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Thank you. From the blackest corners of your mind, they call, pulling you deep into shadow, twisting your senses,

keeping you from sleep. It's time to face your darkest fears. This is Tales to Terrify. Good evening, children of the night, and welcome to another flashback.

This week we have a Stoker-nominated story that originally aired on Tales to Terrify back in August of 2015,

a tale about the strange phenomenon of disappearing women, and the struggles and denials of those they left behind.

Without further ado, here is Damien Angelica Walters,

The Floating Girls, a documentary,

which first aired on Tales to Terrify, Episode 185, August 7, 2015.

Music 2015. The floating girls are all but forgotten now.

It's easier to pretend they didn't exist, to pretend it didn't happen.

But there are parents who still keep bedrooms captured in time,

complete with clothes folded in bureau drawers,

and diaries tucked beneath pillows.

Everything in its place, waiting.

And there are friends who still gaze at the sky,

wondering how far the girls floated, and if they ever fell.

Some of us haven't forgotten.

Some of us never will.

Twelve years ago, three hours after the sunset on the 2nd of August, nearly 300,000 girls, between the ages of 11 and 17, vanished. Eyewitness reports state that the girls floated away.

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