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🗓️ 15 June 2025
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0:00.0 | In the mid-1980s, I worked the graveyard shift at a factory in Ohio, cleaning the floors, |
0:14.3 | emptying trash cans and cleaning up bathrooms. |
0:18.6 | I stayed with a friend and her family and I used her car to get to work until I was |
0:22.7 | able to buy my own. One night I realized too late that no one had remembered to put gas in the car. |
0:30.5 | The gas stations were closed and I was on a wing and a prayer, hoping I had enough fuel to get to |
0:35.8 | work and back home. |
0:39.1 | I made it to work. |
0:41.4 | I worked my shift, and I headed home. |
0:46.1 | But as I turned on to the road to the house, the car started to sputter. |
0:48.4 | I had run out of gas. |
0:53.6 | Well, I got out and I started the three-quarters of a mile walk home in the dark. |
0:58.7 | I could see a little by the moonlight and some light from porches, but that was all. |
1:04.6 | As I walked, I heard something walking in pace with me in the woods to my left. |
1:12.2 | I looked and all I could see was pitch black dark, so I kept going, thinking it was probably a fox or a raccoon or something like that. |
1:15.6 | But the farther I went, the more nervous I became, and at one point I stopped and stared |
1:21.1 | right into the woods, hoping that I would catch what or who was walking with me. |
1:26.9 | When I stopped walking, so did they, and when I |
1:30.2 | moved forward, they did too. After stopping a couple of times, my imagination began flashing in |
1:37.5 | every possible way, knowing I could be in danger of death on that country back road. |
1:44.1 | When I walked past the family's house to my right, their dog ran to the edge of the ditch |
1:48.7 | line barking and snarling at me. |
1:51.9 | As if I wasn't already on edge, the thought of that dog about to jump the fence and attack |
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