Hello, I'm Blair Bathory, and this is the Something Scary podcast.

Thank you so much for being here, whether this is your first time or you're one of the brave souls who join us every week.

So many of us love to curl up in the safety of our own home while we read a scary book or watch a horror movie.

But we only enjoy that because these terrible things aren't happening to us.

But with all of the new sightings of UFOs, it makes you wonder how much longer are we really safe. And if out of this world aliens

don't harm us, people around us with ill intentions will. First, the road to danger, followed by

stairway to nowhere, then a parent's cruel love.

Finally, in our featured story, invasion from within.

So, want to hear something scary?

Uduction.

Sometimes, when we're so focused on a specific goal, we forget to see all of the terrible things

that might get in our way of achieving it,

like in this story, inspired by Raven Storm.

It was chilly for an April morning, like in this story, inspired by Raven Storm.

It was chilly for an April morning in North Texas,

but I was determined to clock a good time for my upcoming 5K.

It was still dark outside, but I was in the zone.

I was focused.

I was determined. Damn it, I was already walking. Huffing, puffing,

and grabbing at my side stitch, I turned the corner. I picked up the pace as I went past the window

of the fitness center so as to not embarrass myself. I slowed again once I was out of sight.

As I approached the covenant of closets, I noticed two women heading to the door. They carried various cleaning supplies from a small black

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