Today's podcast features three stories that involve people who got trapped with no way out.

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 a crush on a cruise, and it's about a cruise ship's very unexpected catastrophe. The second story you'll

hear is called The Gage, and it's about a critical error that leads to a horrifying fate for

several saturation divers. And the third and final story you'll hear is called teapot, and it's

about a freak accident turning a vacation into a nightmare. 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 sneak into the Fall of Button's house and open up all of their cereal.

And make sure when you do this, you open the bag up really messily and you tear down the side of the bag, not along the seams at the top.

Okay, let's get into our first story called A Crush on a Cruise.

... a crush on a cruise. Just after 6 p.m. on December 27, 2015, a woman named Sarah Robinson was getting ready inside of her cabin on the seventh floor of a massive cruise ship. She and her boyfriend were going to dinner that night with Sarah's parents in one of the restaurants on board the ship. And in fact, this entire trip, this whole vacation, was actually a big

gift from Sarah's parents to Sarah and her boyfriend. And so far, the trip had been totally amazing.

I mean, all four of them, Sarah, her boyfriend, and Sarah's parents, I'd got to go swimming and drink

great drinks and have

great food. And it was just like a total dream. But now they only had one night left tonight

and they wanted to make the most of it. And their plan was to go to the big buffet that the ship

offered and just totally indulge on the amazing food and just have some laughs, share stories,

and then the next day they'd wake up in the Florida port that they left from, and the trip would be over. But for now, they had this one dinner left. And so after Sarah and her boyfriend were all ready, they left their cabin and they met Sarah's parents out in the hallway, and then Sarah led the way towards the stairwell that would bring them up to the 10th floor where the restaurant was that they were going to. Once they reached the 10th floor, Sarah could see right in front of her

the entrance to this restaurant. And so she, her boyfriend, and her parents all behind her, began

walking towards the restaurant. And to get there, they would have to walk past this sort of lobby

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