Radio Rental - Episode 100 !!!!!!
Episode Date: April 3, 2026Welcome to Radio Rental, a mysterious video rental shop with an exclusive collection of VHS tapes. On these tapes are TRUE scary stories, narrated by the people who experienced them... HAPPY 100th ...EPISODE! On today's tapes: >> Roof of the Car >> A quick pitstop goes poorly when this man loses track of his keys. >> Cosmic Keurig >> Expect a dose of caffeine. Receive a dose of wisdom. And finally... >> Laura of the Woods >> A young boy makes a new friend in the woods… but is she who she claims to be? Meanwhile, at the store: You-Know-Who makes a special appearance to commemorate our 100th episode. Want more Radio Rental? For early access and ad-free listening, subscribe to Tenderfoot+ at https://tenderfoot.tv/plus/. Follow the show at @radiorental Visit the website at radiorentalusa.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Anyway, my dear fans, 100 episodes. Wow.
And boy, have we had some times together, have we not?
I am so sorry I can't be with you there in person.
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I am on day 50, or perhaps it's day 500, I've lost count,
of my journey to recover my beautiful and ever-elusive.
Wife, Zelon.
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That's enough now, Zelan.
Ah, the intergalactic things we do for women.
Alas, I simply couldn't miss the opportunity to pop in and join you for this milestone.
partly because I miss you, but mainly because I know how much you miss me.
And it breaks my heart to leave my adoring fans wanting more.
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and then when it's done, take it out and then put this tape back in.
Anyways, sorry, but it's time you pulled a little weight around here.
Anyway, eject me.
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Oh, I only wish I could see your faces.
This was, I want to say July.
In 2020, I was in Arizona.
I was getting tired of it.
Just couldn't stay there anymore.
Having trouble with jobs and family.
So I was like, okay, you know what?
I'm going to go back to Florida.
I can't do this.
I've got my car packed up,
and I have a 30-hour drive ahead of me.
About 6 p.m., I start hitting the road.
I'm just driving.
You know, nothing's going wrong.
And I'm just listening to music, jamming.
having a good time. Six hours go by. I think this is about like three o'clock in the morning.
I don't know where I'm at. I know I'm probably in Texas. It's about three o'clock in the
morning. I have to pee so damn bad. And I can't find a gas station. I can't find a rest area. It's
dark as shit out. All of a sudden like it starts getting a little foggy. All of a sudden,
I just see rest area next 28 months.
So I'm like, thank God.
So I keep driving and driving, and I finally get to the rest area.
But when I pull up, there's one light right above the bathroom.
Both doors to the bathrooms are open, but there is nobody at this rest area.
Not a single car, not a truck.
Nobody.
I'm feeling a little uneasy here.
I'm nervous.
My anxiety is heightened.
And I pull up.
I'm like, shit.
Okay.
So I take my keys, I leave my car unlocked, and I bee line it straight to the men's room.
Take care of my business, wash my hands, and I just want to get in and out of this rest stop as fast as I can.
As soon as I get back to my car, close my door, I go to start my car, and I don't have my keys.
Where the fuck are my keys?
I literally just had them in the fucking bathroom, and I have no idea where the hell they're at.
So I'm sitting there and I'm thinking I must have left them either on the counter or they're sitting next to the toilet or something.
But they're not in my pocket.
They're nowhere on me.
They're not on my person.
I don't know what happened to my keys.
I don't remember taking them out of my pocket.
I don't remember setting them on the counter.
I don't remember setting them on the floor.
Now I'm nervous as shit and I don't know what to do because I'm scared to get it.
out of my car again because this is like the worst rest area I've ever been in. So as soon as I go to
get out of my car, I go to unlock the door and I hear this loud just thump on the roof of my car.
I immediately closed my door again. I have no idea what it was. I don't know if it was a tree
branch or what an animal, a raccoon or a possum, you know. Something very loud hit the roof of my car.
