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Welcome to Scary Story Podcast. The
story in today's episode goes back to the

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same style that we had in the
very beginning thanks to some messages that I've

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been getting over on Instagram and TikTok, and if you want to follow you

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can. You can search for me
over at Edwin Cove. That's ed Wi

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NCV. I'm just starting out,
so you'd be one of the first to

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get in touch with me over there. But anyway, let's just get started

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with today's story and we'll go from
there. My name is Edwin and here

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it's a scary story. It was
during a drive to the northern part of

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the country when this happened. Just
like most things that our minds have a

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tough time believing, I started finding
reason after reason, some real and some

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fake that would help me prove that
it did not actually happen. My wife

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and I had just gotten married,
and I had made no plans to go

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on honeymoon, and when we finally
came around and wanted to plan one,

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it was too late to save up
money and be able to travel right after

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our wedding. Instead, we chose
to take my dad's car on a long

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drive from the east of the US
and then through the North, going state

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by state and staying at cheap hotels
or campsites. Gas was much cheaper back

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then, but then again, lots
of things were different than which you're used

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to now. At gas stations,
for example, they would sell books of

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maps, usually updated every couple of
years to reflect the new streets and buildings

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that cities were building, and so
you had to look up where you were

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going on the directory. That would
then show you a grid of the map,

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and you would have to look it
up in the book. A pen

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was handy at this time. You
would mark the road and circle the intersection,

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so you would know that once you
pass a certain highway you had to

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keep an eye out for an exit. Cell Phones were only used by people

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in offices, or so I thought, but they were becoming popular, so

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the idea of getting one was already
on both of our minds. Alice,

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my wife, was really good at
maps. She had studied history at school

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and cartography was one of the courses
she fell in love with when she took

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it as an elective. It's usually
during autumn when our memories come back about

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our experience, and it still baffles
her. Although we don't talk about it

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very much. So much time has
passed, and yet we still don't have

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an answer. There was a bed
and breakfast that her family knew about a

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little past midspring in a town called
Browning. The thing was that she wanted

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to be there at that town in
the morning. She had already called to

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set up the times and everything for
her drive with our other activities around town

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earlier that morning. In order to
make it, though, we would either

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have to get there really early,
like at four a m. Which meant

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driving all night, or not stop
when we were planning on spending our Wednesday,

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and keep driving taking turns behind the
wheel to get there the night before,

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and then we would be all ready
for her morning at Browning, and

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then we would later check into the
bed and breakfast and everything for the brochure.

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She showed me. The bed and
breakfast did look nice. It was

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an old stone home with enormous walled
gardens surrounded by creeks. Visitors spoke wonders

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of the hostess, and after Alice's
cousin had gone for a weekend get away

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after her work conference, it was
all Alice would talk about. The town

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had little bakeries antique shops and parks
that looked like something out of a fairy

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tale. Seeing her so excited about
it made the drive worth it to me,

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so we decided to push it and
drive straight there, skipping several towns

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like dairy Mint, Spring and Alpine. The drive was as you would expect

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it to be, having its boring
moments and fun stops to eat and park

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at the viewpoints. We ended at
this nice hilly area by a long winding

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river just as the sun was setting. Being surrounded by that and with the

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person you had just married, was
the definition of feeling on top of the

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way world. The sun set and
we came back to the reality that it

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would be my turn to continue driving, this time with the headlights on.

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Everything started up fine, driving down
into the valley, surrounded by the hills

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we knew were beautiful, but had
turned into deep darkness, the kind where

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your eyes can only see what's in
front of you. The trees were zooming

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past us as we started going through
the wooded area, and despite me trying

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to get my mind off being the
only car around for miles, I kept

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feeling like the trees were closing in
on the car. Suddenly I felt.

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Alice's hand grabbed my forearm as I
kept looking at how close we were to

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the trees, even in that two
way road, wondering how a car might

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go past us if we were heading
toward each other, so I slowed down.

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We were driving an old car through
the dark woods, completely alone out

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there, and to add to everything, I started noticing how much resistance and

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it is the steering will needed to
get it to stay on the lane,

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like wind hitting us from the right
side of the car. Alice had turned

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on the light that aimed at her
seat as she flipped through the map.

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I knew to give her her time
with it. She knew what she was

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doing, but I couldn't hold in
my question any longer after seeing the look

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on her face, Where are we? I asked her. She just kept

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looking at the maps, no matter
if we got the most updated ones from

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the best publishers. I mean.
She was a big fan of Furman's maps

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or Omacki's. She would blame them
for only updating them every once every couple

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of years. I had heard her
complain so many times over the same thing,

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but this time she wasn't as frustrated
like she normally was. About the

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topic this This road isn't on the
map. Then she looked at me.

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As I turned my head around to
look behind us, it was pitch black.

