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🗓️ 31 July 2020
⏱️ 82 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello, campers. Grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire. |
0:05.0 | We're your camp counselors. I'm Katie and I'm Whitney. |
0:08.0 | And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction. |
0:12.0 | We're roasting murderers and marshmallows around the |
0:13.8 | true crime campfire. |
0:16.5 | Fantasy is part of being human. |
0:24.0 | Sometimes we all need to tell ourselves stories, escape from the ordinary every day. |
0:29.0 | We spend luxurious amounts of time and money on this, in daydreams, in books, movies, games, music. |
0:36.7 | It's something both quintessentially human and tantalizingly magical to give ourselves over to fantasy. |
0:45.0 | And most of us have no trouble knowing where to stop. For those of us who haven't figured that out though, things can get sticky. |
0:49.0 | Our real lives, real responsibilities, real relationships, can begin to recede into the background. |
0:55.3 | The things that once mattered most can start to pale in comparison to the fairy tale we've woven. |
1:00.4 | The people who love us can start to seem like people in a story, people in a dream. |
1:05.0 | And as Shakespeare once put it, that way lies madness. |
1:09.0 | We're about to tell you a story about a group of people who fell into this trap, and some of them never got out again. |
1:15.2 | This is when nerds attack three, Prince of Dorkness, Rod Farrell. So, campers, were in Eustace Florida, November 25, 1996. 17-year-old Jennifer Windorf was late for curfew |
1:41.9 | and she pulled into the driveway of her house. |
1:44.2 | Like teenagers everywhere, she was hoping she could slip past her folks and not get busted. |
1:49.1 | She had a moment of huh, when she noticed her parents Ford Explorer wasn't in the driveway where it belonged, but she didn't think much of it. |
1:56.0 | When she got inside, she immediately noticed that the cord for the phone in the living room had been pulled out. |
2:01.0 | She thought it must be some kind of drama about her younger sister Heather's phone bill. |
2:05.2 | 15-year-old Heather had been racking up bills lately talking long distance to a guy friend of hers who'd moved to |
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