Digging Up the Marrow Page #7

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Good luck, guy. Good luck.

Have a good signing.

And whatever you're shooting,

I'm not signing the release.

Thank you.

All right, so, er...

Are we going to talk about it?

He said, right up front,

that he's tried

numerous ways to get

this story out there.

OK? So...

Yeah, it was embarrassing

that I didn't know

that he had already been

to everybody else.

OK, like what am I...

Is that what you want?

Is that what you want me to say,

"I am embarrassed"?

- that I feel stupid?

- No.

But, look, when we get back,

the next time we talk to him,

I'll ask him, point blank,

who else have you

brought this story to?

And, you know,

let's see what he says.

Yeah, we'll see.

You think he's going to be

truthful about that?

So, one thing that

I've been meaning to ask you

is why reach out to

a genre filmmaker with this?

Why go to somebody like me

who does what I do?

Well, heck, I tried the

authorities, I tried the press,

I was even

on a couple of talk shows.

Nobody wanted to hear it.

They all treat me like

I was a nut, you know?

So, I thought, you know,

a filmmaker who had

a built-in audience...

and who can capture

and tell the story...

convincingly and properly...

Properly. That would be

the way to go, you know?

OK, then why not got

to somebody bigger,

like an even more established,

you know, why... Why me?

You work outside the machine.

I like that.

So, you never reached out

to somebody else before me?

Never went to anybody,

that is was straight to me?

Nope. Just you.

Just me.

So, there were a couple of

interesting things that happened

when you guys were gone.

I think

you're going to like this.

So, it'll start on

camera four here.

We're looking right at The

Marrow and here comes Dekker,

1:
30 in the morning

with a bag and flashlight.

All right.

This is where it

gets really weird.

He walks over to camera three...

looks right at it...

and turns it off.

Why would he shut...?

I don't know.

Goes over to camera one.

Again, right at it...

- And he shut...

- Turns it off.

All right, what I

want to know though is

if he shuts off all the cameras,

like what is he not...

Does he think we're not

gonna see that in the footage?

He doesn't turn off camera four.

So he either doesn't know

how to work the cameras,

he doesn't know how many

are up there...

whatever.

He's back at the hole

signaling something,

it looks like...

and if we get in close,

he starts pulling something

out of the bag, and I

don't know what's in the bag.

Maybe you guys can help me out.

What is that?

Just an old man talking

to a hole in the ground.

No, well, what's in his hand?

- I know what that is...

- What?

It's a... it's a spoon.

So, what is he doing?

He's taking dirt?

Was he taking samples

out of the...?

I mean, he's like...

he's digging down there.

And then he puts it in his bag?

No, no, no, he's taking

something out of...

What's he feeding,

feeding one of them?

I can't see... I can't see in.

There's no definition.

Such low light sensors that...

He's feeding something...

or he thinks

he's feeding something.

OK, then, what else?

What else?

I mean, after that,

fast forward a little bit,

he packs up his stuff,

stands up...

Uh huh.

Walks back over...

Turns the cameras on again.

Yup, camera one comes on.

Sets it up, clear as day...

He has to know

we're going to see that.

So, is this...

Here's a question,

Is this on purpose?

Did he want us to see that?

'Cause I'm...

I'm kind of... and then

he's waving and signaling again.

OK, awesome.

What else? Anything else?

This one is a little weird.

Um, the very next night,

- Mm-hm.

- Four o'clock in the morning,

- camera one...

- Yeah?

I'll zoom in so you can see.

Here he is sitting

on the edge of The Marrow.

He's like...

And I have no idea

what he's doing

but he's sitting here for about

a minute and a half, 2 minutes.

He's touching something

in there.

What, is he petting one of them?

I don't think is petting them.

What is it?

Oh my God, wait...

He's crying.

He's crying.

I didn't know

what to make of it.

He's like sobbing.

I mean, the only other

thing I'm doing is catching up

on cemetery footage,

just hours of cemetery footage.

This guy, it's like he's sick.

You know, like, he chooses the

weirdest things to lie about.

Isn't the lying just enough

to stop this whole thing?

No, it's not.

Why do you have to keep saying

that we need to stop it?

It's not enough. I don't care

about him lying to me.

That's irrelevant.

Did you tell Josh about

the other night?

- What happened the other night?

- Nothing happened the other...

It turns out that

this Dekker guy

has gone to every single

Hollywood director

with the story.

Who else did he go to?

It doesn't matter.

It... That's semantics.

What matters isn't him,

OK, it's 'it'.

It's where he can

take us because...

And I know I sound crazy

to everybody

but my whole life

since I was a little kid

I had prayed for this

to happen to me.

I have prayed for this

to be real,

and now I have seen it...

and for better or for worse,

this lunatic is the guy

who can bring me to it.

And, OK,

I know you guys

are going to say I'm trying

I swear to God I'm not but this

is just the theory I have.

I think that this is

some sort of psychosis,

like this whole thing.

I think that, like,

his kid died or something.

And this is why...

When we were in the cemetery

and you mentioned your kids,

he was all over you

about your kids, right?

That's right.

And then when we were doing one

of our interviews with him

he was showing me paintings

of the monsters.

And I asked him about them,

"Oh, who painted that?"

- And he said, uh...

- He said my son.

Thank you. Yes.

- And then, when I try...

- "Oh wait, son?"

"Oh no", he

didn't want to go there anymore.

Now he's feeding something

in a hole,

something that's probably

not there.

Maybe he's imagining it, or...

This is where it gets

a little weird.

Maybe he thinks

his kid is down there.

His kid is one of them.

Oh, boy.

OK, I know... it's crazy. But if

we could just find one person,

one person to vouch for him,

a family member, a neighbor,

just somebody who actually

knows this guy in real life,

not the life

that he's presenting to us,

I'd feel so much better

because then I would know

is he crazy? Is he mentally ill?

Is it all a hoax?

And I'm just a sucker.

You know,

but you like you Google him

and he has no digital imprint

on the internet whatsoever.

There's literally

nothing about... What?

Boston.

He was a police...

He was a police detective.

So, what?

No, the original package

that he sent me,

the original letter,

it says he was a former

Boston police detective.

We can go talk to them.

We're not going to Boston.

We're going to Boston.

Awesome.

No, we're going to Boston.

Awesome.

Right now we're going to Boston

because I spoke to a guy

at the Boston police department

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