WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.920 --> 00:00:05.360 Welcome to Scary Story Podcast. Those who work when most 2 00:00:05.400 --> 00:00:08.599 are asleep know of things that only come out at night. 3 00:00:10.359 --> 00:00:14.679 My name is Edwin, and here is a scary story. 4 00:00:20.640 --> 00:00:23.320 I was walking toward the microwave when he came out 5 00:00:23.320 --> 00:00:27.199 of the break room with a stinky egg sandwich. You're 6 00:00:27.239 --> 00:00:30.480 not supposed to microwave those things, at least I don't 7 00:00:30.519 --> 00:00:33.560 think you are. But believe it or not, it was 8 00:00:33.640 --> 00:00:37.960 normal for people to do even weirder things. When I 9 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:40.679 stepped in. Kate was blushing and sort of looking at 10 00:00:40.679 --> 00:00:42.840 the frame of the door where he had just left. 11 00:00:43.560 --> 00:00:46.079 When her eyes met she looked away and turned an 12 00:00:46.159 --> 00:00:50.280 even brighter red. I tried to ignore it. Up until 13 00:00:50.280 --> 00:00:53.000 this point, we had been sort of friends. She knew 14 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:54.880 I was into her, and she was kind of leading 15 00:00:54.880 --> 00:00:59.200 me on. Honestly, we talked about whatever, but I only 16 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:02.240 remember hoping for the microwave to hurry up, and instead 17 00:01:02.280 --> 00:01:05.280 shut it off with a minute and thirty seconds left, 18 00:01:05.959 --> 00:01:10.079 just so I could leave. Me and that guy, the 19 00:01:10.120 --> 00:01:12.640 one she had blushed at, talked a couple of times 20 00:01:12.680 --> 00:01:15.879 in passing. After a certain amount of weeks seeing each 21 00:01:15.879 --> 00:01:18.480 other around the office, it's sort of bound to happen. 22 00:01:20.159 --> 00:01:22.159 I swear I didn't notice this until one of my 23 00:01:22.239 --> 00:01:25.560 friends from deliveries told me that everyone could tell that 24 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:28.879 I hated this guy. They tried to reassure me that 25 00:01:28.920 --> 00:01:31.359 it was cool because the guy was married, and that 26 00:01:31.519 --> 00:01:33.879 Kate had talked to another friend about me and such. 27 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:37.719 I hated being part of the office drama and conversation. 28 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:40.719 But when you work the late shift like that, in 29 00:01:40.760 --> 00:01:42.840 the middle of the night to be ready once we 30 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:45.840 get the nighttime deliveries, you spend a lot of time 31 00:01:45.879 --> 00:01:50.280 with your mind just wandering. One thing I noticed right 32 00:01:50.280 --> 00:01:52.400 away was that this guy would get up and walk 33 00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:55.239 around the office a little before midnight, and then he 34 00:01:55.239 --> 00:01:58.400 would come back, but instead of going to the bathroom 35 00:01:58.439 --> 00:02:03.000 on our floor, go down to the basement. I had 36 00:02:03.040 --> 00:02:05.519 gone down there for some reason on a Thursday, the 37 00:02:05.599 --> 00:02:08.240 last day before my two day break, and because I 38 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:10.919 didn't know what to say, I casually asked when I 39 00:02:10.960 --> 00:02:14.919 saw him, scared of the one on our floor, huh? 40 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:18.080 His eyes opened wide. He sort of stuttered saying no, 41 00:02:18.479 --> 00:02:21.199 but then he changed the topic to something about the weekend, 42 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:24.400 and it worked. I couldn't wait to get out of there, 43 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:26.479 and I told him about some of my plans and 44 00:02:26.520 --> 00:02:29.800 all that. Before I knew it, he was walking up 45 00:02:29.840 --> 00:02:33.319 the stairs and I was standing there by myself, smiling 46 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:37.400 like a weirdo. What I did next was something that 47 00:02:37.439 --> 00:02:41.360 to this day I don't understand. You see, to scare ourselves, 48 00:02:41.400 --> 00:02:44.560 you would talk about how the second floor bathroom was haunted, 49 00:02:44.840 --> 00:02:48.639 the men's one, and I kind of believed it. There 50 00:02:48.680 --> 00:02:51.439 was a man, Bill Corrigan, who had been found there 51 00:02:51.439 --> 00:02:54.199 on a Monday morning in the winter of nineteen eighty eight. 