Episode Nine: Crossed Wires

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I've reached Mabel Martin. I'm not here to take your call right now, so please leave a message after the beep and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Thanks! Nola, answer your phone. Answer your phone! Nola! I hate you! Thomas should come over tonight. Do you remember making that promise? Do you remember saying even if Michael Carter turns up on my doorstep with a basket full of vodka, brownie mix, Adderall and condoms? Because I remember that, Nola.

I remember those exact words coming out of your mouth. Yeah, and, like, number two, I'm actually losing it over here. You know that big old house at the top of the hill at the Martin Place? I keep seeing these like creepy lights coming from the top windows, which is like whatever lights, right? But the thing is...

I know the old lady who lives there is in hospital right now. My mum ran into some friends of hers who said so. She's been in the hospital for a week. It's not looking good for her, apparently. So, I mean, who the f*** is turning the lights on and off in the old lady's attic? I mean, like, does your brain not... It just automatically goes straight to ghosts.

So I spent like just three hours thinking about that and basically creeped the f*** out of myself, which is why, Nola, okay, if you remember, I wanted you to come over in the first place, you bitch, because I get creeped out when I'm on my mom's place on my own. So maybe if it's not too much trouble, could you just answer your stupid phone? Hey, will you call me when you get this?

Anna, Mom's starting to worry. I need you to call her, please. Am I pressing the wrong button or something? Patrick? Patrick, would you come look at this thing for me? Anna, it's been four days. Mom's worrying. I'm starting to worry. I'm hoping you just forgot to pay your cell phone bill again, but just call me, please. This is my new number. It's Lauren. Hey Mabel. Justine's here too. She says hi. We're back in town from Chacao's wedding and no one's heard from you.

Suki says you didn't RSVP, you haven't been on the group chat, you haven't been on Facebook or Twitter or anything. It's... We want to make sure you're okay. We miss you. We'll be in town all week, so give us a call, okay? We'd love to go for coffee and catch up, even if you... Just call us, yeah?

Pick up your phone, Nola. Oh my god, you actual cave person. I'm gonna... Look, I'm serious right now. I'm so f***ing... pissed at you. This isn't funny anymore. I am genuinely scared. I went to let muffins out and there was this, oh, it's like music. But like music that's completely, it's. Okay, I'm going to go outside again and I'm going to put you in speaker. So then at least, you know, there'll be like a record of it. Shit. It's... it's stopped. Okay, well that's...

Annalie Bone? Is not available. At the tone, please record your message. Annalie Bone? Is not available. At the tone... Annalie Bone? Hello, I'm calling for Mabel Martin. This is Dr. Yulia Antonova. I work in the ICU at ******. According to our records, you are the next of kin for a salimatin. We'd like to have a chat with you if possible, so if you could drop in to ****** at some point. or call the unit on extension 4. That would be great. Thank you.

i can't believe you're not answering your phone still um me and muffins are in my mom's room I've pushed the wardrobe up against the door and the dressing table up against the wardrobe and I'm hiding under the bed. I don't even care that I sound like an actual lunatic. There's something f***ing weird going on in that house, Nola.

don't just mean all the stuff you hear as a kid all the haunted house scary old recluse lady crap i mean i was out there in the garden you know i was looking up at the house when that music started playing and I saw, oh, I think I saw it was, the attic lights were on again and I saw there was a girl up in the attic window. No, not the old lady's nurse. I know what she looks like.

This was someone different. She put one hand up against the window and I thought, you know, maybe she was asking me for help, right? But she started laughing. Her teeth were... I think they were... Pointed? She... Oh, she like... She drew one finger across her throat. I know what you're going to say. There's no way I could have seen all that from my garden. Like, no way I could have seen her teeth. The house is like a half a mile away, right? But I did, and...

And she saw me too. I am positive. She saw me too. When... See, when I was little, I used to have these weird... recurring nightmares about a woman trapped in a well she'd say please clara can you get me out can you you just have to lean over a little bit more just put your hand down into the water just climb down into the dark and Oh my god. Oh my god, there's a car pulling up to the house. Oh my god, I'm not kidding. I'm literally about to be murdered. I...

I'm going to take a picture of the license plate outside the window and send it to you. It's your job to get this shit to the police, okay? I'm going to hold you to that, I swear. I swear I will haunt you for the next seven million years. God, you asshole. Oh, God. I'm at the curtains. Is that... Oh, my God. You stupid bitch. I swear to God, Nola. I'm f***ing going to kill you. I'm actually going to eat your face. I cannot believe you just did that to me. No, don't give me that look.

Hi, uh, Ms. Lyman, this is Officer Jameson from the K*** Police Department. We've received a report from Mona Jenkins that you haven't been responding to her messages. If you could, please give me a call at... I'm sure we can get this cleared up with you ladies. You have a nice day now. Mabel is written and produced by Becca De La Rosa. The voice of Clara was Nicola Kavanagh. The voice of Mona was Cara De La Rosa. The voice of Lauren was Jane Barron.

The voice of Justine was Jen Barron. The voice of Dr. Yulia Antonovna was Katya Winter. The voice of Officer Jameson was Lane Lloyd. creator of Sable, one of our favorite sister audio dramas. As always, the voice of Mabel Martin is and the voice of Anna Limon is Becca De La Rosa. The music in this episode was by R. Sonor, Bladiator, and Morse, and all of it is available to download on the Free Music Archive at freemusicarchive.org.

For more information about Mabel, including links to our guest actors' websites, a full track list, and transcripts for each episode, visit us online at mabelpodcast.com or on Twitter at Podcast Mabel. Thank you so much to our wonderful listeners for bearing with us while we tried to make season two as alarming and eerie as possible. We love you like the dark earth loves blood.