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Next week we’ll return with our usual tales of fisticuffs and the occult, but, tonight, we present The Haunted Mixtape, a folk tale of suspect origin. To find out more regarding this supernatural album, visit http://wiki.flashpulp.com
[Music] Welcome to FlashPulp special episode 3. Tonight, we present the Haunted Mix Tape. This week's episodes are brought to you by the Parsec Nominated Podcast, Geek Out with Mainframe. This is Richard Green, aka Mainframe of the Geek Out with Mainframe Podcast. That can be found at GeekOutWithMainframe.com. With hundreds of Geek interview podcasts, I have one of them. Interviews have included people such as Michael Plastit, Gerald Axelrod, P.C. Herring, J.R. Murdoch, Chris John Ellis, Mark the Encafinated One Killfall, Paul E. Cooley and Nathan Lowell with more to come in 2011. Come to GeekOutWithMainframe.com, where our geek flag always flies hot. [Music] FlashPulp is an experiment in broadcasting fresh pulp stories in modern age. Three to ten minutes of fiction brought to you Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings. Next week, we'll return with our usual tales of vistacups and the occult, tonight, who present The Haunted Mix Tape, a folktale of Suspect Origin. To find out more regarding this supernatural album, visit wiki.flashpulp.com. The Haunted Mix Tape. Written by J.R.D. Skinner, Art and Narration Biopoponix, and Audio Produced by Jessica May. [Music] The Haunted Mix Tape. The legend says that in the wee hours of a Saturday morning, in the early 90s, an 18-year-old boy went to his girlfriend's house with the intention of wooing her back after a quarrel the evening before. He'd spend a restless night with his music collection, and had perfected a mix tape he thought would win her heart, despite the angry words that exchanged. As he was climbing the lattice work beneath her window, however, the girl's father, a former marine, came suddenly awake, thinking that a burglar, or worse, was attempting to enter the room with his sleeping daughter. As the boy's face cleared the window sill, the father burst into the girl's room, firing his hunting rifle once. Before dying in the ambulance, the erstwhile Romeo conveyed some of his story to the paramedic at hand, and passed the audio love letter on, in the hopes that it would eventually reach his beloved. It didn't. Instead, the plastic case was left in a locker, with the best of intentions, and forgotten in a blur of emergency calls and real life. It was only a year later that the compilations keeper noticed that he was still in possession of the mix. Some tellings claim the man was compelled; other variations say he was simply curious, but all agree that he then listened to the tape. The opening of the A side was the trembling voice of the dead boy, weepily saying, "I'm sorry," followed by a scratchy recording of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, which the couple had discovered they had a mutual love for. The EMT had heard the song before, but there was something about the boy's words, accompanied by that specific musical selection that became lodged in the man's brain. For two weeks, no matter what he was doing, his mind played back the apology and the haunting melody. At the end of those two weeks, he was found dead from a self-inflicted opioid overdose. The cassette was playing the background when he was discovered by his roommate. Somehow, the recording made its way into the friend's possession, and less than a month later, he too perished. They say the tape has appeared in anywhere from the state sales to second-hand stores, and that each unlucky listener will be unable to escape the tune through any means but death. [Music] FlashPulp is presented by FlashPulp.com, and is released under the Canadian Creative Commons attribution non-commercial 2.5 license. Text and audio commentaries can be sent to skinner@skinner.fm, or the voicemail line at 206-338-2792. But be aware that they may appear in a future flashcast. We'd also like to thank the Free Sound Project, found at freesound.org. For a full listing of effects used during the show, as well as credits for the users who provided them, please check this episode's notes at flashpulp.com. And thanks to you for listening. If you enjoyed the show, please tell your friends. [Music] Sunday is gloomy. My hours are stumbled. Give it the shadows I live with are stumbled. [Music]
