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The Scarecast: Scary Stories, Mysteries, and True Crime

S6E20 - I Received A Text From My Wife... While Sat Next To Her

The Scarecast: Scary Stories, Mysteries, and True Crime

Michael Crutchfield

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.52K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever received a text from someone who is sitting right next to you... who doesn't even have their phone around them... maybe it could be a prank or maybe the person sitting next to you isn't the person you think they are.

"I received a text from my wife, while sat next to her" written by u/phoenix_flies (Part 1 and 2)

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0:00.0

I receive the text from my wife, I'll sat next to her, part one, written by Phoenix Flies.

0:19.7

She isn't me.

0:21.8

Those three simple words on my screen, range just so.

0:28.2

Give me the most profound sense of dread I had experienced to date.

0:35.0

Nine letters, and one overwhelmingly sinking filling in my gut.

0:43.2

I talked to Sophie, as casually as I could muster.

0:49.0

Where's your phone, hun?

0:52.4

She swallowed, still looking at the TV.

0:57.6

I left it at Harriet's earlier.

0:59.8

I was going to tell you tomorrow.

1:02.0

Don't worry, can't do anything about it now.

1:06.0

Normally, she'd be glancing up and down between both screens.

1:12.2

I never understood how she could manage to split her focus between them.

1:17.0

Yet, here she was.

1:20.2

Eyes fixed on the movie in a way I'd never seen before.

1:25.0

Hardly even looking away to twirl noodles around her fork.

1:30.2

Fair enough, I murmured.

1:33.2

Trying to mask my unease.

1:37.4

There was definitely something wrong with Sophie.

1:41.2

Something felt off.

1:45.2

Thinking back, she hadn't looked me in the eye

1:49.2

since I came home with dinner.

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