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Hey, and welcome to The Short Stuff. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and Jerry's here too. And we are coming to you from inside your house.
That's right. No, we're not. Trigger warning on this one, by the way. There's some pretty violent content, including speak of sexual assault at some point.
Yeah, this takes a real hard left all of a sudden.
It really does. And we're talking about the sort of trope of the call is coming from inside the house. And as a trope, we want to thank TVTropes.com, Tropedia, and a really good article from Chrissy Stockton on Thought Catalog.
Plus also Sean Van Horn on Collider and the good folks on the Straight Dope message board.
That's right. And Principal Seymour Skinner.
That's right. So the call is coming from inside the house is also often called the babysitter and the man upstairs. And just the quick sketch of it, this is an urban legend that probably dates back to the 60s and essentially says that there is a usually a young teen tween girl alone at home or more often that she is alone babysitting some kids who are younger than her.
And she keeps getting calls from some mysterious stranger who asks her, have you checked on the kids who are ostensibly asleep upstairs? And she just hangs up. She thinks it's a prank call. And as time goes on, these calls get more and more sinister.
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