I'm sitting there for a second, just like, what the fuck was that?
And all of a sudden, I just start hearing footsteps.
Just walking.
Closer and closer to where I'm sitting in the driver's seat.
And it stops right above me.
They're on the roof of my car.
I'm sitting there.
I don't see any shadows on the ground.
I'm looking around.
There's nothing there.
I don't know what to do, I'm about to cry, I'm freaking out, my heart is pounding.
It was bad.
Do you know, like, the sound of throwing keys?
Like when they, like, toss something.
So I hear this swing, and then that jingle,
and then right in front of my car lands my fucking car keys.
So I'm sitting there, I'm just,
looking at these fucking keys
and wondering what the fuck is on top of my car
what do I do?
What do you do in this situation?
Do you get out of the car
and go grab them super fast?
Do you sit there and wait?
Do you try and call somebody?
I feel like I'm in a life or death situation
to get my keys now.
So I look at my phone
and I have no fucking service.
So I'm just like, okay, you know what,
fuck this.
I'm just going to go run out of my car.
I'm going to go grab my keys real quick.
And I go to open up.
my car door take a deep breath and I just fucking poke it straight out right into the front of my
car I don't even look to see what's on top I have no idea what is there I got back in
closed my door turn my car on put that shit in reverse and I get the fuck out as fast as I could I
didn't hear anything roll off of the top of my car I didn't hear anything runoff I didn't see anything
jump off I don't know what it was I keep driving and driving
and I go until I see a gas station and I stop.
And I'm sitting there and I'm just shaking.
I am just absolutely just scared shitless right now.
I have no idea what the fuck that was.
And I get out and I go into the gas station.
The people inside, they could see that my face was just pale.
Like I lost all color.
And the lady looks at me and she goes,
oh you stepped at that rest area up the road didn't you
not a lot of people stop at that one
and I didn't say anything back
because I just didn't know what to say
and I just walked out went back to my car
but when I got back to my car
and I was sitting outside
I noticed that there was footprints
human footprints
wet footprints
on top of the roof of my car
I still don't know what
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could be all the above. From what I'm thinking in the area that I was in, I want to say with like
a shapeshifter, you know, something along those lines. I felt like if it really wanted to attack
me, it would have. I think it more of was just playing with me than anything.
I've never experienced anything like this before.
I've never had a paranormal experience.
I've never had a supernatural experience.
I've never seen something crazy before in my life.
This is all new to me.
I saw what I saw and I heard what I heard.
If you don't believe it, then that's on you.
I know my story and what happened to me.
And it's just, it's crazy.
It's crazy.
Ooh, terrifying.
Terrifying. I hope that satisfied you.
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Obviously.
What choice do I have?
I'm not real. I'm just a recording.
I just moved into a new condo in Boston.
And so I've been in this kind of weird state of moving in furniture from storage.
And it's kind of felt...
half lived in and a little empty at times.
I woke up in the morning and I was kind of feeling a little bit down,
just sort of, I don't know, like I needed some direction.
I was kind of in my head that morning.
I've always kind of gone back and forth on coffee.
I will go from drinking ice coffee to drinking only hot coffee.
And then recently, and this sounds unhinged,
but I promise you, it's actually not as bad as it sounds.
I've been drinking sugar-free red bulls in the morning, which sounds diabolical,
but they actually have less caffeine than a single cup of coffee.
This particular morning, I wake up, I go to my fridge to get one of these sugar-free red bulls.
And for whatever reason, I look at my coffee machine.
It's not one of those regular cure eggs where you just put in a pod.
It's super big, clunky.
but for whatever reason I was going to the fridge and I looked at this coffee maker,
I found myself staring at my coffee maker on my kitchen counter
and consciously asking myself,
why am I doing that?
And for whatever reason, I clocked that and I remembered it.
I go sit back down on my couch.
And this particular morning, I decided to listen.
to some podcast stuff
I've been working on.
I'm gonna play it loud.
