Parkdale Haunt: Trailer

OWEN: [talkback] Alright, anytime. 

JUDITH: ​Ok, let’s start from the top: My name is Judith Antoni, and my best friend, Claire Sterback, has disappeared. Well, ok, she’s still alive and apparently… fine? But… all this started in mid-2018, when she took possession of a house in the Parkdale neighbourhood of Toronto. We decided, hey, let’s make a fun podcast, maybe some Youtube videos about the renos and the attempted DIY stuff? Y’know, all the half-assed plans that people make and only keep like, 45% of the time? But… things started to get weird. In all honesty, parts of her life were starting to unravel but… I don’t think that was it. I think it was the ​house​. Something is seriously wrong with that place and if I was just coming into this now I’d guess it was radon or carbon monoxide poisoning, or lead in the water, or whatever. I would even say she was having some sort of episode, but… that’s not it. Something less rational is the main problem here, and now… Claire is gone. And she’s taken off and now I don’t know what to do. To be honest, it feels like sometime in the interim she become someone else, and I’m worried.

So, in early January 2019, she left the city without even telling me where she was going. She hasn’t returned calls, texts, anything. I know she’s ​alive b​ecause she has reached out to her parents and they say she’s ok, but like I said, something more sinister is going on, and what I hope to do is put together all the bits and pieces and figure out what happened. I’ve got almost all the recordings that were made over the last 6 months, so maybe there’s something I missed. Anything that gives some sort of insight, at this point. I’ll admit, I’ve been lazy with listening back to them in the past. And editing. But whatever. No looking back, aside for all the looking back I now have to do. I’m going to go over all of this with my friend Owen, and we’re recording so we can keep track of things and so that I have a copy of everything we did and… it means there’s a record of it in case… something happens? I don’t want this to be a mystery if I’m not around to explain it and I know that sounds dramatic but… [pause]​ Does that make sense?

OWEN: ​[talkback] ​Makes sense to me. Hey, I think something weird is going on with the playback? Just give me a second, I’m going to play back a clip and see if anything’s wrong with that.

JUDITH: ​Uh, yeah, sure, go ahead.

[SFX: beep]

JUDITH: ​[recording] H​ello! So we’ve picked out a bunch of wallpaper samples, and I think we’re going to do the wall going down the stairs with like… maybe a fern print? Is that too on-trend? Will that look dated? 

[SFX: beep]

JUDITH: ​I hate the sound of my own voice.

OWEN: ​Everyone does. Hang on, I’m going to play it again.

[SFX: beep]

JUDITH: ​[recording, little distorted] ​Hello, so we’ve picked out a bunch of samples, and I think we’re going to do the wall going down the stairs with a print? Will that look dated?

[SFX: beep]

JUDITH: ​[pause] ​Hey, uh, can you play that again?

[SFX: beep]

JUDITH: ​[recording, more distorted] ​Hello. We’ve picked out a bunch of samples, and I think we’re going to do the wall going down the stairs.

[SFX: beep]

JUDITH: ​Is that the same recording?

OWEN: ​I haven’t changed it, I’m playing it from the same spot. 

JUDITH: ​Again, play it again.

[SFX: beep]

JUDITH: ​[recording, distorted] H​ello. We’re going down- the stairs. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. HELLO.

[SFX: beep]

JUDITH: ​What the hell was that?

OWEN: ​I did not do that.

JUDITH: ​If that wasn’t you, then what was that?

[SFX: beep]

OWEN: ​Uh, Judith? I’m not playing this. 

JUDITH: ​[recording, distorted] H​ ello. Hello. HELLO.

Is th. at  the same re cordi ng ?? /?

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