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Episode 111

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Episode 111

The podcast explores three deeply unsettling real-life experiences tied to paranormal and existential themes. The first is a near-fatal car crash where the narrator experiences a surreal, purple-hued tunnel vision and a reversal of consciousness, leading to questions about reality shifts or psychological trauma. The second involves a young boy in Miami who is confronted by a figure resembling his mother, which shifts into a threatening imitation, prompting revelations from his mother about a similar incident in the past involving a Santería neighbor. The third is a camping story in Washington where a chilling, non-human voice is heard in the wilderness, growing more menacing until the narrator and friend take defensive action. These stories collectively explore disorientation, reality distortion, and possible generational patterns of fear. The podcast, hosted through Radio Rental, blends these real-life tales with a horror-themed narrative, promoting its content and merchandise. It encourages listeners to subscribe to Tenderfoot Plus for early access and bonus content, while warning that some stories may be triggering. The overarching theme is a deep unease about the nature of reality, consciousness, and unseen forces that shape human experience.

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frightening so mind-bending you won't be able to sleep at night you've gone radio rental oh hey come on in welcome to radio rental video rental store with a collection of scariest stories you've ever heard all told irl by normies that's real people man these stories are legit next level legit you just came in the nick of time today's the last day radio rental will be open for a while yeah we're closing till fall and guess what i'm on closing duty here by myself cleaning and packing things up starting to think i'm the only one who works here oh yeah sorry malachi my bad he's helping too mostly he's just playing with packing peanuts it's actually pretty cute though oh look at all these legos i found over the last couple months whole popcorn box full mysterious anyway let's pop in our first scary tape while i finish up taping the using the tape to tape up the here's the tape into the vcr we go i'm a real estate photographer and so like i kind of travel all over michigan i had just finished up at my last photo shoot for the day when i was heading home it was around 3 or 3 30 on this route this is the last gas station between my house and the shoot that i was leaving and it's exactly 33 miles from my house so it's a long stretch before you get to another gas station i've driven by this place half a dozen times as i'm going to different areas out west of my house on this occasion i was going about 60 on this road and as i'm coming up to the gas station on the left hand side i have a semi truck that is coming down the oncoming lane and on the left hand side i'm driving by this place half a dozen times as i'm going to different areas out west of my house on this occasion i was going about 60 on this road and as i'm coming up to the gas station on the left hand side i have a semi truck that is coming down the oncoming lane where that gas station's at there's another semi truck that's ready to pull out as i'm passing this semi truck i don't know if the truck didn't see that i was there but the semi truck that was waiting to pull out from the gas station pulled out behind the other truck that i was passing and the front end of it came into my lane it happened so fast that i wasn't able to react and i ended up basically blindsiding the side of that truck the impact was so forceful my front headlight ended up caving into the dashboard and pushed the steering wheel into my chest near the driver's side door ended up buckling in and the window on the side and the windshield shattered i hit that truck with so much force that i ended up lifting the back end of my car and spinning it around to the front of that truck and the passenger side of my car hit the front of that truck before i spun out and went into the ditch across the street my phone went flying onto the floorboard and when the car came to a stop i couldn't breathe i was gasping i remember when i was struggling to reach for that phone i couldn't bend i couldn't stretch i had blood starting to come down to my face and it was getting harder to see and i was just thinking that i just i needed to call somebody i needed to call and just tell somebody that i probably not going to be making it back home i turned to look out the window and i saw somebody that started to get out of their truck this wasn't the truck that had hit me it was a pickup truck that had stopped and the man was coming out of the truck and that's when it started to get hazy i knew that i was about to lose consciousness everything started getting dark i've been knocked out before and this wasn't entirely like that this was this was weird i've been knocked out before and this wasn't entirely like that this was this was weird it was this gray purple dark hue thing that caused like this really weird tunnel vision and everything started getting like really echoey and i could feel my heart beating in my throat when i was fading out that i i felt like i wasn't going to be able to say goodbye to my kids and that they were going to get a call later and that i would find me on the side of the road it was one of the scariest moments of my life it was one of the scariest moments of my life very quickly after that everything just went lights out a few minutes later i was pulling into my driveway that same purple dark hue that had faded out that same purple dark hue that had faded out that same purple dark hue that had faded out kind of went in reverse and it faded in and kind