And so it's already kind of a weird vibe.
And then all of a sudden,
I hear this crashing sound.
It almost sounded like somebody
was inside the room
and they threw something across the room.
They honestly scared the shit out of me.
I thought somebody was in my house,
house and threw a plastic cup across the floor.
I paused the music and I look over to my kitchen and the first thing I lock eyes with
is my coffee maker.
And the top hinge where you put the pods into is completely open.
Which maybe at first you're like, okay, well, that could happen.
But I promise you it can't because I went over there and tested it.
you literally have to use a full hand and pull it open.
It's not like a spring-loaded one or lightweight.
It's almost like a lever.
It requires physical force to pull it open.
Wind wouldn't do it.
There's no spring apparatus that made it shoot open.
The next thing you know, I'm just standing there from my coffee maker,
and I'm like, why am I staring at my coffee maker again?
But then before I played the podcast again,
I was like, you know what?
Let me just go back over there to the coffee machine.
Just take a look.
I wasn't even really looking for anything specific.
So for like 10 seconds, I'm staring it up and down,
and I noticed that the coffee machine was up.
That might be the biggest mystery of the mall,
is how that thing opened.
I really don't know.
And I clearly didn't leave it opening.
I never touched it earlier.
But it opened, that's what I heard.
But I went to go recreate that part of it.
I'm like, oh my God, there's not even like a spring thing here.
I'm like, oh my God.
Like you have to like physically pull this up.
I'm like, sorry to explain.
I don't like that.
As my eyes go from the top of it to the bottom,
I see something sticking out of it.
there's some sort of paper or something that's just ever so slightly sticking out of the bottom of this coffee machine.
And mind you, this is a pretty heavy coffee maker.
It's not some lightweight thing.
It's definitely at least 20 pounds.
And so I lift up with one hand and I'm bending over and I'm trying to see.
see what's under there and I pull out this little booklet and my first thought was what the
hell is this doing here this booklet came with this tarot card set that I had and it's called
um Santa Murate which I think means holy death and at first glance if you're not
into this kind of spooky stuff or tarot cards,
this would be the deck that you're like,
don't play around with that one.
It's got like a skull on it,
and it's red, and it's metallic.
It looks like a Ouija board or something.
So when I first got it,
I opened it up,
and I read a page or two of the booklet that came with it,
and it said something along the lines of,
take really good care of this card deck.
Put it somewhere important.
Don't just store it away somewhere.
And I was like, yes, sir.
And so I've always set it up somewhere in a room where it's kind of visible
and it's not just tucked away in a corner.
The booklet's open.
It's open to a specific page.
And it's all in Spanish.
And I'm like, oh my God.
Like, am I about to ask chat, JBT, what this says?
And it's going to be something, you know, god awful.
Like, this place is brand new.
I thought, how is it haunted already?
And so I take a picture of it and I translate it on my computer.
And the message is basically all about grounding yourself,
being careful with your decisions and your resources,
staying focused on your path, not rushing things,
trusting your direction and recognizing opportunities when they appear.
And it also talks about not clinging too tightly to what you already have
and helping others.
And it was like maybe anything would have felt like the perfect thing to tell me.
but in that moment
it felt like a reminder
like hey man
you're good
like you're on the right path
you're already doing it
like just keep going
just ground herself
and stay focused
I really wanted to
definitively figure out
how there was any
other logical explanation
for this having happened
for that
booklet to have ended up under this heavy coffee maker in the first place, someone would have to really
kind of hold it down flat with one hand and then kind of balance getting it just right and snug
underneath it. And just like picturing that is in zero way accidental. Borderline requires
two people. Okay, who's been to my place? Two of my friends, Mike and Mavs. They've both been here.
They actually were here a week or two ago.
And so I text Mavs first.
And I say, did you put that under my coffee machine?
And he goes, what are you talking about?
I'm like, you know what I'm talking about.
You guys, no, I seriously don't know what you're talking about.
