Hey, I'm Steph and this is not today.

Hello and welcome back, or welcome, if you're new here. I hope you all had a fun Halloween.

I've been really enjoying seeing everyone's costumes. It seems like people just get more and more creative every single year.

I've seen so many, but five seconds before I started recording, I saw a woman wearing a blue dress

with a goldfish on the front, and she had this big plastic bag around her torso and like up to her

neck, and she was a carnival goldfish in a bag. Just incredible. I love them all. But anyway,

before we get into our story this week, I wanted to let you know that the poll for bonus episode

number 45 is up over on

our Patreon. As of right now, it's looking like we'll be talking about Project X Haran, which is

basically like the movie Project X, but in real life. Murta, a 15-year-old girl, sent 78 friends

on Facebook a public invitation to her 16th birthday party at her home.

However, the event was set to public and it got picked up and taken over online.

What should have been Marta's 16th birthday party ended up as a gathering of tens of thousands

of people, causing riots and a great deal of damage on September 21st, 2012 in the town of

Haran-Groningen, Netherlands.

As I said, it's looking like this story is going to win, and it's what we'll be talking about

over on Patreon this month, but there's also two other great choices on the poll, so if you

want to vote on what story you'd like to hear and get access to a bunch of bonus

episodes, head over to patreon.com slash not today podcast. But with all of that out of the way,

let's get into the case I have for you today. Listener discretion is advised. On the afternoon of

Thanksgiving Day, 2021, Nanette Stuber sat in her car in front of a house she had never been to

before in the tiny village of Farmersville, Illinois, anxiously waiting to hear back from her friend.

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