The Lost Tapes, Tape 2 - Are You Scared?

You know what's wild?

Most people are still overpaying for car insurance just because it's a pain to switch.

That's why there's Jerry.

Jerry is the only app that compares rates from over 50 insurers in minutes and helps you switch fast with no spam calls or hidden fees.

Drivers who save with Jerry could save over $1,300 a year.

Before you renew your car insurance policy, do yourself a favor, download the Jerry app or head to jerry.ai/slash Acast.

It's that time of year again, back to school season.

And Instacart knows that the only thing harder than getting back into the swing of things is getting all the back-to-school supplies, snacks, and essentials you need.

So here's your reminder to make your life a little easier this season.

Shop favorites from Staples, Best Buy, and Costco all delivered through Instacart so that you can get some time back and do whatever it is that you need to get your life back on track.

Instacart, we're here.

Running a business online?

Look legit and own your own brand with professional tools from GoDaddy.

Instantly build trust with your customers and boost your credibility with an email that matches your domain so people know you mean business.

There's never been a better time.

Just go to godaddy.com/slash GDNow and choose from a wide variety of popular domains to find one that's right for you.

Pair that with a professional email that works for all your business needs, from daily communications to email marketing and everything in between.

That's a little price for a lot of credibility.

For a limited time, get a domain and matching professional professional email for just 99 cents a month for one year.

Go to go daddy.com slash GDNow and look legit with GoDaddy.

That's godaddy.com slash GDNow.

Again, go daddy.com slash GDNow.

There's never been a better time to choose the domain and email that's right for you.

New customer purchases only products auto-renew separately.

See terms on site.

Go daddy.com slash GDNow.

You ever wonder how far an EV can take you on one charge?

Well, most people drive about 40 miles a day, which means you can do all daily stuff no problem.

Go to work, grab the kids at school, get the groceries, and still have enough charge to visit your in-laws in the next county.

But they don't need to know that.

And the best part, you won't have to buy gas at all.

The way forward is Electric.

Explore EVs that fit your life at electricforall.org.

Hi everyone, it's Billy Hindle, the voice of Alice in the Magnus Protocol.

Today, I'm here to advertise Frights by Fire, a new storytelling and horror anthology podcast that recently launched on the Archie Network.

Frights by Fire is a weekly community-driven series bringing immersive sound design to live performances of spooky stories provided by the audience.

Created and hosted by Jonathan Magno, creator of The Grotto, and Jamie Petronas, creator of The Seller Letters.

Join Jonathan, Jamie, and special guests by the Fire, as they bring horror tales written by their community to life.

Episodes are filled with frights, fun, and the fumbles that only performing in front of a live online audience can bring.

Search for frights by fire wherever you listen to your podcasts, or go to www.thereedactedunit.com or www.rustyquill.com for more information.

Have fun and see you later.

Hello everyone, it's Shahan, voice of Sam in the Magnus Protocol.

And today, I'm here to advertise Hollow Disciple, a podcast recently launched on the RQ Network.

Hollow Disciple is a thrilling, dark science fiction podcast from the brilliant creator of Wake of Corrosion.

In the vast abyss of dying stars, lurks a forsaken vessel, silent and still.

Stumbling upon it, the scavenger crew of the L Peace begin an ill-fated rescue mission, convinced they have hit the jackpot.

But when the scouting party stops responding, their luck takes a dark turn, and the sinister nature of their prize and its unnerving history becomes all too apparent.

Hollow Disciple has a deep lore, full of mystery and discovery.

Search for Hollow Disciple wherever you listen to your podcasts or go to linktr.ee forward slash holodisciple or www.rustyquill.com for more information.

This video contains content that some might find disturbing.

Viewer discretion is advised.

Previously, on Are You Scared?

He just crashes the car, killing them both.

Hey, now we're on to

Jesus.

A car just slammed into the building.

Why are the things you're pitching actually happening?

I don't know.

There was a body there 10 seconds ago, and now he's completely gone.

What's What's happening?

I don't know.

