Chuck Bryant

And smartly turned on the television to provide some light.

And you know how when you're like hiding in a closet and it's just barely cracked, you see people kind of looking in at you, but they're not focused on you because they can't see you.

That was Eddie.

He was coming closer and closer and we jumped out of the closet and got him pretty good.

I think he knocked a frame picture off the wall and broke it.

Poor guy.

That feels so bad for you.

That is not, certainly not something a dad should do to their kid.

All right, so we're back, and we're going to tell possibly what inspired this real story.

I got this particular version from Chrissy Stockton that I mentioned from Thought Catalog, but I looked it up, and it was in plenty of other places.

This is where it turns pretty dark.

Yeah, it goes very dark.

So if you have kids listening, they may want to tune out.

In the 1950s, in fact, March of 1950, there was a young 13-year-old named Janet Chrisman hired to babysit a three-year-old for the Romacks, Mr. Gregory Romack and his wife.

I, you know, just like with our live show, I couldn't find his wife's name because they didn't print stuff like that back then.

But she decided to babysit rather than go to a school party.

At 7.30, she got to their house.

It was in Columbia, Missouri.

And before they left for the night, Mr. Romack said, hey, by the way, see this shotgun?

I've got this shotgun, and it's loaded, and here's how you shoot it.