that.
Speaker E:Yeah, I mean, honestly, if they're gonna keep throwing us together, we should just start getting a suite so we're all in one place.
Speaker D:Yeah, I prefer us all be in one place, actually.
Speaker B:I can get some rooms.
Speaker A:Agent Ryan, you make a quick call to Chloe and ask her to upgrade your stay, so to speak.
Speaker A:As long as Agent Romeo doesn't.
Speaker A:Doesn't stop you.
Speaker A:Of course.
Speaker A:Before long, you get a call back and your things, your personal things have been relocated to a suite floor and you now have adjoining rooms for the entire team.
Speaker D:Romeo is making a sourpuss face the entire time he's talking to Chloe, but does not interrupt that really.
Speaker B:That really makes Ryan smile.
Speaker A:You four right now are at this Four Seasons, and you're setting up, settling in to your new rooms.
Speaker A:You meet in the large adjoining room.
Speaker A:It's kind of a large sitting room.
Speaker A:It has a bar, wet bar there, Plenty of table space, plenty of seating.
Speaker A:This is a good spot here to kind of plan your next move.
Speaker A:Obviously, you want to follow your clear lead, even though the details are fuzzy.
Speaker A:But it's obvious the program hand picked this little nugget for you to look into.
Speaker A:Would you like to just head on out to the address that's so readily and publicly available, or is there anything you'd like to do in preparation?
Speaker E:Roisin's gonna do two things.
Speaker E:First, she's gonna pull out one of her laptops and hook it up to the TV with the vlog running so people can get at least an idea of what it is.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker E:And then she's gonna take out these small, round plastic cases, about a.
Speaker E:A little bigger than a quarter, and hand one to each of them.
Speaker E:If you pop them open, there's earplugs inside, guys.
Speaker E:Don't forget them this time.
Speaker D:Yeah, it's a good call.
Speaker D:Thank you.
Speaker B:Thank you.
Speaker F:Oh, yeah.
Speaker F:Why do I have.
Speaker A:Okay, so he just kind of confused, but he doesn't say anything.
Speaker A:Cool.
Speaker E:Just trust me on this.
Speaker A:So beyond the Dark is a web scene and a podcast as well.
Speaker A:So Eric called it with a somewhat significant audience.
Speaker A:There's actually about 20,000 subscribers on their YouTube channel.
Speaker A:That's pretty decent.
Speaker A:It looks like it's geared toward uncovering paranormal activity and urban exploration in Detroit and quite a wide and broad surrounding area.
Speaker A:You can see they've done some docudramas even in parts of Canada.
Speaker A:Their most popular video is a nearly silent tour of the abandoned Muskoka Regional center, which.
Speaker A:Which is in Canada.
Speaker A:It was once a sanatorium or sanitarium and tuberculosis ward.
Speaker A:And the whole exploration is set to chilling synth wave.
Speaker A:There's a lot of kind of jump scares or things off camera that.
Speaker A:Well, did you just hear that?
Speaker A:Situations.
Speaker A:It's very much like the History Channel.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:Supernatural Paranormal Investigators.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker A:It is that style, 100%.
Speaker A:Except with no budget.
Speaker D:Right.
Speaker A: inception of their channel in: Speaker A:Their editor, Danny Corso, is front and center on pretty much everything he does.
Speaker A:Looks like works with lots of different field investigators or has over the years.
Speaker A:And it's clear from the website's mission statement that he started the project to be a safe place for the enlightened to discuss the paranormal underworld of Detroit and surrounding regions.
Speaker A:You can see though in the last few years that the comment sections on the published videos and blogs, they're now devoted to ridiculing the authors of various reports.
Speaker A:Before long, you run across the more recent work of one prominent field investigator.
Speaker A:That's Darren Henn.
Speaker A:Looks like.
Speaker A:According to one of the blogs from about a year and a half ago, he was brought on to invigorate the show with more spectacular on the ground reporting.
Speaker A:Unfortunately, these efforts appear to have only exacerbated the online derision.
Speaker A:It's even more closely in style to kind of the manufactured supernatural docudramas of cable television.
Speaker A:However, you can see Darren's contributions have remained prolific.
Speaker A:Dozens of heavily edited videos of him chasing spook lights and ghostly susurrus around industrial structures, abandoned residences, ramshackle commercial buildings of all types.
Speaker A:He's actually really charismatic in his videos, but you can see he's very eccentric.
Speaker A:In fact, he, if everybody would like to please roll their humit, might have an additional bit of insight.
Speaker D:Success for me.
Speaker E:It's a success from Ryzen as well.
Speaker A:Got it.
Speaker B:Critical failure from Ryan.
Speaker A:Oh, a good old critical fail is start off the.
Speaker A:The night and Lenny, looks like you failed.
Speaker F:I did fail, yes.
Speaker F:Failure from Lenny.
Speaker B:Oh no, I forgot.
Speaker B:I failed my dodge or succeeded.
Speaker B:I'm sorry.
Speaker A:That's correct.
Speaker A:You succeed, yeah.
Speaker A:That was the home scene though.
Speaker A:This is your first, you know, succeeding.
Speaker B:And not learning shit.
Speaker A:That's correct.
Speaker D:That's fine.
Speaker A:So you're too good.
Speaker A:You're too good to learn more from that Aikido master, so.
Speaker A:Bullshit, Ryan, you're not into this at all.
Speaker A:This is a waste of your.
Speaker A:This is a waste of time.
Speaker A:And watching Full on brand.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Watching these.
Speaker A:These fools kind of fumble around and pretend they're hearing like ghosts on camera is.
Speaker A:You're just not getting anything from this at all, Lenny.
Speaker A:You're still kind of confused about why you're there.
Speaker A:This doesn't seem to have anything to do with antiquities or ancient history.
Speaker A:And you think you just saw a whole bunch of pictures of some dude that had his head cut off and your stomach's getting a little queasy.
Speaker A:Romeo Roizen, you think this gentleman on camera, as you flip through his.
Speaker A:His recent videos, he runs through these half abandoned structures.
Speaker A:He's got a manic aspect to his high charismatic approach.
Speaker D:Can I roll further?
Speaker D:Like psychology no, no, no.
Speaker A:You.
Speaker A:You passed human intelligence.
Speaker A:And that's what you gleaned from these snippets of a video that you're watching.
Speaker A:Okay, as you continue, it's clear that Darren believed he was on the trail of a big story.
Speaker A:In fact, his last blog entry on the website itself hinted at some amazing story that he was going to break and it was going to let all those trolls in the comment section understand that what they're doing at beyond the Dark is.
Speaker A:Is real.
Speaker A:Anything else we would like to look at?
Speaker A:I think I gave you a pretty good dump as you.
Speaker A:As you perused their YouTube channel and their website.
Speaker F:I mean, Lenny's looking for any sort of hints of occult behavior in his videos.
Speaker F:I mean, thought is, you know, if I'm here, it must be for something.
Speaker F:And so.
Speaker A:Oh, sure, yeah.
Speaker A:They actually do.
Speaker A:They.
Speaker A:They do quite a few performative rituals with Solomonic magic and like, we're talking laying down salt in certain patterns and wearing, you know, the Badge of Solomon or the Ring of Solomon as they try to deal with demonic spirits that they're.
Speaker A:That they're attempting to exorcise on video.
Speaker A:Otherwise, what you're seeing are the trappings of ritual magic and in your opinion, not done correctly in most cases.
Speaker A:But you're not seeing any evidence of supernatural activity on these videos, Lenny says.
Speaker F:Yeah, I mean, I can say that these guys are annoying.
