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

episode. In 1984, in a small city in northeastern China, a security guard stood outside of a warehouse

working an overnight shift. The guard heard a noise coming from some bushes nearby, but he didn't

think much of it, because this was a safe town, and usually the hardest part of his job was just staying awake.

But suddenly, two thieves in ski masks emerged from those bushes, and they rushed the guard.

They grabbed him and they slammed his head against the outside wall of the warehouse, and the guard fell to the ground in a daze.

One of the thieves quickly gagged the guard, bound his hands and feet,

and then told him he would need to keep his mouth shut if he wanted to stay alive.

Terrified, the guard laid there and watched as these two thieves opened up the warehouse door

and ran inside. This robbery would shake the local community, but it was nothing in comparison

to the horrific crimes

it would set off, and the gruesome discovery the police would soon make on the outskirts of town.

But before we get into that story, if you're a fan of the strange, dark, and mysterious,

delivered in story format, then you come to the right podcast because that's all we do,

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follow button's Oreos with toothpaste. Okay, let's get into today's story. The

The On July 25, 1984, a 35-year-old woman named Zhao Siao-Lean stood in her doorway talking to an agitated man in Liao-Yuan city in northeastern China.

The man was a friend of Zhao's husband, Lee,

and he kept pacing back and forth, and he was loud and very animated when he spoke.

Zhao glanced over her shoulder and saw her seven-year-old daughter, drawing a picture at a

small table in the front room, and Zhao turned and asked her husband's friend to please keep

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