Both of today's stories are about just how hard it is to really know somebody.

Basically, everybody beneath their exterior is oftentimes not what you think they are.

But before we get into today's stories, if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark, and Mysterious,

delivered in story format, and you've come to the right place because that's all we do,

and we upload two, three, even four times every week.

So, if that's of interest to you, please sneak into the Follow Button's house and steal the glass tray inside of their microwave.

Okay, let's get into our first story, which is called Man of Mystery.

Music first story, which is called Man of Mystery. One afternoon in March of 2013, one afternoon in March of 2004, a 53-year-old handyman named Carl Fenwick sat on the floor of a vacant studio apartment in the run-down apartment building where he lived and worked in northern England.

The apartment building was called the cliff, and it was across the street from the ocean in the coastal town of Seton Carew.

Carl was in the middle of painting the apartment and getting it ready for a new tenant,

but he had stopped to eat some lunch and to read a few chapters of one of his favorite spy novels.

Carl loved spy novels, and he had a few that he just read over and over again. But as he turned

the page, something out the window caught his eye. It was his landlady, Anne Darwin, who lived in a

big Victorian house right next door. And at this moment, she was standing in front of her house

with her two adult sons, Anthony and Mark, and they were all dressed in black and each were

holding a wreath made of flowers. And now Carl felt a little bit like a spy himself as he

secretly watched the family of three walk across the street together to this grassy knoll that

looked out over the water. Anne and her sons bowed their heads and Carl could tell they were

very likely praying,

and then all three of them tossed their wreaths into the ocean. Carl knew that Anne and her

sons were honoring Anne's husband, John Darwin, who had actually died in a kayaking accident two

years ago, basically in the water right out in front of their house. Carl could also see that Anne was visibly

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