WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.720 --> 00:00:03.040 That's not my birthday, I told the lady at the 2 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:06.799 front desk. She smiled, but not in the polite I 3 00:00:06.839 --> 00:00:09.800 made a mistake kind of way, not even in an 4 00:00:10.199 --> 00:00:13.679 embarrassed or let me fix that kind of way. She 5 00:00:13.759 --> 00:00:17.519 simply stared at me in silence, and that smile was 6 00:00:17.519 --> 00:00:20.480 getting whiter, slow enough for me not to notice it 7 00:00:20.559 --> 00:00:26.079 until it was almost reaching her ears. No it isn't, 8 00:00:26.280 --> 00:00:31.239 she finally said, her expression barely changing. I looked around 9 00:00:31.320 --> 00:00:33.039 the office to see if anyone else was going to 10 00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:35.520 come and help me. The pain in my mouth suddenly 11 00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:38.399 pinched against my skull. Right then. It was when I 12 00:00:38.439 --> 00:00:43.320 realized that I was grinding my teeth again. A woman 13 00:00:43.359 --> 00:00:45.640 came out of the back of that old office, smiling 14 00:00:45.640 --> 00:00:47.840 at me until she looked at the woman behind the desk, 15 00:00:48.520 --> 00:00:50.880 and like a dog with her tail between her legs, 16 00:00:51.079 --> 00:00:54.240 the woman on the chair stood up quickly. She grabbed 17 00:00:54.280 --> 00:00:55.960 the broom that was leaning on the corner of the 18 00:00:55.960 --> 00:01:00.200 waiting room, and she rushed outside, not without offering one 19 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:04.799 final look toward me, a sinister smile, one that I 20 00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:11.959 can still remember. My name is Edwin, and here's a 21 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:20.719 scary story. It was weird that experience with that woman. 22 00:01:21.920 --> 00:01:24.319 I asked the dentist about her, and she said not 23 00:01:24.400 --> 00:01:28.400 to worry about it. But I told her clearly, March second, 24 00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:33.200 nineteen ninety one. What would she write February twenty sixth? 25 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:37.239 The date hadn't even happened yet, the year was way off. 26 00:01:37.359 --> 00:01:41.599 What was I negative? Two weeks young? The dentist didn't 27 00:01:41.599 --> 00:01:43.840 seem to get the joke, and she simply asked for 28 00:01:43.879 --> 00:01:47.159 her tools and got to work. She was done in 29 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:49.920 about ten minutes. The pain was still there when I 30 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:53.159 walked out with the bag of prescription medication, but I 31 00:01:53.239 --> 00:01:55.920 knew that it was going to go away. She had 32 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:59.319 taken it out. It can't hurt you if it ain't there, 33 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:04.319 she said, with a chuckle. She wasn't wrong. I left 34 00:02:04.319 --> 00:02:07.200 the old dentist's office with forty dollars less that day, 35 00:02:07.519 --> 00:02:10.080 a deal thanks to that sliding scale that they charged 36 00:02:10.199 --> 00:02:14.280 us without insurance. The lines were long, and the areas 37 00:02:14.319 --> 00:02:17.120 around there weren't the best, but I was glad it 38 00:02:17.159 --> 00:02:20.599 was still around. Word around the neighborhood kept saying that 39 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:23.039 the place was closing down, and it had been that 40 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:26.680 way for years. I walked up to the bus stop 41 00:02:26.960 --> 00:02:29.879 and looked back at that office. The lion was now 42 00:02:29.919 --> 00:02:33.439 reaching Juan's Tacos by the corner of the plaza, and 43 00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:36.439 at the very very end, just around the corner of 44 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:42.000 the building was that woman looking directly at me, her 45 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:44.680 chin leaning on the old broom she was holding with 46 00:02:44.719 --> 00:02:51.360 both hands, that smile still reaching her ears. I looked 47 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:53.840 away and pretended to look for the bus down the street. 