Spooked - Campfire Tales VII
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Here's the story.
As a little kid, I loved the Brady Bunch.
To me, I don't know the Brady Bunch, but I loved them.
And my favorite episode is when the whole family flies to Hawaii, right?
Bobby finds a tiki figure at the construction site
and gives it to Greg for good luck in the surfing competition.
I straight scream at the TV.
Shout to Greg Brady.
No!
No!
Don't wear that thing to O.
Fool, don't do it!
And you better believe, little me weeps.
When that wave crashes over Greg and the screen straight fades, the credits episode over, I weep.
Real tears, I cry.
For Greg, for Bobby, for Jan, Cindy, Marsha, but I learn a valuable lesson.
Not that you don't wear a mysterious teakie around your neck.
Every idiot knows that.
No, no, no, no.
I learned that some people, you can't teach.
Some people, they have to learn the hard way.
And this is what I tell the children.
Gathered round the campfire, eyes fixed on me, innocence.
They don't know from Greg Brady.
They don't know Jan, Marsha.
How they're supposed to know about Marcia?
They don't know from Marcia.
They don't know how hard it is to give people warnings.
warnings that things are not as they seem,
warning that there is so much to this world we don't understand,
warnings that evil lurks,
and our only protection is knowledge passed down.
Information that must be shared or forgotten forever,
and that's why I asked them to gather sticks.
That's why I showed them to arrange those sticks in a pyramid fashion
with just a little kindling nestled right in the base.
That children is where the fire starts.
And that is also where our stories begin.
Get ready.
We probably present campfire tales.
Stories we are afraid to share would need to tell anyway.
My name is Mr. Washington.
Roasted marshmallows are just going to have to.
Because you're listening.
The hard lesson, Joe Panohu.
Joe is determined to come at things
His very own way
My friends and I
We love to go cruising around the island
We love to go to places
That are far away
That are adventurous
And it's about 5 o'clock in the afternoon
It was actually just me and another one of my friends
We drive all the way down
And we park on the side of the road
Right outside this cave
And we cross the two-lane highway
It's a little small entrance
but it's very vertical.
Less than 10 feet wide,
but closer to 30 to 40 feet high.
We walk into this crevice and it becomes a cave.
Straight in the back, you look, there's a little hole
and then you look up,
and it looks like there's a ledge
and the cave goes a little bit further back.
It's a cave that has these lava tubes
that go all the way down and up and all around.
We want to go to the top.
We're looking for where the cave
reaches the water
but we're afraid
that we're not prepared for it
we decide that we're going to come back later
more prepared
there's four of us that are interested in going now
and we go into the cave
because there's been a lot of stories
in this cave
we want to check out the legend of
the nowe he
lured people into the water
according to the legend
and turn into a shark
and then swimming
out of the cave and eating them.
And it's said to be a place for the Hawaiian
Mafia at one time, used the cave
to dispose of their victims.
We come back at about midnight.
We brought rope. We brought water.
We have our flashlights.
We have everything that we need.
The idea is that we don't know how long we're going to be in there.
And we go back into the cave.
And the air is released still.
The ground is all.
all gravel and dirt. And there's a lot of cockroaches and bugs. People leave ho'ocupu, or they leave
offerings in the cave of food, and so it attracts a lot of bugs and stuff. There's no wind, there's no
sound, there's no dripping of anything. And we look up to where we're planning on going. We see now
on the right, there's a small little ledge that we can actually walk up, so we decide, yeah, we don't
need the rope. We're going to do that. I'm the first one up.
And I turn around and I look at my friends and I'm like, you guys are ready to go,
make sure everybody gets up there all right.
And then I get down on all fours and start crawling.
I'm crawling into the cave and we're going down in a single file line.
So I'm in the lead and they're all behind me.
And the lava rock is really just sharp.
My knees are all bust up.
And we're all cut up.
Clostrophobia just started kicking in.
I notice blood is running down a little bit on my forehead.
The thought occurs to me now that we're surrounded by millions of tons of rock.
And if one small cave-in happens, we're stuck.
You know, we have no way out.
And it's likely we could die if we can't find an exit, which we don't even know if there is one.
I remember crawling further down and further down and further down until finally,
my friends in the back I hear somebody yell, Joe, let's go.
This isn't fun anymore.
Let's go.
I tell him, okay, and I shine the flashlight in front of me, and I see a little area.
It looks like the cave opens up, and it levels off.
