Digging Up the Marrow Page #3

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road is closed after sundown.

No I, I understand that,

but we're literally gonna take

some pictures at 'Magic Hour',

you know, like dusk,

and then we're gonna leave

right away, so...

OK, as long as you're

out of here before it gets dark.

Can I ask

why it's such a problem

if we're here once it's dark?

'Cause the park closes at dusk.

OK, but like, specifically,

is anything like...

Have you, like, personally,

ever seen anything...

The park closes at dusk!

Argh! OK, I get it now.

Thank you very much.

Has that guy given you

trouble before?

Yeah!

Several occasions

he's given me trouble.

Oh, watch out.

Watch your step.

OK.

It's right up there.

What is the...

The entrance to The Marrow.

While we're here, you

have to do as I say. All right?

You listen to me

and you do as I say.

I've never brought anyone else

up here before.

And it's crucial

that we just observe

and not try to interact.

Come on!

I just, er... I can't...

Do you understand

what I'm trying to say to you?

- I do understand, but I can't...

- You understand, Will?

- Understood.

- All right, Come on...

You know...

The times

that I've been this close,

they've discovered

that I've found out about them

and they've moved on. I don't

want that to happen here.

So just stay with me

and you stay quiet.

What did I tell you to be?

Quiet! You got it, Will?

Got it. Yes, sir.

All right. Come on...

So now what?

Now...

We wait.

So how many nights are we...

Do you come out here and like,

hang out in creepy cemeteries

by yourself?

I try to come out every night.

Every night, that's a...

That's a lot of nights.

Yeah. Well I don't sleep

all that much so...

Why not?

I hear ya. I'm actually, I'm not

much of a sleeper myself.

When we're in production

on the TV show,

I'll go, I'll do 20 hour days,

22 hour days...

- Yeah...

- My wife can't stand it.

It's just...

I'm like a zombie.

Hmm. Well, wives are like that.

What's your love life like?

You've never mentioned, er, is

there a Mrs. Dekker out there?

Was there?

Er, nope. No Mrs. Dekker.

But there used to be.

A long time ago, but...

So what happened?

Just not work out?

Irreconcilable differences or...

So what about you, Will?

What's your story, huh? Huh?

I'm married. I've been

married sixteen years.

Yeah?

Yeah.

And I have two kids. You know?

- You had kids?

- I have two boys. Yeah.

They're a lot of fun.

How old is Cole now?

- Cole's 12.

- Twelve?

Sammy's going to be ten.

- Wow.

- Twelve and ten.

Yeah, they tear my house up.

I envy you.

They're a lot of fun.

I love them

Yeah.

Some nights,

I'll see several

of them coming to and

from that area right there.

Going back and forth

in the woods.

Other nights I'd see

just maybe one.

And a whole bunch of nights

where there's

no activity at all.

You just never know, never know

what you're going to get.

Listen, I mean,

if I don't get

any lights out here,

I'm not going to be able

to see anything.

You can't see anything?

Not really. I mean

I can see like three feet

in front of me but that's it.

What about using night vision?

Well...

We could use night vision,

But I think... I hate it.

I think it makes everything

just kinda look like green crap.

OK, I'd rather it look like...

- What?

- Quiet! Turn off that light.

- Silence!

- What?

All right.

Right straight ahead. Look.

Where?

You see, Will?

No, I can't see sh*t.

Let your eyes

adjust for a second

then you'll see it.

It's right there.

Right in front of us.

What? There's nothing.

Look, look. Look, look.

One of them just moving very

slowly over to the right. See?

Will, turn on the camera light.

No, don't!

Don't you turn on that light!

Listen, if I don't turn

the light, I don't have a shot.

OK, he's gone.

Went back down.

He went back down, Will.

Look, look!

One of them

just moving very slowly.

Over the to right, see?

Will, turn on the camera light.

No, don't!

Don't you turn on that light!

Listen, if I don't turn

the light, I don't have a shot.

OK, he's gone.

Make a great radio show.

Did you raise the brightness?

- Oh, yeah, I raised it.

- All the way?

- All the way.

- This is as bright as it goes?

It's as bright as it goes.

There is nothing...

- Do it again.

- All right.

One of them

just moving very slowly.

Over the right. See?

Will, turn on the camera light.

No, don't!

Don't you turn on that light.

Awesome.

Good work!

I know, tell me about it.

Now this one here I call Vance.

- Vance.

- Vance, yes.

You see with the sack

over his head,

his face painted on it.

Why Vance?

Because that's

what I want to call him.

Now Vance here, he never

ventured more than a few feet

outside the cemetery.

But the several occasions

that I observed him,

I saw him lead some

other rejects

down into The Marrow.

So my guess is old Vance is a...

Well, he is a kind of

a gatekeeper

or guardian, you know,

and he guides the new citizens

down into their new world,

and then he guards against any

interlopers, you know.

Did you...

Did you paint that?

- No.

- Because that's really good.

I had another artist

do it for me.

I commissioned it.

How close is that then

to what you saw, would you say?

It's pretty close, you know.

It's a pretty

good representation.

Umm... I would say probably

on a scale from one to ten,

about eight and a half, nine.

Yeah. So that's, this is Vance.

And why the bag?

Over the head,

do they all do that?

- Do they wear costumes?

- No, no...

Well some of them wear masks,

others, like Vance, wear a bag.

- Why is that?

- I suppose

Vance wears it because

what's underneath

that bag would be a little

too much to take, probably.

You know.

I... I've never seen

it under the bag but... er...

I'm sure it's a trip, you know.

And then others wear masks

to disguise,

perhaps, certain deformities.

So they could just be

all around us at any time then,

- is what you're saying.

- Well, not any time... No.

Er, there are certain times

of the year

that it's more conducive

for them to be around.

For instance, Halloween.

One of the few times

they do fit in.

Well, I'm hugely

into Halloween myself.

Spiritually,

that's the time of year when

the spiritual world is closest

to our world

and they're around us and...

I don't know...

I don't know anything

about the spiritual world.

But it's...

it's kind of like it.

No, it's not at all like it.

This is not a spiritual world.

These people are real.

They just happen

to be different.

- OK?

- Yup.

- Sorry.

- Now, this one...

This creature here

is a conjoined creature.

They're like Siamese twins.

They're joined.

Right up in here,

the upper spine and the torso.

And does this one have a name?

This one is called,

I call it, the Frog and Huck.

Frog and Huck?

Frog and Huck, yeah.

And you painted...

The same guy painted this one?

No, no, my son...

I'm sorry?

Wait, wait... you never

mentioned a family before...

Err.. you notice a longer body...

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