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He was drawing us away from 
civilization. 

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He got more and more and more 
insistent. 

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That's when he grabbed my 
younger friend. 

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It happened so quickly that guy 
just disappeared. 

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From HV Studio, this is 
unnerved. 

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Welcome back to the Unnerved 
Podcast. 

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It's where normal people share 
their abnormal stories, and if 

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you enjoy true stories of the 
strange and terrifying, then 

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you're in the right place. 
I'm your host, Chris Fricke. 

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Today's episode is a little 
different than usual. 

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The story you're about to hear 
is from an upcoming podcast 

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called The Basement Tapes. 
Last year, I connected with a 

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creator named Nick Usher, who 
was in the process of producing 

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a similar podcast. 
He shared some recordings with 

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me and I really enjoyed 
listening to them. 

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Nick and the storyteller you're 
about to hear were both kind 

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enough to let me share a story 
with you today. 

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Give you a little taste of his 
upcoming podcast. 

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In today's story, Samantha 
recalls A terrifying encounter 

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she had with her friends in 
Mauston, WI in September of 

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1994. 
What seemed to be a perfect day 

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in a small town would soon turn 
into a desperate attempt to 

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escape a stranger's grasp. 
This. 

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It's her story. 
So I grew up in a very small 

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town. 
The population was about 3000. 

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Everyone knew everyone. 
Everyone was, you know, very 

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close knit, a small high school.
My graduating class was about 

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100 people. 
My parents worked in like a 

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factory and around town. 
My my mom owned a gas station on

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the outside of town. 
It was very quintessential 

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growing up. 
The same person that you went to

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kindergarten with, you graduated
next to them. 

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So if your name started with an 
M, you graduated right next to 

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your best friend because their 
name started with an N So me and

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my best friend were 14. 
Her parents were out of town. 

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She was staying with me and I 
lived kind of on the outside of 

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town, right at the very edge of 
where residential houses kind of

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stopped. 
And past that was just a very 

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rural area. 
There was a river. 

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So we walked about two miles to 
get to the midsection of town. 

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And then we met up with a friend
of ours who was 13. 

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So she was a little bit younger 
than us. 

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And that's what we did. 
When we, you know, in a small 

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town like that, we just, you 
walked around. 

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There was nothing to do in our 
town. 

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There weren't any bowling 
alleys. 

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There wasn't like a movie 
theater. 

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There was nothing really to do 
except you ride your bike or you

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walk around. 
So we were walking to 

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McDonald's, which was very far 
away from the residential part 

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of town. 
It was out near the Interstate 

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where, you know, lots of 
transients get off and they, you

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know, get gas up and they get 
fast food and then they get back

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on the Interstate and they get 
out of town. 

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But that's where we were going 
was to McDonald's. 

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Our plan was we were going to 
walk from my house to 

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McDonald's. 
We were going to get, you know, 

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lunch or whatever, and then we 
might have walked to a store and

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buy some CDs. 
It was kind of a warm day. 

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We were walking and we got to 
this part of town where there's 

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a large river that goes through 
the town and there's a a bridge 

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that goes over the river and you
have to, you know, drive over 

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it, walk over it. 
And while we were walking over, 

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there was a man. 
It was not a man that we knew 

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who's older. 
He had a baseball cap on. 

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He was just wearing like an 
oversized T-shirt and and some 

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athletic shorts and white tennis
shoes. 

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And he he seemed like he had a 
lot of things that he was 

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carrying. 
He didn't stand out in any other

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way except for having all of the
bags. 

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He had a lot of shopping bags, 
and for a small town we didn't 

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have a lot of shopping places. 
So it seemed out of sorts that 

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he had all of these things. 
And I remember he had like a 

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foot Locker bag, and we 
definitely didn't have a foot 

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Locker in the small town that I 
grew up in. 

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He was asking for directions and
he looked lost. 

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He looked out of place for one 
and he was standing on the side 

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of the bridge. 
And so that was initially, you 

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know, you just try to be 
helpful. 

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This guy didn't know where he 
needed to be and he was asking 

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for directions. 
But I do remember him asking 

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many, many questions. 
It was question after question 

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and and not congruent, like they
didn't go together. 

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It was just a ploy to keep us 
engaged, you know, He kept 

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asking questions and stepping 
away from us and stepping 

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further down the hill using a 
quieter voice. 

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So we had to, you know, get 
closer to him to hear him. 

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It was all very calculated in 
the moment. 

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We didn't know that it was 
calculated, but it was. 

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In hindsight, you can tell what 
he was doing. 

