Nope. Absolutely not. When you started the day, you thought you had a chance to show the partners what an asset you are to the firm. You also thought those stupid owls were the endangered species. Instead, you’re spending the night locked in a haunted single-wide, where the plants tuck you in with tooth-filled baby dolls and fling pumpkins at you…what the hell kind of a sentence is that!? And even if it wasn’t still snowing outside, that thing that destroyed the car is back and out for blood. There’s gotta be some way out of here…right?

What…what the hell just happened!? You thought the weirdest part of the day was going to be the way Mr. Titus ate dinner, or maybe that book Wilbur was reading, but that thing…what the hell was that thing!? And how did it do that to your car!? Now the snow is falling harder, your car is in literal pieces, and your options seem to be hike to the creepy abandoned trailer park or go back to the Titus house, again…oh god. You’re totally screwed, aren’t you?

The folks up here are a lot more helpful than you expected, with the exception of Ms. Titus herself, although at least she seems to be hearing you out. Still, you’d rather not stick around here any longer than you have to. These roads, if you can call them that, are not meant for a Prius, and people might be friendly, but they’re definitely staring…and so is that pig out in the yard. Just like the people, actually. Like, human eyes. Is that phone reception picking up yet?

When the Executive Vice President of the firm asks you specifically to deal with a problem, of course you jump at the chance to prove yourself to the partners. So, if that means you have to grab your work-BFF, drive four-and-a-half hours north of Sacramento into the rural backwoods of California, and try to convince some old lady to let a conservationist team investigate a threatened species that lives on her property, you hop in the Prius and go. Sure, the cell service might suck, but a little trek into nature can’t be that bad a way to spend the day, right?

File 221002 - Special Agent Hodgson interviewing Leah Hunter about an unusual sighting and an experience involving loss of time and possible extranatural abduction which occurred while hiking outside of Golconda, NV.

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