of went in reverse and it faded in and kind of went in reverse and it faded in and everything kind of came into view everything kind of came into view everything kind of came into view i was in motion i was in motion i was in motion i was in motion i was in motion i was in motion i was in motion as i was pulling into the driveway as i was pulling into the driveway as i was pulling into the driveway i was literally pulling down the driveway i was literally pulling down the driveway i was literally pulling down the driveway as everything was fading in as everything was fading in as everything was fading in it was just one of the biggest what the it was just one of the biggest what the it was just one of the biggest what the of my life i could feel the impact i could i could i could feel the impact i could i could i could feel the impact i could i could smell the smell of the gas and the grass smell the smell of the gas and the grass smell the smell of the gas and the grass and the dirt and and the dirt and and the dirt and it smelled like a bag of coins i don't it smelled like a bag of coins i don't it smelled like a bag of coins i don't know how to explain that it smelled it know how to explain that it smelled it know how to explain that it smelled it just smelled like metal just smelled like metal just smelled like metal and i i was just smelling that and and i i was just smelling that and and i i was just smelling that and thinking this was it thinking this was it thinking this was it like here i am so did that just happen like here i am so did that just happen like here i am so did that just happen am i going crazy am i going crazy am i going crazy i literally just left work i literally just left work i literally just left work and died and now and died and now and died and now i'm home and i can see out my window i'm home and i can see out my window i'm home and i can see out my window that is no longer shattered i don't know if i've ever been that i don't know if i've ever been that i don't know if i've ever been that confused confused confused because it's literally like i was in because it's literally like i was in because it's literally like i was in two different places when i was pulling in my partner at the when i was pulling in my partner at the when i was pulling in my partner at the time she was time she was time she was standing on the front porch and she was standing on the front porch and she was standing on the front porch and she was talking on the phone like talking on the phone like talking on the phone like she usually is i pulled in and i put she usually is i pulled in and i put she usually is i pulled in and i put the car in park and i didn't the car in park and i didn't the car in park and i didn't understand what happened i slowly get on my car and i'm just i slowly get on my car and i'm just i slowly get on my car and i'm just standing there and it was it was a standing there and it was it was a standing there and it was it was a good five minutes i was standing there and good five minutes i was standing there and good five minutes i was standing there and she was still on the phone and then she comes down and she says are and then she comes down and she says are and then she comes down and she says are you okay you okay you okay and i i couldn't really say anything and i i couldn't really say anything and i i couldn't really say anything because it really didn't make sense because it really didn't make sense i eventually was able to tell her like i i eventually was able to tell her like i i eventually was able to tell her like i i don't know i don't know i don't know i was shaking and i was i was shaking and i was i was shaking and i was i was starting to break out in like a i was starting to break out in like a i was starting to break out in like a cold sweat cold sweat cold sweat in my head while i'm trying to process in my head while i'm trying to process in my head while i'm trying to process this stuff myself and i know my kids are this stuff myself and i know my kids are this stuff myself and i know my kids are home home home i don't want anybody to panic any more i don't want anybody to panic any more i don't want anybody to panic any more than i'm already panicking than i'm already panicking than i'm already panicking and so i just had to kind of swallow it and so i just had to kind of swallow it and so i just had to kind of swallow it and just be like and just be like and just be like okay i've dealt with crazy stuff before okay i've dealt with crazy stuff before okay i've dealt with crazy stuff before nothing like this nothing like this nothing like this compartmentalize it store it for later compartmentalize it store it for later compartmentalize it store it for later i i have things that have to be done i i have things that have to be done i i have things that have to be done i know i have to get my uploads done i know i have to get my uploads done i know i have to get my uploads done i know this is real i know this i know this i know this this is what i can control this is what i can control this is what i can control so that's what i put my focus on so that's what i put my focus on so that's what i put my focus on that was like the way of me like holding that was like the way of me like holding that was like the way of me like holding on without completely on without completely on without completely losing my over whatever losing my over whatever losing my over whatever whatever that was whatever that was whatever that was i didn't have a way to not only prove anything I didn't have a way to explain it I was just in one spot gasping and knowing that I wasn't gonna be able to make it home but I'm home once I'd finished my uploads I went upstairs and I was telling her like I need to talk about this because I really don't know what I don't understand