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The Secret Room | True Stories

85. I Was a Teenage Catfish

The Secret Room | True Stories

Ben Hamm

Storytelling, Personal Journals, Story, Podcast, Stories, True, Society & Culture

4.42.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Amber catfished teenage boys for three years. But can a catfish have real feelings? And if she does, how does that work out? Amber tells us who she talked to and how she pulled it off.

THE TRAIL WENT COLD
Hear Ben on The Trail Went Cold Ep 120. It's about the unsolved murder of Amber Tuccaro.

PICTURES
See the drawing JD composed to express his love for Amber. Also see Amber in her catfish years and as the woman she is today.

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Music: Breakmaster Cylinder

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, you're up.

0:02.7

So I've got a little secret from my childhood I'd like to confess.

0:06.3

I was in the Cubscouts and we always held our meetings in the gymnasium of the school

0:10.6

I attended.

0:12.1

One night we all went to different sections of the school, possibly for a scavenger hunter

0:16.4

something, and I wound up in the office belonging to our French teacher.

0:20.9

As a gag, I thought it would be funny to rearrange a bunch of items in the room, like knock

0:25.4

some of them on the floor, and just generally put stuff in the wrong place.

0:29.3

Oh my god.

0:30.7

I thought it would be hilarious if she showed up at school the following morning and was

0:34.6

confused about why everything was so different.

0:38.3

Well, when the French teacher did show up, she completely flipped out.

0:43.3

The school had to give everyone a big lecture.

0:46.0

Our Cubscout troupe would now be forbidden to leave the gymnasium during our meetings,

0:50.4

and I think some kids were interrogated about the whole thing.

0:53.8

But for some reason, they never got around to questioning me, probably because I was the

0:57.8

last person they suspected.

1:00.0

So the identity of the person who messed up the French teacher's office, remained an

1:04.2

unsolved mystery, but after 30 plus years, I can finally confess it was me I did it.

1:11.4

Thank you.

1:13.6

Now I can sleep again tonight.

1:16.6

The episode contains adult language.

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