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🗓️ 9 July 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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In this harrowing episode of Terror Bites, we dive into one of the most disturbing and mind-bending true crime cases in modern history: the kidnapping of Colleen Stan, known to the world as The Girl in the Box. In 1977, 20-year-old Colleen was abducted by Cameron Hooker and held captive for seven years in a coffin-sized box beneath his bed. Isolated, tortured, and brainwashed into obedience through psychological terror and the fear of an imaginary criminal syndicate, Colleen endured what most of us couldn’t survive a week of.
She wasn’t just imprisoned—she was erased. From fake contracts to “The Company,” to the chilling moment she smiled in family photos during a brief release—this is the kind of story that rewires your trust in humanity.
Was it mind control? Stockholm syndrome? Or something far darker?
Tune in to uncover the twisted truth behind The Girl in the Box.
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0:50.0 | Welcome to Terrorbytes, the True Crime Podcast, where the stories are dark, the laughs are twisted, and the terror, well, it's real. |
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1:13.6 | You think you know what fear is? Try spending seven years in a coffin-sized box. Beneath a stranger's bed. In the dark. In silence. |
1:20.6 | With no clue if the next time the lid opens will be your last. |
1:25.6 | This is the story of Colleen Stan, a name that should be burned into |
1:31.1 | the annals of human horror. Because what happened to her wasn't just kidnapping. It was a psychological |
1:38.5 | experiment in control, obedience and torment. And it almost worked worked it was May 19th 1977 |
1:51.0 | Colleen was 20 years old free-spirited adventurer she left her California home to hitchhike up to a friend birthday party in northern |
2:03.4 | Oregon. She'd done it before. Hitchhiking wasn't weird in the 70s. Not yet. Not before Bundy |
2:13.4 | turned it into a death sentence. She passed on a few sketchy rides before one car pulled over that felt safe. |
2:22.9 | A young couple, baby in the back seat, smiling, soft-spoken. |
2:30.1 | The man was Cameron Hooker, his wife, Janice. |
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