Welcome, dear listeners, to scary stories told in the dark.

I'm Malcolm Blackwood, your host and storyteller.

And you know where I'm from, we don't do bedtime stories.

So, if that's what you're expecting, you're in the wrong place. If it's

terrifying tales you're after, well, then I've got just the thing. So, get comfortable,

settle in, turn off the lights, if you dare. Your night is about to get a whole lot darker.

Besides, who needs sleep anyway?

Good evening, listeners, and welcome back to scary stories told in the dark.

I'm your host, Malcolm Blackwood.

And tonight, we bring you a tale steep in old sorrow, old ritual,

and the kind of fear that begins with a sound in the dark you can only pray you've imagined.

Dim the lights, settle in and steal yourself for yet another journey into the dark.

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