Episode 83

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Speaker 3 You ever fake like you know someone just to get out of an awkward situation? One time I was at a gas station and this guy was giving serious stranger danger energy.

Speaker 3 I spotted a woman walking out of the store, made eye contact, and just blurted out, oh my gosh, hey, like we were long lost friends. Bless her, she played along.

Speaker 3 We chatted just long enough for him to leave. I owe her my life, or at least a coffee.

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Speaker 3 The following podcast includes scary stories with content that could be triggering to some listeners. Listener discretion is advised.

Speaker 2 Take a break from the same old boring blockbusters and experience a new kind of movie night with Radio Rental.

Speaker 6 At Radio Rental, our videos come to life in your living room, defy all logic and reasoning, and make you question your own reality.

Speaker 6 This is not your ordinary video rental store. At Radio Rental, we carry one-of-a-kind videos so frightening, so mind-bending, you won't be able to sleep at night.

Speaker 2 You've gone Radio Rental.

Speaker 7 Hey,

Speaker 1 what's up?

Speaker 1 You don't work here, right?

Speaker 5 Right, right, right. Makes sense because you walked in right after me.

Speaker 8 I'm just waiting for somebody to come out the back,

Speaker 9 but you're rent.

Speaker 8 Yeah, that's cool. I wasn't gonna

Speaker 1 tell you anything either. So we can both not talk.

Speaker 7 Hello?

Speaker 7 Hello?

Speaker 5 Look, I got my copy of Die Hard.

Speaker 11 I'm just going to scan it behind the desk and head on out.

Speaker 7 This place gives me the creeps, man.

Speaker 7 What the hell?

Speaker 1 Yo, there's like a bunch of instructions here.

Speaker 7 Oh, shit.

Speaker 8 Okay, this envelope got Jeremy written on it, and that's my name, dude.

Speaker 12 I'm Jeremy. That's me.

Speaker 8 Jeremy.

Speaker 5 I'm not going to open it, though. You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 9 My mama told me not to be nosy, but you know what?

Speaker 5 My mama was nosy as hell.

Speaker 11 I'm going to go ahead and open this. I'm going to open this up.

Speaker 7 Okay. All right

Speaker 5 hi you run the store congratulations signed terry

Speaker 13 who the fuck is terry

Speaker 7 okay there's there's also like a little yak back here oh man you remember yak backs

Speaker 10 used to love those things man this one's got a sticky note on it says uh play me bro

Speaker 10 all right

Speaker 10 hey uh

Speaker 10 whoever you are oh to whom this may concern it's a true fitzhammer the last caretaker of the shop.

Speaker 15 Just a few quick reminders.

Speaker 15 We already played the tapes with the red stickers on them, so skip those. People hate repeats.
No repeats.

Speaker 15 Oh, and Trash Night is Thursdays. I definitely learned that the stinky hard way with some old Long John Silver's

Speaker 15 leftovers.

Speaker 15 Fish. And I think that's it.
Oh, wait, and Malachi hates it when you don't mix his mush meat with hot watts. So, who knew? He loves a good hot mush.

Speaker 1 Yo, who's Malachi?

Speaker 14 Oh,

Speaker 7 shit.

Speaker 1 There's a cat here.

Speaker 12 Yo, I've been standing here for like 20 minutes. Now, I didn't see it the entire time, bruh.

Speaker 10 But I swore I heard somebody in the back, like a person, like big feet, not little paws.

Speaker 7 Well, um,

Speaker 1 this is kind of freaky as shit.

Speaker 11 The note says it's just following the instructions here, but what happens if I don't?

Speaker 8 You know what I mean? Like, this envelope had my freaking name on it, and I still don't know who the fuck Terry is.

Speaker 14 Is he gonna come for me?

Speaker 13 Is Terry a murderer?

Speaker 7 I don't know.

Speaker 11 Well, no, to be honest, I guess I've seen Die Hard like a lot of times, and I don't really have anything else to do today, hence why I'm at a video store getting Die Hard when I could just rent that shit on Amazon.

Speaker 8 So, I guess, um,

Speaker 1 I guess I

Speaker 7 i guess i run the store now

Speaker 7 all right who's store runner here it goes

Speaker 16 welcome to radio rental

Speaker 7 a video rental shop with a collection of true scary stories all told by real people that's right for real harrowing tales straight from the people who experience them I'm insert name here, and I'll be your host and shopkeeper today.

