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00:00I asked my bestie to try on a bridesmaid dress, but she dressed like the bride.
00:04On my wedding day, she came out of the same room as my boyfriend, both totally disheveled.
00:09The waitstaff stood frozen.
00:11My parents broke down sobbing.
00:13I'm sorry, Aria, but Chloe is the one I want to marry.
00:16You should just get married here.
00:18Chloe looked triumphant.
00:20What she didn't know, the moment Damien's arms closed around me,
00:23the moonstone pendant my grandmother left me shattered.
00:26Grandma once told me, when the moonstone breaks, it takes the curse with it.
00:32The blood moon catastrophe was coming.
00:35Aria, last night was an accident.
00:37I put on your bridal gown by mistake, and Damien was so drunk he thought I was you.
00:42Chloe said all the right words, but the corners of her mouth wouldn't stay down.
00:46I knew exactly what she was so pleased about.
00:49Damien comes from a prominent old money family.
00:51He was born into wealth and power.
00:52He's insanely attractive, and he spoils his girlfriend like crazy.
00:56Over the six months he was pursuing me, he dropped well over a million dollars on gifts alone.
01:01Six months in, I'd finally agreed to marry him.
01:04And now this.
01:05The scene in front of me was almost laughable.
01:08Chloe stood there in the shredded remains of my bridal gown,
01:11the marks on her skin telling everyone exactly what she'd done with Damien last night.
01:16My fiancé kept his head down.
01:17He couldn't look at me.
01:18My father drove his boot into Damien's thigh before the waitstaff could pull him back,
01:23still cursing him out at the top of his lungs.
01:26Damien climbed to his feet, walked over to me, and pulled me into a soft embrace.
01:31Aria, I'm sorry, but it is what it is.
01:34Please, let us be together.
01:35The nerve of him.
01:36I wasn't blind.
01:37I could see how satisfied he was with Chloe.
01:40She had a sexier body than mine, and she was far less reserved.
01:44Damien had tried more than once to get me into bed while we were dating.
01:47But I'd wanted to wait until after the wedding.
01:49Everyone was waiting for me to slap him, to curse out his entire family.
01:54Sure.
01:55The venue's already booked.
01:57Might as well get married today.
01:59Right here.
02:00Aria, I always knew you were a generous girl.
02:02My parents went white.
02:04My mother snatched a vase out of a waiter's hand and looked ready to bring it down on my head.
02:08Aria Vale!
02:09You're just gonna let these faithless dogs walk?
02:12Do you want the Vale name dragged through the mud?
02:15I steered my trembling parents away from the crowd.
02:18Around the corner of the hallway, I pulled the moonstone pendant out from under my collar,
02:23split clean in two.
02:26Dad, Mom, this is the moonstone grandmother gave me.
02:29The moment they saw the soft, milky stone crack down the middle, the fury drained out of their faces.
02:35My mother pulled me into the elevator, fast.
02:38It broke just now?
02:42No, that can't be right.
02:47It broke when Damien hugged me.
02:49They exchanged a look, both their brows locked into the same grim notch.
02:53The moment we stepped out of the elevator, my father clenched his jaw and said only two words.
03:00We move.
03:01We passed the bride and groom cut-offs at the venue entrance.
03:03My father kicked Damien's life-size stand date flat to the ground, then tucked mine under his arm.
03:10In my Damien tau.
03:12My mother was already on the phone with the wedding planner.
03:15Take everything down.
03:16Every photo of me, every mention of my name, not one trace left.
03:20Watching my parents' faces, my stomach turned to ice.
03:23I pulled out my phone and deleted every trace of Damien.
03:26Every contact, every photo, every message.
03:29We walked out of that estate without looking back.
03:32By nightfall, we were gone from the city entirely.
03:36The reason we were this shaken all came down to the moonstone pendant my grandmother had left me.
03:41Grandmother had been the most gifted moonseer in the entire North.
03:45Whether it was a huge tragedy or something as simple as a missing pet, my grandmother could see it coming.
03:51Some people even joked that she wasn't normal, like she had a sixth sense.
03:56Every prophecy she made in her lifetime came true.
03:58She lived to be ninety-nine.
04:02The day she died was a clear winter afternoon.
04:05She was sitting in the rocking chair out in the courtyard, soaking up the sun, one hand resting on our
04:11old golden retriever.
04:13Then, she called my name.
04:16Aria.
04:17I was eight years old.
04:18I walked over, and she unclasped the moonstone pendant she'd never once taken off, and fastened it around my neck.
04:25Aria.
04:27Wear this always.
04:28If it ever breaks, it means it warded off a curse meant for you.
04:32The moment it breaks, whoever is closest to you, you leave him.
04:35Immediately, a shattered moonstone breaks the curse.
04:38The blood moon catastrophe.
04:40Grandmother?
04:41What catastrophe?