Why is everything you say coming true?

I don't know.

I don't want it to be.

Oh, I'm going to black out.

Adam,

I think we're trapped.

I'm Brian Bergara, and this is Are You Scared?

A show where I tell my friend Shane Meday the internet's scariest stories.

We are doing things a little bit different here for Are You Scared.

Normally, we have a story submitted by you guys, and this time we had a story submitted to us via mail by complete strangers or our friends over at Rusty Quill.

Contained within this envelope were three cassette tapes.

Very scary.

So, if you don't know what we're talking about, go back and watch episode one where we did tape one.

This is episode two.

We're doing tape two.

We're gonna find out what happened to the boys in that building.

So, lock your doors,

turn off the lights, and let's see if we can make it till the end of the night.

And the new tape is rolling.

The one electronic still working, a tape recorder.

We're saved!

It has a battery.

I know why it's working.

Well, you've got to admit, it's feeling pretty horror-ish right now.

Maybe we don't even need a podcast idea.

Maybe we just get these tapes transcribed and then recorded.

Why did you have to say blackout?

Because I was going to blackout.

Stop talking.

We just need to sit and wait for this to stop.

What, you think this is a dream?

We just watched people explode into piles of bugs.

So I'm dreaming?

I'm not in your dream.

I have agency.

So a hallucination then?

A shared hallucination?

Yeah, something like that.

Hello?

Someone?

Let us out of here!

It's past 11.

No one else is here.

The window.

The window.

Help!

Help!

Hello!

Hello, down there!

Hello down there!

Hello!

Hello!

Help!

So they're about four stories up in an office building.

Mentally, though, they could be

way up.

They could be, yes.

We don't know if any of this is happening, remember.

Right, it could all be a, well, as they said, a shared hallucination.

Have you ever hallucinated?

One time, I went to Coachella, and I had one of those chocolate bars that was special, and then the heat melted it, and then I had no choice.

I eat it all at once?

Well, I couldn't portion it.

And you full-on hallucinated.

I did hallucinate quite well.

What did you see?

Did you see people turning into bugs?

No, but my girlfriend at the time, her face was like a skull.

And that was crazy.

And I was like, whoa!

Back to the tent and I went to sleep.

Is this what goes on at Coachella?

Sounds fun.

It is pretty fun.

Yeah.

Flun down there.

Hello.

Hello.

Help.

I don't think you can hear through a window four floors up.

I can't even see if there's anyone down there.

Never noticed how dark it gets when the lampposts go out.

We have to get out of here.

We have to wait for the electricity to come back on.

Or.

Or what?

The London Electric grid comes back on.

Be careful.

Why did that work?

Or every locked door is suddenly opened.

I formally pitched a podcast where every locked door is suddenly opened.

Didn't work.

Okay, well now there we go.

You want to be screaming the thing at a horror film and then that thing happens and then it doesn't work.

So that's exactly what I'm satisfied.

Yeah, you try.

Try what?

Pitch the idea that the door is unlocked.

You're pitching that I pitched that the door is unlocked.

Yeah, exactly.

But the fact that I haven't done it yet, hasn't that already determined that this isn't working anymore?

What?

Because you pitched that I pitched something, but I haven't.

If you have these powers to make anything happen, then I would have pitched something after you pitched that that was the case.

If this was me and you in this situation, and you were doing what he was doing to me,

I'd stab you in the the throat with a big pin.

Why

you're such a really terrible guy, and I'd watch the blood.

You're such a

piece of shit.

I'd laugh like this.

He's such a nasty guy.

Also, the doors would have already unlocked, so this isn't my fault.

God, even when it doesn't make sense getting you to pitch ideas as an exercise in futility.

Back to insulting me.

God, do you think maybe that's what happened?

Because I was being mean to you, and now the gods want to punish me?

Maybe.

And since when are you suddenly religious?

I'm re-evaluating a lot right now, okay?

Please pitch that the door is unlocked.

Fine.

How about a podcast where the primary conceit is that the door to this room suddenly unlocks?

