As we just left our agents, Fiona tapped Dylan and noticed
that Marlon was having some sort of psychotic break.
And Marlon just went to this ancient home somewhere that
thinks may be nearby and heard the message.
Prepare the way. Welcome to Episode 7.
All right, So what our agents do?
We have a little more scene setting.
We have a cop at the foot of a car that's been drugged to
sleep. We have Steve's body rolled up
in a tarp and then Steve's house is pumping full of methane or
natural gas, whatever they use up there from Jed leaving the
stove on. And Jed's on an ATV by himself.
Yeah, the plan was, well, there's two.
ATVs so you get someone's got to take the other one.
Jed to wait for the house to burn down before he leaves.
And I thought you're putting, you're putting Steve's body.
Back in the house, Steve's body should be on his his bed.
OK, Steve's body back in the house, Jed's waiting for the
house to go down. The other three of you right
after Marlins break are headed toward the ATV slash cop car.
They're all kind of parked right next to each other, so.
Well, so I mean, we heard the the yell with the Grizzly Roller
or whatever. Oh yeah.
And so I stop and then I stop you.
And then as I'm kind of we're kind of like looking around for
whatever might have made that noise and just kind of like
cautious, I noticed Marlin. And so I draw your attention to
Marlin. And so we just seem like, it's
like stupefied, just like. Yes, that was a great pantomime
for a podcast medium. Yeah, yeah.
Well, you said I was like twitching a little bit too,
right? Yeah, yeah.
From the back, all you would have seen was Marlon was walking
with a purpose and then like slowed to a dazed stall, almost
on his tip toes, one hand shaking and not moving.
Yeah, OK. It's like not walking toward the
ATV. Anything.
Yeah. So I'll kind of like start to
like on it. So I have my rifle like slung
over my shoulder on like a whatever those things are.
The band or sling? Sling Yeah.
So I'll like start to like kind of unsling it and then kind of
like use my elbow to motion for Dylan to like walk over and make
sure Marlon's OK. And and Dylan does Marlon or
walks over to to to Marlon. It's just like Marlon.
Is everything OK? Well, there's been a
development. I think you should.
Let's write on the ATV and Fiona can.
We'll follow Fiona in the truck. OK.
I think.
Are you planning on talking on the ATV?
Yeah, I I prefer to follow the ATVs if you know the twitching
and the. Blankness.
Yeah, the order doesn't matter. I was just going to.
Talk, that is to me, yeah. The order doesn't matter to the
scientist. Yeah, I'm.
Just going to keep my eyes open. So we're just finding a spot in
the woods that. Yeah, we're going to drive.
So we're going to drive further away from the town and then
eventually just bank a left or right into the woods and then
just park the car somewhere in the woods and that'll be where
the cop will chill until we figure this whole thing.
Out, like off trail? Yeah.
Boonies. Oh, yeah.
OK. Can't see it from the road.
That's planned. OK.
He's in the back seat. You gave him some food?
Yep. Moose jerky, right?
We'll check on him from time to time, you know, if we remember.
All right. And then?
Yeah, as we're writing, I want to talk to Dylan.
So you're going to grab Fiona on the ATV?
Fiona's driving the truck, I'm driving it, I'm with me and
Dylan are on the ATV together. Well, you don't have a vehicle
now because you're leaving the cop car in the woods, right?
Yeah. You're going to pick up Fiona.
I think they're saying, yeah, a judge got a.
Yeah, I'll pick up Fiona on the way back.
So they want to talk on the way up while I'm in the cop car and
we're driving up the road, OK. And then Jed's going to come.
I'll catch up. I mean, we still have.
We have two ATVs and a cop. Car, Yep, Yeah.
So I was just curious where Fiona's we have Fiona's we have?
Steve's truck if we want it, but.
No, we're leaving. I agree.
Well, right now Fiona's so Jed's picking up Fiona.
I will pick up Fiona. You're going to radio alright.
Ensure that the house goes up. Let's snap to Marlon and Dylan
on the ATV. Dylan, I, I'm assuming you saw
something back there. I I believe I have the infection
of whatever Steve had and what makes.
You say that. Well, I had a vision, hearing
noises same as were written in the.
Let me go back to the story real quick.
There was I saw the notebook with Fiona that the kid wrote
Prepared the Way 1000 times. Yeah, that would have LinkedIn
my mind when I came back if I remembered what I heard.
Yeah, Oh yeah, 100. Percent.
OK. Sorry, what were you?
Going to ask, did you turn off your earpiece?
Yeah, I just want to talk. I just want to talk to Dylan
alone. Everybody is Marlon.
I forgot about the comms, that's a good question.
There's some gunshots. I'm firing after you.
What? What was I saying?
I heard, I saw the vision of where to go and I heard the
voice prepare the way which the missing child had written over
and over in his journal. I believe that I have the same
symptoms. I would assume they must be
similar. I assume I will end up like
Steve, but I think maybe I could be helpful to find whatever this
is supposed to lead you. Have any idea how how long it is
until it overtakes? You I do not have more
information other than the vision that I just had and I
could test Steve's samples to see how quickly the tissue
started to change from human to overloaded the fibrous
connective tissue well. I know you still want to help,
help out the team, but this is something we can share with
everyone and it puts puts everyone at risk.
Oh, I understand that, but I don't want Fiona to blow my head
off. Understandable.
I just thought I should tell you first so we could I could maybe
manage this together rather than being confronting the group.
