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May 2024
46m 36s

Neighbour From Hell

They Walk Among Us
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A man in his mid-sixties wearing a light-coloured casual jacket and dark trousers caught the couple’s attention. Concerningly, he was clenching a piece of wood in his hand. Stephen slammed the brakes and got out of the vehicle. He realised another man was lying horizontally on the pavement, being struck about the head repeatedly with the length of wood. Blood was pooling on the path surrounding the injured man. Stephen instinctively yelled out, telling the assailant to stop. The attacker wrapped the wood in a plastic bag and turned to walk away. As he left the scene, he hollered back to the man he had just attacked: “You’ll not fucking do that again”... 


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This episode was researched and written by Eileen Macfarlane.


Edited by Joel Porter at Dot Dot Dot Productions.


Script editing, additional writing, illustrations and production direction by Rosanna Fitton


Narration, audio editing assistance, script editing, and production direction by Benjamin Fitton.


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MUSIC: 


Blinding Light by Salon Dijon 

Falling by Alice In Winter

The Search by CJ0 

Final Moments by Cody Martin 

Kalahari by Cody Martin 

Shadow Passage by Cody Martin 

Ripley by Falls 

Burn It Down by Gee Smiff 

Quiet Desperation Part 2 by JCar 

Spooked by jshirts

Race Against Time by Moments 

Introspection by Shimmer 

St Mary by ChelseaMcGough And Stephen Keech 

Dead Ends by WickedCinema 


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