Speaker F:I don't like it when people are putting out this kind of forgive me bullshit out into the world.
Speaker F:There's a lot of us who do a lot of hard work to get facts out.
Speaker F:And I mean.
Speaker F:Yeah, what kind of facts are you.
Speaker D:Putting out there, Lenny?
Speaker F:Oh, look, I mean, that's just part of my.
Speaker F:I mean, you could visit the museum and see my, My most recent.
Speaker D:What museum again?
Speaker F:The Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
Speaker D:Oh, you're at the Getty, huh?
Speaker F:Have you been?
Speaker D:No, I haven't, but I'm aware of it.
Speaker F:Oh, okay.
Speaker F:Kind of sad in his face.
Speaker F:Yeah, I can, I can.
Speaker F:I mean, if you need me to talk to these guys, I can certainly.
Speaker F:I could probably take this guy for a ride with what I know, especially seeing how little they know about what they're doing.
Speaker D:Right.
Speaker D:Yeah, I think, I think I'm having second thoughts about having you talk to him.
Speaker D:And we don't want someone talking down to him, man.
Speaker F:Oh, that's okay.
Speaker F:Well, I, you know, like I said, whatever.
Speaker F:Whatever you think's best.
Speaker F:Okay.
Speaker B:No, he's got this.
Speaker D:No, I, I think.
Speaker D:I think I'm just gonna Wear my plain clothes.
Speaker D:The all FBI garb.
Speaker D:No.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:He's like.
Speaker D:Romeo just takes a pause and says, I'm gonna put on my street clothes, and I'll try and level with this guy.
Speaker E:Brazen's pretty sure she sprained an eyeball rolling them so hard.
Speaker A:Yeah, roll damage.
Speaker A:Any other research or preparation that I need to be aware of before we switch scenes to a plainclothes Romeo approaching the address from a website.
Speaker E:Who's going with him?
Speaker E:Because we probably shouldn't let him go alone.
Speaker B:Let's let Lenny go with him.
Speaker B:It'll be good to have somebody.
Speaker D:Tell you what, why don't you all come with?
Speaker D:Even if you'll be my crew for my own show that I'm putting together called.
Speaker D:We're going to call it the Circle of Darkness.
Speaker D:And we.
Speaker D:We haven't launched anything yet.
Speaker D:We're just kind of investigating things.
Speaker A:I like the edgy name.
Speaker B:Yeah, actually, I actually don't hate that idea.
Speaker F:Yeah, it's kind of funny, actually.
Speaker F:I think we kind of like that dope.
Speaker A:Rosie is conspicuously silent.
Speaker D:She just implodes.
Speaker B:Well, what do you think?
Speaker E:Royston Rosen jots down a quick note to whatever handler finds their gear later, stuffs it in her backpack just in case.
Speaker B:Remember, guys, we're trying to get information from this Dany fella about Darren, but let's not.
Speaker B:Let's try to be a little indirect with it, yeah?
Speaker B:All right, Romeo, show us.
Speaker B:Show us how it's done.
Speaker A:Romeo gets.
Speaker A:Gets dressed and re enters the common room.
Speaker A:What does this look like?
Speaker A:Is it just like a suit without a tie or what's this replace?
Speaker D:Romeo's gonna wear some jeans and a white T shirt with a jean jacket.
Speaker D:So he's wearing the Canadian tuxedo, and he's, of course, got his hair slicked back.
Speaker D:He's not going to bring his gun, which he feels nervous about.
Speaker A:Ooh, yeah, that's an interesting choice, but I'll take it.
Speaker A:Makes my job a lot easier when you go in unarmed to a new location.
Speaker D:Mm.
Speaker A:I'm just kidding.
Speaker A:I'm just messing with you.
Speaker A:You can do whatever you want.
Speaker A:So he.
Speaker A:He re enters the room, and everybody claps and applauds at how well he cleans up in street clothes.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:Should I roll my fashion?
Speaker A:Yeah, you.
Speaker A:Isn't that a cyberpunk role?
Speaker D:Yeah, or Style.
Speaker D:It was style or something.
Speaker D:I can't remember.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Any other research that the team wants to complete before heading out?
Speaker E:Not research, but if we're going with that farce, Roisin's gonna make sure her DSLR is charged because she's recording this.
Speaker A:Okay, wise, wise.
Speaker A:You four pile into one of the vehicles.
Speaker A:Is there a special vehicle that I should put you in?
Speaker A:Each one of you has your own rental at this point.
Speaker D:Romeo classically got a black suv.
Speaker E:So Royzen's actually riding with someone because she took the train in and then just took the bus.
Speaker E:There has been no reason for her to rent a car.
Speaker A:So everybody into the black SUV then.
Speaker A:Is that cool with everybody?
Speaker A:Is the team the team locked in?
Speaker E:Works for me.
Speaker A:Sounds like it's pile into Romeo's black SUV rental and make your way towards the address that's posted as the editor's office on the contact us page of beyond the Dark.
Speaker A:As you head into this neighborhood.
Speaker A:The motivation for the paranormal production of course those organization is fairly self evident when you arrive and have a chance to take it in.
Speaker A:The ghosts of Detroit are everywhere in this area.
Speaker A:Despite the multiple revival efforts recently spreading through the city.
Speaker A:There's abandoned buildings, people living in squalor and sallow eyes without hope.
Speaker A:When you pull up in front of this address you see that Danny has supplied his own twist on the decrepit neighborhood's theme.
Speaker A:His door handle is curiously covered in aluminum foil.
Speaker A:In fact, there's a unique pattern of aluminum sheeting that covers each one of his street facing windows.
Speaker A:In better times, maybe Danny might have been an artist.
Speaker A:Or if he didn't have such a passion for other areas and arenas.
Speaker A:The single story home is run down.
Speaker A:The lawn is wild with knee high actually hip high grass and weeds.
Speaker A:But despite this, it does seem better kept than the rest of the homes on the street.
Speaker A:Tell me how you approach where you park.
Speaker A:Like guide me through this and I will be the world for you.
Speaker D:You are the world for me.
Speaker D:So Romeo pulls right in front of that what can only be described as hovel.
Speaker D:Run down hovel actually.
Speaker A:And it's a tear down from hovel.
Speaker D:Yeah, it is.
Speaker D:It is rough.
Speaker D:He pulls directly in front of it and approaches the door.
Speaker A:Agents.
Speaker A:And Lyney, do you follow with him?
Speaker A:Yes, Lyney's on board.
Speaker A:What about Roizen and Ryan?
Speaker E:Roizen's following but she's hanging back a bit.
Speaker B:I am going to follow in.
Speaker A:Got it.
Speaker A:So we've got.
Speaker B:I'm under the impression and maybe the team can confirm that we're going in like a doc.
Speaker B:You crew, right?
Speaker B:Yep, yep.
Speaker A:Cool, cool.
Speaker A:You four wander your way up to the front of this.
Speaker A:I think we call it a hovel.
Speaker A:But it's actually a tier below that, so whatever domicile name that is.
Speaker A:And notice that there is a old style white intercom box that's been installed on the left side of the door frame.
Speaker A:Looks a little battered, actually.
Speaker A:Otherwise, the door itself is, like I said, has a handle that's covered in aluminum foil.
Speaker D:Romeo points at the handle and looks at everybody meaningfully.
Speaker D:And then he uses the sleeve of his jacket to press the intercom button.
Speaker A:After a few brief moments, you hear the intercom crackle to life.
Speaker C:Hey, it's after business hours.
Speaker C:It's actually pretty late.
Speaker C:How many of you are there out there?
Speaker C:Four of you.
