The I Scream Man (a crypt re-release)

0:01 SPEAKER_04: Hey everyone, welcome back to the Into the Abyss Morbid Morsels Podcast.

0:07 SPEAKER_04: The summer heat is brutal right now, and while I'm locked away in the dark working on a batch of brand new, terrifying episodes for you, I didn't want to leave your feed empty.

0:17 SPEAKER_04: So tonight, we are stepping into the crypt.

0:20 SPEAKER_04: I'm taking you all the way back to season one for one of my absolute favorite morbid morsels.

0:25 SPEAKER_04: An episode that still makes me look twice whenever I hear a jingle driving down the street.

0:30 SPEAKER_04: We all remember the local ice cream truck from our childhood.

0:34 SPEAKER_04: The bright colors, the familiar song, the promise of a sweet escape from the heat.

0:40 SPEAKER_04: But in tonight's tale, the neighborhood I scream man is serving up something entirely different.

0:46 SPEAKER_04: There's a reason his treats taste so shockingly unique, and why the local children have a habit of vanishing right before the music starts playing.

0:55 SPEAKER_04: If you've been here since the beginning, lock the doors and enjoy the nostalgia.

1:00 SPEAKER_04: If you're new to the abyss, welcome, my little wanderers.

1:06 SPEAKER_04: Well, you might want to put your sweets away for this one.

1:09 SPEAKER_04: Let's head back to the dark.

1:11 SPEAKER_04: Here is the ice cream man.

1:18 SPEAKER_10: This episode contains mature language in adult situations.

1:52 SPEAKER_06: And how is it that you stumbled into my caverns of the abyss?

1:59 SPEAKER_06: I am ancient.

2:02 unknown: I am forever.

2:05 SPEAKER_06: And I have been chained down here for a millennia.

2:13 unknown: Please.

2:16 SPEAKER_05: Oh my leg is broken.

2:21 SPEAKER_05: Please, please help me.

2:28 SPEAKER_06: Oh, I'm afraid there's no escape.

2:33 SPEAKER_06: I can assure you of that.

2:37 SPEAKER_06: Sooner or later, you all come here.

2:42 SPEAKER_06: Your dark thoughts plot you here.

2:46 SPEAKER_06: And for that, you are forever trapped down here.

2:53 SPEAKER_05: Please, please let me go.

2:56 SPEAKER_05: I have a family.

2:58 SPEAKER_05: I don't know how I got here or what I'm doing.

3:01 SPEAKER_05: Whatever you are or places is, I'm sorry.

3:05 SPEAKER_05: Please, I can't see it's so dark.

3:12 SPEAKER_06: Before your suffering begins, I will tell you a tale to pass the time.

3:20 SPEAKER_06: Short stories of horror.

3:24 SPEAKER_06: Tiny tales of the creepy.

3:29 SPEAKER_06: I will assure you by the end you'll be screaming with madness.

3:39 SPEAKER_06: Please.

3:41 SPEAKER_06: I swear on your edit.

3:43 SPEAKER_06: Please, just let me go.

3:51 SPEAKER_06: Where are my menace?

3:55 SPEAKER_06: I am the shadow dweller.

3:59 SPEAKER_06: Here to keep you company until the abyss swallows you whole.

4:07 SPEAKER_06: I've been here for eons and collected stories that I passed down to you before the darkness takes you.

4:20 SPEAKER_06: This little ditty is called The I Scream Man.

4:48 SPEAKER_08: The small town of Hartville had always been a peaceful place.

4:52 SPEAKER_08: Everyone knew each other, kids played outside until the street lights came on.

4:57 SPEAKER_08: Neighbors had cookouts, drank cold beers.

5:00 SPEAKER_08: Our town was awesome.

5:09 SPEAKER_08: We rode our bikes and skateboards everywhere.

5:13 SPEAKER_08: Played baseball, and of course we played with our Star Wars figures.

5:19 SPEAKER_08: I remember seeing it on the news and it scared the hell out of the town.

5:23 SPEAKER_08: It was the summer of 85, June and July.

5:26 SPEAKER_08: All I know it was fucking hot.

5:34 SPEAKER_08: Who knew something sinister was on our way to our town?

