Hi everyone, I'm Whitney and my co -host Joe
is actually sadly not here with us tonight He
is sick. So he is upstairs sleeping. So it's
just gonna be me tonight, but I'm really excited
to be here with you guys We have a really really
great episode that's gonna be going tonight So
I'm ready for it But first we need to talk about
next week's episode if you are new to our podcast
Basically, what happens here is there's four
stories that we talk about or crazy stories you
find on the internet We discuss them, we talk
about all the drama and what we would do if they're
the asshole, all the things. And one of them,
one of the four stories is fake generated by
Chad GPT. And you guys have to guess which one
is fake. We don't air which one was the fake
episode until the next week's episode. So this
week we're airing which one was the fake episode
from last week. So if you have not listened to
last week's episode, stop now. Go listen to Mother
-in -Law from Hell episode. For those that have
seen Mother -in -Law, from Hell episode, stay
and let's get on with this. So here we go. So
the four stories from last week's episode, Mother
-in -law from Hell was, my monster -in -law used
our miscarriage to make herself the victim. Fiance
thinks I'm overreacting. Story number two, my
mother -in -law surprised us by painting our
kitchen while house sitting. Now she's serious.
We hate it. Story number three, tried to call
herself mama while talking to my baby. And story
number four, my mother -in -law has finally fully
shown her true Colors. The fake story once. My
mother -in -law surprised us by painting our
kitchen while hustling. Now she's furious. We
hate it. Oh, I am so thankful that was the fake
because I would lose my crap if I had just like
renovated my kitchen the way I liked it, painted
the cabinets, and then I come home from our anniversary
trip and the cabinets are painted. The kitchen's
renovated. There's new backsplash. There's an
ugly painting on the wall like would I would
die that would be terrible so that is the fake
story so no more anxiety on that story but get
ready because there might be some anxiety with
this story or this episode I should say it's
gonna get wild This week's episode is When Instinct
Saved Me. So these are stories where trusting
a gut, feeling met survival. These are good.
So we're going to start off with the first story.
We're going to get right into it. Are you ready?
So this is titled Random Voice May Have Saved
My Life. And this is on our unexplained. 25F
from Australia here. Something happened 10 years
ago and I still can't explain it. I walked over
from school every day. Same route for three years.
It was a two hour walk. My only parent did night
shift so she had to sleep and I was too poor
to afford the bus. A street I walked on was a
very busy road. Four lanes of traffic on each
side and there was a grass strip in the middle
separating them. And this road was busy because
of parents picking up their kids from school
and parents finishing work. So the only way to
cross this road is to walk three minutes up the
road to a crosswalk. I walked home with my friend
every day. We lived close and this girl was my
best friend. We basically lived with each other.
Okay, now to the unexplainable thing. When walking
the street, my brain just started yelling at
me, cross the road now. After a minute, I couldn't
stand it and decided to cross the road. My friend
was really confused and tried to stop me because
of how weird the situation was. There was no
way I was getting across four lanes of traffic
and then another four lanes. She was in a rush
that day, so she eventually had to keep walking
without me. It took me 10 minutes of waiting
to cross the first four lanes and about another
10 for the next four lanes. Now I was across
this busy road and now walking by myself, which
I haven't done in a while. I can't see my friend
on the other side of the road because the grass
strip in between the eight lane road had trees
on it and she would have been way ahead of me,
20 minutes ahead. Me and my friend reached the
crosswalk at the same time on opposite sides,
so she must have stopped at the petrol station
for a snack, which we sometimes did. But her
taking 20 minutes to get a snack on the station
is just one little unexplainable thing I couldn't
and wouldn't ever figure out, especially because
she was in a rush. Which made us arrive at the
crosswalk at the same time the light to cross
goes green. So she steps onto the road and a
car ran a red light and hit her. It hit her from
the left. The sighted always walk on when I'm
with her. She had horrible injuries and it looked
like she wouldn't survive. Her leg was torn in
half, kind of like a dress with a slit. From
mid calf up to her hip. Adults jump out of the
cars and help close down four lanes of the A
and tend to her. I was taken away to sit down
on the curb until I could get picked up. Mom
was asleep so she couldn't answer the phone so
I was there until police showed and drove me
home. My friend survived. She had a million stitches
and it took her years to fully walk again and
she doesn't remember the accident. I can't figure
out why a sudden voice in my head wouldn't let
this idea go. I had a fear of crossing roads
that would never cross a busy one ever. My friend
getting the same place as me but she should have
been 20 minutes or more ahead of me even if she
did stop into the gas station for a snack unless
she ran into someone and chatted. I've never
had a gut feeling, didn't feel a sense of danger
but this voice was demanding I crossed the road.
I can't explain what happened that day and I
don't want to imagine what might have happened
if I didn't cross the road. She was hit from
the left. It's my side when walking with her.