48 00:02:54.159 --> 00:03:00.240 Unfortunately I saw it just on the other block. Wasn't 49 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:04.719 as bad after that second pill at night. Overall, it 50 00:03:04.759 --> 00:03:10.240 was a good day today. Jimmy's school called me while 51 00:03:10.240 --> 00:03:12.360 I was at work. He was about to be picked 52 00:03:12.439 --> 00:03:14.360 up because of a stomach ache, but I kept the 53 00:03:14.360 --> 00:03:17.719 generic pepto bismo along with the inhaler at the front office. 54 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:20.159 I said it was okay if he took it, so 55 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:22.639 they gave it to him and they didn't call back. 56 00:03:24.159 --> 00:03:26.319 I got home to the door wide open at the 57 00:03:26.360 --> 00:03:29.759 apartment complex. I had told Jimmy not to do that 58 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:33.159 many times. Those people, the ones that passed by the corner, 59 00:03:33.319 --> 00:03:36.280 they were said to be thieves. Although they wouldn't steal 60 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:38.680 from us, they blatantly told me that. When I clutched 61 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:40.560 my purse on my way home from the bus stop, 62 00:03:40.599 --> 00:03:45.520 one day. I didn't trust him, though we're neighbors friends, 63 00:03:45.719 --> 00:03:48.960 two of them said. Today. They waved and laughed as 64 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:51.280 I walked by them, and then they went back to 65 00:03:51.319 --> 00:03:56.280 their card game two and they smacked the cards onto 66 00:03:56.319 --> 00:04:00.319 the floor. Twenty six, they yelled. Two of them were 67 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:03.439 getting overly excited, while another said that he wanted a 68 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:08.439 do over. Two and twenty six. The numbers echoed in 69 00:04:08.479 --> 00:04:10.919 my mind as I stared down the old black gum 70 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:15.759 circles on the sidewalk. There ain't no do overs. It's over, 71 00:04:15.879 --> 00:04:18.600 one of them said. I turned around and caught a 72 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:22.000 glimpse of him, a smile spread wide across his face. 73 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:27.279 It's over, he repeated, and he looked directly at me. 74 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:33.920 Time seemed to stand still for a moment. It wasn't 75 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:36.879 immediate then the thoughts that I have now as I'm 76 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:41.720 writing this down two and twenty six like the wrong 77 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:44.000 birthday that the strange woman had written down for me. 78 00:04:45.720 --> 00:04:47.480 I was still thinking about it when I looked into 79 00:04:47.480 --> 00:04:50.279 the wide metal door that was opened. I turned the 80 00:04:50.279 --> 00:04:53.759 doorknob on the wooden door. It was locked with the 81 00:04:53.800 --> 00:04:56.399 dead bolt, so I knocked and Jimmy came up to 82 00:04:56.439 --> 00:05:00.959 open it. I decided to scold him. Then the door, 83 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:09.000 after all, had been locked. Strange day today. The pain 84 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:11.879 was gone now, just like the dentist said it would. 85 00:05:12.399 --> 00:05:14.879 It can't hurt me if it ain't there. She said 86 00:05:14.920 --> 00:05:17.279 that an implant can be considered sometime in the future. 87 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:20.240 It knew what she meant. She meant when that had 88 00:05:20.279 --> 00:05:22.839 the money for it. There was no shame in it. 89 00:05:23.160 --> 00:05:25.360 We were all in it together, and she knew not 90 00:05:25.439 --> 00:05:27.959 to bother me with phone calls like those normal dentist 91 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:31.120 places do, asking if I'm ready for the procedure now, 92 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:34.800 because the doctor has availability for these next two weeks. 