Speaker 8 Make light banter, not too much because people hate when this part is too long. Okay, okay, I probably shouldn't have read that out loud.

Speaker 8 Uh, and now I'm supposed to play you one of these VHS tapes from this cardboard box labeled Secret Collection.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 5 just not any of the ones with the red stickers on them.

Speaker 5 Okay,

Speaker 5 okay, cool.

Speaker 7 All right, okay, here we go.

Speaker 17 Every year, I plan this family trip.

Speaker 17 My two brothers and I, and my two nephews, we always do something kind of as a family.

Speaker 17 Last summer, we were going to do some primitive camping, followed by like a nice cabin with a game house and stuff like that.

Speaker 17 I found this place in Kentucky, it's on a privately owned farm. It was great great because we like to take our dogs.
We like to let them off leash. We like to swim, privacy.

Speaker 17 We're kind of a big group and we just kind of want to be able to hang out and enjoy ourselves.

Speaker 17 You get to the farm and the campsite is like almost a full mile back off of the road.

Speaker 17 When we got there, you kind of roll up to the lake and there's a dock. No running water, no showers, nothing like that.

Speaker 17 Our campsite was on the far side of the lake. So we we drove all the way back there and set up and it was nice.
Our campsite was actually kind of tucked away under a bunch of trees.

Speaker 17 It had this really nice canopy. So we were in a lot of shade and we were right on the lake.

Speaker 17 The first day we were there, there were still people using the lake. You know, we saw folks at other campsites.

Speaker 17 And I knew that people would come and get day passes for this place, come hang out, use the lake, and then leave. We're just kind of checking things out.
and there were some other campers there.

Speaker 17 Across the lake, there was a group of teens doing what teens do. They're having a good time.
Took it into the late night.

Speaker 17 The second day, we're kind of at our picnic table in the shade playing cards.

Speaker 17 It's pretty quiet at this point.

Speaker 17 And I hear this buzzing sound.

Speaker 17 I mean, we're nowhere near a freeway. There's nothing close.
I shouldn't hear anything.

Speaker 17 And I looked up.

Speaker 17 There was a drone above us.

Speaker 17 It wasn't moving.

Speaker 17 We're under this canopy of trees, so there's just this sliver of space for this drone to be looking at us.

Speaker 17 There's nobody else to watch. It's just watching us.

Speaker 17 It's hanging out. It's not like it was there for a bit.
It checked on us, realized that we're boring and playing cards and left. It was there for a while.

Speaker 17 It was there long enough for me to kind of get annoyed and mad.

Speaker 17 Who was watching us? We're not exciting. There's nothing to see here.

Speaker 17 What is this drone doing here?

Speaker 17 It was eerie seeing it just stay in the same area.

Speaker 17 It made me question, like, okay, are we doing something wrong? Am I at the wrong campsite?

Speaker 17 It made me feel uncomfortable.

Speaker 17 My initial instinct was that it was just the owners checking on their campers, and I went back to playing cards with my family.

Speaker 17 I can still hear the buzz,

Speaker 17 and I look up, and it's still there.

Speaker 17 Four hands later, it's still there. So I actually messaged the camp owner about it.
Hey, is this you?

Speaker 17 Like, I thought maybe she did that to check on campers, see if everything's okay, because it's kind of off the road a little bit. Basically, her response was that, no, that wasn't us.

Speaker 17 That was weird, also made me feel kind of uncomfortable, but at the end of the day, it's, you know, not that big of a deal, I guess.

Speaker 17 It's maybe early afternoon, and my 13-year-old nephew and I, we decided we were going to swim. We were swimming and it was great.
It was so hot out. Why didn't we do this sooner?

Speaker 17 My nephew, he really wanted to get one of the paddle boats that was across the lake. He said he was going to swim over there.
It's kind of far so I could sort of see what he was doing.

Speaker 17 I could tell he had to move some things to get the paddle boat that he wanted.

Speaker 17 Eventually he paddled all the way back over.

Speaker 17 He said, did did you see that guy and the dog?

Speaker 17 I couldn't see anybody with him. He looked completely alone.
I didn't see anybody talking to him. Nothing.

Speaker 17 I said, no.

Speaker 17 Yeah, it was some guy with a mastiff.

Speaker 17 It was a big dog. I thought that was really weird.
I just kind of chalked it up to not being able to see that far.

Speaker 17 The only reason he probably said anything was because it was weird to him.

Speaker 17 We thought that we were alone at this lake. We didn't see any other cars.
There were no other tents.