04:43Doodletown.
04:43Those were the last three words she ever said.
04:46My grandmother closed her eyes, leaned back in her rocking chair, and peacefully passed away.
04:52After that, we gave her a beautiful farewell.
04:55Everyone who knew her came to pay their respects, including respected people from all over the area.
05:01I told my parents everything grandma had said about the moonstone.
05:04I asked them what Dudleytown was.
05:06They wouldn't say a word.
05:08The next day, they packed up the house and moved us all into the city.
05:14And now, memories buried for years were clawing their way back to the surface.
05:19Meanwhile, the scandal between Damien, Chloe, and Mai spread through every social circle.
05:24At first, everyone agreed Chloe was a bitch for what she'd done to her so-called best friend.
05:29But once people realized I had calmly let Chloe have both my groom and my wedding, the tide turned instantly.
05:36People started calling me a coward, saying my best friend slept with my fiancé, and I didn't even have the
05:42guts to say a word.
05:43The gossip came in waves.
05:45I didn't care.
05:46Let them talk.
05:47Just like that, Chloe took my place at the altar and became Damien's wife.
05:52She couldn't have been happier.
05:53Her Instagram had been a non-stop highlight reel since the wedding day.
05:57A dazzling, oversized diamond ring.
05:59A $300,000 wedding gift from Damien's parents.
06:02Damien dropping to one knee to slip a creel to her foot and overclowing with designer bags, jewelry, and luxury
06:07gifts.
06:08Thank you, Aria.
06:09And thank you to the girl who was brave enough to chase what she wanted.
06:12This time, I'm taking the money and the love.
06:15You only live once.
06:17Be brave.
06:19Damien played the doting husband to perfection.
06:22His own fleed was wall-to-wall couple shots.
06:25Their mutual friends tripped over themselves to like every post.
06:28One of them left a comment right on Chloe's page.
06:31Guess some people just aren't the ones fate favors.
06:34Chloe was clearly enjoying watching them stomp on me to lift her up.
06:38She dropped a grinning emoji in reply.
06:40I scrolled through it all and actually laughed out loud.
06:43She had no idea what was coming for her.
06:46As if that wasn't enough, Chloe went online, showing off her lavish new life,
06:51and proudly telling everyone how she stole my groom.
06:55Overnight, she gained half a million followers.
06:58The comments poured in.
07:00Girl boast.
07:00Bold women get the world.
07:02If he wanted her, he'd be with her.
07:04Then someone dug up the fact that my family had fled the city in the middle of the night.
07:08The people calling me a coward laughed even harder.
07:11My parents and I were cut from the same cloth, they said.
07:14A whole family of cowards.
07:16They could call me anything they wanted.
07:18But the moment I saw the comments dragging my parents into it, something in me snapped.
07:25I dropped a reply under Chloe's latest post.
07:27Call me whatever you want.
07:29Leave my parents out of it.
07:30Do none of you have parents of your own?
07:32Watch your mouths.
07:33And Miss Chloe?
07:34Stop using my name for clout.
07:36The second I hit send, I switched off my DMs.
07:38Sure enough, the comment got shredded within minutes.
07:41Chloe didn't reply, but she went through and liked every single comment tearing me apart.
07:46I looked at those twisted, upside-down remarks and just shook my head.
07:50Whatever.
07:50People do what they do.
07:52The moon goddess sees all.
07:54We hadn't just moved houses.
07:55We'd crossed state lines hundreds of miles from where we started.
07:59Somewhere remote.
08:00Barely populated.
08:01My mother had wanted to settle somewhere closer.
08:04But my father, for reasons he wouldn't explain,
08:07insisted on putting real distance between us and the old city.
08:10She couldn't talk him out of it, so she gave in.
08:13I believed my grandmother's warning.
08:16And I couldn't stop wondering why.
08:18Over dinner, I raised my wine glass and asked them,
08:21Dad, Mom, what did grandmother actually mean by blood moon catastrophe?
08:26The easy chatter around the table died on the spot.
08:29My mother quietly slid another steak onto my father's plate.
08:32Aria is already an adult now, honey.
08:34It's time she knew.
08:36Go ahead.
08:37Tell her.
08:38A disaster no one saw coming?
08:39Is it some kind of natural disaster?
08:42Dudleytown.
08:43Do you remember?
08:46I remember.
08:48Grandmother said it right before she died.
08:50My mother's expression turned strange.
08:53Dudleytown.
08:54A whole pack.
08:55Hundreds of souls.
08:57Not 15 miles from ours.
09:00In a single night, every last one of them was found hanged.
09:03The pack was wiped off the map.
09:05The warmth drained out of the room.
09:08Hanged?
09:08I couldn't get another word out.
09:10I'd always assumed blood moon catastrophe meant something like a flood or an earthquake.
09:13A natural disaster.
09:14Something explainable.
09:16Not this.