what happened I feel like I'm having like a mental break or I had some weird psychosis moment I explained to her the whole story about everything that happened and all she had to say was well that that's kind of weird that was it and then I ended up telling my mom the next day about this kind of same thing and there wasn't a lot of support with that either and she kind of told me that I needed like go see a therapist or talk to somebody but I didn't want to talk to somebody and I didn't want to talk to somebody but I didn't want to talk to somebody because it seemed really crazy I kind of just swallowed it and dealt with that for a really long time and then I finally came forward to everybody and started talking about this weird event in my life and people started asking me if anything has been different or anything seemed weird since then then I kind of started thinking about it a lot harder because I hadn't really pieced anything together before growing up from the time I was a teenager all the way up into my adulthood I had consistent really severe migraines almost on a weekly basis probably I was like 13 started going to the doctor getting out a whole bunch of medications eventually ended up going to imitrex injections all this kind of stuff since whatever this was I have not had a single migraine the logical side of me would have been like you just had some kind of mental breakdown somehow you had some kind of hallucinations that were so real and so vivid that not only could you smell and feel them and taste that it mentally scarred you I started looking for reasons beyond reasons beyond logic because I couldn't just settle on it's just a mental break when I seemed to be fine up until that was it some type of timeline shift paradox is it possible I don't know I don't like to think that it could be health-related if I'm now healthier and I think that might be why I'm healthier that there could be something else to this I don't like to think that it could be health-related if I'm now healthier and I think that might be why I'm healthier that there could be something else to this I don't like to think that it could be health-related if I'm now healthier that there could be something else to this I had to work the next day and so the first thing that I'm thinking when I'm looking at that car is like was that a premonition is that something that's gonna happen today it became something that I was constantly thinking about and almost got to the part where I was getting paranoid about actually driving again I can't really explain what it's like to go from an experience like that to trying to act as if everything's normal if it happens to be something like a strange timeline jump or if it happens to be what I've heard is quantum immortality or something what would happen to the people I leave behind it's kind of terrifying but you can't you can't live in fear of like what if something could happen you just got to work with what you have now there's so much unanswered there it's like I experienced this traumatic event without having it physically and yet it's affecting me quantum immortality you say it's like some Marvel Universe shit right there I don't know I wonder what I'm like in another parallel conversation consciousness maybe I'm really popular and I got a lot of friends we just moved into our new house and I didn't realize just how close we were to the neighbors that's when my friend told me about blinds.com blinds.com isn't a medication but it can improve how you feel about your home customers who shop at blinds.com experience excellent customer service from consultation to installation side effects include increased privacy and better sleep talk to your partner today and see if blinds.com is right for you visit blinds.com to order your free samples okay we've returned and now let's play another day you so a little bit of backstory born and raised in Miami to Hispanic parents lived most of my life in like the same area which is called Little Havana right at the heart of Miami this was a two-story building when you would look outside the door there was a giant front yard surrounding the front yard there was a fence surrounded by trees and bushes and flowers it was surrounded by like a chain-link fence which divided like the building from the street and the sidewalk because there was a fence and it was all gated my mom would allow me to go and play outside her only rule was that the door had to be open and I couldn't really like stray far from the door she had to like have visual of me and like hear me so I was like I'm gonna go out and play outside and I was like I'm gonna go out a regular day, I'm outside playing with my toys. I hear, like it sounded like someone whistling. Like someone trying to get my attention. But I don't pay mind to it. I'm still playing. Obviously, I'm outside. There's different types of noises. But then I hear someone calling out my name. Like if it was right next to my ear, someone is calling out my name. I look towards the end of the front yard, towards the fence. Standing right there looking straight at me is my mom. Without a shadow of a doubt, I know it's my mom. I can see her. My mom has a very distinct streak of white hair that's super noticeable because she has jet black hair. 00:04:25:00 - 00:04:46:01 Unknown It's my mom. And I'm like, hey. So, of course, I get up and I'm running, smiling towards my mom. She's just standing there and I'm like, what are you what are you doing? She doesn't really answer me. She's just staring at me, smiling and just starts telling me how much she loves me. She tells me how special I am. She's like, I love you. I love you. We have to be together. Like, don't you want to come with me? And she was walking sort of like in slow motion. And her voice was very, very soothing, like very loving. She starts walking aside the fence, leading