Speaker 17 We didn't notice anything until he swam over there and came back and said he saw this guy and his dog.

Speaker 17 It was getting closer to like dinner time now.

Speaker 17 While we're kind of talking about making dinner, one of my brothers goes down to the bathrooms and he takes his dog with him. He comes back.

Speaker 17 He saw the guy with the mastiff.

Speaker 17 This whole time, I have not seen this guy or this dog yet. Two people in our group have seen him and have interacted with him in one way or another.

Speaker 17 As we started to prep for dinner, kind of out of nowhere, this big storm came through.

Speaker 17 It was a lot of wind. It was a lot of rain.

Speaker 17 After the storm, everything was just soaked. Everything was wet and muddy, and it was so hot and humid that nothing was ever going to dry.

Speaker 17 So we had sort of just like accepted that this is going to be miserable. Let's just get through this night.
And then tomorrow we have showers and air conditioning.

Speaker 17 We all went to bed in our muddy campsite.

Speaker 17 In the middle of the night, I had to get up and use the bathroom.

Speaker 17 Outside, in the middle of the night, by myself, I just did not feel alone.

Speaker 17 I felt so uncomfortable. I hustled back to my tent.
And I don't normally do that.

Speaker 17 So I hustled back to my tent, climbed in with the dogs. I really didn't sleep the rest of the night.
It might have been a paranoia that I was being watched. I definitely did not feel alone.

Speaker 17 The next morning, getting ready to head out. We're going to pack our stuff up and we're going to go take showers and get some AC.
It's going to be great.

Speaker 17 We thought we would kind of enjoy just like one last morning on the lake.

Speaker 17 So beautiful early in the morning. You know, the sun's just kind of glistening off of it.
It's so quiet. We're just enjoying our coffee, hanging out.

Speaker 17 Across the lake, we see two large black trucks roll up.

Speaker 17 A bunch of guys get out, and it looks like they're doing like tactical maneuvers, running around the trees. They ran off into like this wooded section.

Speaker 17 I kind of thought that it was just a bunch of guys like gonna play paintball or something.

Speaker 17 Then we don't see anything,

Speaker 17 there's no movement.

Speaker 17 Out of a loudspeaker on the trucks,

Speaker 17 the Ride of the Valkyries.

Speaker 17 And that makes us perk up because we are in the middle of nowhere on a campsite.

Speaker 17 These two black trucks roll up and they're blasting Ride of the Valkyries.

Speaker 17 They maybe play like 30 seconds of it.

Speaker 17 And then it shuts off.

Speaker 17 And then again on the lounspeaker comes a a voice that says,

Speaker 17 drop the bag and get on the ground.

Speaker 17 What is happening?

Speaker 17 Trying to figure out what's going on, but we still can't really like see that far.

Speaker 17 After we hear this, drop the bag and get on the ground, there's some action, and then some guys get in the trucks. And the trucks leave.

Speaker 17 As we're kind of talking about packing up and heading out early, a helicopter comes in.

Speaker 17 And a helicopter starts circling the lake.

Speaker 17 We're far enough from civilization, highways.

Speaker 17 This is not the traffic guy for the morning commute.

Speaker 17 And then a second helicopter shows up. And it's circling.

Speaker 17 It's about this time.

Speaker 17 We're going to get out of here right now.

Speaker 17 Pack your shit. We're going now.
Things clearly went sideways somewhere. We want to leave as soon as possible.

Speaker 17 Everything was wet, balled up, thrown in the back of the trucks. We were out of there.

Speaker 17 I knew that the helicopters and the drone could see us. Everybody knew what we were doing.

Speaker 17 We're in all three vehicles. We're starting to kind of leave and pull away from the lake and you have to go up this hill.
Towards the top of the hill as I'm leading this caravan,

Speaker 17 six heavily armed men, full combat gear, come over the hill with firearms pointed straight at me.

Speaker 17 I throw it in park and I throw my hands out the window.

Speaker 17 They don't immediately approach. They get within shouting distance and the first guy shouts to me, ma'am, are you being held hostage?

Speaker 17 I shout back, no.

Speaker 17 Then immediately I was worried because I had two dogs in the back, but the windows were tinted.

Speaker 17 Maybe they see movement in the back of my truck.

Speaker 17 I shouted at him. I said, I have two large dogs in the back.

Speaker 17 He was like, we see them.

Speaker 17 They flanked all three of our vehicles and searched us.