And I sent him a picture of it.
And he goes, what the fuck is that?
And I'm like, God, I think he's being serious.
And I'm like, did Mike really just pull one on us?
Like, did he get drunk or something and hide this?
Like, what's the story?
Mike was even more in denial and more confused by my ask.
Neither of these guys even speak Spanish.
So they wouldn't even know what it said to begin with.
I just, I knew it wasn't there by accident because it could only be placed there on purpose,
literally by way of where it was.
It didn't end up there because the cleaning lady bumped it with her elbow.
Impossible.
Can I see myself accidentally setting the coffee maker down on this booklet when I moved in?
In no world.
I've owned this coffee maker for probably just a business.
about a year. It's never happened before or since then. Just that one day, on the day that I
stared blankly at it for what felt like a strange subconscious reason, the same day I found this
booklet for a tarot card set I'd never used in my house that had a message I really did need
at the time, right there for me. You could even try to explain away everything.
else.
But someone or something, whatever that even means, had to intentionally put this booklet flush underneath
the coffee maker.
Maybe that was just the universe's way of getting my attention.
I think that sometimes I can get in my own way.
And maybe it was just pull me back.
to earth a little bit.
At least as what I like to think.
I swear I know that voice.
Hard to forget.
Kind of annoying gets under my skin.
Can't quite place it.
Hmm.
Nevertheless, weird story, bro.
But I do firmly believe that messages come to us
from the great beyond,
often when we least expect it.
Do you hear that, Zellon?
Come out from beyond the great beyond.
Please and thank you.
Please, pretty please.
You're killing me here.
Pop in the tape with the blue post-it note now,
and when that's done, put me, I think you get the idea.
It was 1988.
I was 10 years old.
My family and I lived in a small town,
called Trafalgar, Indiana.
When you think of out in the middle of the country,
that's what it was.
All the kids knew each other.
We all like each other.
It's their typical 80s childhood, you know.
Before computers, everyone's driving their BMA.
Mexico around town, playing Star Wars, G.I. Joe's.
Pretty much a Steven Spielberg movie.
On our street that I lived in, there was about five houses,
and in between was a giant wooded area.
All these neighbors we knew, the Mitchell's on one side.
Down the other street, we had Mr. Robinson,
and then one of the other houses was a teacher of mine.
And then there was another house,
we called it the mystery house.
No one knew who lived there.
You could hardly see it.
You could see it if you went back in the woods,
but you could only see the top story, the roof, window.
So we kind of became fascinated with it.
The kids around town, you know, we spy on the mystery house,
tried to catch any sign of people come in or out,
and we never did.
No one knew who even lived there early.
And the look of the house was kind of,
it was different than all the other houses.
You know, this is the 80s in Indiana.
Most are just one-story brick houses.
This was like three stories, big black-pointed,
It looked very gothic.
It just stood out.
It was out of place.
We just referred to it as the mystery house.
And in the summertime, I just like going out in the woods.
I just like being out there by myself.
I was kind of a loner.
I'd take a bag of G.I. Joe's out in the woods.
And one day, I went back there, a little spot by the creek,
where you could kind of see the mystery house.
I'm out there, and I'm playing with my G.I. Joe's.
and all of a sudden, just an overwhelming feeling of paralyzing fear, basically.
I don't know how to explain it.
Besides, I knew someone or something was watching me out there.
I just remember stiffening up and being scared shitless, basically.
I didn't turn around.
I didn't want to know what it was.
And I remember putting my G.I. Joe's back in the bag, calmly stood up.
And then all of a sudden, I don't know if I heard something or not, but I just knew.
I don't know how to explain it other than someone's there.
And I started walking away, and all of a sudden, the voice came.
It scared me, but since it was a gentle voice, I turned around.
And there's a girl standing there, and she simply said, you don't have to go home.
and this is how I met Laura.
Laura was kind of strange looking in.
She had like a mop-top hair, kind of messy.
