never miss another strange story subscribe and hit the bell sit back and get comfortable I have a few stories to share with you the traveling carnival had gone downhill in recent years costs had been cut and many of the performers had left there were exhibits but they were enjoying crowds like they used to the pickle Punk's deformed fetuses preserved in jars of green liquid had lost their allure at the last stop the carnival barker had dropped one and when the fetus hit the dirt and found word got around nothing but rubber fakes the Fiji mermaid horrific sea spawn of the Far Orient was also fake just the top half from a spider monkey sewn to the bottom half of a sea bath stuffed full of cotton visitors glanced at it momentarily but truthfully it just made him feel bad for the monkey finally at the back or the Siamese twins the visitors had already paid to enter the tent but the carnival barker spewing his sales pitch at high volume demanded an extra nickel to draw the curtains visitors toss some in the bucket fully anticipating disappointment the curtains real tap to reveal the Siamese twins two heads two torsos but only one of the twins was moving the other was clearly some kind of rubber prosthetic lolling around limply while the real performer danced the carnival barker clapped in rhythm as he kicked his feet one visitor unimpressed asked if he could have his nickel back no said the Barker as soon as the visitors left the tent chain collapsed cradling his brother Hank what was in the champagne you fed him Chiang hissed when they'd announced their plans to leave the carnival at the end of the season the Barker had presented him with two glasses of bubbling liquor Chang had declined and had not now now my friend answered the carnival barker striking a match word nothing but bubbly men to send you off proper to greener pastures but Chang knew the truth you didn't want us to leave the carnival admit it you knew you'd be nothing without us the Barker waved the match at the end of his cigarette entirely undefended friend are you accusing me of poisoning your dear brother he is barely breathing chang'd whispered slapping his brother's face you have to take us to the doctor a no doctor worth his salt that would treat a [ __ ] answered the Barker between dragged on his cigarette tell you what you earned enough coin to pay for a veterinarian I'll fetch him after he's done with the elephant's we've only made 65 cents today Chang pleaded please a fee dies I'll die to shame the Barker responded exiting the tent flap I guess your bones will make a good display Chang soft listening to his brothers final gasps knowing full well that as long as they were conjoined their fates were intertwined debarker as if reading changed mind popped his head back inside or he said I do have a hacksaw what do you think folks paid to watch that [Applause] [Music] one summer I worked as a house cleaner for this family down the road for some pocket money it was fun mostly hello is anybody home I called out of habit as I poked my head through the door yes we are upstairs answered a husband please go ahead and just ignore us okay cool as I said this was fun simple job so I went ahead I heard the door being shut upstairs some rhythmic pounding noises and then alas some moaning really my side exaggerated Lee and muttered to myself you know I'm down here right putting on my headphones I shook my head and discussed one more time before continuing with my work pretending that I knew nothing it was a while before I heard some loud footsteps running down the hollow timber stairs the sound of the front door flung open then slam shut and finally the sound of the lock clicked probably the husband going somewhere I shrugged half an hour later their bedroom door was still closed and no sound was emanating from it well this is convenient isn't it how am I supposed to over the house now miss I will sleep whenever I want I thought bitterly I don't have all day to stand here waiting for you to wake up faced with no other choice I had to knock on the door excuse me are you sleeping in there can I improve err the house no answer but the door slowly drifted open it wasn't locked I screamed out of the horror when they've seen in the bedroom raped my vision read the whole bed was red with blood the wife lay dead in the middle knife sticking out of her chest her hear turned to the door and her on blinking eyes stare directly into mine I reacted like a idiot I Wallis we ran up to her corpse and shook her like that would make any difference hey wake up can you hear me wake up the congealed blood on her chest stuck on my cleaning lobes but I didn't give up I continued to shake and call until the sound of sirens swamped into my ears I heard hurried footsteps and muffled voices then one allowed him than the rest it was the husband's voice please hurry up I locked a murderer inside line [Applause] [Music] you [Applause] [Music] I can't really remember my dad but I remember his funeral my mom cried a lot I can't even bear to hear my mom crying I shuffled and stroked and salt throughout why did it have to take place on a Saturday I was missing my favorite cartoons my baby sister Millie wouldn't stop wailing all the way through real sharp shrieks stabbing like an ice pick into our ears my Uncle Mike read a dumb poem or at least he tried to it was called he's not dead but sleeping he kept losing it and clung to the podium like he was the rigging of the Titanic he stank of scotch to that same phrase he's not dead but sleeping was carved ornately onto my dad's black marble gravestone - my mom had held my hand too tightly she told me never to forget that my daddy had been very tired recently and it was simply sleeping peacefully and that we should see this as a blessing relief she made it sound real convincing like a good mom should then she hugged me so tight I could barely breathe the priest read another sermon his eyes aligned with kindness then my mom tried to say a few words but couldn't really Milly was passed back and forth until Mandy handed her to me here she said you're always good at calming her down then and Mandy went to study my mom whose legs were shaking the service ended shots were down sandwiches were nimble I was a good boy and didn't past her anyone I hoped this will all be over soon Milly was very heavy in my small arms and it was glad when my mom finally took her back from me then everything was suddenly an outer confusion voices calling all around bodies pushing forward someone shook me hard their fingers gripping like flaws onto my shoulders hey it's okay I said Milly was just tired so I made her go to sleep [Music] I was tasked to go back and stop our mistake time travel was achieved in the years 75 38 many countries work together to accomplish this feat and since then the whole world has been tuned into the discoveries we've made visiting our past the first mission sent to booth and back to the year 2000 we returned with a newspaper which highlighted the new century and y2k we don't use paper anymore but the world rejoiced over our success and each household wanted their very own newspaper coffee which celebrated the triumph over y2k more than 2,000 years ago six months have passed since that first mission and we have continued to go back in time to learn about the origins of our species had finally come closer to understanding how our universe formed and a better idea of how our universe operates but we hit a problem for some reason we could no longer travel back any further our last trip was six billion years into the pound we couldn't go beyond up this saddened researchers immensely yet focused was shifted to exploring working within the six billion year in time frame problems continued still however as we could not travel back in the past any more it seemed we worked on the machine to see why it wasn't working at the same time a team of theoretical physicists that continued to refine our understanding of time travel but each trip made but their most recent discovery shocked the world they predicted using the time machine required us to deplete the time we have left in the universe this was why we could no longer trouble so far back we decided that we needed to go back in time to warn ourselves of this great mistake in our last hopes to make it right I was tasked to go back and stop our mistake this was eight months ago when our mission to go back to our first use of the time machine failed we could no longer undo the damage tomorrow marks the predicted final day of our universe no one knows what to expect but if our rules of time-travel are correct we used up around 100 billion years this universe had left in less than a year curiosity really is [Music] [Music]