Dead Battery - The Crossroads

Spooked

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Chiller, Performing Arts, Ghosts, Society & Culture, Halloween, Thriller, Paranormal, Spooky, Supernatural, Personal Journals, Leisure, Arts, Horror, Fall, Mystery, Wonder, Adventure, Scary, Culture

4.6 • 15.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Rameen knows Gettysburg — the battles, the history. But when he picks up a night shift on the ghost tour, everything goes haywire. A strange message crackles over the radio from an unknown frequency, filled with urgency and desperation that feel all too real.

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0:00.0	Who can steal the sunrise and wipe away your grin?
0:14.0	Make you wish that you could scrub away your darker skin.
0:17.4	The shadow man, the shadow mankind. The shadow man the shadow mankind
0:21.8	the shadow man can
0:22.5	the shadow man can
0:25.4	because he cheats out everyone
0:26.8	and makes the world not good
0:29.6	you've almost arrived
0:37.2	at the crossroads.
0:38.3	Stay tuned.
0:41.3	You're almost arrived. The
0:57.0	The Clarksdale, Mississippi,
1:11.6	1921, little Bobby was just eight years old when he discovered that sometimes,
1:32.3	with the grown folk, if you're quiet, if you stay in a corner, if you look really close at the floor,
1:41.3	or the wall, even your own shoes.
1:45.0	They will talk like you're not even there.
1:47.6	Invisible.
1:49.2	In this evening,
1:50.0	when his mama sinks her voice down low,
1:52.5	that's when Bobby's hearing
1:53.7	leans in.
1:56.1	Mama tells Hattie,
	...

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