- NARRATOR: Every state has it's folklore, tall tales and legends.
[rock music playing]
But sometimes, there is a darker story.
A tale not so much told as whispered.
- MAN: Arthur Anna owned the country's largest lead mine,
and lived in a big house with his only child, Lucy.
She was a lonely little girl.
Mr. Anna knew there was lead in the dirt
which made Lucy's death from lead poisoning all the more tragic.
To this day, the mansion stands as Arthur left it when he died.
Full of his things and a few of Lucy's.
Some local kids say
they've heard the voice of a young girl call out in the cemetery,
longing for a friend to play with.
[ominous music playing]
[thunder rumbling]
- EMILY: Azalea!
You're gonna miss horseback riding. - AZALEA: I know.
[sighs]
- EMILY: I'll make us matching necklaces!
- But I won't be here to get it.
- SARAH: Azalea?
- I want to stay here and go to camp. - [car door closes]
- We'll be back to visit.
Hi, Em. - Hi.
- OK, let's go before it pours. - [car engine starts]
- Bye, Emily. - Bye.
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- I'm tired of moving.
- You're gonna have lots of adventures and friends ahead.
[voices echoing]
- LUCY: Friends, friends, friends who care.
You find friends everywhere!
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- TOM: Arcadia, here we come! - [Sarah laughs]
- Why do we have to move all the time? - TOM: It's our jobs.
We take care of people's homes and special things
when they wanna sell them.
- Or after they've...
[sighs] - Or if they can't do it for themselves.
- We've moved nine times, and I'm seven!
That's two more than me.
- We know this has been hard on you so this is gonna be our last appraisal.
- And then we can go back to St. Louis?
- Maybe. But wherever we go, we'll stay.
[leaves rustling]
- Hey. Flowering dogwoods. - SARAH: Hmm.
- Those weren't in the pictures?
- SARAH: Too bad we won't be here when they bloom.
- Hmm. And where there's dogwoods...
- You'll find Azalea. - [laughs] That's right.
And... there they are.
[smacks lips] Wow! Those things need some TLC. [chuckles]
- SARAH: So does the house! - TOM: Aw, man!
[car door opens]
[panting]
- It's so big! - TOM: Uh-huh.
- Well, Mr. Anna hasn't lived here in three months.
It's amazing how fast nature can take over.
- And he clearly let it go long before he moved.
- Yeah. - Is Anna a girl?
- No, he's talking about Arthur Anna, who owned the house before.
And the largest lead mine in the country.
- What's a lead mine?
- Not somewhere you wanna visit. Come on, help me with the stuff.
- [melodic music playing] - [crows cawing]
[ominous music playing]
- What's that shadow?
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- TOM: Wha... What shadow?
- There's a cemetery next door.
- Uh, maybe we'll explore it later, huh?
Oh, uh...
Azalea, what is... what is this?
- She's so pretty!
- Thanks for being such a good sport, sweetheart.
- What? - Why do you infantilize her?
- TOM: Oh, come on! It's a doll, Sarah.
- SARAH: You know it's not about the doll.
- Stop fighting!
- Ugh.
- OK.
OK. Fine. All right?
- [dog barking in the distance] - [leaves rustling]
Hey, don't step on any headstones. "Bad luck!"
- [wind blowing] - [leaves rustling]
[ominous music playing]
[dog barking in the distance]
[crows cawing]
- Friends, friends, friends who care. You'll find friends...
- LUCY: Everywhere!
[wind blowing]
[ominous music playing]
- Leave it there.
It's not yours.
- What's this mean?
- You know, um...
You know how Scooter got kind of old...
- Died?
- Yeah. - Did she die?
- Yeah.
- How old was she?
- Oh. Too young, sweetheart.
Come on. I don't want you sitting the dirt.
- Was she more or less than me?
- Uh...
She was also seven. But that's not gonna happen to you.
'Cause your mommy and I, we are here to protect you.
OK? OK? - OK. Yep.
- [exclaims] Come on, come on! - [screams]
Let's go, let's go!
[wind blowing]
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