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This is unnerved. 20 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:50,840 Welcome back to the Unnerved podcast. 21 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:54,840 It's where normal people share their abnormal stories. 22 00:01:55,320 --> 00:02:00,240 And if you enjoy true stories of the strange and terrifying, then 23 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:04,400 you're in the right place. I'm your host, Chris Frickey. 24 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:10,280 There are certain moments in life that never leave you. 25 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:15,400 Some are good and some are tragic. 26 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:20,560 But the ones that stay with you the longest are the ones you 27 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:24,560 can't explain. The moments that replay in your 28 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:30,040 mind for years. The ones you revisit over and 29 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:35,200 over again, trying to make sense of what really happened. 30 00:02:41,020 --> 00:02:45,780 In today's story, Tyler shares an experience that still keeps 31 00:02:45,780 --> 00:02:50,260 him awake at night, which should have been a normal drive to his 32 00:02:50,260 --> 00:02:54,980 family's campground, quickly became something far more 33 00:02:54,980 --> 00:02:59,540 unsettling. This is his story. 34 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:06,520 My name is Tyler. I grew up in about the center of 35 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:11,040 Michigan, maybe a little north of Lansing, Birch Run area, and 36 00:03:11,920 --> 00:03:18,000 I was 16 at the time of this, during the summer of 2001. 37 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:23,800 I just got my driver's license that winter before on my 16th 38 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:30,240 birthday, I had this amazing giant 1977 Buick LeSabre. 39 00:03:30,920 --> 00:03:35,520 Before I even like had my license, my cousin and me put a 40 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:37,720 big like bumping system in that car. 41 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:41,000 It was the loudest car around. That thing would bump. 42 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:45,560 I would definitely pick everybody up from school and and 43 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:48,600 drop everybody off. It was I was the cool kid with 44 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:51,760 the cool bumping car. Oh, I think I was cool. 45 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:54,280 I probably wasn't, but it was a good time. 46 00:03:56,720 --> 00:04:01,040 My parents had a place up north, and here in Michigan that's 47 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:04,840 basically what you call anywhere above where you live. 48 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:11,120 We call that up north. So we had a camper out on this 49 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:16,519 inland lake called Stylus Lake. It was a beautiful place. 50 00:04:16,519 --> 00:04:18,360 Like we'd go up there on the weekends. 51 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:23,440 My parents bought it in 94 and it was right on the water, Nice 52 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:27,160 little hill. I grew up there every weekend in 53 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:28,880 the summertime. I had lots of really good 54 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:31,040 memories, a lot of spooky memories, right? 55 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:34,760 Like when you're young, you know, ten, 11-12 years old, like 56 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:38,240 you'd play Bloody Murder. Like there was an old cemetery 57 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:40,200 down the road. We played Bloody Murder in one 58 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:42,120 night. That freaked us out, you know, 59 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:45,760 hanging out on my boat. I had a little fishing boat, 5 60 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:49,240 horse motor, and I couldn't wait to get up there on a Friday 61 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:55,080 night and jump out in my boat, put my headphones on, eat some 62 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:58,320 sunflower seeds and just listen to music and fish. 63 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:00,840 I wouldn't catch barely anything, but it was a it was a 64 00:05:00,840 --> 00:05:03,720 fun way to grow up. Remember having my first kiss on 65 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:07,280 that boat. There was a beach I remember we 66 00:05:07,280 --> 00:05:10,240 would lay down a lot and just look at the sky like it was so 67 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:12,520 dark up there that you could see everything. 68 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:16,720 It was a really fun place to grow up. 69 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:32,360 This whole story starts on the Friday after Memorial weekend. 70 00:05:32,840 --> 00:05:36,200 The campground was never busy after a big like Memorial Day 71 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:37,600 weekend. It was always pretty chill. 72 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:40,680 So I remember my parents decided to drive up early. 73 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:43,760 I mean I would I had school that Friday but I remember I had to 74 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:45,920 work at the pizza place. I worked at the local pizza 75 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:49,280 place and my brother decided to go with him, so this was 76 00:05:49,280 --> 00:05:52,640 definitely my first time driving up north all alone. 77 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:57,760 It's about an hour and a half drive from my hometown. 