Alone. Well, I.
I think we need to share with them the vision and maybe keep
the infected part of it under wraps now, but not much longer.
Everyone needs to know what they're getting into.
I do believe that it won't take long for the infection to show
itself on my skin in the area that I was cut.
I would imagine what the rate of change in Steve that at some
point it'll be rather rapid. OK.
Adam, would you say like, trying to figure out, like trying to
piece things together is intelligence, like if I'm trying
to like put pieces of a puzzle together, like of a story or a
narrative? Are you asking mapping Marlins
reaction to what you think you heard about Steve?
Yeah, yeah. I'd let you roll intelligence on
that. Done instead of funny line.
I wanted to make sure it makes sense first, yeah.
I say we take care of this cough business and and regroup the
next step right now, but we need to talk to them about what you
saw. Yes, I fully agree.
I just wanted your. I wanted you to know first so
that I could you could help me in presenting this information.
Yeah. Understood.
So where's everybody going? You go back to the that.
Was on the way, yeah, yeah. So then we drop off the cop car
and then I'm going to so. Yeah, you're 5-10 minutes behind
them. So we find a place far off the
road, make sure to cover our tracks.
Oh, so you're not going to the lodge?
You picked a place to regroup at.
Well, there's we're just hiding the cop car with the cop in it.
OK, you and Jen. Oh, are they not?
Were they not coming with us? I thought we.
Were that's what I was asking earlier.
Oh no, I thought we were all doing.
That I assume we were all doing that.
Yeah, OK, OK, so I was following behind them.
They turned their comms off, had this conversation.
But so then after probably 20-30 minutes, we just take a random
right into the woods off the road and like drive for another
like 10:00-ish minutes and then like bitch the cop car and.
Then cover cover our tracks. They're all just there.
So we're, so we like get the cop car, maybe put some, you know,
like branches on it or whatever, get nice and obscured and then.
We're tying him up right? Taping his mouth.
I. Don't think we need to tape his
mouth, I think we can just tie him up.
Yeah, he's got to be able to eat his booster.
I thought you were shutting him in the back of the.
Yeah, shutting. Him in the back of the cop car.
I don't actually know if we're even in the time up.
We need to make sure that there's no way for him to
communicate or escape. Yeah, well.
So take radios, take all the destroy the radios, the cop
stuff, yeah. And then I'll let you do,
especially with a couple of you having military and or.
Well, enforcement, all that. And technical expertise, yeah.
Yeah, I'm, I'm going to hand wave that you, you grabbed his
keys. There's no way to get back out
of the back of the cop car. He's in the back of the cop car,
Yeah. Yeah, those already lock.
Yeah. Yeah.
So you left him there with food? Yeah, that's it.
Food and drink. Pain meds.
Yeah, so. Develop a little bit of an
addiction while he's out there, Yeah, just take the edge off a.
Little sorry, no, actually we wrote like a handwritten just
like are bad for shooting your hand.
Off, Yeah, whoops. Whoopsie.
And I. Owe you some opiates on us.
On the hills. A little cocaine.
No. So no Cocaine the Cocaine Bear.
No, that's right now. Yeah.
So Operation cough, cough was not our dumbest plan.
Operation Cocaine Bear definitely our dumbest plan.
I still like it. Yeah, Fiona will walk over to
Dylan and just kind of like, so he's in fact right.
I mean, that's like every like, you know, he's got, he got bit,
he's got the blood, he's spacing out, the hands twitching like
he's in fact. Something's definitely going on.
I think we need all need to regroup and and let's hear what
he has to say. He had said something about a a
vision. I'm pretty sure what he's going
to have to say is paved the way, paved the way, paved the way,
paved the way. In fact I got like 300 pages of
it if you want to see it. I don't know that Dylan's
actually seen that yet, has he? Only if you wanted to or did.
You guys know it was just us. Two, only if you wanted to.
So we like, we kind of talked about it, but we I never showed
you. Yeah, yeah.
Well, like I had said, like Dylan's realizing he's over his
head at this point. And so he's definitely leaning
on the more experienced agents at this point.
So he's like, he's, he's probably a little more
forthcoming because he's just like, I don't, he doesn't know
what to do. So he he lets Fiona know that
that he's had this vision and, and that other stuff is going on
and. Yeah, yeah, I mean, that's
pretty standard. Look, just never let your weapon
keep an eye on him. He's got a little bit more stake
in the game now, so like finding a cure and figuring out what's
going on. Very invested I would hope.
I will say he's he's a little worried that you're just going
to put a bullet in him. Yeah, well, I you know, I would
want one of you to do the same for me if this got out of hand.
I like how you justify that. It's nothing personal, yeah.
Without flinching, yeah. But currently he seems to have
his wits about him and like we have, they're the kids and like
Steve at least had a few days, so we got some time to figure it
out. He did say something about a
vision that he didn't go into much detail, but I think we need
to regroup, get all the information we can and and make
a plan from there. Yeah, that makes sense.
All right. So we'll like I'll hop on Jed's
ATV. Well, I guess, well we don't.
We don't, I mean, yeah, what's the timing?
Where are we going with? Jed, Jed's not with you right
now. Where's Jed?
He's waiting for the house to. Exclude I don't know if the
house has caught fire yet. I mean, we can probably skip
ahead a little bit unless there's something that works.
Yeah, I'll say you're 15 minutes behind them.
OK, are we, are we heading back to our lodge?
