Digging Up the Marrow Page #2

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Well, I was born, um,

into, I guess you could say,

a lower middle-class family

in Nashua, New Hampshire.

I was a latchkey kid,

I didn't have any brothers

and sisters and I, uh,

I didn't have any real friends

to speak of.

So I, er, had to occupy myself.

There was a special spot

that I always went to.

And there was an old lumber

company, er, you know,

that sold board feet,

you know, lumber.

And it was all closed down

and locked up

and the buildings there would

by my fortress,

be my castle, you know?

And I used to, er,

I used to defend my fortress

against the invading

barbarian hoards.

I had a hell of an imagination.

I bet!

You bet.

Yeah. Um...

It was rather late

in the evening, as I remember,

and I was late for supper,

I knew my mom was...

she was going to kill me,

so I came running out of

the main building

where I played primarily, and...

And as I came out

into the yard I...

I saw a man standing

by an old wood-pile.

As I drew closer to him...

Where am I?

I'm looking at his face,

and it doesn't look human.

No, he had a, he had a mouth

like a serpent's mouth.

It was sort of pointed

and it had real

thin lips and, er,

splayed over

the bottom lip was, uh,

I swear to God, a forked tongue.

And then when he blinked,

his eyelids

closed from the sides,

not horizontally up and down,

it was like...

I'd never seen anything

like that before in my life.

It terrified me.

Did he say anything to you?

No, he didn't say a word.

He just looked at me,

hard, and then he jumped

behind a wood-pile,

and I, and I ran around

the corner of the wood-pile.

He was gone.

Just, gone? He just vanished?

- He's disappeared.

- Here one second, gone the next.

Gone, vanished..

So, did you ever

tell anybody about it?

- Like your mom or your dad...

- No...

And they wouldn't

have believed me anyway,

they would've thought I was

some kind of a nut, you know?

The overactive imagination

on wha... on their boy,

You know?

Probably would've thought I was

schizophrenic or something.

You know?

Yeah. Er...

And I felt that way

sometimes too.

Talking to my imaginary,

er, friends in the woods.

And I, er, never saw him again,

I did see others, though.

Oh, yeah...

Other, serpent, monster men?

Not serpent men,

I just saw other,

different ones, OK?

So, like a variety?

I-I never got

as close to any of them

as I did that first one, but,

if I hid in one of the buildings

'till it got dark,

and I looked into the woods,

I'd see their shapes,

moving through the woods.

And there were big ones,

lumbering.

And there were little ones

that were darting in and out.

I saw their shapes. I saw them.

Well, anyway,

after about three months,

er, I shot some footage there.

Oh, you got footage of,

of the monsters?

No, it was daytime.

I couldn't get

any footage of them.

So what did you get?

Well, I found

what I believe to be

the entrance

to their hiding place.

The Marrow?

The Marrow.

So, what do you think?

It's not a bad first day, right?

No, it was good.

It gets more comfortable...

Hey! Tell him not to touch that.

He's not... those aren't...

Those are our cords, it's fine.

What do you guys think?

Ten minutes to get outta here?

It took me 30 years

to get all this stuff together.

I don't want them

messing with it.

You do it in ten?

Ah, yeah, it's a lot of stuff...

A lot of stuff. What I really

wanted to ask though is, um..

Wait, wait, wait,

what's that behind you?

Oh, yeah, what you got in there?

Er, it's a storage room.

Storage room?

Can we see what's inside?

- I rather you didn't...

- Oh, but...

- Dude!

- It's a mess!

OK, all right!

Hey!

What the f***?

- Adam?

- Yes?

- Come here...

- Coming.

All right, looking good!

Thank you.

Er, that corn's

a little burnt though...

No, the corn's fine.

- Hey, Will.

- Hey, Rileah.

Why are you filming?

It's a documentary. Adam

told me I had to film dinner.

So, out of everybody

in the world, he picked me.

And you're not afraid that

this guy's some kind of psycho?

No! I mean, not...

Not really...

I wanna go on record

as saying that this might be

the worst idea that

you guys have ever come up with.

Er, I think both of us

would agree with that.

What if it was real?

I mean, haven't you

always wished

that something like this

was real?

No! No! Er, unicorns, angels,

I don't know,

hipster ghosts

like Beetlejuice...

- Beetlejuice!

- Yes...

- Really?

- Yeah...

You want Beetlejuice to be real!

Why would I want

scary monsters to be real?

'Cause, this guy doesn't

think monsters are scary.

He thinks monsters

are misunderstood.

- Yes! Yes, and...

- Uh-huh?

- And...

- Yeah...

that's what this guy,

Dekker, is all about.

- Right.

- Seriously,

this guy is such a character.

When you see the stuff

we've already shot with him,

you're, you're gonna love him.

He's gonna be your new

best friend in the world.

Like you're gonna be friends

with him on Facebook. And...

No! No!

And, you're gonna

follow him on Twitter!

- No!

- He's gonna be

in your favorites!

No, definitely not.

You're gonna play Xbox with him.

What?

- I mean, basically...

- Ah...

This corn is awful.

You've burnt it, like...

It's fine...

How do you even...

It's fine, just eat it!

The whole thing

could be awesome,

or it could all be bullshit.

- But either way...

- I would say it's not.

We're not gonna know

unless we do it.

You know, even if

the whole story is bullshit,

it's gonna be really funny.

How are you even... OK,

how are you even gonna finish

the next season of your TV show?

I'll figure it out.

- Mm.

- Mm-hmm...

This is just a side project.

And how does Krishna

feel about this?

Erm, ah, er...

She's OK with it.

Uh-huh.

She's better than OK with it

because she's a supportive wife!

Please don't get hurt.

I don't wanna have to call your

mom and have to tell her that,

"Adam got, er,

stabbed by some crazy fan

because he decided that he

was gonna go off into the woods

and hang out with him

all night long."

My mom would understand.

- OK. You rolling?

- Yep!

- OK, so...

- I'm rolling.

You know... You know what

I'd really like to do though?

Erm. I mean,

I'm ready to go so

I think it'd be nice

if I got a shot of the car

pulling up and

you guys getting out

and making it look like a movie.

The car pu...

Why, why do we need the car...

'Cause it's cinematic, it's

gonna look nice, you know...

It's gonna look cinematic!

Come on! Come on!

Please, just get in the car

and go one more time...

Just one more time, please?

Christ!

All right, so, how far in

are we actually going here?

There's a cemetery

right up ahead.

Uh-huh.

We go about 100 yards

past that...

That's the entrance

to The Marrow.

So nobody minds

that you come out here?

It's a public place!

Right, but the sign

at the entrance

says that the park

closes at dusk.

- So?

- It's a public place!

Cause anything off that main

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