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this kid who almost gets kidnapped.
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So either way, let's call the subscriber who submitted this
story Zach. So anyways Zacks older, Zack was
Eyoung at this point he was probably like 10 or something.
And as a kid an older brother who was 18, 19 like a pretty
good difference in age, right? And Zach's mom couldn't be
around to babysit Zach so you know exact is Zack's mom went up
to his older brother and was like Hey I know like you're
going out with your friend right now but I need you to take Zach
like I can't I can't babysit them.
Basically is thanks older. Brother was kind of putting up a
bit of a fight. He wasn't like, you know saying
no but he's like mom like come on, you know, I get like he my
younger brother is going to make it so Full for me to have fun.
Like, you just going to mess things.
I don't want them to get involved.
Anything I'm going to do but Zach's, you know, mother kind of
put her foot down said, no, like you can use the car to go out
and have a hangout with your friend on one condition and
that's that you bring Zach like do this for me or like or else
Zach's older brother was eventually all right fine,
whatever. And he goes over, he finds that
because like, hey man, like you're coming with us, this is
Echoes over sits in the back seat of the car and Zach's older
brother drives around, until he gets the place where his friend
is Is his friend hops in the car and his friend looks exact.
So older, brother, with kind of like a smile.
He turns back and looks exact in the backseat and he kind of
turns back with kind of a look of like what's this kid doing
here but then very quickly like puts a smile back on his face is
like hey I don't know you'd be joining us and Zach's older
brother kind of like piped up a little bit and said yeah sorry
like my mom couldn't you know to look after him.
So he has to kind of come around to wherever we're going and, you
know, Zach's a friend or Zach's older brother's friend kind of
looked at him with the kind of a look because Maybe they were
going to do something that they didn't want their younger
brother with them at and basically Zach's older brother
kind of looked at him with a look of like it's fine.
Like I'll deal with it, don't worry about it.
So they're driving along and they're driving kind of towards
this Woods Forest type area. It was, was it like in the
middle of like I don't know the middle of a massive force or
something but it's definitely on the outskirts of whatever
civilization Humanity, type town or whatever they were in.
So you'd see like, you know, a house or to everyone.
In a while, but it started to be pretty woodsy, pretty foresti
and they pull into the parking spot and Zach's older brother
looks at his friend. And then, you know, he's
actually brother looks back exact because, hey, man, like,
do you have something to entertain yourself with and
Zach's will or Zach looks around.
He finds some kind of like Star Wars book or something.
I don't really know. He finds something that he would
find entertaining and he's like, yeah, no I can, I can, I can
handle myself and Sue's actually brothers.
Like, hey, man, like we're going to be gone for like 20.
And it's can you just chill out here for a little bit like you
just chill like you just chill out here.
Is that fine? And Zach was like yeah man,
that's totally fine. It's whatever and so Zach's
older brother and his friend get up and they go and whatever they
were going off to do is, who knows?
I mean, you can probably guess, or make guesses, or whatever,
it's a whole host of things that maybe just think of something,
there's a whole host of things that you would do with your
friend when you're older or groups of friends or whatever
that you maybe didn't want your little brother there the whole
time. There's a bunch of things.
I didn't get a like specifically Thing the thing is, Right?
Zach, even though he was told to just stay like, to just stay
put, it wasn't that he was a disobedient child, he just got
bored and he didn't really think of the consequences because, you
know, you got that, you know, prefrontal cortex that hasn't
fully developed and especially by the time your tenure barely
have your spatial awareness there.
So, you know, sure enough Zach is sitting there.
He's looking at this coloring book or Star Wars book or
whatever he was looking at to keep himself entertained and,
you know, he got bored. I mean, But he got bored after
about five minutes, he went through the entire book because
this book was in the sitting in the back of his car.
He's been he's looked at it several times.
Like this isn't some new interesting book, he seen it a
billion time, so he kind of puts the book down.
He looks out the window looking to see if you know his older
brother's coming but he sees no sign of them and Zach's like,
all right. Well I don't know.
Like he said I have to stay in the car.
He didn't say anything about you know I can't get out of the car
as long as I stay near it which I mean I'm sure his axe older
brother implied stay. Wait in the car.
But whatever either way, Zack Zack did enough mental
gymnastics to convince himself that would be totally fine for
him to get up and get out of the car.
So sure enough. He gets up and he gets out of
the car. He starts walking and they're
just for a bit of context, right?
They were in like kind of a wooded area, but there is a very
long kind of driveway path. And there's also kind of like it
was cutting through a field which if you watch far enough in
the direction of the field. There was a forest on both sides
so there's like multiple paths along these fields that you Go
into the forest, but there was a main dirt path.
That was the dry that it was the road, right?
It was kind of like the road that wasn't paved.
It wasn't looked after it was definitely the middle of nowhere
type road. I don't know if you've seen one
of those but you know, Zach is just kind of walking around and
he's just walking along the road and he's not even really paying
attention to how far he's walking away.
I don't know about you, but especially when I was a little
kid, there were plenty of times. And I mean, plenty of times that
I would just be like walking in my head even now honestly.