52 00:02:55.039 --> 00:03:00.199 His body was draped over the bathroom stall, completely bent ill. 53 00:03:01.479 --> 00:03:04.919 How did he get up there? Nobody knows. I looked 54 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:07.120 up the story when one of the old timers told 55 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:09.159 me and some of the other guys about it. When 56 00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:12.599 we started back then, you had newspapers to look up, 57 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:15.680 and it was true there was a guy that was 58 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:19.479 found there. But over the years, more and more talk 59 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:22.719 about this man started circulating. It started with one of 60 00:03:22.759 --> 00:03:26.479 the other people in the inventory department. I wasn't there, 61 00:03:26.520 --> 00:03:29.599 but it was recent enough so that everyone's details matched. 62 00:03:29.639 --> 00:03:33.000 When they told me, Jason, one of the guys who 63 00:03:33.080 --> 00:03:36.319 had gotten transferred in from downtown, went to the bathroom 64 00:03:36.360 --> 00:03:39.199 sometime around one in the morning and he came out 65 00:03:39.240 --> 00:03:43.680 screaming no lie. With his pants still down, he tripped 66 00:03:43.719 --> 00:03:46.439 and bumped into the water cooler so hard that it 67 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:49.280 tipped over and he had to get stitches on his eyebrows. 68 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:52.840 An incident report was written, and just a few days 69 00:03:52.919 --> 00:03:57.280 later he was gone. Some say he quit, another say 70 00:03:57.360 --> 00:04:00.759 that he got a compensation package to stay quiet, but 71 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:05.240 either way, the rumors were circulating. Those that were there 72 00:04:05.319 --> 00:04:08.319 said that he kept screaming about the face, the face, 73 00:04:08.719 --> 00:04:12.120 and the hanging man on the stall. Even the janitor 74 00:04:12.199 --> 00:04:14.800 who happened to be on our floor agreed, and he 75 00:04:14.840 --> 00:04:18.000 only spoke Portuguese and understood very little of what everyone 76 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:22.879 else was saying, And yet his story matched. I think 77 00:04:22.879 --> 00:04:25.160 this new guy had heard the story and was afraid 78 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:29.199 of that bathroom. One night, I saw him going to 79 00:04:29.240 --> 00:04:32.319 the basement and coming back up. He was at two 80 00:04:32.360 --> 00:04:35.759 staircases at the opposite ends of the building. I just 81 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:40.040 kept doing that. It was working. Finally I saw him 82 00:04:40.079 --> 00:04:42.759 walked over the hallway next to the breakroom of our floor. 83 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:46.920 My plan up until that point was to lock that 84 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:51.879 basement bathroom and see what he did. I followed behind him, 85 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:55.120 and I saw him reluctantly go into the bathroom, and 86 00:04:55.199 --> 00:04:58.519 about thirty seconds later, I sped, walked over the door 87 00:04:58.519 --> 00:05:00.439 and banged on it as hard as I I could. 88 00:05:01.879 --> 00:05:04.000 I saw my co workers peek their heads out of 89 00:05:04.040 --> 00:05:07.639 their cubicles for an instant before going back to their calls. 90 00:05:08.480 --> 00:05:10.759 I ran away like a kid, back to the desk, 91 00:05:11.079 --> 00:05:14.920 hearing him scream in there. But after a few minutes, 92 00:05:15.639 --> 00:05:19.199 the bathroom was dead quiet. At the time, it was 93 00:05:19.240 --> 00:05:21.800 me and two other co workers on the entire floor. 