me, telling me, like, come on, let's go, let's go. And I'm just walking, just talking to her. And she just keeps telling me how much she loves me. And I noticed that she's directed me towards the gate. 00:04:46:01 - 00:05:00:05 Unknown Like the gate to like walk out, like the only way to go in and out of this building. And she's like, OK, come on, let's go. It's time. I promise you, I don't know what it is, but something stops me. You know how people usually say like they have like a gut feeling or something? No. With me, it was like something was physically like stopping me. Like, I promise I felt like hands like on my chest, like pushing me back. My mom is just staring at me like, what do you come on? Let's go, let's go, let's go. I hear my mom's voice again, but this time it's not coming in front of me. It's coming behind me from where my house is. I'm hearing my mom like asking, calling my name with like a concerned tone. I look back, and then I hear the person I think is my mom yelling, No. But this time it doesn't sound like my mom's voice. It sounds like a mixture of her voice with like a man's voice. It went from very loving to very demanding. I look back and I'm staring at my mom, but not really. Some of her features are there, but like it's, they're like shifting and it's still telling me like we have to be together. Let's go, let's go. And I just start crying i just started crying i start running towards my house and my mom comes out she's like what's wrong what's wrong because i was so young i didn't know how to explain myself i was just telling her like it you like you you were telling me to go outside you were telling me to go outside and she couldn't like really comprehend what that meant i just remember from that day on like she didn't let me play outside she was very watchful of me a couple years passed by i have like family over like we're all like at the dinner table just talking about like life and past experiences the paranormal becomes the topic and everyone's like sharing experiences and i hadn't really like been able to like talk to my mom about it but i was like i had to like talk to my mom about it and i was like i hadn't really like spoken to my mom about this because like i had said i wasn't really sure if this was like a real memory or something i had just made up and i was just like mom by any chance like did this ever happen to me as a kid and like i went into full detail about everything that i had experienced and she was just shocked she was like wow like you remember that yeah i was i remember like seeing someone that looked like you outside she proceeds to tell me that she never liked that building that she would had always had like different experiences there it actually turns out that there was a lady that lived in the second floor she was heavily into santeria which is like really big here in miami the lady had told my mom hey listen like don't let him play outside i feel like a weird energy whenever he's outside like make sure that he stays indoors or if he does go outside that you have to be with him at all times my mom didn't really like think much of it until i told her that story about someone trying to lure me out so i'm telling her all this my family's listening to all this i realized that my dad's there and his jaw is basically on the floor he is just shocked hearing all this my dad's very like no nonsense very like by the books doesn't super skeptic doesn't believe in anything paranormal as soon as i told him this experience he just stares at me he's like this happened to you like this actually happened i guess my mom had never really told him that about this story and then he proceeds to tell me that in his country of honduras when he was a kid something like this happened to him where someone had come to his house and actually lured him out and if it wasn't for a neighbor like he would have been basically like kidnapped after that for a couple of months someone would come to in front of his house and just stare at him telling him that they had to be together this doppelganger or whatever it was like it mimicked my mother in my father's experience it was one of his aunts and the scary part is his aunt had passed away he told me that and i promise you i was shocked i tell my wife what if i have like if this is just like a generational thing that just happens with males the biggest fear i've had and i've had this conversation with my wife is i am so scared that if we have a kid especially like a boy and he goes through something like this you know this isn't like a really a conversation that you have with like a child of like hey buddy just letting you know something might come visit you so just be on alert but it is definitely something that's been like in the back of my mind i can tell you like till this day like it still scares me and i can tell you like it's been like this for a long time whoa generational curse crazy theory you know i think i might have a generational curse because every man in my family is cursed with amazing charisma that's time that's time that's time that's time that's time malachi don't eat the packing peanuts you're not malachi don't eat the packing peanuts you're not malachi don't eat the packing peanuts you're not gonna like them trust me gonna like them trust me gonna like them trust me styrofoam does a number on your guts well that's basically it got everything well that's basically it got everything well that's basically it got everything packed up for the summer packed up for the summer packed up for the summer oh damn forgot to pack up one of those oh damn forgot to pack up one of those oh damn forgot to pack up one of those tapes tapes tapes well hey well hey well hey how about one how about one how about one more for the road more for the road more for the road i'll play you this last tape then don't i'll