You're in a crowded bar on a Friday night. The lights flash off and in the darkness you see glowing red eyes staring at you from across the room.

When the light switched back on, the eyes are gone.

The lights go out again, and now the bar is filled with glowing red eyes.

All fixated on you. You need my help. This is a voice from darkness. Hello, this is Dr Malcolm Ryder, Parapsicologist, coming to you from our studio here in the stormy husky brawling city of big shoulders

Chicago Illinois and speaking of Chicago I'm happy to announce our show recently launched a Patreon.

In our inaugural Patreon episode, I answer a few questions about the Second City.

So if you want to know where I get pizza,

or hear about the fabled Chicago bar,

the odd-shaped room, whose doors will only open for you once.

Please, feel free to join us over at patreon.com

slash V.F darkness. That once again is patreon p-a-t-r-R-E-O-N dot com forward slash V-F darkness.

Okay, with that out of the way, we have a very special episode tonight my sister Amelia Ryder

professor of occult studies at Ravenswood University will be on the line later

it's been a while since she's appeared as a guest on the show, and as she recently

returned from an expedition, I'm sure she'll have something interesting to share with this.

More on that later, though. For For now let's delve into our national alerts.

There's only one national alert for tonight and it's for the Greenpoint neighborhood of New York City.

There's a movie theater at the corner of Driggs Avenue and Leonard Street called The Luminous Spirit.

A film currently playing there titled, We Are Always This Way Should be Avoided. told, we are always this way, should be avoided at all costs.

Last night it was shown for the first time in nearly 30 years.

Outside the theater, you'll see a poster advertising the film,

featuring a happy family, all with blonde hair,

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