An Iriot original.

I was born with a special gift.

The ability to mentally transform any situation into the worst case scenario.

In my own brain.

My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing.

And that's why I'm uniquely qualified to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest disasters.

And find out who's to play play.

They say history repeats itself.

Not on my watch.

My name is Rebecca Delgado-Smith and I am the alarmist.

Hey everyone, thanks for tuning into the alarmist.

A comedy podcast where we talk about history's greatest tragedies and figure out who's to blame.

Today we're discussing the Turpin Family House of Horrors.

Here's what you need to know.

Minutes before sunrise on a chilly January night in 2018,

a young girl climbed out of a window in her family's Paris, California home

and ran down the quiet neighborhood street, clutching a cell phone.

After gaining enough distance from the house, the girl frantically dialed 911,

breathlessly telling the dispatcher,

I just ran away from home because I was in a family of 15

and we have abused Paris.

Did you hear that?

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