78 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:02,720 So after work I remember going home, grabbing my bag. 79 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:06,080 I stopped at the music store. I picked up a few new CDs. 80 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:08,600 I totally remember this. Like it was an Alien Ant Farm. 81 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:10,720 I know that sounds weird and it's totally made-up, but it was 82 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:13,480 definitely an Alien Ant Farm. I remember buying that CD. 83 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:17,080 Filled my car up, I got some food and I hit the road. 84 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:28,220 It was probably like, I don't know, 7:45 He jumped on I-75 N. 85 00:06:29,060 --> 00:06:32,580 It's about an hour drive on the highway and then you get off to 86 00:06:32,620 --> 00:06:35,540 definitely what my dad would always call the back way. 87 00:06:36,300 --> 00:06:40,580 This road mainly consists of like farm lands and woods. 88 00:06:40,660 --> 00:06:44,140 It goes right through the the Rifle River. 89 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:47,680 If anybody is familiar with Michigan, it's a it's a pretty 90 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:50,680 fun kayaking river. For most of the drive. 91 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:54,000 I definitely didn't see any other cars. 92 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:59,480 Eventually I got to the like this wide open farmland with 93 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:02,440 rolling hills. Like I vividly remember this 94 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:04,240 drive. I've done it 100 times. 95 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:07,320 I learned to drive up north, right. 96 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:10,280 That's where I learned to drive. So these roads, I've been down 97 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:14,400 100 times before. The sun was just going down and 98 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:18,080 I noticed these bright lights behind me in the distance. 99 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:25,320 They were they were different, like they had a strange hue. 100 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:28,800 They weren't your typical car lights. 101 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:33,560 This was early 2000. So the like halogen or like LED 102 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:37,440 lights were not a thing. And the lights, they were 103 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:42,360 quickly approaching me like I remember being like, wow, 104 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:45,000 there's no cars, There's nothing out. 105 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:48,520 I was like, man, that dude must be going like 120 miles an hour 106 00:07:48,520 --> 00:07:51,280 for sure. It was a really hilly area. 107 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:54,800 You know when you go up and down a hill with the car lights being 108 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:59,600 straight, they kind of move with you up and down dark and light 109 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:01,320 it. It wasn't like this. 110 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:05,000 It was like it's the straight glow, like it was going over the 111 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:09,280 hills instead of the usual like alternating up and down. 112 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:13,440 It was just just like this steady glow like of lights 113 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:16,600 behind me. I would try not to get 114 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:20,000 distracted, so I turn up the music, hoping it would push any 115 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,160 weird thoughts out of my head, but I kept glancing in my 116 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:30,360 rearview mirror. At that moment, I remember 117 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:31,640 everything sort of flattened out. 118 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:33,679 There's this long, straight, narrow path. 119 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:38,760 There was this super dim glow of the sun still shimmering to my 120 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:41,360 left. I vividly remember this. 121 00:08:41,919 --> 00:08:44,920 I looked back again and I thought the lights were gone. 122 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:49,240 I remember taking a couple of deep breaths and I looked in the 123 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:56,920 rear view mirror once more and they appeared within an instant, 124 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:02,280 like out of nowhere, closer this time, about 50 feet for sure. 125 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:07,480 There was no side roads, there was nothing around, just small 126 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:13,560 patches of woods, a few scattered houses and early 127 00:09:13,560 --> 00:09:16,640 season farmland. So nothing was quite growing 128 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:18,080 yet. So it was very flat. 129 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:23,280 I thought to myself it definitely can't be the same car 130 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:25,680 but the lights were the same color. 131 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:31,800 They were right behind me but instead of like 2 headlights it 132 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:38,760 was like 1 bright light and it was more blue than red, yet 133 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:42,280 more, I don't know, purple than blue. 134 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:46,120 It was like a color I haven't really noticed before. 135 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:51,200 I remember looking down at the radio it said 920. 