93 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:37.759 I had heard it all, but not from these guys. 94 00:05:39.480 --> 00:05:42.680 There were more important things now anyway. Rhett was due 95 00:05:42.680 --> 00:05:45.920 in a couple of weeks. Jimmy needed cleats after out 96 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:47.680 growing the ones they had let him borrow at the 97 00:05:47.759 --> 00:05:50.959 end of last season. And still I felt all right 98 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:53.879 for the majority of the day. But I have to 99 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:59.160 say that number it's still there. I don't know what 100 00:05:59.240 --> 00:06:10.319 it is. It's bothering me. Something isn't right. Weird day 101 00:06:10.439 --> 00:06:12.199 today there was an order that I messed up on 102 00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:15.319 at Hogies. The old woman got out of her car 103 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:18.120 and came up to the counter, yelling with that raspy 104 00:06:18.199 --> 00:06:21.959 voice pointing at me. She wanted me to apologize, and 105 00:06:22.040 --> 00:06:24.759 I did. I keep my head down at work all 106 00:06:24.800 --> 00:06:28.000 the time. The risks are too big, so I told 107 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:30.360 her that we would fix it, but it wasn't good 108 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:34.079 enough for her. The manager came up to us, wiping 109 00:06:34.079 --> 00:06:36.360 her hands with the wrong rag and asked what the 110 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:41.399 order number had been. I couldn't believe it. I looked 111 00:06:41.399 --> 00:06:44.040 at it, my mind going back to the woman with 112 00:06:44.079 --> 00:06:46.959 the broom and the man with the cards. Next thing 113 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:49.240 I know, the manager was tapping me on the shoulder, 114 00:06:49.720 --> 00:06:52.720 two twenty six. Did you get that order? Two twenty six? 115 00:06:52.920 --> 00:06:56.360 Let's get it out again before it gets cold. The 116 00:06:56.399 --> 00:06:59.120 old woman, now out of air, was trying to yell, 117 00:07:00.519 --> 00:07:05.079 before you get cold. I heard the woman say, clear 118 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:09.600 as day. I looked at her, confused, this time trying 119 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:12.639 to make sure I had heard it correctly. When I 120 00:07:12.639 --> 00:07:16.920 saw a grin spreading across her face. At that moment, 121 00:07:16.920 --> 00:07:19.839 I went numb and felt the strange rush of cold 122 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:22.439 blood go up to my head and I grabbed onto 123 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:25.319 the counter. I heard the voice of a man through 124 00:07:25.319 --> 00:07:29.079 my headset of the drive through. I got to take 125 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:31.480 a break too. I heard my friend Barbara come up 126 00:07:31.560 --> 00:07:34.000 and say that as she was taking my headset off. 127 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:37.639 We both sat at the farthest table from the counter, 128 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:41.160 with two sandwiches on the tray. That's when I told her, 129 00:07:41.639 --> 00:07:44.160 told her everything, at least what I could make sense of. 130 00:07:45.759 --> 00:07:49.240 That I kept seeing that number, that date, zero two 131 00:07:49.439 --> 00:07:55.680 twenty six, two twenty six, February twenty six. It was 132 00:07:55.759 --> 00:08:00.639 getting to me. Barbara simply stared pulling out her phone 133 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:05.920 and typing something extremely fast on it, Susan. She seemed 134 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:09.000 to be searching for something. I remember that name, but 135 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:12.160 she didn't finish. She told me to let it go, 136 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:16.079 to not think about it so much. She kept looking 137 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:19.439 at her phone. I begged her to tell me what 138 00:08:19.439 --> 00:08:21.839 she was talking about, but she said that I should 139 00:08:21.920 --> 00:08:25.360 just focus on thinking of other things, that everything was 140 00:08:25.399 --> 00:08:28.560 going to be all right. But I could see it 141 00:08:28.600 --> 00:08:35.039 in her eyes. Something wasn't right. Not an easy day today. 142 00:08:37.919 --> 00:08:40.200 Things in order, two decks of cards on a bench. 143 00:08:40.279 --> 00:08:42.399 A woman with the broom was here again. I heard 144 00:08:42.440 --> 00:08:44.720 her raspy boys yelling at me from the corner of 145 00:08:44.759 --> 00:08:49.320 the room. Something's not right. February twenty sixth zero two 146 00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:53.919 two six to twenty six Day of Darkness, Day of rest. 147 00:09:00.039 --> 00:09:04.000 My name is Barbara Collins, from Diana's workplace at Hogy Smart. 