09:17Not something this wrong.
09:19Why did it happen?
09:21They were haunted.
09:22Dinner ended, but the shock didn't.
09:23It sat in my chest and wouldn't leave.
09:25No wonder grandmother had passed that pendant to me before she died.
09:29That was the disaster it had been holding back.
09:31She hadn't just foreseen her own life.
09:33She'd seen mine.
09:35All the way through.
09:36Every time I thought about Dudleytown, a cold ran down my spine.
09:40Hundreds of people.
09:41Hanged in a single night.
09:43And according to my parents, whatever was coming for Damien would be worse than that.
09:47But if that was true, why had my grandmother's pendant never cracked before?
09:51Why only now?
09:53Only after Damien and Chloe pulled their stunt.
09:55Had grandmother seen even this coming?
09:58I was still marveling at how far ahead she'd looked when my phone buzzed.
10:03Unknown number.
10:04I picked up.
10:06Aria, are you okay?
10:07I hung up on the spot and blocked the number.
10:10I couldn't afford to be tangled up with him.
10:12Not by a thread.
10:14From that night on, I stopped answering any number I didn't recognize.
10:19I wanted to live.
10:20Chloe continued flaunting her glamorous new life online.
10:24Luxury cars, designer watches, and priceless jewelry filled her house.
10:28One expensive gift after another.
10:30Maybe she got bored of showing off.
10:32Because the next thing she did was turn the crosshairs back on me.
10:36Well past midnight, Chloe went live.
10:39She was dressed to the nines in an expensive fur coat,
10:42lounging on a luxury sofa while live streaming to her followers.
10:46Viewers flooded in, gushing about how gorgeous she looked.
10:49Bit of a slow night?
10:51Thought I'd hop on and chat with you guys?
10:53After casually showing off a few designer handbags,
10:56Chloe noticed a comment from one of her viewers and brought me up again.
11:00Aria?
11:01Sweetie, everything was practically handed to her on a silver platter,
11:04and she still blew it.
11:05Best friend?
11:06Was.
11:07Maybe.
11:08But honestly, did she ever really see me as one?
11:11She dated Damien for months and never told me.
11:13Only fessed up after they were official.
11:16What, was she scared I'd steal her man?
11:18Talk about girl-on-girl competition.
11:20Please.
11:21Where is she now?
11:22Oh, her family got spooked, I guess.
11:25Packed up and disappeared the same night Damien and I got married.
11:29Probably thought I'd come after them once I had silverhead money behind me.
11:32And on and on it went.
11:34The woman on my screen felt like a complete stranger.
11:37How had I ever been so blind?
11:39Chloe was still spinning her lies when the chat caught something she hadn't.
11:44Chloe, did that armory behind you just move?
11:46Thought it was just me.
11:48Something's in there, right?
11:50Yeah, go check it out.
11:52Maybe it's the dog.
11:53Chloe ignored the comments at first.
11:55But when the chat exploded, everyone screaming at her to look behind her, she finally glanced up.
12:00I saw it too.
12:01The carved armage behind her was cracked open, just barely.
12:05And through the slip of shadow, something was looking back.
12:09An eye.
12:10Wrong.
12:11The angle was all wrong.
12:13The eye was at the very bottom of the Armamaid, down near the floor.
12:17You bastards love scaring me, huh?
12:20Nobody's home in the manor tonight, so quit it.
12:24Chloe clicked her tongue, annoyed.
12:26Then, as if to prove she wasn't rattled, she strutted over to the Armany in her heels.
12:31Watch this.
12:32She yanked the doors open.
12:34Crash.
12:35A man in black leather tumbled out onto the Persian rug.
12:38He was wearing a black mask, and a pile of expensive jewelry had fallen onto the floor.
12:42He had to be a thief.
12:43But he didn't run.
12:44He scrambled back against the wall, shaking, eyes rolling in his head, skin the color of curdled milk.
12:51Ghost.
12:51There's a ghost.
12:53Don't kill me.
12:54Then his gaze caught on Chloe's pale neck, and he screamed, dropped to his knees,
13:00started slamming his forehead into the floor.
13:02I'm begging you, please.
13:03I didn't mean it.
13:04I didn't mean it.
13:05Let me go.
13:05Please, let me go.
13:06Blood was smearing across the parlette before anyone could stop him.
13:10He kept going, faster and faster.
13:13Chloe stood frozen for a beat.
13:16Then she clutched her chest and rolled for the door, screaming,
13:19Help!
13:20Help me!
13:21There's a burglar!
13:22In the chaos, the phone was knocked to the floor.
13:25The stream cut to a lopsided view of the ceiling.
13:28I sat there staring at the empty frame.
13:31The image of that burglar burned into my head.
13:35What had he seen?
13:37What could possibly reduce a grown man to that?
13:40Then I remembered what my mom had told me about the Dudleytown incident.
