Hello, my dark darlings, I'm Marquia, and this is the Something Scary podcast. To our veteran listeners and those just voyaging into the dark with us for the first time, welcome. Remember your childhood fears? We all had something that scared us to death. If you love talking with your friends about these memories,

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We have the world at our fingertips with the swipe of a finger. It makes us feel as if we know everything. It's difficult to imagine that anyone,

particularly our elders, have anything new to teach us. But when they tell us their stories, we would be wise to

remember that their lessons often come from devastating experiences. We should always heed the

advice of these hard-lived warnings from the wounded. First, a family ritual gone dead wrong, followed by the eyes of the possessed, then a child's

evil revenge. Finally, in our featured story, The Dead Want Blood. I receive hundreds of creepy

story submissions every single week, and of those the scariest

ones make it into our podcast, along with the story that we've chosen to animate, and post over at

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So, want to hear something scary?

Warnings of the wounded.

When we're young, the way we're raised is all we know.

But as we get older and see the world through our own lenses,

we realize everything we thought we knew might be a terrible lie. Like in this story, inspired by

Penny. Ezi and her mother, Alana, were inseparable. and that's just the way Alana liked it.

It was always just the two of them, with the occasional visit from Essey's grandmother,

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