I Was An Air Traffic Controller | CreepCast

27:05Most horror movies have something where it's like, oh, well, we found this newspaper that said someone died in the house 40 years ago. How about a fucking guy? How about a time entity that's using oil, rubbing it on his skin like that guy from the O 'Reilly's that I read about? Yeah. And he's looping time to where it'll like affect his skin or something. He wants oil skin. I mean, I think honestly you could have done the time loop thing without tying it into the old thing. And also, I'm kind of reaching a bit to make the connection between, like, that's a time loop there and stuff like that. I don't think it's that right.

27:34I thought it made sense. I think that's what it's implying, but it's like kind of a weak connection between them. You could do without it. Kind of a Capri Sun. Yes. Okay, we saw. My biggest takeaway from that was that this, like, supernatural time loop entity's name is Jeremy. It's a rough name. Well, he said, let's call him Jeremy. Having a supernatural time entity named Jeremy is kind of a creative choice. Yeah, his actual name is like Gorgon Lucifer.

28:07He's called Jeremy. Yeah, he rides to work every day on his mongoose bike with four pegs. Wow, you're so sweet, Harry. Thank you, buddy. Very kind. Harry wakes me up after I sleep in an hour and a half. Yeah, because I went down there and said, go fucking wake him up is what I said. No, not pointing any names. But he does that. We may not point any names at you, motherfucker. No, I think it could have been. It's really one of those glass half full, half empty kind of things. But here he brings me a coffee, and now he brings me Red Bull and Diet Coke. Couldn't help but notice a lack of Capri Sun.

28:42I think that says a lot about your character. Yeah, it says a lot about you right after you said you wish you were eight years old. I'm saying that I wish that we were eight years old doing this so we could have fantastical experiences reading this. I feel like if I was eight years old and I read that, my mom would be fucking blown. Yeah, I'm sure. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what I was like. I wish that we were 12. Hey, age of the average creepcaster. I wish you were 12. All right. Also, we could get on bikes. We could ride bikes to a recording. You can do that now. No. No, not really.

29:12I'm saying that if I sat there and we did, hey, guys, we're going to go read a scary story down at my mom's barn. Yeah. And we get on my mongoose. You're on the back pegs. and we're like, whoo! And we have a GoPro footage of that. People would love that. If we were eight? Hmm? If we were eight? Yeah. Kids. I mean, I'm like 40. For one, half of these people would love to see both of us on a bicycle anyway. I don't think there's any structural bike that could hold me. Maybe. Maybe the mongoose. Maybe. Is mongoose still a thing? I have no idea. Are they? I think so. I think it's on Walmart. Let me see.

29:51Yeah. Mungus bikes. That was a good story. Oh, yeah. Yeah, Hunter loved it. This is a pussy getter right here. Okay.

30:05Those were pretty cool. Well, maybe not this one. If they don't have pegs, then... You can add the pegs. Do kids even care about pegs anymore? I don't think kids are biking like they used to. I mean, maybe they are. I'm going to get my kid a bike when she's old enough. That's cool, too. See, now I'm just... You know what I had when I was younger? or not what I had when my buddy had that I used to ride when I was younger. What? I was a fat little boy. And I had, my buddy had one of those fucking, remember when like West Coast Choppers was really big? Or you're so much younger than us. Remember when it had the, it was like an easy rider motorcycle bike, but it was in the shape of like, it had like the fat back tire and the skinny front tire.

30:39I think I've seen those before. Impossible to ride up hills. It was horrible, but it looked so cool. Oh, let me see if I can find a picture of it. I had a, I had a bike kind of like that. My parents, we got really into biking for like a couple years. We'd go to like these parks and bike around and stuff. My parents always had townies. Those were really nice with like the gears. You could switch and stuff like that. I thought those were cool. Yeah, he doesn't care about them. It's whatever. I mean, that's a cool thing about your parents with a tandem bicycle or whatever. Oh, they're called stingrays.

31:11That's what they're called. That would explain why they don't work on hills. Is there for beaches? No, maybe it isn't. No, no, here it is. This was a legitimate bike you could get. I mean, I 100 % see how a kid would be like, oh, yeah. Oh, my God. When I was a kid? Oh, boy. I'm telling you, impossible to go. Because it looks like a motorcycle. Impossible, especially with my fat-ass ankles and stuff trying to push those pedals. Yeah, right. Hold on, guys. I don't know how to do it like that. I'm coming. Hold on. Come on. I want to take a moment to thank today's sponsor, Ridge Wallet. Because Ridge has some of the most durable and stylish wallets on the market.

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34:31it looks like they've continued to post like r slash stories and stuff like that. Their last no sleep seems to be 10 months ago. I think so. So still seem to be an active rider. We will have their account linked in the description below. But this story again, Harry says, is in line with the last one. That was a good catch. My video doorbell sends a motion detected alert every night at 2.53. I found a forum full of users experiencing the exact same issue of something seriously strange is going on so another creepy security camera video hunter are you ready to get into it yeah okay god damn can't fucking get this caprice sun straw in there

35:19hold on move your thumb from the top okay i thought i thought you had it upside down okay i love caprice um we can we can act like we're eight if you want if that's what you're missing I don't think we could have started our platforms and, you know, had this whole audience going in that same time frame. But, you know, I would have had to have started YouTube when I was two. So.

35:43That'd be a good combo. You want to make a podcast, little boy? Well, Isaiah, what would you say? I would be like, my mom told me not to talk to people like you. Your mom's dumb. That's what I'd say. This is some Pennywise energy What are you talking about little boy That's what we need We need a child to sit right here And be like that scare you Was that freaky Are you scared I'll tell you what I bet Capri Sun makes me gassy How it's liquid I think it's whatever the chemicals they put in the fruit They say it's all natural ingredients But I can't believe that You're going to put all natural ingredients In this kind of container Probably the coffee.

36:30Coffee with Capri Sun probably can't be a good combo. You know, that would actually be... Well, no, I don't want to show her face online until she's old enough, but my kid. Oh. But that would be excellent. If we're still doing this thing in a few years, be like, was that scary? Did that freak you out? No. Okay. Okay, well, there's your consensus. Moving on. How much longer do you think this has? The show? How long have we been doing it now? What? Can I not ask? We've been doing it for like, how long have we been doing this? Three years? Three years. We're pushing on a million subs. Typically, the rule of thumb is after five years, you're either like pack your bags or you're in it for the long call.

37:08I think at a million subs. Which is like now. We walk away. So like right now. I don't know. We're still, we're like 40 ,000 subs away. At a million, I think we, we fucking, we ride off in the sunset. We leave them wanting more. So are you ready for the next story? Let's go to the next story. Let's go to the next story. The following are posts from the Roost Video Doorbell Help Forum. After my phone started spamming motion detected alerts, I did a quick Google search, stumbled across this thread, and created an account. In case it isn't obvious, my username is Lighting Nations. Dates are in UK format.

