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Get it for free in the App Store. Hello and welcome to Blurry Photos. I'm your host David Flora. Welcome to a special

episode which has been in the works for a while now. I've received a handful of stories from you guys, along with the permission

to share them. So it's time for blurry photos, first ever listener stories episode.

It's a little weird. I've done the show for seven years now and this is the first

listener specific show I think I've put together. We've heard some stuff from folks before in an old ghost stories episode if I recall correctly.

And that was a great time, but this show is going to be all you guys.

It's mostly first-hand accounts and experiences, which many times end up being creepier

than any fiction, though we do have some fiction for this one, and a great poem for the

end.

I'm excited to share these with everyone and if you've had an encounter or have a very short work of fiction,

send them my way. Once I have enough I'll do another show. Easy peasy. We will also find out at the end of the episode who won the

2019 miscripted contest and who will be our three prize winners from those of you who voted.

So stick around after the stories for that.

This is also my last chance to remind you that I'll be moderating a panel at this year's

AlienCon in Los Angeles on Friday, June 21st,

1020 a.m. talking UFOs in Podcasting.

If you are near Los Angeles at all, you won't want to miss it. I'll be there with

Hysteria 51, monsters among us, mad scientist, somewhere in the skies, and

stuff they don't want you to know podcasts. Then we'll be hanging out at the

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