136 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:55,360 As soon as I look down at that clock, I look back in my 137 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:59,680 rearview mirror. I did not see the lights at all. 138 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:06,680 They were gone. It felt like everything kind of 139 00:10:06,680 --> 00:10:18,100 stopped. It was like I was paralyzed, 140 00:10:18,620 --> 00:10:23,860 frozen, stuck in time, complete like blackness in my field of 141 00:10:23,860 --> 00:10:29,520 view. And then a flash and the light 142 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:34,080 was directly in front of me, probably 10 feet off the ground 143 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:37,920 and more of a liquid color, like a reflection. 144 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:47,840 Then I looked back down at my clock and it was 930. 145 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:54,080 I lost 10 minutes of my life in the same spot. 146 00:10:54,680 --> 00:10:58,000 It was like I was frozen in time. 147 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:05,760 It's it's burned in my mind. And I was tingly. 148 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:09,840 I was in shock. I vividly remember the radio 149 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:14,040 being silent. And then that's when I noticed 150 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:17,720 the farmhouse on the left side of the road. 151 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:23,720 I've driven down this road hundreds of times before and I 152 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:29,760 never noticed this house, all these empty fields, but there 153 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:34,600 was this, this house like what you would envision A farmhouse 154 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:39,760 to look like in any movie. It was big and white, two 155 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:45,480 stories, a big red pole barn, and I remember the small 156 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:49,480 decorative like wishing well windmill. 157 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:52,840 It's just something that's burned in my head, like I see it 158 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:57,720 so clearly. And behind or beside the 159 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:04,520 farmhouse was a dirt Rd. and the straight line of trees, rows and 160 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:09,000 rows of straight pine trees, all in an instant. 161 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:13,480 I noticed that the light that was in front of me was way down, 162 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:17,320 like in between those trees probably, you know, 5-6 hundred 163 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:22,080 feet. And as I drove by, I had this 164 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:40,680 urge to turn down the road. I wanted to turn but I felt very 165 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:44,320 like sweaty and shaky. My my palms were sweaty. 166 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:49,120 I was scared and it took a lot of courage and willpower to just 167 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:51,680 resist that urge to drive down that dirt Rd. 168 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:55,240 But I felt this pulling like I needed to do it. 169 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:59,240 But honestly all I wanted was my mom. 170 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:01,560 Like that's all I kept thinking in my head is like I just need 171 00:13:01,560 --> 00:13:03,360 to get to my mom. I need to get to my mom. 172 00:13:04,560 --> 00:13:09,120 I was super scared and like I was in disbelief of what just 173 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:13,120 happened but I still don't know if it truly happened. 174 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:18,720 From where this happened to the camper was probably 10 more 175 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:23,840 minutes and I got to the camper and my mom to tell something was 176 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:26,160 up and she's like is everything OK? 177 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:32,080 She doesn't ask me that question very often and I definitely 178 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:34,800 couldn't bring myself to tell her what I just saw because I 179 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:36,480 don't think I believed it myself. 180 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:40,720 She asked me what took so long. I told her I got out of work at 181 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:44,240 six, stopped by, grab some music, grab some food and I 182 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:46,480 probably got on the road at like 745. 183 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:49,480 She looked me like dead in the eye. 184 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:53,360 She like Tyler? It doesn't take 3 hours to get 185 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:55,200 up here. It's 10:45. 186 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:01,840 That's when the panic really started to take over me. 187 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:05,640 I lost an hour, like I lost an hour of my life. 188 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:10,920 I remember sitting down next to the campfire. 189 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:12,840 My parents were over with their friends. 190 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:14,240 My brother was off doing something. 191 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:17,320 I was just sitting there kind of alone, and I was looking up at 192 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:20,120 the sky and I was just like taking it all in. 193 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:23,320 Like, did this really happen? Did I really lose an hour? 194 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:27,240 I did. I I left at 7:45. 