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Hey guys, it's Chris, and it has
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There's a lot to catch up on, 
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Let's get into the story. 

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And all of a sudden we hear 
music and it sounded like there 

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were people dancing on the dance
floor about us. 

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This is really freaky, man. 
Like what is going on? 

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Did we go back in time somehow 
from HV studio? 

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This is unnerved. 
Welcome back to the Unnerved 

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podcast. 
It's where normal people share 

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their abnormal stories. 
And if you enjoy true stories of

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the strange and terrifying, then
you're in the right place. 

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I'm your host, Chris Rickey. 
What if the most unexplainable 

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moment of your life didn't 
happen when you were searching 

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for it, but when you were just 
trying to survive? 

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What if something you were never
meant to witness revealed itself

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simply because you wandered into
a moment that wasn't intended 

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for you? 
In today's story, Gary recalls a

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time as a reckless teenager 
sneaking out in the dead of 

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winter with his friend. 
Their outing quickly turned into

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a genuine fight for survival. 
Cold, wet, and alone, with no 

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one to call for help, they 
overheard something that wasn't 

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meant for the living. 
This is his story. 

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Gary D Here in southern Ontario,
back when I was, I don't know, 

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about 15 or 16 years old, being 
young and stupid and bored. 

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A good friend of mine, John, two
of us were always trying to find

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something to do because we were 
both night owls. 

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We'd stay up late at night, we'd
sneak out of the house here, 

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parents wouldn't know we were 
out and we'd meet up and close 

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to where we lived there was a a 
large wooded area, a large park,

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baseball diamonds and a lot of 
hiking trails and cliffs going 

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down to a lake. 
So anyways, on one of these 

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bored occasions, we decided we'd
go for a walk at about midnight,

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nobody around and it was the 
dead of winter. 

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I think it was sometime in end 
of January or so. 

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So it was freezing cold out, 
snow flurries and we were 

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walking through the woods and we
came upon this small, it was 

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actually like a either a small 
lake or a very large pond. 

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I figured it's probably about 15
feet in the middle, 15 feet 

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deep. 
We knew this place had a lot of 

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snapping turtles and frogs and 
that type of thing. 

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I'm not sure if there are any 
fish in there. 

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But anyways, being the dead of 
winter, the the the surface had 

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frozen over and while we were 
just walking around, one of us 

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jumped out on the ice, said hey,
this seems to be safe. 

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Stupid people do stupid things. 
Like I say, when you're young, 

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you do stupid things. 
Next thing you know, the two of 

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us are standing in the middle of
this small lake, just standing 

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there talking, and all of a 
sudden the ice gets away into a 

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crashing in the water and it 
just hits you. 

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Your body turns to lead, you 
lose your breath, and we're 

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treading water trying to get 
out. 

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And we figure that's probably 
the end of us. 

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Luckily there was a fallen tree 
close by. 

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I was able to reach a branch, 
pull myself out, John grabbed my

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leg and somehow he crawled over 
top of me to get up onto the 

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branch. 
We got out of the water OK. 

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The first problem was solved. 
Second problem was that it was 

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like well below 0. 
Freezing cold, windy, and we're 

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soaking wet. 
We're drenched. 

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We don't have the luxury of 
having a sauna close by or hot 

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towels and mid, you know, it's 
midnight and for us to get home,

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we've got about a 15 minute jog 
and there's no way we're going 

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to make it. 
So we're thought, what can we 

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do? 
We're we're shaking like crazy. 

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The water is freezing now and 
our hair, we touch our hair. 

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It's like frozen solid. 
Her clothes are getting very 

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hard. 
So we start running and we're 

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shaking and, and we thought 
there is a place that we could 

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reach probably within about 5 or
6 or 7 minutes if we run. 

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There was no there were no 
houses around us, so there was 

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no residential area. 
There was no gas station or any 

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stores. 
The only thing that was close to

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us was an old abandoned dance 
hall from back to the 1920s or 

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so. 
I know they used to have formal 

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dances there has quite a 
history, but it'd been shut down

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long ago. 
It was all boarded up, but you 

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could still get up out of the 
dance floor area. 

