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Kevin Murphy: It wasn’t supposed to be true. We didn’t think anything would happen.

Matt Murphy: Nobody believes us. Nobody. But it happened like we said it did. Just like we said. But nobody believes us.

District Attorney Powell: Are you kidding? That’s such a stupid question. Of course it didn’t happen that way.

Professor Clement: It’s an urban legend, of course. A folk tale. It’s pretty old and common in a lot of cultures, actually. And sure, a lot of these urban legends are rooted in fact. And then they grow from there to become supernatural, frightening, and deadly. They’re meant to warn us or explain something or teach a moral lesson. But they’re just stories. Metaphors. Allegories. Fables. In short, they’re pure fiction.

Matt Murphy: We heard about it from some kids in school. It was supposed to be a gag, for a laugh, a stupid little prank, you know.

Kevin Murphy: Scott was such a little runt. Afraid of everything. Everybody made fun of him. This was just one more thing. It was supposed to be just one more thing.

Matt Murphy: We didn’t want to hurt him. Nobody was supposed to get hurt. It was just a joke.

District Attorney Powell: I honestly don’t care what those two say. Somebody did get hurt. Scott Everette got hurt. Scott Everette is dead.

Kevin Murphy: It wasn’t us.

Matt Murphy: I swear we didn’t do it. We didn’t touch him. It was her.

Professor Clement: The urban myth in this instance is one I’m sure you’re all familiar with. It’s pretty common and has been for centuries, though it’s evolved over time, like most myths.

In the modern version, a group of people stand in front of a mirror in a dark room and invoke her through an act of captromancy. This means saying her name a specified number of times. It’s commonly 13 times, as you could imagine.

District Attorney Powell: Look, there were three people in that house in that bathroom on that night. Three. And two of them walked away still alive. Those are the facts.

Matt Murphy: The flashlight on our phones just went out. Scott screamed.

Kevin Murphy: There was so much blood. When our phones came back on. Scott was on the floor. So much blood. And his eyes. We never found them.

Matt Murphy: People say we ate them.

District Attorney Powell: I can’t answer that.

Kevin Murphy: On the floor. On the walls. So much blood.

Matt Murphy: The mirror, though, the mirror was spotless.

Kevin Murphy: I can’t explain what happened.

Matt Murphy: All we did was say a name.