Would I have been hurt? Killed? Would nothing
have happened if I went to wherever she went
in those 20 minutes? That's crazy. I feel like
I can relate to like to an extent on these experiences
like there's times where I do have that like
feeling or thought come in my mind and it just
like will not leave and it like freaks me out
to where I have to listen to my gut like I have
to listen to whatever's telling me that you need
to do x y and z so I have a story for you guys
so I don't know we'll say when I was like nine
or ten me and my best friend went to a public
pool And my brother actually was a lifeguard
at this public pool. We were swimming and blah,
blah, blah. And there was these boys, they were
like 12, 13. And they were like kind of flirting
with us and we were younger. And so I like couldn't
believe that they were like talking to us. And
obviously I was getting all giddy and like excited
about it. So we're talking to them and kind of
like, we were kind of like, not like following
them, but whenever we would see them, we kind
of like stuck around a little longer because
we thought they were cute or whatever. I didn't
have any bad feelings and nothing like that.
Like I was actually like interested. And then
me and my friend went to get a snack. And at
this like snack station, you kind of are like
set up in a corner. So the people that were swimming
or adults or anywhere like that, there was no
view of us at that point because we were stuck
in a corner. There was a brick wall covering
us from everyone else. And there's only one way
and one way out. and we're sitting there eating.
I remember I was eating Funyuns and she was eating
hot Cheetos. That was like our thing, that was
our combo. These boys came over to us and they
started talking to us and they were being really
weird at this point. I felt like they were being
a little intense, walking us off to where we
couldn't get out. And we were still eating our
stack and stuff, so we weren't gonna leave anytime
soon, but... It started to make me feel really
uneasy because I felt like their mood, the way
they spoke had changed. Things were different
now and I really just felt like, you need to
get out of here and you need to get out now.
I looked at my friend and I said, hey, let's
go. And she was like, wait, what? Like, no, like,
oh my gosh. And I was like, no, we need to go.
Like, I just kind of started to feel really,
really, really uncomfortable, which is not like
me. I'm usually very much more of like the sociable
30, like. I was way crazy at the time. Finally,
I get up and they're like, where are you going?
Like, no. And I was like, oh my brother, he's
the lifeguard here. He's right there. He's asking
for us. And I just like pushed through and I
was holding my friend's hand and we like got
out and we just like booked it out. I didn't
want to see them again. I had no interest in
seeing them again. I was like kind of scared
and eventually we like steer clear of them. I
didn't see them again the rest of the time we
were swimming at the pool and my memory is a
little foggy with all of it so I won't be able
to give you guys details of everything that transpired
but when we were leaving basically the pool got
closed down like everyone was needing to like
leave because there was like an accident that
happened and so everyone was like evacuating
the pool and like no one really knew what was
going on. but as we were going out and at this
time my mom was actually like there to pick us
up so it like worked out timing wise that we
were like already ready to go but we're walking
out and I see police cars literally everywhere
and I'm like what the heck is going on and my
mom's like what's going on and I look and I literally
see the boy one of the boys of the three kids
or three or four kids and his head is down onto
this squad car and he's getting arrested and
I just like look at him and I'm like, oh my gosh.
Okay, so then we got in our car and we drove
away and then we saw a helicopter. So that's
all I really knew at that point. So basically
my brother, he's a lifeguard at the pool and
so he was able to find out what happened. But
basically I believe it was in the front of the
building. The kids had gotten a little girl that
was around my age and they put a knife to her
throat and the dad saw it and he grabbed, there
were like huge big rock like boulders, like rocks,
like river rocks in front of the public pool.
You grabbed one of them and just started literally
hitting the crap out of one of the boy's heads.
Just smashing and smashing. And they called the
cops. Everyone was screaming. There was craziness
happening. One of the boys took off and that's
apparently what the helicopter was for as they
were searching for that kid. One of the boys
that put a knife to her throat. And then the
other one got arrested and caught. And then the
other one was injured and probably got taken
off to the freaking hospital or something. And
the dad also got arrested. crazy crazy crazy
like that could have been me or my friend and
yeah so anyways just listen to your gut listen
to your instinct if something is telling you
it's off and you need a bow or whatever it may
be there's a reason why and if there wasn't anything
at least you listened and you're good you know
what i mean okay here's story number two the
anniversary camping trip i don't think i'll ever
forget the night my gut told me something was
wrong and i wish i would have listened sooner
For a one -year anniversary, my husband and I
decided to go camping. We pulled up to the site
and immediately realized it was way deeper in
the woods than we thought. No other campers,
no other tents, just us, completely alone. At
first, we were excited about the privacy, but
the second I stepped out of the car, I had this
weird, heavy feeling that we weren't safe. I
pushed it aside and we set up camp. The whole
time, neither of us talked much. It was like
we were both in our own heads trying not to admit
how it felt. When night finally came, I thought
crawling into the tent would beat me fill butter.
Instead, the darkness made everything worse.
