The Birdwatcher, the Quartet, and the Stampede
Holy Ghost Stories
Justin Gerhardt
4.9 • 553 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
With Samaria under siege, Yahweh has a startling message for Elisha.
Text: 2 Kings 6:24-7:19
Players:
- Yahweh
- Elisha
- King Joram/Jehoram
- A grieving mother
- Four lepers
What's Spooky:
- Cannabilism
- Starvation
- Mention of beheading
- Sores and missing digits
- Someone crushed to death
Credits:
Research, Writing, Narration, Sound Editing: Justin Gerhardt
Manuscript Editing: JL Gerhardt
Production: Hazefire Studios
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We are all of us in a city under siege. |
| 0:09.0 | The prince of the power of the air has encircled Eve's children. |
| 0:14.0 | Even now, he pummels the walls with his lies and his surrogate gods, |
| 0:20.0 | imposes scarcity, incites panic. |
| 0:25.2 | But is rescue closer than we dare to imagine? |
| 0:31.8 | This is a story about desperation and depravity, |
| 0:36.5 | about twisting plots and unforeseen ends. |
| 0:41.5 | And it's a story about a God who sees, whose eye is on even the most fragile creatures, |
| 0:50.2 | who ensures that if they fall, they fall only into his hands. |
| 0:57.0 | I'm Justin Gerhardt. |
| 0:59.5 | Welcome to Holy Ghost Stories. |
| 1:02.0 | Music The |
| 1:13.6 | The He can feel himself eroding. |
| 1:41.3 | His chest and legs and neck and cheeks ebbing, thinning, a waning crescent, edges sharpening |
| 1:52.0 | a bit each day. |
| 1:55.0 | How long has it been now? |
| 1:58.0 | His recall is slower than it was a product of the malnourishment. |
| 2:03.5 | Even walking across the room leaves him fatigued. |
| 2:07.7 | Three hundred days? Four hundred. More? |
| 2:14.0 | He rubs blood flow into his feet, long enough to deplete the city's food stores and send the people of Samaria's scrounging, |
| 2:22.3 | long enough for a bleak new economy to emerge, exorbitant rates on what would otherwise be unthinkable foodstuffs, |
| 2:31.3 | cups of doves dung and the heads of unfortunate donkeys. |
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