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			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Thirty-Five: A Favor</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>Violet Eyes, by James Renner</title>
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			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Thirty-Four: No Title</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Thirty-Three: Bottoms Up</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Thirty-Two: The Reservoir and the Machine</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>Violet Eyes, by James Renner</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<itunes:subtitle>Chapter Thirty-One: The Lady with No Jaw</itunes:subtitle>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Thirty-One: The Lady with No Jaw</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Thirty-One: The Lady with No Jaw</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>Violet Eyes, by James Renner</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<itunes:subtitle>Chapter Thirty: The Suck</itunes:subtitle>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Thirty: The Suck</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Thirty: The Suck</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>Violet Eyes, by James Renner</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<itunes:subtitle>Chapter Twenty-Nine: Father Vaughn</itunes:subtitle>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Twenty-Nine: Father Vaughn</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Twenty-Nine: Father Vaughn</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>Violet Eyes, by James Renner</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<itunes:subtitle>Chapter Twenty-Eight: Why This and Not That?</itunes:subtitle>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Twenty-Eight: Why This and Not That?</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Twenty-Eight: Why This and Not That?</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>Violet Eyes, by James Renner</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<itunes:subtitle>Chapter Twenty-Seven: Possessing a Ghost</itunes:subtitle>
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			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Twenty-Seven: Possessing a Ghost</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>Violet Eyes, by James Renner</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<itunes:subtitle>Chapter Twenty-Six: Goodbye, Mr. Corcoran</itunes:subtitle>
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			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Twenty-Six: Goodbye, Mr. Corcoran</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>Violet Eyes, by James Renner</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<itunes:subtitle>Chapter Twenty-Five: Crazy, Old Stuff</itunes:subtitle>
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			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Twenty-Five: Crazy, Old Stuff</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>Violet Eyes, by James Renner</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Chapter Twenty-Four: I'm Done]]></itunes:subtitle>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Twenty-Four: I'm Done</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Twenty-Four: I'm Done</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>Violet Eyes, by James Renner</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<itunes:subtitle>Chapter Twenty-Three: Why I Hate Mirrors</itunes:subtitle>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Twenty-Three: Why I Hate Mirrors</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Twenty-Three: Why I Hate Mirrors</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>Violet Eyes, by James Renner</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<itunes:subtitle>Chapter Twenty-Two: One Thing Leads to Another</itunes:subtitle>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Twenty-Two: One Thing Leads to Another</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Twenty-Two: One Thing Leads to Another</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>Violet Eyes, by James Renner</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Chapter Twenty-One: Stella's Unkindness]]></itunes:subtitle>
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			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Twenty-One: Stella's Unkindness</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>Violet Eyes, by James Renner</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<itunes:subtitle>Chapter Twenty: Galley Boys and Khalifa Kush</itunes:subtitle>
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			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Twenty: Galley Boys and Khalifa Kush</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>Violet Eyes, by James Renner</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<itunes:subtitle>Chapter Nineteen: The Last Girl</itunes:subtitle>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Nineteen: The Last Girl</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Nineteen: The Last Girl</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>Violet Eyes, by James Renner</title>
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			<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Chapter Eighteen: Probably What You've Been Waiting For]]></itunes:subtitle>
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			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Eighteen: Probably What You've Been Waiting For</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>Violet Eyes, by James Renner</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<itunes:subtitle>Chapter Seventeen: Not Today</itunes:subtitle>
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			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Seventeen: Not Today</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>Violet Eyes, by James Renner</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<itunes:subtitle>Chapter Sixteen: Holy F***ing S***</itunes:subtitle>
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			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Sixteen: Holy F***ing S***</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>Violet Eyes, by James Renner</title>
