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slash setup hi addings it's your ate sapphire I hope you'll think today's episode is a

masterpiece because they're all about art.

First, we'll hear a true story from a boy who discovered his artistic talent was a curse.

Then, we'll watch a painter and his muse, sleep in a cabin with a peculiar painting,

and identify with a mermaid image in a hotel room.

I receive hundreds of amazing story

submissions every single week. The first story you hear is one that I've chosen to animate and post

over at YouTube.com slash snarled. Then I read a few more stories for the podcast. If you have a

tale you're dying to share, send me an email at

something scary at snarled.com. But before we get into today's stories, I wanted to answer

some listener mail. If you remember last week's episode, I told the story of a mysterious green

light that two young girls witnessed coming from a field in their neighborhood. I asked you all

if you'd heard anything similar to this that might help them figure out what it was. So I got an

email from Celeste who sent a link to a Reddit post by Nathan N.L. That I'll read for you now.

When I was a child, I was fast asleep when I woke up in the middle of the night,

immediately confronted by a bright green light in my bedroom. I then got scared since I couldn't

think of anything emitting it in my room, let alone how it could have turned on. And then I woke my

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