148 00:09:04.679 --> 00:09:07.679 It's late March. Jimmy let me help him with his 149 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:10.720 mother's things, and I found her journal. I hope what 150 00:09:10.759 --> 00:09:13.399 I tell you here offers some closure after her passing, 151 00:09:13.960 --> 00:09:16.360 though I must warn you that if you're looking for 152 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:22.679 a logical explanation, I cannot offer that. Diana was found 153 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:25.159 dead in her living room on the afternoon of February 154 00:09:25.159 --> 00:09:29.480 twenty sixth of this year. Her face seemed contorted, jaws 155 00:09:29.559 --> 00:09:33.279 stretched out beyond anything I had ever seen, her eyes 156 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:36.720 staring at the ceiling, and her right hand rigid stuck 157 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:39.279 with her index finger pointing at the open door of 158 00:09:39.320 --> 00:09:42.879 her apartment, though her arm was now against the carpet. 159 00:09:43.559 --> 00:09:46.879 From what I hear, this type of expression comes from 160 00:09:46.960 --> 00:09:52.320 fear when death arrives. And even though the police opened 161 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:55.399 and closed the investigation, they never bothered to hear me 162 00:09:55.480 --> 00:09:57.840 on what she had told me regarding the strange people 163 00:09:57.919 --> 00:10:01.039 she encountered, the people in the days before her death. 164 00:10:02.039 --> 00:10:08.000 The number two twenty six the warnings. So I'm writing 165 00:10:08.039 --> 00:10:11.879 this here for everyone to read and listen to the 166 00:10:11.919 --> 00:10:15.480 things she did write down, the things she only told me. 167 00:10:18.360 --> 00:10:21.279 We were at work one evening. Rush hour was extra 168 00:10:21.320 --> 00:10:23.720 difficult that day because there was a concert at a 169 00:10:23.759 --> 00:10:27.960 nearby park. Diana was working the drive through when suddenly 170 00:10:28.039 --> 00:10:30.519 a woman who had left before getting the second bag 171 00:10:30.559 --> 00:10:33.360 of her order came rushing up to her by the counter. 172 00:10:34.919 --> 00:10:36.919 God only knows what kind of stuff She told her. 173 00:10:37.679 --> 00:10:41.279 She was pretty shaken up. And when she told me 174 00:10:41.279 --> 00:10:43.879 about the number two two six, the woman from the 175 00:10:43.919 --> 00:10:46.679 dentist's office, and the man with the cards, I started 176 00:10:46.679 --> 00:10:50.600 piecing things together. You see, I live in the same 177 00:10:50.600 --> 00:10:54.399 neighborhood where Diana shared her apartment with her son Jimmy, 178 00:10:55.399 --> 00:10:57.279 and if you're not from around that part of town, 179 00:10:57.840 --> 00:11:00.120 you wouldn't know about the strange sightings that happened in 180 00:11:00.159 --> 00:11:03.960 the eighties. No matter how hard I looked for more information, 181 00:11:04.120 --> 00:11:08.559 though nobody was willing to say anything. I'd forgotten all 182 00:11:08.559 --> 00:11:11.759 about it until Diana mentioned it. May she rest in peace, 183 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:16.240 but I couldn't help It had been sent an email 184 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:19.679 long ago. The only reply back about this the one 185 00:11:19.679 --> 00:11:23.279 that mentioned a woman with a broom. I thought it 186 00:11:23.320 --> 00:11:25.600 was a joke when I read it, I thought they 187 00:11:25.639 --> 00:11:27.679 were trying to make me believe that it was a witch, 188 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:33.399 the typical flying woman across the night sky. I sent 189 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:35.960 a response back to that email to a woman named 190 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:39.360 Susan L. But she never replied back with anything else. 191 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:44.480 But it was the idea behind this woman that terrified me. 192 00:11:45.519 --> 00:11:48.440 All of it detailed in that email. The long block 193 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:52.000 of texts Susan had written explained the whole thing. That 194 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:54.720 there was a strange woman. She would come up to 195 00:11:54.759 --> 00:11:56.879 people and tell them the day that they would die, 196 00:11:58.159 --> 00:12:04.039 somewhat believe her. Others would not. There were very few 197 00:12:04.159 --> 00:12:07.200 that actually understood the message, and I thought Diana was 198 00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:11.480 