37:43Motion alert triggered every night at 2.53. Dan King 22. Posted on 2710 2022 at 3.06. Trying this again because the admins are a bunch of whiny snowflakes who cry whenever somebody uses... Okay, so actually, you know what? Immediately, I think you should be Dan King. After reading that first sentence, that's a you quote. He's British? Yes, but he's talking about snowflakes, so whatever you think. Trying this again because the admins are a bunch of whiny snowflakes who cry whenever somebody uses a naughty word. There we go. That's what I wanted. Is he British? Yeah. Video doorbell sends motion alert to my phone every night at 2.53.

38:30Tech support keeps saying it's picking banging gator squirrel, but that's rubbish! All the camera sees is a patio floor and furniture. Can all get some assistance, please?

38:45Well, I'm so glad I did that. All right. Reply from Too Many Toe Fats. Too many top hats. Oh, yeah, I guess it would be top hats.

38:57I'm like, what's a toe fat? Too many toe fats. It's my gout. Too many top hats. I'm in the exact same boat, 2.53 each night, like clockwork. There's weird pixelation distortion in the footage, but it works like a charm the rest of the time. Monitoring this thread. Detect support, not good enough, reply from Paleo10. Mine's doing the same thing. Bloody phone goes off every night and I get an alert with garbled footage. The support lines aren't much help. I've muted notifications for now, but it's a bit pointless having the camera if it won't warn me and the misses whenever someone's breaking in.

39:35A solution would be much appreciated. Cheers. Reply from Dan King. Glad to see it is only me! I've been on the phone to the check guys for days! Useless! Reply from deleted user. Hi, Dan. There are instructions for... Hey, but no shit though, for real, isn't it? That is how it goes. Hi, Dan. Hi, Dan. You've been so emotionally calm this whole time. Thank you for your patience. There are instructions for fixing this exact issue in the user guide, page 53. I've attached a PDF version here. Author's note, I've not included the link. Follow the troubleshooting steps and you'll be good as new, replied Dan King.

40:15It's not a guide for a video doorbell! Those are instructions for installing a Samsung smart fridge! Did you upload the wrong file? How is that supposed to help anybody? This is a support forum for Roots Video Doorbells! Idiot! They are in all caps like that to be fair. I mean it's like the maddest this guy has ever been over a doorbell. Reply Palio 10. Dan just ignored that poster. He's a troll. I'm pretty sure that's his sixth account. Reply from Dan King. Doesn't this fucking idiot not have anything better to do? Maybe just get a job with roost tech support. I mean, it can't be that hard. Good news for what?

41:04Technical morons. Send him here a replacement. I just had to shout at them for three hours. Useless, I swear. I scroll down and it's another reply from Dan King And the entire message is in all caps The replacement sends the same alerts No motion in the garden No intruders, no animals I've checked the video feed and there's nothing Just a fuzzy shape I've rated these idiots One star on Amazon Reply from Liding Nations Hi everyone.

41:48I'm afraid I'm in the exact same boat, triggering a 2.53. Video feed comes out garbled but is fine, works perfectly the rest of the day. Tech Guy said it might be a low tree branch blowing in the wind, but I'd expect to be receiving random alerts spaced out across several hours, not once per day at the exact same time. I spent a fair chunk of change on this thing and now Roost won't issue a refund. Only replacements. Reply from deleted user. Sorry, it's my fault, Dan. I was in the garden piping your mom down wearing camo gear, which is why you couldn't see us. Not funny. That's really funny after Dan blows up.

42:27That guy's like, sorry, Dan, I was doing your mom. I was deep dicking your mom with Willie. He got the accounts deleted because Dan just killed him. Reply from Paleo 10. Okay, so I'm not so sure the doorbell's actually the problem. I got held up at work last night, choice of working in IT, and was heating dinner at 2.53 when the microwave fritzed. The digital clock blinked on and off for a full minute. Meanwhile, my echo device stopped mid-song, and I got another motion alert. One minute later, everything went back to normal. Well, maybe get an electrician around to have a look. Also, the footage distortion keeps getting worse.

43:09Now in the alerts, it kind of looks like there's static, except it's warping around the garden. Nearly gave my wife a heart attack. Apply from Lighting Nations. It's interesting about the electrics. Keep us posted. Apply too many top hats. A TV fridge just now. Same problem as Palio 10. Blinked on and off for a full minute right as the motion alert came through. Do you think maybe these things are draining power when they do overnight software updates or something? I'm not very technical. Might not make sense. Just a thought. I'm just going to check for grid faults with the council. Such is life in the south of England.

43:45Empty office blocks, rising hunger, and now potential rolling blackouts. Lovely. Reply, Lighting Nations. Tell me about it. I'm in blank. Stories you hear are heartbreaking. Reply, Paleo 10. Seriously? This is spooky. I'm in blank as well. I'm tempted to say there's a faulty batch of doorbells sitting in an amazon warehouse somewhere that are gonna start blowing fuses A replacement's on the way out to me, by the way Arranged before noticing the problems with the microwave had the electrician round and he saw no problems I'd have smashed this thing already, but the missus saw how much I spent on it.

44:18So apply too many top hats Holy shit. This is too many top hats reporting to you live from blank And the 12 points from england go to No, but seriously, roost ships internationally. Weird, we're all in the same city. Councils say everything's fine, by the way. Reply from new user PixieChick01. Hi, experiencing the same issue. I feel like, actually, you know what? You should also be PixieChick, just given the screen name, I feel. Hi, experiencing the same issue, also in... Reply, too many top hats. Quick update. The guy who lives three doors down from me also has a roost doorbell. different model, and he has the exact same problem.

45:00Motion alerts and muddled footage at 253 works like a charm at all other times. Also, we're both now getting garbled audio like feedback whined from an amplifier in the recordings. The fun never ends. Reply, Dan King. I've been sick of this rubbish! Can't say what I really think because of the stupid admin idiots. Now getting somebody outside alerts, they sent me a third device. now it's stored if one goes off again tonight i'm gonna go outside and rip it out of the door frame and send the repair pill i'm sick of this just so much energy all at once have you ever got really mad with a customer service person all the time okay they're not human i don't talk to them as if they are human like how proud i was when i kind of like readjusted yeah you kind of like readjusted you're like yeah i'm better than them yeah but wait is it and then another reply from Dan King?

45:54Actually, the device is working now as attended. Go outside at 253. Check the camera. Alright, so Dan either is like super okay or he's... No, Dan's fucking dead. Yeah, there's a skinwalker. This is definitely like a British skinwalker. It's working. Go outside. Go outside. What would you call a British skinwalker? Skin chap.

46:18Wow. Yeah. A skin chap. Chap skin. Chap skin. Chap skin. Old chapskin coming down the block. Some on the telly. The brothy dang king's turned himself into a chapskin. Yeah, see, it works. Yeah, you dirty chapskin. I mean, skinwalker's kind of a slur in itself, right? Seeing like this ancient monster that like steals the faces of what it kills. And it's like, oh, what we got here, a skinwalker? Think you can walk around in people's skin, huh? It's Australia. What? I don't know. I mean Hello there I mean Skinwalker What are you from over there? Skinwalker's a native legend So British or Australia Would not interact with one I like chaps I like chapskin Yeah Oh my god It's a thing of mystery It's a chapskin over there Yeah I think I'll see you across the way Yeah That makes sense Chapskin You filthy chapskin Yeah Chapskins can't drive When you add filthy When you add filthy to it It really changes the tonation hey get behind the hey hey drive behind a chapskin those blocks can't drive

47:34this used to be a nice neighborhood

47:41reply paleo 10 i've got my replacement installed and this one bugs out worse than before now the bell rings for one minute non-stop and i get constant there's somebody at the door alerts Hearing the stupid jingle in my dreams now. I won't even show the wife the footage because it's like a figure made of pixels keeps ringing the bell. Also, hearing the high-pitched screech when I play back footage. I'm seriously about to go all office space on this thing. Apply too many top hats. Yeah, I'm confused. Dan, could you elaborate? Preferably with less capital letters and more punctuation than usual. Apply Palio 10.