And I just kind of like pay attention like I kind of Look
up. And I noticed that like, oh wow,
I've been walking for 20 minutes and like this direction.
I had no idea. I was doing this and sure
enough. Right.
You know, Zach was just walking and he probably didn't even
realize this, but he kind of looked up and he realized that
the car was no longer in sight while he was this walking a
straight Direction. So it you know he definitely
wasn't lost or anything. He realized that he's probably
been walking for like five plus minutes.
So he's like, okay I should probably turn around and that's
when this car starts. Like there's look, there's no
traffic. Road, no one really drives Along
on this road and that's when this car, and this car is kind
of, it's not, it's not like a, I don't know, a white unmarked van
that says free candy on the side.
It's not exactly like that but it's kind of a more beat up
non-descriptive car with it, just looks a little sketchy but
whatever, right? I mean everyone has their first
whatever you know you don't don't judge a book by it's
cover. Unless it says free candy on the
side of the car then go ahead and do it and Zach just noticed
this in the car drives up next to him.
Um and there's a lot of things wrong with this car.
Zach realized as the car kind of like drove away, which happens a
little later that it had no license plate.
Which that's a big that's a big red sign right there.
There was like tinted window. A lot of a lot was wrong with
it. The car pulls up and Zach is as
kind of like walking along. And you know this this driver
slows down which is the first weird things.
Like if you're just dropping by its whatever, maybe slow down a
little bit just in case I don't know the kid or the person walk.
By makes any sudden moves, but most of the time you just don't
think to do so. So the driver like pulls up any
kind of slows down so Zach realize is that this drivers
probably can try and talk to him so Zach you know turns his head
and sure enough. The driver is the win is putting
down the window in the car and the driver is like hey buddy and
Zach immediately gets the chills like he's been told in school by
this point, he's headed drilled into his head.
If any stranger comes up to you and tries to talk to you, like
you're okay, talking back. But like you can't like if they
say come with me or you should go this way, anything like that,
just avoid it, you know, you don't want to be kidnapped or
something. He's been told a billion like a
billion horror stories about kids being kidnapped and never
being seen again. So sure enough Zach was pretty
freaked out by this and the guy in the drivers like really slows
down as car almost to a Stomp and he's like hey like where are
you going like why you walking along on this road all by
yourself Zach who's you know, he's only 10.
So he's not like thinking of like the Make Mastermind thing
to say to get himself out of this, but he's kind of like, oh,
I'm just going to see my brother and the guys like oh your
brother is, your is your brother around right now is easy close
by and Zack knew better than this.
So he said yes, my brother is close by and the guys like oh
well, I mean, I don't see him anywhere.
Do you know what direction? He's in exact points ahead of
him because that's the direction the car and the guys.
Like do you want to lift their? Yeah, I mean just half of the
back seat. I got you on this one and egg
looks at him and says hi. It's okay.
Like I enjoy the walk, right? And you know, the guys, like how
you sure man, like are you 100% sure and, you know, he's like,
yeah, and I'll be fine. So the guys like, okay, that's
fine and he drives off. It was Point.
Zach is really starting to freak out a little bit.
And the car has driven off at this point but it just feels
really weird and he starts kind of like power walking back to
the car. And at this point he's like,
okay, this was really strange. This was really weird.
Like I have a bad feeling about this about three.
And it's later, and he's power walking back to his car.
And it turns out he actually had been walking away from his car
for like 10 minutes. Not five.
So he was much farther away than he thought.
So what happens, right is, he's walking and he hears a car
behind him and he turns around and he sees the exact same car
coming back but this time much faster.
So what you know Zach just had an intuition to get off the
road. So what happens was theirs, as I
was saying earlier, there's two feet there's like a the road by
sex a field. If you go far enough into the
field there's a wood. So it's like all surrounded by
woods but there's a field that bisects the road or the road
bisects the field. And there's many paths off the
road into the field and Zach just got a feeling that he needs
to get on one of those paths. So these are these paths are not
the roads. They're just paths that lead
through the fields into the woods that the road goes in
between. So Zach immediately gets on one
of these paths and stops walking and starts walking and he turns
around and he looks. And he sees the guy who's like
driving that car? Park his car in the middle of
the road and open it and start like not sprinting, right?
He's not sprinting but he is like quickly moving towards Zack
at this point like he is power walking with emphasis so Zach
turns around sees what's happening and knows immediately
like okay. This is really bad.
It's exactly this point starts running and he just starts
running and he doesn't even look back.
He's just running and running and running and that's when he
gets to the woods. And that's when Zach, you know,
catches his foot on a Because I don't know if you've been in the
woods before but there's a lot of like tree branches bushes and
also exposed tree roots and some of them like the only part like
is like, it's poking out. You don't really see it.
And sure enough Zach caught his foot on this and he fell over.
So you fell over, he quickly got up, but while he was getting up
he did look behind him. And the guy in the vehicle was
quickly approaching and he was no longer power walking.
He was sprinting towards him real quick.