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			<itunes:subtitle>Chapter Fifteen: This Sad Guy Has a Total Breakdown at His Own Party</itunes:subtitle>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Fifteen: This Sad Guy Has a Total Breakdown at His Own Party</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Fifteen: This Sad Guy Has a Total Breakdown at His Own Party</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>Violet Eyes, by James Renner</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Chapter Fourteen: Mr. Gad's Futon]]></itunes:subtitle>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Fourteen: Mr. Gad's Futon</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Fourteen: Mr. Gad's Futon</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>Violet Eyes, by James Renner</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Chapter Thirteen: A Bunch of People Tell Me What's Best for Me]]></itunes:subtitle>
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			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Thirteen: A Bunch of People Tell Me What's Best for Me</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>Violet Eyes, by James Renner</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<itunes:subtitle>Chapter Twelve: The Girl in the White Dress</itunes:subtitle>
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			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Twelve: The Girl in the White Dress</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>Violet Eyes, by James Renner</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<itunes:subtitle>Chapter Eleven: That New Age Shit</itunes:subtitle>
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			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Eleven: That New Age Shit</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>Violet Eyes, by James Renner</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<itunes:subtitle>Chapter Ten: Ugh</itunes:subtitle>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Ten: Ugh</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Ten: Ugh</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>Violet Eyes, by James Renner</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Chapter Nine: I Can't Even]]></itunes:subtitle>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Nine: I Can't Even</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Nine: I Can't Even</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>Violet Eyes, by James Renner</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<itunes:subtitle>Chapter Eight: Something Is Fucky with Stella, Too</itunes:subtitle>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Eight: Something Is Fucky with Stella, Too</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Eight: Something Is Fucky with Stella, Too</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>Violet Eyes, by James Renner</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 12:45:05 GMT</pubDate>
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			<itunes:subtitle>Chapter Seven: Friday Night</itunes:subtitle>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Seven: Friday Night</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Seven: Friday Night</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>Violet Eyes, by James Renner</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<itunes:subtitle>Chapter Six: The Boy From Mahatt Ur</itunes:subtitle>
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			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Six: The Boy From Mahatt Ur</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>Violet Eyes, by James Renner</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<itunes:subtitle>Chapter Five: This Chapter Is Setup</itunes:subtitle>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Five: This Chapter Is Setup</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Five: This Chapter Is Setup</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>Violet Eyes, by James Renner</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<itunes:subtitle>Chapter Four: Some Men</itunes:subtitle>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Four: Some Men</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Four: Some Men</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>Violet Eyes, by James Renner</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2025 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<itunes:subtitle>Chapter Three: The Roomie</itunes:subtitle>
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			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Three: The Roomie</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>Violet Eyes, by James Renner</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2025 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<itunes:subtitle>Chapter Two: Winters</itunes:subtitle>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Two: Winters</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>Chapter Two: Winters</p><br><p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<title>Violet Eyes, by James Renner </title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2025 15:14:08 GMT</pubDate>
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			<itunes:subtitle>Chapter One: Drenched AF</itunes:subtitle>
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			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>On the edge of the University of Akron campus is a beautiful Victorian mansion, former home to the Humboldt family, once the city’s wealthiest patrons. Years ago, Stella Humboldt gifted the house to the university under two conditions – that two young women would live there for free during the school year and that they never, ever bring men inside after dark.</p><br><p>Humboldt House is also the sight of an old local mystery – eighty years ago, young Blaire Humboldt disappeared along with the son of the family’s servant. The police believed they were murdered, possibly by Blaire’s eccentric uncle, but he claimed they left so that they could live together in sin. No bodies were ever found.</p><br><p>Enter our protagonist, a young woman finishing college, who has just moved to Akron. She is nameless, like the narrator of&nbsp;<em>Rebecca</em>. And mysterious in other ways – she has&nbsp;violet&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and one of them is glass. When she accepts a position to live at Humboldt House, she thinks she has lucked into a wonderful arrangement - free room and board inside a giant mansion. But then the piano begins to play at night and round marks appear along the walls of the kitchen, leading to the locked basement door and she begins to suspect she should have stayed in the dorms.</p><br><p>There are ghosts here, and not all are human.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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