48:16Dan was right. Go outside at 2.53. Check the camera. Lighting Nations reply. What do you mean check the camera? Check what specifically? Too many top hats. Yeah, plus one. Please elaborate. I've got the same problem as Paleo now, Lightning. Full minute of somebody at the door alerts and constant ding-dong, ding-dong with multiple distortions about the garden. When I play back the recording audio from outside, it's all screechy. Also, the app is useless. Tried disabling alerts on the phone, but they still came through. Already I couldn't sleep because the wind keeps banging the gate. This is the last thing I need.

48:54Fed up, to be honest. I'll be hearing that stupid two-note chime in hell the way things are going. One more night of this and I'm grabbing the sledgehammer. Let's see if it detects that motion. Reply, too many top hats. The others were right. Go outside at 2.53. Check the camera. Reply, Lighting Nations. What? It's freezing this time of year. I'm not getting out of bed in the middle of the night to check the camera. I've decided to get a ring device instead and cut my losses. It's already been ordered. Cheers. So then that's the end of the forum post, and now it's back to Lighting Nation's account.

49:27Later that night, my phone buzzed on the bedside table. Like always, motion detected alerts started coming through at 253. Pulled up the granny feed from outside, and in it, there were vague suggestions of figures scattered about the garden. By the fence post, under the tree, peeking through downstairs windows. Meanwhile, the soft two-note chime rang out. Ding dong, ding dong. It happened again and again, gathering speed, morphing into a hysterical scream. Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong, ding dong. I got up and peeled back the curtain just a few inches. All of a sudden, there came a pounding from downstairs.

50:07A furious thump, thump, thump. So powerful, the windows and doors almost burst from their housings. What are you smiling about? I'm Harry Dresden This is my neighborhood Motherfucker

50:25It's him I was I was thinking about that like halfway through I'm like it's just that guy Let me in where is she Who's Harry Dresden The guy that went like you know The guy the viral ring Oh that video that's right I'm Harry Dresden Which also that's like a video game character's name or something Open the fucking door now. I'm just picturing that guy out there with that door. He has like the bell. He's like, ding, ding, ding. Ah! He's like whipping the door with a chain. Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong, ding dong. The house became alive with movement. It felt like being trapped inside a tornado.

51:05Everything around me rattling and quivering. Storm shutters scratching against walls. The letterbox wrapping away. Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong. I sprinted into the bathroom and barricaded myself inside and called the police, the phone buzzing with a chorus of non-stop alerts. There's someone at the door. There's someone at the door. There's someone. And then, out of nowhere, the house lowered its voice and went back to sleep. I checked my phone. 2.54. Now, trembling, I brought up the feed from outside. There was nothing, except a peaceful garden and the quiet section of street that lay beyond it.

51:40Two officers turned up, checked the footage, and dismissed the encounter as a mixture of a technical glitch, overactive imagination, and some nasty weather. But when I next clicked onto the forum, there were four new posts. It's 2.53. Time to come outside. Reply, Paleo 10. It's 2.53. Time to come outside. Reply, PixieChick01. It's 2.53. Time to come outside. Reply, TooManyTopHats. It's 2.53. Time to come outside. that's pretty fun that's a fun little story of like this uh entity that's like at this one minute for whatever reason in this area it's going door to door trying to convince people that they need to come outside and seemingly they join it or it consumes them then pretends to be them or something like that but it's a fun thing told through like a help forum for a doorbell thing oh yeah it's a diet cook i'm sorry it's okay it's okay it's okay sorry you don't have to apologize i understand what happened um man time's creepy huh what like time time itself creepy concept all right so that was lighting nations uh you can check them out it'll be linked in the description below hunter we have one more story today all right that story is i was an air traffic controller at atlantic municipal airport iowa for 27 years the first year at the job i unwillingly went from a firm atheist to a believer and the story is posted by i nace the name is i n a a c e the profile picture is terrifying um their profile picture is terrifying yes uh yeah that is kind of fucked up so michael jackson need a potato i don't think that's michael jackson that is it i don't think so they posted a lot in r slash golf and golf and stuff like that about four years ago they were they started talking about how they have cancer and how that's making more making it more and more difficult to play and then they post a lot on r slash cancer about their condition and stuff like that and then they haven't posted in three years it's pretty rough man this this is the second person we've come across that we're just like people have recommended the story and then you find that the person just passed.

53:48It's such a weird part of this podcast and even just being like an internet user stumbling across people's just completely live interactions. Like you look at these comments and you're just like, oh, these are people that are just living life. But now there's so much documentation out there now that it's just like you're going to keep seeing this. People years from now are going to see stuff or whenever we're gone too, they're going to see that stuff and be like, that's insane. You know, like it's just, it's odd. Well, I mean. It's kind of like, you know, people always say if it's on the internet, it's there forever, which is normally meant as a negative thing.

54:21But in other ways, you know, you have something like this where 11 years ago, this guy wrote a story that he thought was cool enough to post online. And other people, even after he passes, still recommend it, still think it's a cool story, still pass it around. I remember there was, there's this YouTube video by a guy named Jacob Geller. He makes like these really cool video essays. But he was talking about this video game where the plot of it was like it's these eternal beings that are trying to figure out how to make stories, basically. And the resolution that comes to the end is they can't understand storytelling because they're not human.

54:57They're not temporary creatures who know loss and life and stuff like that. And Jacob Geller said something at the end of that video I think about all the time. He said stories are our immortality. They're a kinder collective immortality. I've always thought that's such a cool way to look at it It's like all of us contribute to this one thing That a piece of us lives on forever Sure, it's not all about us, but in that way We never die I think that's a really cool idea, and this is an example Of that where he's gone, we didn't even know he was gone Because the only thing that we were introduced to Was that it's a cool story So that's pretty cool So Inase, we'll have their Account linked in the description if you want to scroll through See what else they've written and stuff like that But in honor of them, Hunter Are you ready to get into it?

55:40Let's get into it. My uncle and aunt came to visit me here in Atlanta. We got to talking about all sorts of general things. You know how family is, but we somehow ended up on the topic of strange and supernatural. This is when my uncle started telling me a story. A story that he says will haunt him all the way to his grave. I stopped him two minutes into it, got my laptop because I wanted to write it down for no sleep. These are his memories, almost word for word. Forgive the non-traditional writing. Are you typing? You are? Okay, okay. And your friends on the internet will read this? All right, but warn them that these are just old man's memories.

