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Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction, and today's podcast features three stories

that demonstrate that. 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 Family Dinner, and it's about a man who was preparing

dinner for his family when he realized he was missing a key ingredient for the meal.

The second story you'll hear is called Table for Two,

and it's about a woman who spots something very odd about her neighbor's dinner party.

And the third and final story you'll hear is called Lucky Day,

and it's about a man who stumbles into two highly unlikely scenarios when he goes surfing in Africa,

and it may sound made up, but it's not.

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 offer to make the Amazon Music Follow

button a friendship bracelet using the little beads with letters on them. But make sure you spell

on their bracelet nobody likes you before you hand it over. Okay, let's get into our first story

called Family Dinner. On August 23, 2013, inside of a little home in a Russian suburb, 8-year-old Maria

Chelyasheva was hard at work at her kitchen table, drawing a picture of a horse.

Maria's parents had recently brought her to a farm where she was able to do some pony riding,

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