I Couldn't Breathe and I Remember Feeling Like I Was Falling Asleep
I Survived
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4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Anita is abducted and put through a horrifying eight day ordeal by a man who forces her to live inside a metal box. Brothers Jim and Glen are struck by lightning on top of the highest mountain in the continental United States. Sabret is working as a propane truck driver when she is attacked during a delivery and decides to fight back.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains subject matter that may be disturbing some listeners. |
| 0:04.4 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:07.1 | That's when he told me, he didn't take me to rob me. |
| 0:10.8 | He had sexual needs and I was there to fulfill them. |
| 0:14.1 | Real people. |
| 0:15.5 | The wounds were like somebody taking a branding iron and branded me. |
| 0:20.2 | It wasn't blood. It was melted flesh and body parts. |
| 0:26.6 | Who faced death. |
| 0:28.5 | I couldn't breathe. |
| 0:29.7 | I'm losing it. |
| 0:31.2 | And I just, everything just tunneled out and lights out. |
| 0:35.4 | And lived to tell how. And then he would offer me dinner, watch a movie, |
| 0:41.9 | and he would write me again before he would put me in the box for the night. This is I |
| 0:46.7 | survived. It's June 1998 in Kokomo, Indiana. |
| 0:57.9 | Anita is a 21-year-old who lives with her parents. |
| 1:01.4 | She has just finished college and is working the afternoon shift at the post office. |
| 1:06.5 | My mom came in on the morning of June 25th and woke me up, told me I need to be up and doing |
| 1:11.9 | stuff and, you know, just graduated college and wanted to sleep in. |
| 1:16.3 | And at that time, she left for work and I went back to sleep for a few hours. |
| 1:21.4 | By 10 a.m., both of Anita's parents had gone to work. |
| 1:25.1 | And the next thing I know, the telephone's ringing in the door, there's a knock on the door. |
| 1:30.0 | And I answered the phone, ran over, answered the door, and Victor Steele was at the door. |
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