play you this last tape then don't i'll play you this last tape then don't forget forget forget we're closing for the summer but we'll be we're closing for the summer but we'll be we're closing for the summer but we'll be back in october with more back in october with more back in october with more as always oh yeah as always oh yeah as always oh yeah we have one more surprise brewing for we have one more surprise brewing for we have one more surprise brewing for you you you follow radio rental and tenderfoot tv on follow radio rental and tenderfoot tv on follow radio rental and tenderfoot tv on youtubes youtubes youtubes that's all i'll say for now that that's all i'll say for now that something big is coming something big is coming something big is coming all right all right all right last tape before summer break last tape before summer break last tape before summer break school's out school's out school's out okay here we go my friend and i i'm let's call him my friend and i i'm let's call him my friend and i i'm let's call him travis travis travis we're camping up at my family's we're camping up at my family's we're camping up at my family's vacation property in the lake wenatchee vacation property in the lake wenatchee vacation property in the lake wenatchee area area area of washington of washington of washington state state state a pretty rugged area i had been going a pretty rugged area i had been going a pretty rugged area i had been going there my whole life there my whole life there my whole life just a lot of kind of like wild just a lot of kind of like wild just a lot of kind of like wild territory we were camping planning on staying a we were camping planning on staying a we were camping planning on staying a couple nights and couple nights and couple nights and i think the second night we just i think the second night we just i think the second night we just decided we'd rather kind of be a little decided we'd rather kind of be a little decided we'd rather kind of be a little adventurous adventurous adventurous and walk off up up into the mountains and walk off up up into the mountains and walk off up up into the mountains and just camp somewhere out in the middle and just camp somewhere out in the middle and just camp somewhere out in the middle of nowhere of nowhere of nowhere we both had a little bit of experience we both had a little bit of experience we both had a little bit of experience with that with that with that enough to feel comfortable without a gps enough to feel comfortable without a gps enough to feel comfortable without a gps or anything like that or anything like that or anything like that we started hiking and we started hiking and we started hiking and went for a few hours until we were went for a few hours until we were went for a few hours until we were satisfied with how far away from satisfied with how far away from satisfied with how far away from everything we were everything we were everything we were we just wanted to feel like we were away we just wanted to feel like we were away from everything from everything from everything pitched our tent a small tent it was just pitched our tent a small tent it was just pitched our tent a small tent it was just big enough for the two of us big enough for the two of us big enough for the two of us we camped right in the middle of the we camped right in the middle of the we camped right in the middle of the clearing we knew better than to camp clearing we knew better than to camp clearing we knew better than to camp near the forest near the forest near the forest you're safer typically if you can you're safer typically if you can you're safer typically if you can see your surroundings so we camped in see your surroundings so we camped in see your surroundings so we camped in the middle of this clearing the middle of this clearing the middle of this clearing there was absolutely nothing around us there was absolutely nothing around us there was absolutely nothing around us the ground was kind of like you couldn't the ground was kind of like you couldn't the ground was kind of like you couldn't walk walk walk in a way that was quiet unless you maybe in a way that was quiet unless you maybe in a way that was quiet unless you maybe were a deer or something like that were a deer or something like that were a deer or something like that it was sticks and rocks just kind of it was sticks and rocks just kind of it was sticks and rocks just kind of littering the whole area littering the whole area littering the whole area and old growth like moss over and old growth like moss over and old growth like moss over everything everything everything we pitched our tent we we were pretty we pitched our tent we we were pretty we pitched our tent we we were pretty tired we got some food in our bellies tired we got some food in our bellies tired we got some food in our bellies and we fell asleep pretty quickly i woke up in the middle of the night i i woke up in the middle of the night i i woke up in the middle of the night i don't know where it was don't know where it was don't know where it was i heard a sound something i heard a sound something i heard a sound something off in the distance kind of startled off in the distance kind of startled off in the distance kind of startled me me me and i noticed that travis was already and i noticed that travis was already and i noticed that travis was already sitting up listening really intently sitting up listening really intently sitting up listening really intently he was like he was like he was like shh listen because i asked him i was like listen because i asked him i was like listen because i asked him i was like what what's going on he said shh just what what's going on he said shh just what what's going on he said shh just wanted me to shush listening there's nothing listening