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I remember her saying that she has a little boy and she just kept saying Zion.

But they didn't let her up.

Welcome to episode 332 of Sword and the Scale, a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real.

Yeah. The final episode of this season was written and produced by Elena Thomas, one of our senior producers.

As this here comes to a close, we'd like to say thank you to our entire staff, including producers, Evan Ziegleman, Valerie Vernon, Michael Stabil, Mish Barber Way.

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I know we've been losing a few of you in the last year or so, and we'll try to get you back.

It's a good guy can't even have a mental breakdown anymore. In early August of the year 2000, just before the new school year was about to begin, the heat

sat heavy over Mayfield, Kentucky.

It was still early in the morning and everything was quiet and still.

The only sounds were the occasional bird chirping on the rooftop of Mayfield Middle School

and the floor waxing

machines humming inside the building. Out behind the school, a teacher spotted an unusual dark

shape in the grass. I taught an environmental science class and we, this was a memorial to a teacher that had died at our school and we always

kept fresh flowers and kept it planted and weeded and stuff like that I went

out the door and I just I still had my hand on the door I remember remember because if I had closed it, it would have locked.

And I saw this sandal laying right by the door.

There's a little concrete pad there, and I saw the sandal laying there.

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