Fan Favorite - "The Artist"
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Today's episode is a fan favorite. The audio in the story has been remastered for today's episode. On the afternoon of September 10th, 2009, an art student walked inside of her off-campus apartment in Dallas, Texas, and immediately began making herself a late lunch. A roommate didn't come out of the bedroom to greet her, but to be honest, this wasn't totally unusual. The two of them, despite being roommates, were not actually very close at all. After eating their food, the student studied for a while and then watched some TV and then went to bed, all the while still never hearing a sound coming out of her roommate's bedroom.
What mysterious events occurred on September 10, 2009?
But again, this was normal. That is, until the next day, when the student received a call from their school telling her to go back to her apartment to check on her roommate, because apparently the roommate's mother was very concerned about them. The student was annoyed, but went back to the apartment, and when they walked into their roommate's bedroom, they would see something that would haunt them for years, and it would instantly explain why their roommate had not come out of the room. But before we get into that story, if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark, and Mysterious delivered in story format, then you've come to the right podcast because that's all we do and we upload twice a week, once on Monday and once on Thursday.
So if that's of interest to you, please offer to change the oil in the Follow Buttons car, but be sure you replace their oil with vegetable oil. Okay, let's get into today's story.
On the evening of Wednesday, September 9th, 2009, 20-year-old Shelly Nance walked into her bedroom inside of her off-campus apartment in Dallas, Texas, and then shut the door behind her. Shelly liked the fact that once inside of her room, she would not need to speak to anybody. She preferred it that way. She settled down on her bed with her back propped against a stack of pillows, and then she took out her notebook and pencil and began to draw. Shelley spent most of her time drawing on a computer at the Art Institute of Dallas, where she was a second year multimedia and animation student. But when she was by herself and just wanted to relax, she preferred just using pencil and paper. Tonight, Shelley began sketching a young woman who looked a lot like herself, slender with long flowing hair and just the hint of a smile on her face.
Shelley originally began drawing to escape the boredom of growing up in the tiny town of Italy, Texas, where she'd always been something of a loner. She even joked about that in her senior yearbook, choosing a biting quote to go with her picture. She wrote, "'You laugh at me because I'm different. I laugh at you because you're all the same.'" But Shelley got so good at drawing that it actually changed her life. She eventually won an art competition that gave her a partial scholarship to this art institute. And suddenly, Shelley had a plan for life after high school, to be an artist. As soon as she got to the art school and started meeting her eccentric and creative classmates, Shelley felt like she'd finally found her place.
For the first time ever, she had friends who actually understood and accepted her quirks. They would go to anime conventions together and even dress up as their favorite anime characters. It was a world that Shelley frankly never could have imagined back in her hometown, which was basically no more than a truck stop along a highway. And going to this art institute provided another big first for Shelley. She had a boyfriend, Nathan Shuck, and they often could be found playing video games together on the couch at his apartment. But as Shelley sat there sketching tiny doves into her picture, she realized that having this active social life now could actually be kind of a burden. Until recently, she had never had to consider anybody else's feelings but her own, but now having a boyfriend meant she had to plan for two people.
And after dating Nathan for two months now, she was actually starting to have her doubts about the relationship.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:34
2
What mysterious events occurred on September 10, 2009?
0:34–17:24
3
How did Shelly's life change after starting art school?
17:24–26:34
4
What were the circumstances leading up to Shelly's disappearance?
26:34–36:54
5
How did Shelly's roommate discover the shocking truth?
36:54–39:56