Reading Creepy SMALL TOWN Stories! -- (Just chatting / Q and A)

In 1957, a woman, enraged after the narrator's father ended their affair, attempted to run over the narrator and his friends with her car. After crashing, she emerged with a double-barrel shotgun and fired at the children before being disarmed by a neighbor. The incident led to the father's eventual death by alcoholism and the family's relocation.

The narrator recounts the lady's actions, her confession to police about the affair and threat, and the subsequent family fallout.

The narrator grew up in an isolated religious cult that forbade modern medicine, relying solely on spiritual healing. His grandmother, after attacking his grandfather, was deemed 'demon-possessed' and confined to a barn, where she was starved and beaten by the grandfather, leading to her death. The narrator later realized this was murder and reported it to authorities.

The story details the cult's practices, the grandmother's 'possession' and subsequent treatment, and the narrator's eventual understanding and actions.

In the early 1900s, the postmaster of Stron, Mr. Dalglish, locked himself and his two assistants, Mrs. Robertson and Mrs. McKenzie, inside the post office and set it on fire. He believed the women were 'beings' posing a threat. The local constable, Mallister, covered up the murders, fabricating a story of abscondment and theft to protect the village's reputation and economy. The truth emerged 25 years later from a deathbed confession.

The narrative describes the fire, the initial cover-up, the fabricated story of theft, and the eventual deathbed confession revealing Dalglish's motive and the constable's deception.

In 2022, a Siberian village experienced a massive, distant aerial explosion followed by a shockwave and falling debris. The Russian military arrived, evacuated the villagers to a camp, and then relocated them to an apartment block outside Moscow. Villagers were subjected to repeated, non-voluntary medical examinations and interviews, suggesting experimentation related to the explosion. The narrator's family escaped by bribing guards.

The story details the explosion, the military's immediate response, the forced relocation, the medical tests, and the family's eventual escape and asylum claim based on medical experimentation.

The host expresses strong dissatisfaction with recent 3D Pokemon games, calling them 'complete poop' and 'watered down crap' due to technical issues and a perceived abandonment of superior pixel art. He argues that Game Freak, despite being a major studio, acts like a small indie developer, failing to leverage the Switch's technology effectively for 3D graphics.

The host states, 'There is no reason in my mind that the newest Pokemon should be like a 3D World because it's complete poop... Watered down crap.' and 'Game Freak... seemingly like not having enough funding or acting like a small indie studio.'