Hi, it's Trevor from the acquisitions department here at the Antiquarium.

From time to time, the Antiquarium permits limited observational access to certain objects in the collection.

Usually to universities, occasionally to private sleep laboratories.

The arrangement is fairly straightforward.

An artifact is placed nearby while subjects sleep.

Then the researchers document whatever follows.

Shared dreams, unfamiliar voices, sleepwalking, sudden nosebleeds, repeating symbols drawn by people

who never met, you know, the usual findings. A recent study brought us into contact with the

Scare You to Sleep Institute, overseen by our good friend Shelby Novak, a specialist in immersive nocturnal

exposure therapy through whispered horror narratives and carefully controlled atmosphere.

An admirable field of study, if we do say so ourselves.

The Institute reported that multiple subjects described the same figure standing silently at the

foot of their bed following exposure to tonight's recording.

We have, of course, requested further documentation for the archive. And as their research

wisely suggests, if someone mentions the paranormal and then asks, do you want to hear a story?

Always say yes. Now then, get comfortable, lower the lights,

and if you wake in the middle of the night

to find someone watching from the corner of the room,

do try not to acknowledge them first.

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