94 00:05:22.560 --> 00:05:26.800 Everyone else was taking care of the new delivery. Starting 95 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:29.199 to get worried, I walked over to the bathroom again. 96 00:05:29.519 --> 00:05:31.959 I knocked on the door and I heard movement in there. 97 00:05:32.920 --> 00:05:35.360 I opened it and found him sitting on the floor 98 00:05:35.399 --> 00:05:39.040 by the sink. He was grabbing a shirt tightly by 99 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:42.439 his chest, unable to speak, but he kept pointing at 100 00:05:42.439 --> 00:05:46.319 the bathroom stall. He was able to crawl out of 101 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:48.959 the bathroom, and I followed right behind him, sitting on 102 00:05:49.000 --> 00:05:52.480 the carpet, trying to call him down. He stayed real 103 00:05:52.639 --> 00:05:56.240 quiet until he finally stood up and went to his cube. 104 00:05:57.920 --> 00:06:00.800 The rest of the office started whispering about what had happened, 105 00:06:01.240 --> 00:06:05.199 and they kept talking for days after that, because the 106 00:06:05.240 --> 00:06:08.759 next night we found out that he had quit, or 107 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:12.000 that he had been compensated to leave or to stay quiet. 108 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:16.959 But we never saw him again. Now I can't say 109 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:21.160 I saw anything strange, but I always felt it. Something 110 00:06:21.199 --> 00:06:25.199 about that bathroom always made it colder than the outside. 111 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:40.480 Maybe I never paid enough attention. Mariya quickly reached from 112 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:43.079 a headset and put her finger on her mouth, asking 113 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:45.720 me to be quiet. I could hear the wind from 114 00:06:45.759 --> 00:06:49.000 the drive through ordering menu. The mic had been activated, 115 00:06:49.399 --> 00:06:53.439 signaling that a car had stepped over the censer. When 116 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:55.040 she got one of the cooks to peek out the 117 00:06:55.079 --> 00:06:57.480 door at the back of the restaurant by the Tasty 118 00:06:57.519 --> 00:07:01.759 Wings sign, came running back to us, laughing and looking surprised. 119 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:08.920 The Wai navie. There's nobody, but the censor was still on. 120 00:07:09.399 --> 00:07:11.839 That's how it works at drive throughs, or at least 121 00:07:11.920 --> 00:07:15.600 it used to anyway. You have a headset on the 122 00:07:15.639 --> 00:07:17.920 whole time you're in there, and when a car comes 123 00:07:17.959 --> 00:07:20.839 up to order, you get a beep followed by the 124 00:07:20.879 --> 00:07:23.720 sound of a car engine, and if you wait long enough, 125 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:31.399 you get a hello. But this time nothing. Even though 126 00:07:31.439 --> 00:07:34.199 Maria was holding the headset, you could just hear the 127 00:07:34.240 --> 00:07:36.759 wind from the drive through. In that silence of the kitchen, 128 00:07:38.399 --> 00:07:40.920 I looked at Maria with wide eyes. It was my 129 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:43.879 first time working the night shift there, and I figured 130 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:46.000 she suspected I was gonna be a little bit scared, 131 00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:48.279 so she asked me to sit down and signal at 132 00:07:48.319 --> 00:07:51.160 the cook to go out there again. But he smiled 133 00:07:51.160 --> 00:07:54.360 nervously and yelled out for Bethro, the assistant manager, to 134 00:07:54.439 --> 00:07:58.000 go out there with him. They both laughed as it 135 00:07:58.079 --> 00:08:01.040 made their way outside, putting the track to hold the 136 00:08:01.079 --> 00:08:04.959 back door open, and then it got quiet. I was 137 00:08:04.959 --> 00:08:07.480 about to ask what was happening when Maria shushed me 138 