Her clothes were kind of weird.
She explained to me that she lived in the mystery house
and that she was an only child
and that she was home-taught.
And that's how we struck up our friendship.
She was wearing clothing that she should.
shouldn't be wearing the summer. She had a long-sleeve flannel and it was buttoned real high.
It looked very uncomfortable to me. It was like two tight in some spots and two baggy in other
spots. And her hair was like a mop-top, kind of slobby, you know, like she hadn't combed it.
For like a week or two, I kept going out there and hanging out with Laura. I just was having fun out there,
you know. I met a new friend in the woods. It's kind of strange.
She explained to me that her room in her house was the whole top floor, like a giant attic to herself.
You could see one window from the area in the woods, and that was her window.
The way she made it sound was basically like a giant toy room.
One day, she said, very matter-of-factly, come here, I want to show you something.
She took me to this little area, and there was this tree.
First she showed me her name that she had carved in there.
and her name was carved on the tree.
And then she said, I want to show you something else.
One of the limbs had fallen off, and there was like a hole.
And she put her hand in and pulled out a pack of cigarettes, marble reds.
I'll never forget it because it was all crumpled up.
She taught me how to smoke cigarettes out there.
She pulled one out and lit it, smoked it like half down,
and then handed it to me.
And I took, at the time, my best attempt at inhaling
a cigarette. I think I did like two of them and she smoked a lot. I think I'd wash her
smoke like 10 cigarettes out in the woods. She had a spoken habit. Then one day I went out
there and she was gone. I went back out there a few times, but she never came back. The
year after the house was for sale. They were having an open house like they do. I mean,
all of a sudden Laura came back into my head. We'd talked for years about this house and
And finally, it was open to the public.
So we pleaded and pleaded with my mom.
And we went to the open house.
I thought I might see her, you know?
Plus, we just wanted to see what the house looked like.
My mom was even excited, I remember.
Like any open house, there's other people there.
I remember some other people like us looking at the house.
And then there was a man, which I assume was Laura's dad.
And then there was Laura's mom.
And I could tell right away it was Lord.
mom, they looked a lot of like,
only she got real short hair, but they looked alike,
and you could just tell that they were related.
She's shown us around the house,
and we get through the second floor,
and that's it, at the end of the tour.
And I know there's a third floor,
because she's told me, there's a giant attic up there,
and I've seen the window.
She didn't mention it.
She just said, and that's the house.
I'm thinking, no, I know there's more.
I was 10 and I was kind of shy.
I wanted to say, I know it was the third floor, but I didn't.
Eventually, she said that they lost their daughter years ago.
She said our daughter had passed away.
At that point, I'm freaked out.
She said years ago, it hadn't been years since I hung out with the girl.
I'm thinking, who have I been out there hanging with?
I must have looked funny because the mom said to me,
What's wrong, buddy?
It was like you've seen a ghost.
I just wanted to get the hell out of there.
We were walking to the car, and my mom said, no more.
No more going out there.
I don't know what's going on here,
but you're not going out there by yourself anymore.
I don't know if she'd believe in ghost or what,
but you're not going back out there without someone supervision.
It wasn't real scary until we got back to the house, and I was thinking about the gramifications of what.
Oh my God, is it a ghost? Am I playing with a ghost?
And I didn't think she was dead.
It's still creepy thinking about it. It's been 31 years.
Already with my interactions with Laura, I already had a bad vibe about her parents because she wouldn't ever talk about him.
I didn't trust the lady. I thought Laura was in that house.
I honestly thought Laura was locked in the attic.
Maybe something bad's going on up there.
After the open house, I disobeyed my parents one time and did go back out there, out of morbid curiosity.
I kind of thought maybe Laura was locked up there.
I thought she was being held hostage or something in the house.
Being a kid, very curious.
Thought maybe I could save Laura, I think.
And I thought maybe if she was in the window, maybe she'd try to signal me.
And I went out to the exact spot.
