Of the hundreds of strange dark and mysterious stories I've covered over the past couple of years,

today's story easily ranks in the top five for most distressing. The reason it is so distressing is because of the ending scene. You will know when you get to the ending scene

It takes up the last several minutes and it's just unbelievably difficult to listen to and so so for that reason, listener discretion is advised.

For those of you who have followed my YouTube channel, Mr. Ballin,

thank you, first of all, but also you should know that today's podcast episode is actually the audio from a popular

YouTube video that was called This Child Star is Evil. However, we have remastered the audio and

changed a few small things in the story to make it more clear as an audio-only piece of content.

But before we get into today's story, if you're a fan of the strange, dark, and Mysterious, Deliberton Story format,

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today's story. In 1986, Tom Hawks was a 39-year-old father of two teenage boys.

He had previously been married to his boy's mother, but they had ultimately gotten a divorce.

That year, Tom and his two sons were at this local chili cook-off in their neighborhood

in Newport Beach, California, when Tom was looking out across the sea of people and he sees this stunningly beautiful woman he's never seen before and he just finds himself staring at her and he stares at her so long that this woman she ends up noticing and she looks up and kind of smiles and blushes

and looks away and Tom immediately is totally embarrassed because he just got caught staring at her and

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