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We knew by having walked by 
there before that down there was

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kind of a knee level. 
There were windows that were 

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boarded up going into a basement
below the dance floor, probably 

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where they kept inventory. 
And we thought if we get there 

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and we can kick the boards in 
because they were just nailed 

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in, we can kick the boards and 
get into the basement and 

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probably find something down 
there to throw over us to warm 

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up. 
Anyway, we ran like crazy. 

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We, we like I say, we're a 
couple of popsicles running 

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through the woods at midnight. 
You know, this was before there 

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weren't any, any cell phones to 
call for help. 

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So we get to this place, to the 
dance hall there and we, it's 

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called the pavilion. 
So we kicked and kicked and 

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kicked. 
We managed to finally kick those

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wooden boards in. 
We get inside, we lower 

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ourselves down. 
Like I say, it's in the basement

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and luckily I always kept a 
lighter and a little plastic bag

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in my pocket. 
So when we felt, when I found 

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the water, it did not get 
waterlogged and soaked. 

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So I was able to light a 
lighter, reach around and I 

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found some old newspaper, rolled
it up, basically made a torch 

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out of it, made a couple of 
torches. 

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John and I just walked around, 
looked around. 

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It was really cool down there. 
It was like old brick walls, 

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very musty down there, a bunch 
of old barrels and really 

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rundown. 
Looked like nobody had been in 

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there for a long time. 
So we look around and we managed

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to find some potato sacks, like 
burlap sacks. 

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So we kind of threw a bunch over
our backs, wrapped around our 

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arms and kind of, you know, sat 
down on top of a barrel and kind

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of just shook back and forth 
trying to warm up. 

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And once we got a little bit 
warmer, we kind of investigated,

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walked around the basement, 
thought it looked pretty cool. 

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And you have to figure being by 
now it's probably, you know, 

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12:30 at night, and we hear 
nothing but the howling wind 

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from that window. 
We broke in and you can hear the

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wind howling, dead silent, just 
our voices and us breathing 

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heavily. 
And then the weirdest, craziest 

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thing happened. 
We're sitting there and all of a

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sudden from above we hear music,
people laughing and talking. 

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You can almost hear the clinking
of glasses. 

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And it sounded like there were 
people dancing on the dance 

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floor about us, like dozens and 
dozens of people, like loud 

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crowd. 
It almost sounded like it was 

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New Year's Eve somewhere. 
And there was like big band 

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music playing. 
You could hear the horn section 

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and just a big boisterous crowd.
It's not like just one of us 

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heard it and we're having a 
mental break or something. 

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We were both listeners. 
Do you hear that? 

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Yeah, I hear that. 
And then we hear somebody with a

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microphone talking, talking to 
the crowd, and they're all 

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clapping and cheering. 
And then another song starts and

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then the dancing starts again. 
So this is going for a few 

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minutes. 
And then suddenly just stops. 

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Dead silence again. 
And all you hear is the wind 

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blowing us breathing, and we can
look at each other and say, did 

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that really happen just now? 
So we went around just kind of 

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look in the basement some more. 
And then another weird thing 

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that we found down there, we 
found a huge pile long what we 

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believed to be was human hair. 
Long curly hair, brown hair. 

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Why the would there be a woman's
hair or several women's hair and

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laying at a big pile there, a 
huge pile of it that could have 

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easily filled a couple of 
pillows just laying there 

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between the barrels, no blood or
scalp or anything like that. 

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So while we're there talking 
about trying to figure out what 

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happened here, suddenly that 
music and dancing starts again 

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up above us. 
So we're kind of looking at each

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other, eyebrows raised, going, 
holy crap, what's going on up 

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there? 
There's no way there can 

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actually be people up there 
dancing and talking and 

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drinking. 
It's like close to 1:00 in the 

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morning and it's pitch dark, so 
there's nobody out there. 

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So we hear it again, same thing.
The music, trumpets, the 

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laughing, the clicking of 
glasses, and then somebody's 

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yelling. 
And so we said, OK, let's, you 

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know, do we climb out the 
window, try to go up there and 

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see what's going on? 
But then we saw an old wooden 

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staircase going up from the 
basement, going up towards the 

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floor of the dance floor. 
But we went up it and we banged 

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on it, hoping somebody would 
open it. 

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Nothing. 
And we noticed there was a big 

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chain and padlock on it, So 
there was somebody walking. 

