Episode 87

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What is it?

What do you want?

I don't have a treat.

Get away from my coffee.

Oh, uh, hi.

Hi there.

Uh, can I...

Oh, oh, wait.

Here we go.

Uh, I'm supposed to read from this, I guess.

Anyway, the shop bell rings.

Okay.

When someone walks in, yada, yada, yada.

Here we go.

Welcome to Radio Rental, a video rental shop with an exclusive collection of the scariest stories you've ever heard, all told by real people.

Why is that underlined?

I don't understand that.

God, what?

I don't know what you want.

I'm just going to keep going.

Hi, I'm Jared.

I'm filling in for Terry Carnation today.

Yeah, I don't usually do this kind of thing.

Usually I just come here like twice a year to fix the AC.

Upwards of 10 times for the plumbing.

And Terry had me seal up some hole in the floor a while ago.

He said the hole was void or something.

Void of what?

I have no idea.

That guy's kind of,

you know.

Anyway, totally out of the blue, Terry left me a

strange voicemail.

Here, you can listen for yourself.

Hey, Jared, how's it going?

It's me, Terry Carnation from Radio Rental.

Sorry, I know it's 3:35 in the morning, but I'm gonna need you to come down here, ASAP, like tomorrow, like today, and help me with

something.

Maybe it's not the AC this time, it's kind of a.

Well, it's kind of a bigger ask.

When you arrive, I won't actually be there.

You can find instructions left in an envelope inside the Omni magazine December 1985 issue.

The one on male pregnancy and Isaac Asimov.

You don't need to bring your tools.

But uh, bring an overnight bag and tell no one, okay?

Bye.

Yep.

So, not the usual house call.

Pretty weird.

And yet here I am.

With my overnight bag.

Like a child.

No fucking clue where Terry is.

Just been trying to fix stuff around the store while I wait.

I fixed the rolling chair.

Look.

Rolls smoothly now.

Isn't that nice?

Just a little WD-40, and I tighten the screws.

But no more fixing things pro bono, Terry.

No more.

Until I get paid.

Yeah.

So I guess I'm just supposed to keep an eye on this store and some precious collection of tapes while he's gone.

And speaking of, it says here, I'm supposed to play one of those tapes for you, if you ask.

The ones with the scary stories.

Is that what you want?

Hello.

From an exclusive collection?

Or an exclusive collection, you think you would have taken better care of these.

This box is falling apart.

Not my problem.

Not Not my problem.

Anyway, is there any rhyme or reason to this?

Unclear.

Great.

We'll play this one.

Hope you haven't seen it.

Don't really care if you have.

Okay, here it goes.

Oh, wait.

This one says Groundhog Day.

I love Groundhog Day with Bill Murray.

Oh, this is a classic.

Y'all, you're gonna love it.

Geez, that does not sound good.

Something's grinding in there.

I could probably...

Nope.

Not fixing anything else till I'm paid.

So about 12, 13 years ago, I moved into a new area.

I was excited because it was my first time moving out.

I ended up getting a roommate three to four months into moving to that new area.

I really wanted to meet new people like around my age to hang out with and so forth.

My roommate suggested that I

download a meeting app or a dating app to meet new people around the area.

So I caved in and I downloaded this dating app.

I met a few people on the app.

Good conversation with majority of them.

But eventually I met this guy

who was pretty cool.

He was down to Earth.

Conversation was great on the app.

So we decided to meet in person

and just do a dinner in a movie type thing.

We went to dinner, had a great time there.

Conversation was great.

But we ate a lot and we were torn with the idea if we should go to the movies or not.

But we ended up going and we decided to go see Lincoln.

I was excited because Abraham Lincoln is like one of my favorite presidents to read about.

I was happy.

Him, not so much, but he agreed to go.

During the duration of the movie, I saw him dozing off, but I was so engrossed with the movie.

We got through the movie and after the movies, we decided to go back to my place to continue the night.

just to go back, have a couple of drinks, chat.

And we got into his car and we kind of sat in the car for a few minutes talking.

And maybe like five minutes later, I started to

feel

different.

Everything around me was

going at a normal pace, but it just felt like I was slow.

slow.

But I looked over to him, he was just having a conversation, you know, acting like nothing is wrong.

He was still talking, he was doing hand gestures and stuff like that.

So it was no indication that he didn't see nothing wrong with me.

What is going on?

Like, I was like in a deep trance.

That's when the cycle started.

He started to to drive to my place again

i was just slow in nature like waking up from a nap and it just everything just seemed so like ugh

he reached towards the radio and asked me if i want to change the radio station

i don't remember answering him whatever i did it must have let him know that yeah go for it so he changed the radio station

few moments after that he pointed out the window and asked me is this my exit

again no indication from me to let him know that this is my exit or not but we got off on the exit

the whole time i'm still feel sluggish i feel

weird

As we're getting off the exit, I look down at my phone, which was in my lap, and it says 1029.