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:12.360 silently again and waited. She put the headset on and 139 00:08:12.439 --> 00:08:18.399 waited some more, and then, like the wind, we heard it. Well, 140 00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:20.680 I heard it from the loud speaker from the kitchen 141 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:26.600 got to see hey, I'm sorry. I could feel the 142 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:28.959 tension in the muscles of my face from holding up 143 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:32.279 my eyes so wide. It was the voice of a 144 00:08:32.320 --> 00:08:38.240 man sobbing. Is Betho or Omar? I asked Maria in 145 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:42.720 my broken Spanish, Is it Beto or Omar? Madia stayed 146 00:08:42.759 --> 00:08:45.200 still looking at me. She was sitting next to me 147 00:08:45.240 --> 00:08:49.159 now at the dining area, and then The crying came 148 00:08:50.200 --> 00:08:53.759 with sad, desperate cries, the kind you hear at funerals 149 00:08:53.840 --> 00:08:58.279 with the small coffins. The cries continued when out of 150 00:08:58.279 --> 00:09:01.000 the corner of my eye brought it to two figures, 151 00:09:02.120 --> 00:09:06.000 Omar and Betel outside by the window. They were circling 152 00:09:06.039 --> 00:09:09.600 the building. They were signaling that there was nobody there. 153 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:14.600 Gotta see you, gotta see you. The voice sounded desperate, 154 00:09:15.399 --> 00:09:18.080 and then it got so loud that Madia ripped the 155 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:21.200 heads off her head. She looked out over the guys 156 00:09:21.240 --> 00:09:24.320 with both arms and signaled them to come back. And 157 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:26.759 when I tell you that these guys ran, I mean it. 158 00:09:27.000 --> 00:09:29.399 They were by the kitchen so fast and shut the door, 159 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:34.759 laughing nervously. But this so did you hear that? They 160 00:09:34.799 --> 00:09:41.519 asked us another beat at the drive through, and I waited, hello, Hello, 161 00:09:41.679 --> 00:09:46.159 I heard through the speaker, welcome to taste these, I said, 162 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:49.440 how may I help you? In order of the five 163 00:09:49.480 --> 00:09:53.799 piece original and a large coke. We all stood still 164 00:09:53.840 --> 00:09:57.799 before Madia snapped us out of it. For those few 165 00:09:57.840 --> 00:10:01.600 minutes we were okay. Older man in a security guard 166 00:10:01.679 --> 00:10:03.960 uniform showed up at the window in his old truck. 167 00:10:04.559 --> 00:10:08.159 He paid, asked for more hot sauce. Waited for about 168 00:10:08.159 --> 00:10:10.600 a minute to while they packed everything, and then he 169 00:10:10.679 --> 00:10:16.919 thanked me and drove away. Later on that night, while 170 00:10:16.919 --> 00:10:19.600 we were cleaning, it was oddly quiet until I broke 171 00:10:19.639 --> 00:10:24.720 the silence. Who did you think it was? I asked Maria? 172 00:10:25.240 --> 00:10:31.600 Who not who? She said what she did, the sign 173 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:34.639 of the cross on herself and then on me. At 174 00:10:34.639 --> 00:10:36.559 first I thought it was her English that confused me, 175 00:10:36.919 --> 00:10:40.559 but it started making sense. They had all been hearing 176 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:43.480 that strange voice from the drive through for years, every 177 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:47.679 once in a while, and always late at night. Madia 178 00:10:47.799 --> 00:10:49.919 had been there the longest and could tell when that 179 00:10:49.960 --> 00:10:54.000 thing was there. One of the managers had heard the 180 00:10:54.080 --> 00:10:57.440 story and rarely worked nights, but when I asked her, 181 00:10:57.919 --> 00:11:00.320 she said she suspected it was the original part of 182 00:11:00.360 --> 00:11:05.039 the restaurant, Miguel Garcia and Ibra McAllister. They had a 183 00:11:05.080 --> 00:11:07.639 falling out when the restaurant had just started