Speaker D:Wow.
Speaker D:Are you.
Speaker D:Are you Danny Corso?
Speaker D:I'm sorry, this is after business hours.
Speaker D:We.
Speaker D:We're big fans and we kind of.
Speaker D:We wanted to talk to you.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker C:Come back in the daylight where I can see, you know, what's in your pockets, in your hands and maybe just like one of you.
Speaker D:Yeah, that's fine.
Speaker D:We'll come back.
Speaker A:And so you hang your head in shame and turn around.
Speaker A:Is that what.
Speaker A:Is that what the team does?
Speaker A:Okay, you want to narrate that?
Speaker A:I guess.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker D:So Romeo hangs his head, like, in shame and kind of vaguely gestures at the group with his hand and, and points at the car and says, let's go, guys.
Speaker D:I guess.
Speaker D:I guess he's.
Speaker D:I guess we're getting big Timed.
Speaker B:Ryan puts his hand on Lenny's back to.
Speaker B:To lead him away, back towards the car.
Speaker B:Once they're off of the porch, he says, listen, turn back around, run up there and act like you're a big fan, say that you don't know who, say that you're not that close with us and you're more interested in learning more about what he knows and just fanboy out.
Speaker D:And then by the time he's done saying all that, we're at the vehicle, correct?
Speaker A:Yes, that is correct.
Speaker A:You guys are at the vehicle when he has this Koshi session with Lenny.
Speaker B:I'm just saying it quickly under my breath as we're walking away in the hopes that he plays along.
Speaker A:Lenny.
Speaker F:Lenny's just looking back and forth like, uh, okay, yeah, I can move it.
Speaker F:So I.
Speaker F:Lenny heads back up there.
Speaker A:Okay, you're.
Speaker A:You're back in front of this door.
Speaker F:Yep.
Speaker F:Buzz I buzz the thing again.
Speaker C:Yeah, it's late.
Speaker F:Hey.
Speaker F:Hey.
Speaker F:I.
Speaker F:I know.
Speaker F:I apologize.
Speaker F:I.
Speaker F:I just, you know, very excited to meet with you.
Speaker F:And then I'm not sure the best way to do this.
Speaker F:You know, it's.
Speaker F:Now that I have watched a Bunch of his, you know.
Speaker F:Now Lenny's watched a bunch of his like shows.
Speaker F:He's got some knowledge around what they've been researching lately.
Speaker F:Is there something I could roll to?
Speaker F:Like, I guess, I don't know if it's persuade or like.
Speaker A:It's persuade.
Speaker F:It's persuade.
Speaker F:Okay.
Speaker F:Basically I'm gonna attempt to fanboy out with him based on my knowledge, my expertise and what this guy, what I know this guy's been up to.
Speaker A:This is a very good use of persuade.
Speaker F:Okay, let's see here.
Speaker B:You got this, John.
Speaker F:I mean, was there a bonus there?
Speaker F:Because of my expertise?
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker B:And because of my, my cheering on.
Speaker F:Good.
Speaker F:Fail.
Speaker A:You have you avoided detriments by all your, your great, great preparation guys.
Speaker A:You, you let this pour forth and really gush over the beyond the dark mission statement.
Speaker A:And after what seems like an eternity, you can just hear this dim crackle emanating from the intercom.
Speaker C:You hear, all right, I'll buzz you in.
Speaker C:But all those other ones, keep them back there.
Speaker C:I can still see them there in the car, kind of watching.
Speaker F:Lenny turns around and gives a thumbs up and a smile to the guys in the car.
Speaker F:I guess heads in.
Speaker A:You hear a buzz and a click.
Speaker A:The door in response opens just a bit towards you.
Speaker A:You grasp the aluminum clad handle.
Speaker A:Pull it forward.
Speaker A:Inside is utter darkness.
Speaker A:The street lights outside are pretty ramshackle and already unsatisfactory.
Speaker A:They don't help you see inside this shadowed entryway at all.
Speaker A:But you step forward and through.
Speaker A:You realize there's a small area here, linoleum floor, that's been cordoned off.
Speaker A:But your eyes are still adjusting to the lack of light.
Speaker A:Close the door behind you or leave it ajar.
Speaker F:Leave it ajar.
Speaker F:And then I pull out my flashlight.
Speaker A:You pull out your flashlight and switch it on.
Speaker A:And what you see here is something that you've seen before in pawn shops or jewelry stores.
Speaker A:It's a cage here in the entryway.
Speaker A:It separates this front door from the rest of the building.
Speaker F:Hello?
Speaker A:You hear a crackle from another speaker somewhere in the room to your left.
Speaker C:Go ahead and shut the door and.
Speaker A:I'll turn on the lights.
Speaker F:He shuts the door.
Speaker A:You hear it click behind you.
Speaker A:Loudly.
Speaker A:The shunk as well.
Speaker A:The lights in the room do buzz on and yes, you are in what seems like a entryway cage.
Speaker A:Thick iron bars that now serve as a boundary between you and the rest of the rundown room.
Speaker A:You hear the speaker come back on.
Speaker C:Alright, go ahead and turn out your pockets.
Speaker C:Show the inside of your Vest there.
Speaker C:Actually, just go ahead and take off your shirt and pants.
Speaker C:Put them in the corner there.
Speaker F:No, not gonna do that.
Speaker F:I mean, I don't have anything in my pockets.
Speaker F:I could show you what I have with me.
Speaker F:I kind of pull a few things out of my pockets and hold them up to camera.
Speaker F:I assume I can see the camera.
Speaker A:You actually are looking around.
Speaker A:You don't see a camera.
Speaker A:All you hear is from another room.
Speaker A:Actually, it's a little bit away.
Speaker A:The crackle of this speaker.
Speaker A:What do you pull out of your pockets?
Speaker F:Well, I pull out a little pocket notebook, a small like pocket knife.
Speaker F:My flashlight obviously is out.
Speaker F:A deck of cards that I have and an old coin.
Speaker A:There's a long pause.
Speaker C:Nah, I don't think so.
Speaker C:I can't see behind you.
Speaker C:Why don't you turn around?
Speaker C:Why don't you just take the pants off, man?
Speaker C:Just make this quick.
Speaker C:I don't want to see you without pants on.
Speaker C:Just, just, just get it done.
Speaker C:Then you can come through.
Speaker F:Yeah, no, no, I'm not, I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker C:Look, you can just leave.
Speaker C:We're not gonna do this then.
Speaker F:It's weird, man.
Speaker F:That's weird.
Speaker F:What do you think I like?
Speaker C:You think I, I like this?
Speaker C:You show up at, you show up at my place of business at 2:30 in the morning with a whole posse.
Speaker A:Of folks that look like feds.
Speaker C:And, and you, you think I'm.
Speaker C:I'm not gonna, not gonna be a paranoid man.
Speaker F:Wait, is it 2:30 in the morning for real?
Speaker A:Yeah, it is.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:You met, you met with Dr.
Speaker A: Bourne around: Speaker D: and: Speaker A:P.
Speaker A:P.m.
Speaker A:i'm afraid.
Speaker F:Thought it was.
Speaker B:Okay, well, let's walk this whole.
Speaker A:That's why the parking lot was so dark when I described it.
Speaker A:And yeah, everything's been so dark.
Speaker D:I just thought we were in like a covered parking lot and it's Detroit, so there was no electricity in it.
Speaker A:It's been, it's been an eclipse this whole time.
Speaker F:Did you say it's actually 2:30pm Can I roll my persuade again?
Speaker F:It's so dark in here.
Speaker D:How could you die?