And so I'm shining my light down there, and I tell them, okay, hey, you know what, let's go just to this place right up in front of us.
If this is a place we're looking for, cool.
But then we're just going to go here and then turn back.
So I start crawling a bit more with my flashlight shining in front of me.
And as I'm crawling down, this figure just crosses over from the left to the right.
Really fast, it registers that there was somebody there, but I can't see what it was.
I'm like, oh, there's a logical explanation for this.
This is probably just a homeless guy.
But I'm not going to let my friends know that.
and so I kind of play it up a little bit
until I'm like oh
oh guys I just saw something over there
I just saw something walking in front of my flashlight beam
and they're like what?
What it looked like?
I don't know what it looked like
but something just walked from the left to the right
and so everybody wants to see
of course at a safe distance
we don't want to go there we just want to look
and now I'm lying flat into the lava rock
and my friends are on me
I got one friend lying on my back
And if you can imagine, like, all of our heads are like just all above each other.
And we're all just staring down the lava tube for like two minutes.
We're staring and waiting and waiting for something to happen.
And nothing does.
And so my friends are like, oh, you know, you sure you saw something?
And I'm like, yeah, yeah, I saw something.
And I walked from the left to the right.
And then as we're looking, it appears again from the right to the left.
but instead of walking through the flashlight beam to the other side of it, it stops,
right smack in the middle and turns and faces us.
What the heck is that?
It looked like a humanoid, but it does not have the shape of a human.
The head is fused into the shoulder.
This thing looking back at us had these red eyes that are burning.
It didn't have pupils.
It's just a very dark red, and it's just looking at us.
And so we are booking it now.
My friends are in front of me, and I'm just terrified because my friends can't move fast enough.
I'm yelling at them.
My friend in front of me, I'm trying to bite his foot, I'm hitting his foot, I'm telling them, hurry up.
Because as I'm yelling at him, I hear and feel the presence behind me.
getting closer.
I hear scratching noise.
I hear something shuffling behind us and it's getting
closer and it's closer and it's coming closer
and I'm freaking out.
And it may have taken us 45 minutes to get down
but it took us about five minutes or less to get out
and that was uphill.
We get out and we're like, we're just booking it.
I'm running down the ledge and I just decided
to jump halfway.
One of my friend decides to jump a little high.
up, ends up spraining his ankle.
So I'm getting out of the cave and I'm helping my friend.
I get to my car.
My friends are in their car in front of us.
I close all the doors.
I lock all the doors.
And I go to start the car up and the car's dead.
I try to turn on the headlights.
The battery is dead.
Nothing is starting up.
And so we're just kind of looking at each other, freaking out.
We decide the heck with it.
I'm leaving my car here.
I get into my friend's car and I help my friend get into my friend's car.
car in front of us. I tell him, all right, let's get the heck out of here. Let's go.
He's trying to start it and nothing is happening. There's no noise. There's no sound. There's
no starter kicking out. There's nothing. Everybody is yelling at the same time. Everybody is panicking.
And all of a sudden, something changes and shifts. And I look out the window and all of my
friends are looking out the window at the same time.
Nobody will say a word.
The moon came out. The clouds
blew away and the whole area
is now covered in moonlight.
I can see everything.
I can see you straight to the cave.
I can see across the road, down the road.
And I also see this figure,
this shape
kind of shambling out
of the cave.
As I watch this thing,
come out of the cave, it's shuffling, almost like its right leg is injured.
And it still has these red eyes that are burning.
It's fire.
It's just a very dark red fire.
And I watch this thing walk to the road and its skin looks like it's covered in scabs.
It gets to the middle of the road and it stops.
Right on the middle line, separating the two legs.
and it just glares at us.
It felt like it was looking at me.
My brain is frozen.
At that point, we're helpless.
We're waiting for something to happen.
It just stares at us and then slowly turns around and walks back into the cave.
I got a feeling that it was telling us Kapu.
Kapu is keep out.
Basically, it scared the bejesus out of us as a warning.
I have a feeling that those caves have.
something in it and this thing may have been a guardian or a protector and to explore it as a bunch of
teenagers is very disrespectful you know this thing came across the street it could have done anything to us
it didn't it settled with stopping and looking at us and then going back into the cave
these are the good spirits the good spirits are the ones that will scare the pants off of you
The bad spirits are the ones saying,
Come, don't worry, don't be afraid of me.
Come closer.
Let me come closer.
Let me stay for the record, that I am afraid and I will stay away.