195 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:30,320 It's, it's 10:45. So I remember going back and 196 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:32,840 turning my car on and looking at the clock and yeah, it was, it 197 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:36,240 was like 11:00. Something's up. 198 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:41,320 Something happened. To this day, I haven't really 199 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:46,680 told my mom this story. Very few people have heard this 200 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:50,720 story, but it's definitely not the end of the story. 201 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:56,240 That was the experience. But every time I drove up north 202 00:14:56,280 --> 00:15:00,800 afterwards, for years, I'll feel this sense of dread whenever I 203 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:02,520 would pass by that old farmhouse. 204 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:07,400 I was anticipating it. It was like this pole, if that 205 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:11,280 makes any sense. And then I started to get this 206 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:17,680 strange sensation in my right leg, like a pulsing feeling. 207 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:23,920 After I would drive by, I wouldn't even go that route 208 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:27,440 anymore just because I would feel so strange going up there. 209 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:33,440 Even at home, sometimes I would feel this thing in my leg. 210 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:40,200 As I got older, that bump in the middle of my right leg started 211 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:43,080 to like move around, not like move inside, not like the 212 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:44,800 matrix, like in his belly, nothing like that. 213 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:51,360 It was more like, like I could feel this liquid hard spot that 214 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:55,840 kind of comes and goes. And I remember I was probably 215 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:59,400 like, I don't know, 2021. And I asked my doctor in the 216 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:01,600 physical, do you feel this right here? 217 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:03,840 He pushed on. It's like, yeah, it's probably 218 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:07,680 just a calcium deposit, nothing to be worried about. 219 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:12,640 I started to talk like, well, this one time and I totally 220 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:14,280 stopped. I didn't want to tell my doctor 221 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:18,240 because I didn't want him to think I was crazy or something. 222 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:24,400 I mean, honestly, like, I'm definitely a true believer. 223 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:29,920 I believe in this sort of thing because of my experience. 224 00:16:29,920 --> 00:16:32,360 I believe in the paranormal, I'm into this stuff. 225 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:35,920 But this definitely happened to me. 226 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:41,240 Is it an alien implant? Is it some sort of mind control, 227 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:45,280 some sort of tracking device? Honestly, I've been down that 228 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:49,280 rabbit hole on the Internet far too many times to freak myself 229 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:52,480 out. And it's a scary thing. 230 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:55,560 And I've heard other podcasts, I've heard other things talk 231 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:59,920 about very similar things. And I was 16. 232 00:16:59,920 --> 00:17:01,760 I wasn't really into that stuff by then. 233 00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:04,520 Like, yeah, I've watched some scary movies, few episodes of 234 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:07,960 X-Files, but nothing like, nothing like what happened to me 235 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:11,200 before. And I started to have these 236 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:13,560 dreams. I'd wake up in the middle of the 237 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:17,599 night, and I would have this strange urge to look up at the 238 00:17:17,599 --> 00:17:20,440 stars. Growing up at my parents' house, 239 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:24,760 my bedroom was in the basement, and I had a egress window. 240 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:30,240 And one night I woke up standing next to my window, looking out 241 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:33,280 at the sky. And a few months later, I woke 242 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:35,880 up outside just staring up at the sky. 243 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:40,680 Like I vividly remember just waking up like I slept walk 244 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:45,200 outside, like I have this strange pull to go out and look 245 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:48,440 up. I really don't, I don't know how 246 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:52,360 to explain it. I moved to the other side of the 247 00:17:52,360 --> 00:17:57,760 state probably 15 years ago now and you know, got married and 248 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:00,160 told my wife this story quite a few times. 