56:20Okay, so back to the beginning. So I graduated from Fordham in 1974 and still had no idea what to do. Times were different then. We were able to find jobs easily. God, I remember companies practically begging us to work for them. but I didn't want to do some shitty dash job for the rest of my life so I waited. Then one day while flying to visit Uran on Thanksgiving I caught myself being fascinated with the complexity of air traffic systems. That's all it took. I decided to become an air traffic controller. By the time I turned 27 I had passed all of the necessary tests and have accumulated enough experience to be hired and work without a supervision.

57:00Thing with air traffic controllers is that you don't really get to choose where you're going to work in the beginning. Sure, we all wanted to work at JFK or Hartsfield Jackson, but those jobs just weren't available to us rookies. So I had to take a job in a bum little town in Iowa called Atlantic. It was literally a single landing strip in a damn cornfield. I had to pay my dues and the money was all right. Now, small airports like these usually only work eight to five, but this particular strip was in such a geographical location that there were a lot of flights going above us at any time so we needed to stay open until 4 a.m in case of emergency landing by staying open i mean i had to sit in the control tower and there was one security guy sleeping in the airport's only terminal it wasn't that bad really i'd bring my books and crossword puzzles and i'd spend hours on the phone with your aunt you know they say that the air traffic controller is the most stressful job in the world well i was bored 99 of the time and that 1 % was guiding small Cessnas into my cornfield airport.

58:04So why am I telling you all this? Well, about three months into my job, something started happening. Something that even today I can't really, I'll save you the talk about the supernatural, but what happened at that airport just ain't right. February 20th, 1979. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was a regular winter night in Iowa. Winds and freezing cold, but no snow. I was supposed to work until close, although we didn't have any flights scheduled. Around 1 a.m., I received a radio message from a small Cessna about 30 miles from the airport. They were having a really bad snowstorm up in Omaha and needed to land here in Atlantic.

58:44I guess being open late was justified after all. I got my binoculars out, verified the visibility, and started guiding the aircraft, though it was really windy out there. they managed to touch down i looked through the binoculars to verify the landing went okay and that's when i saw her for the first time just walking down the runway as if it were a normal street was this woman shit i don't know now there were about a hundred things wrong with this situation first the woman was wearing some sort of short summer dress or a nightgown she was barefoot believe it or not normal person would be cold dressed like that during the summer let alone our winter and then you had to wonder what in the world was this person doing walking down the active runway and how the hell did she get there to begin with flight 84 this is alex from air traffic control do you happen to see a woman walking down the runway towards you asked the pilot who just landed let me check still watching through binoculars i saw him open the door of the plane to get out.

59:50He started walking towards the woman. Not going to lie, at that point I was having a lot of fun. Not much happened in Atlantic, Iowa. This certainly wasn't entertaining. I couldn't wait to hear her story. My bet was that she got in a car accident near the airport. Well, the pilot walked up to her and I couldn't make it that he was saying something. I saw, still through the binoculars, her lean to his ear and almost whisper something to him. He just stood there for a good 10 seconds With neither of them moving She was still leaning close to his ear Then he snapped out of it, I guess Turned around And literally sprinted to the plane When I saw the propellers starting to rotate I jumped on my radio Flight 84, what are you doing?

1:00:35No answer Flight 84, I repeat, what is happening? Nothing Then the plane started moving, speeding up Flight 84, you do not have permission to take off I repeat, you are not cleared for takeoff. There was no answer. That damn Cessna kept speeding up, then took off. Nothing I could do, really, besides making sure that no other planes were above us at the time. I tried one more time. Flight 84, this is air traffic control. What the hell is happening? Then my radio started making white noise. It was all I could hear coming from the radio. Flight 84, please repeat. You're breaking up. What a night, I thought.

1:01:13radio started transmitting again run run run flight 84 did you say run please repeat yourself nothing else came from out of the damn radio the plane was long gone dude if I was in air traffic and I've witnessed that and then the guy's like run run run I'd be like well alright yeah no fuck you're alone in the whole airport it's just you I'm good yes okay all right i mean i'm either running immediately or i'm never leaving that room again i'm there forever until sunlight and i'm like someone's gonna have to pull me out of here i sat in my chair trying to decipher what just happened run from what what the hell and then it dawned on me the woman grabbed the binoculars she was looking straight at me yeah no no no No, absolutely not.

1:02:10Good 200 yards away at night, she was somehow looking straight at me, eyes open so wide, it's hard to explain what she looked like. I guess, you know how when someone's super surprised, I don't like this. It isn't like that, right? It's like the... Yeah Like the impossibly wide eyes Almost like she has no eyelids or something. It kind of reminds me of the image of the woman in my head. It's the image of that girl from the beginning of the first VHS. Oh, sure. The, I want you. The succubus. I want you. Yeah, that one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what she says. I like you. Yeah, yeah. Like when you startle someone and their eyes just get so wide, some sort of fence mechanism, I suppose.

1:02:52That's how she was looking. Straight at me. Not in the world. At that moment, she started running towards me. Bro. some fucking barefoot demonic bitch running towards me are you kidding me fuck that no I would have my parachute backpack and I would do I would be gliding out of that oh my gosh that always freaks me out in stories or like movies and stuff where someone you can see something running really fast but it's far enough away like the binoculars kind of thing Yeah. You look up. She started running towards my tower, like not jogging, but really running. Still looking straight at me. I swear to you, goosebumps ran all over me like 10 ,000 cold ants.

1:03:44What do you mean by that, uncle? You know, well, we've all had 10 ,000 warm ants. I hope that was kind of a fun analogy. Imagine if the ants were cold. You know, I'm not one to get scared. Shit, I spent six years in Vietnam. Something about this situation.

1:04:04something about this situation something about that pilot telling me to run and this woman running towards me something seems so wrong joe are you there joe i blurted into the radio joe's our night security guard he didn't answer shit i looked through the window just in time to see the woman run into my tail. Oh my God, dude. Bro. Dude. I got the one pilot, like, the one pilot desperately back to his plane and he just had a plane and just took off his little way. It's actually such a fun visual now, funny visual now. Okay, run, run. And, like, he doesn't say anything to the guy except run, run, run.

1:04:52What a loser to not give any data, to not be like, you need to leave the tower. run run this guy helped you land your plane look through the window just in time to see the woman run into my tower i heard the door downstairs slam open i honestly didn't know what to do this wasn't a rational situation you know if it were some sort of terrorist or whatever i'd know what needs to be done but this is this situation malicious it was certainly strange and that exact weirdness that not knowing what is happening is what made me run into the bathroom and lock the doors as i turned the lock i heard the control room doors open you know in your generation's movies you just hear quiet footsteps of some invaders slowly looking for you and then the shadow show up under the door well this was the opposite as soon as those doors opened chaos began I tried peeking through the keyhole, but all I was able to see is fast shadow running across the room, accompanied by tremendous noise.

1:06:01I swear, I was so shocked that at one point, I nearly opened the door just to see what was causing all this. Then a hard slam into the bathroom door, had me nearly fall on the floor, and then nothing. Silence. I could lie and pretend I was brave enough to get out of that bathroom soon after, but I wasn't. I'll admit it. I stayed in there the whole night, waiting for the morning shift. Around 7.54 a.m., I heard a familiar voice say, what in the fuck? It was Clark, the morning shift controller. I opened the door to see a scene so twisted that even to this day, I remember every detail. Control room was nearly totaled.

