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Today's podcast will feature three stories that will make you wonder how many monsters

you may have encountered in your life. 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 Mercy Road,

and it's about a sinister secret that is hiding inside of a nightly news report.

The second story you'll hear is called The Woman in a Rinkled Dress, and it's about

a Border Patrol officer who searches for a dangerous criminal at the Canadian border.

And the third and final story you'll hear is called striking a discord, and it's about how

the line between fantasy and reality is blurred for a group of online gamers. 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 twice a week,

once on Monday and once on Thursday.

So, if that's of interest to you,

please adjust the Amazon Music Follow buttons power seats

inside of their car to a very uncomfortable position and then rip out the fuse.

Okay, let's get into our first story called Mercy Road. On the evening of December 29, 1986, a California Highway Patrol officer named Craig Pire

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