Around 2 a .m. I whispered, are you awake? My
husband immediately told me to be quiet. That's
when I knew he heard it too. The crunch of footsteps
outside. Eventually, he grabbed the flashlight
and zipped the tent just enough and flossed it
around the trees. Nothing. But he didn't step
outside since we didn't have a weapon or bear
spray. We laid there stiff and silent until the
first sign of morning light. As soon as the sun
came up, we threw on our shoes, ran to the car,
and sat there for a minute, just scanning the
area. No people, no animals, nothing. Eventually,
we worked up the nerve to go back to the tent
to break everything down. That's when we saw
it, a half -smoked cigarette butt sitting right
next to our fire pit. Neither of us smoked. We
packed up immediately, got the hell out of there,
and will never go back. My only regret is not
listening to my instincts sooner. That would
scare the hell out of me. I can't even imagine
going camping and you're being hunted by a human
than like rather a bear like that. I can't. I
can't. I can't deal with that. Okay. That is
so scary. I have been to a campsite where I went
in and I felt uneasy when we got there. Like
this story I can kind of relate to and that's
actually really funny because ours was not a
man like this story, but ours was a skunk. We
were sitting at the fire pit roasting starbursts.
Have you guys ever done that? It's so good. Oh
my gosh, roast starbursts the next time you go
camping. We heard like rustling, like we heard
footsteps and we were like, oh my gosh, like
there's an effing bear next to us. So my husband
like, we like got all quiet and we're like wide
-eyed, freaking out. And my husband just like
flashes the light where it was. The sound was
coming from and boom, skunk. It was the fattest,
nastiest skunk. And I was like, holy shit, a
skunk? I was... freaking out. I actually have
a vlog on it and I have it all filmed and it's
on my YouTube channel actually. It's Whitney
Sykes. It's my YouTube channel but I haven't
posted it in years but it's on there if you want
to go look but it's like our anniversary camping
trip or something. There was this duck and I
do not know how it didn't spray us. It was eating
my dog's dog food. We literally, my dog didn't
finish her bowl and so there was still dog food
in it and we didn't know that. So that was dumb
of us, but the skunk was just literally eating
my dog's food. So I don't know how it never sprayed
us because my husband got way too close to it,
but here we are. We live to tell about it. So
that's my crazy camping story. Okay. So this
next story is from Ask Reddit. And the question
was, when has your gut instinct saved your life
or helped you avoid something horrible? So this
is what it says. I was about 11, and this neighborhood
man started kind of hanging around my friends
and me sometimes. He was friendly and would buy
us junk food from 7 -Eleven. My little friend
crab was mostly boys, and it wasn't unusual for
me to be the only girl with them. This man started
inviting them over for snacks, would give them
money for 7 -Eleven, et cetera, and they thought
he was the greatest thing. I got a creepy feel
and didn't like how he seemed to look at me more
than the boys. So I never went into his house.
Creep started bringing gifts to my house for
me until my mom answered the door one day and
told him to hit the road and never come back.
The next we heard of him was in the newspaper
because he was serving time for interfering with
a minor. He sent his victim a Valentine's card
from there. I'm grown up now and I really hope
that piece of shit is long dead. I escaped him
ruining my childhood but some other little world
didn't. I think about that sometimes. That's
so sad. There is some evil people out there.
I like, ugh. I'm so proud of this mom for opening
that door and just knowing immediately, like,
this is disgusting, get the frick away from my
daughter. And just knowing that it's wrong. So
I'm glad she wasn't afraid to be brave and stick
up for her kid because I think some people, they
do have this like, oh, I don't want to like be
mean, like who knows what his intentions are.
But ultimately it's like, we don't give a F what
their intentions are at this point. If asked
me to do my daughter and you're a grown man,
like bringing a gift and we're not, we're not
related and whatsoever, get the frick off my
property. Like you're gone. So especially if
my daughter expressed that she was creeped out
by them to begin with. So good for the mom and
good for her, this little girl. and I'm glad
she did not have her childhood ruined by this
stupid evil man. Gosh, that's so horrible. I
hate that. Here is story number four. This is
from GothicLG. I'd asked for days off to see
The Dark Knight in theaters. I had the seniority
at my retail job to get the days off and asked
three weeks in advance for the days. The scheduling
manager hated me and didn't give me the days
off. I'd really wanted to say F it and go anyway
and just go to work on four hours or less of
sleep. The day rolled around and my gut instinct
told me to just go to bed and to see the movie
the next week. Had I gone that night, I would
have been in the horror theater James Holmes
had been in. I'd had three friends in the theater
that all lived but multiple coworkers lost friends
or family. My dad heard the news break when it
happened. He worked nights out of his truck and
heard it on the radio. I called my mom frantic
to check I was in bed and hadn't gone to the
theater since he knew I loved Batman and wouldn't
shut up about the movie. I'm glad I went to bed.
I saw the movie when it was released to DVD.
I couldn't bring myself to see it in a theater.
I'm really glad that they listened to their instinct.
I'm really glad that they decided to go back
to bed and to choose to see this movie another
day. It's just so wild to me. You hear about
9 -11 stories where I was supposed to work that
day. I was sick or I got into an accident or
whatever like these things that happen that it's
just it's wild to me like life is so fragile
and like every choice you make it all like intertwines
I am really glad the gothic LG did not go to
the theater that day and some of these stories
are absolutely heartbreaking and some of them
are a little more light -hearted but ultimately
this episode is about one instincts saved me
so It's up to you guys to find out which one
was the fake. So start thinking about it. And
then next week we will air which one was the
fake. So I'm excited for you guys to find out
which one that was. Stay safe out there guys.
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