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Chapter 1: What stories are featured in this episode?
Today's podcast will feature three stories that will make you wonder how many monsters you may have encountered in your life. The audio from all three of these stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel and has been remastered for today's episode. The links to the original YouTube videos are in the description.
The first story you'll hear is called The Home Gym and it's about a family who's having a totally normal Friday, but little do they know their worlds are about to come tumbling down. The second story you'll hear is called 120 Times. And what makes the story so horrifying is that it could happen to you. And the third and final story you'll hear is called To Save His Soul.
And it's about a Bible study in a motel that quickly turns into one of the most disturbing cases ever. But before we get into today's stories, 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 four times a week, Monday, Wednesday, Thursdays, and Fridays.
So if that's of interest to you, please offer the follow button a nice high-end teeth whitening kit. But don't tell them you've secretly replaced the whitener with red hair dye. Okay, let's get into our first story called The Home Gym. On the evening of Thursday, May 21st, 2015, a 16-year-old girl named Lily walked into the home gym inside of her house in Hong Kong looking to do a workout.
Now, she sort of expected the gym would be empty and she could kind of have the run of the place, but as soon as she walked in, she saw her dad was in there and he was doing some sort of cool-down exercise on a yoga ball. So Lily's dad, whose name was Ka Kim's son, was a doctor and a professional. And normally at this time of the day, she would never see him in the gym.
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Chapter 2: What is the story behind 'The Home Gym'?
He was typically locked upstairs in his study or, you know, upstairs doing work or something, or he was just gone for the day. So for him to be here, it just didn't really line up with his schedule. And so Lily asked her dad, like, what are you doing here? What's going on? And her dad would tell her, well, actually, you know, work at the hospital was really slow today. So I took off.
I played some tennis with friends. And now I'm just doing some cool down exercises because I got nothing else to do. But I'll be out of your hair in a second. And sure enough, a couple of minutes later, her dad was up and out of the gym and Lily just began a workout.
The next day, May 22nd, around one o'clock, Lily was at home at her dining room table, sitting across from her mother, whose name was Wang Siu-Fing, and Lily was eating a snack and staring at an open textbook. Now, normally at one o'clock on a Friday, Lily would be at school, but she had had the day off that day. And she had wanted to spend her day off seeing friends and just being a teenager.
But her dad was really focused on her being successful academically. And he told her that absolutely not. You're not going anywhere. You are going to stay home and you are going to study all day long. You will not leave the house. That's what you're doing. So Lily just continued to stare at the textbook and basically do what her father said.
And then a couple of minutes later, she actually heard her dad coming down the stairs and he came into the dining room and he was clearly very pleased to see his daughter doing her work, or at least appearing to do her work. And he came over to her, gave her a kiss, he kissed their mother, and then he said he was off to work. And then he went out the door and he was gone.
And as soon as Carl was gone, Lily's mom looked over at her and said, I'm not going to make you study all day. Come on, let's go out and have a mother-daughter shopping day. And Lily was stoked. She shut her textbook, she went and got ready, and then a minute later, she and her mom climbed into her mom's yellow Mini Cooper car and they headed out.
About two hours later, around 4.15 p.m., a local jogger was running in the same neighborhood as where Lily and her family lived, and as they were running down the road, they noticed there was this yellow Mini Cooper car sitting on the side of the road, not moving, but it was still on. It was just sort of idling right there.
And at first glance, it appeared there were people inside the car, but they weren't doing anything. They were just sitting there, not moving. And so the jogger was curious, and so they ran past and made a point to look inside the car, and they saw two women in the front two seats of this car slumped over. The two women were Lily and her mother.
And so the jogger began to panic and banged on the glass to try to get the women to respond, but they didn't. And so a minute later, police were called. They dragged Lily and her mother out of the car. They were totally unresponsive. They were rushed to the hospital, but it was too late. They both died.
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Chapter 3: How did Lily and her mother meet their tragic fate?
Specifically, she wanted to practice international law. And so in order to do that, she needed to be able to speak other languages besides English. And so during her college years, she had really leaned into Spanish and become quite good at it rather quickly. During her college Spanish studies, one of her professors was a woman named Daniela Jaimes.
Daniela very quickly recognized in Samantha that she had this incredible intellect and work ethic and just knew she was destined for greatness. In fact, she compared Samantha to Amal Clooney, who is George Clooney's wife and is considered to be one of the most famous international lawyers ever.
And so just out of a general interest to see Samantha succeed, Daniela offered to Samantha to kind of be there for her if she needed anything beyond just Spanish, that she was there to help her with law school applications, or if she needed advice on something, or if she just had ideas she wanted to bounce off of her, she would be available.
And Samantha had taken her up on this offer, and by 2019, in Samantha's senior year, the pair had become very close, forming a sort of mentor-mentee relationship.
early that year samantha got accepted into her target law school drexel university in pennsylvania and so after telling her mother and father samantha ran to daniella's office to tell her mentor the great news and the two hugged and laughed and celebrated right there in the office it was clear that everything was falling into place for samantha and daniella was just very very proud of her
A few weeks later, on March 29th, Samantha decided to go out with her friends for some drinks. Now, Samantha normally spent a lot of her time studying, even on the weekends, but since she was about a month away from graduation and she was already accepted to law school and really didn't have that much work since it was the end of the year anyways, she decided she could cut loose for that weekend.
So she, along with her friends, head out to this downtown area called Five Points, which is right near the University of South Carolina. And it's an area that's full of shops and restaurants and bars. So on the weekends, it is packed with college students. Samantha and her friends hop from bar to bar. They're having a great time.
And then around 2 a.m., the group found themselves in a bar called Bird Dog. And while they were there, because it was so crowded, the group of friends got separated. Now, initially, the friends were trying to reconnect with each other through texts and phone calls, but they were just really struggling to locate each other.
And kind of in the middle of all that, Samantha decided that she was just too tired and didn't really feel like staying out any longer. And so she texted her friends and let them know that she was going to head back to her room. So Samantha leaves the bird dog bar on her own. She hops in an Uber and she starts driving back towards her campus.
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