and was 184 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:10.600 gaining traction. When Miguel was found dead in his car 185 00:11:10.639 --> 00:11:14.679 outside the house. The whole thing made the news, but 186 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:19.519 no one was charged. Maybe something happened to the other guy, 187 00:11:19.759 --> 00:11:23.120 the manager said, looking at me, that's what he gets. 188 00:11:23.240 --> 00:11:27.919 She said, would have been. Let's just say for being dumb. 189 00:11:36.320 --> 00:11:39.159 The company I worked for started delivering at three thirty 190 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:42.519 am because of the summer rush and people panic spending. 191 00:11:43.639 --> 00:11:46.639 Even though it sounds good at first being able to 192 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:50.159 get packages extra fast, it's creepy for us to walk 193 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:51.960 up to a property in the middle of the night. 194 00:11:53.120 --> 00:11:55.080 You never know when you're gonna get a crazy dude 195 00:11:55.080 --> 00:11:58.039 with a gun or with those big old possums that 196 00:11:58.080 --> 00:12:02.080 come out from God knows where those things hiss. I 197 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:05.799 didn't know, but anyway, it was paying the bills for 198 00:12:05.879 --> 00:12:09.360 a time after graduating, so I only complained when everyone 199 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:13.679 else did. For a couple of nights already, I noticed 200 00:12:13.679 --> 00:12:16.360 that a house wasn't picking up their packages from the porch. 201 00:12:17.519 --> 00:12:20.440 A short stack of envelopes and small boxes was gathering 202 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:23.600 on the front, some of them delivered by me. A 203 00:12:23.639 --> 00:12:26.919 few sorry we missed you notes on the doors. I 204 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:30.240 thought twice about telling my supervisor, considering the guy was 205 00:12:30.279 --> 00:12:33.600 on a power trip most nights, but one of my 206 00:12:33.639 --> 00:12:35.759 co workers said, it was cool that you were actually 207 00:12:35.799 --> 00:12:39.919 supposed to say something, So I did the meeting. If 208 00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:43.799 you want to call it, that went has expected. He said, 209 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:47.120 to deliver, scan it and that it wasn't our business 210 00:12:47.120 --> 00:12:50.399 if they never picked it up from the warehouse to 211 00:12:50.440 --> 00:12:54.399 the door. You got. That took everything inside of me 212 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:56.440 not to cuss him out, but I kept my cool 213 00:12:56.759 --> 00:13:00.600 and walked away from the warehouse to the door. He 214 00:13:00.679 --> 00:13:04.159 shouted as I got in the van. And so the 215 00:13:04.200 --> 00:13:07.600 boxes kept piling up for another few days, a thing 216 00:13:07.639 --> 00:13:10.480 at a time, then a couple of packages here and there. 217 00:13:10.840 --> 00:13:13.360 But one time, during a delivery, I actually got to 218 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:17.440 see this house's neighbor. Thankfully. It was an older gentleman, 219 00:13:17.919 --> 00:13:20.600 looked like he was getting ready to go out, coffee 220 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:23.360 in hand and sitting on the porch at four point 221 00:13:23.360 --> 00:13:27.080 thirty four forty am, mind you. I told him good 222 00:13:27.080 --> 00:13:30.120 morning that I had a question, and he stepped up 223 00:13:30.120 --> 00:13:32.840 to the edge of the porch and smiled. That's when 224 00:13:32.840 --> 00:13:35.320 I asked him about the house next door, but he 225 00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:38.679 didn't seem to understand me. He offered me some coffee 226 00:13:38.799 --> 00:13:41.960 that I politely declined, though he mentioned about the family 227 00:13:42.039 --> 00:13:47.159 next door kind, all of them, very kind in his 228 00:13:47.279 --> 00:13:51.440 hoarse voice. I wasn't getting anywhere, so I said by 229 