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He was drawing us away from the 
Main Street. 

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He was drawing us further and 
further away from civilization. 

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So eventually we had shifted 
from being on the sidewalk to 

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being, well, off the sidewalk. 
And we were out of view of the, 

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you know, passing traffic. 
Eventually he was like, oh, I'm 

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a photographer. 
I need to, I need to take your 

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picture. 
You guys are so beautiful. 

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Would you like to take your 
picture? 

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And that was a little off 
putting at that point. 

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We're kind of like, Oh no, I 
don't think this is OK. 

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I think we need to move away. 
He got more and more and more 

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insistent. 
I don't remember which one of 

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us, but we were like, no, we 
have to go. 

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Either me or my other friend 
tried to leave, and that's when 

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he's like, oh, if you're not 
comfortable with me taking the 

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picture, my girlfriend is back 
at this motel. 

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She'll take the pictures for 
you. 

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We were still teenagers. 
We were still not making good 

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decisions. 
We were like, oh, maybe, you 

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know, maybe if your girlfriend 
takes the pictures, it'll be OK.

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And I just wanted to get back up
to the road. 

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I just didn't want to be in this
secluded spot where no one could

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see us. 
And it felt wrong. 

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It felt bad. 
You know, I was like, oh, we 

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have to go. 
We have to go. 

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And as me and my older friend 
were leaving, we were trying to 

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get up back to the road. 
That's when he grabbed my 

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younger friend. 
And I just remember hearing a 

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commotion, turning around and 
seeing her face. 

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I I can't get her face out of my
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He had grabbed her by her 
forearm. 

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He was yanking, yanking her, and
she was sliding down the hill, 

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but she just started sliding 
with him like he was pulling 

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her. 
And she went probably 5-10 feet.

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Maybe she went with him. 
It happened so quickly and it 

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was such a bold move. 
The fact that he had physically 

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grabbed her and she was, she was
gone. 

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It was like instinct, you know, 
you just run and you grab her. 

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And we pulled her back. 
He didn't give up right away. 

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It was a little bit of a tug of 
war, but she, she's a a tough 

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kid, you know, she was fighting 
too. 

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And he had all those bags. 
And that's another thing I 

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remember is like the rustling of
the bags. 

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He had them on his arms and he's
trying to hold on to her, but it

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was a lot of shaking. 
She got released quickly enough 

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that we were able to run up to 
the road. 

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And that's when my boyfriend was
driving over the bridge and he 

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saw us running up the hill and 
he said you guys look terrified.

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We had successfully gotten her 
away from the guy and the guy 

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just kind of scuttled off. 
He just like walked off. 

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He didn't run, he didn't 
anything. 

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He just kind of like took his 
bags and, you know, scuttled 

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away and we got in the car with 
my boyfriend. 

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That guy just disappeared. 
He just walked away. 

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He didn't come back up the same 
way that we went. 

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He walked another way. 
He just disappeared. 

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We were like, we were trying to 
get to McDonald's, blah, blah, 

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blah. 
So he took us, he dropped us off

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at McDonald's. 
And when we walked into 

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McDonald's, we were still very 
heightened. 

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We were very like, Can you 
believe that just happened, 

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blah, blah, blah. 
And that's when we ran into our 

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teacher, our 8th grade teacher, 
and he's like, what happened? 

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We told him the story and he's 
like, OK, yeah, that's not 

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great, That's bad, that that's 
not supposed to happen. 

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You guys are very lucky that 
nothing bad happened to you. 

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Let's go report this. 
So like I said, it was a very 

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small town and the cops didn't 
have much crime to to solve. 

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They didn't have much to do. 
We were very familiar with all 

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of the police there. 
But when we walked in our our 

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teacher walked us in and he was 
like, hey, something happened to

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these girls and they need to 
tell you what happened. 

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I do remember that we were all 
separated. 

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They separated the three of us 
and we each went into a room 

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with an interviewer. 
And when I had talked to my mom 

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about this, she was absolutely 
upset at the fact that when we 

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showed up at the cop shop, they 
separated us and they 

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interviewed us separately. 
And we were minors. 

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We were 14 and 13. 
We were looking through line 

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UPS. 
We were looking through like 

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perpetrator books with, you 
know, mug shots and stuff like 

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that. 
And they never once called our 

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parents. 
We were there for a long time. 

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I do remember it being very 
tired and sitting in the room 

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alone by myself for a long time 
and just like not believing that

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this whole thing was happening 
and that we were at the police 

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station and that, you know, we 
were having to do this thing. 

