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Nostalgia net Forum television local does anyone remember this kid show it was called like Candle Cove and I must have been six or seven I never found reference to it anywhere so I think it was on a local station around 1971 or 72 I lived in ironon at the time I don't remember which station but I do remember it was on at a weird time like like 400 p.m. it seems really familiar to me I grew up outside of Ashlin and was 9 years old in 72 Candle Cove um was it about Pirates I remember

a pirate marionette at the mouth of a cave talking to a little girl yes okay I'm not crazy I remember pirate Percy I was always kind of scared of him he looked like he was built from parts of other dolls like real low budget his head was an old uh porcelain baby doll looked like an antique that didn't belong on the body I don't remember what station this was I don't think it was wtsf though sorry to resurrect this old thread but I know exactly what show you mean Sky Shale I think Candle Cove ran

for only a couple of months in 71 not 72 too I was 12 and I watched it a few times with my brother it was channel 58 whatever station that was my mom would let me switch to it after the news let me see what I remember it took place in Candle Cove and it was about a little girl who imagined herself to be friends with pirates the pirate ship was called the laughing stock and pirate Percy wasn't a very good pirate because he got scared too easily and there was kopy music constantly playing don't

remember the girl's name Janice or Jade or something thing I think it was Janice thank you jiren memories flooded back when you mentioned the laughing stock in channel 58 I remember the bow of the ship was a wooden smiling face with the lower jaw submerged it looked like it was swallowing the sea and it had that awful Edwin voice and laugh I especially remember how jarring it was when they switched from the wooden like plastic model to the foam puppet version of the head that talked I think I remember that too uh do you remember

this part Sky shell you have to go inside oh Mike I got to chill reading that yes I remember that's what the ship always told Percy when there was a spooky place he had to go in like a cave or a dark room where the treasure was and the camera would push in on laughing Stock's face with each pause you have to to go inside with his two like eyes a skew and that flopping foam jaw and the fishing line that opened and closed it oh my God it was just it just looks so cheap

and awful you guys remember the villain he had a face that was just a handlebar mustache above like a really really tall narrow teeth I honestly honestly thought the villain was pirate bery I was about 5 when the show was on nightmare fuel that wasn't the villain the puppet with the mustache that was the villain's sidekick Horus horrible he had a monacle too but it was on top of the mustache I used to think that meant he only had one eye but yeah the villain was another marionette the skin taker I can't believe what they

let us watch back then Jesus H Christ the skin taker what kind of a kid show were we watching I seriously could not look at the screen when this skin taker showed up he just descended out of nowhere on his strings just a dirty skeleton wearing that brown top hat and Cape and his glass eyes that were too big for his skull Christ almighty wasn't his top hat and cloak all sewn up like crazily was that supposed to be children's skin yeah I think so remember his mouth didn't open and Clos his jaw just kind

of slid back and forth I remember the little girl said why did does your mouth move like that and the skin taker didn't look at the girl but at the camera and said to grind your skin oh I'm so relieved that other people remember this terrible show I used to have this awful memory a bad dream I had where the opening jingle ended the show faded in from black and all the characters were there but the camera was just cutting to each of their faces and they were just like screaming and the puppets marionet were

flailing spastically and just like all screaming screaming the girl was just moaning and crying like she'd been through hours of this I woke up many times from that nightmare I used to wet the bed when I had it I don't think that was a dream I remember that I remember that was an episode no no no no no no not not possible there there was no plot or anything I mean literally just standing in place crying and screaming for the whole show maybe I'm manufacturing the memory because you said that but I swear to God

I remember seeing what you described they just screamed oh my God yes the little girl Janice I remember seeing her shake and the skin taker screaming through his nashing teeth his jaw kening so wildly I thought it would come off its wire hinges I turned it off and that was the last time I ever watched it I ran to tell my brother and we didn't have the courage to turn it back on hey um I visited my mom today at the nursing home I asked her about when I was a little kid in the early

70s when I was eight or nine if she remembered a kid show Candle Cove she said she was surprised I could remember that and I asked why and she said because I used to think it was so strange that you said I'm going to go watch Candle Cove now Mom and then you would tune the TV to static and just just watch dead air for 30 minutes you had a big imagination with your little pirate show the following was found in an envelope on a bus Bound for Chicago I'm writing this so that when the

room is eventually opened people will perhaps understand the things they find within so that I'll no longer be thought of as the madman part of me already fears that I am it all began with a reading of the will my mother my only living parent left passed away due to a heart attack in her New England Home her body had been found by one of the women women who came to clean every few days and the News had not come as a shock to any of the family she' had two previous heart attacks and with