249 00:18:00,360 --> 00:18:02,720 I truly believe that she believes me. 250 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:06,600 She knows me well enough to to tell if I'm not telling the 251 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:10,760 truth or whatnot. And this past summer we were 252 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:14,160 visiting my aunt. She has a place probably 20 253 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:16,200 minutes from where our camper was. 254 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:21,400 So me and my wife and my just my daughter decide to go the back 255 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:27,400 way home and a few 100 feet before this is coming from the 256 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:31,760 opposite way now, like going back home a few 100 feet before 257 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:33,520 that. That line of trees in that 258 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:36,960 farmhouse. I, I felt that same sort of 259 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:43,920 dread in my stomach, that same urge to turn down that dirt Rd. 260 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:50,680 we're driving and like my legs started throbbing and we kept 261 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:54,120 going and I didn't tell my wife I felt weird. 262 00:18:54,120 --> 00:18:55,800 And so she asked me. She was like, do you feel OK? 263 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:57,440 Is everything all right? I'm like, yeah, I'm fine. 264 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:02,240 And like I'm looking in the rear view mirror back at that 265 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:05,720 farmhouse and it's, it's 100% the same like my wife, my 266 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:08,240 daughter, they all saw it. It's, it's really there. 267 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:13,240 And at this point, like talking to you right now, like thinking 268 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:17,240 about it maybe this summer, I think I'm at that point in my 269 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:20,040 life where I want to turn down that road. 270 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:24,080 What would happen put my leg explode? 271 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:29,240 Like would I have flashes of memories come back? 272 00:19:29,360 --> 00:19:31,440 What would happen if I truly went down there? 273 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:37,360 I I think about this constantly. I'm scared of the fact that 274 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:44,400 something happened to me that I could not explain and it it 275 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:49,200 creeps me out to the point of the pit. 276 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:53,160 I get in my stomach when I go by that area again, like is there 277 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:58,560 something in that area? Is there something there? 278 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:00,880 Is there? I don't know. 279 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:04,640 Is that like a Research Center? Is there is it not alien 280 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:06,560 involved? Is it, is it, is it human? 281 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:09,040 Are they like, was it something like that? 282 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:10,920 Was there something in the air that night? 283 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:13,440 Was it swamp gas? Was it? 284 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:17,480 Did I have a bad burger at McDonald's? 285 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:19,320 Did I trip out? Like did something? 286 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:22,280 But no, I lost time. I physically lost an hour of my 287 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:25,200 life. So there's like the initial like 288 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:30,640 OK, 9:20 and then looking down a moment later, 930, OK, that's 10 289 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:35,600 minutes, right? And then from there, after that 290 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:40,640 super weird experience from there, you said the cabin was 291 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:42,600 another 10 minutes from there, right? 292 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:44,440 Yeah. It's like, yeah, it's like 10-15 293 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:45,760 minutes from there. Yeah, yeah. 294 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:51,120 So another 10 minutes from then. Once you got home, it's 10:45. 295 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:57,280 So 9:30 to 10:40. 5. Yeah, it's, it's, it's one hour 296 00:20:57,280 --> 00:20:59,640 exactly. That's what doesn't make sense. 297 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:02,760 Yeah, that. Part is like so weird because 298 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:06,560 you would. Think look down 920 first time 299 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:09,920 you look at the clock 9:20 and then the second time you look 300 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:14,160 down instead of 930 you would think it would be closer to 301 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:19,880 10:30. 5 right? Yeah, it's almost as if this 302 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:22,720 happened twice, you know what I mean? 303 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:25,640 Like the losing of time. Like there's that 10 minutes and 304 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:28,240 then there's the. Yeah, that our that our 305 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:32,160 difference. There is where I'm like, in my 306 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:35,320 mind, panicked of what was really happening within that 307 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:37,800 hour. It's a strange sort of 308 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:39,840 phenomenon. I've been living with this for 309 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:43,880 25 years, trying to piece it all together and it's still in my 310 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:45,560 head. Doesn't make sense. 