Then after the drive where you ditched the police car, it's
about 1:30 in the morning. Not getting back to like 3:00
AM. You're not that far out.
We went. I thought Steve's house was like
an hour out. No.
Oh OK, well we're 1/2 hour past Steve's house.
Yeah, Steve's house is near the mines, so you're 3045 minutes
into town. OK, all right, so I guess we'll
head back to our rooms covered in blood and tired in the middle
of the night. Hopefully nobody sees us.
Yeah. Could we clean up somewhere
first? I guess we kind of.
I don't need to personally. I've had a healthy distance from
all the violence. Yeah.
Oh yeah. Dylan and Marlon are.
They're a mess. Yeah.
Both of you have wounds. Yeah.
On top of the wounds, there's Steve's blood on you.
But we have. I mean, we're, I'm assuming we
have pretty big coats and stuff. We could kind of like pull up
the collars and cover most of our skin.
We did say we dressed in layers, yeah.
You. Did it's fair?
Yeah. I mean, we're up north.
We're dressed in layers, always dressed in layers.
And it's the middle of the night and it's probably, yeah, I feel
like we could cover that up. OK, Yeah.
So we just go try to get into the rooms without bringing too
much attention to ourselves. Yeah.
OK, I'm going to roll some dice just at random for no reason
whatsoever. Yeah, just rolling dice.
Cool. All right, back at the room.
You guys just shower and going to sleep?
Yeah, we might. I mean.
Get a regroup. If Marlon has anything he wants
to say, that would be a space for it.
Unless we're all just too tired, we want to deal with it in the
morning. Yeah, I'd say, I'd say Dylan is
just ready to, yeah. We'll call it.
I think that Marlon would be ready to talk either way.
I think he's going to stay up into the night sketching
everything that he saw in great detail.
Marlon's going to stay up through the night.
Not the whole night. He's just going to stay up later
than he normally would. OK, first thing, yeah.
But everybody's going to get some sleep.
I'm assuming right it's sketching everything that he saw
would take some time. I'm in a separate room so
luckily because otherwise Fiona would start giving you the eye.
No, dad is not sleeping if if someone is.
Still awake? Yeah.
So you're keeping every like. I mean, we can talk about it
now, but if they seem like they're ready for sleep, I'm
just going to. I just want to make sure I have
all the details. And it would be without me
again. So I think it's funny that
slowly adds in everybody if you would get talked to.
Last I would go to sleep. Eventually I would just stay up
a couple hours. Are you sneaking it or are you
like sitting at the desk in the hotel room?
I'm just gauging how much sleep to give you guys.
Oh, I'm probably sketching in bed.
OK, does Jed stay awake? Hearing the sounds of sketching?
Does Jed fall asleep? I don't think Jed falls asleep,
Jed. Jed is a little on edge.
I mean, Jed knows that. I mean, weird stuff's going on.
So to have someone up all night, good one might freak him out a
little bit. All right, does Dylan say out of
like, professional courtesy, Fiona would absolutely have
pulled Jed aside at some point before they got in and said,
just to be clear, the scientist guy is infected.
Seeing things. Yeah.
Hearing things. So just you know.
Yeah, that's just sleeping with his shotgun underneath.
His anyway good night, better than I'll go to like my room.
All right, I'm going to give you.
Double lock both doors. You can gain a health point
back. No willpower regain though,
because you didn't get a full night's sleep.
OK. A little too much.
Everybody else. Jed doesn't have anything to
recover. All right?
You get a full regain. Dylan and Fiona, you don't have
anything to recover to you? Yeah.
That's just one. And then did you have any
willpower? OK, yeah, just one hit boy.
All right. And then I'm up bright and early
and I'm trying to gather everybody together.
OK, all right. Are we?
Doing the upgrades yet or is that?
Yeah, you can all do your upgrade character sheet for a
new session. Yeah, so I got up bright and
early. I gather everybody together.
OK, I you probably already are on to it.
Some of you saw me yesterday and I talked to Dylan.
But I believe I am infected. I believe when the monster.
No way, that's so crazy. Took my neck.
I well, let's just get right to it.
And he opens his sketchbook and I just show them all the
pictures. And you said that I would be
able to find the location with this.
You think like it wasn't disassociative is what I'll say.
Is there anything recognizable to our area from these image
from the vision? You feel like you recognize
towns and could like you recognize the town and and
landmarks in the town. OK.
Can I share that with them through my drawings?
Yeah. OK.
So I make it clear with you guys.
I I do not believe that I have a whole lot of time with my the
tissue in my neck I believe, will change fairly rapidly.
I think this is a course we should investigate and see where
it leads. What say you give?
Me just one second because I have it in my note.
Well, by my information, you'd have about 10 days based on the
stories that we've heard from Steve's timeline and then also
the two boys. It was 10 days from Steve
because we had him sweating in the hotel that one time.
Yeah, I've got. Steve's I'll clear this up for
you. Steve's timeline was different
than the two boys. Okay.
The two boys was 10 days. That's what you have written
down, yeah. Steve's was faster.
Yeah, yeah. It was faster.
Well, we don't know when things started.
We just know it got crazy. We just.
Know so it might lay dormant for a while and then we have nuts.
But yeah, the boys were over a week like when they started
being weird to win their disappearance and we assuming
Steve was not going to reappear after tonight's debacle.
If we didn't get involved, that would have been well, Flash.
So we we were in the town for 10 days.
