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Yo, Amory Screamerton. Yo, Ben Brockel-Antern. What is the scariest thing that

has happened to you? Like the ghostliest, ghouliest thing? This was not a supernatural

thing, but I was like a preteen when this happened. I was home alone and I called the cops

on what I could have sworn was an intruder and I'm hiding in the closet with all I could

find was shoe polish as a weapon, like spray shoe polish. Okay. And the person opens the

closet door and it's my sister. He sprayed her right in the face. Right in the face.

No, I didn't, fortunately, but what about you? So a little known fact about me. My parents

were super into hippie stuff from the West Coast and they got a yurt to put in my back yard.

Okay. Like one of those mongoli intent like things. And that was my bedroom in high school

and it had a wood stove in it. So I stayed in the year in the winter and for several nights

one winter I heard this like super scary creepy scratching at the outside wall of the

yurt and it was the wall that faced this like weird creepy wetland behind my house. Okay.

And I I'll never know if it was like a half frozen squirrel or what, but it's got the

heck out of me. Definitely a squirrel. Well, today's episode of Scream Time starts in Ireland

actually, but it ends with something or some one on the outside of the building. And we've

got a name for this one. Yes, we do. Are you ready? Yep. Roof man.

I'm Ben Brock Johnson and you are listening to Endless Thread. The show featuring stories

found in the vast ecosystem of online communities called Reddit. I'm here with my co host

Amory Siebertson and we're coming to you from Boston's NPR station WBUR. All throughout

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