WEBVTT - Here's a highly strange one...

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, High Strange listeners, it's been a while since High

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<v Speaker 1>Strangers first season and rest assured the team is working

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<v Speaker 1>on more. But in the meantime, are you looking for

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<v Speaker 1>another place to hear stories of unexplained and bizarre events,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe even possible UAP sightings, Because we've also got a

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<v Speaker 1>show called Radio Rental where real life people share their

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<v Speaker 1>most harrowing and inexplicable stories. And if you like UFO stories,

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<v Speaker 1>you might like this story in particular. Check it out.

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<v Speaker 2>I grew up in a small town. Population was like

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<v Speaker 2>nine hundred. Obviously, not a lot of exciting things happened

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<v Speaker 2>growing up. By the time I was I think seventeen,

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<v Speaker 2>I had pretty much explored every square inch of that town.

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<v Speaker 2>I really did. As cliche as it sounds, no like

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<v Speaker 2>the back of my hand. I was, I think sixteen seventeen,

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<v Speaker 2>and every day trying to figure out something to do.

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<v Speaker 2>I was with a friend of mine. We reached out

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<v Speaker 2>to another friend and was just asking them what they

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<v Speaker 2>were up to. They were like, yeah, come over, We're

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<v Speaker 2>gonna watch some movies later night, and we were like great.

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<v Speaker 3>There were pretty much two ways to get to our

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<v Speaker 3>friend's house.

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<v Speaker 2>There was a long way through the town, but it

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<v Speaker 2>ended up leading down a kind of precarious, sketchy path

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<v Speaker 2>alongside of a road, and there was another path that

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<v Speaker 2>was almost like a shortcut that we had taken one

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<v Speaker 2>hundred and one times, so obviously we chose to do that.

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<v Speaker 2>We started like we always would. It was just a

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<v Speaker 2>couple of minutes right up from my parents' house where

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<v Speaker 2>I grew up. The place we would always start was

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<v Speaker 2>a very small kind of chain length fence on the

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<v Speaker 2>the opposite side of the road was a little driveway

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<v Speaker 2>that ran to kind of like a farmhouse that we're

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<v Speaker 2>pretty familiar with. We'd been there a couple of times.

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<v Speaker 2>We started walking towards our friend's house and the shortcut

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<v Speaker 2>was really kind of just through a golf course in

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<v Speaker 2>a little bit of forest, but again we had walked

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<v Speaker 2>it one hundred and one times. It didn't take more

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<v Speaker 2>than fifteen minutes, twenty minutes tops. It was just a

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<v Speaker 2>straight line from Road A to Road B. Started just

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<v Speaker 2>seeing all those familiar landmarks. Was the sand trap on

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<v Speaker 2>whole fifteen. A couple of minutes later, there's just like

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<v Speaker 2>a utility shed and we're like, great, we'll be there

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<v Speaker 2>in no time. As We kept walking. You know, we

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<v Speaker 2>started five thirty or six. We're fully expecting to be there,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, sun setting around six thirty. But the more

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<v Speaker 2>we walked, we noticed some was going down when was

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<v Speaker 2>coming up, and we're like, okay, no big deal. Maybe

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<v Speaker 2>we walked later than we when we thought up when

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<v Speaker 2>we were supposed to get there, fully expecting to see

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<v Speaker 2>that other road.

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<v Speaker 3>We still hadn't.

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<v Speaker 2>We saw kind of a thicket of trees. Right on

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<v Speaker 2>the other side of those trees, there's gonna be the

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<v Speaker 2>road that's right across the street.

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<v Speaker 3>From our friend's house, and at this point it was dark.

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<v Speaker 2>We got to this thicket of trees, and as soon

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<v Speaker 2>as we did, we started seeing these blinking red lights,

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<v Speaker 2>multiple of them, almost like lightning bugs, and they were

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<v Speaker 2>flashing up in the trees above us. They were almost fluorescent,

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<v Speaker 2>like a Christmas tree bulb almost. They were coming almost

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<v Speaker 2>like through the trees. Maybe we had trip a floodlight

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<v Speaker 2>that people have outside their house. As we got closer,

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<v Speaker 2>we started noticing that there was more of them appearing.

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<v Speaker 2>It was accompanied by the strangest alarm, but it sounded more.

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<v Speaker 3>Like a siren.

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<v Speaker 2>The siren was so unlike anything i'd ever heard before,

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<v Speaker 2>not like an alarm, not like an ambulance, like a shriek,

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<v Speaker 2>high pitched and so loud, almost like a frequency like

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<v Speaker 2>when you have to night us, like a ringing in

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<v Speaker 2>your ears, but coming from someplace outside of you.

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<v Speaker 3>It was all around us. It was consuming still looking

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<v Speaker 3>up at the trees. The lights were almost surrounding us.

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<v Speaker 3>That just immediately said in a pan.