her smoking and drinking she wasn't exactly in the best of health it been a surprise that she wanted me to have the old family home though I never exactly had much love for the place I mean I moved out in the first chance I got honestly I hadn't been expecting to get anything in the will given how long it had been since we'd even spoken I was surprised she hadn't written me out you know the way that she' tried to write me out of the family's history by removing any picture of me from the house

certainly didn't plan to keep the creepy rundown old place but at the same time I knew that there was a chance I could fetch a bit of cash in the market if someone put a little work into it you fix it up and as I was currently between jobs it might be a worthwhile use of my time so you know I got my brother or cousin they all came over and they were helping fix it up you know they happily agreed to there actually wasn't as much work to do as I had first thought as

the house seemed to be in better repair than I remembered it being I guess my mother cheap as she was had still finally been forced to actually get someone to fix up some of the bigger problems to the house was little stuff that needed repair and a new coat of paint but it only ended up taking about a week or so in the in the end it was during that time that I that I I first found it I don't have the best memories of the old place given how long it had been since IID

stayed there but one of the first things I noticed while I was walking along the ground floor hallway was that there was a door that hadn't been there before stared at it for a few moments more out of confusion than anything else before trying to push it open would budge an inch asked my brother if he knew what might be down there and he shook his head saying that he'd not even noticed it before now my cousin said that she'd noticed a big oldfashioned looking key in the keyhole of the door the last time she'd

come around to visit but she had no clue where it might be right now I Shrugged not really thinking much of it at the time just figuring I'd have to get someone to bust the door down at some point before I got the house sold now the room that none of us wanted to go in was Emerson's it was weird you know seeing all his old toys and coloring books still there as if our mother had been trying to bring her son back by clanging on to the Past Emerson had always been our mother's favorite

the one who she' lavished all of her attention on I I saw that she stuck his drawings up all over the place drawings of pirate ships odd comical looking figures with these strange designs my brother told me that when he'd stayed for dinner our mother would still set a place for Emerson as if she expected him to just show up out of the blue I'm missing for all these years and she was still expecting him to come wanding through the door the first night I spent alone in the house I didn't sleep very well crazy

as it sounds I kept thinking that I heard noises in the house people talking to each other I must have checked each and every one of the rooms a dozen times only to find each and every one of them empty I even checked to see if I'd left the TV on but it was still unplugged I'd go back to bed and then after a little while the noises would start up again sometimes I was sure I could hear music well it's around 4 in the morning a thought occurred to me and I went to the

lock door in the hallway pressing my ear against it and listening closely I was sure I I heard what sounded like a muffled tune coming from within the next day I went into town to buy some food and after the events of last night I also bought a hammer to knock that old door down it was while chatting with the cashier that I learned something unsettling about the neighborhood that I temporarily moved into I casually brought up where I was staying after he commented on me being new around here and I told him I was

planning to try and sell up he let out a short burst of laughter before looking embarrassed about it and when I asked him to explain he said the following no one with sense is going to buy that dump no one with half a brain would buy any house within 10 miles of that place he said not looking up from the groceries he had packed away why not seems like a nice F enough neighborhood i' replied oh because all them kids going missing of course you go on to explain for the past few years there have

been a sudden and disturbing rise in the number of children Vanishing from their homes in the area there have been search parties formed the police the FBI they got involved but nothing turned up the kids had vanished from their homes with no signs of forced entry or struggle and no evidence Left Behind as to who might have been responsible people were trying to move away as fast as possible but there were few who would buy a house in the area once they heard about what was going on no one wanted to move to a place

where a child kidnapper or killer was active I have to admit the story kind of creeped me out knowing that something so strange was going on near where I was staying made the odd going on of the previous night seem even more unsettling to me and so as soon as I got home I decided to bust that door down and my neighbor a fairly nice young woman named Charlie who i' had gotten to know was working on her home's front lawn when I got back and noticed the hammer in my hand as I headed towards

that front door of my home not really wanting to be alone when I broke the door down I gave her an abrid version of the events leaving out the odd noises of last night that is and asked if she'd like to join me and finding out what was in the room mysterious lock door very Scooby-Doo she said as I grinned sure I'll be Fred you be Daphne I replied happy to have someone with me her presence making the nervousness I had felt while listening to the cashier Story start to fade a little trust me I'm