on her way to doing exactly that. I know that 199 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:15.559 saying something isn't an option anymore, and honestly I should 200 00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:19.000 not have kept my mouth shut about it. It was 201 00:12:19.039 --> 00:12:21.519 only going to make things worse. But I should have 202 00:12:21.600 --> 00:12:25.480 said something anyway. There was something I could do now, 203 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:29.200 at least to get some closure. I had it burned 204 00:12:29.240 --> 00:12:31.679 in my mind. I'm going to find out who this 205 00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:36.559 woman was and get some help for Jimmy. It was 206 00:12:36.639 --> 00:12:38.679 Saturday morning and I had called out a word to 207 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:41.399 go back to the dentist's office. I knew the place 208 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:44.600 she was talking about I had been there myself. The 209 00:12:44.639 --> 00:12:47.279 receptionist had just gotten to her post when the bell 210 00:12:47.360 --> 00:12:50.679 on the door rang as I stepped in. I hesitated 211 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:53.320 at first, but I asked her about the woman with 212 00:12:53.360 --> 00:12:58.360 the broom. Her expression changed almost immediately. She asked me, 213 00:12:59.000 --> 00:13:01.600 did she say something to you? I told her no, 214 00:13:02.240 --> 00:13:04.120 I just wanted to know if she was around, and 215 00:13:04.120 --> 00:13:06.960 that I needed to ask her a few things. She 216 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:09.360 told me that the woman had been spotted around the area, 217 00:13:10.120 --> 00:13:13.320 that there were several stories about her circulating around Facebook 218 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:15.679 and some other forums as she frequented. As she did 219 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:19.600 her own research on it, the receptionist was more than 220 00:13:19.639 --> 00:13:24.320 open to maybe eager to share more information about everything 221 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:27.559 that she knew about this woman. I know it sounds 222 00:13:27.559 --> 00:13:30.919 insane to even hear this. Trust me, I already made 223 00:13:30.960 --> 00:13:34.559 peace with it. It was the skepticism that was keeping 224 00:13:34.559 --> 00:13:38.360 me for my answers. She agreed, and I turned my 225 00:13:38.360 --> 00:13:41.399 body toward the exit when a shadow passed right in 226 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:45.080 front of the door, and at that moment, the reception 227 00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:47.360 is grabbed me by the wrists and pulled me toward 228 00:13:47.480 --> 00:13:51.240 her behind the counter. We stayed quiet as a shadow 229 00:13:51.320 --> 00:13:55.159 covered up the waiting room area. That's her, she whispered. 230 00:13:56.799 --> 00:14:00.320 We sit still for a long time, and eventually she 231 00:14:00.399 --> 00:14:06.080 was gone. That evening, the receptionist who was this middle 232 00:14:06.080 --> 00:14:11.120 aged woman, dark hair and overly nervous, Clara, what's her name? 233 00:14:12.039 --> 00:14:13.639 She was sitting across from me at one of those 234 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:16.519 fast food restaurants, the ones where they serve you coffee 235 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:20.320 and regular styrofoam cuffs. We talked for a couple of 236 00:14:20.360 --> 00:14:23.799 hours about the town, the woman with the broom. She 237 00:14:23.879 --> 00:14:26.480 understood computers and stuff, so when I told her that 238 00:14:26.559 --> 00:14:28.759 I had the email from this woman named Susan in 239 00:14:28.799 --> 00:14:33.240 the long lost MSN email, she quickly got to her 240 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:35.360 phone and asked me what it said and if I 241 00:14:35.399 --> 00:14:38.559 could log in. And I'm not sure how she did it, 242 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:41.879 password resets and god knows what else, but we were 243 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:44.960 able to find it buried under a bunch of spam. 244 00:14:45.279 --> 00:14:48.879 It was there. So we read the email, and I'm 245 00:14:48.879 --> 00:14:50.720 going to read it for you here, if that's all right. 246 00:14:51.720 --> 00:14:56.600 Here's what it says regarding about the woman with the 247 00:14:56.639 --> 00:15:02.759 broom from Susan L. Thank you for your email, Barbara. 