Speaker D:Have you been on a lot of meth lately?
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker A:That's a minus 100 on that.
Speaker A:No, there's no persuade wall for that.
Speaker F:Well, yeah, I mean, if, if it would make you more comfortable, we can, we can just come back tomorrow during the daylight hours when it would be more reasonable.
Speaker A:You hear a loud buzz, a click And a shunk as the entryway door opens behind you outward.
Speaker F:All right, I'll.
Speaker F:We, we'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker A:The lights flicker off.
Speaker A:You're left in darkness.
Speaker F:I.
Speaker F:I leave.
Speaker A:You walk back.
Speaker A:Do you also hang your head in shame?
Speaker F:Uh, no.
Speaker F:No, No, I do not.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:You hold it up high and you walk.
Speaker A:Walk back proudly to the vehicle, to the anxiously awaiting agents in the car.
Speaker F:Hey.
Speaker F:Well, two things.
Speaker F:One, it's.
Speaker F:I didn't realize it was 2:30 in the morning.
Speaker F:And two, he was adamant that I.
Speaker B:Oh, my God, it's 2:30.
Speaker D:It's 2:30 in the morning.
Speaker F:And he was squinting and he was adamant that I kept.
Speaker F:That I take my pants off and I just.
Speaker F:Not gonna do that.
Speaker D:Not when you.
Speaker D:When someone tells you to take your pants off, you take your pants off.
Speaker D:You don't ask questions.
Speaker B:What do you mean he asked you to take your pants off?
Speaker B:Just for fun.
Speaker F:He wanted me.
Speaker F:I think it was a security thing.
Speaker F:I don't know.
Speaker F:But I'm not taking my pants off of this guy.
Speaker F:I don't.
Speaker F:I don't know.
Speaker D:Next time, take your pants off.
Speaker D:This is bigger than your pants.
Speaker B:This is way bigger than your pants.
Speaker B:Why the hell didn't you take your pants off?
Speaker D:Take your pants off.
Speaker F:I'm not taking off my pants.
Speaker D:You gotta take your pants off next time.
Speaker B:What do you mean you're not taking off your pants for security?
Speaker B:Who gives a.
Speaker B:Who gives a shit?
Speaker B:Why didn't you take your damn pants off?
Speaker D:Take your pants off.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker D:It's a rule.
Speaker F:What if he's live streaming the whole thing over some.
Speaker F:Some.
Speaker F:You know, I.
Speaker F:I guarantee you, you.
Speaker D:Will get no views.
Speaker B:Oh, my gosh, who is this?
Speaker A:When he starts suspecting, this whole thing is an elab.
Speaker B:Ryan's genuinely annoyed and walks around the other side of the car.
Speaker A:An elaborate hazing ritual from Delta Green.
Speaker F:Yes.
Speaker F:Is this, Is this real?
Speaker F:Like, is this.
Speaker F:Are y'all putting me up to something?
Speaker B:Yes, this is.
Speaker B:The shit that we're doing here is serious.
Speaker B:What we're trying to find out is serious.
Speaker B:We need to talk to this guy.
Speaker B:He's our only lead.
Speaker D:Which is why next time you take your pants off.
Speaker D:As it stands, let's just go back to the hotel, get some sleep, come back early in the morning when this weirdo's in a better mood.
Speaker B:Ryan huffs and then gets back in the car.
Speaker A:That huff serves as a perfect transition to the exact same scene eight hours later.
Speaker D:Camera flips.
Speaker A:Daylight.
Speaker A:The sun has risen.
Speaker A:It is Indeed, daylight.
Speaker A:Although it's an overcast day, as all Detroit days are.
Speaker A:We know this.
Speaker A:And you've arrived again, front of this address, in the middle of the.
Speaker A:Or in the middle of the outskirts of Detroit.
Speaker B: yes and says, Holy shit, it's: Speaker D:Careful, everybody.
Speaker D:There's Juggalos about.
Speaker B:We pull up, Ryan's gonna turn to Romeo, say, do you want to take another stab at it or.
Speaker D:Yeah, I do.
Speaker D:Let's give this another go.
Speaker B:Do you think?
Speaker B:I respect that, but maybe Royson should give it a shot.
Speaker B:Not that.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker D:Romeo turns and looks at Royson and raises an eyebrow at her.
Speaker E:Fine.
Speaker E:But if he asks me to take my pants off, you guys had better shooting.
Speaker B:Well, what if you take your pants off?
Speaker D:What if.
Speaker D:What if there's no one to shoot and I didn't bring my gun?
Speaker F:You guys have guns?
Speaker E:Fine.
Speaker E:I'll just kill him with my bare hands.
Speaker B:Perfect.
Speaker A:Roizen alone, I guess, walks up to the.
Speaker D:No, we're all going this.
Speaker A:Okay?
Speaker B:She's doing the talking.
Speaker D:That's what I understood.
Speaker A:Got it.
Speaker B:She's the director.
Speaker A:Royzen's taking point.
Speaker A:Got it.
Speaker A:Okay, cool.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Roizen takes point and leads you for back up to the stoop of this decrepit house.
Speaker A:And the intercon crackles to life.
Speaker C:Oh, you actually.
Speaker C:You actually came back.
Speaker C:Okay, well, let's.
Speaker C:Let's do this.
Speaker A:He doesn't even let you get a word in before he opens the door remotely.
Speaker A:You hear that click and that chunk door again opens outward towards you.
Speaker A:Do you four file into the caged room that was described to you off screen by Lenny, I assume.
Speaker A:Yeah, the lights are already on now when you enter.
Speaker A:And yeah, you don't see much outside of this cage.
Speaker A:Just peeling wallpaper, flecked and poorly spackled drywall, and three door frames that lead into other areas of the home slash business.
Speaker A:You hear from a speaker to your left in another room.
Speaker C:Okay, close the door.
Speaker D:Romeo closes the door behind him.
Speaker A:Click.
Speaker A:Shunk.
Speaker C:All right, so there's a.
Speaker C:There's a wand there on the ground.
Speaker C:You see it.
Speaker A:4.
Speaker A:Let your eyes flutter down to the linoleum floor, and you see what looks like a metal detection wand that you would see perhaps at.
Speaker A:Well, some of you recently saw at the TSA checkpoints at your airports.
Speaker D:Mm.
Speaker C:Switches on the bottom there.
Speaker C:Why don't you just like, wave that over the others and then wave it over yourself?
Speaker C:I'm watching.
Speaker C:Okay.
Speaker D:And Romeo picks it up and begins to wave it on.
Speaker D:Each of us and himself does Anybody.
Speaker A:Have any weapons on him besides Lynny?
Speaker A:I know Lyney does.
Speaker F:I mean, a little pocket knife and a keychain.
Speaker F:Pepper spray, I guess.
Speaker A:Oh, I know.
Speaker A:Oh, I know.
Speaker A:I'm aware.
Speaker A:Roysen, did you bring a weapon?
Speaker E:Roisin's gonna mutter that.
Speaker E:He should probably avoid her hair.
Speaker B:Ryan left his gun in the car.
Speaker A:As you wand over each person, it does emit an audible beep over the pockets of Mr.
Speaker A:Liddy Hargrave.
Speaker A:Everybody kind of freezes for a moment, looks around.
Speaker C:All right, I knew I was right not to let you in last night.
Speaker C:The hell do you have in your pockets?
Speaker F:I showed it to you on camera last night.
Speaker F:It was.
Speaker F:Look.
Speaker F:And I just pulled my pockets and it's like a little pocket knife and a, you know, a coin and a deck of cards.
Speaker F:Like this is the same thing.
