The Melville Theater by Connie Lee

Grandma's Not Well by Olivia Valdez
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Music by Epidemic Sound and Co.AG

Additional sound fx from Freesound.org:
Giggles - teenage girl young lady.wav by AderuMoro
Inside a suburban train full of high school students on a non-stop talking by tiagovaz 
jingling_coins.wav by Peacewaves 
Candy Box.wav by AdamsArchive
McRae - crowd - aghast.wav by FlippantMoniker
scream woman.wav by digitalsmokestudios
 Body stabs 2 by studiobonk
Stabbing sound.wav by Jordishaw

TW: some gore in Grandma's Not Well
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292: A Friend of Commander Strangeways

Curl up and relax as I read you a spooky bed time story! Join me in enjoying the soothing, although somewhat unnerving, sounds of all that goes bump in the night.From ghosts in the bayou to serial killers in the 90s, we've got everything you need to be scared to sleep! Get bonus content on Patreon

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Lord of the Fishes by Lee Rozelle
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TW: suicide, child abuse, religious trauma 
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333. Lord of the Fishes

This was originally uploaded as a video on my YouTube channel, but I thought it might be nice for some to have the audio. I love these poems dearly, and I hope you will too.
You can find the original video here: Death Poetry to Soothe Your Soul
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
Immortality (Do Not Stand By My Grave and Weep) by Clare Harner
If Tomorrow Starts Without Me by David Romano
The Dance of Death by Charles Baudelaire
Death Be Not Proud by John Donne
In Flanders Fields by John McCrae
Funeral Blues by W.H. Auden
Oh Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman

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Poems About Death

True stories of horror sent in by listeners...

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TW: existential musings about death
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332. True Horror XIX

The Eyes by Edith Wharton [1910] “I had never felt anything as fresh and shy and brave as her kiss”

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"Waltz (Tschikovsky Op. 40)" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Blue Feather" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Long Note Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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331. The Eyes

Let's dive into the saga of a woman trying to figure out if her dad is a murderer...
Read along:
https://www.reddit.com/r/RBI/comments/ml15ah/my_dad_might_not_be_responsible_for_a/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
https://www.reddit.com/r/RBI/comments/nnxkka/update_in_the_my_dad_might_not_be_responsible_for/
https://www.reddit.com/r/RBI/comments/pcv8am/second_update_in_dad_might_not_be_a_murderer/
https://www.reddit.com/r/RBI/comments/tt333q/third_update_in_the_my_dad_might_not_be/
https://www.reddit.com/r/RBI/comments/zmvxdc/fourth_and_probably_last_update_in_the_my_dad/

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TW: Suicide, mention of rape kit but no description of sexual assault  
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292: A Friend of Commander Strangeways

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