Stranger Than Fiction Vol. VII
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Hey Prime members, you can binge eight new episodes of the Mr. Ballin podcast one month early and all episodes ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the Amazon Music app today. Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction, and today's podcast features three stories that demonstrate that. 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 Way, and it's about the creepy backstory to a very famous 90s song. The second story you'll hear is called High Stakes. What seems like a harmless dare turns out to have disastrous consequences. And the third and final story you'll hear is called Baltic Fleet, and it's about one of the biggest naval blunders of all time.
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 twice a week, once on Monday and once on Thursday. So if that's of interest to you, please invite the follow button out for a very casual night out together. And when you're about halfway through dinner, begin aggressively hard selling them your multi-level marketing scheme. Okay, let's get into our first story called The Way.
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On the evening of June 28, 1997, an 83-year-old woman named Leila Howard turned up the radio in the living room of her small home in Texas, and then she took a seat next to her husband, Raymond, on the couch. This was a song that both of them loved, and in the past, Lila knew her husband would have swooped her up and begun dancing with her right away. But Raymond was now 88 years old, he was also recovering from brain surgery, and they both were planning to go to bed in the next few minutes because they had a big day the next day. They were going to go to the Pioneer Day Music Festival, which is an annual fiddling festival located about 15 miles away from where Lila and Raymond lived in the town of Salado, Texas.
Lila and Raymond attended this festival basically every year. And so even though Raymond right now was a bit fragile from his surgery and his advanced age, the couple had not even considered missing it. Lila's son Hal had tried to persuade Lila to let him, Hal, drive the couple to the music festival, but Lila said no because Lila and Raymond were both fiercely independent and wanted to be in control of their lives, which included driving to and from this festival. Also, Lila had talked about maybe going someplace else after the festival ended with Raymond, kind of spontaneously just driving out and doing something. And so she really wanted to have her own car in case she did want to do that. And so after a few minutes, Lila and Raymond's favorite song came to an end and the DJ hopped back on the radio and began talking about the weather and the traffic.
And at that point, Raymond and Lila, they stood up from the couch, they took each other's hands and they walked upstairs to go to bed. The next morning, so June 29th, Leela and Raymond walked out the front door of their house, and they walked down to their driveway where their Oldsmobile car was parked. Leela helped Raymond get into the passenger seat, and then Leela took her spot in the driver's seat. And then a few moments later, after they were all buckled in and situated, Leela fired up the car, backed out the driveway, and began driving. That evening, Leela's son Hal decided to swing by Leela and Raymond's house to check in on them and see how the festival went. And so at about 5pm, Hal got to their house, and right away when he pulled up, he noticed that Leela and Raymond's car, the Oldsmobile, was not in the driveway. And so Hal thought that was pretty odd, because by now, they should have been back from the festival.
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