Why do only some things happen when we say them?

Why would the electricity go out, but the doors won't open?

Is there any bad ideas?

It's.

I mean,

I think.

I don't know.

But please, please

stop talking.

I have an idea.

Don't.

A bird attacks that window.

Holy shit!

Oh my god!

Is it when he says, I have an idea?

Maybe.

I thought for a second their genie powers were over.

Maybe it only happens when it's horrible things.

So maybe if I did something like, you know, my big popcorn pit or your big pecs.

My big pecs.

That actually probably would happen.

My pecs would be so big, they would be horrible.

I'd be so top-heavy, I could just keep falling on them.

How many days a week are you thinking about big pecs and yet doing no lifting?

I can't think about it.

You know, you could have big pecs if you're not.

No, no, no, I can't have big pecs.

They'd be too powerful.

You see, Krak.

Is the window breaking?

I can't really tell.

Maybe.

Another bird attacks that window in the same spot as the first.

Go!

Jesus!

Stop it!

We have to get out of here.

We can't go through the door, so do you have any other ideas?

Stop asking me to pitch ideas.

Stop pitching ideas yourself.

Another bird attacks that window.

Oh my god!

Jesus!

This guy is a mass murderer of birds!

Stop it!

This is not cool.

Yeah, once you kill the first bird, sure.

You didn't know that was gonna happen.

The second bird, maybe I give you a pass.

The third bird?

But also, are these even real birds?

If they're being conjured by some unknown force, maybe they're just well, I mean, to put it in a context that you would understand, would those be real pecks?

Yeah, they'd be real as hell.

You could touch them for days.

I wouldn't.

Oil them up.

Stop exploding, birds!

I'm trying to figure this out.

Have you tried

asking it to stop?

Asking who?

How would I even do that?

Frame it as a podcast!

A podcast where a podcast host has some mysterious ability to make horror ideas come to life, but then he pitches an idea describing his situation, and then that stops it.

Is it over?

I don't know.

How do we find out?

Don't.

I'm just going to do another bird.

What the f-

It's pretty good.

He can't get enough.

He's seen one bird explode.

He's addicted to birds exploding.

He could make it like, you know, a little fly or something.

Yeah, I know, but now he's got the pill.

He's bird-pilled.

I had a little bird.

I had three birds growing up.

How were they?

There was Paco, and there was Abby and Sugar.

Oh, I didn't even know you ate two other birds.

They were cockatiels.

Is this what it was like for you?

You got addicted to the first one, and then ate the second one, and then the third one.

I'll have another bird, please.

Does that mean it's over?

You were too vague.

Uh, another bird hits the window.

Stop it!

Jesus Christ.

Come on, man.

Stop

talking.

Even if you do break the window, then what?

We jump from the fourth floor.

The only reason why he's making the birds hit the window is to break the window.

Why doesn't he just throw something out the window?

Oh, yeah, I guess that's an option.

Why does he just keep making these birds headbutt this window?

They should throw an office chair through this window.

Is this just gonna turn into diehard?

Welcome to the party, pal!

They get a phone call and it's like, hello, cowboy.

Even if you do break the window, then what?

We jump from the fourth floor.

Helicopter.

We can wait for help.

Help!

Help!

Help!

Help us!

Help!

Did they see us?

Help!

Maybe they're coming around again.

Help!

Help!

Help, please!

Wave your arms, wave your arms more.

They'll see movement.

Help!

Help!

Help!

This is pathetic.

Come on now.

After you said help 20 times in a row, I think maybe switch to a different strategy now.

I'd pound another window, it sounds like, you know?

These guys have conjured the idea of crashing 800 birds into this window and then pounding on their fists like it, like a crash it.

Here's what you do: send a bird into the helicopter rotors, then it crashes into the building.

Firemen show up.

Yeah.

Like Dr.

Henry Jones in the Last Crusade.

With his umbrella.

Help, please.

Wave your arms.

Wave your arms more.

They'll see movement.

Help.

