Today's podcast will feature three horror stories with completely unexpected endings.

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 After the Riot, and it's about a man's son who mysteriously vanishes during a prison riot. The second story you'll hear is called Falling Treasure, and it's about a man's son who mysteriously vanishes during a prison riot.

The second story you'll hear is called Falling Treasure, and it's about a politician

in Malaysia who calls upon a shaman to bestow riches and power upon him.

And the third and final story you'll hear is called a son's nightmare, and it's about

police who visit a small village after a man's recurring nightmare about his mother

makes him question reality. But before we get into today's 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 four times a week, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and

Fridays. So, if that's of interest

to you, please sneak into the Follow Button's house and dump out all their shampoo and refill

the bottles with glue. Okay, let's get into our first story called After the Riot. On the afternoon of October 11, 2016, a middle-aged man named Carlos Herrera Sr. entered

the visitation area of a prison in Venezuela.

The room itself sort of looked like a high school cafeteria with tables and chairs everywhere

for the inmates and their visitors to sit down and have their meetings.

And right in front of one was one table where there was this bedraggled-looking prisoner who he was there to meet. As Juan got closer to this guy, he could see he really looked terrible, the inmate. I mean, his cheekbones were sticking out, he was sort of emaciated, he was bloodied and bruised, he had bandages on his arm. and also, as Juan moved towards this guy, he could clearly see all the guards that lined the walls and the exits of this visitation area sort of squirm with discomfort, you know, as this meeting is about to take place.

And Juan had a good idea why these guards might be anxious. And that's because over the past month, this prison had been on lockdown,

because a gang inside the prison had risen up and overpowered the guards and completely

taken over for this entire month. And just to be clear, I mean, during this month, people

died as a result of this takeover. I mean, this was a horrible month for this prison, and it was only

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