13:45A bad feeling settled in my stomach.
13:47Maybe this was the first sign that something terrible was coming.
13:50There was definitely at least something unnatural inside Damien's mansion.
13:56The break-in went viral overnight.
13:59Damien raced back to the manor to consult her.
14:02I'd been watching Chloe's stream when he appeared on screen.
14:05I closed the tab immediately.
14:06Catastrophe was coming.
14:08I wasn't getting anywhere near him.
14:10It was my phone notification.
14:12I picked up my phone and saw it was Sophie.
14:14Sophie.
14:14My roommate from college.
14:16She knew Chloe too.
14:18We'd all run in the same circles back then.
14:21I wasn't actually that upset.
14:23Some pose Lanto of not.
14:25But I thanked her anyway.
14:27Honestly, she deserves to be knocked down a peg.
14:29Stealing her best friend's fiancé?
14:31Who does that?
14:33Aria, want to teach her a lesson?
14:36I have an idea.
14:37I stared at the screen.
14:40Weren't Sophie and Chloe supposed to be close?
14:42I hated Chloe, sure.
14:45But going anywhere near her right now was suicide.
14:48She was sleeping next to Damien every night.
14:50I turned Sophie down.
14:52She kept pushing.
14:53Wouldn't drop it.
14:54I muted the threat.
14:55My parents had been on edge for days.
14:57They kept driving out to stock up.
14:59Flour, oats, canned goods, produce.
15:01Dad even remembered my diet and grabbed a stack of vegan snacks and cereal.
15:05I stared at the pantry.
15:07Mom, Dad, are we prepping for the end of the world?
15:10My dad had stocked the fridge with my favorite drink and wiped his forehead.
15:14Lay off the apocalypse novels, kid.
15:16Although, this isn't far off.
15:18Nobody leaves this house for the next month.
15:20Aria, take a leave of absence from work.
15:23If your boss won't sign off, quit.
15:26Staying alive is what matters.
15:28We need to cut off anything that could lead to this disaster.
15:31And another Thad turned to me.
15:34I know your ex-friend's been running some kind of show online.
15:37You're done with that, too.
15:39I nodded and blocked Chloe's account right there in front of them.
15:43Dad pulled a stool onto the balcony and lit a cigar.
15:46He sat there in silence, watching the sky bleed red at the horizon, exhaling slow.
15:52Someone's about to catch hell.
15:53We shut the doors and stayed inside.
15:56My parents kept their explanations of Dudley Down vague.
16:00No details, no names.
16:02But for so many people to hang themselves at the same time, nothing but a ghost could make that happen.
16:09Meanwhile, Chloe and Damien were living their best life.
16:12Fifth Avenue by day.
16:13Yacht parties with Damien by night.
16:15Everything picture perfect.
16:20Until the middle of the month.
16:21Damien's mansion was haunted.
16:24The story was everywhere.
16:26Even with Chloe's account blocked, the news still found me through gossip pages, other streamers.
16:32Everywhere I looked.
16:33Damien lived in the same mansion with his entire family.
16:36That night, Chloe woke up in the dark.
16:39Somewhere, someone was crying.
16:41She was too groggy to care.
16:43Rolled over.
16:44Or, ignored it.
16:45But the crying didn't stop.
16:46It got louder.
16:48Sharper.
16:48Started to sound like something scraping across glass.
16:52That was when she realized it was coming from her own balcony.
16:55Her balcony.
16:56On the fourth floor.
16:57She hadn't drawn the curtains before bed.
17:00She looked.
17:01A woman in a long white dress stood with her back to the room.
17:04Hair down to her waist.
17:05Knees pulled to her chest.
17:07Weeping.
17:08Chloe screamed.
17:09By the time the housekeeper and the staff came running,
17:11The balcony was locked from the inside.
17:14Empty.
17:16Damien's family all thought she was mistaken.
17:18Then came the second one.
17:20Damien's younger brother, Elias, had a history of sleepwalking.
17:25That night, he dreamed there was a girl in white,
17:28Crouched by the manor's pool.
17:30Curious, he walked over and tapped her shoulder.
17:32She laughed.
17:34Sharp.
17:35Piercing.
17:36Louder and louder.
17:37Until her laugh was ricocheting off every wall of the house.
17:40By the time Elias came back to himself, the girl was gone.
17:44He turned in a circle, looking for her, and something yanked him into the pool.
17:48Underwater, he couldn't see her face.
17:50Just felt two fingers dig into his eye sockets.
17:53So hard it felt like they were trying to scoop his eyes out of his skull.
17:56His screams brought the security detail running.
17:58They dragged him out just in time.
18:00One incident could be a coincidence.
18:02Two, and it stops being one.
18:04All of this came out on Chloe's own livestream.
18:06Damien chewed her out afterward, saying their family business should stay behind closed doors.
18:13But it was too late.
