“He said that Dad needed to build something in the cornfield so that we could leave.”
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Updated 8 years ago,September 26, 2017
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October 23rd, 2016
(Audio recorder initiated)
ME:Ross?
ROSS:Mm…
ME:Ross, are you ready to begin?
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ROSS:Yes sir.
ME:You dont have to call me sir.
Its ok. Are you sure youre up for this?
ROSS:Clare said I should do this.
ME:Well…what do you think?
Do you think you should do this?
ROSS:I guess…
ME:Lets start with something easy, ok?
Hold old are you?
ROSS:Im six.
ME:Do you remember a lot about what happened to you?
ROSS:Yeah…I member…
ME:When did you first meet Cloo?
That was his name, right?
ROSS:Yeah…Cloo.
ME:Do you remember the first time you saw him?
ROSS:It started before that.
ME:Im sorry?
ROSS:I went to church first.
With Mom and Dad and Clare.
ME:Ok…did something happen at church?
ROSS:Yeah…I was really sad.
ME:Why were you sad, Ross?
ROSS:Cause I had nobody to play with.
All the other kids have friends…but not me.
Clare says its because Im weird.
ME:Youre not weird, Ross.
I can be your friend if you want.
ROSS: Youre just saying that.
Nobody wants to talk to me.
Cept that man at church.
ME:What man?
ROSS:The man in the back.
The one with the dark eyes.
I seen him a lot.
Always sitting in the back like he doesnt have friends to sit with either.
ME:Did you go talk to him?
ROSS:Yeah, after the preacher was done.
ME:What did he say to you?
ROSS:Told me I was a good boy.
Asked to see my clay.
ME:You had your clay with you?
ROSS:Uh-huh…Mom lets me take it to church so I dont get bored.
Dont tell Dad that though…
ME:I promise I wont.
What did he do with your clay?
ROSS:He asked if I was lonely.
Said he would make me a little friend.
ME:And did he?
ROSS:He made Cloo.
Just a little one.
ME:And he gave the figure back to you?
He said to be careful not to ruin it.
ME:Ross, do you know what this mans name was?
ROSS:Yeah, he told it to me.
I seen him on tv a couple times too.
ROSS:His name was Paul Rost.
ME:Youre…sure that was his name?
He told me not to forget, so I didnt.
ME:Ross, do you know what that man has been doing recently?
What he claims to be?
ROSS:No sir.
ME:Hes a self-proclaimed Anti-Christ, Ross.
Do you know what that means?
Hes a dangerous man.
If you ever see him again, you should tell your parents immediately.
ROSS:Ok…Im sorry.
ME:No, no, Ross, its not your fault.
None of this is your fault.
I could feel how bad he was.
But…but he talked to me.
He talked to me a lot.
He told me how sad it was here.
How sad my family was.
ME:And you believed him?
ROSS:Yeah…I was kind of sad, you know?
I wanted to go somewhere that I didnt have to be sad.
ME:And so Cloo told you he would take you there.
ROSS:He did.
After a couple weeks, I finally gathered up enough courage to put the clay over my dads eyes.
ME:Cloo told you to do that?
ROSS:He said that Dad needed to build something in the cornfield so that we could leave.
So that we could go someplace that wasnt so sad.
ME:Where did the clay come from?
The clay you put over your fathers eyes?
ROSS:No…Cloo told me to scrape some off his body.
ME:And you did?
It was the first time I ever touched him.
He was…he was so cold.
ME:When he talked to you, what did he sound like?
ROSS:(quietly) He sounded like my mom.
ME:Your mom?
ROSS:Yeah…or my grampa.
Hes dead, but I remember what he sounded like.
ME:You loved your grampa?
He died last year.
I really miss him.
ME:Where did you keep the little clay figure Paul Rost gave you?
ROSS:On my dresser.
Cloo told me not to touch it.
Otherwise he might go away.
ME:Did you want to touch it?
ME:Did Cloo ever say what this place was?
ROSS:Just once…he called it Mortuus.
ME:Ok…lets shift over to the night in the cornfield.
Can you tell me what happened?
ROSS: Cloo said it was ready.
ME:What was?
ME:Youre talking about the markings your father made in the clearing?
ME:But once the time came, you decided you didnt want to go?
ROSS:I was scared.
But Cloo made me.
ME:What do you mean?
ROSS:He…pushed me out of the house.
Like with invisible hands.
They were so cold.
ME:Did Cloo follow you?
ROSS:At first.
But I didnt see him move.
He would just be in one place and then another.
ME:How far did he follow you?
ROSS:Until I passed the barn.
Then he was gone.
I started to scream.
I was so scared.
ME:And thats when your mother came.
ROSS:She didnt find me until I was already in the clearing.
I was walking toward the dirt statue Dad made.
ME:The one that looked just like Cloo?
Cept it was brown instead of blue.
ME:Did you still feel those invisible hands pushing you forward?
ME:You had crossed over the circle and had entered the marked earth by then, right?
ROSS:Yeah…I was shaking all over I was so scared.
Once I was right in front of the statue, the cold hands kept pushing me.
ME:Pushing you inside the dirt?
ROSS:My hand slipped right through it, like it was warm water.
And then my wrist…and then my elbow.
ME:And thats when your mother found you.
ROSS:I already had my arm in up to my shoulder and part of my leg.
They just passed right into that thing.
ME:But before you could go any further, your mom pulled you out.
We dont have to go on anymore.
Ill get your mom and your wheelchair, ok?
Can I just ask you one last thing?
ME:Your father said he found your little clay figurine of Cloo in the hallway.
This was when you were in the cornfield.
He destroyed it and when he did, Cloo vanished.
ROSS:Oh no…
ME:Whats wrong?
ROSS:(whispers) I destroyed that thing two days before I was taken into the field.
ME:What are you talking about?
ROSS:It didnt matter anymore.
Whatever power it held over Cloo…he had outgrown it.
ME:I dont understand.
If you destroyed it, then why did your father see it in the hallways that night?
ROSS:(whispers) Because Cloo was growing new bodies.
ME:…..What?
But they werent like the one that man made me.
That was just a seed, I think.
Like one you put in the ground…I think that was the first seed.
I think I was the first seed.
ME:Youre saying these figurines would eventually grown into entities like the one that haunted your family?
ROSS:(whispers) Hundreds…
ME:Where are they, Ross?
Where did they all go?
ROSS:I dont know…Im sorry…
ME:I…I-I think were done here.
ROSS:Can I go see my Mom now?
ME:Yes, of course…of course.
I dont dare dig any deeper for fear of what I might find.
There are answers out there, holes that lead to revelations I dont want to think about.
I dont know where Cloo came from.
I dont know where he was trying to take all the children.
I dont know why he vanished that night.
If he did at all…
But something tells me…something tells me that one day well find out.
Because one of those clay figures is going to show up.
And then it will start all over.
