Today's episode is a fan favorite. The audio and the story has been remastered for today's

episode. On a spring night in 2009, a middle-aged married couple was closing up the local

pizza place they ran in a small Virginia mountain town. The husband walked to the back of the restaurant

and grabbed a large bucket of ice. He carried the bucket out the back door and dumped the ice into the grass. He stood up and for a moment he just felt the cool breeze

on his face. It was a nice change from the hot pizza ovens he'd been working around all night.

But then, right before he turned to go back inside, he heard screaming coming from inside

the restaurant. Without hesitation, he dropped the bucket and ran inside.

But when he discovered what was happening in there, all he could do was turn and run for his life.

But before we get into that story, if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark, and Mysterious delivered in story format,

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you have a hilarious joke and then spend 20 minutes on the setup, but then never give them the

punchline. Okay, let's get into today's story.

Okay. Okay, let's get into today's story. On Sunday night, March 29th, 2009, 48-year-old Valerie Looney pulled a fresh hot pizza from an oven at Pizza Plus, a busy restaurant in a small mountain town in Taswell County, Virginia.

Valerie slid the pizza onto a serving tray and then walked around the front counter and delivered it to a booth filled with local police officers.

The officers thanked Valerie by name and then dug into their pizza.

Valerie checked on the other diners, who had filled up almost all of the booths inside the restaurant, and then afterward she headed around the front counter and went back into the kitchen.

And there she saw her husband, Harvey, standing by one of the pizza ovens.

Valerie was short with crop brown hair,

and Harvey was a big guy with gray hair and a bushy beard. But despite the huge differences in

their physical appearances, everybody who knew them thought they had always looked perfect together.

Harvey pointed to the clock hanging on the wall by the oven, and he grinned at his wife.

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