3. False Alarms

3. False Alarms is the third video in The Record of Stan Frederick. It was uploaded on March 23rd, 2016.
== YouTube Description ==
Sit down, kids. I want to tell you a story.
== Transcript ==
[Video begins with Stan walking down the hallway of a hotel. The corner of the frame labels this as "MARCH 23", the subtitle being "VIRGINIA".]
Stan: Jeez.
[He arrives at his room's door and opens it, and the camera's frames get choppy as his left hand enters the frame to close the door behind him. He steps further into the room only to find that the room has two beds instead of one.]
Stan: Wait. Oh my god. Why would they give me two, I asked them for-- fuck it. That's okay. This could just play out in my head a different way, okay? We have two beds. We got one for Susan... and one for... not me, because I'm going to be sleeping on the couch. It's more comfortable anyway.
[Stan settles on the couch and films himself, briefly, through the mirror. Cut: Stan draws the curtains to look at the parking lot below.]
Stan: So, you guys know how in my previous investigation that I just finished here in Virginia that I basically, uh. I basically told Dylan how, you know, there was a possibility that the Man in the Suit wasn't actually after him, or his family, you know, that maybe it was just passing through. That kind of stuff actually happens often. Like, very often. False alarms.
[The camera's frames stutter as Stan steps in front of a second mirror, but resume as Stan zooms in.]
Stan: You know. People assuming that one thing is going on, and turns out that it's not. At all. I can't really be mad about it, I'd actually rather be sure that someone isn't being stalked by something than, you know, ignore it, or go on, or something like that. So, I have to investigate it, I have to look into it, and... it can get infuriating. Especially when it's, you know, paranormal skeptics, people that are so absolutely terrified in their own shadow that they're so, like, oblivious to the fact that there are rational explanations for things. And that's coming from me, so, that ought to mean something.
[Cut: Stan sets up the camera pointing at the hotel room's couch, then steps around to go and sit.]
Stan: I think my big issue with false alarms, at least my biggest one, is that sometimes I can't always gauge whether or not they are false alarms. I can't. I mean, I've only run into this issue, like, twice. Actually, exactly twice, I remember both of them very clearly. The first time, it was: somebody called me and said that their door shut miraculously and that they were terrified for their lives. And I didn't take that seriously, because... that's just silly to me. It was silly to me. But, it turns out, it was the Man in the Suit. Against all odds. They actually did have an issue. That one I feel less bad about, that was a little bit too broad. They really didn't give me much other information.
Stan: The second time I do kind of blame myself for. Even though, again, a lack of information was an issue, but they did have more. The story is basically, um: this couple called me. They said that their seven-year-old daughter saw a monster under her bed. And that was all the information they gave me. That was literally it. They said the reason why they called me was because their daughter came to them in the middle of the night and said that she saw a monster under her bed. I couldn't trust that. I didn't think that was legitimate, because, you gotta-- you gotta have more for me than that. It's just, it's not sensible to me. That you would put your faith in a seven-year-old. Now, you know, it's important to validate your children's feelings, it is, it's just. I felt like that was a bit far.
Stan: ...Turns out, there was a bit more to the story than that. The mother was pregnant. She wasn't far along either, but they already knew the sex, and they were gonna name their daughter Yvonna. They didn't tell their seven-year-old because they wanted to surprise her. Which is nice. The reason why that's important, I guess, is just that... when the seven-year-old saw the monster under her bed, it apparently spoke to her. And it only said one word. It said, "Yvonna". It knew about the unborn child. And when the seven-year-old, who at that point had no idea about her unborn sister's existence, because her parents hadn't told her yet, when she came to them and said that the monster said a name, said "Yvonna", they were terrified. Because they figured it must be legitimate. They didn't tell me any of that. 
Stan: And, I guess it doesn't matter, I guess the whole point is that if they have enough of a feeling that something is legitimate, and they want to be sure, and they want help, then I should probably just be there to help them. And that's what I really want to start doing now. I want to start, just, worrying about stuff for the sake of helping people, not for the sake of guessing whether or not what they're asking of me is legitimate. I mean, if I'm going out there to meet them, it shouldn't matter anyway.
Stan: The story gets a little bit worse. About a month after my investigation... the mother had a miscarriage. Yvonna was never born. Forget about the fact that, because I didn't go in cautiously, that it cost me. [Stan holds up his left hand to present the missing part of his index finger to the camera. He looks at it.] Because this was as a result of that. [He drops his hand.] Forget about that, because that is not the important part. I failed. Or, at least I think I did. It's so ambiguous, I don't even know. I'll never know if that miscarriage was just a matter of circumstance or if it was that little girl being marked for death. By a monster that said her name.
[Stan takes a second; he looks away from the camera, off at the wall, and sighs.]
Stan: There's so much I still don't know. And I think that the last thing that I can afford to do, is pick and choose what's important. Everything is. Until I know for sure. 
[Stan starts unbuttoning his flannel, standing up and moving towards the camera.]
Stan: I need some rest. I need to unwind.
[He reaches for the camera. The video ends.]