So whenever we think Steve heard that first, yeah, when Steve
heard that first howl, if that is like that was the intro for
him, then it was 3 or 4 days total.
Yeah, well. No, it was like a day.
It was like the next he like came frantic, say 2 days, about
two days. Yeah, yeah.
Well thank you for reminding me of the boys.
The 10 day timeline I I had that had slipped my mind.
I that is good. So I believe Steve was faster
but hopefully I'm more towards the boys end.
But either way we need to. I would like to investigate this
before we run out of time. Yeah, I'd say it's a most profit
lead yet. OK, let's go.
Where are you right now? HHH in the morning.
What time is it? Early morning. 6:30. 630 OK.
So yeah, I mean, you haven't said what we're seeing.
Like where? Where would this take me if we
start going out? Oh, you're going to go follow
your vision. Yes.
All right, You all. What are you piloting the ATVs?
We're in town. Yeah, we're in town, so.
It should be. You're going to walk there.
How big is the town? Well, we don't know how it's.
It's by by your vision. It's on the outskirts of town.
It'd be a long walk. Walking.
Yeah, I assume it's such a small.
AT VS When we would leave town, I thought it was a really small
town. I didn't.
I thought it was too. I didn't.
Realize this is on the outskirts of town, so it'd be a long walk
if it's walkable. I really I think we walk AT VS
again, I like we can. Doesn't matter me.
Oh, do I have my rifle on me? No.
And then we have to be, I mean, we have to be ready for all
sorts of stuff today. Actually, we're still in the
hotel. There's actually a couple things
I want to do first. OK.
I want to. I can't remember how I tested
the sample before, but I'd want to send in the sample that I got
from the Crete from Steve Shoulder.
You want to send it to Scotty again?
Is that what we did? That's.
What you did the first time? Did I burn that bridge?
I can't remember. The bridge The bridge is not
burned. OK, I'll send it to Scotty again
and I'm also, I'd also want to send like it's been what, a
couple hours since I got nicked. Yeah.
I'd want to. I'd take a sample of my own,
like my own epidermis right there, see if the cells were
changing at all. OK.
And you're going to send both to Scotty?
Send both to Scotty. Do I need to call him up and?
You're just going to fire. What are you?
Yeah, I'll send him an e-mail. OK, Yep, e-mail sent.
Yeah. OK, so I've got a day zero and
then a after death are. You telling him that?
Yeah. I mean, I'm not telling him it's
from me. Yeah, I'm not telling him it's
my skin. You're just telling me you got
you. Got.
I've got 2 separate samples, yeah, that are both related to
the same strain that we saw before.
Yeah, yeah. And I just want.
I just want to make sure it's all connected I guess.
I'm going to put my rifle. I'm going to put my rifle in.
Like what would you like if what are the the overhead mics that
people have a boom mic? Yeah.
So a boom mic bag. So it's a big long bag cylinder
ish. That's where my rifle will be.
And then I'll have that with me. But then I'll hop on the ATV.
OK, I also want to get tranquilizer from Marlin.
And just. Say like, hey, if if something
happens with you a little faster, I want something to be
able to subdue. I ask for a correct dose of some
sort of tranquilizer that you have I can carry in case someone
sideways. I love it.
It's. A good idea?
Do I make the right dose? That's up to you.
Yeah, during. So nobody else would.
Know were you being, were you being secretive at all or were
you just like it? Was that just an open
conversation? A lot more prepping.
Yeah, I, I, I feel a message of what you think Marlon would
make. I feel like it's a little
secretive, just. Jordan, Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. No, no, don't say it.
Send me a message of what you think Marlon would make.
Unless you were, Yeah. Like that purposefully, like
secretive, but like just giving him a little bit of.
Like privacy, Yeah, yeah, that's fine.
I would have just made an off comment about like always
overdose, always overdose. You never.
Same thing I was saying earlier, like you always want extra so
they go down, they die, they die.
You would never want them to not go down.
Yeah. Always overdose.
So he starts leading you, Marlon starts leading you to this, this
house that he saw in his vision. So he you're going up through
town and guess I'll realize this.
This might be closer to the mines and Steve's house.
Like it wasn't. It wasn't far from there.
Long What? What time of day is this?
You left at 6:30. Yeah.
Well, we we met and talked, so it's what probably.
Probably 7730. 7/30 8:00-ish at the latest.
Yeah, sun's up. It's a long conversation.
Yeah, OK, maybe it was a little. Well, I had to send it.
I had to send the samples. I so if we stop by the post
office, then that's sometime can't send samples through
e-mail. Well, no, I don't think I my
understanding. I'm giving you enough equipment
to. Like my understanding was that
I'm taking the data and sending sending.
Yeah. Just digital stuff.
Cool, cool, cool. That's what I assumed to you,
that you brought with you rolling dice for no reason.
Don't worry about it. OK.
So it's a little earlier than. I.
Thought Seven 7:00 Yeah, what day is it?
By the way, we're on Day 11. I don't know what day of the
week it is, but day 11. You're on day eleven.
No you're not. You've only there's only been
like 2 nights. That's not what I have written
down, but OK. Day 11 so I.
I didn't think it was that badminton.
Yeah, I thought it's only been like 3 days.
Yeah. Because he gives us a chance to
sleep every. Time It's sorry, day 11 since
all of the agents died. Oh, yeah, that sounds about
right. OK.
Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. We are on day three or 4.
Yeah, you're on day three. Day 0 Steve heard the howl.
Day one he comes and knocks to you.
