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I'm Clyde Lewis, and this is Ground Zero.

The numbers to call tonight, Triple Eight, 673, 3,700.

That's AAA, 673-3-3-3-3-7-100.

We're edging ever closer to Halloween, continued closer. We're getting closer and closer

and closer to Halloween. And the more we get towards it, the more we move an edge towards it,

the more I want to talk about stories that are good Halloween stories.

But, of course, the news becomes far more frightening than any Halloween story I can conjure.

And as we said last night, I mean, politics are like the occult.

I mean, they have us somehow transfixed.

We tend to find ourselves watching the news as if it were some sort of movie.

We've been desensitized to a lot of things.

And during Halloween, we tend to look at the stories, and I don't know if anyone can apply them

to some of the supernatural things that go on in the world, but I have my eye ever wide

open to the supernatural, to the occult's underpinnings of most things.

And so I like to share it with you and get your opinion on these things.

And there was a story that I was reading a few days ago that reminded me of Mary Shelley's

Frankenstein.

But it's in a different type, I guess you can say it's a different type of realm than just

matter being put together in a laboratory with dead bodies bringing forth a living

being that may be a monster or something. And the whole, I see Frankenstein in different

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