311 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:49,560 The timing of it all. Something happened that I cannot 312 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:53,520 explain. I don't have senses of like me 313 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:56,320 on an operating table with bright lights and Gray being. 314 00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:58,800 I don't have anything like that. It's a feeling. 315 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:03,520 It's this feeling I get. It's this tingle in my leg. 316 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:09,960 It's this. It's this memory of the unknown 317 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:18,440 that truly freaks me out. But it humbled me in a way of 318 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:21,880 like, why me, If that makes any sense? 319 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:24,080 Like, it does. It freaks me out. 320 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:25,920 And talking to my wife yesterday about it, she's like, are you 321 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:29,520 scared to talk about it? Like, like, to have those 322 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:33,000 feelings? And yeah, I am scared to talk 323 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:36,160 about it. But I'm also at that point in my 324 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:39,520 life where I think I want to find out. 325 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,040 I want to turn down that road and see if anything I want to 326 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:46,200 look in those woods. That light went to those woods 327 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:51,680 and as I drove by, illuminated the woods and I kept going and I 328 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:54,720 didn't look back again. Why didn't I look back again? 329 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:56,760 Was I scared? Yes. 330 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:00,760 I didn't know what was going on. I lost at that moment. 331 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:05,880 I lost 10 minutes of my life, got up there to my mom and all I 332 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:09,160 wanted was my mom's comfort and she was basically like, what 333 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:11,440 took you so long? It doesn't take 3 hours to get 334 00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:13,040 up here. It's 10:45. 335 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:19,400 And then I'm just like what? I sit down next to the fire and 336 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:24,960 just, I'm in just a complete shock. 337 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:30,440 So you you want to visit there potentially this summer? 338 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,720 I do. I keep thinking, like, man, 339 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:36,960 maybe there's a part. 2 here. You know, maybe there is a Part 340 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:46,480 2. Stories involving unexplained 341 00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:51,160 lights and missing time have been reported for decades. 342 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:57,040 In many UFO encounter cases, witnesses describe seeing 343 00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:01,400 unusual lights before experiencing confusion, memory 344 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:07,360 gaps, distorted time, unsettling memories of being taken, and in 345 00:24:07,360 --> 00:24:12,680 some cases, the discovery of technological implants of 346 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:16,800 unknown origin. One of the earliest widely 347 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:23,120 discussed cases happened in 1961, when Betty and Barney Hill 348 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:28,040 claimed that they lost nearly two hours of time while driving 349 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:32,680 through New Hampshire after witnessing a strange object in 350 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:37,800 the sky. Since then, similar reports have 351 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:42,320 surfaced all over the world. And interestingly enough, 352 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:47,120 Michigan has its own long history of unexplained 353 00:24:47,120 --> 00:24:52,360 sightings. In 1966, hundreds of people 354 00:24:52,360 --> 00:24:55,800 across southern Michigan reported strange, glowing 355 00:24:55,800 --> 00:25:02,000 objects hovering over wooded and swampy areas near Dexter and 356 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,480 Hillsdale. If you want to learn more about 357 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:11,200 this event, check out our very first episode titled Grandma's 358 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:15,960 UFO Encounter. What makes stories like Tyler's 359 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:21,640 especially unsettling isn't just the strange light, it's the 360 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:27,080 missing time and what happened during that moment, knowing that 361 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:32,120 something happened but remaining unable to fully explain it. 362 00:25:33,120 --> 00:25:38,240 Perhaps the answers are at the end of that dirt road, and if 363 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:43,440 Tyler ever decides to go back, he may discover what happened 364 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:55,160 inside the missing hour. Thanks again for listening to 365 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,360 Unnerved. If you enjoyed this episode, 366 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:01,320 please share it with your friends and leave a review 367 00:26:01,360 --> 00:26:05,120 wherever you get your podcast. 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