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The Lets Read Podcast

248: A TRUCKER'S TERRIFYING CARTEL EXPERIENCE | 24 True Scary Stories | EP 236

The Lets Read Podcast

Audioboom Studios

True Crime, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.85.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2024

⏱️ 146 minutes

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Summary

This episode includes narrations of true creepy encounters submitted by normal folks just like yourself. Today you'll experience horrifying stories about bad camping trips, Mexican cartels & disturbing nightshift encounters.


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♫ Music & Audio Mix: INEKT
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival,

0:06.0

three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized tent.

0:11.1

Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend.

0:13.1

All right.

0:13.9

Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior.

0:16.8

And don't get us started on Mel.

0:19.4

But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together.

0:22.6

All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat.

0:25.6

Keep everyone's plans alive when you travel with us.

0:28.0

P and Dau Ferries, there is another way. The And the I was just 19 when I first moved to the United States. My father died when I was still a baby and my mom passed away from cancer just a few days before my 18th birthday.

1:06.0

I stayed with my sister for a while who was married with kids by that time, but it wasn't long before I started dreaming of a life away from Guatemala.

1:15.0

I started my application not long after and pulled a few strings with an old friend of my

1:20.4

father's to land a sponsor and a job up in Texas. Then about 18 months later I arrived in the city of Laredo.

1:28.9

The US was new and big and exciting and although the work was hard and my pay wasn't great, I was happy.

1:37.0

My Abuela always used to say, Alfolta de Pan, Tortilla.

1:41.0

When you don't have bread, you make do with tortillas, and that's exactly what I was doing.

1:46.3

So I worked my crappy job and slept in a crappy shared apartment, having faith that things would

1:50.8

improve over time. They did, but as per a favored saying of mine,

1:56.8

it's always darkest before the dawn. And just when it seemed like things were going

2:01.1

okay, there was a fire at the apartment building that I was staying in.

2:05.4

We woke up to someone pounding on our door and when we all ran outside, one half of the building was engulfed in flames.

2:12.3

I think some people actually died that night. It was

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