The Cursed Manuscript

Endless Thread

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Reddit, Technology

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

A 17th century monk using a nom de plume pens what could have been the blockbuster of its time: a teenage boy embarking on an epic voyage to the Americas. But, due to a series of bizarre circumstances, it was never published... until now.

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0:11.2	Produced by the I-Lab at WBUR Boston.
0:18.3	Emory, I recently learned that you were not a big fan of scary movies, and so without
0:25.8	further ado, I would like to play you a scary movie clip.
0:29.1	Oh good.
0:30.1	Yeah.
0:31.1	It doesn't like to be cheated. Excuse me?
0:37.6	What's that supposed to mean?
0:40.5	You are home. Just be careful now.
0:43.3	Okay. Actually, advice. Creepy guy.
0:48.3	Any idea where this is from? I'll give you a hint. It is a franchise.
0:54.3	The only scary movie franchises I can think of right now are Scream and Saw.
1:00.5	That would be no and no.
1:01.9	Okay.
1:02.9	We're talking final destination. Have you heard of these?
1:06.5	Yes.
1:07.5	Alright, so this is the series of movies, five of them actually, where a small group of
1:11.8	people avoid a big disaster and yet are still cursed to meet the same fate aka death, one
1:19.1	by one, an increasingly terrifying and or hilariously gory ways.
1:24.2	Okay. I would very much like to know how final destination one, two, three, four, and
1:29.6	five relate to the story you're about to tell about a Spanish adventure in the 1600s.
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