00:00 This podcast episode explores the challenges and triumphs of living with autoimmune disorders, featuring real stories from people with conditions like Myostenia Gravis and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy.

04:00 The narrator describes their isolated childhood spent reading and exploring, and introduces a mysterious tomb belonging to the Hides family.

07:47 A young boy discovers a family tomb in the woods and becomes obsessed with entering it, despite being too small to fit through the entrance, leading to his eventual confinement in an asylum.

11:22 The narrator becomes fascinated with the tomb and spends time in churchyards, gaining knowledge that he shouldn't have, and eventually feels that the tomb is his destiny.

15:06 The narrator has a revelation and hears voices in different New England dialects, and later finds a key in his attic that unlocks the tomb, where he finds coffins and a vacant one that he is compelled to lie down in.

18:59 The narrator continues to visit the tomb each night, experiencing changes in his speech and demeanor, and developing a fear of fire and thunderstorms, while also trying to keep his visits a secret from his parents.

22:33 The narrator overhears a spy reporting to his parents that he had been spending the night outside the tomb, leading him to believe that a supernatural agency is protecting him, and he continues to visit the tomb in secret until a thunderstorm and fire engulf the mansion, causing him to fear that he will never be able to rest in the tomb.

26:26 Despite his father's insistence that he never entered the tomb, the narrator's experiences inside the vault have only brought him pitying smiles and he is now convinced of his own madness.

30:00 The podcast episode concludes with some casual banter and Halloween well-wishes.