Today's story is about a family in England who were living these totally ordinary lives,

they were farmers, they were just simple people, when in 1984 something really strange began happening to them

that basically turned their lives upside down, like it was a complete nightmare.

In fact, in many ways, it was almost like they were living the plot of a crazy detective

novel.

Except it was real.

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Okay, let's get into today's story called You Next. On the morning of March 30, 1984, a 43-year-old dairy farmer named Graham Backhouse

walked slowly across this huge fenced-in field on his farm in Horton, England, carrying along

a bucket of cow feed. And Graham, like usual, was exhausted from all the, the endless daily chores on

this farm that he was in charge of.

Five years ago, his father had died and he had inherited this farm,

and so now he was, you know, taking over this massive property with all these animals

and all these just daily chores.

It was backbreaking work.

And so it was like every day was a slog, just like today. But Graham was actually a terrible farmer.

He did the chores. He did the things he was supposed to do every day. But he did not know how to run this

farm. And so over the last five years that he'd inherited the big family farm, he'd basically

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