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[crickets chirping]
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[crickets chirping]
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- My name is Elizabeth Cadozia
On my 27th birthday,
my mother died,
and I inherited my
grandmother's schoolhouse.
[ominous music]
[piano note ringing]
Mother taught me two things:
how to drive
and how to play the piano.
Mother said, "When
I am old and sick,
you can drive me to
the doctor's office."
Mother never got old.
This morning, the lawyer called,
he said the door would be open
and the keys would be
hanging on the wall.
Never lived anywhere
where the doors
did not need to be locked.
This place will be a change.
This place will be different.
He said, there's some money
and a piano.
[wind blowing]
[wind blowing]
My grandmother's schoolhouse.
[gate creaking]
Why would she own a schoolhouse?
Was she a teacher?
What did she teach?
What did she do here in this
strange, isolated place?
Why would she leave it to me?
She didn't know me.
As far as I know, she'd
never laid eyes upon me.
Yet. now, all mine.
And money, all mine,
my own private world.
[door creaking]
[ominous music]
Moving through the
rooms of the schoolhouse
felt like moving
through spider's webs,
Like passing through a membrane,
like passing backward
through time.
[footsteps thudding]
I felt an urge to write
on the chalkboard.
But what?
My name?
No,
the house does not
need to know my name.
Not yet.
[footsteps thudding]
[stairs creaking]
[bird squawking]
[Elizabeth laughing]
[bed thudding]
[eerie ambient music]
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[intense music]
[Elizabeth gasping]
[Elizabeth breathing heavily]
[Elizabeth breathing heavily]
[Elizabeth sighing]
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[piano note ringing]
[floorboards creaking]
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[piano notes crashing]
[Elizabeth breathing heavily]
[piano notes clattering]
[Elizabeth breathing heavily]
[footsteps thudding]
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[wind blowing]
[wind blowing]
[light piano music]
[door rattling]
[wind blowing]
[wind blowing]
[wind blowing]
[flys buzzing]
[insects chirping]
[insects chirping]
[insects chirping]
[insects chirping]
[insects chirping]
[insects chirping]
[door creaking]
[wind howling]
[wind howling]
[wind howling]
[liquid dripping]
[door creaking]
[door thudding]
[birds chirping]
[papers rustling]
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[book rustling]
[page rustling]
[page rustling]
[page rustling]
[page rustling]
[page rustling]
[page rustling]
[page rustling]
[page rustling]
[page rustling]
[page rustling]
[camera shutter clicking]
[camera shutter clicking]
[camera shutter clicking]
[page rustling]
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[object clattering]
[light humming]
[light humming]
Where did this come from?
Was it here before,
when I wandered the room,
when I closed the curtains?
I don't remember.
[pages rustling]
Who is this woman?
Who is this, my grandmother?
Why were these taken?
Who took them?
My grandfather?
I love her.
She seems so calm,
so trusting,
so at ease in her nakedness,
[book thudding]
[fire crackling]
Looking through the flames,
it was as if the school
house was on fire,
and I wondered how long
it would take to burn,
burn to the ground.
[water running]
[water running]
[water running]
[water running]
[water running]
[water running]
[water running]
[water running]
[water running]
[Elizabeth breathing heavily]
[Elizabeth moaning]
[Elizabeth moaning]
[water running]
[Elizabeth breathing heavily]
[Elizabeth breathing heavily]
[Elizabeth gasping]
[Elizabeth sighing]
[books thudding]
[crickets chirping]
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[creature sniffing]
[Elizabeth screaming]
[Elizabeth breathing heavily]
[insects chirping]
In town, I visited a small shop.
The old woman behind the
counter seemed to recognize me.
[insects chirping]
[insects chirping]
"I thought you were
dead", she said.
"No", I said,
"I don't think so."
[engine rumbling]
[birds squawking]
[water rushing]
[water rushing]
[water rushing]
[birds squawking]
[water rushing]
[water rushing]
[water rushing]
[water rushing]
[water rushing]
[water rushing]
[water rushing]
[water rushing]
[soft music]
[water rushing]
[eerie ambient music]
[water running]
[water running]
Beautiful.
Beautiful.
Beautiful.
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[flesh squelching]
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[birds chirping]
I feel the eyes of the
schoolhouse watching me.
So many eyes,
glazed with reflection,
judging,
waiting my every movement,
deciding if I am
worthy of embrace,
deciding if I can stay
or if I am so distasteful
that I must be spat out,
vomited back into
the real world.
Where will I go?
Who would take me in?
There is no one.
No one.
[thunder crashing]
[rain pattering]
The storm raged all day,
the wind like anguished howls.
[wind howling]
The rain struck the leaves,
making a noise like
insect bodies bursting,
[thunder crashing]
insect skin
cracking.
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[wind howling]
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[thunder crashing]
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[thunder crashing]
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[thunder crashing]
[floorboards creaking]
[footsteps thudding]
[floorboards creaking]
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[floorboards creaking]
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[floorboards creaking]
[floorboards creaking]
[floorboards creaking]
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[Elizabeth screaming]
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[door creaking and thudding]
[footsteps thudding]
[box thudding]
[latch clicking]
[latch clicking]
[lid thudding]
[plastic rustling]
[plastic rustling]
[lid thudding]
[latch clicking]
[latch clicking]
[latch clicking]
[box thudding]
[box thudding]
[latch clicking]
[latch clicking]
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[lid creaking]
[lid creaking]
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[Elizabeth sniffing]
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[liquid gurgling]
[Elizabeth breathing heavily]
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[liquid gurgling]
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[Elizabeth breathing heavily]
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[Elizabeth breathing heavily]
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[Elizabeth breathing heavily]
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Mother once said,
"I saw the virgin Mary
standing outside your door.