Speaker 17 They kind of check in the cabs of the trucks. The beds are covered.

Speaker 17 We opened the tailgates of the trucks. I don't know what they thought was going to be in there.
They were fully prepared to defend themselves.

Speaker 17 They all had conversations with each one of us and our vehicles. They eventually cleared us.
Still had no information about what was going on.

Speaker 17 We started to pull away, and then, kind of out of nowhere, an unmarked vehicle came up right next to me and said he was going to escort me out.

Speaker 17 Again, this campsite is way back there, so it's like a mile off of the road.

Speaker 17 And we get all the way out, and we're coming over that last hill.

Speaker 17 It's just filled with agency vehicles.

Speaker 17 There's sheriff, there's stadies,

Speaker 17 marshals,

Speaker 17 there were SWAT vehicles, ambulance.

Speaker 17 The level of attention put towards whatever was going on at that campsite was astounding and surprising.

Speaker 17 We got up to where all of the vehicles were and they checked our vehicles again. They had to clear us one more time.

Speaker 17 I still didn't ask a lot of questions. I think I was just shocked and intimidated by everything that was going on.

Speaker 17 When we got to leave, my brothers and I checked in and we're like, let's just go up to this place and we'll sit down and grab something to eat and just kind of compare notes.

Speaker 17 We get up to this restaurant up the road and we're all out on the patio with the dogs.

Speaker 17 One brother is kind of Googling things in the county, like trying to figure out if the local authorities put out a notice or something like that.

Speaker 17 As we're comparing stories, that's when my older brother he says one of the officers came up

Speaker 17 they showed him three pictures

Speaker 17 the first picture was a picture of a woman have you seen this woman no we haven't seen this woman second picture was a picture of a man

Speaker 17 no we haven't seen this man

Speaker 17 the third picture was a picture of the mastiff.

Speaker 17 And of course,

Speaker 17 everybody has seen that mastiff. Everybody except me saw that mastiff the day before.

Speaker 17 I guess one of the officers told my brother that when we heard the drop the bag and get on the ground, in that bag,

Speaker 17 they found guns and pipe bombs. While we were comparing notes, my younger brother was trying to figure out what actually went on there.

Speaker 17 He found through one of the local posts the wanted poster for the man in question.

Speaker 3 It was his picture.

Speaker 17 It was his charges.

Speaker 17 This was a manhunt.

Speaker 17 We're in Kentucky. He was wanted in North Carolina for some really horrific stuff.

Speaker 17 He was hiding out states away in a lonely campsite in the middle of nowhere. And he had this woman and dog with him.

Speaker 17 They ultimately found him in that campsite, but it was another three days.

Speaker 17 When the sheriff or the local authorities posted that wanted poster of him, they, of course, had the notice to the public there.

Speaker 17 It basically said that we encourage citizens to lock their homes and vehicles and stay inside. When I read that,

Speaker 17 that made me think back to that moment in the middle of of the night when I was outside my tent all by myself, absolutely vulnerable.

Speaker 17 We thought we were the only people there for a full day.

Speaker 17 You kind of run through the worst case scenarios in your head.

Speaker 17 Yeah, I'm really thankful that we're all fine and got away from that unscathed, but it's kind of terrifying to think about what could have happened for people that were in a desperate situation.

Speaker 12 God damn, did you hear that shit?

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Speaker 12 Shit, all the helicopters, flight of the Valkyrie's blast, did all the SWAT teams SWAT and damn, that shit was crazy.

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Speaker 5 so i guess

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Speaker 5 okay let's just do another tape i'm kind of into this i didn't really initially want to be assigned manual label today but i guess it's gonna happen this is a good gig right here man you know all right here we go all right tape number two

Speaker 20 I was 13 years old and I was being raised by my grandparents.

Speaker 20 We lived in a little tourist town in Florida.

Speaker 20 My grandparents had problems with their two daughters as adults and they wanted to do everything that they could to make sure that the grandkids didn't turn out the same way.

Speaker 20 They ended up raising all three of us. So needless to say, they were very strict.

Speaker 20 My aunt, she understood what it was like to be raised by them because they had always been strict. They were stricter with us, but she totally understood from coming from the same family.

Speaker 20 She made sure that I got to do a little bit of the funner things, things that my grandparents definitely wouldn't approve of.

Speaker 20 I would stay over Saturday nights. We would go out and hang out at the local fishing pier.
She'd let me hang out with my middle school boyfriend who would find ways to get wherever I was.

