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Small Town Horror

S1 Episode 01 - Homecoming

Small Town Horror

Jon Grilz

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4.21K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2016

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

After 18 years, Ryan Jennings finally returns home to Crayton,Minnesota. There he finds an old friend and an older nightmare.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Every town has its stories, its secrets. What possible harm could come from sharing them.

0:13.0

Hmm?

0:15.0

This is small town horror.

0:20.0

My name is Ryan Jennings. This is a bi-weekly podcast documenting my return to

0:27.5

Create in Minnesota. Each episode is recorded and posted in order as it happens to me.

0:33.7

For more details, please listen to all previous episodes.

0:38.6

Let's cut right to the important part.

0:41.0

When I was 19 years old, I was kidnapped and held prisoner.

0:45.0

No ransom was requested, no arrests made.

0:49.0

I was taken, and then I was released.

0:52.0

Whoever did it is still out there.

0:55.0

Since my release I've spent the last 18 years doing all I could to stay away from my hometown of Great in Minnesota, up until a month ago that is.

1:07.5

A month ago I received a package in the mail with two VHS tapes.

1:11.3

The tapes I posted a couple of weeks ago entitled Tape One The Where and

1:16.2

Tape Two The Why. The contents of those tapes show the recorded events in the days and

1:21.6

even seconds leading up to my kidnapping.

1:24.4

Feel free to go back and listen to them if you haven't already.

1:28.1

Soon after receiving the tapes, I got a phone call telling me my father had died.

1:35.7

To make matters worse, according to the shipping address, the tapes were sent from my father's house, and they were sent days after his death.

1:41.5

After I recorded and posted the episode of tape 2, The Why,

1:47.0

I spent another day at the bottom of the bottle.

1:50.0

What can I say I'm an imperfect person?

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