5:38 SPEAKER_08: I can only tell you from what I remember hearing from the grown-ups, and I can tell you that it scared the shit out of everyone in town.

7:51 SPEAKER_03: All right, too.

8:11 SPEAKER_08: Nobody had ever seen his truck in our town before, but he always parked at the same place and he was there at the same time.

8:18 SPEAKER_08: He always had a line of kids waiting impatiently for something nice and cool on a hot summer day.

8:25 SPEAKER_08: As soon as you could hear that music box-like melody in the distance, we came running.

8:31 SPEAKER_08: He saw the variety of frozen treats.

8:34 SPEAKER_08: Everything from nutty buddies, snow cones, ice cream shakes, blast pops.

8:40 SPEAKER_08: Shit, I could go on, but you get the idea.

8:48 SPEAKER_08: All the kids loved his the best and couldn't wait until the ice cream man came around.

8:56 SPEAKER_08: Come on!

8:57 SPEAKER_02: Hurry up, Brandon! Pick something already.

9:00 SPEAKER_02: Shit.

9:03 SPEAKER_08: I said impatiently to my little brother Brandon.

9:07 SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna tell mom and dad you said I swear, Sean.

9:11 SPEAKER_02: I can't.

9:12 SPEAKER_02: God, there's so much to choose from.

9:18 SPEAKER_10: Come on, kid.

9:21 SPEAKER_10: I ain't got a goddamn day said a growling deep voice from above.

9:30 SPEAKER_08: I looked up to see an older dude.

9:32 SPEAKER_08: His face was worn, aged, he had gray patches in his beard.

9:38 SPEAKER_08: There were yellowish sweat stains under his armpits.

9:42 SPEAKER_08: Gross! Between that and the smears of chocolate syrup and either cherry or strawberry sauce made his uniform look like one big banana split.

9:58 SPEAKER_08: It wasn't till one day when one of the kids realized there was something seriously wrong with the ice cream man.

10:04 SPEAKER_08: He didn't know exactly what it was, but for some reason he could get those stranger danger vibes for sure.

10:19 SPEAKER_08: Hey, ice cream man, your shit sucks.

10:25 SPEAKER_08: Billy said as he shoved an ice cream bar in his mouth.

10:29 SPEAKER_08: Billy was the last kid around.

10:31 SPEAKER_08: Everyone else had gone home.

10:33 SPEAKER_08: The streetlights cast an eerie glow that stretched out for miles.

10:39 SPEAKER_10: Is that so?

10:42 SPEAKER_10: Well then I've got a special treat that I've been working on, but little shits like you wouldn't be able to handle it.

10:53 SPEAKER_10: And I can't just let everyone try one.

10:56 SPEAKER_10: I'm still tweaking the recipe.

10:59 SPEAKER_10: Haven't got it quite right yet.

11:04 SPEAKER_08: Yeah, whatever.

11:06 SPEAKER_08: Shitter get off the pot, man.

11:08 SPEAKER_02: I ain't scared.

11:09 SPEAKER_02: I'll try it.

11:12 SPEAKER_08: The man grinned and opened the back door with a slow, rusty creak, and Billy climbed in.

11:20 SPEAKER_08: As soon as he was inside the truck, the man grabbed him and shoved something in his mouth.

11:31 SPEAKER_08: The boy struggled as hard as he could, but couldn't escape the man's grasp.

11:36 SPEAKER_08: Then all went black.

11:38 SPEAKER_08: The man shut the door and slowly drove away.

11:45 SPEAKER_08: About a week later, all the kids were back at the ice cream truck.

11:49 SPEAKER_08: His latest new frozen delights were amazing.

11:53 SPEAKER_08: We couldn't get enough of them.

11:55 SPEAKER_08: We started noticing missing kid flyers popping up all around town.

12:07 SPEAKER_01: Only five years old.

12:09 SPEAKER_08: God damn shame.

12:13 SPEAKER_08: And when she turned around, Tommy wasn't there.

12:18 SPEAKER_08: Oh my god, that's horrible.

12:21 SPEAKER_08: Poor little boy.

