The narrator and Mr. Hugen discuss the strange mutilations that have been going on in the town. The narrator says that he's heard of them, but that he doesn't think they're real. He says that when he first moved to the town, he didn't really expect it to feel like a spooky place. Now, though, he thinks it's "just insane" . They've lived there for a long time, he says, and they've seen a lot of weird things, but they don't necessarily mean that they are supernatural. He explains that he tries to get his clients to explore their "uncomfortable parts" of themselves.