Today's podcast will feature three stories about dark secrets that we're hiding in plain sight all along.

The audio from all three of these stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel and has been remastered for today's episode.

The links to the original YouTube videos are in the description.

The first story you'll hear is called Dating Game, and it's about a reality show contestant who is not who he says he is.

The second story you'll hear is called Something Scratching, and it's about two brothers that make

a discovery two decades after their mother disappears. And the third and final story you'll hear

is called Be Still Their Hearts, and it's about a medical center where something deeply unsettling

begins to unfold. But before we get into today's stories, if you're a fan of the strange,

dark, and mysterious delivered in story format, then you've come to the right podcast because

that's all we do and we upload four times a week, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Fridays.

So if that's of interest to you, please invite the follow button to come over to your nice,

calm, backyard barbecue, but be sure to replace their hot dog with a lit stick of dynamite.

Okay, let's get into our first story called Dating Game.

Okay? game. Before The Bachelorette pitted 30 men against each other to win one woman's heart,

Americans watched another show about random strangers competing for a mate.

It was called The Dating Game.

Starting in 1965, this reality show featured a woman asking three men questions without seeing their faces,

and based on their answers at the end of the show, she would choose one to go on a date with.

On the surface, the September 13th, 1978 showing of the dating game looks like every other episode with lots of unsubtle innuendo, but this episode would go down in

history as a one of a kind and not in a good way. At the end of this particular show, it was time

for the bachelorette, Cheryl Bradshaw, to make her decision, and she would choose Bachelor number

one, who would turn out to be this tall, good-looking, long-haired guy whose name was Rodney.

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