I'm not trying to get tied up with any ancient deities,
but I want to thank my friend Joe for venturing into the cave
coming face to face with the divine.
The original score for that piece was by Lauren Newsom.
It was produced by Annie Nguyen.
and Greta Weber.
Don't you go anywhere, Snoppers.
Because after the break, buckle up.
We're going to get our kicks on Route 666.
Stay to Snap Judgment, the Campfire Tales episode.
My name is going to Washington.
And this week, we're going to ring your stories from Spooked.
Our sister podcast created in the Dark of Night
in partnership with Luminary subscription podcast network.
And our next story comes to us from the dark of night,
from the road.
And when you're driving down that dark and lonely road
with the wind howling, the mist swirling, the rain
pouring down from the sky,
when do you decide that you don't want to see
what's around the bend?
Hi, my name is Michael Kilpatrick.
I'm a musician, a full-time musician,
and I was playing a gig in Huntsville, Alabama.
And I had a great show.
Went to the bar, thanked everybody for having us, gave everybody hugs and kisses.
And on the way out, one of the guys from the bar goes, hey, Mike, hey man, you really want to pay a close attention to the weather, man.
It's starting to get bad.
I think the storm's going to get bad.
With that, my girl, Karen, and I hopped into the Red Honda Accord, and we were off to Birmingham.
This is a drive that I have done many, many, many times.
over my life. So this is just a normal drive for me. We'd been driving about 30 minutes. It's
1.30 in the morning, and it's very, very dark, very windy, and starting to rain a little bit.
And we'd made a right turn onto a very, very small two-lane highway that runs 30 miles
out of Huntsville, Alabama. Once we turned under the two-lane road, the atmosphere just
felt different around us. I rolled the windows down. Oddly enough,
The weather was extremely calm.
There was no rain.
There was virtually no wind.
There were no lights on anywhere around.
You ever heard the expression calm before the storm?
That's sort of what it felt like.
And I changed the tape player over to the radio to tune in an AM station to find out if there were any weather bulletins.
We'd been on the two-lane road for maybe ten minutes.
Up ahead I see some headlights coming toward us, which is rare for this time of night on
this two-lane road.
I start to slow the car a little bit.
We're maybe 500 yards away, and the closer I get to them, we notice that the headlights
are arranged vertically rather than horizontally.
As we neared the car, I lowered the window.
We realized that we're actually looking at a perfectly pristine car.
It's a dark-colored SUV.
It looked like it was just off the showroom floor.
And it was just sitting on its passenger side.
And the engine was running.
And the interior lights were on.
All the running lights were on.
The windshield wipers in this car were on.
And the strangest thing was the driver's side door was wide open, somehow defying gravity.
And at this point, I yelled out, does anybody need any help?
Is everybody okay?
Hello? Hello?
I looked at Karen and I said, something's bad wrong here.
There's this car, it's been in some sort of an accident, but there's no damage to the vehicle whatsoever.
The car is completely pristine.
Nothing wrong.
There's no broken glass.
There's no skid marks.
There's no debris.
The car just looks like it's been set on its side and abandoned.
Karen said, this just feels funny.
I feel like either someone might be watching us or someone who's waiting for us to get out.
I just got a really bad feeling, just a sinking feeling in my stomach that something was really, really wrong.
Karen said, let's just go, let's just go move along.
We continued on, and we sort of felt like the worst of the storm probably had passed,
so we felt like we could just get back up to speed and ignore this anomaly and just keep going and get back to Birmingham.
But we've been driving about five minutes.
and still kind of rattled by what we'd seen,
but we sort of had put it out of our minds,
and we just concentrated on the drive
and were making small talk
when we came around another corner.
And around that corner, we saw some tail lights,
but the closer we got to them,
we realized they were the tail lights of yet another SUV.
This car looked different.
It was also a dark-colored SUV.
but it was more red or maroon.
The closer we got to it, we realized that this SUV was on its roof.
I didn't have a cell phone or I would have called 911 myself.
I lowered the passenger side window where Karen was,
and we both just stopped and looked out.
The car is upside down in a very, very shallow ditch,
right next to the side of the road.
I heard the windshield wipers of the car moving.
The engine was on
The interior lights were on
None of the doors of the car were open
But it just seemed like a perfectly normal car
Flipped on its top
No scratches
No broken glass
No broken anything
Karen
You call him
She just said
Hello
Anybody there
Anyone around
need any help?
Hello?
Hello?