18:14Rumors that Damien's mansion was haunted had already gone viral online.
18:19I listened to some streamer break down the whole timeline, and my back went cold.
18:25This was the warm-up?
18:26I couldn't even imagine what kind of disaster would top an entire pack hanging themselves overnight.
18:32I pulled the moonstone pendant out of the drawer.
18:34Both halves.
18:35Looking at it, I felt a deep, quiet gratitude towards my grandmother.
18:39She'd seen this coming my phone rang from years away.
18:42I picked up.
18:43Hey.
18:44Aria?
18:44Hey, um...
18:46What's up?
18:46So, uh, you heard about what's going on at Chloe's place?
18:51Mm-hmm.
18:52Aria, what do you think?
18:54Don't you think someone's got it out for her?
18:56Otherwise, how could something like this keep happening at Damien's mansion again and again?
19:02You think it's me?
19:03I haven't lifted a finger.
19:05No, no, no.
19:06That's not what I meant.
19:07She rushed to back puddle.
19:08I just meant, you know, karma's a bitch.
19:11Anyway, Aria, I heard your grandmother was a really famous seer up north.
19:16Her predictions were always spot on.
19:19I know she's passed.
19:21I just wondered, does anyone in your family still have the gift?
19:24Do you happen to know a really good exorcist?
19:26No.
19:28I hung up.
19:29My eyes narrowed.
19:31Only one person in the world knew my grandmother had been a seer.
19:35Chloe.
19:36Line up what Sophie just said with what's happening to Chloe right now, and the math wasn't hard.
19:42I had a pretty good idea Sophie was Chloe's spy.
19:44She'd probably tried to trick me into revealing something over the phone before so Chloe could use it against me
19:49online.
19:50But she failed.
19:53And now that they're in trouble, they're coming back to me for help.
19:58Not gonna happen.
19:59At dinner, I told my parents everything.
20:02They exchanged a look.
20:04Neither of them spoke for a while.
20:06Finally, my dad set down his fork.
20:09Your grandmother saw this coming too.
20:11I nearly choked on my steak and had to wash it down with wine.
20:16Oh my god.
20:17My grandmother was truly something else.
20:21There's no stopping this catastrophe.
20:24The moonstone your grandmother left you, it only protects one person.
20:28Everyone else has to face their own fate.
20:31As for that ex-friend of yours,
20:34pass a message along.
20:35Tell her to seek out the person with supernatural abilities on the mountains south of her city.
20:40Whether he can save her, that's up to her fate now.
20:42My dad was too soft-hearted.
20:45Truth is, I hadn't planned on lifting a finger for Chloe.
20:48But since he'd said it, I nodded and let it go.
20:51I repeated my dad's words to Sophie and had her relay the message to Damien's family.
20:59They didn't waste any time.
21:01They quickly sent someone to find a specialist who could deal with the situation.
21:05We stayed put.
21:08Curled up in the house like the cowards we were supposed to be.
21:11The new neighborhood was still unfamiliar,
21:14so we made a point of avoiding the neighbors.
21:16Hats and masks whenever we left the house.
21:18Anything to keep our faces off strangers' phones.
21:22We covered our tracks well.
21:24To this day, nobody around us had figured out we were that family.
21:28The coward family the internet loved to laugh at.
21:31Not that I had a choice in any of it.
21:34Dad ran the operation.
21:36He said grandmother had left instructions.
21:38I'd assumed our warning would give Chloe a fighting chance.
21:42I'd overestimated the situation.
21:44Someone in Damien's family died.
21:47The first was Damien's father.
21:49The story hit the front page within hours.
21:51The internet couldn't decide.
21:53Murder or suicide.
21:54The night everything happened was Aldrich Silverstone's 70th birthday.
21:58Damien's family went all out and hosted a lavish birthday party for him.
22:02But right after he cut the cake and went upstairs to rest,
22:05Aldrich died unexpectedly.
22:07He was found dead in his own bathroom.
22:09The police report said it was drowning, plain and simple.
22:13But nothing about the scene was plain.
22:15The marks around the toilet showed he'd fought hard,
22:18and there were scratches down his face.
22:21Every piece of evidence pointed to an answer no one wanted to say out loud.
22:25Either Aldrich Silvercrust somehow staged the whole thing,
22:28or something had reached up out of the bowl, grabbed him, and held him there.
22:32Birthday to funeral in one night.
22:34Damien's entire family was thrown into a panic.
22:37My dad watched the news, thinking for a moment.
22:42Something doesn't add up.
22:44According to your grandmother,
22:46even if that expert couldn't stop the disaster,
22:48they should have at least been able to delay it.
22:51It hasn't even been that long.
22:52Someone's already dead?
22:54The three of us looked at each other.
22:56Maybe this is just fate.
22:58Or maybe they never found him at all.
23:01Aria, call Sophie.