He continued to have his conversation.

He looked at me and asked me if I want to change the radio.

And I looked at him,

but I was like, wait, did he not just ask me this?

Like, it kind of felt like deja vu.

I was like, did he not just ask me this a while ago?

And he reached for the radio and he changed the radio station.

And a a few moments after that, he pointed out the window and asked,

Is this your exit?

That's when I looked at him again.

I was thinking, I was like, Wait, we just got off on my exit.

Why are we, why are you asking for if this is the exit again?

If we are, we just got on.

We got off on the exit, and I remember looking down at my phone, and it says 10:29

and darkness.

I came to

and I looked at him still having a conversation.

I

became scared because

this is the second time this happened.

What is going on?

As I was processing everything,

he looked at me again and asked,

Do you want me to change the radio station?

I was just remember just looking at him, just like, what?

Why you keep asking me this?

Why is this repeating?

Like, why does it keep happening?

He went to change the radio.

A few moments later, he pointed out the window and he said,

Is this your exit?

I look down at my phone.

It says 10:29

and darkness

i came to again

that's when i realized something was totally wrong with me because i was like what is going on

while i keep seeing 1029

he's acting like nothing is going on i'm freaking out because this is like the third time that this repeating cycle has happened.

It kept happening maybe like three or four times.

Do you want me to change the radio station?

Is this your exit?

Look down at my phone, 1029,

darkness.

After the fifth time,

I have to do something to break this cycle.

Thinking to myself, I said, maybe when he asked if I want to change the radio station,

grab his arm, prevent him from changing the radio station.

Maybe they would break the cycle.

Right when he was about to reach for the radio,

I grabbed his arm, but it felt like I had to push through this force to get to his arm.

Like I was fighting some invisible barrier.

I grabbed it.

And he looked at me

and he asked, do you want me to change the radio station?

That's when I felt

actually defeated.

I knew something was seriously wrong because that didn't work.

I didn't break the cycle.

I felt really scared and afraid

and then it happened again.

A few moments later, he pointed out the window.

Is this your exit?

I looked at my phone it says 10 29

and then darkness

i came to

but this time

i was

at my apartment complex

i felt normal

i felt normal i felt perfectly fine like nothing had happened to me

I was just fine.

I was like, whoa, what was that?

Like, what happened?

And I looked down at my phone.

It was like 1040 something.

And I was like, oh, wow, it's not 10.29 anymore.

And I was like, well, at least it's not 10.29 anymore.

And that's when I looked at him.

He said, good night.

I enjoy my time with you.

I hope we can do it again.

Maybe we should hang out some other time.

And I just remember saying goodnight and I darted out of the car and I ran to my apartment.

I thought I was really having a mental breakdown.

I ended up sleeping in my roommate's room that night.

The following morning, I went to work.

I got to the office.

just a normal typical day

and I received a Facebook message from the guy I was hanging out the night before.

I was curious to see what he had to say.

With the message, it was a video attached.

And at the bottom of the message, it said, you were epic last night.

So I played the video.

I saw me.

The outfit that I had on the night before

in the passenger seat of his car.

It looked like I was having a seizure.

I'm shaking,

mumbling.

It was just,

it was just scary to see myself in that way.

I do not remember any of that happening to me last night.

It wasn't me, but it was me.

The whole time in the video,

it was like he was laughing.

Not like a very ha ha ha type of laugh, like you laughing at a comedy show.

No, it was like a sinister laugh, like he knew what he was doing.

I asked him what happened to me last night.

He basically said that cigarette that you smoked last night wasn't a regular cigarette.

In the midst of us talking, he offered me a cigarette.

He took a pack of cigarettes and laced them with this synthetic drug called K2 or Spice.

He told me

what happened, and after that, he blocked me, deleted the message, and I never heard from him again.

It looked just like a cigarette, but it was laced with that drug.

Because of that,

I had a powerful trip.

It felt sinister, very sinister.

He knew that this was going to happen.

Like a sick entertainment for him.

Hey.

That was not Groundhog Day with Bill Murray.

Is that what's going on back here?

Terry's got some kind of freaky collection he's been stashing?

What's next?

I'm going to pop in the Breakfast Club.

It's actually a snuff film with cannibalism.

I don't like that you responded to that.

Where did all these come from, anyway?

Well, this is all above board.

That's none of your business, Jared.

That's none of your business.

Alright.

Anyway, I fixed the box while you were not watching a beloved 1993 romantic comedy.

I just used a little duct tape, couldn't help myself.

Sorry, geez, sorry.

Well, now it says on the instructions that it's time for ads.

Time for ads?