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get right back to the video. So sure, enough Zach to start
sprinting and before like he was running at this point, like
survival instincts, have kicked in.
At this point, he is full-on sprinting.
This guy is out of here, he's like not on.
I can't be doing this man, like no shot.
Am I being kidnapped today? No way.
The other thing was Zack knew that he was kind of close to the
car. Like he knew that like if he
could get back on the main road, if he could leave this guy like
Into the Woods. And get back onto the main road
that like, I don't know, like, maybe he would at least or he
needs to, at least follow the woods, like parallel to the main
road. And then it's some point get off
of it. And, you know, try and get into
the car try and see where, you know, his older brother is
remember, he's too young at this point to have a phone and also,
this was a little while ago, so like phones weren't so.
Common that like everyone, including little like, I don't
know, four year olds had them. And anyways, you know, he's in
the woods and he's running and it's hard because Cuz there's no
real pre-made path in the woods. And I guess the one advantage or
one of the advantages Zack had was, he was like ten.
He was short, he was small and because he was short and small.
He was, you know, he was actually very agile, very
mobile, and he was able to kind of weave his way through all the
brush and random stuff in the foot, and the forest, much
better than the guy chasing him. The guy chasing him.
He was a, I don't know, a bigger like guy who's probably in his
40s or whatever. And because of that he was
being, you know, he couldn't just run through all the brush.
Run through a tree and he was kind of getting caught up and
stuck or whatever and it got to a point where Zack turned behind
him and he didn't even see the guy anymore.
He knew he was coming because he could kind of hear noises of
rustling or whatever. But you couldn't even see him
because he got that far back. So Zach eventually decides that
this is a good time to break out of the trail.
He breaks out of the woods starts running into the field,
doesn't isn't even on a path in the field.
He's as going through the Tall Grass at this point running and
running and running until he hits the road at this point.
He's hit the road and he starts looking both directions and he
can see very very far in that, in the left the right, or
straight ahead of him at this point, he sees an outline of a
car and he recognizes the color. It's like this maroon color and
that is the color of his, you know, his older brother's car
and he also sees two figures outside the car kind of pacing
around. And yes they could have been
more kidnappers or whatever, but most likely they were Zach's
older brother and his friend probably freaking out because
Zack was nowhere to be seen. So Zack is like racing Towards
them Zach is like sprinting and he's like yelling, he's like
yelling, and he sees the other two figures, like one like turns
around, he hears his name being yelled which at this point.
He's like 100% sure it's his brother because this random
kidnapper, unless he's been stalking him for like two years,
definitely doesn't know his name.
So, Zach, as he gets closer, he sees it is his older brother and
his friend he goes up. There's like how like oh my God
like I can't like like there's someone after me and likes
actually brothers. Like what do you mean like what
do you mean and you know who's that?
Goes on to explain that. Like yeah.
Like this guy came up to me said, like, he could drive me to
you but I said, no, he disappeared for a little bit but
now I don't know. He's been chasing me.
Like, he got out of his car. He chasing the woods and they're
still like that. He, they got the guys in the
woods right now. I don't know what's really
happening and Zach's older brothers.
Like, all right man, let's get in the car.
Let's get back home. Like will sort through this all
when we get back home. But right now, like let's just
get back to safety. So they start walking up to the
car and, you know, Zach. About to get in when they look
down the road and they see another car coming up to them
and Zach immediately yells at his brother.
That's the car. So the quickly hop into the
like, is that gets in the backseat Zach's brother gets in
the driver's seat and his friend gets in the other seat.
Again, the car, and they immediately drive out of there.
The thing is though, like the car that like was chasing exact
before was far enough away because this road was very is a
very flat terrain. So you could see far ahead of
Li, you can see the Horizon pretty far away.
So, by the time zag zag, He's older brother and his friend got
into the car and they started to move.
They had a good amount of distance on the other car.
Obviously, if they just stayed put the car would have caught up
with them. And who knows what have you ever
happened? But Zack was in the back seat.
Looking at the car behind them, basically telling them.
All right, is a car speeding up, is it getting closer?
And sure enough for at least a little bit like, in the very
beginning? The car was like going 80 miles
per hour and he was like speeding up towards the car that
sag had. And you know, he's telling his
older brother. Like you got to go faster, you
got to go faster. So we're brothers.
Man, I don't know. Like, this is way over the
speed, limit and Zach's, like, look behind you.
So he looks in his mirror and sure enough.
The car is getting closer and closer and he's like, dude, this
guy's a maniac. This is ax older brothers.
Like, all right, screw it. He steps on the brake or not,
the brake steps. On the gas, they started driving
faster and eventually they get more and more into civilization
until they hit a highway, which is exactly getting the highway
that go on and they've lost this guy.
There's no way that this guy falls on the highway, I was
about to say or so they think. But no, they get back home.
The guys not following them. You know, Zach's older brother
sits back down. It's like, dude, what even what
happened? Like what happened today?
Zak like catches his breath. Because he's, like, freaking
out. He's like, all right.
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