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Today's podcast will feature three stories about terrifying discoveries people made that would change their lives forever.

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 Cutting It Close, and it's a stark reminder to never get into a car with a stranger.

The second story you'll hear is called The Box, and it's about a woman who receives a mysterious box from her neighbor.

And the third and final story you'll hear is called, What's That Smell?

And it's about a dad who discovers a horrifying secret in his family's apartment.

But before we get into today's stories, if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark, and Mysterious delivered in story format,

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Okay, let's get into our first story called Cutting It Close. On a snowy morning in 1979, on a snowy morning in 1972, 22-year-old Sotria Kretzones sat at her bus stop in Seattle, Washington,

adjusting her knit cap against the cold. The hat actually still felt pretty weird on her head

because just a few days earlier, she had cut her brown hair super short, and so she wasn't

quite used to it yet. But despite that, she loved her new hair. In fact, she couldn't wait to show it off at her school.

She'd deliberately worn this big hat to hide her haircut, because this would make the reveal

to her friends at school that much better.

She glanced up Rainer Avenue for any sign of her bus, but there wasn't one.

The city's public transportation system was

all out of whack that day because of the weather, and so Tria was becoming pretty impatient, because now her bus was over an hour late.

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