Karen turned to face me
and it seemed like the color
was starting to drain out of her face.
She has a much cooler head than I do
and if she was upset
then I knew I needed to be upset.
We had been sitting there a couple of moments
and then we just decided
we need to get out of here.
There's something really, really, really bad here.
I press the accelerator pretty
hard and just said
what is going on here
Karen didn't say a word
we had not passed another car
we had not passed another living soul
on this road and we've now been on the road
15 minutes
well way up ahead
I noticed something in the road
and it looked like
the road was covered in
like
white colored gravel
like hailstones
and the
closer we got to it, I realized that these hailstones were moving, and they were as far as the
eye could see in all directions. So I got a little closer, and the closer I got to them,
I realized that they weren't hailstones at all. They were frogs, tiny, tiny frogs, maybe just a
little bit bigger than a 50-cent piece. Every square inch of that row,
and the shoulder of the road were covered with these hopping frogs everywhere.
The whole road looked like it was moving in front of me.
I pulled the car to a stop.
I lowered the windows.
We heard no noises.
It was as though God turned off the audio of the world.
We didn't hear the frogs.
They made no noise.
We heard nothing but the sound of my engine.
No wind, no rain, no radio, no breathing.
We heard nothing.
And all we could see were these frogs everywhere we looked.
They continued on up the road as far as we could see.
It's hopping around on this wet pavement.
Thousands upon thousands of them.
Just everywhere.
I reached over.
put my hand on Karen's knee and said, I don't know what this is, but it feels like the plague.
She said nothing.
My heart was in my throat.
I kind of felt my hands shake.
I don't think I've ever been more frightened in my life.
I've been through some frightening experiences, but nothing like this.
I glanced at Karen and she was motionless, just staring, staring at the frogs.
I looked at Karen and said
We can't stay here
We have to keep going
And for just a moment
The animal lover in me said
Well I can't run these frogs down
I can't run over these frogs
These poor frogs
Whatever they're doing here
I don't know
But we got to get out of here
So I went ahead and continued on
Once we're driving
I'm hearing the frogs
as they jump hit the side of our car.
I'm hearing very, very small thumps
against the front, the sides, the doors,
very small thumps,
and the frogs just kept coming.
And we continued down this road,
and we've gone another mile,
another two miles, another three miles,
and these frogs are still everywhere.
All around us.
We're running over them.
They're in front of us.
They're behind us.
They're on the sides.
They're just everywhere.
They're just like a chorus of thumps, tiny thumps against the car.
Very, very unsettling, to say the least, to know that I was killing these frogs by running over them, but I had to get out of there.
Four miles I'd gone, and the frogs sort of tapered off.
after we passed through the frogs
and it looked like they were behind us
I just pressed the accelerator hard
and I was
probably 20 miles over the speed limit
I just wanted to get as far away from them as I could
I kept driving another 10 minutes
and I reached the interstate
which I need to get on to get back to Birmingham
and I see that
there's one gas station
right at the freeway
entrance. And so I pull in, hoping to just sort of shake my head and just kind of make sense of what
happened. Well, I slide the car into the parking lot of the gas station, pull up in a parking space,
and I immediately wanted to jump out to see what the car looked like. Karen hopped out the
passenger side. I hopped out my side. The first thing I did was look at the exterior of the vehicle.
I just felt more than a little unsettled
because not only had we seen what we'd seen
and driven through what we'd driven through,
I saw no outward evidence
on the car that we'd been through anything like this.
It's just a wet car
on a wet road, on a wet night
in rural Alabama.
Thank you, Michael, for sharing your story with the spook
how very relieved we are
but she made it back from the Twilight Zone
Original score for that story
by Leon Morimoto
It was produced by Amy Nguyen
Let me ask you a question
Did you ever experience the inexplicable
Did you ever hear the shouts of the unseen
Or see that which should never have been
You see there are some stories
You may not want to tell your spouse
Your friends or your family
but if you can't tell them snappers,
we want to hear your stories.
Your stories make spooked, spook.
So let us know,
spooked at snapjudgment.org.
And I promise
will only tell
if you want us to tell.
After the break,
we're headed to a famous lighthouse
to meet a man that lived there.
Stay tuned.
Welcome back to Snap Judgment.
Our Camp Fire Tales episode,
my name is from Washington
and this week.
bringing stories from Spook.
We're traveling to a small coastal town in Maine.
This place is called Lubbock.
It's easternmost town in the United States of America.