So great was her sorrow
that tears of blood
fell from her eyes."
Was my grandmother a witch?
I do not know if she was that,
or some other practitioner of
black arts and dark science.
Did she make sacrifices
to the devil?
Did she conjure demons,
spoil milk,
scare children?
Could she open portals
to other worlds?
Is that what drove
my mother away?
Is that why my grandmother
brought me here?
Is that my purpose,
my meaning,
my destiny?
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I feel I am here for a reason.
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[Elizabeth gasping]
[Elizabeth breathing heavily]
[Elizabeth breathing heavily]
[Elizabeth breathing heavily]
[Elizabeth breathing heavily]
[Elizabeth breathing heavily]
[Elizabeth breathing heavily]
[Elizabeth breathing heavily]
[Elizabeth retching]
[blood dripping]
[Elizabeth breathing heavily]
[Elizabeth spitting]
[Elizabeth coughing]
[Elizabeth retching]
[Elizabeth moaning]
[Elizabeth breathing heavily]
[Elizabeth groaning]
[Elizabeth moaning]
[Elizabeth groaning]
[Elizabeth breathing heavily]
[Elizabeth groaning]
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[Elizabeth breathing heavily]
[Elizabeth groaning]
[intense music]
[light piano music]
[light piano music continues]
[light piano music continues]
I feel I am not
alone in the house,
and yet I am alone in the house.
[light piano music continues]
Thirsty.
[bottle thudding]
[cap clicking]
[cap clicking]
[liquid gurgling]
[cap clicking]
[Elizabeth exhaling]
[cap clicking]
[liquid gurgling]
[cap clicking]
[pages rustling]
[bottle thudding]
[cap clicking]
[cap clicking]
[bottle thudding]
[paper rustling]
[flesh squelching]
[flesh squelching]
[flesh squelching]
[flesh squelching]
[flesh squelching]
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[pills rattling]
[pills rattling]
[bottle thudding]
[page rustling]
[bottle thudding]
[liquid gurgling]
[page rustling]
[bottle thudding]
[page rustling]
[page rustling]
[page rustling]
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[page rustling]
[bottle thudding]
[pills rattling]
[pages rustling]
[bottle thudding]
[liquid gurgling]
[cap clicking]
[Elizabeth breathing heavily]
[Elizabeth gasping]
[bottle thudding]
[Elizabeth gasping]
[Elizabeth breathing heavily]
[pages rustling]
[pills rattling]
[bottle thudding]
[Elizabeth screaming]
[Elizabeth moaning]
[Elizabeth sobbing]
[Elizabeth screaming]
[cap clicking]
[Elizabeth groaning]
[pages rustling]
[Elizabeth breathing heavily]
[hand thudding]
[Elizabeth screaming]
[pills rattling]
[teeth crunching]
[wind howling]
[wind howling]
[wind howling]
[wind howling]
[door sliding]
[wind howling]
[wind howling]
[wind howling]
[wind howling]
[voice whispering]
[voice whispering]
[voice whispering]
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[voice whispering]
[voice whispering]
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[Elizabeth breathing heavily]
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[Elizabeth breathing heavily]
[electricity crackling]
[voice whispering]
[Elizabeth breathing heavily]
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[Elizabeth breathing heavily]
[Elizabeth moaning]
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[voice whispering]
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[Elizabeth gasping]
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[Elizabeth breathing heavily]
[eerie ambient music]
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[voice whispering]
[Elizabeth breathing heavily]
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[voice whispering]
[buttons popping]
[Elizabeth screaming]
[intense music]
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[wind howling]
[wind howling]
[voice whispering]
[voice whispering]
[voice whispering]
No.
No.
[voice whispering]
I didn't.
[voice whispering]
No, I didn't.
I should try to leave.
No.
I want to stay here
forever.
[voice whispering]
[eerie ambient music continues]
[objects clattering]
[objects clattering]
[liquid dripping]
[objects clattering]
[liquid dripping]
[birds chirping]
[birds chirping]
[birds chirping]
[birds chirping]
Yes.
Okay.
All right.
[eerie ambient music]
[eerie ambient music continues]
[birds chirping]
[footsteps thudding]
[floorboards creaking]
[floorboards creaking]
[floorboards creaking]
[floorboards creaking]
[eerie ambient music]
[jacket thudding]
[floorboards creaking]
[floorboards creaking]
[chair thudding]
[chair thudding]
[chair creaking]
[chair creaking]
Window doesn't open.
[wind blowing]
[chair creaking]
[chair squeaking]
[ominous music]
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[window rattling]
[Elizabeth sighing]
Yes.
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[ominous music continues]
[ominous music continues]
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[wind whooshing]
My name is Elizabeth Cadozia.
On my 27th birthday,
my mother died,
and I inherited my
grandmother's schoolhouse.
[person humming]
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- [Person] Yes.
House of Screaming Glass (2024)
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