No clue what that means.

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so

Are you going to check out a DVD or something?

Buy some goobers?

There's only goobers here.

Why does he only have goobers?

Do you want me to play you another one of those tapes?

I don't know why I'm expecting a response.

You haven't said anything this entire time.

You know, that's not really normal.

Normally, you answer people.

who are talking to you.

Okay.

Whatever.

Here's your tape.

Oh, look, this one's called The Ticket.

Oh, wait, I think I've seen this movie.

Yeah, I'm going to fix that later.

It was May of 2010, towards the end of the school year.

I'm a school teacher.

I was driving home from work.

All of a sudden,

The lights came on.

So I pulled over over and the officer got out of the car.

I said, hi, officer, how you doing?

I let my window down.

He said, how are you doing, sir?

Can I get your license and registration?

I reached to my glove box, got my insurance, put up my driver's license, gave it to him.

And he went back to his car.

Just routine.

He was an African-American male.

He was rather tall.

I remember maybe about 6'3 or 6'4, kind of muscular built, almost kind of like he may have played professional sports or something.

40s, or maybe like early 50s.

So like probably middle-aged, but just like a normal police officer that had probably been with the police force for a long time.

I do have the tendency to drive fast, but I wasn't speeding.

I really don't know.

I was like, my stickers are up to date.

And I really don't know if he's also on my tag, my license plate.

I'm not sure.

I wasn't really nervous.

I'd, you know, not really been pulled up a whole lot before so i wasn't really nervous about it but i just was really curious because i really just didn't have a clue

we did the exchange and he went back to his car a few minutes later he came back

here you go here's your uh ticket just be careful and i asked her like well officer where did i get pulled up like what's this ticket for

he just kind of gave me like a little smirk or a little smile and just said have a nice day

then he left

and i didn't really look at the ticket until he got back into his car

i looked at the ticket and the ticket was actually for not having a child in a safety restraint or car seat

that's weird because i was the only person in the car

I was just stunned, I guess, to silence when I actually looked at the ticket and saw what the ticket was actually for.

I was shocked.

I I even looked in the back seat, even though I knew no one was back there.

I was like, there's nobody back here, so I don't know why that's on the ticket.

Why would he even give the impression that I had someone back there?

Because my back seat was completely empty.

So I don't know how that could have been possible.

I just kind of just sat there, let him kind of just drive off down the road.

And then finally, I just kind of just got myself and then just drove on home like I had planned on doing.

Later on that day, I called my mom and told my mom about it.

And she was like, Yeah, just, you know, go fight it in court.

Two, three weeks later, went to court.

The person that I saw at the front desk, or the clerk,

she asked me a series of questions, but one question she asked me really kind of threw me off.

She said,

Were you born in 1953?

Mind you, at the time I was 24, I don't think I look that old, do I?

That's kind of sarcastically, just kind of said no and kind of laughed it off.

She asked me a few more questions and then told me that I can go see the judge in a few minutes.

Finally, got into the courtroom, and when it was my time,

the judge came up and he was like, I have good news for you.

The officer that gave you the ticket didn't show up.

So you're free to go.

I said, Okay, that's kind of cool.

I didn't ask any questions, I just got my stuff and left.

Later on that day, I went and visited with my mom and kind of told her what happened.

I told her, like, Clerk asked me, You know, were you born in 1953?

And blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And she was like, Hmm, that's weird.

And I said, Why do you say that?

She said, Because in 1988, your dad got a ticket for the exact same thing.

And the child that was in question

was you.

I just had kind of a stunned look on my face.

And I was like, me?

She's like, yeah.

She's like, yeah, you were the child in question.

And I'm like, that's weird.

So I get pulled over 22 years later for something that he did.

The officer.

I was just curious of like why he didn't show up.

So I got on the phone.

Like I said, I don't know if it was the courthouse or the Dallas police or something.

And I called to try to find out who this officer was that gave me this ticket.

I said, hey, this officer pulled me over at this time on this date.

I gave him his first and last name.

And they said, well, we don't have an officer by that name.

The only officer we had by that name

retired like some years ago.

That was even more bizarre.

And I even gave him a description.

Taller guy, he's African-American, you know, kind of muscular built, like he's like an athlete or something.

And they said, no, we don't have an office.

We have officers that probably look like that,

but we don't have one by that name that you gave us that works here for, you know, the Dallas, you know, Dallas Police Department.

I was like, that's strange.

I just kind of just left it at that.

Welp, that was not the film I expected.

Should have known.

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Well, thanks for stopping by Radio Rental, I guess.

Maybe I'll see you next week.

Hopefully, Terry comes back before then, though.

I really don't want to sleep on the futon in the back office.

Have you seen that thing?

And there's a sealed door over there that gives me the creeps.

Yeah.

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