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00:00The year is 1963. The place is the sleepy town of New Salem, Illinois.

00:08A new art gallery has just opened its doors with a grand opening party,

00:13and the townspeople are flocking to see what this new business is all about.

00:19But it's not just any art gallery. This is no ordinary collection of paintings and sculptures.

00:25This is something far more sinister. This is the home of the Cursed Soul Gallery.

00:32What cursed souls? Well, when the guests enter, they soon realize that each painting on the walls

00:40is possessed by a demon. He's an artist named Jude Morrow, and he's a bit of a downer.

00:48One of the paintings on the wall seems to be moving. She tells Jude that they need to get

00:53rid of this painting, but first they have to wait for the right moment, and sees a vision of a woman

00:59standing in the living room. He starts to change his mind. Soon, it will be nighttime, and that means

01:07the other souls will be stirring. Some are more aggressive than others, but none can match the

01:14power of Jude's gift. Just as the sun begins to rise, he completes his final sketch, banishing the

01:22last soul. The house is now free of its evil energies, and Hazel S. Ghost is able to finally

01:30rest in peace. And the first one he must banish is the territorial one in the living room. Well,

01:38then you're in luck, because there are plenty of other tales of the unexpected. What are you waiting

01:45for? Go watch them all right now. He's still processing everything that happened the night

01:53before, and he does unt know if he's really cut out for this hero business. But Lydia assures him

02:00that he will come around, and she's right. Getting ready with his art supplies, Jude sets up his easel

02:08and prepares to capture the beast. As the clock strikes midnight, the painting begins to glow red,

02:15and with a quick sketch, Jude traps the creature forever. And in a final act of magnanimity,

02:22Jude captures Noah's soul and releases him from his own painting. In doing so, Jude becomes the

02:29greatest artist of all time and the most powerful wielder of the sight. The painting goes dead.

02:36Hazel thanks him and moves on to wherever ghosts go, and Lydia tells Jude that he did well,

02:43but there are many more paintings to go. When he returns to the living room, he sees that the

02:49vision was actually a ghost. Her name was Hazel Court, and she was the original owner of the house.

02:56She lived here 100 years ago with her sister, who had a lover named Cyrus Grimley. He travels to New

03:04York City to learn more about his powers, uncovers a conspiracy involving a secret society called the

03:12Lux, and discovers that his own mother was a member, and when she learned that he had inherited the

03:19site, she tried to kill him. But through it all, Jude manages to hone his skills and becomes a better

03:26and better artist. When Cyrus was killed in a robbery gone wrong, Hazel's sister was accused

03:34of the crime, even though she didn't do it. To protect her sister's reputation, Hazel took the

03:40blame for the murder and went to jail, where she died of a broken heart. Her soul became trapped in

03:47the house, turning it into a nexus for other cursed souls to gather. Most of these souls sleep during

03:55the day and are active at night. Since it's the middle of the afternoon, they have time to kill.

04:02As they wait, Lydia explains to Jude how the world of the site works, and how he has been chosen to help

04:11clean up the world by ridding it of these cursed souls once and for all. Now, you might think,

04:18hey, this must be the cursed soul that everyone's talking about, but there's actually hundreds of

04:25these things in the world, and they're all stuck in paintings. This particular one is merely

04:31territorial. It wants to make sure that no other souls are placed in its territory, and it is particularly

04:39grumpy tonight, because it can sense that Jude has inherited the site, and is thus a threat to its

04:46existence. His wife recently left him. His career isn't going anywhere, and he's moved into his late

04:54grandmother's house after she passed away. That's why he's surprised when he meets his grandmother's old

05:00friend, Miss Lydia Brightmore, at the grand opening of his new art gallery. Lydia had been expecting to

05:08find a much younger man, so she's taken aback by Jude's appearance. But when she sees his artwork,

05:16she knows she's found the successor to her own site. You see, she has site as well, and she believes

05:23that Jude has inherited it from her. No, seriously. When the gallery owner dims the lights and turns on the

05:31spotlight, the paintings begin to move. Their eyes roll around in their sockets. How exactly does one go

05:39about killing an evil spirit? By throwing holy water at it, perhaps, or maybe reading it a passage from

05:47the Bible. Well, not quite. In fact, the best way to kill these spirits is through art. Specifically,

05:55the best way is to simply draw them. If you can capture a demon on paper, then you have the power

06:03to banish it back to hell where it came from. That is exactly what happens in the pages of Tales of the

06:11Unexpected, a comic book series published by Dark Horse Comics between 2017 and 2018. Some scream,

06:20others growl, menacingly. There are even some portraits whose subjects appear to be in mid-death

06:28throes, screaming in pain. It is actually quite difficult, because these creatures are incredibly

06:36powerful and they re-very aware of their own power. They will do anything they can to resist being

06:43captured, so they can continue tormenting humans. So the only artists capable of banishing these things

06:51are those who are blessed with a gift known as sight. These individuals can see the true form of the

06:59demons, which can sometimes take on a life of their own and then capture them in their drawings,

07:06and contorting in ways the human body was never meant to bend. It's terrifying, and nobody has any

07:14idea how this is possible. The people at the party are shocked, but intrigued enough to stick around

07:21and find out. And while you might think that drawing demons is a pretty easy task, if you can draw a little

07:29devil face, our story begins in the pages of issue number four. Although it's really more like issue

07:37number one, because we meet our protagonist here. But before she can explain this to him, they are

07:44interrupted by a strange disturbance. Now, while most people would probably run away screaming at this

07:51point, Lydia isn't phased in the slightest. At first, Jude doesn't believe her, but when he goes to the

07:59kitchen to get a drink, Hazel begs Jude to free her from the house, but he tells her that he needs more

08:06time to prepare. As the night wears on, Jude captures one soul after another. In the morning, Lydia tells

08:15Jude that he is ready to take the next step in his training, but he says he needs more time to think.

08:22Over the next few weeks, Jude finds himself getting sucked back into the world of the sight.

08:28In the end, he faces off against the leader of the Bucks, a man named Noah Graves, who tries to kill

08:36Jude, but fails. And that's the story of Jude, Morrow, and the Cursed Soul Gallery. Did you enjoy this episode?

08:45Jude 2 Peter 3, Morrow, and the Cursed Soul Academy?

09:06So, let's begin.

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