More VMA than Daphne once inside the house I packed away the various groceries poured drinks for myself and Charlie before we went to the white door it only took a few swings from the hammer to smash and open the lock breaking beneath the assault and the door swinging open behind it was a staircase leading down to a darkened basement below I stared in confusion at the stairs not believing what I was seeing our house didn't have a basement I was sure of that and yet suddenly I seem to recall seeing this before like could remember

playing with Emerson one day daring each other Emerson had always been afraid of pretty much everything and I in the way of older brothers everywhere had taken far too much pleasure in tormenting him we seeming to remember the two of us stood at the top of the stair case me daring him to go down into the dark while calling him a chicken come on Emerson I had said to him you have to go inside Charlie and I began to descend the old creaking steps towards the basement the hammer still clutched tight in my hands I

didn't know what we'd find but I knew that I felt better being armed with something that could do some damage as we reached the bottom of the stairs Charlie began feeling around for light switch finding one after a few moments and flicking it on the room was instantly illuminated revealing what was inside oh my God look at all this cool stuff Charlie cried out the basement was full of Puppets there were dozens of them all lined up in various shelves all in very good repair as if they were brand new there were puppets of all

shapes and sizes some of them being very humanlike well others were Muppet like animal creatures others were more monstrous there were props from what looked like the sets of kid shows I guess none of it had any dust on it as if someone had been down to tidy up just moments before I could guess what all this was from but what it was doing down here I had no idea what is all this Charlie asked as she picked up one of the puppets a guy with a massive mustache and a monocle over one eye she

grinned playing around with him moving his limbs up and down my uh my brother used to work on a kid show years ago um pirate place or something I think it was called only ran for a couple of years cuz it got cancelled guess stuffs all the old puppets and sets from the show I said as we looked around the room my eyes fell on a creepy looking skeleton puppet with a real weird mouth a top hat upon his head ugly looking thing I thought to myself that moment no way do you have any idea

how much some of this stuff might be worth collectors pay a fortune for things like this on eBay Charlie said setting the puppet down gently on one of the shelves I glanced around at the rest of the contents of the room apart from the puppets and set pieces there was an old sewing machine set on a desk that was otherwise completely bare there was no sign of anything that could have been the source of the tune that I had heard before deciding that I must have imagined it probably due to lack of sleep and being

back in the old place I did my best to forget about my fears and concentrate on the opportunity before me now it was just one thing that troubled me as I looked around on the desk the sewing machine was set on there were several odd red stains spattered over it as I stared at them I was sure out of the corner of my eye that the oddl looking skeleton puppet's head twitched in my direction the next few days went by without anything odd happening really I put the puppets Up on eBay had a few people

come to visit the house the only thing that was strange was when one couple visited the basement all the color drained out of the husband's face when his eyes fell on the skeleton puppet he just turned left the basement and the house he went to the car started it up and sat there until his wife joined them after apologizing for his rudess and the two of them just drove away at the later that night I was sure that I heard the old sewing machine in the basement I went down to check at the same time

looking at the darken doorway I suddenly felt very frightened and with the knock at the door the sudden noise almost made me jump out of my skin my head jerked to the side towards the source of the noise thinking a moment to study my nerves I walked to the door opening it cautiously and I saw Charlie standing there we need to talk she said [Music] she said that she mentioned to a friend of hers about the fine in the basement a few days ago when she brought up the name pirate place he'd gone quiet and

asked her to describe the puppets he looked afraid and she said as if he'd seen a ghost he told her to move house get away from me and from those damn things as he referred to the puppets growing increasingly hysterical as the conversation had gone on he'd repeated over and over that it wasn't safe to be around them that they could see you through them he'd ramble at length about physical avatars and the signal none of which had made any sense to her apparently he used to work in television and he had known my brother

he said that he'd sat down with Emerson in what he called the script room and then started raving about knowing where the stories came from Charlie said that she'd never seen him like this before that he seemed to almost be psychotic his eyes bugged out of his head his face glistening with sweat she'd been worried that he was about to have some kind of attack was your brother involved in anything weird she asked me and I honestly didn't know how to respond to that I mean Emerson had always been an odd kid no doubt about

that but I couldn't imagine him ever provoking such a frightened reaction in anyone let alone a grown man I asked her if he'd said why the puppets were so awful and she Shrugged all the stuff he was saying wasn't making much sense he just said it's not the puppets it's what made them and then he got up and he said he couldn't be in my house anymore and just ran out to his car drove off I decided that as she shared her weirdness with me maybe I could open up about some of the weirdness in

my life right now I um I explained about the odd noises the music the sewing machine seeming to turn itself on against my better judgment we decided to descend into the pitch black basement once again I mean I I don't know what I expected to find but I was sure that something would be wrong so when we saw that nothing seemed to have changed or been moved I I don't know I I felt an odd sense of almost disappointment kind of wanted for there to be something strange down there just to prove that I wasn't

imagining all this to prove to myself that I wasn't going crazy and that's when Charlie spotted the door it was when she flicked off the light as we began to go up casting one last look back into the darkness and noticed that there was light coming from somewhere not very bright but nonetheless a light source moving swiftly we shoved aside one of the shelves of puppets and felt along the wall behind it to confirm what Charlie had believed to be the case there was a door behind it I told you this was all kinds of