1:06:37Radios ripped out, papers and manuscripts everywhere, radar screens smashed to pieces. When the police came, I gave the full report. Took 11 days to repair all the equipment and get the room fully functional. A security guard on duty that night was fired. They even started considering installing security cameras. I know, I know, today that seems like a normal thing to you, but it wasn't back in the day. Police had no idea what to make of it. They just urged us to report anything suspicious. I used the 11-day break to sort myself out, and by the end of that forced vacation, I was convinced that all of this was caused by some deranged woman, possibly a mental patient whenever made me sleep at night, right?

1:07:16Came back to work on March 4th. I was a bit worried about working nights again, but I was convinced that whoever did this was far gone by now. The next month or so was very uneventful. So I liked it. Iowa was scheduled to get hit with the big snowstorm that day. Most of the flights were grounded, but some were still in the air and I had to work. I hated it because if we did get hit with heavy snow, I'd probably end up being stranded. I wish that was the worst thing that happened. Around 11 p.m. that night, when it was already snowing big time, I received radio message from a small private jet that was some 50 miles away.

1:07:52They were getting caught in heavy winds, and the pilots wanted to land on our airport immediately. Now, jets like that would traditionally be too big to land at our strip, but the emergency like this called for overriding of guidelines. Flight 676, you were clear to land. We have to remain in contact at all times. The strip's pretty short. Do you acknowledge? Sure thing. Let's just get this puppy down, shall we? It was snowing heavily by that point. Thankfully, we had to clean up crew de-ice and clean the runway before they headed home, so it was still in decent condition. Again, back then, we were way more relaxed about the rules.

1:08:24I took a look at the strip to make sure it was clear. And out of nowhere, just when I forgot about her, she appeared. She was just slowly strolling down the strip, about 100 yards away from the tower, her bare feet slowly moving across the freezing asphalt. The worst part about it, she was looking straight at me again. Again, with those crazy eyes. This is when I realized what the most disturbing thing about her was. She wasn't blinking. I was looking at her for a good two minutes. Winds and snow blasting in her face and she wasn't blinking. It was almost as if she didn't want to lose a millisecond of looking straight at me.

1:09:01Oh god. Flight 676, maintain. I repeat, maintain the altitude until further communication. Traffic control, this is 676. That's a negative. We cannot maintain with headwinds like this. We have to land. Are we clear? We're six minutes away. I couldn't risk the lives of people up in that plane. I had to land them, despite this, whatever this was, walking down the runway. Cleared to land, 676. I put down the radio and looked through the window. She was now some ten yards away, coming closer to the tower. Though I shouldn't, under any circumstances, leave the control room, I ran down to the first floor and locked the outside door.

1:09:41I knew she was close and I knew she was coming. I got back to the room. I heard the radio. Control tower. We're approaching the runway. Please advise. Rotate three degrees right. Acknowledge. Copy that. We see the lights now. See you soon. Looked up through the window and could see the plane in the distance. There was no trace of the woman on the runway. Beside a breath of relief. I was going to deal with this issue after the jet had safely landed. at that moment a loud noise broke through the tower i didn't want to believe it but i was afraid that the first floor door had slammed open how the hell i locked it i know i did the goosebumps overcame me again almost as if my body could feel something that i couldn't my first instinct was to lock myself in the bathroom again but i couldn't i couldn't leave the radio footsteps on the metal stairs were getting louder she i assumed it was her wasn't running at least but the violent sound of footsteps made me think she was what slamming her feet into the ground with every step she made 676 this is traffic control i have visual confirmation clear to land i heard the control room doors open this is when i realized just how afraid i was you know i'm almost 70 now and i'm not embarrassed to admit how scared i was at that moment matter of fact i was so scared that i couldn't even turn around if you can believe that i just couldn't face what was behind me this was very unusual because i was always composed and rational always whether it was being stuck in a ditch in a vietnamese jungle or being nearly hit by an 18-wheeler on the highway, always calm, and there I was, staring straight at my radio, unable to turn my head and face it.

1:11:29I'm sure your friends on the internet will laugh, I reacted, but I guarantee most of you would have behaved the same. Your body just doesn't behave normally when you're terrified. I slowly press the talk button on the radio, my teeth literally chattering all clear then I felt a cold breath on my neck she was behind me breathing slowly into my neck I could feel the lips move up to my ear you know how when you're a kid and someone was messing behind your back making faces or bunny ears and you could somehow feel it I could feel the mouth an inch from my ear though I couldn't even see her with the corner of my eye I was still nearly paralyzed.

1:12:19I admit, I used to be ashamed of my inability to act in this surreal situation, but now when I look at it, no one can tell me they'd react any differently. It just wasn't an earthly situation, you know. Come down to field, come down. Whisper crawled into my ear. You normally think that hearing a voice would somehow diffuse the situation or at least brush away any thoughts of supernatural but that voice was so different than anything i've ever heard i'm not a writer i can't explain it it was cold human even but what scared me the most was the anger i felt in it though she whispered i could feel the rage and i don't even know how to put it into words her voice lacks something that every other voice had i don't know touchdown traffic control 676 is on the ground hope you have some hot chocolate ready the woman behind me snapped back and i heard what i assumed was running i forced myself to turn around just in time to her running out barefoot 676 welcome i made myself say into the radio though my legs were still foreign to the rest of my body i propped myself up and looked through the window i was expecting to see the woman running out but she was nowhere to be seen I thought that she was still in the building this time I managed to get the security guy on the radio and he showed up a few minutes later did a full walk through the tower no trace of the woman I started feeling relieved only when the police showed I started feeling relieved only when the police showed up they thoroughly searched the building with no success they did notice the trace of footsteps coming from the neighboring cornfield to the tower but there were no prints going back.

1:14:03Imagine my situation at the time. Just take a second to think about it. You're the only one to ever see this woman. I'll call her a woman. I wouldn't be surprised if the police started thinking that I was hitting the bottle during work. I decided to keep it to myself until I could prove there was this person's disrupting or haunting the airport. I couldn't really quit, and honestly, would you? Probably not. I mean, yes, these were two absolutely surreal experiences and I did feel some sort of intangible hazard, but I didn't think my life was ever in danger. I decided to stick with it. Winter was almost over anyways.

1:14:41Spring brought more horror than winter ever could. End of part one. I gotta say, this is pretty good. I'm vibing with this. I'm vibing with this tone pretty much. I like the, like, for one, what a G to have that thing behind you and not abandon your post for the plane coming in.

1:15:04you could have done that on the, you could have done that on the show. That would have been funny. I see. I got you. Yeah. He was like, air traffic control. Got to go. I think that, uh, this is a fun setup with the creepy woman. Uh, and it's like, you don't know what she wants, but it's clearly hostile the way she runs. And now she wants him to come out to the cornfield and it only shows up when there's emergency landings. So I think it's pretty cool. It's cool concept i think that the uncle's a g for surviving through this and like not abandoning his post uh when most people would uh this is a really cool story so far i'm excited for part two are you ready i am ready part two part two this won't make much sense to you if you haven't read my first write-up from a few months back again this was a conversation with my uncle who was an air traffic controller in atlantic municipal airport in iowa during the 70s this is his account word for word, I'm just tying it up.