Speaker C:Go ahead and push that knife through the right side of the bars there.
Speaker C:I'll give it back to you later.
Speaker F:Okay, I do.
Speaker A:It clatters to the linoleum floor, only a few, few inches away from the edge of the cage.
Speaker C:Okay, let's do some pre interview questions.
Speaker C:Like this.
Speaker C:I know it's not comfortable, but still don't trust you.
Speaker C:First question.
Speaker C:Do any of you or have any of you ever worked for the government?
Speaker D:Nope.
Speaker F:No.
Speaker B:No.
Speaker C:Second question.
Speaker C:Who here believes that there is life outside of our terrestrial sphere?
Speaker D:Romeo raises both his hands above his head.
Speaker F:I raised my hand.
Speaker F:Lenny raises his hand too.
Speaker B:Ryan raises his hand.
Speaker E:Roisin looks around as if she's extremely confused and doesn't understand what's being said.
Speaker A:Third question.
Speaker C:X Files or fringe?
Speaker D:Ooh, that's a good one.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker A:You hear the door click very slowly and fairly loudly to your left.
Speaker A:The heavy iron gate begins to slide on a rail and opens into the house.
Speaker C:All right, follow.
Speaker C:Follow my voice this way and you're gonna come to a door.
Speaker C:I'll unlock it.
Speaker D:Awesome.
Speaker A:You go ahead and walk to your left through a dimly lit room.
Speaker A:Now, all the windows here have been spackled aluminum foil.
Speaker A:As I previously mentioned.
Speaker A:The pattern is again intricate, almost beautiful.
Speaker A:And you walk across a dirty red carpet that looks like it's been placed here over more peeling linoleum floor.
Speaker A:Make your way to a battered looking metal door.
Speaker A:As you approach, you hear what sounds like several locks being undone.
Speaker A:Soon it opens inward to reveal the pleasant glow of what look like maybe a dozen or so computer screens, some on tables, some pinned to walls with bungee cords and mounts that have seen better days.
Speaker A:Several keyboards scattered across the room.
Speaker A:The floor is peppered with energy drink cans, candy bar wrappers, junk food castaways.
Speaker A:There are two chairs here.
Speaker A:One is currently occupied by man you recognize from several videos as Danny Corso.
Speaker A:He's relatively unshaven, looks a little heavier now than he did in some of the videos you saw.
Speaker A:He's wearing a taxicab driver's hat and a Naruto T shirt.
Speaker A:He has a shotgun.
Speaker A:It's what all your eyes fixate on when the doors opened.
Speaker A:He's opened it with his right foot and is holding the shotgun towards you all.
Speaker A:He doesn't say a word.
Speaker A:Seems to be waiting.
Speaker D:Danny Corso.
Speaker D:As I live and breathe.
Speaker D:We are big fans.
Speaker A:He nods slowly.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Come inside.
Speaker A:Close the door behind you.
Speaker D:We do so.
Speaker A:He stands up, holding the shotgun tightly but pointed towards the ground.
Speaker A:He walks beside you and you see him put in place what look like several more deadbolts, two chains and an electronic lock that takes him a moment to engage.
Speaker A:He turns around and says, I've only got two chairs.
Speaker A:So shrugs.
Speaker D:We don't mind standing.
Speaker A:Suit yourself.
Speaker D:We're excited to be here.
Speaker D:The nexus of.
Speaker D:Of the magic that is beyond the dark.
Speaker D:You know, it's.
Speaker D:Wow.
Speaker A:Roll your charisma, please.
Speaker D:Success.
Speaker A:He nods slowly.
Speaker A:He looks skeptical.
Speaker A:Well, got decent taste at least.
Speaker A:He nods towards Ryan.
Speaker A:Alright, so what do you need?
Speaker A:I'm actually pretty busy.
Speaker A:He glances towards the locked door.
Speaker D:Yeah, we totally understand and we're just huge fans and we're looking to kind of start our own blog up.
Speaker D:Vlog even at some point thinking of calling it the Circle of the Dark and we just wanted to see if we could just pick your brain about this and maybe even possibly collaborate at some point once we get started.
Speaker A:Circle of the Dark.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker A:That's awesome.
Speaker A:He says.
Speaker D:I know.
Speaker A:He nods.
Speaker A:Seriously?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Cool.
Speaker A:So is this like your first project or like.
Speaker D:Well, that's a good question.
Speaker D:I mean we've long time been enthusiasts and we.
Speaker D:Well, Lenny here, he's our expert more than anyone.
Speaker D:I think he's.
Speaker D:Well, he.
Speaker D:Honestly, he's.
Speaker D:He's picked out a few inconsistencies in some of your videos, if you don't mind my saying so.
Speaker D:We're all big fans, but also study you a great bit and just inconsistencies.
Speaker D:Well in myth and legend and what's reported, you know, it's.
Speaker D:It's not.
Speaker D:It's only the most astute PhD level investigators might know this.
Speaker A:All three of you hear Romeo kind of starting to stumble over his words.
Speaker A:You feel the tension starting to Grow in the room.
Speaker A:Would any agent like to step in?
Speaker F:Yeah, let me.
Speaker F:Will.
Speaker A:Cool.
Speaker A:Go ahead.
Speaker F:Well, yeah, well, I think what.
Speaker F:I think what I think he's trying to say is, you know, like I said, we're big fans and.
Speaker F:But, yeah, like, there's.
Speaker F:There are some topics that I wanted to talk to you about and also a few comments I had on some of your videos that I saw, which, again, were great, but.
Speaker F:And then at this point, I guess I'd like to roll.
Speaker F:I'd like to do, like, an occult role and kind of, like, pull on my knowledge of, like, occult activities in this.
Speaker F:In this area, and then maybe start asking him, like, hey, man, do you know about this cult and how they work?
Speaker F:And have y'all investigated these people?
Speaker F:And.
Speaker F:Or if there's anything I seen in his previous videos, I'm like, hey, I saw you investigated these guys.
Speaker F:What do you think about this?
Speaker F:X, Y and Z.
Speaker A:Damage control first.
Speaker A:Roll your charisma, please.
Speaker F:Oh, no.
Speaker F:Hey, look at that.
Speaker F:Success.
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker A:All right, you get a plus 20% to your occult role now.
Speaker F:Okay, cool.
Speaker D:Quick, dazzle him with magic.
Speaker F:Oh, even with the plus 20, I failed.
Speaker A:Well, got it.
Speaker A:So go to check your occult, Ryan.
Speaker A:Remember, check your human intelligence.
Speaker A:And Lenny, I think you failed to persuade as well, anybody who failed, please ensure you're.
Speaker A:You're checking.
Speaker A:So he kind of nods along.
Speaker A:He says, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Speaker A:He holds up his hand, taking it off of the shotgun for a moment.
Speaker A:I get it, I get it, I get it.
Speaker A:You know, your shit.
Speaker A:And, hey, I'm sorry about the pants thing.
Speaker A:It's just.
Speaker A:It's been a rough, rough few.
Speaker A:Okay?
Speaker A:So we can hash some of those details out in kind of talk about some of the.
Speaker A:He glances over at Romeo.
Speaker A:Inconsistencies later.
Speaker A:I'm not really in the mood right now if you're here for, like, general advice or talking about some collab.
Speaker A:Show me your.
Speaker A:Your sizzle reel.
Speaker A:What you got?
Speaker D:Well, we haven't got a sizzle reel yet.
Speaker A:Well, that's the first thing you need to do is.
Speaker A:Is get something that you can upload so some folks can see it.
Speaker F:Yeah, I did have a question.