Scooby-Doo Charlie said with a grin on her face clearly enjoying herself I smiled which was something I definitely wouldn't have been able to do if she wasn't there it was nice to have someone to share this Insanity with we went along the wall trying to find some way to open the door some handle or switch to make it open from behind it I was sure that I could hear something it sounded almost like music circus music a cheerful upbeat tune but also off some somehow as if there was something not quite right about it out

of the corner of my eye I was sure that the puppet with the ridiculous mustache and monacle had moved and I mean I realize how ridiculous that sounds but I was certain of it it was just the the tiniest movement twitch of its head towards the skeleton puppet as if waiting for orders I thought to myself then I was wondering why that thought even popped into my head with a bit of work we managed to trip away the wallpaper that was covering most of the door revealing that it was bright red in color the paint

chipped and flaked in places with a small Keyhole no handle I assumed that it just pushed inwards once unlocked or perhaps sled to the side as there was no place for a handle to have once been either it was then that I noticed Charlie had stopped smiling in fact she was just staring at the door with what looked like a mix of confusion fear taking a few steps back from it when I asked her what was wrong she just she shook her head and made excuses to leave I asked her if she was all right

she told me she was tired promised to help me try and find the key to the door in the morning I mean it was getting late so it was plausible enough but I knew that that something was wrong here for the rest of the evening I looked through Emerson's old things in his room looking for some clue perhaps as to what it was that had inspired such fear in Charlie's friend for the most part it was old toys childhood drawings nothing much of use there were there were a few things that were odd though there's

a picture that I guess Emerson had done when he was little there was a crude drawing of a boy in his bed that I think was meant to be Emerson himself around him were stood several figures one was just a stick figure with a hat on its head another was a portly man with a cartoonish mustache and teeth and there was a third that was very odd it was just a scribble in the outline of a person a black shadowy scribble it was a circle drawn above the three figures and the boy and lines were

shown coming down from it leading to the boy's head for some reason uh looking at those lines the words tendrils came to mind there was a picture of a red door other words where they take them was scrolled in large large letters beneath it the final picture was of the stick man and the man with a mustache leading several smaller figures towards a third now this one was a woman whether a rather well-drawn one in comparison to the crude basic nature of the others except for except for the face the face was just two dots

for eyes and a line for a mouth the words where they take them was written here as [Music] well there was a message on my answering machine from Charlie the next day she said she'd gone to stay with her girlfriend for a few days just to clear her head and apologized for leaving so suddenly the previous night her voice sounded odd kind of shaky really and she said not to bother with the door she tried to sound calm and Casual when she said it but there was fear in her voice she said it was probably

best to forget about the whole thing and just cover up the basement not even mention it to the potential buyers of the house she said it'd be a good idea to take the puppets off of eBay as well I really should have done if she asked instead I spent the rest of the day ransacking the house searching for the key to that door I looked everywhere with little success until almost on whim I decided to search Emerson's room more thoroughly and there hidden in one of his old pillowcases was a key ped myself a drink

to steady my nerves sitting down to watch the TV I remember the old thing never picked up much when we were little channels were always full of static seemed to be working better now at least and the News came on talking about another Disappearance in the area girl at 12 this time vanished from her home in the middle of the night I flipped through the channels looking for something a little less Grim while I finished my drink getting up I headed down the steps into the basement striding toward WS the door ready to open it

the skeleton puppet was sat at the sewing machine now I knew I hadn't moved it and neither Charlie and the other puppets their heads seemed to be turned towards it as if they were waiting for it to do something to I don't know to to say something my God it was it was a hideous thing an awful misshapen mouth looking awful God Knows Why the prop designer had made it look like that at that moment the words to grind your skin popped into my head I put the key into the door and sure enough it

unlocked it the door pushing inward with ease revealing the room that lay Beyond it it was illuminated by a single dirty bulb making the contents of the room easy to see dear Lord the smell the only thing worse was the sight of what was littered around the room children's shoes and clothes some spattered with old dried blood were piled in a heap in one corner of the room the floorboards were stained with large patches of red one of which as I stepped into it I realized was still somewhat fresh sticky like like soda spilled on