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<v Speaker 2>We didn't know what it was, but we knew that

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<v Speaker 2>it wasn't anything normal. It was completely unlike anything we

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<v Speaker 2>had ever seen or heard before in that small town.

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<v Speaker 2>With that, it was fight or flight or freeze. And

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<v Speaker 2>we flew. We ran out of there as fast as

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<v Speaker 2>we could, and it was hard to think about anything

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<v Speaker 2>other than those lights and that sound.

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<v Speaker 3>We ran and ran and ran.

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<v Speaker 2>Still looking up above us in the tree line, just

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<v Speaker 2>still seeing those red lights flashing. We see a road

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<v Speaker 2>ahead of us, and we're like, okay, great, we're here.

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<v Speaker 2>As we approached that road, we were standing looking at

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<v Speaker 2>that small chain link fence.

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<v Speaker 3>That we started walking on.

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<v Speaker 2>We looked behind us, we looked in front of us again,

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<v Speaker 2>looking back at that chain link fence.

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<v Speaker 3>What just happened? We were walking just a.

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<v Speaker 2>Straight line It was all start to finish, golf course, utility,

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<v Speaker 2>shed everything that we had noticed in the past up

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<v Speaker 2>until that line of trees. At no point did we

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<v Speaker 2>ever make a U turn and start walking back. Even

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<v Speaker 2>more significantly, we never crossed any other road, any other path.

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<v Speaker 2>It was all just golf course and forest. We kept

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<v Speaker 2>trying to rationalize, and the more we did where it

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<v Speaker 2>didn't make sense who has red flashing light alarm system

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<v Speaker 2>outside their house? But at no point did either of

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<v Speaker 2>us get lost. It was again a walk we had

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<v Speaker 2>done hundreds of times. Crazier theories started to go through

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<v Speaker 2>our head, like maybe we walked through some sort of portal.

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<v Speaker 2>But the weirdest part, I think was after we calmed down,

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<v Speaker 2>talked a little bit, we noticed that it was nine

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<v Speaker 2>o'clock at night. We had effectively lost three hours. Really

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<v Speaker 2>was a walk that was from point A to point B,

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<v Speaker 2>a straight line that really should have only taken fifteen

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<v Speaker 2>twenty minutes at tops, a walk that we had done

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<v Speaker 2>so many times before and even since then done that walk.

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<v Speaker 2>Somehow we ended up back looking at that chain link fence,

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<v Speaker 2>without ever turning around, without ever walking back, without ever

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<v Speaker 2>crossing any other roads, that forest that golf course, that.

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<v Speaker 3>Straight line, and yet somehow.

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<v Speaker 2>We were back where we started, like we had walked

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<v Speaker 2>entirely around the circumference of the world. And the look

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<v Speaker 2>on our faces said everything that we were both thinking.

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<v Speaker 2>We were walking back home, because at that point we

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<v Speaker 2>were just completely wiped out, exhausted with fear, panic and anxiety.

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<v Speaker 2>And the more we talked, the more things didn't make sense,

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<v Speaker 2>the more things didn't add up. It would be one

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<v Speaker 2>thing if I was by myself and this happened. I

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<v Speaker 2>experienced it with somebody else, which was just confirmation that

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<v Speaker 2>something strange had happened. Him and I both, especially the

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<v Speaker 2>following weeks, retraced our steps dozens of times, went back

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<v Speaker 2>to that fence, started walking in that same direction. We

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<v Speaker 2>walked in the morning, we walked in the afternoon. We

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<v Speaker 2>tried walking at night, but it was always rode to

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<v Speaker 2>Road B. It was never back to roade A. It

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<v Speaker 2>was totally normal. We even tried walking the opposite direction.

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<v Speaker 2>We tried finding that patch of trees, and sure there

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<v Speaker 2>were forests and woods and trees and stuff, but we

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<v Speaker 2>didn't see any you know, floodlights or sirens or alarms

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<v Speaker 2>or red lights. We never saw anything like that. Again,

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<v Speaker 2>the thing that me and my friend both keep coming

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<v Speaker 2>back to is that we were abducted. I think it

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<v Speaker 2>explains the lights, the sounds, and the loss of time.

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<v Speaker 2>Losing time is a big factor in abduction. Maybe these

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<v Speaker 2>things abducted us and got confused about the location where

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<v Speaker 2>they got us, and they picked us up and dropped

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<v Speaker 2>us off at the wrong place. That's like the thing

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<v Speaker 2>that makes the most sense to both of us. Nothing

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<v Speaker 2>else really explains what happened that night. The more I

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<v Speaker 2>listen to other abduction stories, the more that it makes sense,

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<v Speaker 2>the more I have in common with these stories. I

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<v Speaker 2>wish it weren't true. I wish it didn't make sense.

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<v Speaker 2>But that's what I keep coming back to. That's the

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<v Speaker 2>thing that makes the most sense in my mind. I

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<v Speaker 2>truly believe that that night we were abducted and put

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<v Speaker 2>back in the wrong place.

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