there's nothing listening there's nothing and i say well it's probably just like and i say well it's probably just like and i say well it's probably just like a coyote and then he was like a coyote and then he was like a coyote and then he was like like really like intently like he was like really like intently like he was like really like intently like he was freaked out about something it wasn't too long before it wasn't too long before it wasn't too long before i did hear something i did hear something i did hear something off in the distance it sounded like it off in the distance it sounded like it off in the distance it sounded like it was past the tree line probably was past the tree line probably was past the tree line probably it sounded like people it sounded like people it sounded like people but i couldn't tell what they were but i couldn't tell what they were but i couldn't tell what they were saying saying saying it sounded organic it didn't it sounded organic it didn't it sounded organic it didn't definitely didn't sound mechanical definitely didn't sound mechanical definitely didn't sound mechanical you could tell that there were you could tell that there were you could tell that there were there was a little more complexity to it there was a little more complexity to it there was a little more complexity to it we thought it was saying something we we thought it was saying something we we thought it was saying something we thought there were words thought there were words thought there were words just kind of like people just kind of like people just kind of like people kind of having a weird conversation kind of having a weird conversation kind of having a weird conversation maybe maybe maybe kind of like just distant chatter kind of like just distant chatter kind of like just distant chatter talking but i couldn't discern what talking but i couldn't discern what talking but i couldn't discern what words were being said words were being said words were being said that freaked me out because animals are that freaked me out because animals are that freaked me out because animals are one thing one thing one thing i really don't want to run into people i really don't want to run into people i really don't want to run into people when i'm out in the middle of nowhere when i'm out in the middle of nowhere because why are they out there too because why are they out there too because why are they out there too especially in the middle of the night especially in the middle of the night especially in the middle of the night we sit there listening right before i was we sit there listening right before i was we sit there listening right before i was ready to just kind of call it a flute ready to just kind of call it a flute ready to just kind of call it a flute because we didn't hear it after a little because we didn't hear it after a little because we didn't hear it after a little while while while i was like okay i'm ready to go back to i was like okay i'm ready to go back to i was like okay i'm ready to go back to sleep but then i hear it again sleep but then i hear it again sleep but then i hear it again on the other side of us on the other side of us on the other side of us and then it got up closer and it sounded and then it got up closer and it sounded and then it got up closer and it sounded less like words and more like a just a less like words and more like a just a less like words and more like a just a threatening like sound threatening like sound threatening like sound and and and it's like all right that's pretty creepy it's like all right that's pretty creepy it's like all right that's pretty creepy i would be surprised if a human were i would be surprised if a human were i would be surprised if a human were able to make that sound able to make that sound able to make that sound it was a negative intent of some kind it was a negative intent of some kind There was something thing going on and that with the voice like it was warning us it was trying to scare us off or i really don't know it was the strangest sound and yeah no matter how much we i would just strain to to hear to understand like there really wasn't anything discernible the whole time not even so much as a word there's nothing in that area that should be making these kinds of sounds it just kind of sent a chill up your spine when you don't know what it is that's the scariest thing whatever we were hearing we didn't know what to make of it i just had no idea it became more and more i would say threatening sounding i was starting to be afraid for my life i didn't have any weapons i didn't know what i was gonna do i did have a knife like one of those little three four inch kind of polystyrene pocket knives and i grabbed that and i was just clutching it as hard as i could just waiting travis i could just hear his breathing just ragged he was terrified he was frozen and in my mind i'm like okay well i guess it's up to me if something happens this thing kept getting closer and closer and it gets to a point where it sounds close enough that the fight or flight kind of kicks in it's like either i'm going to sit here in this tent and just let something happen or you're going to kind of try to confront it as terrified as i was i unzipped the tent i jumped out holding this knife and i yelled get the f out of here looking all around and there's nothing this was a night when the moon was pretty bright and it was almost like daylight uh you could see very easily especially because our night vision was totally intact there was nothing around us this entire 100 yard clearing was empty there was nothing and in this thing i mean i guarantee you whatever i was hearing was within 10 yards it had to have been at least within 10 yards i just kept looking around i can disbelieve i'm like there has to be something there has to have