The Radish Man -- TAPE 31

Through a series of chilling recordings, police reports, and lost audio logs -- sent anonymously to an Investigative Reporter -- "The Radish Man" unfolds as a found-footage horror mystery, documenting one man’s descent into madness as he fights to save his family from an unstoppable terror. But the deeper he digs, the more the truth becomes clear: no one escapes The Radish Man. No one ever has.

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"The Radish Man" created by Star Chaser Productions, written & directed by Matthew Ewald.

Produced by Karen Ewald, Shannon DeSalvo & Matthew Ewald.

For my wife. On this and every world.

© Star Chaser Productions | 2026

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:22

God, I believe. I hope someone's hearing this. I don't know how much time I have left. I met it.

unknown 0:34

I'm at it.

SPEAKER_02 0:35

I waited for it. I got everything I could that I thought would hurt it. The fireplace, poker, the kitchen knives. Jacob's baseball bed. Everything. And I met it. The moment it came through the floor. I fucking met it. And I gave it everything I had. I hit it as hard as I could. I stabbed it over and over and over. I screamed and I yelled. I demanded it leave. I I beat it down. And then nothing worked. I tore at it. I tore at it until my fingernails ripped away. I'm I'm torn up. I need to sit down. It hurt me real bad. Claws. And shoulders sprouted. Mouth elongated. And a bit in my shoulder. I can hear it. I can hear it. I can hear it now. It's claws. Right my flesh. Literally splayed me open. Blood. I'm I'm bleeding. I'm bleeding out real. Real bad. Claire and Jacob are hiding. I put him in the attic. Hi. High in the attic in the back. Back back corner. I'm waiting. Top floor. Third room on the right. The moment it comes up. I'm gonna try one more time. I'm gonna set the fucker on fire. I'm gonna hold on to it. And I'm just gonna let it burn. I'm gonna hold on to it. Until it stops moving or I do. There's this sound of bells ringing in the distance, but we don't have we don't have anything like that in town. I feel like I've gone insane. What the fuck is happening? This is our f our family. Our family listen listen to me. I need you to listen to me. I can feel it in the wall. It's in the soil. But it's roots it branches up into the home fuck. It started with a radish. That rotting thing on our doorstep. I should have burned it. Should have left town. Shoulda kept Jacob out of the woods. But nobody nobody talks about it. Nobody says anything. And if they do, they're fucking crazy. They get committed psych wards, psych evaluations, 24-hour holds. They're not crazy. If they talk about something, if they were normal and happy. And they weren't. It's because something happened. It happened to us. Jacob got scared. Made a mistake. He threw a rock. So fucking. And so it's come. But it's not gonna take my boy. It's not gonna hurt Claire. I fucking refuse it. She's the love of my existence. I fucking dare you. I spent a lifetime watching movies, reading books. When it when it pulled its claws across my back, I started reciting the Lord's Prayer. I was literally quoting the fucking exorcist. I can't see out of my right eye. And one hit fucking hit me across the face. And I felt hot all the way down my neck and my shirt. My sh my shirt's red now. Like the fucking radish man. It started with a radish. But it's too late now. Too late. It's too late for any of us. It's in the house. It's inside the wall. I can hear it moving, slither, rooting through everything. It wants him.

unknown 9:02

My boy.

SPEAKER_02 9:04

It wants my son. And I won't let it take him.

unknown 9:17

Fuck.

SPEAKER_02 9:18

There it is. Okay.

unknown 9:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 9:26

Whoever you are, I want you to listen to me very carefully. There has to be a way. There has to be. There has to be a way to break this to stop this to end. This there has to be a way. There has to be a way. The man in the woods, the recording, the carvings and the trees. It all points to something. Something. And what? What? I took it down. Let that be known. You can hurt it. You can keep it down. But there is one thing I didn't try. Not not yet. Fire. Thank God we have a garage door attached to the house. An entire gallon of gas. I poured it on me from about a fucking stern. And all it takes is one match. I'm gonna fucking end this monster. I'm gonna fucking end this nightmare. This boogeyman. This fucking this fucking radish radish man. I'm gonna watch him burn. He put my family through hell, so I'm gonna take him there. It all points to something. Everything I said, all of these tapes, a sacrifice, a burning. If I can trap trap it, if I can keep it here with me. Oh I hear ya. Come upstairs.

SPEAKER_01 11:50

Oh, that's not good.

SPEAKER_02 11:52

That's not that's not good blood, blood just everywhere. Everywhere.

unknown 12:08

Coming out of me.

SPEAKER_02 12:11

All right, well. Enough is enough. I was gonna say if if I don't make it out, but I'm um I'm done done. There's no coming back from this. There's there's noe, don't let it spread. Don't let it take anyone else. Find the radish patch beyond the creek. Within the forest, those woods just past Three Points Park. It's not like it's hard to find. Just keep walking. Jacob and Daddy. Walk up Crestview Road. You're afraid. Don't miss that. Stay straight. You'll hit the woods. Keep walking. You won't miss it. And once you're there, once you're there, always destroy it all. Destroy it all before it takes deeper root. Fight. And if once you're there, you can hear them. Hear them. If you can hear the whispers, run. Light off.

unknown 14:28

Here it comes.

SPEAKER_00 14:31

All right.

SPEAKER_02 14:34

Well, whoever you are.

SPEAKER_00 14:43

Oh shit.

SPEAKER_02 14:48

We've had quite the adventure, haven't we? Quite the journey. And whoever we are. Thank you. Thank you. For being a silent companion on this journey of mine. Here comes it. I forgot one thing. Apparently, it's really painful to die by fire.