12:23 SPEAKER_08: I can't imagine if anything would happen to one of our cats.

12:28 SPEAKER_08: I remember hearing my parents talking about it.

12:31 SPEAKER_08: My mom had my dad on speakerphone.

12:34 SPEAKER_08: About some little girl downtown.

12:37 SPEAKER_08: She said the ice cream tasted funny.

12:54 SPEAKER_01: That's just crazy.

12:59 SPEAKER_08: Maybe it's allergic reaction.

13:16 SPEAKER_08: I don't know what we're gonna do.

13:18 SPEAKER_08: First, I miss the kids.

13:19 SPEAKER_08: Then little kids start getting sick, getting rushed to the hospital, vomiting up and cooking blood.

13:25 SPEAKER_08: No one can figure out why.

13:27 SPEAKER_08: What happens if that's one of our kids?

13:29 SPEAKER_08: What if that's our son and daughter?

13:31 unknown: What are we gonna do then?

13:34 SPEAKER_08: Somehow the grown-ups ended up tracing it back to the ice cream man.

13:39 SPEAKER_08: The parents got a kid to buy ice cream from his truck and bring it home.

13:43 SPEAKER_08: They had it tested, and what they found was horrifying.

13:50 SPEAKER_08: The ice cream man was selling frozen treats made from the body parts of dozens of missing children that he had kidnapped.

13:58 SPEAKER_08: Neighborhood kids had started going missing throughout the summer.

14:02 SPEAKER_08: Parents were afraid, but we couldn't get enough of those frozen delights.

14:08 SPEAKER_08: The ice cream man had been doing this for years across America.

14:12 SPEAKER_08: He drugged the kids, tortured them, and then chopped them up.

14:17 SPEAKER_08: Put them in his ice cream treats.

14:19 SPEAKER_08: Lots of smiling faces to be sold to.

14:24 SPEAKER_08: The town man packed a hunt down and find that sadistic fuck and put it into him.

14:31 SPEAKER_08: But unfortunately he was already gone.

14:34 SPEAKER_08: The damage had already been done.

14:41 SPEAKER_08: The sun was shining and a cool breeze blew through the trees.

14:45 SPEAKER_08: Kids were laughing and playing, enjoying the summer.

14:49 SPEAKER_08: Faint melody of a music box could be heard down the street.

14:54 SPEAKER_02: Ice cream, ice cream, yeah Yo, dude, what you got that's good?

15:04 SPEAKER_08: Asked a little red-headed boy.

15:08 SPEAKER_10: Oh I have some very interesting and tasty treats.

15:18 SPEAKER_10: Something for everyone.

15:21 SPEAKER_10: I guarantee I have the best ice cream around.

15:29 SPEAKER_08: The man said with a wicked grin.

15:36 SPEAKER_02: Dude, this is the best ice cream I've ever had.

15:45 SPEAKER_08: It's 3 a.m.

15:48 SPEAKER_08: As the red-headed kid was walking away, the ice cream bar started to melt.

15:54 SPEAKER_08: Tiny drops of blood mixed with chocolate sauce and ice cream ran down the boy's face.

16:03 SPEAKER_08: As the ice cream man waved goodbye, he said.

16:11 SPEAKER_10: Hey, kid, I'll be here same time, same spot.

16:19 SPEAKER_10: Be sure to tell all your little pals about me.

16:36 SPEAKER_10: Oh, I hope so, my dear boy.

16:42 SPEAKER_10: I hope so.

17:13 SPEAKER_06: Think twice about it.

17:16 SPEAKER_06: Because the ice scream man is serving up more than smiles.

17:50 unknown: Well, my friend, that was a tasty treat, wasn't it?

17:58 SPEAKER_06: So tell me, what is your favorite flavor of ice cream?

18:06 unknown: Oh I see.

18:10 unknown: But then again, that doesn't really matter down here now, does it?

18:27 SPEAKER_10: What did you think of that to take it to the crazy What the hell do you think?

19:34 unknown: I patiently wait to the next morning and finds their way here to me.

19:43 SPEAKER_06: Your top thoughts always lead you to me.

19:49 SPEAKER_03: So, my friends, until next time, I look forward to tasting your fear.

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