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We could hear the creaking of 
the floor, the floorboards. 

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We heard heavy shoes. 
We heard the dancing. 

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And we started yelling and 
yelling. 

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Nothing, nothing. 
And again, just, you know, 

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suddenly it just stops. 
And again, we looked at each 

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other and said, this is really 
freaky, man. 

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Like, what is going on? 
And then we kind of warmed up 

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enough so that we could, you 
know, get home and hope that our

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parents didn't get up to check 
in our beds to see if we were 

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there or not and call the 
police. 

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But we crawled back out. 
We went up, looked at the dance 

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floor, which was right above us.
We went up the little stairs or 

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on the outside. 
It was just pitch dark. 

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It was just deserted. 
It was dirty. 

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There was nothing there. 
There were no people. 

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There was no band. 
There was no, no, there wasn't 

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anything. 
It was just like a deserted 

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dance floor with the wind 
howling through. 

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It was some snow laying on the 
on the floor. 

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So we just got to look at each 
other. 

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We book it back home, and 
luckily our parents didn't find 

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out that we were, that we'd got 
over there and what had 

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happened. 
They never found out that we 

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fell through the ice first of 
all, and almost died. 

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And then we never told them 
about what happened with us 

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breaking into that building, 
which could have gotten us into 

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trouble. 
But what we did do is I can't 

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remember if it was the next day 
or a few days later. 

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We went in the middle of the 
day. 

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We went back to that pavilion to
check it out and we noticed that

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probably the park authorities or
somebody had come along, put up 

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new boards and screwed them in 
this time. 

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So extra layers of wood, lots of
screws so there would be no way 

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anybody could break in. 
And again, we looked up at the 

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dance floor and had a heavy 
layer of not dust, but it's like

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a filth. 
It hadn't been walked on or 

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danced on in a long time. 
So again, we we discussed it 

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many times over the years. 
Just saying, remember that 

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freaky thing that happened? 
We knew, you know, we joked 

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around saying, what could it 
have been? 

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Why did we hear that? 
Was it kind of a, you know, did 

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we go back in time somehow? 
We go into some invisible time 

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machine And we thought, well, 
maybe when we fell through the 

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ice and both of us were just, 
you know, close to death, Maybe 

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we were in the early stages of 
hypothermia or something and our

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brains were going to mush and 
we're losing it. 

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But how would the two of us, two
of us both have the exact same 

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thing happen to us at the same 
time and hear the same thing? 

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But that's my story. 
But it was scary at the time, 

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but really cool to think about 
now. 

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What makes Scary's story so 
unsettling isn't just what he 

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heard, it's when he heard it. 
After a near death experience, 

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after cold shock, after 
exhaustion, and after fear. 

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In medicine, there's something 
called cold water immersion 

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shock, a physiological response 
that can disorient the brain, 

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distort perception, and even 
cause hallucinations. 

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There's also hypothermia, which 
can create confusion, auditory 

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distortion, and time 
disorientation. 

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So yes, it's possible that what 
Gary and John experienced was 

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neurological. 
But there's a problem with that 

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explanation. 
They heard the same thing at the

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same time, in the same way. 
The same music, the same voices,

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the same sudden, impossible 
silence. 

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Shared hallucinations are 
exceptionally rare, and the 

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physical environment doesn't 
support the idea of actual 

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people being present. 
The dance floor was locked, 

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chained and padlocked, and they 
went back later. 

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It was empty, undisturbed. 
No footprints, no instruments, 

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no signs of recent use. 
Just silence. 

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Some researchers believe that 
certain places, especially those

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tied to intense emotional events
and hold on to fragments of 

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experience, Not ghost in the 
traditional sense, not conscious

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entities, but echoes, moments 
replaying themselves like an 

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imprint in the environment. 
In this case, a dance hall 

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filled with music, laughter and 
movement repeated long after the

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people are gone. 
If that's true, Gary and his 

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friend didn't encounter 
something that was aware of 

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them. 
They simply stumbled into a 

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moment that wasn't meant for 
them, a moment that may have 

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been replaying itself for 
decades, unseen and unnoticed 

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until 2 freezing teenagers 
drifted into a place that was 

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never meant for the living. 
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