And once you're there, you better get comfortable because it's over 100 miles to the next city.
Baba.
Babba's lived there his whole life, and in his 20s,
bubble worked at the town's famous lighthouse, manned by the U.S. Coast Guard.
For four years, Bubba was in charge of a small crew that kept watch in shifts.
Their job?
Never, ever let the light go out.
Here's Bubba.
In the light, there's no other light house like it, the horizontal red and white stripes.
Thirteen are together.
It's, you know, the flag of the colonial days.
My name is George Eaton.
I'm 63 years old.
I live in Lubeck, Maine, left here in 1974 at the high school to join the Coast Guard and put 26 years in the Coast Guard.
If you guys wasn't here today, I wouldn't be in this house.
I would not be in the house alone.
Believe it not, I can't never be alone in the rest of my life.
It is isolated, you know, there's bays down there.
There's coyotes.
There's wildlife.
I've seen, honest to God, I've seen a mountain lying down there.
We've got to go 50 miles to go to Walmart.
We've got to go to Walmart.
movie. Well, that road is a winding, you know, winding, you know, it's a dangerous road.
Thick a fog down there at night, you could go off the road very, very easily.
Duty was two days on, two days off than the weekend off. But you got to remember that you're
on there for two days, you've got to give the weather report every four hours. You've got to
time the light, and then you're going to make sure the fog is going. Somebody might be drowning out there
falling overboard. So he was constantly watching the ocean, too.
He always had that feeling like somebody was either looking at her or standing behind
or something like that. There was a presence there that felt it was like a dark presence,
the evil presence. For somebody that is not used to a rural setting, like Lou Gehrieck,
and they come from a sitting, get stationed down there, I've had a couple, it was a shocker
for him. I come in one morning and a guy you want to commit suicide.
He was up on the light facing the ocean
and he locked the door to get up there
and he wanted to jump off the lighthouse
kill himself.
So I had to call the medical center
and come down and they took him out in the straitjacket.
He was kicking, yelling, screaming,
and I just kept asking him, what happened to you?
What happened to you?
How did you get to this state of mind?
And then this guy named Bradley
he was from Luback.
He had trouble. He was scared. He was scared to stay there.
He couldn't, he wouldn't handle it.
So one night I come down, a check on him, and I went down over the hill and all the lights were on.
All the lights. It's like, what the heck? And then I got closer down.
Now I see his car in all the windows and everything was smashed off his car.
His tail lights, its headlights, it was all smashed out.
Glass all over the throat. I'm going, man, somebody did that to him, and, you know, we're going to get the bottom of it.
So I went in the light and hollet, hey Bradley, Bradley, Bradley, where are you?
And then I said, are you in the bathroom?
Open the door up right now, I'm going to kick it in.
Well, you opened it up like this.
Honest to God there was a mattress and a pillow, bring up the flesh.
He had a gun.
He had a knife.
He had an axe.
He's just like this, right?
Like he was in horror.
Like he was in a ghost.
I'm looking at it.
It ain't funny.
I'm looking at him and go,
what happened to you?
What happened to you?
What happened to your vehicle?
Your vehicles are all smitten.
He goes, honest to God.
I looked out the window, and there was 12 people in cloaks.
And they had sticks.
And he was going around my car.
They were smashing it up.
I said, okay.
Where did they go out?
Did you see where they went?
They did this vanish in the woods.
I said, okay.
All right.
So I got him out there and got him a cup of coffee,
and he was shaking and everything like that.
And he was scared right to death.
I called the medical center again,
and Hannah come down and take him off off the straight jacket.
I went through about 10 people down there.
It was hard enough to get somebody down there
to stand that kind of duty.
A lot of people can't do that.
A lot of people can't be alone.
And if you're out there all alone,
I can see being scared.
I was scared.
I was scared.
I wasn't happy going out there every four hours at night.
I wasn't scared of the animals.
I was scared of maybe seeing something else.
That's what I scared of.
When it started getting dark outside, I felt it.
You know, it was a worst feeling for me.
You know, I'm the only one here.
I'd hear a spoon and a cup.
I said, geez, we'd drink a coffee out there.
And I'd listened to it for a while.
I was right by the kitchen in my bedroom.
I could hear it.
I could hear drawers opening up and all that.
You know, my beard was situated,
so I'd look right at the door
to see if the door not would be turning.
I was armed.
I never slept all night.
I did during the day.
I would during the day,
but not at night.
That's how crazy I was.
