Chapter 1: What are the three horror stories featured in this episode?
Today's podcast will feature three horror stories with completely unexpected endings. 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 After the Riot, and it's about a man's son who mysteriously vanishes during a prison riot. The second story you'll hear is called Falling Treasure, and it's about a politician in Malaysia who calls upon a shaman to bestow riches and power upon him.
And the third and final story you'll hear is called A Son's Nightmare, and it's about police who visit a small village after a man's recurring nightmare about his mother makes him question reality.
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, Thursday, and Fridays. So if that's of interest to you, please sneak into the Follow Buttons house and dump out all their shampoo and refill the bottles with glue.
Okay, let's get into our first story called After the Riot. On the afternoon of October 11th, 2016, a middle-aged man named Carlos Herrera Sr. entered the visitation area of a prison in Venezuela. The room itself sort of looked like a high school cafeteria with tables and chairs everywhere for the inmates and their visitors to sit down and have their meetings.
And right in front of one was one table where there was this bedraggled looking prisoner who he was there to meet. As Juan got closer to this guy, he could see he really looked terrible, the inmate. I mean, his cheekbones were sticking out, he was sort of emaciated, he was bloodied and bruised, he had bandages on his arm.
And also, as Juan moved towards this guy, he could clearly see all the guards that line the walls and the exits of this visitation area sort of squirm with discomfort, you know, as this meeting is about to take place. And Juan had a good idea why these guards might be anxious.
And that's because over the past month, this prison had been on lockdown because a gang inside the prison had risen up and overpowered the guards and completely taken over for this entire month. And just to be clear, I mean, during this month, people died as a result of this takeover. I mean, this was a horrible month for this prison.
And it was only over the past couple of days that the guards were finally able to take back control. And Juan knew all this not only because this riot was all over the news while it was going on, but also because his own son, Juan Jr., was serving time in this prison for robbery. He had been for the past year. However, Juan Sr. was not coming to visit his son right now.
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Chapter 2: What happens in the story 'After The Riot'?
And the thing he was tapped to help Vargas with was distributing food to the inmates. Because remember, despite how brutal Vargas was, he was in charge of providing basic necessities to all the inmates. And because of this riot, the prison had been locked down and so food supplies had been restricted. And so inmates are beginning to starve. There's this big food shortage.
And so Junior was told like, hey, you need to help us provide food to these inmates. So Junior basically agreed to do it, at which point he was informed exactly what role he was playing in finding food. Instead of going out and looking for this food, Junior was the food. Vargas and his gang cornered Junior, beat him to death, butchered his body, and then literally fed him to the inmates.
That's what happened to Juan's son. After hearing this horrific story, Juan Sr. was destroyed. And one of the first things he did is he went public and had this big press conference to tell the world about what happened to his son. But despite there being many eyewitness accounts, ultimately, the Venezuelan government denied the cannibalism and nobody was ever held accountable.
Durangel Vargas remains incarcerated and he's never been charged with any crimes connected to Jr. 's disappearance.
Our next story is called Falling Treasure.
On the evening of July 2nd, 1993, a 49-year-old politician named Maslin Idris paced around the living room inside of his home, which was located in a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Maslin was feeling very anxious because tonight, in his home, he was going to have a very important meeting. So, Maslin was already a very successful politician.
He was a state assemblyman, which is sort of like a state congressperson. But what he really coveted, the thing he wanted more than anything else in his political career, was to become the state's mentri besar, which is sort of like being the state's governor. But to get this role, Maslin had to be appointed. And realistically, he didn't know if that was going to happen.
And that was in part because recently he had felt like his political power was sort of, you know, slipping away from him. And on top of that, you know, he was getting older and he sort of felt like his popularity was waning too.
And so he felt like, you know, in order for me to get appointed to become the state's Mentri Basar, I really need to find a unique way to reclaim that political power and popularity. And that was going to be the central focus of the big meeting at his house that night. So Maslin continued to pace around, anxiously checking his watch, you know, waiting for these people to show up.
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