23:03Ask.
23:04And don't let anything slip about where we are.
23:06I nodded and dialed.
23:07Sophie picked up.
23:08Her voice was worn thin.
23:10Hello?
23:11Aria?
23:12What's up?
23:12I got straight to the point.
23:14Sophie, did you tell them about the expert I mentioned before?
23:17Uh, well...
23:19Dad crossed his arms and shot me a look.
23:21He'd guessed it.
23:23Either she hadn't passed the message,
23:24or she'd butchered it in translation.
23:27Aria, where are you guys, actually?
23:30The whole room went still.
23:32My parents' head snapped toward me.
23:35I kept my voice even.
23:37Never mind where I am.
23:38Answer my question first.
23:40I already told them about the person you recommended,
23:42but Chloe said that person died from fear.
23:46What?
23:47The person who was supposed to save them was dead.
23:50My parents' faces changed.
23:52I've never seen that kind of fear on another human being before.
23:55Not once in my life.
23:57I kept my voice level.
23:59Start from the beginning.
24:01Tell me everything.
24:02According to Sophie, this is what happened.
24:05Chloe told Damien everything.
24:07He sent people up Southridge the very next day.
24:11By nightfall, the coven exorcist was at the manor.
24:14He didn't seem surprised by Damien's family showing up.
24:17He simply reminded his apprentice to take care of the cat,
24:20packed a few things,
24:21and left the mountain without hesitation.
24:24The first thing he did at the manor was read the line lines.
24:27Then he told them what it was.
24:29A blood debt.
24:30Coming due.
24:32Damien's family was terrified.
24:34That night, they abandoned the manor
24:36and left the entire estate in the exorcist's hands,
24:39allowing him to carry out the ritual alone.
24:42He plastered every wall with moonslig wards.
24:44He drew ritual circles across the floors
24:47in moonsilver ink and consecrated salt.
24:49By the time he was done,
24:51the manor didn't look like a home anymore.
24:53It looked like a coffin.
24:55A very large one.
24:56All night, the guards posted outside heard nothing.
25:00They took the silence as good news.
25:01At sunrise, they rushed inside.
25:03The manor was exactly as he'd left it,
25:06wards up, circles intact.
25:08But the exorcist was gone.
25:10They split up and searched,
25:11room by room, floor by floor.
25:13Damien was the one who found him.
25:15In the kitchen,
25:16stuffed inside an oak grain barrel.
25:18Something had happened to the oats.
25:20They were black.
25:21Every last kernel scorched.
25:23The exorcist's face was the color of a bruise.
25:26His pupils rolled loose in his skull.
25:28He was mumbling on a loop.
25:30My fault.
25:31It was my fault.
25:32Please don't come back.
25:33Please don't.
25:34Please.
25:34My fault.
25:34My fault.
25:36Damien barely had time to open his mouth.
25:38The exorcist screamed and drove both of his own thumbs straight into his eyes.
25:43I sat with the phone against my ear for a long time after Sophie finished.
25:46She tried again, carefully.
25:49Aria, do you know any other way?
25:52Dad me a hard look.
25:54Hang up.
25:54I said no and ended the call.
25:57He's dead.
25:58Dead for sure.
25:59We move.
26:00Now.
26:01Out of state.
26:01We didn't even take the supplies.
26:04Just grabbed our documents and drove straight to the airport.
26:08Bought cross-state tickets at the counter.
26:11By the time Chloe traced our old address, all she found was an empty house and a lot of
26:15expiratives.
26:17We landed and kept moving, drove out to some backwater town, checked into a countryside
26:22lodge, and locked the door behind us.
26:27Thank God we ran when we did.
26:29Later I heard, through mutual friends, that Chloe had found the house, just too late.
26:35Chloe and Damien must have put the pieces together.
26:38They started calling me from every number they could get their hands on.
26:41Hundreds of them.
26:43Manic.
26:44My phone was already set to auto-reject anything unknown.
26:47It didn't take long for the next one to drop.
26:50This time it was Damien's brother, Elias.
26:52Same pattern.
26:54Same kind of wrong.
26:55He was hanged.
26:56The mark around his neck was unmistakable.
26:58But the police went through the entire rental and never found anything that could have made it.
27:03Chloe finally broke.
27:05The bodies were stacking up faster than she could enjoy the money.
27:08Damien's family fled in panic.
27:10Some changed addresses.
27:12Some boarded private jets out of the country.
27:15A few tried to disappear into witness protection.
27:18Everyone was running from the name.
27:21Chloe and Damien brought in a whole coven this time.
27:24Witches.
27:25Plural.
27:26Move them into the manor.
27:27Round the clock guard.
27:30It won't matter.
27:31Hundreds of people stood shoulder to shoulder in Dudleytown and it didn't matter then either.
27:37The Dudleytown story was one of the strangest tales my grandmother ever told.
