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The October Records - A Month-Long Halloween Nightmare (Episode 11) - "The Substitute"

The October Records - A Month-Long Halloween Nightmare (Episode 11) - "The Substitute"

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Miss Holloway died three days ago in a car accident, but she's teaching her third-grade class anyway—the children won't look directly at her because she "hurts to see." When students make contact with her, their skin becomes waterlogged and begins sloughing off, while she teaches impossible lessons where every answer involves drowning. Margaret discovers Room 237 shouldn't exist in a school with only 200 rooms, yet finds Miss Holloway there with half her face missing—not injured but erased—revealing her drowned body still belted in a submerged car. The most horrifying revelation comes when the children show Margaret a mirror: she's been at the bottom of Miller's Lake since playing the first recording, and everything since has been her dying brain trying to make sense of drowning. The tenth point is marked as Margaret realizes she's still in that classroom, teaching with a face that's no longer her own, while her real body discovers scales growing beneath translucent skin.

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