been something i looked at i was looking for like a something in the air so like a bird or something obviously i didn't see anything i kind of wandered around a tent for a couple minutes just on alert then i finally told travis is like i don't think i don't see anything out here he crawled out of the tent literally just kind of crawled out like sweating i felt bad for him like he was he was really freaked out we basically just stayed the whole rest of the night until dawn um sitting there around a tent just watching just watching the tree line the second uh the sun came up we packed up and we we were out of there i tried to like strike up a conversation at some point with travis about it he just wouldn't have it i was like that was a crazy thing what do you think that thing was and he was just like i don't know and that's all he would say is like i don't know i don't know what he thought it was but he was clearly a lot more freaked out than i was i was more like i want to know like i'm freaked out but i really want to know what that was and he seemed to be more of the mindset of like i i want to forget that ever happened he was also really religious i felt like that might have had something to do with it like maybe he thought it was like literally like a demon i don't know what he must have thought and it's not like whatever he thought was invalid at all and maybe it was a demon he didn't want to talk about it so for a long time i really didn't talk to anyone about it it would make a big difference if i was the only one out there i might question my own sanity i guess i mean i know he was hearing the same thing as i was just body language alone some people say there are legends and from that area cryptids entities something happening but none of the descriptions really matched what i experienced it felt like something was coming after us it felt like something was stalking us it's just a big mystery to me and i'm a pretty rationally minded person i really don't even like tent camping anymore because of this it just freaks me out radio rental is created by pain lindsey and brought to you by tenderfoot tv showrunner is meredith stedman lead producers are eric quintana and stephen perez executive producers are pain lindsey and donald albright this episode is hosted by tony cavallaro writing by meredith stedman original score by makeup and vanity set with additional score by jay ragsdale sound design mix and master by stephen perez and cooper skinner editing by eric quintana sean nerney stephen perez meredith stedman and cooper skinner our production manager is jordan foxworthy cover artwork by trevor 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Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. A real-life car accident story describes a sudden, violent collision with a truck, followed by a bizarre near-death experience involving a purple-hued tunnel vision and a reversal of consciousness.
  2. The narrator questions whether the event was a hallucination, a mental breakdown, or a timeline shift, noting the absence of migraines since the incident and a possible link to quantum immortality or parallel realities.
  3. A separate story involves a child in Miami who is confronted by a figure resembling his mother, who then shifts into a disturbing, unfamiliar voice and demeanor, leading to a fear of outside play.
  4. The mother reveals a past warning from a neighbor about a Santería woman who felt "weird energy" when children played outside, suggesting a possible generational or paranormal pattern.
  5. A camping story from Washington describes an eerie, non-mechanical voice heard in the woods, growing increasingly threatening, leading to a tense confrontation with no visible source.
  6. The experiences in all three stories emphasize themes of disorientation, reality distortion, and unexplained phenomena that challenge conventional logic.
  7. The podcast promotes Radio Rental, a horror-themed video rental store featuring real people telling terrifying stories, with a strong emphasis on listener engagement and subscription.
  8. A call to action includes merchandise, a limited-edition LEGO set, and a subscription offer for Tenderfoot Plus to access early episodes and bonus content.

Summary:

The podcast explores three deeply unsettling real-life experiences tied to paranormal and existential themes. The first is a near-fatal car crash where the narrator experiences a surreal, purple-hued tunnel vision and a reversal of consciousness, leading to questions about reality shifts or psychological trauma. The second involves a young boy in Miami who is confronted by a figure resembling his mother, which shifts into a threatening imitation, prompting revelations from his mother about a similar incident in the past involving a Santería neighbor.

The third is a camping story in Washington where a chilling, non-human voice is heard in the wilderness, growing more menacing until the narrator and friend take defensive action. These stories collectively explore disorientation, reality distortion, and possible generational patterns of fear. The podcast, hosted through Radio Rental, blends these real-life tales with a horror-themed narrative, promoting its content and merchandise.

It encourages listeners to subscribe to Tenderfoot Plus for early access and bonus content, while warning that some stories may be triggering. The overarching theme is a deep unease about the nature of reality, consciousness, and unseen forces that shape human experience.

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You can purchase Terry merch and new radio rental merchandise at shop.tenderfoot.tv.

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The podcast includes scary stories that may be triggering to some listeners, so listener discretion is advised.

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