An Encounter With The Lurker

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4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

After a late shift at a small-town burger joint, a group of friends decides to make a stop at a nearby fast-food place. What starts as a regular night quickly spirals into something far more unsettling—something lurking just beyond the glow of the menu boards, waiting for its next victim.
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0:00.0	Welcome to Scary Story Podcast.
0:03.0	The listener of our show, Adam underscore 9789, asked me about making stories in my old style, just like several other comments on Spotify and through email.
0:14.0	So here's one. It's about a group of people who work in fast food restaurants by the edge of town.
0:20.0	And I hope you enjoy it.
0:22.3	My name is Edwin, and here's a scary story.
0:29.9	We had gotten off of work at the burger restaurant a little early.
0:33.7	Something in the freezers had failed, and we had to tell the regulars that we couldn't
0:37.1	serve them because of the freezers. The first few said to tell the regulars that we couldn't serve them
0:37.5	because of the freezers.
0:39.4	The first few said that they didn't mind and wouldn't tell anybody about it.
0:43.6	We knew almost all of them by name.
0:45.8	Like, for example, Greg and the girl he was cheating on his wife with, they had shown up
0:50.0	to park by the trash cans again.
0:52.6	They did this every couple of weeks, and I swear I wouldn't
0:55.5	have cared about that jerk getting sick from our burgers thawing out before it was time to cook
0:59.8	them. My friend John showed up to pick up Neil and myself right after our shift, asking if
1:05.6	we could sneak out a burger. Neil explained the freezer situation to him as we were passing
1:10.5	by the mess going on in the car
1:12.1	by the trash cans.
1:14.0	You can't get sick from eating thawed meat, John said, looking back at me in the car.
1:19.0	Neil answered for me, saying, I know, but our new manager shut it down.
1:23.8	It had happened before, well, when the power went out completely and nothing, not even
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