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Some people will lie, cheat, and steal to get ahead. But today's podcast features two wild

stories where those so-called master plans fall apart in the most unexpected ways.

The audio from both 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 Sign Here, and it's about a seemingly routine trip to the

bank that quickly becomes

very disturbing. And the second and final story you'll hear is called a carefully laid plan,

and it's about an undercover cop who witnesses something in a fast food restaurant that cracks

his case wide open. But before we get into those 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, on the next very hot day, take the Amazon music follow button out to a public park, and as soon as they need to use the bathroom,

point them in the direction of a port-a-john, and then when they go inside of it, immediately

wrap it up in saran wrap and push it over. Okay, let's get into our first story called Sign Here. The

The On April 16th, 2024, a 42-year-old woman named Erica Nunes, and her 68-year-old uncle named

Paulo Braga arrived at a bank in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro in a cap.

Erica got out of the backseat first and then asked the driver to wait so she could go inside the bank to get a wheelchair for her uncle, because recently he had been sick with pneumonia in the hospital. She found one in the lobby and then wheeled it back outside.

When she got back to the cab, the driver helped her lift her Uncle Paolo into the wheelchair,

and then afterward Erica thanked the driver, and then she wheeled her uncle up to the bank,

and as she got near the door, a bank attendant came out and opened up the door for them to go inside.

Erica smiled at the attendant. Her uncle had been living with her for the past eight months,

and so Erica was pretty accustomed to some level of caretaking,

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