The Devil's Diary (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
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What discovery did the man make in the RV in Texas?
One night in December of 2009, a man dug through a pile of papers and photo albums inside of an RV parked in Texas. This man had recently bought the trailer after its previous owner had died, and it was full of junk that he was now trying to sort through. As the man rifled through documents, he stumbled upon a stack of old notebooks, and he opened one and began reading it. And as he did, he felt his heartbeat pick up. Because these notebooks were actually diaries, and they were full of handwritten rantings about demons, monsters, and this deal with the devil. But that really was not what scared this guy. What really scared him was at some point discovering the writer's horrifying confession. 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.
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On the night of July 24th, 1987, 30-year-old Susan Woods stood at the entrance to a local fair in a little city called Hico, located in Central Texas, along with her best friend and her best friend's boyfriend. And the three of them were standing there trying to decide if they wanted to continue to stay here or leave. Now, as they're standing there, they can hear people having fun on all the rides. There's kids laughing and they're screaming. I mean, it's a Friday night. They had chosen to come here. This was the activity. But, you know, so far the night had really not been that great. So Susan's best friend, whose name was Cindy Hallmark, and her boyfriend, whose name was Roy Hayes, had convinced Susan to come out with them and come to this fair.
Because Susan's life of late had been really quite bad. She was in the middle of this very ugly divorce and the new guy that she was dating, it sort of wound up being very pushy when it came to physical intimacy. And so she had recently dumped him too. And so, you know, Susan's life, certainly her relationships anyways, were sort of in rough shape. And so Cindy and Roy had convinced Susan to come out with them and just at least for one night, come enjoy this fair. Just forget about everything else and just come have some fun. And so Susan had agreed to go. However, sort of ironically, once they actually got to the fair and the three of them were walking around and playing games and going into the haunted house and doing all the things you do at the fair, it had been Cindy, not Susan, who had ultimately said that they weren't really having a good time, that they were feeling kind of bad.
Cindy said that she just had this really intense feeling that something bad was about to happen. It was like this constant anxiety and she couldn't shake it and it was making it really hard to enjoy the night. And so that was why the trio is, you know, standing at the gate wondering if it's even worth staying here any longer. And ultimately, Roy finally just said, you know what, why don't we just leave and head back to Stephenville? That's where they all lived. It's where they grew up too. And he said, why don't we go back to Stephenville and we'll just drive around for a bit and eventually we'll go to the Dairy Queen restaurant and we'll get some ice cream. And when Roy suggested this, both Susan and Cindy thought that was a great idea.
And so they left, they hopped in Roy's truck and they began the drive back to Stephenville. About an hour and a half later, Susan, Cindy, and Roy walked into the Stephenville Dairy Queen, they ordered ice cream sundaes, and then sat down at a booth. By this point, Cindy's feeling of dread, you know, that something bad was gonna happen, had mostly gone away, and so the mood was much lighter. And Susan especially was actually having kind of a great night, you know, the first in a long time, it felt like. The last six months or so had been some of the worst in Susan's entire life. Her ex-husband, Michael Woods, who she had been with since she was in her early 20s, had effectively abandoned her back in February, taking her car and also some expensive crystals that she had collected, and he had left behind a viciously mean tape recording of all the things he hated about her, along with dozens of cruel notes with insults on them hidden all over the place.
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