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May 28
39m 22s

Throwing Away The Key / Christopher Prat...

They Walk Among Us
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As daylight faded and the moorland sky burned a deep orange, the quiet stretch of the A640 near Huddersfield appeared serene. A local resident, David Sykes, was out jogging along a remote country road between the Nont Sarahs pub and the B6114 junction. The route, typically bypassed in favour of the faster M62 motorway, was nearly deserted. On the verge of the road lay a grim discovery; evidence that someone had chosen this isolated spot not just for its peaceful scenery, but they thought it would be the ideal place to dispose of a body… 


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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, additional audio editing and mixing, and script editing by Benjamin Fitton.


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MUSIC: 


Firewall by Cody Martin 

Dark Night by Cody Martin 

Forbidden Wing by Cody Martin 

Half Empty by Cody Martin 

Kalahari by Cody Martin 

Loaves & Fish by Cody Martin 

Storms Coming by Cody Martin 

Tesseract by Cody Martin 

Negative Thoughts by Craig Allen Fravel 

Gravity by Caleb Etheridge 

Enigma by Hill 

Unexpected Turn by Moments 

Stasis Interrupted by Dresden the Flamingo 

Rag Doll by Wicked Cinema 

Rogue Asset by Wicked Cinema 

The Curse by Wicked Cinema 

The Unexplained by Wicked Cinema 

Vanished by Wicked Cinema 


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