1:15:57The city council finally listened to me and decided to install a security camera. Due to municipal bureaucracy and limited funds, or so they say, they only mounted one camera that could stream video to the control room. Stream, not record. Let that sink in. Who installs cameras that only stream? Town of Atlantic does, that's who. Anyways, I had to pick my battles, so I had them install a camera in front of the tower door. that way I could always see who's outside. A good month has passed since the last encounter and to be honest the horror started to dull away. It was still fresh in my mind yes but the lack of new developments had me thinking it all ended as quickly as it started.

1:16:35In my mind she was probably some lunatic who decided to move on. Then on May 3rd I received a memo letting me know I needed to stay late that day since some local politician's plane was due to land around 10 p.m. Naturally I guess my mind went straight to thinking about the crazy girl you know this was the first late night for me since the last encounter 9 45 came around and there was no sight of the plane i didn't care though my eyes were glued to the binoculars searching for any movement on the strip even a minimal commotion and my heart would race and god it still scares me to this day then for some reason I decided to look down at the monitor that camera was streaming on, and my world turned upside down.

1:17:22I expected her. I really did. You can expect something unnatural, but you're never really ready for it. You always hoped that it was just your imagination or something. But no, there she stood, right in front of the camera, in her summer white dress. She looked different, though. She was holding her arms as if she were freezing. She was shaking and I could hear crying through the shitty speakers they gave me. This wasn't the entity I remember terrorizing me. Then, she looked up at the camera and though the picture was grainy and black and white, I could see tears in her eyes. Please, it's freezing out here.

1:18:01She cried at the camera. Audio was obviously out of sync as she opened her mouth and voice would come through my speakers much later. Please. I'm not sure what you do in that situation. but I immediately saw an opportunity. If I can bring her in and call the security guard, I'd finally have the proof that I wasn't making it all up. Jerry, get to the control tower right now, please. He said as I stood up, he's going to let her in? I think because he's like, it's the proof that I need, and she's like desperate, I guess. Just have him come look at the camera. Well, that's not how they do it in Iowa.

1:18:35You know what? I don't care what happens to this guy now. Immediately, oh my goodwill, though. I've got to let this thing inside. I walk down. I know. I shouldn't have left an active control tower, but this was my chance. I propped the door open. Adrenaline burst through my pores. Are you okay? I mumbled with my voice cracking like a schoolgirl's. Shit, I was scared, man, you know? Yeah, you're opening the door for this thing. She was still sobbing, hair covering her face. I was shaking, not sure whether from cold or fear or both, but I needed to get her to come in. I stepped out. She took a step towards me.

1:19:12Still crying. Ma 'am, are you alright? I spoke again, this time more firmly. She moved the hair off her face and looked me straight in the eyes. Damn, I can't explain it, but her eyes, although still filled with tears, just weren't the same as on camera. They widened, and I swear to you, she wasn't blinking. Ma 'am, please step back. I said as she moved another step closer. Just open the door for her. Open the door for her. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What's all this? All right, baby sweetheart, I'm going to need you to take a step back. Hey, baby girl, I need you to take a couple of steps back. Talking baby girl?

1:19:57What the fuck? This is like my impression of Nick's Discord voice. Oh, nice way to learn. Nice, sweetheart. You need to take a couple of steps back, yeah. My lady. I said as she moved one step closer, now about a foot away from me. Ma 'am, please step back. She repeated. Oh, she's saying. Ma 'am, please step back. She repeated my words, nearly freezing blood on my face. She's nagging him. Ma 'am, please step back. He's like getting a boner. He's like, oh no. Yeah, this is like a skinwalker thing that's been haunting the cornfield for years. And he's like, well, come on in. I got to show someone else that you're real.

1:20:31I got to kill my friend. Yeah, a chapskin. My legs gave in and I almost fell to the ground. Her voice. Her voice wasn't the same one that spoke into the camera. this voice was genderless is that a word it was they them i think it's non-binary her voice didn't belong to a woman or a man i swear to you but that wasn't what petrified me to these goosebumps now you know i'm telling the truth right her voice came out with delay just like on the camera her lips moved but the words came out a few seconds later what the fuck i mumbled as i leaned against the door not believing what i was seeing what the fuck she mumbled back at me that damn voice coming out after her mouth had closed leave me alone get the fuck away from me i screamed at her and i mean screamed i'd never heard myself this loud before accumulation of all fear and anger i suppose she took a violent step towards me and her face got so close to mine I think her nose touched me.

1:21:36She opened her mouth wide as if she were screaming, but it was silent. And then seconds after she closed her mouth, scream came out of her throat. It was unearthly and so piercing that I was completely shell-shocked and unable to do so much as move. I was frozen still in the spot. She, without moving her face from mine, she raised her right arm and pointed at the cornfield. Her eyes were so wide that they didn't look human anymore. She just stood like that for a good 30 seconds or eternity in my time not blinking. I couldn't take it anymore. I just couldn't. I gathered all the bravery I've ever had and I pushed her.

1:22:17Look at the camera and do the scream but don't make the sound and editor edit the thing. So don't scream? But do your mouth as if you are screaming and then editor will put the scream in once you close your mouth and it's emanating from your throat. We have to be pointing like you're at a cornfield. I have to point like I'm in a cornfield? Like you're pointing at the cornfield. Oh.

1:22:40Is that good? Did you like that? The way your mouth curled on that was so funny for some reason. That we scream now. Let's do it together at the same time. Get ready.

1:22:53God. What? You look like you're holding in a burp. No. wrong false unlike invincible creatures in today's books and movies she fell as any normal human would she fell on her back but as soon as she hit the ground she got up unnaturally fast i mean no human i've ever seen got up with such speed at that moment i was certain this was the end of me but as soon as she stood back up she turned around and ran towards the field i don't want to stop her i'm not sure i even could i stood there for some time trying to figure out what reality I lived in. And then finally gathered myself enough to climb back to the control room.

1:23:35Security guard showed up a good 35 minutes later, giving me some bullshit excuse for taking so long. Politician's plane landed late as well, and I chose not to tell anyone about the encounter as I was running the risk of sounding insane at that point. I didn't know what to do, but I did know that she wasn't going to leave me alone. I spent the next six nights at the airport glued to my binoculars, scouting the ground for any movement. I talked the guard into doing a walkthrough of the strip every couple hours, just on the off chance that she'd be caught. Naturally, I didn't tell him what to look for because I didn't want to sound crazy when he found nothing.

1:24:10It was night seven since the encounter, and I was spending my hours staring down the binoculars. I saw the guard walk around 8 45 p.m. He saw me in the tower, so he laughed and waved, giving me thumbs up. This wasn't going to work. She wasn't about to get caught. When I showed up for the next day's shift, everyone was giggling in the break room. What's going on here? I asked, wanting to join on the fun. Oh, you know. Jerry, the guard said, bursting with laughter with the others. I really don't. What's the joke? Well, I was just telling the guys about your boring nights. He said, chuckling and air-quoting the word boring.