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It was, it was surreal. 
I had researched to see if there

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were any abductions in the area 
or any, you know, assaults and 

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nothing had happened prior to 
that and nothing had happened 

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after that for maybe 10-15 
years. 

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So it was just a really random 
encounter with a really random 

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guy that just there was 
something up with him and he he 

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I I feel he was really desperate
to be that bold. 

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So I have a a couple of kids of 
my own and I have been very 

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careful about how they go about 
the world, you know, and it has 

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kind of colored my the way that 
I allow them to be. 

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I want them to go out and 
experience the world. 

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But also, you know, you don't 
have to be polite to people and 

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adults should never ask children
for help. 

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They don't need children's help.
If a guy is lost, he doesn't 

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have to ask teenagers to help 
him. 

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You know, there are other ways 
about the world that that should

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have been. 
Our first inclination that 

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something was wrong is that he 
was asking for help from us. 

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And we just have been taught to 
be so polite and help. 

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My kids are super sheltered. 
They are not Streetwise. 

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You know, we grew up in the 80s 
and 90s where parents were kind 

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of like just go out and do 
whatever. 

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Now we're more kind of 
helicopter parents where you 

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don't go out and do whatever, 
You know what I mean? 

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They are very sheltered and I 
worry about them more than my 

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parents ever worried about me. 
Even though it felt bad, I still

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didn't say no until it got 
really, really bad. 

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I still didn't be rude to the 
guy. 

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Even when it felt like this is 
wrong, I knew it was wrong. 

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It felt wrong and we were still 
entertaining his questions and 

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his, you know, we just got taken
in very easily. 

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Even though we knew better. 
I wish I knew what happened to 

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him. 
I wish I knew. 

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So I know that even though we 
went and we reported him, we did

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the right thing. 
I wish I knew what happened to 

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him and made sure that he didn't
do something bad to someone 

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else. 
Samantha and her friends were 

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not taken that day, but not far 
away. 

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That wasn't the case for another
innocent girl. 

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That very same month, on 
September 5th, 1994, only one 

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hour and 30 minutes away from 
Samantha's encounter, a young 

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girl named Cora Jones was last 
seen riding her bike in Dayton, 

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WI. 
On Labor Day weekend in 1994, 

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the Jones family changed 
forever. 

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Cora was at her grandma's house.
And she kept calling and 

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calling, and I just said, Cora, 
you know, I got to run to work 

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and then I'm going to come and 
get you and your brother. 

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Cora hopped on her bike and 
headed down the street. 

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Her mom says she and her cousins
used to always ride there. 

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When Cora hadn't returned after 
a few hours, her grandma called 

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her mom. 
Her parents say when they found 

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out Cora hadn't returned home 
from her bike ride yet, they 

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were worried her biggest fear 
could have come true and the 

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days and days of searching 
began. 

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Cora had fear being kidnapped 
and she always talked about it. 

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I I don't know. 
I just instantly knew something 

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was wrong. 
I thought just go down to the 

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next bridge and wait for her 
because she's floating down the 

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river on an inner 2. 
Then that guy got a lot more 

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worrisome when I found out her 
bike wasn't right by the bridge.

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Hundreds came out to help the 
Jones search for Kora. 

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Didn't sleep much after 
darkness. 

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Me and some of my friends would 
go out with spotlights. 

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Drive. 
Slow down the country. 

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Roads. 
Six days later, the family got 

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their answer 75 miles north when
two men were driving by and felt

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like something wasn't right. 
Really deep ditch. 

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And since September, it's all 
covered with leaves and 

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unbelievable she was ever found.
Authorities investigated for 

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three months before David 
Spanbauer was charged with 

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Cora's murder. 
Spanbauer, a serial rapist and 

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multiple killer. 
The Jones family went to court 

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with two other northeast 
Wisconsin families whose 

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daughters were killed by 
Spanbauer Spanberrow. 

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Was sentenced to three life 
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He died in prison in 2002. 
When I showed a photo of David 

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to Samantha, she said he did 
look similar to the man they 

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came across, but that was so 
long ago it's hard to know for 

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sure. 
If it was him. 

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Could David Spann Bauer be 
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Was this a kidnapping attempt by
David? 

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Or perhaps it was just a random 
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Once again, I would like to 
thank Nick Usher for producing 

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this story and allowing me to 
use it. 

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When Nick releases The Basement 
Tapes podcast, I'll be sure to 

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link it in the show notes of 
this episode and also inform you

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in the future of its release. 
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