Chapter 1: What are the three stories about grave mistakes featured in this episode?
Today's podcast will feature three stories about people who made grave mistakes. 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 New Member, and it's about a group of church members who witness something horrifying as their pastor begins a ceremony. The second story you'll hear is called Robin Hood, and it's about a teenager who looks at his phone and thinks his life is over.
And the third and final story you'll hear is called The Sailor's Diagnosis, and it's about a doctor who begins to lose his mind after declaring one of his patients dead.
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 place because that's all we do, and we upload two, three, even four times every week. So if that's of interest to you, please offer to buy the follow button in order of their favorite food, fried chicken.
But before you hand it over, be sure to remove the crispy outer layer from each piece. Okay, let's get into our first story called The New Member. At 10.30 a.m. on October 30, 2005, a 33-year-old pastor named Kyle Lake stood on a stage inside of the University Baptist Church in Waco, Texas.
Kyle had just finished delivering that morning's sermon to his congregation, which included about 800 people. And now he was about to welcome a new member, a young woman.
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Chapter 2: What horrifying event occurs during 'The New Member' story?
So, Kyle had been the pastor of this church for the last seven years. And over that time, the church had really grown and evolved, really directly because of Kyle's leadership. He was known as being a very thoughtful and educated pastor, who was also known to be quite fun and progressive.
He often would play pranks on the congregation and keep things really light, even if he was in the middle of a very important sermon. And people liked that. It made him relatable. And so because of Kyle's youthful energy that he clearly gave off, he had sort of gradually shifted the congregation to being a much more young crowd.
Predominantly the folks who attended the church were college kids, or roughly that age. And also his wife was an attendee at the church, as were his three little kids, who at the moment, as he was up on stage, they were across the hall attending kids' Bible study. Now, for Kyle, welcoming a new member into this church had become a very big deal for him.
He, in fact, had this special ceremony he would perform for each and every new member. And really, the whole congregation got behind this ceremony. And so today, Kyle was about to do this ceremony with this new member, this young woman.
And so Kyle, you know, in front of the whole congregation, he calls this woman up, you know, come on up, we're going to do the ceremony to welcome you to the church. And so the woman, she gets up and she walks up to the front of the stage. She smiles and Kyle says hello to her and sort of introduces himself and the whole church is listening.
And then Kyle, as part of this ritual, moved to the very center of the stage where the actual ceremony was going to take place. And he was about to call the woman up to join him in the center of the stage when there was a malfunction. Now, the malfunction itself was not really a huge deal.
All it did was just stop Kyle for a second, and he had to stop talking to the new member, and he had to figure out what he was going to do, but quickly he saw a fix that didn't even require him to leave the stage. However, the instant he actually made the fix, when he fixed the malfunction, as he was about to start talking to the whole audience again, he just began to scream.
Now, at first, nobody took this seriously, because their pastor was known for playing pranks on the congregation. And so everybody just thought it was a prank, albeit a strange one. I mean, he's screaming at the top of his lungs, but everyone's sort of looking around like, this is a prank, right? But then Kyle's screams began to include words. He began screaming, help, help me.
And at that point, it sort of clicked for the whole congregation that this was not a joke. Something was terribly wrong, even though they're looking up at him and nothing appeared to be wrong. Nothing made sense. And so immediately it was like the church spiraled into chaos and confusion. People are bowing their heads, praying as fiercely as they could, praying for his safety.
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