I guess you're on day 2. At yeah, that makes sense to me
because I have 9 days was when I wrote this down and then I have
it crossed out 10 and it's been one extra day since then so.
We're on 2 day 2. Day 01.
Yeah, OK, A long secluded gravel drive and this is clicking for
you, Marlon. You get this is what you feel
like you you saw in your vision. You pull up the gates are shut
this time they're not open. They.
Don't open for us automatically. No, they don't open for you
automatically. And in the Circular Parkway,
there is a lone Tamagami law enforcement vehicle.
On the other side of the gate, yeah, that I can't get that we
can't get through yet. Correct.
This house, very ornate. It's not in pristine condition,
but it's not not run down. This is the type of place that
might be on like a historic registry or something like that.
Clearly 100 years old, lots of masonry stonework.
Pull out the SAT top. I believe this is the spot I'm.
Going to pull out the SAT top, drop the address in and look for
some sort of historical registry on this building.
Oh, there it's it's not listed in any historical registry that
you can find. Is there any news about it or
anything like that I do? I said it looks like a place.
Because if he's, if he's looking up stuff about the house, then
there might be a a news article or.
Just pop the address and team for Sun Zillow.
Is it for sale? Yeah, let's go.
It's not for sale. We're buying a house.
We. Put in an offer.
Delta Green's buying a house. You see, we go and get a credit
check that. 'D be so funny we buy the
haunted house. Some articles throughout history
about this historic Sherman family house.
OK, anything. Interesting or just pretty tame
traded hands at this date for this amount of money?
You do make the connection. This is the same name of.
The Sherman mines, Oh, the Sherman, your mine shermines.
And is there anything else? Like what do we see besides the
fence? Is there some sort of radio to
talk to, to let people in? Is there an end to the fence
somewhere laterally? Yeah, it doesn't go all the way
across the property. It's the fence is more
decorative, like you couldn't drive up there, but you could
walk around it. It's not a hyper secure facility
or anything like that. There's no kind of communication
to open it. Is it electric?
No, it's not electric. It's old school.
It's got a chain and a lock on it.
OK, well, what do you what do you gentlemen think?
It's got a chain on it. It's got a chain and it's
locked. But you can like, it's basically
it's like a there's. A cop car in there?
Some brick columns on each side and then there's like a gate,
but then there's really nothing else around it.
Yeah, you out. Yeah, the masonry work goes
another 20 feet into the woods, but if you walk, you can walk
right around it. Right.
But. The the road.
Itself is blocked off, yeah. So we can walk up there.
Yeah. All right.
Was there anything else in your vision about?
It's wooded, so you wouldn't be able to get like a vehicle in
there, and that's why the gate is locked.
But it's not. Yeah.
Again, it's not a super secure facility.
I did not go into the house in my vision, but I got, I think,
right up to the door. You were about at the spot or
the gate opened and you heard the call and that's when you
snapped out of it. Are you feeling any sort of like
psychic connection to the gate or something?
He grabs his neck. Not at the moment, but we should
proceed with caution. Maybe we scope the perimeter?
OK. All right, well, with that,
Chad's just going to sneak around.
Yeah, I mean, it's covered in its woods around the property.
Yep. Yeah, pretty heavily wooded
site. And again, this is thick
Northwoods, so you guys, there's a ton of cover.
I mean that would be my call as we circle around see if we see
anything in the bag. Jed.
Jed is going. Yeah, I'm going to grab like my
sights, like so not attached to the gun and just like look into
the windows of the house, see if lights are on, if people are in.
Jed would also what's. Going on?
Yeah. From your vantage point, give me
a search. My search just got better.
Find it too. Not.
Better. Not that better.
Oh, no, wait. Yeah, it's a. 90 I thought it
was a nine, I thought it was. 91st too.
I also have 17 under 24. 27 under 43.
A9 under 60 that should be. I'm not searching right now, I'm
just checking the colour of my blood.
I still didn't save either. You see a man walking around.
Looks to be just like milling about in the kitchen.
Not in a rush. Seems like a morning routine
kind of a thing. The only car is the cop car, no
other cars. Yeah.
Back to day of the week. Is this a like a work day for
people? Is it a weekend?
Yeah, I'm saying day zero. You probably got there on a
Monday. So we're looking like a
Wednesday morning. This is work day.
And just quick, it doesn't look like like it doesn't have any
wear and tear as if it were maybe like the cop car that we
left in the woods. And is it like muddy tire?
Oh, no, OK, cool. Just every, every car up here
because the gravel roads had some mud around the wheel wells.
But it's not. It doesn't look like it's
scraped up with branches. So this guy might be getting
ready for work and and leaving soon.
Which means they're about to find out that somebody's not
going to show up for work. Is there a garage or any other
outbuildings? There's like a a carriage house
outbuilding that's like connected with a a portico.
Well, what's Jed thinking? It's Jed's area of expertise
here. So how much, how much, how much
foliage is around the house itself?
Like, can I walk around the perimeter without being seen?
Yeah. He has.
There's a lawn, but yeah, the dense wooded perimeter.
OK. So if we kind of Stow the SUVs a
little bit like out of his driveway obviously and then kind
of walk around back, we could be relatively covered.
Is that what you guys are thinking We.
Just got to. What are we going to say?
We just tell them. I don't think all of us go to
the front door. I think we do like we did before
where we have you guys there is. A.
Gate too. You guys set up and we go to the
door. There is a gate too, which makes
it a little odd to go to the front door.