248 00:15:02.919 --> 00:15:05.000 I hope this reaches you in time, or if someone 249 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:08.840 else is being affected that it reaches them. You're asking 250 00:15:08.919 --> 00:15:11.200 questions about the woman that people used to see around 251 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:13.000 here in the late eighties, and I know who you 252 00:15:13.039 --> 00:15:16.559 were referring to. Most people call her a joke or 253 00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:20.600 a witch story, or she isn't. In nineteen eighty seven, 254 00:15:20.639 --> 00:15:23.159 my uncle Matteo told us about a woman that approached 255 00:15:23.200 --> 00:15:26.360 him outside a clinic on Fifth Street. She was holding 256 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:30.200 a broom, leaning on it like a cane. He thought 257 00:15:30.279 --> 00:15:34.039 that she worked there, and she smiled. She said, that's 258 00:15:34.080 --> 00:15:37.480 not your day. He laughed and asked what she meant 259 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:43.000 as she told them one August fourteenth, So he told 260 00:15:43.039 --> 00:15:45.600 her not even close, thinking that she was trying to 261 00:15:45.639 --> 00:15:50.639 guess his birthday. But she only smiled wider and said, no, 262 00:15:51.840 --> 00:15:58.159 it isn't, this creepy smile on her face. For weeks 263 00:15:58.200 --> 00:16:01.879 after that, he kept seeing the number on receipts, license plates, 264 00:16:02.080 --> 00:16:05.559 the radio clock stopping at eight fourteen. It was everywhere, 265 00:16:06.039 --> 00:16:09.039 and he started writing it down. He said it was 266 00:16:09.039 --> 00:16:13.080 something trying to get his attention. Now, most people would 267 00:16:13.080 --> 00:16:16.120 have said it was simply a coincidence. My uncle didn't. 268 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:20.720 He started digging around, asking everyone who would listen, and 269 00:16:20.759 --> 00:16:23.759 as he looked back at his own life, he realized something. 270 00:16:24.519 --> 00:16:26.480 He had always been warned about this sort of thing. 271 00:16:27.240 --> 00:16:30.080 So August came around and he didn't move. He stayed home, 272 00:16:30.279 --> 00:16:33.879 closed all the doors and windows, didn't drive, didn't walk, nothing. 273 00:16:34.639 --> 00:16:38.240 He didn't even answer the phone. After the day was over, 274 00:16:38.519 --> 00:16:41.360 the sidings of the number stopped, and he never saw 275 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:45.519 the strange woman again. When I heard this story, one 276 00:16:45.559 --> 00:16:50.320 where nothing happens, I realized something different. Cases have popped 277 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:52.679 up over the years, and it's the same. Every time. 278 00:16:53.759 --> 00:16:57.080 She never says you will die or threatens you. She 279 00:16:57.159 --> 00:17:00.720 only corrects you. People who ignore her end up dead 280 00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:03.240 on the date that she gives them. I don't believe 281 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:06.160 it to be a rumor. I found three cases from 282 00:17:06.160 --> 00:17:09.759 this very town alone. The difference between the ones that 283 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:13.000 lived and the ones who died are those that figured 284 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:17.240 out what the date meant before it arrived. And it 285 00:17:17.279 --> 00:17:20.759 was at this part where my jaw dropped open. Please, 286 00:17:21.359 --> 00:17:23.720 if someone you know has been given a date, don't 287 00:17:23.759 --> 00:17:26.680 tell them to forget about it. Don't tell them it's stress. 288 00:17:27.519 --> 00:17:30.759 They need to understand the warning. I don't send this lightly. 289 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:34.759 Most people laugh. I hope you don't. I'm sorry if 290 00:17:34.759 --> 00:17:41.160 this reaches you too late. Susan l. I thought back 291 00:17:41.200 --> 00:17:43.640 on what I told Diana, that everything was going to 292 00:17:43.680 --> 00:17:45.720 be all right, that you shouldn't think about it too much. 293 00:17:47.839 --> 00:17:50.039 In the days that followed, I kept thinking about what 294 00:17:50.160 --> 00:17:53.559 got me into all this, even back then when I 295 00:17:53.640 --> 00:17:56.559 reached out to the woman in the email, the pure 296 00:17:56.599 --> 00:18:00.279 desperation I felt, how I felt checking my email over 297 00:18:00.319 --> 00:18:04.519 her response, never seeing anything from her again, and my 298 