Chapter 1: What happens during Owen's interrogation by Detective Roy Hutchins?
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So thank you so much for being here. We seriously couldn't do this without you. Let's get into the episode. Some content may be unsettling for some listeners. Listener's discretion is advised. The Midnight Mystery presents National Emergency. Season 1, Episode 2, Wrong Place, Wrong Time.
Mr. Coleman. I'm Detective Roy Hutchins. Are you alright? You need anything to drink? Water? Coffee? No. I'm fine. You sure? You've been through a lot today. I said I'm fine. Alright. Well, I've got something here we need to go through together. The, uh, bus footage.
Ugh.
I already told the officers what happened. The emergency broadcast, the knocking... I couldn't hear the phrase... I know what you told them. Now I need you to see what the camera saw. Your bus had a security camera. Every bus in the district does now. After the ongoing incidents around the globe, high-definition audio pickup saves directly to the cloud.
Good. Then you'll see I tried to save them. I tried to... Just watch. Hey, no throwing things. Everyone stay in your seats, please. Can't catch me. Get back here. I said stay in your seats.
This is 8.47 a.m. You just stopped the bus to address the children. See here? 23 kids. All accounted for. Now... Shut up, Tyler.
No. No. Please. Please not now.
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Chapter 2: What does the bus footage reveal about the incident?
Crystal clear. You've been here before, and you know it.
But I didn't hear it! I tried! God, I tried!
Calm down. We know this isn't your fault. Here's what puzzles me. You've been through an emergency before, haven't you? About a year ago, with your wife? You've read my file. Of course I have. It's incredibly rare for someone to experience two emergency events. We're talking maybe a few dozen cases worldwide out of more than 600,000 incidents.
Lucky me.
When you were in prison, we were all still trying to figure out what these emergencies were. First few months, half the country thought it was some kind of elaborate hoax or psychological warfare. By the time people accepted they were real, you'd already been inside for months. Mr. Coleman, I've been doing this for 28 years. I've seen a lot of impossible things, especially in the last year.
And that footage, that visitor, that's the most disturbing thing I've ever watched. That face, it kept changing. How? That's what concerns me. In 15 months of emergencies, we've never caught a visitor this clearly on camera. Usually they don't show up at all. Or they're just shadows or blurs. But this one... This one kept changing faces. That's what's unprecedented.
Not seeing it, but seeing it shift like that.
What does that mean?
I'm going to ask you something, and I need you to think carefully. The night your wife disappeared, the visitor that came to your house... Did you see its face? I... I couldn't look directly at it. The instructions said not to turn around. But you saw something. In reflections, maybe? Peripheral vision? Anything?
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Chapter 3: What unsettling events occur during the emergency broadcast?
Work. Maybe taking a trip that summer. She wanted to visit her parents in Portland. And then? 8.47. I remember because I'd just checked my phone. And then everything just stopped. The TV, the radio, and the kitchen. Both cut to static at the exact same time. Static? White noise. Loud. And then this voice came through. Both devices perfectly synchronized.
It said it was a national emergency broadcast. What did the broadcast say? Instructions. Specific instructions. Everyone had to stand in separate rooms. Close all the doors... When someone knocked, the person nearest the front door had to answer. The person furthest away couldn't move or speak or... Or what? Or open their eyes. Not until the visitor left.
And what happened when you heard these instructions? We thought it was a prank at first. Some hacker thing, or a test. But then the lights started flickering. The temperature dropped... It felt wrong. Everything felt wrong. And you opened the door? I had to. The instructions said... I opened the door and there was someone there. Something. It looked like a person, but... It wasn't right.
The way it moved. The way it smiled. What did this person look like? I don't... I don't know. And it walked past me... Toward the bedroom. Toward Anna.
I couldn't move. I couldn't stop it.
I... Owen, the person you saw on the bus this morning, the one that triggered your panic attack, was it the same as the one you saw at your door that night? No, no, it was completely different. Different how? The thing at my door. It was trying to look human, but couldn't pull it off.
Like a mask that didn't fit right. But the person on the bus... I only caught it from the corner of my eye.
Couldn't look directly. But I swear to God, it knew I was looking. And whatever I was wearing... Whatever face it had on... It wasn't the same. Different kind of nightmare. Okay. What happened after it walked toward the bedroom? She called out for me. She was scared. She screamed my name, and then... Then nothing. Just silence. When I could finally move... I found blood on the bedroom floor...
And her earrings. The ones I'd given her that night. The forensics team found those earrings. And the blood. Your neighbors reported hearing shouting that night, around 9 p.m. Can you tell me about that? We did argue. Earlier, during dinner. It wasn't... It wasn't bad. Just one of those things couples argue about. She wanted to start a family. Said she was ready. And I... I told her I wasn't.
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