Storm

Storm is the sixth episode of season one. Content warnings: stories involving animal death, stories involving poisoning, getting lost, obscenities, and low-level jump scares.

The transcript for the episode can be found here.

Episode Description
In which we meet another residence and delve deeper into the house.

Summary
There's a storm raging in Mount Absalom. The phone signals are out and the internet is down.

Dot mentions how storms always make her think of Old Bowser. Lily groans and laughs, while Abbie is confused. Dot begins telling the story of Old Bowser - around thirty years ago, the McPherson's had a dog, a large hulking dog raised from a stray. When the couple had a baby, Mrs. McPherson didn't think the dog was safe, so they drove Bowser to the animal shelter in Julian. However, Bowser escaped the kennels, and was hit by a truck on his return to the McPherson house. The next night, it was storming, the family was sitting down for dinner - Bowser's favourite, ham - when there was a sound from outside.

At that moment, there is knocking on the front door. Abbie thinks that Dot somehow rigged up something to knock at the right point in the story, but instead it's Rudy Peltham, the astronomer coming to stay in room three. He introduces himself, and Dot offers to take his luggage up to his room. However, the power then goes out, and a tornado siren begins wailing. The group goes down to the basement to wait out the storm, with Rudy enjoying the Agatha Christie atmosphere.

In the basement, Rudy suggests they tell spooky stories to pass the time. Abbie goes first, and talks about a friend of theirs, Ali, who used to work at Gregory Manor, an historical house in New York. Supposedly the youngest daughter of the family disappeared under mysterious circumstances, and the staff hated closing up her room at night.

On his first shift, Ali volunteers to clean the room, making sure none of the tourists had left anything, and feels a wave of cold hit him. Ali figures it's just a drafty room in an old house, nothing to worry about. But then he starts hearing something - like a hiss, or breathing. This goes on for several months, and Ali thought it was another member of staff playing a prank, so one night he decided to wait it out with his phone. Ali sits in the room, feeling a pressure settle on his chest, hearing the sound like breathing, and realises... that his symptoms match up with carbon monoxide poisoning due to a gas leak in the room. Ali told his boss, who got people in to fix the issue.

Lily is unimpressed with the story. Dot suggests that everyone talks about something that scares them, rather than ghost stories. Rudy and Abbie bicker about if clown phobias are a thing people actually have, and Lily interrupts with her fear of octopuses.

Post-Credit Fact
During the flood rains of 1924, many residents of the Mount Absalom Graveyard next to the Fenwood House became disinterred. When the bodies were finally put back, there were twenty-three extra. Thus began the legend of the Mount Absalom Ripper.

Cast

 * Clarisa Cherie Rios as Lily
 * Marsha Harman as Dot
 * Kathleen Hoil as Abbie
 * Joshua K Harris as Rudy
 * Michael Turrentine as Wes

Crew

 * Writer: Jessica Best
 * Sound design: Ryan Schile
 * Director: Jeffrey Nils Gardner
 * Music composer: Stephen Poon
 * Recording engineer: Mel Ruder
 * Lead sound designer: Ryan Schile
 * Executives Producers: Eleanor Hyde and Jeffrey Gardner
 * Theme performed by:
 * Stephen Poon
 * Lauren Kelly
 * Gunnar Jebsen
 * Travis Elfers
 * Mel Ruder
 * Betsey Palmer