1:24:46What do you mean? Come on, man. It's only guys in here. It's alright. No, I really don't know what you mean. Well, I didn't see you guys last night, so I was just telling the boys how good you have it up there in the control room What do you mean you guys would you see? Oh, come on now, man I saw you and your lady friend up there last night when I did the walkthrough Remember me waving at you

1:25:15Alright moving out of Iowa changed my name going to the other side of the country Absolutely not It's like man I can't find her She's just floating behind you the whole time Yeah also this guy He sees an ethereal being Floating behind him He's just like oh buddy's getting his dick sucked up there Brother's getting it Yeah Fuck you Jerry What a loser Like reversing a VHS memories From last night started pouring through my mind Nothing happened though nothing that I could remember I was looking at the airfield the whole night Jerry even saw me and waved and nothing was out of the ordinary and his wave his laugh thumbs up yeah I saw your lady friend standing behind you when I waved I'm sorry I didn't know it was a secret I don't know how my legs worked but I used them to run out of the break room squirted by laughter from my co-workers that would be a funny visual that description is pretty funny because it reads like this He's like, I don't know how my legs work, but he's just like

1:26:26It's funny for everyone else cuz he walks in Jerry's been telling about like I had this girl up here He's like oh, we saw your lady friend, and he's just like Lady French who's up there licking your bow Okay, we don't need to go to the graphics

1:26:48Okay, okay. Yeah. Amelia Earhart did it. She was a nice lady. We just went to her. Jeez. Oh, my gosh. Okay. First thought. Sitting at this sniffing, licking your butthole. First thought. There's something funny about it. Somebody's just saying butthole, isn't it? How often do you actually hear butthole now? I feel like when you were a kid, you used to always say, like, you're a butthole. Yeah. You know? I love it. We can be eight if you want to act like we're eight years old. I want to be eight years old again. Okay. Please. Also, Jerry rules, by the way. Yeah, Jerry's pretty cool. He's 35 minutes late.

1:27:28Other than being 35 minutes late when he's like, I need you here right now. He's probably 35 minutes late because he's like, oh, yeah, I don't want to go up there and watch you get your ass eaten by your lady friend. Do you think Jerry worked at the World Trade Center? You think they're like, hey, we need you to come check something out. He's like, yeah, and he turns the corner. He's like, oh, my gosh. She's a ghost up there to eat another guy's ass.

1:27:54Is that a good impression first thought at least I wasn't going insane Someone else are you know second thought What in the God's name? She was behind me for how long and how the hell didn't I hear? her. Honestly, I had no idea what to do at that point. The only hope for my well-being was that she'd get caught by someone other than me. Otherwise, everything I said to anyone would make me sound insane. I didn't hear. No wonder it sounded like somebody eating a bowl of chili behind me the rest of the night. Oh my god.

1:28:31Oh my god. That's not what was happening. That's not what was happening. It sounded like a rottweiler eating a bowl of pedigree. There was a scary woman behind him. That's all that was happening. What is that sound?

1:29:06Yeah, no one is quit that job in Iowa. I wouldn't either This chair is comfortable Yeah, Herman Miller, my word Yeah, who would have thought these gaming chairs were this comfy I have a Herman Miller and I can confirm it doesn't do that. It's cool that we got those Herman Millers that clean your bottom.

1:29:33Oh, I'm up in that control tower. Oh, I wish. Okay. The only hope for my well-being was that she'd get caught by someone other than me. Otherwise, everything I said to anyone would make me sound insane. Two weeks had passed by with no further side.

1:29:54I hate how much you poisoned this story for me now. Imagine him like leaned over on his elbows with his binoculars looking out the window and behind him. Oh, okay. Stop this. Quit, quit. Two weeks had passed by with no further sighting of her. Then, sometime in early June, and mind you, I was still scanning the airstrip every night.

1:30:30I Okay, I saw her at the edge of the field she just stood there I must have watched her for two hours and she didn't move a finger

1:30:40She didn't I hate you so much She didn't move a finger and she was knuckled deep I hate I you know what? That's the worst thing about it. I hate these jokes. They're so gross, but you're funny. And that makes it awful. It writes itself, dude. The fucking shit didn't move a finger. Come on. I must have watched her for two hours and she didn't move a finger. She just stood looking straight at me. A hundred yards away in the control tower. After the initial shock, and again, every time I saw her was a shock to me. I did the only logical thing and picked up the radio. I called Jerry and asked him to do a walkthrough.

1:31:19As soon as the door of the airport barn opened, she slowly walked back into the cornfield, never taking her eyes off me. By the time Jerry walked by where she stood, she was long gone. This happened every night for the next eight days. She'd stand at the edge of the field, staring at me and not blinking, and every time Jerry would come out, she'd slowly disappear into the field. One night, I called Jerry up in the control room for a sip of whiskey, hoping she'd come out and I'd show her to him. It's always so convenient in movies though, isn't it? The entity whose existence you're trying to prove never appears before witnesses, right?

1:31:55Well, Jerry came up and we shared a nice bottle of Jack Daniels over some small talk. I was discreetly keeping on the cornfield. At the same time she always appeared, I noticed movement in the field and there she was. Came out of the field and froze in the same spot she always does. Had to be careful. I was so excited. Man, I was overrun with emotion. She was finally about to get caught. But I had to contain myself so I could look somewhat sane while telling Jerry what was happening. Hey, Jerry, do you see what I see? I asked as I handed him the binoculars. Down by the cornfield. Him staring down the strip were the longest five seconds of my life.

1:32:32What in the world is that girl doing there? Man, the sense of relief. Alright, I have something to tell you. I spoke calmly It took about five minutes to give him a gist of what was happening All the stalking, control room destruction Incident on camera Jesus man, why didn't you tell me something earlier? Would you believe me if I did? He just shook his head Jerry said as he stood up You call the police and I'm going to go down there and speak with her I'll hold her until they come Alright Jerry, you do that buddy Yeah, good luck bud Iowa's strongest soldier Marching off to be ripped to shreds at the end of the runway.

1:33:10All right. I'll take care of it. I wanted to tell him to be careful. I wanted to even stop him, but more than anything, really, I wanted it all to end. I dialed 911 while I watched Jerry walk down the strip toward this thing by the field. She wasn't moving. Matter of fact, she was still looking straight at me. She whispers in his ear, and he does dead sprints to a plane and flies off to him. Jerry, no! What do you think she whispered to the first guy that made him run? Probably the, didn't she say, come to the field, whatever? Was it something like that, maybe? Yeah. I don't know. If you saw a woman outside and she said, come to the field, that wouldn't be immediate reason to take off in your airplane, you know?

1:33:53I guess that's true. They'd have to whisper, like, something about me no one else knew. Or, like, a dead relative's name or something like that. What would they have to say for you to get in a plane and fly off? it'd have to be like like if i had a family member that recently died they said like they're waiting for me or whatever like and this random person just knows about that or something that would that would i'd be like all right i'm out i'm leaving because if some if i saw a woman like realistically outside of the story if a crazy woman came up it was like come to the cornfield i'd be like what is this crack addict doing on the runway it's like no i'm not gonna do that Stop to get away from me It was late in Atlantic In such a small uneventful town The cops said it would take a good 15 minutes To come to the airport Binoculars pointed at her as Jerry approached I saw that he started to talk to her She was still looking straight in my eyes All the way from there Then without taking her eyes off of me She leaned towards his ear And whispered something I don't know what I'm not a lip reader took a step back then another one turned around and looked at me I've never seen such a terrified look on another human this man was beyond himself face so petrified it didn't even resemble the Jerry I knew he ran into the field bro Jesus is all I could say she was still looking at me Only she had this, what do you call it, misbehaving smile on her face.