Speaker F:I was wondering if we could also speak with.
Speaker F:With Darren as well.
Speaker F:We've been seeing him pop on your videos, and he really does seem to have some knowledge as well.
Speaker F:Is he around?
Speaker A:No.
Speaker A:Darren got killed.
Speaker F:What?
Speaker D:Wait, what?
Speaker A:Something killed Darren?
Speaker A:Something that's huge.
Speaker A:Something killed him?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker D:Okay, this is gonna sound really insensitive.
Speaker D:Did you get it on film?
Speaker A:He nods.
Speaker A:I Didn't.
Speaker A:But I get where you're coming from.
Speaker A:Okay?
Speaker A:There might be some film out there, but only the thing that killed him or whoever killed him knows where it might be.
Speaker A:He says.
Speaker F:When you say whatever killed him, I mean, what do you think it was?
Speaker F:Do you have any ideas?
Speaker A:Sit down, he says.
Speaker F:Okay.
Speaker D:Romeo sits Indian style on the.
Speaker A:On the grime covered floor, on the ground covered floor.
Speaker F:Shoe some energy drink cans over crisscross applesauce.
Speaker A:You see Danny put the shotgun down.
Speaker A:Leaning against one of the computer desks.
Speaker A:With dramatic flair, using both his hands, he says Darren was searching and I think found the Detroit Jabberwock.
Speaker A:He leans back for effect.
Speaker F:What?
Speaker E:Brazen just has this extremely puzzled look on her face.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker D:Romeo raises his eyebrows in earnest appreciation.
Speaker A:That's a powerful eyebrow raise.
Speaker A:That's very weighty, very articulated.
Speaker A:Eyebrow raise.
Speaker A:I like it.
Speaker A:I can see by your faces that you probably have never heard of it.
Speaker A:Am I right?
Speaker F:Not slowly.
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker A:Well, that's because it was previously unknown.
Speaker A:You see, Darren was.
Speaker A:He was hot on its trail.
Speaker A:He was close to finding it.
Speaker A:It's a predator, right?
Speaker A:It, we think it was.
Speaker A:Has been haunting Detroit as recently as well, just starting in the last few months.
Speaker A:The final message that.
Speaker A:That I got from Darren, he's.
Speaker A:He told me he had found something big and he was going to have undeniable photographic and videographic evidence.
Speaker A:This time, he said.
Speaker A:He said it was.
Speaker A:It was proof.
Speaker A:Using his finger to point, he kind of punctuates each one of his syllables.
Speaker D:Wow.
Speaker D:Do you know where he went to do this?
Speaker D:We might be able to recover the video and bring it to you.
Speaker A:He seems to be getting more and more excited.
Speaker A:He nods.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:I can show you the email.
Speaker D:We would love that.
Speaker A:He turns from you and leans over one of the computers.
Speaker A:You see him type in what must be a very long passphrase, the matrix.
Speaker A:One screensaver flickers off.
Speaker A:You see what looks like multiple.
Speaker A:Multiple.
Speaker A:Google.
Speaker A:Not.
Speaker A:No, no.
Speaker A:He uses the Brave browser.
Speaker A:Multiple Brave browsers with what look like hundreds of tabs, each up on his screen.
Speaker A:He clicks through a few of them until he brings up what looks like his ProtonMail account.
Speaker A:He takes a quick screenshot and minimizes that and moves the monitor over in your direction, presses a couple more buttons until almost every monitor in the room is showing the same email.
Speaker A:Go ahead, soak it in.
Speaker A:Can I have a volunteer to read this for our listeners out there?
Speaker E:All right, so the header of this is no more bullshit.
Speaker E:This is it.
Speaker D:Don't forget the re.
Speaker D:Arri.
Speaker E:Danny.
Speaker E:This was the right place to set up my field headquarters.
Speaker E:My nightly rounds finally paid off.
Speaker E:This is big, Danny.
Speaker E:And not just lens flares or weird sounds off screen big.
Speaker E:It shows up on photos.
Speaker E:It's real, all caps.
Speaker E:And I've seen it.
Speaker E:I'm going to get video evidence tonight.
Speaker E:More caps for you and the project.
Speaker E:I know where it nests now.
Speaker E:And this is the thing that will get the idiots on the message board to finally shut up and listen.
Speaker E:The goddamn Jabberwock is real and the story has to be told.
Speaker E:It's behind all those missing girls, Especially the younger ones from St.
Speaker E:Barts.
Speaker E:We are going to first get this story and then get the National Guard.
Speaker E:If you don't hear back from me tomorrow, then.
Speaker E:It's way smarter than I give it credit for.
Speaker E:Board your windows and lock your doors, because it will be coming for you next.
Speaker E:Sorry, I'm on my fifth energy drink and buzzing.
Speaker E:But please be careful and watch yourself.
Speaker E:This thing is no joke.
Speaker E:And I think it can look like other people.
Speaker E:Maybe it's been here for years, hiding out and eating girls, and I'm the first to figure it out.
Speaker E:Proof is coming, my boy.
Speaker E:Keep the lines clear and keep the faith.
Speaker E:This is the return of beyond the Dark.
Speaker A:Danny nods.
Speaker A:So, yeah, I upped my security a little bit.
Speaker A:I haven't heard from him in.
Speaker A:In days.
Speaker A:Something happened to him and I know he's dead.
Speaker F:It was smart for you to pedal the security in.
Speaker F:I can see why.
Speaker A:Yeah, well, most of it I had in before, but I took it up a notch.
Speaker A:You know, again, sorry about the pants thing, but.
Speaker A:He shrugs.
Speaker D:So what's the aluminum foil got to do with this boarding things up?
Speaker A:It disrupts extra planar entities that might be trying to break in.
Speaker D:That makes perfect sense.
Speaker A:He nods.
Speaker D:Well, that's good info.
Speaker D:I guess we could start tracking down where he was last seen and see if we can get that footage for you.
Speaker A:Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker A:I showed this to you to discourage you.
Speaker D:Oh, we don't discourage easily.
Speaker A:I think this thing.
Speaker A:I think he's probably right.
Speaker A:I mean, Darren was no joke.
Speaker A:He was my best field investigator.
Speaker A:If he says this thing can, well, look like other people and it's coming after me, well, it is smarter than he gave it credit for.
Speaker A:And there's something else going on.
Speaker A:You should stay the hell away from it.
Speaker F:Yeah, he might be right.
Speaker F:Maybe.
Speaker F:Maybe this one's a little too much for us to start on our first assignment.
Speaker A:Exactly.
Speaker D:Well, some of us don't scare so easy.
Speaker A:HE shakes his HEAD Can I real.
Speaker B:Quick remember whether or not Romeo gave him a name?
Speaker B:Like, Sorry, like, introduce himself.
Speaker A:Romeo did not give a name.
Speaker A:Only.
Speaker A:Only the Circle of the Dark was the only name given.
Speaker B:Ryan's gonna say.
Speaker B:I mean, Ernie.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:Maybe we just leave it to the expert here.
Speaker B:Turning back towards Danny.
Speaker B:Will you keep us in the loop, though?
Speaker B:This.
Speaker B:This is madness.
Speaker D:Little Stevie just take a beat.
Speaker D:And then he.
Speaker D:He looks at.
Speaker D:At Danny and says, can I get your number if we find the footage, I want to tell you immediately.
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, the one we have on the website just goes to the paranormal tip line.
Speaker A:Honestly, I haven't had time to really check on it lately.
Speaker A:I'll give you.
Speaker A:I'll give you the number I'm using right now.
Speaker A:Turns to his computer and types on it for a bit.
