167. The Grave in the Basement
The Secret Room | True Stories
Ben Hamm
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2022
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Donna reveals that she once spent days in a basement at the hands of a man having a psychotic episode. This is the first time she’s ever told the story.
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks to Dipsy for supporting the secret room. |
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| 0:06.6 | If you're looking to heat things up, there's a story waiting for you. |
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| 0:43.1 | Now here's today's secret room. |
| 0:47.4 | What's your secret? |
| 0:48.4 | So I've sucked my thumb for as long as I can remember. |
| 0:51.6 | Okay. |
| 0:52.6 | I stopped when I was probably about 27. |
| 0:55.2 | Wow. |
| 0:56.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:57.8 | How did you hide it? |
| 0:58.8 | Well, when I was a kid, it wasn't really a big deal. |
| 1:01.7 | Everybody just accepted it. |
| 1:03.4 | But as I got older, I just did it at night or I did it after school when nobody was |
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