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🗓️ 26 March 2024
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A young woman working on a fishing vessel in Alaska begins experiencing a strange burning sensation in her eye. What she finds inside her eyelid makes her skin crawl.
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0:08.4 | Download the app today. One summer afternoon in 2016, in 2016, a young woman squeezed into the tiny bathroom on board a fishing vessel. |
0:25.0 | She locked the door behind her and leaned in close to the mirror to get a good look at her face, |
0:30.0 | in particular her left eye, which was disturbingly red. |
0:35.0 | She used both hands to stretch the skin back around her eye, and the tissue along the |
0:39.6 | edge of her eyelid looked totally strange. So she just ran a finger along it and then suddenly |
0:45.4 | something dislodged from her eye. It was the small sliver of fuzz about the size and thickness of a carpet fiber. |
0:54.8 | The woman leaned in closer to the mirror and delicately pinched this weird strand |
1:00.2 | and pulled it away from her eye. |
1:03.0 | She held it up to the bathroom light trying to figure out what it was, |
1:06.0 | and to her surprise, it was almost half an inch long. |
1:10.0 | As she stood there wondering how on earth this weird piece of fiber had gotten wedged in her eye, |
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