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Excerpt from Rain City Paranormal episode 49: Sasquatch’s Choice Coffee
[Music playing, begins to fade out]
Carter: So last week in our local segment we talked about the Oz Effect, and local trash monsters-
Kareem: I’m literally right here. I have a name.
Carter [amused]: -and apparently witches.
Ally: And again, if you know how I can find a coven of actual witches, please let me know, my DMs are open.
Carter: But we have a new one this week.
Ally: I’m not even joking, if there’s like a membership fee, I’m totally cool with that. If I need to steal a baby or something, we can talk about that.
Carter: Do witches need babies? Like, would they even want a baby?
Kareem: Sometimes you long for the experience of being a mother. To bring life into the world. Subjugated, but revered…
Carter: You look so dreamy, what the hell? [Laughs]
Ally: So new things-
Carter: New things! We have a first hand account from a listener, who calls themselves “The Wizard’s Baker.” They write:
Hello Seattle’s Best,
I do a lot of work in the Highway 99 tunnel.
Kareem: Oh, so it was your fault.
[Ally and Carter laugh]
Carter, continuing to read: I do a lot of work in the Highway 99 tunnel. For the most part, it’s boring routine work, and I’ve never seen anything strange in the tunnel, at least nothing that would cause anyone to think twice about it. That is, until this week.
Me and a few of my coworkers were called in for some urgent work (nothing you need to worry about, just some systems we needed to troubleshoot). Things were normal until about 2 or 3 in the morning, when I heard someone coming down the access tunnel. My co-workers thought I was joking, so I went to go investigate.
At first, I could see two people up the access corridor. And then it was as if one of them blinked out of existence. As I got closer-
Ally: Do you not watch horror movies, what are you doing??
Kareem: [away from the microphone]: GUYS, I’M GOING TO GO CHECK OUT THESE MYSTERY PEOPLE.
Carter [away from the microphone]: HEY IS ONE OF YOU A GHOST?
Ally [away from the microphone]: I’M COMPLETELY UNARMED, YOU WANNA CHAT?
Carter [continuing to read]: As I got closer, I could make out the other figure. She looked like a human, dressed in construction gear, but even the tunnel supervisors are never out this late unless a water main breaks, or something similar. I went to tell them that this was a closed site, and they shouldn’t be there. And next to her, very faintly, I could see the other person.
Kareem: Is this like a time slip?
Ally: They don’t sound like they’re wearing different clothes.
Carter [continuing to read]: When I approached, that’s when the transformation happened.
Ally: Uhm…
Carter [continuing to read]: The human started to speak a language I couldn’t understand, and it sounded like nothing I’ve ever heard before. I swear I could feel it in my chest. And in a blink she wasn’t human anymore. She had horns on her head, and her eyes glowed this deep red. Behind her, what I could only describe as a portal opened, into a dull red world, and she and the ghost jumped into it. The portal closed, and the only thing left was the smell of sulfur.
Before you say anything, I don’t do drugs, I don’t drink, I don’t work around noxious fumes. It wasn’t carbon monoxide poisoning, because between the four of us working, one of our detectors would have caught that. I know what I saw, and I truly believe I saw a demon in the tunnels that night.
As you can imagine, I’m shaken by this, but also incredibly curious. I’ve never believed in demons before, or angels, but I know what I saw.
Thank you for reading this. I wonder if anyone else in Rain City has seen anything like this.
No Umbrella Gang member,
The Wizard’s Baker
[Silence]
Ally [quietly]: …holy shit.
[Silence]
Ally: So this-
Kareem: A demon? Like a for real demon.
Carter: I have questions.
Ally: -Like, this opens up a lot of-
Carter: Do you think-
Ally: That Locke was abducted by a demon?
Kareem: Thank you for saying that, because I did not want to.
Carter: We’ve had people claim he was taken by inter-dimensional Sasquatch robots-
Kareem: Which is the correct answer, yes.
Ally: But demons.
Carter: But demons…
Kareem: But demons, though.
Carter: Is… Is the tunnel a Hellmouth?
[Silence]
Ally: There’s a small group that thinks that the tunnel construction was delayed because they found something down there…
Kareem: Does this lend, like, credibility to that theory?
Carter: What would that even look like? I’m imagining, like, hell dogs running out of the tunnel.
Ally: Ghosts just pouring out.
Kareem: I feel like we would have noticed.
Carter: Okay, but like, how much of the tunnel construction did we not see? They didn’t live stream it.
Ally: So they contained it?
Kareem: How? Wouldn’t we see, like, the entire FBI here?
Carter: How would we know? What would that look like?
[Silence]
Ally: I have to know if anyone else has seen a demon.
Kareem: Send us an email, tweet at us, we need to hear your stories.
Carter: And as always, we try to read everyone’s letters on the air…
Ally: We need another question bucket episode. How many letters do we have in the queue?
Carter: I don’t want to talk about it.
Kareem: Our next letter comes from…
[End of excerpt]
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