00:13:51.559 --> 00:13:54.000 and hopped back in the van and then drove the 230 00:13:54.039 --> 00:13:58.320 next location. I would say that two more nights passed 231 00:13:58.360 --> 00:14:01.639 without a delivery to that house, but then finally it came. 232 00:14:02.960 --> 00:14:04.600 I was about ready to get out of the van 233 00:14:04.679 --> 00:14:07.960 and drop yet another package on the porch when I 234 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:11.759 froze with my hand on the door handle. The porch 235 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:16.200 was empty. A blue light like from a television was on. 236 00:14:17.639 --> 00:14:20.440 I stepped up to the house. A light motion censored, 237 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:23.240 blinded me for a second while I scanned the barcode, 238 00:14:23.519 --> 00:14:29.080 and then the front door opened. Just a crack. Delivery 239 00:14:29.240 --> 00:14:33.159 for mister Bentley, I said, waiting for the door to 240 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:38.440 open a little bit more, and out came a shirtless man. 241 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:42.000 He relaxed his shoulders when he saw my uniform and 242 00:14:42.039 --> 00:14:46.279 scanner in hand. Glad to see someone here, I said, 243 00:14:46.480 --> 00:14:49.960 relief in my voice. I've been making deliveries for like 244 00:14:50.200 --> 00:14:52.840 a few days, and I saw everything was paling on. 245 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:57.200 The guy explained that his daughters kept ordering things while 246 00:14:57.240 --> 00:15:00.960 they were on vacation, and apologized about the mountain of 247 00:15:01.000 --> 00:15:04.320 boxes they saw when they got home. That neighborhood was 248 00:15:04.360 --> 00:15:07.120 generally safe. Otherwise I would have asked if everything had 249 00:15:07.159 --> 00:15:10.879 been there, But in the voice of the supervisor, from 250 00:15:10.879 --> 00:15:14.799 the warehouse to the door, that's the job. I was 251 00:15:14.840 --> 00:15:18.919 freaking out for nothing all those nights. Well until I 252 00:15:19.039 --> 00:15:21.039 mentioned to him how I had talked to the neighbor. 253 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:24.639 He said it had been a month since the old 254 00:15:24.679 --> 00:15:28.279 man next door had passed away. Could barely believe what 255 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:32.240 I told him. I had described him as best I could. 256 00:15:32.799 --> 00:15:37.720 Dark colored shirt, maybe red with white stripes, perfectly iron collar, 257 00:15:38.759 --> 00:15:43.480 khaki pants. That's him. That's him, he said, rubbing his 258 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:45.720 arms from the chill we both felt at that moment. 259 00:15:47.279 --> 00:15:49.159 He told me a few things about him, and I 260 00:15:49.159 --> 00:15:51.679 had told him what he had told me, that all 261 00:15:51.759 --> 00:15:55.919 of them were a very kind family. He would always 262 00:15:55.919 --> 00:16:00.840 tell us that, he said, smiling, super nice guy. We 263 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:04.000 stayed quiet there for a little bit, thinking nice thoughts 264 00:16:04.039 --> 00:16:06.600 about a man who was no longer with us, before 265 00:16:06.639 --> 00:16:10.879 I thanked him and got back in the van. I 266 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:14.320 didn't believe in ghosts up until that point, and I 267 00:16:14.320 --> 00:16:18.440 can't say I was scared, but man, I hope it 268 00:16:18.480 --> 00:16:27.639 doesn't happen again. On the drag back to the city 269 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:30.000 from the airport, I picked up a young woman with 270 00:16:30.039 --> 00:16:33.279 the backpack heading for the U Tree bus station. She 271 00:16:33.320 --> 00:16:35.440 had missed the last bus, from what she told me 272 00:16:35.559 --> 00:16:37.559 as we loaded her bag on the back of the cab. 273 00:16:39.120 --> 00:16:41.279 She had a ton of questions about the area and 274 00:16:41.440 --> 00:16:44.799 was traveling from somewhere in Europe. I'm not very good 275 00:16:44.799 --> 00:16:48.000 with countries, so I