Speaker 1: Hey, High Strange listeners, it's been a while since High
Speaker 1: Strangers first season and rest assured the team is working
Speaker 1: on more. But in the meantime, are you looking for
Speaker 1: another place to hear stories of unexplained and bizarre events,
Speaker 1: maybe even possible UAP sightings, Because we've also got a
Speaker 1: show called Radio Rental where real life people share their
Speaker 1: most harrowing and inexplicable stories. And if you like UFO stories,
Speaker 1: you might like this story in particular. Check it out.
Speaker 2: I grew up in a small town. Population was like
Speaker 2: nine hundred. Obviously, not a lot of exciting things happened
Speaker 2: growing up. By the time I was I think seventeen,
Speaker 2: I had pretty much explored every square inch of that town.
Speaker 2: I really did. As cliche as it sounds, no like
Speaker 2: the back of my hand. I was, I think sixteen seventeen,
Speaker 2: and every day trying to figure out something to do.
Speaker 2: I was with a friend of mine. We reached out
Speaker 2: to another friend and was just asking them what they
Speaker 2: were up to. They were like, yeah, come over, We're
Speaker 2: gonna watch some movies later night, and we were like great.
Speaker 3: There were pretty much two ways to get to our
Speaker 3: friend's house.
Speaker 2: There was a long way through the town, but it
Speaker 2: ended up leading down a kind of precarious, sketchy path
Speaker 2: alongside of a road, and there was another path that
Speaker 2: was almost like a shortcut that we had taken one
Speaker 2: hundred and one times, so obviously we chose to do that.
Speaker 2: We started like we always would. It was just a
Speaker 2: couple of minutes right up from my parents' house where
Speaker 2: I grew up. The place we would always start was
Speaker 2: a very small kind of chain length fence on the
Speaker 2: the opposite side of the road was a little driveway
Speaker 2: that ran to kind of like a farmhouse that we're
Speaker 2: pretty familiar with. We'd been there a couple of times.
Speaker 2: We started walking towards our friend's house and the shortcut
Speaker 2: was really kind of just through a golf course in
Speaker 2: a little bit of forest, but again we had walked
Speaker 2: it one hundred and one times. It didn't take more
Speaker 2: than fifteen minutes, twenty minutes tops. It was just a
Speaker 2: straight line from Road A to Road B. Started just
Speaker 2: seeing all those familiar landmarks. Was the sand trap on
Speaker 2: whole fifteen. A couple of minutes later, there's just like
Speaker 2: a utility shed and we're like, great, we'll be there
Speaker 2: in no time. As We kept walking. You know, we
Speaker 2: started five thirty or six. We're fully expecting to be there,
Speaker 2: you know, sun setting around six thirty. But the more
Speaker 2: we walked, we noticed some was going down when was
Speaker 2: coming up, and we're like, okay, no big deal. Maybe
Speaker 2: we walked later than we when we thought up when
Speaker 2: we were supposed to get there, fully expecting to see
Speaker 2: that other road.
Speaker 3: We still hadn't.
Speaker 2: We saw kind of a thicket of trees. Right on
Speaker 2: the other side of those trees, there's gonna be the
Speaker 2: road that's right across the street.
Speaker 3: From our friend's house, and at this point it was dark.
Speaker 2: We got to this thicket of trees, and as soon
Speaker 2: as we did, we started seeing these blinking red lights,
Speaker 2: multiple of them, almost like lightning bugs, and they were
Speaker 2: flashing up in the trees above us. They were almost fluorescent,
Speaker 2: like a Christmas tree bulb almost. They were coming almost
Speaker 2: like through the trees. Maybe we had trip a floodlight
Speaker 2: that people have outside their house. As we got closer,
Speaker 2: we started noticing that there was more of them appearing.
Speaker 2: It was accompanied by the strangest alarm, but it sounded more.
Speaker 3: Like a siren.
Speaker 2: The siren was so unlike anything i'd ever heard before,
Speaker 2: not like an alarm, not like an ambulance, like a shriek,
Speaker 2: high pitched and so loud, almost like a frequency like
Speaker 2: when you have to night us, like a ringing in
Speaker 2: your ears, but coming from someplace outside of you.
Speaker 3: It was all around us. It was consuming still looking
Speaker 3: up at the trees. The lights were almost surrounding us.
Speaker 3: That just immediately said in a pan.