Help.

Help.

No, no, no, no, no.

Oh, no.

Come back, Adam.

Tell it to come back.

Come back.

Come back, helicopter.

A podcast where a helicopter comes back.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

No.

Where is it going?

Oh, go to hell, you stupid helicopter.

Oh no.

Oh, no.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

Fly, helicopter.

Land gently.

Gonna make that helicopter crap.

Also, come back, helicopter, like a dog.

This is really funny.

Do you think a hole is gonna open up and it's actually gonna go to hell?

That would be sick.

No, no, no.

Fly, helicopter.

Land gently.

Dude,

what did you do?

Oh, shit.

Okay, well, we immediately got our answer.

And it was not a nice gentle landing.

It was in fact the opposite.

They rocketed it into the earth.

Maybe it's a thing where only bad things can happen.

You know what's kind of funny is they started out this podcast talking about maybe if you talk to someone long enough, they'll become the serial killer.

They've now killed, what, a dozen birds and whoever was in that helicopter?

That's true.

Yeah.

What did you do?

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I wasn't thinking.

Please, let's both just shut up and wait for whatever this is to wear off.

What makes you think this will wear off?

What makes you think it won't?

Luters.

Why did you say that?

Now you've summoned a bunch of looters.

There were already looters.

Is this the sound that was always coming from down there?

God, I'm so sorry.

Just stop talking.

Where are the police?

I don't know.

Do we have a radio in here?

Why would we have a police radio?

No police are coming.

That might be true.

The police probably have their hands full right now.

Plus, you just said that no police are coming.

No, I did.

Didn't I?

I'm begging you.

Please just stay quiet

until...

Until what?

You have to admit, he does have a point.

You should just shut up at this time.

He's got to get better at that.

Just duct tape his mouth shut.

Yeah.

Oh, that's a good idea.

Has a single good thing happened?

Nothing really good has come from this guy opening his mouth.

The worst version of when you're in a conversation, you just keep digging yourself a deeper hole.

Yeah.

Except in this scenario, there's a trail of bodies, but you know.

Now I'm actually feeling pretty good if I'm in that building and there's a bunch of rioters down there.

You just chill.

Unless they set the building on fire, then that's bad.

Then you die.

Until...

until what?

I don't know.

I'm just scared.

The more we talk, the more likely it is they discover it's because of us.

Uh, Tommy?

God, what's going on down there?

Well, I can't really see, as the ones with the flashlights all seem to be pointing them up here.

Oh, no.

I can't imagine how scary it would be if there was like a riot going on down below and everyone had flashlights and they all in unison turned them up to my window.

It's like an invasion of the body snatchers situation.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

They all realize it's you.

What do you do in that situation?

I mean, I guess I'd just hide in a closet or something.

It sounds like I'm gonna die, so I'd probably just be real scared and curl up in a ball and wait for death.

I think I would just try and appear as nuts as I possibly could.

I'd take my shirt off, press my nipples against the glass, start licking it up and down, doing crazy things.

I'd probably

start going like that or something, and then they would never come up.

Some of them might.

Stop them.

Stop them.

Okay,

the looters get distracted from looking at us.

Oh my god.

What the hell?

Ambulance is on fire.

Look.

Oh, I forgot about the bugs.

We have to help.

Who?

The rioters?

The bug corpses?

Who's going to help us?

This is such a scene.

Such a scene.

We got big riots.

We got ambulances on fire.

Everybody's turning into bugs.

We got like a small neat pile of dead birds

at the base of this building.

A helicopter somewhere in the distance with like the blade slowly spinning as it's stuck in the side.

It's apocalyptic out there.

That's crazy.

They're bringing about the end of days.

Anytime they try to undo anything, it doesn't work.

So they have to wish for something else.

What's like the opposite thing you could do that sounds like a bad wish that would come true, but would in fact be beneficial to you?

I got it.

What?

I would wish for a really big hail.

Oh.