1:35:31I had it. That pilot and Jerry both ran away from her after she whispered something to them. And I, why was I still here? What was happening to me? I had it. I ran down the stairs and out of the tower. She was standing in her spot. As I ran to her, I could see she still had that smile on her pale face. No more talking. This wasn't moving. I wasn't about to let her run again. I tackled her. it sounds funny i know but i ran into that bitch and i hit her hard we both hit the pavement as soon as i got on top of her i noticed she still had the smile even though there was a big cut on her forehead she wasn't talking she wasn't resisting she was just laying there smiling at me and bleeding i heard the car pull up by the strip and you can imagine how thankful i was when i saw it was the police over here here i screamed as i held her down though she wasn't really trying to escape as the cops ran toward us i looked at her one last time why why i asked so frustrated so angry she just smiled even wider see you later alligator she was what you kind of cringe oh the line's kind of cringe well okay it may have some grace hold on she whispered second before police officer pulled me off her her words came out with delay again that wasn't the last shock of the night help me officer this man this man was trying to kill me girl cried as the officer helped her up he tried to murder me i i was speechless this woman i thought she was what a demon was now acting human i was sure she was finally caught but as the cop turned to me i I realized I was alone on the strip, nearly choking a defenseless woman.

1:37:16Jerry was nowhere to be found. Take me, I said as the officer stepped towards me. The sense of helplessness was the most overwhelming feeling I've ever experienced. But please, don't let her get away. I spent the night in jail, certain that I was going to be found guilty for everything, with the only witness long gone to who knows where. When my buddies from the airport came to bail me out in the morning, I was so tired I didn't feel like explaining anything. I just told him that. If Jerry were here, he'd tell you. What? Jerry's at that airport right now. I was in disbelief, but I didn't want to waste a second.

1:37:53Twenty minutes later, I was standing in front of Jerry. Jerry, man, why'd you tell anyone? I asked, nearly crying from all emotions. Tell what? Jerry answered, just laughed, and looked around the break room that was now full of co-workers. Jerry, I went to jail because of her, man. You gotta tell him. Look, man, why don't you get some rest and we can talk about this later, alright? Jerry said in a condescending voice, patting my shoulder. I lost it. I just started crying. I was the most helpless man in the world. There was nobody that could help me. And this hurt more than not understanding why Jerry chose to act as if nothing happened last night.

1:38:26I walked out of that airport, never to come back. Three days later, I received a letter in the mail giving me a formal, you-have-been-terminated notice, followed by a call from a police department saying that no charges will be filed as the woman is nowhere to be found. I moved to New York to live with your aunt after that. I never did see that woman again and to be honest to this day I'm not sure what I dealt with. If I'd put my hand on the Bible I'd say it wasn't a human who stalked me those nights in Iowa. There's a little bit more of the story. So the the alligator line I was going to say could have some grace because that almost sounds like something like someone would tell a kid or a thing like that.

1:39:03So without what I talked about with the skinwalker, how it would have to be something from my past. I was thinking maybe see you later, alligator, was something from his past. Maybe something his mom used to say to him or something like that, and that could explain it. But we haven't got an explanation for that. But that's why, that was fine to me because that's what I thought of. That's probably something from his history. At that point, my aunt walked into the room. Is she talking about that woman in the Atlantic again? She said, trying to look irritated. I was just telling the boy about what happened to me.

1:39:31Worth knowing what's out there. Oh, stop it, Alex. Poor guy doesn't need to listen to your rambling. Rambling? Rambling? Bitch! You did say that. Rambling? Rambling? How about that since I left, that damn airport has had 41 air traffic controllers quit. How about that? Well, I think it's time to go. We overstayed it as it is. My aunt said, trying to get out of the awkward situation. I'll walk you out. I'll walk you out. When we got outside the house, my uncle sat in the car, but I had to ask my aunt. Was that all? I started but she interrupted. Oh, goodness, no. We don't like to talk about it, but Yoko started his depression medication around that time, and it affected him in a strange way.

1:40:10It was back when medications weren't well researched. That's why he was let go and unable to work at airports again. And the woman? Yes, there was a girl there. Look at the cops got him off before he did any damage, but he's been under control ever since. No incidents. Knock on wood. As she opened the car door, I whispered one last thing. And all those controls you quit? Is that true? My smile went from genuine one to one that was very obviously forced. We better get on the road before night falls, honey. Call us sometime. You got our number. You know. See you later, alligator. So is the implication there then that she became his wife?

1:40:54Like it killed his wife and then became? I think that's what it's assuming. Yeah. But I don't know. We're in an unreliable narrator situation now. Yeah. Well, he could have gone. Said the skinwalker. No, well, yes, yes. But also the... Because all the stuff that discredits his story came from her. Well, also, it's a thing, too, about being... I mean, we're also hearing from him, though, being like, well, I don't know why he didn't say... I don't know why he didn't defend me that night. It could also be that he was on the medication, started to see things, lose his mind, got fired, and then maybe his wife says see you later alligator so he imprinted that on the story but if you view everything literally his wife was killed by the skinwalker at some point and replaced right probably similar to what happened that's a that's a creative reach i don't know there's nothing to assume that the skinwalker killed his wife or whatever the see she said see you later alligator implying i'll see you later and now the wife's saying it so no i I understand, but I'm just saying that, like, there's, I mean, I guess we assume that the creature found him in New York and killed the wife because that's where the aunt was at.

1:42:01I think it's implying it followed him. And, like, at some point replaced her or something like that. Because I think that's the same thing that happened with Jerry. Because Jerry gets freaked out, runs into the cornfield, and then the next day Jerry's there like, what are you talking about? Yeah. So you think the skinwalker was probably just the. It's like one or several replacing people. I see. Like that, yeah. Well, there's one thing to take away from all of this. It's fuck cancer. Yes. yeah this was this is a very fun story it's very talented story it's a shame that the author was taken too soon uh but i am glad that stories like this from them we can still read we can enjoy we can talk about because this was a legitimately creepy story with her staring and running to the tower and stuff all that was great this was very uh well done uh and it's a tragedy that uh it's taken too soon but i'm glad we still get to enjoy what he wrote fuck cancer fuck cancer and guys thank you so much if you've been listening on audio platforms like apple's podcast and spotify we appreciate a nice rating there and also thank you to our patrons who do support this channel we do appreciate you once again i just want to say fuck cancer that's my final thought i also don't like cancer for the record i just want to come out that i'm staunchly anti-cancer until next time guys we will see you in the next one stay creeped goodbye stay creeped and again cancer I don't like it.

1:43:21Just so we all know. Fuck cancer! Fuck cancer! And I also feel similarly.

1:43:51Thank you.

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