27:41She'd read the signs.
27:43Seen it coming.
27:44She went to Dudleytown in person and asked them.
27:46Straight out.
27:47If they had ever, as a pack, done something terrible together.
27:51They didn't just deny it.
27:52They called her a liar to her face.
27:54Thornwood is a black thorned shrub common to European woodland, bristling with thorns twice as thick and twice as sharp
28:01as anything else in the underbrush.
28:02A hedgehog with roots.
28:05That same night, a little boy from Dudleytown went missing.
28:09The whole pack turned out to search the mountain.
28:14They found him at the edge of dawn, deep inside a thornwood grove.
28:18It never grows alone.
28:20Dozens, sometimes hundreds, of the shrubs cluster together, their roots tangled into a single dense knot.
28:26Nothing gets in, nothing gets out.
28:29The boy's crying was coming from the very center of the thickest, most remote cluster.
28:33They had to cut down the entire grove to reach him.
28:36By the time they pulled him out, he'd lost his mind.
28:39He wouldn't answer questions.
28:41He just whispered the same words over and over.
28:44I'm sorry.
28:45Sorry.
28:46Sister, don't.
28:48A few days later, the Dudleytown pack came to my grandmother's door.
28:52All of them.
28:53On their knees.
28:54She shook her head.
28:56Told them there was nothing she could do.
28:57A few days after that, it happened.
29:00Every soul in Dudleytown was found hanged in their own home.
29:03Same as Elias.
29:05Nothing to explain how.
29:07Overnight, Dudleytown was wiped off the map.
29:09It wasn't until years later that my grandmother uncovered the truth.
29:14Long ago, the people of Dudleytown had wronged a mentally troubled young woman.
29:18She had been drifting from town to town when she happened to pass through Dudleytown.
29:23The eldest son of the town's most powerful family became obsessed with her and demanded that she marry him.
29:30Though her mind was often clouded, she was completely lucid that day, and she rejected him without hesitation.
29:36She tried to run, but there was nowhere to go.
29:40The entire town stood behind the powerful family, making sure she never escaped.
29:45They locked her in an old cattle stall out past the fields.
29:48The son figured a couple of days without food would break her.
29:51A week passed before he came back with a bowl of broth to try again.
29:55What he found inside was a body.
29:57Days rotten.
29:58Hanging from the crossbeam.
30:00Rope stretched her neck long.
30:01She must have had another episode.
30:03No one ever figured out how she'd found rope in that stall.
30:09Something clicked in my head.
30:11Dudleytown was hanged.
30:12Elias was hanged.
30:14What if the backhand behind both of them is the same one?
30:17My parents' faces went flat, cold.
30:20Don't guess.
30:21Don't say things like that out loud.
30:22If your grandmother's moonstone hadn't taken the blow for you, we wouldn't be talking about their funerals.
30:27The chill hit me a second later.
30:29If grandmother hadn't left me the moonstone, if she hadn't left me those words,
30:34if Chloe hadn't taken Damien away from me, I would be the one hanging right now.
30:40Chloe had died in my place.
30:41In every way that mattered, the cold went straight down my spine.
30:46Of everyone who fled the manor, the one who got the farthest away ended up dead.
30:50Damien's uncle turned up dead in his overseas apartment.
30:54Hanged.
30:55I started to see the pattern.
30:57Damien's family seemed to be dying in the exact order of their distance from the manor.
31:01The farther they had fled, the sooner they died.
31:04Like something invisible was warning them.
31:07Don't leave the manor.
31:09Chloe never saw the woman in white again, but she was losing her mind anyway.
31:14She and Damien went live 24 hours a day now,
31:18feeding off the audience just to keep the panic down.
31:21Someone dropped a comment during her stream.
31:23Isn't this what you get for stealing another girl's fiancée?
31:29Really?
31:29Is it too late to apologize?
31:32Aria blocked my number.
31:33Oh my god, what do I do?
31:35Damien was terrified.
31:36The once confident and charming man began to waste away,
31:40growing thinner and thinner as fear consumed him.
31:43He broke down on camera.
31:45Aria!
31:46I'm sorry, okay?
31:48Cheating on you was my fault.
31:49All of it.
31:50My family's paying for it now.
31:51Please, can you help me?
31:52I only saw the clips through other people's comments.
31:54I shook my head.
31:56This had nothing to do with cheating.
31:58Maybe, just like the people of Dudleytown, they brought this curse upon themselves.
32:03Chloe and Damien couldn't sleep.
32:05Then Damien had a dream.
32:07In the dream, a girl he'd never seen before was leading him by the hand.
32:11She said she wanted to take him somewhere nice.
32:13She was beautiful.
32:14Her voice was soft.
32:16Damien let himself be led.
32:18We're going somewhere nice.
32:20Here, lift the stone off of you first.
32:22Damien looked down and realized he was pinned under a stone.