can't remember this after all these years, 276 00:16:48.399 --> 00:16:52.279 but her accents was pleasant. We drove to the first 277 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:55.279 part of the city, the industrial zone, alongside the meat 278 00:16:55.279 --> 00:16:58.080 packing plants, where the smell would creep into the car 279 00:16:58.240 --> 00:17:02.320 no matter how much air fresh you used. I remember 280 00:17:02.440 --> 00:17:05.359 begging this girl not to open the window, even with 281 00:17:05.519 --> 00:17:07.839 hand signals. Right when she took out her an instant 282 00:17:07.839 --> 00:17:12.720 camera from her pocket, I was glad she understood. Just 283 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:15.319 as we reached a clearing, there were a set of 284 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:17.839 train tracks that cut perfectly in the path in front 285 00:17:17.880 --> 00:17:21.240 of us. Nobody around for as far as those dim 286 00:17:21.279 --> 00:17:25.240 orange lights scattered down the road would let us see. 287 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:29.240 When suddenly I saw a figure appear from the left 288 00:17:29.279 --> 00:17:31.240 side of the road and rush to the middle of 289 00:17:31.240 --> 00:17:34.599 the street right in front of me. The girl in 290 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:37.440 the back seat screamed in a phrase I didn't understand. 291 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:40.799 As I hit the brakes, we stood still in the 292 00:17:40.799 --> 00:17:43.640 middle of that dark road, but I didn't waste any time. 293 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:45.960 I got out at the car and looked in front. 294 00:17:46.759 --> 00:17:50.160 There was nobody. I reached back in the car for 295 00:17:50.240 --> 00:17:52.440 a flashlight, the one that I had in the compartment 296 00:17:52.480 --> 00:17:54.920 in the car door, and I shined it all around 297 00:17:54.960 --> 00:17:58.279 the car. There was literally only a chain link fence 298 00:17:58.319 --> 00:18:01.680 and then enormous parking lots on either side, all lit 299 00:18:01.839 --> 00:18:06.039 by the same colored lights. The girl had also gotten 300 00:18:06.079 --> 00:18:08.200 out of the car and looked around. She was a 301 00:18:08.200 --> 00:18:13.839 little shaken up, but not terribly. Where is she? Her 302 00:18:13.920 --> 00:18:16.960 voice quieted by the emptiness around us. As soon as 303 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:21.000 she said it, you saw her too, right? She stared 304 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:25.119 at me, confused, and then her eyes lit up. The girl, Yes, 305 00:18:25.400 --> 00:18:28.279 the woman, the thing in front of us. Yes. Yes. 306 00:18:30.079 --> 00:18:32.240 We stood out there for just a little bit longer, 307 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:35.839 and then went back in the car. When we started 308 00:18:35.880 --> 00:18:38.559 driving again, she had a new story to tell her 309 00:18:38.559 --> 00:18:41.680 friends back home about how she saw a ghost in 310 00:18:41.720 --> 00:18:44.200 the middle of the road with a weird taxi driver, 311 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:49.519 and I, well, it was just another night on the job. 312 00:18:50.680 --> 00:19:00.000 It wasn't the first, It wouldn't be the last. Scary story. 313 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:04.480 Podcast has written and produced by me Edwin Kovarubias. If 314 00:19:04.519 --> 00:19:07.440 you're listening while you're working late at night, stay safe 315 00:19:07.480 --> 00:19:10.400 out there. We don't know what lingers in the Dark. 316 00:19:12.079 --> 00:19:14.039 You can reach me through the comments or by using 317 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:16.359 the information on the description of this episode if you 318 00:19:16.359 --> 00:19:19.200 want to get in touch, and if you're following this podcast, 319 00:19:19.240 --> 00:19:21.200 I will come back next week to tell you some 320 00:19:21.240 --> 00:19:24.759 more stories. Thank you very much for listening and for 321 00:19:24.839 --> 00:19:29.240 your support. Keep it scary everyone, see us soon.