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Previously, on the Red Weather.

In 1995, my neighbor, Anna Traynor, disappeared from a commune.

And back then, I lied to everybody.

Anna Traynor was at a party in downtown Sebastopol.

There were a lot of witnesses that said Anna, she had a fight with her boyfriend.

I was with Anna's sister Willow that night.

But we were actually in the woods.

We were on the Tender Hearts property.

The most weed I've ever seen in my life, and Willow burned it down to the ground intentionally.

I'm not sure. Does that answer things, or does that just create more questions?

Right. I mean, that's kind of my whole with with this podcast, that's what I want to find out.

My dad has this story, he tells, from when he was a teenager. One night, his friends told him to get in the car.

A friend's mine that I grew up with said, hey, we have a girl that's living away from here

who is willing to take us all on and said, oh, yeah, yeah, come on, let's go. And I said,

oh, well, I'm sure, you know, I jumped in the car. And there were three or four of us.

They were all going to see Sally Chase, an older, married woman who wanted to party with them while her husband was out of town.

They parked the car and walked through the woods to go to a farmhouse.

It was raining. It started raining, real light.

But this house is up on top of the hill.

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