Speaker A:He reads out a number too.
Speaker A:Yeah, I'll use that for the next week.
Speaker D:Perfect.
Speaker A:But, yeah, my plans to hunker down for a while, work on some of my.
Speaker A:My other articles in the meantime, and then maybe after that I'll.
Speaker A:HE SIGHS maybe I'll find a new field investigator, but I feel like things are too hot right now.
Speaker D:I don't blame you.
Speaker D:It's pretty scary.
Speaker D:But like I said, we're looking to make a charge into this.
Speaker D:This world of paranormal stuff, and I think we're a lot tougher than.
Speaker D:Than we look.
Speaker A:Darren was the best investigator I had ever worked with in decades.
Speaker A:He was brilliant.
Speaker A:I don't know what other word to use.
Speaker A:Like we're talking like Sherlock Holmes as portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch.
Speaker A:Brilliant.
Speaker A:The guy was infallible in his deduction, so think twice before you do something stupid.
Speaker D:We will.
Speaker D:Thank you.
Speaker D:It's good to consider.
Speaker D:Okay.
Speaker D:Well, did.
Speaker D:Did he leave you with any other information other than that email?
Speaker A:That was the last email I got from him.
Speaker D:Sounds good.
Speaker A:Do you have any questions?
Speaker A:This is a hint from your friendly handler here.
Speaker A:Do you guys have any questions about anything that was said in that email or anything that was given to you, perhaps in the initial contact?
Speaker B:I may.
Speaker B:What was that Darren talking about here?
Speaker F:The.
Speaker B:The girls at St.
Speaker B:Barts.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah, the missing girls.
Speaker A:Yeah, I think I got those newspaper reports somewhere.
Speaker A:He turns again to his computer, clicks around for a while.
Speaker A:You hear a printer spark to life over to your right.
Speaker A:Starts spitting out paper onto the floor.
Speaker A:Yeah, girls from a.
Speaker A:Like a prep school or a private school or something.
Speaker A:Joy Shores.
Speaker A:Lena Stover.
Speaker B:When did this happen?
Speaker A:Pretty recent.
Speaker A:Last couple of months or so.
Speaker A:Like two folks to maybe read each of these.
Speaker A:That'd be super helpful.
Speaker D:Missing Joy Shores.
Speaker D:Police on Monday scoured the area in Detroit where Joy Shores was last reported seen, searching for any signs of the missing 15 year old girl.
Speaker D:Joy was reportedly visiting Palmer park to play chess with the elderly on Saturday when she was reported missing by her father Dante Shores the following Monday when she failed to return home.
Speaker D:Park goers claim Joy is a member of the Saint Bartholomew Academy Chess Club and liked to practice her skills against older players.
Speaker D:Joy is described as Caucasian, 5ft 5 inches tall, 140 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes.
Speaker D:She was last seen wearing a teal shirt, jeans, Converse shoes and a purple purse, according to an Amber alert issued today by Michigan State Police.
Speaker B:Missing Lena Stover.
Speaker B:Detroit police are hoping the public can assist them in finding a 16 year old girl who has been missing since Saturday.
Speaker B:Police say Lena Stover was last seen on June 15th around 5:45pm on the St.
Speaker B:Bartholomew Academy campus.
Speaker B:She is 54 and weighs 125 pounds with a tan complexion, brown eyes and multicolored hair.
Speaker B:She's good mental and good physical condition.
Speaker B: -: Speaker A:Yeah, so Darren was sure that there was something going on there.
Speaker A:Seemed really.
Speaker A:Where was he following that?
Speaker D:Where was he taking his night rounds?
Speaker D:Nightly rounds?
Speaker D:Sorry.
Speaker A:Oh, his field headquarters.
Speaker A:Yeah, he was actually living out of there.
Speaker A:Really, really committed.
Speaker A:He nods, kind of purses his lips firmly.
Speaker A:Yeah, he was at one of the old schools.
Speaker A:The.
Speaker A:The Hall School.
Speaker A:Hall Middle School.
Speaker A:I think I can give you that address if.
Speaker D:Yeah, that'd be great.
Speaker D:We can definitely search there first and see if we can find any clues.
Speaker A:Sure, sure.
Speaker A:He gives you the address to Hall Middle School.
Speaker D:What other missing girls?
Speaker D:I saw.
Speaker D:I mentioned all those missing girls, especially the younger ones from St.
Speaker D:Barts.
Speaker D:What other missing girls are we talking about?
Speaker A:He didn't share any other evidence with me, but he was sure he was on to something big.
Speaker A:I mean, you saw the email, right?
Speaker A:These disappearances all happened over the last few weeks or so, I think.
Speaker A:Any other questions for Danny Corso?
Speaker F:Hey, does the name Jeffrey Jenkins mean anything to you?
Speaker A:Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:Jeff.
Speaker F:Yeah, he.
Speaker A:Yeah, everybody knows Jeff.
Speaker A:I never really met him, but I.
Speaker A:He was real close with Darren.
Speaker A:They were kind of message boards buddies, which is kind of cool.
Speaker A:I mean, Jeff's pretty well known in those circles.
Speaker A:He was also pretty active on the beyond the dark forums.
Speaker A:I mean, in the old days, before the trolls took over.
Speaker A:I know, like, he and Darren, they used to trade, like, old books and artifacts and shit like that, but that's about all I know about their.
Speaker A:Their relationship.
Speaker D:Out of character.
Speaker D:The.
Speaker D:Before the trolls took over, did.
Speaker D:He's referring to, like, the active, like, hate they're getting on.
Speaker D:On all their different forms.
Speaker A:Correct.
Speaker A:We're not talking real trolls or anything that.
Speaker D:No, no, no.
Speaker A:I get crawled out from.
Speaker D:From tunnels to.
Speaker D:I guess I'll just ask it in character then.
Speaker D:So did Jeffrey Jenkins stop posting when the trolls came in?
Speaker A:Yeah, pretty much all the old guard left.
Speaker A:It just got too toxic.
Speaker D:Oh.
Speaker D:Gotcha.
Speaker D:Okay.
Speaker A:Darren was turning that all around, though.
Speaker D:Yeah, he's.
Speaker D:I mean, I've.
Speaker D:I've always been a believer, but, you know, some people are real.
Speaker D:Real shits.
Speaker A:He nods earnestly.
Speaker D:We've.
Speaker B:We've got an address for Darren, right?
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:He gave you.
Speaker A:He gave you an address for.
Speaker A:For where Darren had set up his field headquarters.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker F:Hall Middle School.
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker A:Correct.
Speaker A:Correct.
Speaker B:That's right.
Speaker B:That's right.
Speaker A:So, Danny, shucks, did he have an actual home address?
Speaker D:Darren.
Speaker A:He was not really that kind of guy.
Speaker A:I hear you kind of lived on the road a bit, but there's a lot of, like, old, you know, places abandoned in Detroit.
Speaker D:Yeah.
Speaker A:Guess.
Speaker A:Guess he thought the old middle school was gonna be a good spot to post up in for what he was looking for.
Speaker A:I guess it was maybe close to where he thought this thing was.
Speaker A:Probably too close for comfort.
Speaker A:I mean, I wouldn't recommend going there until the heat dies down.
Speaker D:I hear you.
Speaker D:We really appreciate you meeting with us.
Speaker D:And we'll be careful.
Speaker D:We'll be real careful.
Speaker A:Listen, you need to start a YouTube channel, like, yesterday, that sizzle reel popping.
Speaker D:I'm not kidding.
Speaker A:Yeah, it's gonna pop.
Speaker A:Start recording.