Because then all the looters would be like ah

ah but just knocks everyone out calms everyone down gets them out of the streets or food poisoning everyone gets food poisoning i think my idea was better i don't like it when you don't read the stories you're talking too much

who's going to help us nothing has happened to us except for the blackout well that happened to everyone the best way you can help them is by shutting up we just need to be careful we need to understand the rules of this.

The rule is you say something horrible and it comes true.

How has that not been made clear?

There's too much we don't know.

What if it's never going to stop?

What if they remember it's because of us and come after us?

Can't just keep exploding ambulances.

Poor choice of words.

Watch their mouths.

Watch your mouth.

How hard is it to just sit down and just silently observe the destruction?

Pretty funny, though.

If you and I were up there and we realized we could conjure, here's what we would do.

We'd look out the window, we'd go.

Because we're smart!

Because we're smart.

We got that detective.

We got huge brains.

Now birds are dying.

Helicopters are exploding.

Ambulances.

They can't help themselves.

They're trying to outsmart it.

Guess what?

You can't.

You gotta remain mute for the rest of your life.

That's what I would do.

A vow of silence.

Mm-hmm.

Tommy.

I think they remember.

They're coming.

You be careful with that one.

Wait.

He said, they're coming.

Just a bunch of people.

You gotta watch your mouth.

There's a bunch of people, like, in the middle of a sprint going up there.

They're coming.

It's fine.

The lifts are out.

The stairs still work.

If we can't get out of this room, they can't get in.

Electronic locks, remember?

We're two people.

An angry mob pursuing the men who shattered their reality might be a bit more successful.

We'll be okay.

They're on their way here, but when they get here, we're safe inside.

Here they come.

Jesus.

Get back.

God.

What's wrong with them?

Tommy, I don't think that lock is going to hold.

Stop saying things!

But it's true!

Well, now it it is.

It's true.

We have to do something quick.

Another explosion outside distracts everyone.

Nice!

Shit, not working.

What do we do now?

We have to pitch something else to stop them.

What do we?

We have to.

It's them or us.

Now, Adam!

You gotta knock one of them out.

I'd give you a clean clock, you'd be out, and then that way I could figure out what to do on my own, and I could just stop talking.

Because you can't talk if you're by yourself.

That's true.

I talk to myself a lot, though.

That's why I'd knock you out.

You're a mutterer.

I know.

You're always like.

You have a little gollom shmeagle conversations all over the office.

That's true, I do.

Yeah.

Now, Adam!

God, why?

Okay, then the rioters all died, okay?

Bugs.

Oh!

I forgot about the bugs!

That's how you know that's effective writing.

If a writer's gotten you to a point where just one word, bugs, makes you go, oh!

And it makes you say, I forgot about the bugs.

Could you imagine if every human, instead of just defecating when they die, they just combust into bugs?

I guess it depends.

How much more interesting are you?

What kind of bugs?

You know, there's so many bugs.

Like a flock of locusts.

You know how many bugs there are?

I'm sure you know this weirdo.

It's a lot.

It's like so many bugs relative to people.

You gotta stop talking about bugs to people, man.

Why?

There's so many bugs.

Why is it bad for me to talk about bugs in some ways?

I'm not saying it's bad.

It's just the frequency of the talks.

You're not telling me bugs are fascinating?

They're fascinating.

I know a lot of the bugs.

I'll say whatever I have to say to make this conversation stop.

You don't want me to talk to you about bugs anymore.

Just drop it, bug boy.

Don't call me bugboy.

Nobody calls me bug boy.

Nobody calls me me bug boy.

And nobody ever has.

Bugs.

Oh my god.

Oh my god.

They didn't get the door open enough.

We're still safe in here.

Safe?

What part of this feels safe?

You think because we're locked in a room, we won't explode into a cloud of bugs the second our hearts stop?

We need to get out of here.

We need to wait for it to stop.

What if it never stops?

It has to.

Does it?

It'll stop if you just stop talking.

So I'm warning you.

Shut up.

You're warning me.

Adam, look me in the eyes.

Look, Adam, look at me.