Speaker 20 His dad would drive him or whatever.

Speaker 20 One night we were having fun.

Speaker 20 My aunt, she said that she met a guy named RJ.

Speaker 20 They really hit it off. They exchanged numbers.

Speaker 20 Well, they ended up going out a little bit more and then I was introduced to him.

Speaker 20 And he was super nice, super charming, handsome, seemed confident, caring.

Speaker 20 He looked like the total package.

Speaker 20 About two weeks after this, we were hanging out at the pier, the place that me and my aunt like to go. We were out by the payphones talking about what are we going to have for dinner?

Speaker 20 What are we going to do tonight?

Speaker 20 Out of nowhere, just randomly, RJ said that he had pain pills.

Speaker 20 I don't know if they were prescribed to him. I didn't look at the label because he had that part.
facing his hand. All I could see was the orange bottle.

Speaker 20 Well, he took them out and kind of like shook them around and then he offered me one

Speaker 20 I declined I told him I had a high tolerance to pain anyway and didn't really need to take anything like that

Speaker 20 then with a huge smile on his face he asks me if he can see for himself

Speaker 20 and I thought he was joking

Speaker 20 I went along with it and I'm like okay

Speaker 20 He takes my arm and he puts it behind my back.

Speaker 20 He's like, I'm not really going to hurt you. Don't worry.
Well, he twists it behind my back enough to where I hear a pop.

Speaker 20 And then a searing pain radiates through my arm.

Speaker 20 I threw him off me. I yanked my arm away.
And I was like, you know, that really hurt. What is wrong with you? What is your problem? I was really upset.

Speaker 20 And he laughs. And he's like, oh, I was only playing with you.
You said you had a high tolerance. I guess I was stronger than I thought I was.

Speaker 20 Come on now. I didn't mean to hurt you.
Let's not ruin the good time that we're having. We're supposed to be having a nice night.
Don't make a big deal out of it.

Speaker 20 Well, I pretended like I was somewhat okay, and then I went into the manager's office in the back of the pier, and I closed the door, and I cried.

Speaker 20 My aunt comes in and lets me know that she thinks it's messed up, too, and that she talked to him about it.

Speaker 20 How can I fix this? I've already talked to him about it. How can I fix this?

Speaker 20 At that point, she was kind of afraid that I was wanting to go home. I did.
I wanted to go home. I would rather be with my grandparents watching the golden girls in my room or something

Speaker 20 than have to be around the people that put me in that situation anymore.

Speaker 20 She goes back outside and he asks her what she's up to that night. She tells him she isn't sure if I'm going to stay over because of what happened.

Speaker 20 He, you know, puts on the charm, super smiley, super big, real charming when he wants to be.

Speaker 20 And he's like, oh, no, no, I'm so sorry. Hey, you know, go on, go on home with your aunt, you know, go to her house and she can fix you some food.

Speaker 20 And then he talked to my aunt and he asked her to meet him under a bridge in our town.

Speaker 20 He said to meet him there at like two o'clock in the morning.

Speaker 20 Well, she felt bad about what happened.

Speaker 20 So she invited me to come with, you know, said that she would make it fun. We'd make some fun memories and try to make up to save the day.

Speaker 20 To sweeten the deal, she says that my boyfriend at the time can come with us.

Speaker 20 So I was like, yeah, if he can come with, that's fine. We'll go.
I won't bother you. We'll go and we'll walk off over here and you guys can stay on, do your thing, whatever.

Speaker 20 So she calls RJ.

Speaker 20 Good news. I'm going to meet you.
My niece said that she'd come with, and I'm bringing her boyfriend. So she has somebody to be there with.

Speaker 20 She's not going to bother us. She's going to have a good time.
We're going to have a good time. Everything's going to be fine.

Speaker 20 The minute he found out there was another person coming, he got really upset.

Speaker 20 Like ridiculously upset.

Speaker 20 He gave my aunt a guilt trip talking about how he just wanted to spend some time with her and be in a relationship, talking about how he didn't sign up to be a babysitter, but he's screaming.

Speaker 20 I could hear him through the phone, and I was like a good five, six feet away from my aunt. Like he was furious.

Speaker 20 She was caught off guard by this reaction and he was being really mean to her. saying mean stuff, being, you know, manipulative, trying to make her feel bad.

Speaker 20 They break up that night.

Speaker 20 He calls her a few more times and he drives by the house back and forth for about a couple months afterwards.