Speaker A:Like, everything.
Speaker A:Yeah, it's tough on the editor, whoever that is for you.
Speaker A:He looks around the room, but record everything.
Speaker A:You never know what you're gonna see or hear.
Speaker A:You don't want to miss that gold moment when, you know, something vibrates through the veil that we believe is reality and speaks to you across eons past.
Speaker D:Whoa.
Speaker D:Totally.
Speaker A:He nods.
Speaker A:I'm gonna go ahead and lock the doors.
Speaker A:He gets back up and walks over beside you, begins the long process of disentangling all the chains and going through all the deadbolts.
Speaker A:He opens the door.
Speaker A:I'll go ahead and buzz you out.
Speaker A:Just close the front door, okay?
Speaker D:Yes, sir.
Speaker A:Message me on that number when you Got something.
Speaker D:But Will, to stay safe.
Speaker A:Before long, all four of you are back in your vehicle in front of this dilapidated home.
Speaker A:I'll take a collective breath.
Speaker A:What would you like to do?
Speaker D:Well, his last known whereabouts were Hall Middle School, the field office.
Speaker D:I think that's our next best bet.
Speaker D:Maybe we could do some research on St.
Speaker D:Barts and the missing girls.
Speaker A:We've got some time en route, perhaps.
Speaker D:Maybe even en route.
Speaker A:Yeah, well, you quickly look up the address in Hall Middle School, you can see that this has been shut down for quite a while.
Speaker A:Shut down during the pandemic and has never reopened.
Speaker A:It's been closed for quite a while.
Speaker A:It's scheduled to have a city council vote to be demolished in the next few months, actually.
Speaker D:Okay, and so we'll drive out there, and whoever's not driving can do some research.
Speaker E:I'll do some research.
Speaker E:Although, guys, do we really want to go into an abandoned middle school during daylight hours?
Speaker D:Well, we can stop at the hotel and get my gun.
Speaker E:Why did you not just put it in the trunk?
Speaker D:You know, I should have.
Speaker E:All right, but if the cops show up, I'm plain silent again.
Speaker D:Sounds good.
Speaker A:So y'all swing by the Four Seasons, pick up federal sidearm that belongs to Agent Romeo.
Speaker A:Is there anything else that the team picks up that I need to be made aware of?
Speaker D:Agent Romeo's gonna bring his go bag.
Speaker A:Okay, Check.
Speaker E:Let's just assume Roizen's always got her backpack with her.
Speaker A:Okay?
Speaker A:Assumption made.
Speaker B:Ryan's got his lighter.
Speaker B:He's got his gun.
Speaker F:All right, Lenny's gonna grab his small, little, small excavation kit.
Speaker F:Camera.
Speaker A:It's about.
Speaker A:It's getting a little past noon now when you drive up to the obviously abandoned middle school.
Speaker D:So Romeo's going to make a circle around the block the middle school is on.
Speaker D:Just do a little surveillance.
Speaker A:Yeah, it takes up a few blocks.
Speaker A:You can see that there's been some.
Speaker A:Well, hastily put up.
Speaker A:Very, very cheap fencing in lots of spots.
Speaker A:You can see it's been torn and brushed aside.
Speaker A:The blacktop has been, in this period of time, these last couple of years, untended to weeds have broken through.
Speaker A:Large cracks in it, the parking lots, the front of the school itself.
Speaker A:Windows are boarded up.
Speaker A:Some others are unfortunately broken.
Speaker A:It looks like there's a good amount of graffiti across the school itself.
Speaker D:What's the area around the school like?
Speaker A:Front, front gate there.
Speaker A:It's loosely chained.
Speaker A:You can also see that there's a chain around the doors that enter the school.
Speaker A:The area around is residential.
Speaker A:It is a What looks like a affected by poverty part of the city and several homes are completely abandoned, obviously.
Speaker A:Others are in various states of disrepair.
Speaker D:Are there any cars parked along the block that the middle school.
Speaker D:Like, along the middle school side of the block?
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah, there's cars parked in all the residential homes that seem like they might have inhabitants, but, I mean, on.
Speaker D:The middle school side of the street is what I'm saying.
Speaker A:The middle school looks completely abandoned from the outside.
Speaker D:All right, looks like we've got pretty easy entry.
Speaker D:We've got through the gate, and then we've got pretty easy entry into the building with those broken windows.
Speaker D:Not a great ideal time because there's plenty of eyes that could be watching, as I said.
Speaker E:Do we really want to do this during the daylight hours?
Speaker D:I'm okay with spot, like, searching around like the outside, but I don't want to go in where people can see me, so I think it's good to.
Speaker B:Can people see us once we're inside.
Speaker B:I think that's better than being outside, right?
Speaker D:Lol.
Speaker E:Government building.
Speaker E:We aren't here officially, right?
Speaker E:Yeah.
Speaker E:I don't know about you, but I'd rather not get arrested while no same supposedly visiting.
Speaker D:I think we should come back at night.
Speaker D:Definitely wanted to scope out the place.
Speaker E:All right, that being said, Rosen's gonna look at Lenny.
Speaker E:Hey, kid.
Speaker E:Tell me you've got another weapon other than just that tiny little pocket knife.
Speaker F:Well, I mean, I've got this.
Speaker F:This pepper sprayed on my keychain.
Speaker D:Do you have a rabbit?
Speaker F:No, but I could do a card trick for you, if you'd like.
Speaker D:Yes, please.
Speaker A:Roll your sleight of hands.
Speaker A:I'm sorry.
Speaker A:You actually have prestidigitation.
Speaker A:Go ahead, roll.
Speaker F:Was it I just.
Speaker F:Roll my dex.
Speaker A:I think you got a skill.
Speaker A:Roll the prestidigitation skill.
Speaker F:Oh, it's actually on the sheet.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah, man, I hooked you up.
Speaker A:You're gonna play a magician.
Speaker A:You're gonna get that skill, and you're gonna roll that skill.
Speaker F:All right, here we go.
Speaker F:19.
Speaker A:Tell.
Speaker A:Tell us about your card trick, because it's quite successful.
Speaker F:Oh, man, I'm glad I've spent so much time watching all those foolish episodes on YouTube.
Speaker A:Yeah, man.
Speaker A:Rich.
Speaker A:Rich Cornucopia to pull from here.
Speaker A:Regalis.
Speaker F:He does it literally like a.
Speaker F:Because the guy did this trick, he just.
Speaker F:He has you pick a card, throws back in the deck, shuffles, and as he shuffle the card, just grabs it right out of there, says, is this your card?
Speaker F:You say, yes, it is.
Speaker F:And the trick there is.
Speaker F:They were like, hey, did you just actually spend 10 years practicing how to do that?
Speaker F:And the guy's like, yeah, that's how I did that.
Speaker F:There's no trick.
Speaker F:Just grabs a card.
Speaker A:How dare it.
Speaker A:First of all, how dare you reveal the missions or the magician's trick on air.
Speaker A:Unbelievable.
Speaker A:You were going to be expelled from the guild for such a thing.
Speaker A:But also, you did it in character.
Speaker A:And like, one of these agents.
Speaker A:You have no idea.
Speaker A:If they.
Speaker A:If they're a member of the guild, they are gonna report you, most likely.
Speaker A:If they are, you just ruined your nails.
Speaker D:A real stickler for following the rules of magic.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:I believe that.
Speaker D:Me, too.
Speaker F:Yeah.
Speaker F:I'm never gonna get my membership now.
Speaker D:Revoked.
Speaker D:Revoked?
Speaker D:Sir?
Speaker A:LA.