I put up on the doors,
I put up like bells and stuff.
Because I really wanted to hear somebody trip
or hit one of them.
You know what I mean?
I really wanted to hear that.
I figure,
If they're coming, they'll come to me.
And I'll be ready for them.
I remember it was a clear day.
It was a beautiful day out.
And all that, of course, I had the duty.
I don't think anybody could come down and visit.
I had visits almost every day.
Nobody came down that day, which was odd.
I see the wind change.
It was southwest.
And I say, here we go again.
Southwest could be thick of fog down here tonight.
I mean thick.
When I looked out of the window about 10 o'clock at night,
couldn't even see your car.
That's how thick it was.
And that makes you nervous, too.
At 10 o'clock, I think I went to bed around 10 o'clock.
Something like that.
But I'm in there, laying down and all that.
And I just get in bed and I heard this banging on the door.
I'm going,
who will be coming down here 10 o'clock at night?
It must be one of my friends or something wants to come in and say hello.
But they never come down 10 o'clock at night before.
So I hear the, keep hearing the banging.
It wasn't loud, this banging, you know.
So I said, well, it must be somebody in distress.
So I, I'm in the kitchen, I go out through the door,
and I see the shape of, I see the shape of somebody.
I hung up the door, and there's this woman stand there, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this dress was like a, it was like a, it was like a civil war,
dress. It was kind of gray and white and all that. And I'm looking at it and she's, I mean,
she's, as soon as I seen her eyes, it's like she's looking right through me. She looks like
she was in, I won't say terror, but she was, we're not a happy person. I was scared. As soon as I,
as soon as I don't have the door, it's like, like that, and my heart was pounding, and I just said,
I mean, I helped me, she was, yes, I have to use the bathroom.
She sounded like a, like a, a really soft, soft voice, really soft, like a squeaky voice.
And I said, yeah, and, you know, I'm a quiz of the prayer.
I was going to ask her a hundred questions.
But all of a sudden, I just got this feeling like, I got a, you know, she wants to use the bathroom.
That's her priority, you know, okay, no problem.
So I told the other bathrooms right over here, well, guess what?
She walks by me, she goes, I know where it is.
you do
she walks by me
opens up the door
to wear
and I freaked me out
and I said
you must be here
been here before
and she didn't ask me
well
she started going up the stairs
and I turned the light on
and she could
I watched her
up the stair
and I'm kind of
looking up
and make sure
that she's in the bathroom
all right
she's in the bathroom
and no light comes on
the whole time
you've got to be kidding me
And I, that's when I went, I either got a face of music here, I run down out of here,
and get my truck and take off.
That's what I should have done.
Anyway, I backed off and went out, you know, the kitchen's right there, and here she comes.
And she comes down, she walks right out of the door.
And when she come out of that door downstairs, she didn't even look at me.
She didn't even look at me.
She wouldn't right by me like that.
And I told her, I said, I got to ask a couple questions.
She didn't even ask me.
She went right out at the door, and in her sick of fog.
She went right out.
So I went out.
I went out.
Because I told her, I started yelling.
I said, ma'am, you're going the wrong way.
Because the cliff was there.
That was it.
She then disappeared in the fog.
So Raymond T. the next morning, I went and got him.
She said, Raymond, this woman came in here.
last night.
She didn't look like something I've seen before.
Well, then he told me he's seen her over there a few years back.
And I said, oh, I said, so what do you think, Raymond?
He goes, it's a ghost.
I wish now I would have touched her.
I wish I would have this went like that and touched her to see,
to see if there was any kind of reaction or something like that.
And I just started thinking all these things that,
why did she come in and see me?
Why, I mean, why me?
Why not somebody else?
Was she safe with me?
I don't know.
She had to, I think she had to be,
something happened there.
Something happened.
You know, I do believe she died down there.
She might have died there.
She might have died at sea.
You know, she might have got lost.
She looked like a loss old to me.
That's what it looked like,
me. Like I said, my last two years was very, very difficult.
Because I really thought I'd see her again. I've dreamed to her.
I have dreamed of that woman. It's the same thing. She walks by me, turns around, walks out.
Every dream. Every dream is the same thing. Walks. This goes up there. Then I wake up.
And I, you know, even today, I have a light on my, every night. A little light there, that's all.
So that I feel safe.
For manning the light, kicking everyone safe for so many years,
we're glad you don't have to be down there anymore.
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It was produced by Greta Weber and Galen Kopp.
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