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The Secret Room | True Stories

97. Fire Follows Me

The Secret Room | True Stories

Ben Hamm

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

4.42.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Kelly and her friends caused a horrific explosion and fled the scene. No one was ever brought to justice. Kelly describes the terrible events of that evening and the devastating blows karma has dealt her and her family.

See pictures Kelly and Mike together; Roy shopping for fireworks; and the cute apartment that burned down just after Kelly moved out.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Thanks to BetterHelp for supporting the secret room.

0:03.8

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0:09.8

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0:14.8

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0:18.9

For 20% off your first purchase, visit nativedeodorant.com and enter promo code secret during checkout.

0:26.4

Okay, Ben. So I think it's time for you to tell us a secret about you.

0:30.2

Okay. One time when I was visiting home, my dear friend Kathy, who has left us,

0:34.7

let me her BMW. Well, I apparently parked it in a not-so-legal space and it got towed.

0:40.4

No. I went to the inbound lot like 15 miles away. I paid whatever they wanted.

0:45.0

And I somehow managed to get them to release the car to me even though it wasn't mine.

0:49.6

I paid the ticket. I returned the car to Kathy like nothing had ever happened.

0:54.0

Oh my goodness. She never figured it out. She never knew and I'm confessing now.

0:58.2

Wow. Kathy, I am so sorry.

1:01.1

Whoa, she really made that happen. She's got to be laughing at her right?

1:16.3

Hi, my name is Kelly and my secret is that my friends and I fled the scene of a horrific

1:21.4

explosion. No one it was ever bought a justice and I cannot shake the image of that night or the guilt

1:27.4

that I feel. Karma has definitely cut up with me and my family in the devastating ways and I'm ready

1:33.5

to talk. Kelly's story of fire, karma, and the absence of justice could make you wonder what you

1:39.2

would have done if you were in her shoes 10 years ago. So this is hung with you pretty strongly,

1:48.2

even though so long has passed. Yeah, and I really haven't talked about it.

1:54.4

It's amazing because usually I talk about everything that happens to me.

1:59.1

You've managed to keep mom on this one. Apparently. We'll talk about why. Okay. How old were you

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