Right, because you. Are like you're trespassing.
I mean, is there a buzzer? There was no buzzer.
Yeah. So no, it's just a old school
1920s. So if you were a solid iron door
knob of. Sugar, you would have to go
around. The well, I think the best bet
it would be the weight. And yeah, 'cause he might go.
Till he comes out and then. He might go to.
Work so you're stowing the ATVs far enough where somebody
driving away wouldn't notice him.
Yeah, did. We bring the ATVs, yeah.
Yeah, that's how you got there. How?
We didn't walk. And you're you're going to scope
it out and wait. I say we wait a couple hours.
Yeah, just just wait and see what he does.
I'm. Well, Jed's going to go run
back. He's he's going to walk around,
OK. He's going.
To like once he gets to. 9 or 10 we're probably good to.
Yeah, I will say at 7745, this individual walks out, gets in
the police car, drives up, unlocks the gate, hops back in
his car, shuts the gate, doesn't doesn't lock it just kind of
puts the chain up and then drives off.
I bet he doesn't even lock his front door.
No chance he didn't say that. Didn't happen.
I mean, do I? So I had my like scope trained
on him. Do I recognize the individual?
It is the You remember the night you guys were at the mines?
Yeah. And a police officer came.
Is that guy? Yeah.
Is that guy nice? Did I ever?
You only saw Jeff, right? Correct.
All right, Dylan, but yeah. Dylan Yeah, OK.
So you wouldn't have seen it. Same.
Cop that we. No, that would be crazy.
With no, that'd be. No, no, it should have been that
the guy at the house, I thought the mine, the guy, the cop that
went to the mine and Steve's house was the same.
Guy no that. That was different, OK.
We didn't know that guy, he said.
He made a point of it, but we didn't recognize him.
Got you. OK.
OK, so this guy, you're on his radar as being in a weird place.
I think we went with the film crew story at that time though.
Yes, we did. But I think we went with the
bear smuggling film crew story. That's just better.
Was it the house is unattended? Did he lock the door?
Yes. No.
Troublesome. It's an old.
House I'll go around back with with Jed.
I'm sure Jake's find a way in. It's probably got like a.
Is there? Like a seller or?
Like, well, Jed wants to see if there's cameras anywhere in the
house, if he has any sort of surveillance system that I can
tell just by walking around. Give me a search search.
Oh. I'm not.
That's a that's. A I'll assist.
Yeah, Jed. Under 6236.
Under 60. 2. I fumble you.
Fumbled fumbled my search. In looking for the cameras, you
realize Marlin is standing right under 1 and doesn't notice.
Nice in our earpiece. I'll just say wait for the
cameras, Mylan. I don't say anything, I just
kind of slowly glance up and then slowly walk away from it.
I guess we're going in the house looking for the footage.
How you getting in? Great question.
That is a great question. Is there like a basement entry
like old cold delivery or? Cellar door.
Yeah, A. 100%, yeah. Open window.
So I mean how many doors? I'm assuming there's a back door
and a front door. Is there a cellar entrance?
Yeah, dorm cellar. And how is that is?
How does that look like it's locked?
Is it a padlock? Yeah, yeah.
That that shouldn't be too big of a problem.
Yeah, but you can't break in easily without leaving, without
leaving a trace. Oh, we're trying to not leave a
trace. Actually, OK.
What do you even? Best case scenario.
Yeah, what do you even roll to get past?
Like a padlock. I assume I'm just going to hit
it with my axe. Oh.
Yeah, I'll let Jed break it open.
I'm. Just going to smash.
It I'm going to check for a wireless signal.
So what we're doing is going in through the cellar.
A wireless signal at. Least right now.
Does that is the house emitting any sort of Wi-Fi frequency?
Yeah. OK, I'm going to attempt to get
into his note. It's a 23.
That is on you're it ass. So I think it, what was it,
computer science? Yeah, Yeah.
That's 23 under 80. OK.
Yeah, you get on his his Wi-Fi. His password with a capital P.
So the first thing I'm going to look for is he backing up his
camera saves to his network. Yeah.
OK, cool. We're just going to clear those
out real quick and kill the cameras.
So the camera feed will be live, but it won't be recorded.
Like all the recordings will get deleted as they enter.
And then we'll get rid of any backups that have our wonderful
Marlin from the center. All right, then I'll just Snoop
around Internet history. What kind of devices does he
have? Like who's this guy?
Internet history. Give me a second to think.
Jed will ask if. Can you check?
If there's any any footage of the minds, yeah, sure.
Also so in that I also have on like a little window, like just
looking through the camera footage, just have it rolling
and scan through to try and see like what the what we see from
each of the various different cameras, because this is the guy
that showed up at the mines that's.
I mean, yeah, yeah, that's fair. He's.
Got like deer camera trail. Camera set up for something.
Yeah. So if this is any footage from
any like unique or interesting areas or if it's all just
footage from around or in the house.
Just around the house, yeah. Oh, yeah.
So then we're, yeah, we're just checking out the Internet
history and it you don't find anything in it, just saying
that's fine. Yeah, don't find anything.
He's a. Regular guy.
Well, Fiona's doing that. I'm looking around the rest of
the house. Oh, you came with us.
We're in the back of the house. We're back.
He broke into the back of the house.
I thought we all. I thought we all went together.
Oh. Yeah.
OK, cool. All right, Cool, cool, cool.
