Audiobook-High Energy, Funny, Latino, Boy, Girl, Child, Comedic
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North American (US General American - GenAM) Spanish (Latino)Transcript
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It's probably the scariest town legend in a town full of scary legends. Liza said as the three of us made our way along the vine choked path through the Blackbriar woods all around us, huge ancient trees rose up their trunks black with mildew, their roots twisted with age. A silver sliver of moon peeked down at us filling the woods with a ghostly bluish light. I'm scared already. I said jokingly, Liza's pearly whites flashed in the dark. You should be because it all happened right up there, up on the highest hill at the very highest point of Boca Falls. But what makes this urban legend particularly scary is that it's true. Most of what I'm about to tell you actually happened, it's up to you to decide which parts are fact and which parts are fiction. All right enough with the suspense. What happened? The legend starts 36 years ago, Liza began dropping her voice like she was telling a scary campfire story. The year the Black Briar family moved to Boca Falls and built themselves the most lavish, most extravagant mansion the town had ever seen. The Black Briars were industrialists, I think. And super wealthy. Rumor is they got rich off steel mills and textiles. Some people say it was steel mills and cat Hammocks. Ernie interrupted Liza shot him a sharpish look. Yeah. Some people say that but how they got rich doesn't really matter what really matters is that they had a son, an only child, Miguel Valdez Blackbriar. Her voice grew even more ominous. Now he was supposed to be an evil little snot ball too. They say he liked to entertain himself by squashing lizards on his morning walk to school. Geo I said totally grossed out. Yup. Yucko Squared. And as you can probably imagine his reptile crushing ways and decidedly prickly personality didn't exactly earn him a seat at the cool kids table. As a matter of fact, only a couple of kids in school would even talk to him. Let me guess. I said he eventually got fed up and put a curse on his homeroom class. Turning everyone into frogs. Liza Grind. Some people would have probably preferred that actually. No. See, at that point, Miguel was still the new kid in town and really wanted his classmates to like him. He wanted friends and since his birthday was coming up, he had his parents throw him a birthday party but not just any old birthday party. Mind you. He had them throw the birthday party to end all birthday parties. I'm talking jugglers, acrobats stilt walkers. You name it. They packed them into the grand ballroom of their massive mansion and then they filled the place with enough balloons, chandeliers and gilded funhouse mirrors to make your head spin. I mean, it was the kid's 13th birthday and he really wanted to impress. He invited everyone the entire school but here's the rub. Not a single kid agreed to go. Nobody. I asked jeez, that had to sting. A little nae. See everybody in town thought that the black briars were super creepy, creepy with a capital C and not just Miguel either his entire family, even their servants, but it wasn't long before some of the local kids came up with an idea, a plan or shall I say a prank? What kind of prank? Arguably the sneakiest, meanest, most diabolical prank ever pulled in New Mexico. And their first step trick Miguel, they told him that they changed their minds about the party that they were all now dying to go. And Miguel of course, couldn't have been happier. He thought he was making new friends. But then on the big day, the day of Miguel's big birthday party, they unleashed their master prank.