Ask yourself, what's scarier? A nightmare? Or the truth that inspired it? Hey everyone, it's Avery. With spooky season upon us, I'm thrilled to introduce you to a new podcast you're going to love, Twisted Tales, hosted by artist, poet, creator, and horror queen, Heidi Wong. Every Monday, Heidi takes you deep into the true stories behind horror's biggest legends.

From haunted dolls to cursed houses, each episode of Twisted Tales is perfect for late-night

scares and daytime frights, revealing the disturbing true life events that inspired the world's most

terrifying blockbusters and the ones too twisted to make it to screen. Some stories are

stranger than fiction. These are darker. I'm excited to share a special preview with you now.

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We'll also include a link to the show in the description of this episode.

And remember, reality is the real horror.

Music reality is the real horror. This is crime house.

About a month into owning the doll,

the woman found a note in their apartment scribbled on parchment paper,

the kind you use for baking.

That was disturbing on its own since neither of them kept any parchment paper around the home.

But the worst part was what it said.

In what looked like a child scribble, the note read, help me.

And things only got scarier from there.

Shortly after that, Donna came home and found what looked like drops of blood on the doll's

hand and chest.

I don't know about you, but that's when I'd be getting this thing out of my place ASAP.

Donna had finally reached her breaking point, too.

She knew something was going on with her doll.

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