And I went to where I could see the window.
And I looked up at the window.
And sure enough, I was being watched, but it wasn't Laura.
It was her mom staring at me, like she was waiting for me.
It scared the piss out of me.
She was staring right at me out of the window.
There was no smile, just staring at me.
I turned around and got the hell out of there.
My sister coined the name, Laura of the Woods,
as the ghost out there, and it sounded like a pretty cool name.
So eventually it kind of became a cool story.
I was telling my buddies that I had a little ghost friend out there and Laura of the woods,
you know, out there roaming the wild woods at night or whatever.
And it kind of became a myth of its own.
I just kind of went with the ghost story eventually in my head.
Finally, I started believing it over and over.
A couple years later, my parents got divorced, and in that process, we sold the house.
So I moved.
And I never went back there for a long time.
Eventually, Mr. Robinson passed away, and my uncle Bill bought his property.
So now I had a chance to go back, not to my house, but to the wooded area that I knew.
And one day when we were at a cookout, I took my wife.
And my sister brought up, remember Laura of the Woods?
I started telling the story again.
I never told it fully to my wife.
And then I realized after I was telling, I never told my family about this story.
cigarette part and all that good stuff.
After a few beers, you know, my wife and sister were like,
okay, let's go see it.
The spot that I hung out in.
Mr. Robinson's trails were grown up, but they were still there.
It was just like being a kid again.
I was tracing my old footsteps.
We're going along the trail, and finally we get to the part
where I used to sit with my G.I. J.O.'s.
And we found it.
And the tree was there.
and the name was still on the tree.
And without really thinking, I walked up to it and put my hand in the tree and pulled out the old pack of cigarettes that was still there.
We were all freaked out at this point.
I thought I was maybe playing with a ghost, you know, but now it's physical.
I'm feeling this.
So we're like, okay, confirmed what I was telling them.
It's true.
Let's get the hell out of here.
I'm going to what the hell was my childhood
what was I doing out there
for the next week or so
it was on my mind big time
and one night
I had some kind of food poisoning her son
and I was real sick and in bed
having like fever dreams and sweating
and I had this dream
I'm walking out on the trails
it's dusk it's gray outside
it's fall
I know the trail well
it's the one with the bench
overlooking the creek. I'm just following the trail, and I don't want to, but I just keep walking.
Turn to corner, and there's one of the benches. And sitting on the bench was Laura.
You can tell the mop-top hair from the back. She was facing the other way. I was coming up from
behind, but I could tell from the hair, everything, that it was her. And they get closer, and she's, like,
laughing, this weird little giggle. She's laughing and I feel like she's laughing at me. I feel
really stupid. She lifts her head up and when she does her hand is on her hair and it just comes off.
And what I saw then really freaked me out. My wife said I sat straight up in the bed, panting and
sweating and screaming. It was always her. It was always the mom. It was always the mom. It was
with the mom the whole time.
Ah, perhaps, our most sought-after story ever.
I've never heard anything quite like it.
I can't tell you how many people have rang my proverbial doorbell
just to get their hands on this one.
Laura.
Laura, where are you now?
I hope not still in the woods, tricking lonely children.
Okay, well, the battery is dying on this old camcorder.
I've got to wrap it up.
Malachi, buddy, you take care of our store.
All right, don't eat too much right before bed.
Groom yourself.
But not so much that you get a hairball.
My God.
And Malachi, one thing you should know, I miss you.
I really do.
No, yes, hi.
I know you're right here.
Hi, Malachi.
Don't listen in.
This is supposed to be for future you.
I mean, obviously, I don't miss you right now.
I'm with you now.
I'm...
Yes, I'm petting you right now.
So come here.
Come on now.
Come and get a scratch.
Ocou-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-a-do.
That's a good boy.
Mm, that's a good boy.
You're purring like a lawnmower.
What do you have in your mouth there?
Is that a Lego piece?
Give me that.
Wait, no, we don't hit the cat.
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