a movie theater floor the room smelted of spoiled meat burnt hair and it took all I had not to throw up as I entered it wondering how the smell hadn't traveled from this room to the basement there's a pile of old video cassettes in one corner of the room all labeled with things like Emerson's first bike ride and Emerson's first spelling be all old home movies I guess but mixed in with some of them were tapes labeled Candle Cove episode 4 and season 3 pilot episode I picked up a few and noticed that there were

bloody fingerprints on several there's a series of steps leading down further into the blackness in the rear of the room and I I I felt oddly compelled to go down there how far down did this go how is this even here beneath my family home without me ever knowing it and yet I felt like I did know about it looking at those steps I felt like I remembered being in this room before I was a child and it had been empty then and there I stood with Emerson at the foot of those stairs Emerson you

have to go inside hi whispered to him taking Delight in how terrified he looked he had gone down into the dark and and my head throbbed with pain it actually physically hurt to try to remember as if something was willing me not to had there been someone down there with us I was sure I remembered there being someone in the room besides the two of us the more I thought about it our mother no not our mother but another woman my good couldn't I remember her face I began to take unsteady steps down the stairs

the more I walked the closer I got to another door another red door the key fit the lock of this one as well and it opened with ease it was music coming from within now and sound of waves crashing against the shore I felt it pulling me towards it calling me in like a siren song I I had to go inside I thought to myself I had to go inside I wasn't alone in this room I burned all the puppets later that night not that I imagined it matters they' been destroyed before and it hadn't

stopped them from coming back they're just wood and paint and cloth nothing but a conduit they allowed them to come through allowed them to walk through the door and come here oh God the door I know where they go now I know where they go oh cry out Jesus please I know where they go I saw it they took me there that the way they took my brother when he was a child they need us I I don't know why they need us but they need us and that's what he said through that horrible misshapen

mouth those eyes rolling in his sockets waddly they needed my brother and they needed me and my and my family isn't safe the signal needs us the story needs us the the ship came to the cave Emerson was laughing and crying at the same time as he spoke the words I knew were coming as he told me what I had to do it was waiting for me I saw the I ran you may think me a coward for not helping them not even trying to save them but I know where the ship is taking them

now I know where the voyage leads I know who was waiting at the end I pray to God but I know that it'll do no good good I know now I know things that no one should ever know I know that Emerson learned that day the signal found him I know what Emerson learned the day the signal found him I know the things he learned in that dark place where the music comes from music played on instruments crafted of bone and organs wrapped in flesh it's always there now in my head playing in an endless

loop the signals found me like it found Emerson that day I made him go down those stairs like it found our mother I I know why she did what she did I know what she knew and I know where Emerson is I saw him I I saw him on the ship my God this the ship the Laughing was the worst I I wish it would stop laughing sealed up the basement but I know that one day someone will go down there again I I wrote this so that when they discover the things I know they'll

find down there they they'll know neither I nor my mother were responsible perhaps so they'll have the courage to do what I don't and they can destroy this terrible place they could Burn It To The Ground the only thing holding me back is the fear that perhaps this place is not merely the door to their cage but the cage itself I mean if the house were to be destroyed Perhaps Perhaps they'd be able to spread I want to apologize to my family I know I hope they'll forgive me for what I'm about to do I

hope they'll be able to understand and my brother if this reaches you please don't go into that house and don't sell it board it up let it stand forgotten a creepy old building for people to stare and wonder at maybe maybe that'll hold them back at least the sewing machine's going in all hours of the day now I know it's him sewing himself new additions to that terrible Cape she lets me keep the skin you see she he gets to keep the skin I'm so sorry Emerson I don't I don't hate you for the things

you did I wish I could help you or at least put you out of your misery I know they won't let you rest I know you can't be free of them now and I see I see them out of the corner of my eyes sometimes they're they're going to take me to the ship I won't let them I'll die the way I choose seek and carry my body away wonderful hopeful far from where they can ever find it this letter was found lying beside a VHS tape the tape proved to be nothing but static although

those who watched it reportedly felt a sense of unease and nausea when they tried to view it the Grimes home was searched and the belongings of over 23 children who had gone missing in the local area were discovered within no trace of the children themselves were found within the house or near it however the basement and the secret room were both as the letter described them however there were no stairs leading down to a further sub basement or anywhere on the property the puppets all also appeared to be completely undamaged despite the claim that they

had been burnt the tapes mentioned in the letter were missing two families have since lived in the Grimes home neither stayed for more than a few months reporting strange smells odd noises around the house and things going missing one reported sensing something terrible in the basement and her children spoke of horrible dreams about a ship that would be taking them away and the Bony man from the TV watching them at night the house is now abandoned having been purchased and then left empty by one Adrien Grimes in early 2011 the puppets and set pieces of

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