Yeah, I'm just looking around for other things in the house
that I don't know where a person might keep things like a study
or something. So we're moving all about the
house. Well I I know all that's
happened is I'd broken. To the seller.
The seller so. That's where we're going to
start. I'd like to try to take footage
from this time of day or like the day before and just put it
into where the the files would be for camera footage for today
so that it will look as if there's footage for today but
it'll be an empty placing and nothing happening unless
something happened yesterday. Yeah.
Yeah, just use old footage and kind of do the old loop the
camera trick. Yeah.
And that'll be, I mean, that's probably a lot of my time.
So whatever you guys want to do in the house, that's what I'll
be working on. All right.
Well, I mean, yeah, I'm going to be searching meticulously
because I feel like there's got to be something here.
OK. Starting in the cellar.
This is ends up being a long search.
Giant house, rifling through rooms, study cellar, kitchen.
Don't really seem up. Seems like somebody is living in
this giant historic house. Does it appear that they're
living alone? Or do they?
Yeah. OK.
No indication of any spouse or kids or.
Yeah, in the cellar you find Jed was probably the first one down
there, first one to see it, see some what looks to be mining
equipment like a hard hat, light like mining axe, some boots that
match the dust. You know you there's a.
Older, new. Is it like historic?
Or no, like fresh OK in mining iron ore, the IT turns the
ground like a rusty red and you that dirt is very sticks out.
So there's a lot of like red dirt on these boots and stuff
that looks. Guys, I think he's been to Mars.
The folks Delta Green and get our our SpaceX rocket.
We figured it out. The police chief is from Mars.
Yeah, I'm just working on the servers.
OK. You also see a lot of moving
boxes still unpacked, a lot of like empty rooms don't have
anything in them. I'll rifle through and see like
do the cameras predate his existence in the house or like
just like how back, how far back do the cameras go?
Do I like? So once I'm done looking through
his Internet history, I'll just start looking through cameras.
One second. Yeah, it's only a few months
data, OK. So that Leah, so looking through
Internet history, looking through the cameras, can't think
of anything else I would do electronically.
Is there any like maps of the mines pointing to any like
specific spot someone would be digging?
Anything like that? Give me a search.
Failed. Yeah, you rifle through all the
the mining equipment. There doesn't seem to be a map
there. If we've gone through the house,
I would want to check the carriage house too.
OK. Can I do a search in there?
Yeah. Before you do though.
OK, You noticed one room. You haven't gone in in the in
the cellar yet. You open the door.
The only thing in this room is a lone roar.
Freezer. Freezer chest.
I would put on my gloves before opening this.
Put on your gloves? Yeah.
I don't want to just put my skin on it.
And you open the freezer and you find looks to be the body of a
17 year old boy. He's.
On ice Romanian sanity. Past just one What?
Just one. Just one, yeah.
Interesting. Do we know what are the names of
the boys? We don't know.
Braden and Landon. We do know it's not.
Right now, did we get a last name on those boys?
I don't. I only have first names written
down. Yeah, I'd never give a last.
Name. All right, well, do we know the
sheriff's name? No.
I'm going to go find some male figure out the name of this guy.
All right, Sheriff Sherman. Yeah, Sheriff John.
Jack Sherman. He's not married in.
Well, I guess that's how progressive they are here.
How old is he? Do you have that information or
how old Dylan saw him? How old did he look?
Mid 50s. OK.
And in all of Fiona's Internet searching, there's no family
ties to the how. It's just this one guy.
Like what's how is one guy live in a house like this?
There should be some sort of. Oh, there's a lot on the Sherman
family. A lot of like mine history stuff
is what you come up with. Sermon.
Sherman family Trust you do notice the the line is windling
down. He might be one of the last
living Shermans. Are you guys able to tell which
if this is one of the the kids that was missing I.
Don't think we asked the CF photo.
I didn't know if there's like photos on the wall.
I would let you roll a luck to see if it's to recognize if it's
Brayden. You never saw a picture of
Landon Well. Didn't they look at newspaper
articles? Two of the Yeah, I don't know.
It's still all be luck. Yeah, Innate.
Yeah, you do seem to recognize this as Landon.
Now which one was Brayden was the son of the woman that we
talked to? Yeah, Brayden had.
That's your friend. So this.
Is the friend, yeah. Is there a Landon Sherman on any
Internet records? No.
OK. And he's.
Well, that would be a very different network to everyone.
It's gonna say school network, but I'm not at a school, I'm at
a house. Can you find history of how
Like, I know he said the line is dwindling, but I'm wondering
what's happened to the last Sherman's.
It seems suspicious that he's the one that.
Lives here. Look up Sherman obituaries.
Yeah. For this area.
Sherman Obituaries So you find a Susan Sherman.
She died like 3 1/2 four months ago.
OK. What is her relation to the line
that would that we would assume that sister.
I don't know that you can tell exactly, but you do see in these
articles she was in charge. Was there a survived by?
Yeah, and. Brother Don Bass Sherman.
We will say no. It'd be like a.
Nephew. Oh, OK, Auntie, Yeah.
She she was the head of the family trust.
Does it give a cause of death? No.
One more thing on the body is there any indication of with the
like the flesh changing or like or muscles or anything like
that? No, no flesh.
Changing or like the fingernails or anything like that.
OK. He just looks like a regular
kid. Similar wound markings on him on
the chest and neck to like said Larry to Larry to Larry.
OK, roll me insanity, by the way.
Examining it what? Were Larry's wound markings.