32:25He obeyed.
32:26He lifted it.
32:27Now put your hand there.
32:29We're going to walk through this waterfall together.
32:31Damien did.
32:32He passed through the roaring wall of water.
32:35Let's climb the mountain.
32:36Damien nodded.
32:37Hand in hand with the girl, he took his time, admiring the view.
32:41There's a little stream here.
32:43Let's step over it together.
32:44She let go of his hand.
32:45She crossed first.
32:47From the other side, she waved him over.
32:49Wait for me.
32:50Just as his foot lifted for the first step, Chloe's scream ripped him back.
32:54Honey!
32:56Don't!
32:57Don't step up!
32:58Damien's eyes were still glassy, but he saw it.
33:01The girl on the other side of the stream, her face changed, peeled back into a snarl.
33:06She hissed at him.
33:08You're waking up?
33:09Honey, I woke up and you were gone.
33:11The door was open.
33:12How did you even get up to the roof?
33:16Damien looked down.
33:18Below his feet, 40 stories have dropped.
33:21The whole sleepwalking episode had been captured on their live stream, frame by frame.
33:25The comments exploded.
33:27That's when Damien finally understood.
33:29The girl in red hadn't been taking him somewhere nice.
33:32She'd been walking him to his death.
33:35Lifting the stone was lifting his blanket.
33:38Reaching through the waterfall was pressing his thumb to the front door scanner.
33:41Climbing the mountain was climbing the stairs to the roof.
33:44And stepping over the stream was stepping off the ledge.
33:47I heard about it too.
33:49It made my blood run cold.
33:50There was no getting out of this blood moon catastrophe.
33:53Not for them.
33:56Chloe had told Damien everything about my grandmother.
33:59The moon seer.
34:00The woman who never missed a prediction.
34:02The two of them started tearing through every channel they could think of, hunting for our address.
34:07Meanwhile, reports of Damien's family and members dying overseas began pouring in one after another.
34:13Exactly what I'd figured.
34:14The farther they ran, the faster they died.
34:17And Chloe, the closest one to the manor, the first to see the woman in white, was still alive.
34:23Untouched.
34:24I told my parents what I'd noticed.
34:26They nodded.
34:28It's warning them.
34:29Don't try to run.
34:30So if we follow the pattern, the closer to the man and the better your odds?
34:34Neither of them answered.
34:35They just kept cutting their stakes.
34:38I thought about it.
34:39Then, through Sophie, I passed the observation along to Chloe.
34:43Something turned over in my stomach.
34:46Because every one of them had one thing in common.
34:49They'd all watched Chloe's livestream.
34:52That was when I foised when I finally understood what my grandmother had really meant by blood moon catastrophe.
34:57I nodded.
34:59None of that had anything to do with me anymore.
35:02I thought I was finally going to get my life back.
35:05Then the post started.
35:06All over the internet.
35:08Hundreds of strangers, all reporting the same dream.
35:11All of them meeting the same woman in white.
35:13Then a couple with a good heart adopted him.
35:15That couple was Damien's parents.
35:18I asked dad how he knew.
35:19Your grandmother figured it out.
35:21She said Dudleytown probably left one behind.
35:24Now look at Damien's age.
35:26He fits.
35:27His parents had shipped him out of state to a big city hospital.
35:30That was how he'd survived that night.
35:32They'd fixed his mind.
35:34Or rather, he'd forgotten.
35:36Every memory from that part of his childhood.
35:38Gone.
35:39Wiped clean.
35:40I thought that was the end of it.
35:42That the blood moon catastrophe had finally run its course.
35:46Then dad told me the rest.
35:48Damien was the boy from Dudleytown.
35:50The one they'd found in the Thornwood Grove.
35:52Both of them had cracked.
35:54Completely.
35:55They couldn't control their own bladders anymore.
35:58The manor was in ruins.
36:00Trash on every surface.
36:01Roaches and rats running the halls.
36:03The house that had once been the crown jewel of the north looked like a landfill now.
36:07Everyone thought they'd beaten the curse.
36:09They started to believe it too.
36:12They stayed put in that manor.
36:14Walls still covered in the dead exorcist's moon singe wards.
36:18Then word started leaking out.
36:20That very night, the two of them moved back into the manor.
36:23I hadn't expected them to have the nerve.
36:26More than half a year passed.
36:27Most of Damien's family had either died or been left gravely injured.
36:31Yet somehow, only Damien and Chloe remained completely unharmed.
36:35The woman's mind went in and out.
36:38When she wiped out Dudleytown, she hadn't touched a single innocent.
36:42She'd known exactly who owed her.
36:45That meant she'd been lucid.
36:46Now strangers on the internet, people who'd only watched a live stream, were dreaming her.
36:51Which meant one thing.
36:53She wasn't lucents anymore.
36:55The blood moon catastrophe wasn't over.
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