Speaker 20 You'd look out and you'd see him kind of drive by, kind of slow.

Speaker 20 She didn't want anything to do with him.

Speaker 20 He stopped driving by.

Speaker 20 He was soon forgotten. We went about our business as a family.

Speaker 20 One One day, my friend and I missed the bus home.

Speaker 20 We called our friend Darla to pick us up.

Speaker 20 She had this beautiful big red truck. I would ride around in the cab of it, loving the wind, the freedom,

Speaker 20 and the time that I would have spent on the bus getting home because I was one of the last stops. By the time I got home, my parents wouldn't really know a difference.

Speaker 20 I wouldn't be gone an alarmingly long amount of time. And every time she would come home and she would walk me to the door, she would greet my parents.

Speaker 20 They would thank her for, you know, bringing me home. And it wasn't a big deal.

Speaker 20 I noticed about a month after the last time I hung out with her, she didn't show up to work. She missed five days.

Speaker 20 I didn't know if she had quit or what was going on.

Speaker 20 Then I heard She wasn't at home either. And I just assumed that she ran away.

Speaker 20 I knew that there were things going on in her life that she wasn't happy with, which I mean, for a teenage girl, you know, that's pretty common.

Speaker 20 I thought she ran away.

Speaker 20 Her truck wasn't left behind. She had her truck with her.
So I didn't really worried.

Speaker 20 I figured she'd get a hold of me when she was settled or when she was ready to or when she had calmed down or even when she came back.

Speaker 20 I missed her, but she was in a whole other league than me. She was driving age.

Speaker 20 I wished her the best.

Speaker 20 I hadn't heard anything for about three and a half weeks.

Speaker 20 And we stopped talking about it.

Speaker 20 A little over two years later,

Speaker 20 it was nine o'clock at night when my grandparents got a phone call to turn on the news.

Speaker 20 My friend Darla's body was found in the woods.

Speaker 20 She'd been strangled to death and then just left there.

Speaker 20 I don't even know for how long.

Speaker 20 I was devastated, saddened and horrified at the same time. She was barely two years older than me.

Speaker 20 The whole town was really upset and saddened by this.

Speaker 20 Along with the report on the news, they released a picture of the man who had done it.

Speaker 20 They found a whole bunch of incriminating evidence and during questioning, he not only confessed to killing her, but he confessed to killing his father.

Speaker 20 He was a very, very frail, sweet little old man in a wheelchair.

Speaker 20 When his father died, he staged it to look like a suicide by hanging.

Speaker 20 They showed his mugshot on the screen and they said his name

Speaker 20 and everything around me went white

Speaker 20 my body went cold

Speaker 20 this was a person that i never thought i would even think of again

Speaker 20 and here he was on the tv

Speaker 20 just staring back at us

Speaker 20 it was ralph john faba jr

Speaker 20 rj

Speaker 20 rj

Speaker 20 the same rj

Speaker 20 that i rode around with with my aunt. The same RJ

Speaker 20 that twisted my arm behind my back.

Speaker 20 The same RJ

Speaker 20 that probably

Speaker 20 would have killed

Speaker 20 me and my aunt if we had met him under the bridge that night.

Speaker 20 It's absolutely terrifying to know that

Speaker 20 you were that close to a killer.

Speaker 20 I'm 38 years old and I have an amazing husband and three boys.

Speaker 20 I don't know if I would have had any of that today if we had shown up that night.

Speaker 7 That one's dark.

Speaker 8 Man, these tapes are no joke.

Speaker 7 It's fucking insane, man.

Speaker 9 I used to have this creepy neighbor. I used to have vibes just like that.
But then he died, so I was like, damn, I guess I guess he wasn't no killer. He just

Speaker 5 I don't know what to make of those powers.

Speaker 7 You know what I'm saying?

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Speaker 7 Damn.

Speaker 9 You know, we don't hear the word yearning a lot.

Speaker 7 Yearning.

Speaker 1 What a great word.

Speaker 12 I'm not really not saying yearning enough. We don't say it enough in our music either.

Speaker 9 I never heard a rapper say yearning.

Speaker 7 You know, I'm yearning.

Speaker 16 Wait a minute.

Speaker 9 Did this shit just say next week?

Speaker 12 I'm sorry, am I supposed to be here next week?

Speaker 8 Damn, I'm going to need to take off time. My real job, tell my kids what I'm doing because right now I'm just gone.

Speaker 9 Jerry has kids.

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