Him. Pass.
Get that in my notes. It's funny.
I the things that I wrote down and then yeah.
So slash neck and throat. And he died somewhere on day 10,
so yesterday or two days ago. OK, so it looks like this guy
died by somebody that was infected and changed.
If in case you were wondering, Larry also had a blue 2006 Dodge
Ram. I remember that, yeah.
That's going to come up at some point.
That'll matter. Just you wait.
I know that car. All right, what else do we do
here? I mean, I'm just doing my thing.
Yeah. We didn't find like, some
looming vampire figure calling, beckoning Marlin forth.
Which I think the more, even though we found that, I think
the more we're not finding like something more inspiring.
I think Marlin would start to be a little more frantic and just
kind of shuffling through stuff without regard to keeping it how
it was. Yeah, I still want to search the
carriage house. Is there anything in there?
No. No.
You think this guy like, comes home and checks the freezer to
make sure the kids still there? Probably not daily, yeah.
Is there any sort of camera in the basement?
No, not in that room, no. Well, what about to the doors to
that room? I see how often this guy goes to
the basement. No.
Do you think we should set the trap for when he comes back?
You're going to have to elaborate what kind of trap?
Well, what are our options? We can leave.
Yep, and then pretty much Scott free.
Trail is cold do. We want to talk to this guy the.
Trail is not cold. We still got the map that you
selectively told us about quite a while after the map with the
past. From the M Epic agents, yeah.
And, you know, there's the fact that this guy is a Sherman.
All the Sherman's a dying. He's in a fancy house that you
saw in your dreams without ever seeing in real life that we
could, like, confront him, but also we could, like, blackmail
him because we know there's a child in his freezer.
We just hope he doesn't like try to kill us on site if we do
that. Well, that's what I mean by
setting a trap. We wait here till he comes back
and confront him. That's not a trap, that's just
waiting here until he comes back.
Well, a trap to subdue him. Oh, because he's an officer.
You think? I think Jed could take him.
It would be good to talk to this guy.
Yeah, I, well, I was just thinking we'd do it in like a
more public setting where like, it would be crazy if he pulled
out a gun and tried to kill us and vice versa.
That's true and. Also, but also.
We could definitely blackmail him.
He's not like. But not as much attention as
setting a trap in the man's own home.
I think he might get the wrong idea.
Yeah. You know, it's not like we're
putting the eraser above the door.
We're confronting about that child in his freezer.
Yeah. And also him being police, his
word versus our word isn't going to.
Yeah, and you know, we may have already had one bad interaction
with the police officer. Do you really want to piss off
the whole police officer? Police.
Force at the stop. Well, you.
Know that he's already involved. In what?
We don't even know what he's involved in.
Maybe he's trying to stop it. Maybe we're on the same thing.
He. Got the body in his own freezer.
The body with the curse, yeah. One way or another, we need to
talk to this. Guy, I agree.
I was just thinking we do it on his turf, on his terms, instead
of surprising him in his own home.
I agree. With that, if you if you if I
open my front door and there were some strangers in there
talking about a dead body I got in my freezer, I'm opening fire
like I shoot first like question.
Later, This is why I said trap. I just I can think of a lot of
ways the trap goes wrong and only one way the trap grows
right. OK, Fiona, then where do we go
to talk to this guy? Well, I imagine the police
station. OK, then let's go to the police
station. Yeah, I mean, our tracks are
covered, y'all wore gloves and everything.
All we got to do is replace a lock if we can.
If not, then you know he's got a broken lock.
Who knows when he notices? Yeah, you just kind of put the
lock. Back.
Back on there and make it look like it's still attached.
Falls straight off and like I who cares?
Yeah, nobody broke into his house.
Nothing is missing. Well, the you shuffled some
papers around without putting them back.
Oh, definitely. But that's probably OK.
Yeah, he has. No, he has no camera footage of
it or anything. That's correct.
OK, so back to town. It's.
Going to be a fun conversation, all right?
We can't tell you how we know, but we may know some information
and then we're not jumping to any conclusion.
Is he the like, he's not the chief, he's just a regular cop.
You would know that. You would.
Is what we googled him. Oh yeah, he is the police.
Sheriff. Yeah.
Oh, of course he is. I know that's good for us.
That's part. Of Sherman.
He's not answering to anybody. Yeah.
All right. Wow.
This is crazy. Yeah.
Wow. So we go to the police station,
get back on our ATVs, drive back into town.
What are we going in with? Yeah, to be, to be like, hey, we
need to talk to the chief of or the the sheriff Here We have
some information about a missing police officer.
We have some information about a missing child.
Yeah, our report from a decade, 13 years ago, however longer.
I forget it was like 7 or something.
It was like years. Two and a.
Half years ago, Yeah. We have some information on a
missing child report and that'll pique his interest.
He'll be the one to come ask us about it.
But then we're going to confront him with what?
The truth? We're doing some snooping and
yeah, we just have to know that you know something more than
you're letting on, and we want to know why you're on that
information. Yeah.
Like, first and foremost, we don't necessarily believe that
you killed him. Yeah.
So why don't you tell us what? You what?
What?
What happened? And why did you show up at the
mine when we were there? Yeah, does everybody have their
hand on their gum? In the police station.
In the interrogation room. We're not.
Well, yeah. OK, so we hop on our ATV's and
go back to town, go to the police station.
You drive up to the police station, walk in and you hear,
oh, hey. There.
Oh gosh.