What?

You need to stop talking now.

You are making me feel very unsafe and putting me in a bad spot.

Tommy.

We need.

Why?

Why can't you just shut up?

He's about to kill him.

He's about to to knock his ass out.

Detective brain.

More of a sicko brain.

No, you got to knock him out.

No, you're you're I'm not saying kill him.

He's about to kill him.

A detective isn't like, you know, it would be good to murder someone.

You know what I would do, though?

If I clocked you and you was like, poo!

I would catch you with the other hand.

Now I want to be, before we get into that, when

you knocked me out, would you say, poo!

Yeah, I would.

Do you do that whenever you punch someone?

I'd be like, what's that that over there?

I'd catch you with the left hand like sweet to avoid anything.

Why is it so tender?

Because I don't want you to concuss yourself.

After you've.

Further.

After you've punched me so hard that I black out.

Exactly.

Yeah, okay.

Why?

Why can't you just shut up?

What are you holding?

Why couldn't you just wait for it to wear off?

Wait for what to wear off?

Stop.

Stop.

Get back.

It needs to stop.

Get away from me

I'm sorry

get off me what are you doing

I'm sorry

I'm gonna kick it oh

Adam

Adam

I'm sorry Adam

well I'm very intrigued as to what's going to happen now

is it gonna become sort of a one-man play a descent into darkness

he killed him he just knocked him out maybe the next one starts with him waking up wake up What world is he gonna wake up into?

That's the question.

I'm on the edge of my seat here.

I wanna see what happens to these boys.

Obviously, nothing good because we have their tapes.

Unless they sent them to us and they're like, cool story, right?

Yeah.

I guess we'll just have to see next week when we play the last tape.

Stay in your house, stay exactly where you are for one week, and do not move until we play the last tape.

What are you doing?

Oh, you're on the edge of your seat?

Yeah.

Nice.

That's really good.

I'm excited.

Next time on Are You Scared?

The final tape.

All I wanted was for us to have some fun and come up with some ideas.

So you drugged me?

I didn't think it would be this real.

How long were the hallucinations supposed to last?

The guy who sold it to me said it would be less than a minute.

Less than a minute?

It's been almost an hour.

Hi, everyone.

It's Karim.

The voice of Simon Fairchild and the Eternal Tavern Keeper.

Today, I'm here to tell you about Old Gods of Appalachia, a podcast on the RQ Network.

Old Gods of Appalachia is a multi-award-winning horror audio drama produced by the brilliant team at Deep Nerd Media that is currently releasing its much-anticipated fourth season.

In the mountains of central Appalachia, blood runs as deep as these hollows and just as dark.

Since before our kind knew these hills, hearts of unknowable hunger and madness have slumbered beneath them.

These are the darkest mountains in the world.

How dare we think we can break the skin of a god and dig out its heart without bringing forth blood and darkness?

Old Gods of Appalachia is a multi-award-winning critically acclaimed audio drama podcast.

Old God sits alongside this very podcast as one of the most popular fiction podcasts in the world.

Experience it for yourself by searching for Old Gods of Appalachia wherever you listen to your podcasts.

Or go to www.rustyquill.com or www.oldsofoappalacha.com for more information.

Hello everyone, it's Shahan, voice of Sam in the Magnus Protocol.

And today I'm here to advertise Hollow Disciple, a podcast recently launched on the RQ network.

Hollow Disciple is a thrilling, dark science fiction podcast from the brilliant creator of Wake of Corrosion.

In the vast abyss of dying stars lurks a forsaken vessel, silent and still.

Stumbling upon it, the scavenger crew of the L Peace begin an ill-fated rescue mission, convinced they have hit the jackpot.

But when the scouting party stops responding, their luck takes a dark turn, and the sinister nature of their prize and its unnerving history becomes all too apparent.

Hollow Disciple has a deep lore, full of mystery and discovery.

Search for Hollow Disciple wherever you listen to your podcasts or go to linktr.ee forward slash holodisciple or www.rustyquill.com for more information.