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I parked the car. Wait,
she said, just as I had

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put the car in reverse. If
you go straight for a couple more miles,

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we'll end up at the same highway
we were on before. Let's keep

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going straight and make her right when
you see it. I watched her relax

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and sink back into her seat,
looking over at me and smiling the map

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book on her lap. I changed
the car back to drive and moved slowly

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along that road when suddenly I started
seeing some lights in the distance through the

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trees. Alice hadn't seen them yet. Her face was turned instead toward the

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side of the car out the window. More and more lights appeared through the

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woods as I got closer, until
they were bright enough for both of us

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to see. Alice turned on the
light again and flip through the pages of

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the book until she closed it and
put it back on her lap, and

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then looking straight ahead. It's not
on the map, she whispered, shaking

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her head. As we got closer, I could see it clearly. Street

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lamps glowing orange like candle lights houses
with smoke rising from the chimneys becoming bigger

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through the windshield. As we approached, we crossed a small bridge and suddenly

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we were on a stone road.
Shadows could be seen moving a short distance

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away on the windows of those gray
houses. We were obviously thinking the same

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questions, where were we? Why
does it look like this? But then

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to my left I could see two
silhouettes approaching the car very slowly, a

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taller man and a shorter woman,
out of step with each other. Then

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they both stopped. Alice was leaning
forward trying to look out my window.

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I just wanted to know their next
move, but all we could do was

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wait. Should we ask them for
directions? Alice asked, in a soft

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whisper that seemed way too loud for
the place. I shook my head,

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No, there was something off about
them. The silhouettes didn't move, but

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as we both looked right in front
of us, we vanished. We looked

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around the area of it. I
didn't see them anywhere. It was strange,

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to say the least, but I
was glad that they were gone.

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Suddenly, from Malice's side of the
car, I saw something move. There

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was another silhouette much closer, this
time about four feet away from Alice,

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a woman in dark clothing, her
hair covering the front part of her face

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as she hunched forward. It was
too late for me to say anything to

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Alice as she started rolling down her
window in order to talk to her.

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Excuse me, she started saying,
the woman didn't move. We're trying to

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get back on the highway, is
it? And then she stopped. She

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kept looking at the woman because it
looked like she was frozen solid. What

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do I do, she asked me, and I signaled for her to roll

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up the window. Then the woman
murmured something and it caught both of our

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attentions. And then as we both
looked, she tilted her head up,

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the top part of her face completely
dark or missing. Her mouth dropped to

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create an abnormal gap under her nose. I pressed on the acces as Alice

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rolled up her window. We went
past several more houses, and before we

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knew it, we were back on
the small road between the dark woods.

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It was strange to say that we
felt safer there, but only then we

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were able to see a word to
each other again, both of us stunned,

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obviously by what we had seen back
there. Alice looked at me and

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asked, did she have no eyes. I don't recall the rest of our

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conversation after that, but I do
remember finally seeing a dead end in front

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of us. Trees to our right
and left, and in front of us

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we could see just trees in the
distance. I stopped the car. There

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was no point to keep going forward. Alice took out the map book and

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turned on the lights, flipping through
the pages while looking at the odometer on

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the car. It's supposed to be
up ahead, she whispered to herself.

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I looked back, facing the fact
that we would have to drive through that

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creepy town again, so I just
turned it around and moved ahead. The

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car was moving slowly past the trees. As I drove on that same lonely

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road. We passed a small clearing
and then a bridge, and the panic

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from earlier and trying to leave that
town. We must have driven past it

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and completely missed it. So I
kept going, expecting to see the small

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town at any moment. We never
did. Alice was trying to look all

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around the car to spot where the
town would be, expecting to see it

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at any moment. Was making my
stomach turn. Not long after that,

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we were at the entrance to the
Dark Woods. The viewpoint we had stopped

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at was somewhere up on the hills
that surrounded us, but we could no

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longer see it. We have to
make a left and then another left,

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Alice said, the light of the
car still on, with that map book

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opened up to a different page on
her lap. Had we gotten past the

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town without seeing it this time?
We eventually found the way where we had

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started, and I just turned left
around the foothills and we were back in

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business. So did we take a
different way there? Or why didn't we

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pass the town this time? I
asked? Alice was still looking down at

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the maps. She explained that she
was looking out for other forks in the

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road but could see none. We
had been on the same road where the

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town was, but the town wasn't
there anymore. She said that, with

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a serious expression on her face.
It's not possible. Eventually, we stopped

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for gas about half an hour after
that, and once inside, we grabbed

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a couple of drinks and snacks.
That's when she found a newer version of

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Furman's map books. She flipped through
it and found the same we were on

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fairly quickly. This one actually had
it the same road that we went down

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in the middle of the dark woods. While holding it up to the attendant

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that the cash register as we were
paying, she asked about a town in

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the middle of the woods about half
an hour back. The guy looked at

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her and then out the window up
to the sky. Hm, yep,

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full moon. No, don't go
there, he said, and then leaning

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in to whisper to us, even
though no one else was there. He

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said, they say some creepy stuff
goes on from even before the highway was

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constructed, stuff like what I asked, a little too loud for him,

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ghosts and stuff. Man, my
cousin got lost there once. We couldn't

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find him for weeks, and even
when he came back refused to tell us

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anything about it. He would go
into a full panic attack. Just don't,

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Oh, we won't, Alice said, looking at me with that be

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quiet stare. The first as a
married couple. I'll take this too,

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she said, putting the map book
on the counter. Every once in a

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while, we talk about what happened
that night. And even though we had

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an amazing couple of weeks driving on
that road, trip and everything else had

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been beautiful. Our most memorable experience
has always been about that town that wasn't

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there. When the Internet was becoming
a thing and more information was out there,

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we looked it up but found no
trace of the town, except for

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a couple of posts on forums that
mentioned seeing houses in the woods in the

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daytime. We reached out to the
users who posted their experiences never heard back.

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Scary Story podcast has written and produced
by me Edwin Kowarobyas. If you

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have an idea for a story,
let me know. I'm Edwin Cove on

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