Okay, hello. Quick warning. If you are in a hotel, don't panic. You'll be fine. I promise.

Well, actually, I can't promise. I'd like to promise. But then the man in this story, he changed all of that.

But try not to panic.

And just before I go, shoutsy man has been in touch.

He was out at karaoke.

Over the past few days, he's lost lost his voice so won't be making an appearance

this week. I am very curious about everything and everyone I see and so I have felt invisible

also as a child feels himself invisible beneath the radar of adult supervision.

The consequence of so much unsupervised freedom was that I became precociously independent.

You know that feeling you get sometimes when you just think someone is watching you?

Like you can feel a pair of eyes across the room and you're just aware you're being watched.

It's weird, isn't it?

It's unsettling.

What if your entire life was about watching?

What of the things you saw were private and shocking?

Where are you right now?

As you listen to this, where are you?

Do you think you're safe?

Do you think you're alone?

Is there any chance someone could be watching?

Welcome to Extraordinary Stories Podcast. I'm going to tell you i'm going to tell you i'm So here we are, my friends, another day, another story, another chance with this one to get into what makes people who they are.

What makes people weird or what we think is weird and what makes people tick.

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