Speaker 2: We didn't know what it was, but we knew that
Speaker 2: it wasn't anything normal. It was completely unlike anything we
Speaker 2: had ever seen or heard before in that small town.
Speaker 2: With that, it was fight or flight or freeze. And
Speaker 2: we flew. We ran out of there as fast as
Speaker 2: we could, and it was hard to think about anything
Speaker 2: other than those lights and that sound.
Speaker 3: We ran and ran and ran.
Speaker 2: Still looking up above us in the tree line, just
Speaker 2: still seeing those red lights flashing. We see a road
Speaker 2: ahead of us, and we're like, okay, great, we're here.
Speaker 2: As we approached that road, we were standing looking at
Speaker 2: that small chain link fence.
Speaker 3: That we started walking on.
Speaker 2: We looked behind us, we looked in front of us again,
Speaker 2: looking back at that chain link fence.
Speaker 3: What just happened? We were walking just a.
Speaker 2: Straight line It was all start to finish, golf course, utility,
Speaker 2: shed everything that we had noticed in the past up
Speaker 2: until that line of trees. At no point did we
Speaker 2: ever make a U turn and start walking back. Even
Speaker 2: more significantly, we never crossed any other road, any other path.
Speaker 2: It was all just golf course and forest. We kept
Speaker 2: trying to rationalize, and the more we did where it
Speaker 2: didn't make sense who has red flashing light alarm system
Speaker 2: outside their house? But at no point did either of
Speaker 2: us get lost. It was again a walk we had
Speaker 2: done hundreds of times. Crazier theories started to go through
Speaker 2: our head, like maybe we walked through some sort of portal.
Speaker 2: But the weirdest part, I think was after we calmed down,
Speaker 2: talked a little bit, we noticed that it was nine
Speaker 2: o'clock at night. We had effectively lost three hours. Really
Speaker 2: was a walk that was from point A to point B,
Speaker 2: a straight line that really should have only taken fifteen
Speaker 2: twenty minutes at tops, a walk that we had done
Speaker 2: so many times before and even since then done that walk.
Speaker 2: Somehow we ended up back looking at that chain link fence,
Speaker 2: without ever turning around, without ever walking back, without ever
Speaker 2: crossing any other roads, that forest that golf course, that.
Speaker 3: Straight line, and yet somehow.
Speaker 2: We were back where we started, like we had walked
Speaker 2: entirely around the circumference of the world. And the look
Speaker 2: on our faces said everything that we were both thinking.
Speaker 2: We were walking back home, because at that point we
Speaker 2: were just completely wiped out, exhausted with fear, panic and anxiety.
Speaker 2: And the more we talked, the more things didn't make sense,
Speaker 2: the more things didn't add up. It would be one
Speaker 2: thing if I was by myself and this happened. I
Speaker 2: experienced it with somebody else, which was just confirmation that
Speaker 2: something strange had happened. Him and I both, especially the
Speaker 2: following weeks, retraced our steps dozens of times, went back
Speaker 2: to that fence, started walking in that same direction. We
Speaker 2: walked in the morning, we walked in the afternoon. We
Speaker 2: tried walking at night, but it was always rode to
Speaker 2: Road B. It was never back to roade A. It
Speaker 2: was totally normal. We even tried walking the opposite direction.
Speaker 2: We tried finding that patch of trees, and sure there
Speaker 2: were forests and woods and trees and stuff, but we
Speaker 2: didn't see any you know, floodlights or sirens or alarms
Speaker 2: or red lights. We never saw anything like that. Again,
Speaker 2: the thing that me and my friend both keep coming
Speaker 2: back to is that we were abducted. I think it
Speaker 2: explains the lights, the sounds, and the loss of time.
Speaker 2: Losing time is a big factor in abduction. Maybe these
Speaker 2: things abducted us and got confused about the location where
Speaker 2: they got us, and they picked us up and dropped
Speaker 2: us off at the wrong place. That's like the thing
Speaker 2: that makes the most sense to both of us. Nothing
Speaker 2: else really explains what happened that night. The more I
Speaker 2: listen to other abduction stories, the more that it makes sense,
Speaker 2: the more I have in common with these stories. I
Speaker 2: wish it weren't true. I wish it didn't make sense.
Speaker 2: But that's what I keep coming back to. That's the
Speaker 2: thing that makes the most sense in my mind. I
Speaker 2: truly believe that that night we were abducted and put
Speaker 2: back in the wrong place.
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