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On the 6th of March 2017, a man went missing from a secure psychiatric hospital just outside

Providence, Rhode Island. The last person to see the man that night had been his doctor.

According to multiple accounts, doctor and patient spoke for about an hour, then the doctor

left and the patient was locked in for the night.

When the orderlies entered his room the next morning, he wasn't there.

HP Lovecraft, the 20th century's greatest practitioner of horror, gets a 21st century makeover.

Can we talk about these disturbances in the night, Charles? Your father is concerned.

He said he heard two voices, raised voices. He stood outside your door and he became convinced

that both voices were you. Oh, there was a bunch of weird stuff in there. Stuff written

in other languages, these weird symbols and diagrams. I'm in a period of transition. This

has to be the single, strangest thing. Any of us at the Mystery Machine have ever encountered.

The Mystery Machine podcast investigates a disappearance. Listen to the audio. And a murder.

According it, the case of Charles Dexter Ward. I've been taking a lot of things at face value here.

I have a file I need to email to you. I think that was a mistake. It's an audio file.

Well, I didn't think it should be heard by anyone, but now I'm going to send you the file through.

The more a body only lasts so long, so another vessel must always be ready.

I'm under something here. The vessel must be of the bloodline.

I think you should be careful. They believe in things every bit as much as a

Christian or Jew or Muslim. And if you don't have a hand on the belief system, you can't possibly begin to fathom the

motivations of the people who are acting on that faith. No one try to get eye by road because they had the tunnels which no one knew about.

There are patches of the same stuff all over the workbench. I don't want to say it's definitely blood.

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