00:18:04.640 --> 00:18:08.799 mind kept thinking steps backwards, little by little until I 299 00:18:08.839 --> 00:18:14.039 found it. A memory at the gas station long ago, 300 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:17.759 when a woman asked about the winning lotto tickets. She 301 00:18:17.839 --> 00:18:21.599 said to buy for my birthday July seventeenth, combine it 302 00:18:21.640 --> 00:18:25.680 with hers if I needed more numbers. I remember how 303 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:27.839 the awkwardness came out of my voice when I told 304 00:18:27.839 --> 00:18:33.359 her that it wasn't my birthday. No, it is it, 305 00:18:33.720 --> 00:18:37.720 she said, her smile getting a little wider by the second. 306 00:18:39.119 --> 00:18:41.799 I smiled back, paid for my gas, and left that 307 00:18:41.880 --> 00:18:46.720 she simply stood there watching me drive away. I mentioned 308 00:18:46.720 --> 00:18:49.160 it to my aunt back then and passing when she 309 00:18:49.200 --> 00:18:52.039 said something about the lottery numbers, and then she stopped. 310 00:18:52.960 --> 00:18:54.720 She looked at me and asked me to describe the 311 00:18:54.759 --> 00:18:59.000 woman in detail. She eventually reached out to her friends, 312 00:18:59.119 --> 00:19:02.400 who eventually told told her the story. It's how I 313 00:19:02.400 --> 00:19:09.759 got Susan's emails. The obsession with seven one seven July seventeenth. 314 00:19:09.799 --> 00:19:13.119 And when I say that number was everywhere, I mean it. 315 00:19:14.559 --> 00:19:17.240 I thought about it so much. How did I eventually 316 00:19:17.240 --> 00:19:19.839 forget about it? When the day came, I felt sick 317 00:19:19.880 --> 00:19:23.359 to my stomach. My mind was going crazy over those numbers. 318 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:28.960 I kept seeing them everywhere. It was debilitating that pounding headache. 319 00:19:29.119 --> 00:19:31.640 So I called off work that day. I closed all 320 00:19:31.640 --> 00:19:34.920 my doors, all my windows. I spent the entire time 321 00:19:34.960 --> 00:19:41.359 in bed, and then the number stopped the next day. I 322 00:19:41.400 --> 00:19:44.759 never told Diana that part. I was afraid that if 323 00:19:44.759 --> 00:19:47.599 I said it out loud, it would become real instead 324 00:19:47.599 --> 00:19:50.119 of only a nightmare I had woken up from long ago. 325 00:19:51.680 --> 00:19:55.960 It was clear now I should have said something. She 326 00:19:55.960 --> 00:19:59.799 would have still been alive. Do what you will with 327 00:19:59.839 --> 00:20:03.519 this information. I met up with Clara several times to 328 00:20:03.559 --> 00:20:06.200 talk about Diana's death and the other cases that she 329 00:20:06.240 --> 00:20:09.920 has stumbled upon. And yet there's one question that we 330 00:20:10.079 --> 00:20:14.559 always end the conversation with, Who is this woman with 331 00:20:14.559 --> 00:20:18.079 a broom and how does she choose who she gives 332 00:20:18.079 --> 00:20:22.119 a date to? Why do all the descriptions label her 333 00:20:22.279 --> 00:20:26.559 the same, a slim, older looking woman with thin hair, 334 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:30.880 a broom in her hands, a smile so thin and 335 00:20:31.000 --> 00:20:34.519 wide that it sense shivers down your spine when you 336 00:20:34.559 --> 00:20:38.440 think of her the way all these accounts speak, how 337 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:42.839 a stare, a dark black stare into nothingness, like the 338 00:20:42.839 --> 00:20:48.519 one she leads you to. Reports of sighting still pop up, 339 00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:51.960 and thankfully we catch them on time to warn them 340 00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:55.039 of all these other cases that resulted in death or 341 00:20:55.119 --> 00:20:58.839 near death experiences. We like to think that we have 342 00:20:58.880 --> 00:21:02.960 saved lives. And if you're from here Nla or the 343 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:06.359 surrounding areas, if you see this woman with the broom, 344 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:09.960 if you suddenly can't get a number out of your mind, 345 00:21:11.119 --> 00:21:15.440 pay attention to it. It isn't a prediction or a curse, 346 00:21:16.359 --> 00:21:20.599 but a sign. The gap into eternal rest is opening 347 00:21:20.680 --> 00:21:25.880 slowly for you, and if you're not ready, close your 348 00:21:25.880 --> 00:21:40.039 doors and windows. Scary Story podcast is written and produced 349 00:21:40.039 --> 00:21:43.960 by me Edwin Corrugyas. 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