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Take a break from the same old boring blockbusters and experience a new kind of movie night with Radio Rental. At Radio Rental, our videos come to life in your living room, defy all logic, reasoning and make you question your own reality. This is not your ordinary video rental store. At Radio Rental, we carry one of a kind videos. So frightening, so mind bending, you won't be able to sleep at night. You've gone Radio Rental.
Ricky Lee Bagley
Well, look who it is. Long time no see, friend. Hey, welcome to Radio Rental, you fellow traveler. It is me. It is me. It's Ricky Lee Bagley, accredited astrological advisor and current custodian here at Radio Rental, a video rental shop with an exclusive collection of scary stories all told by real breathing people. You know the drill, right? And we got our junior associate clerk Vince in the back of the store today. He's organizing the candy. So, hey, Vince, tell everybody, hey, that kid's locked in I'm talking about. That's a man of integrity right there. Thank you for your service, Vince. Yeah, them Milk Duds ain't gonna count themselves. They ain't. Anyway, it's good to see y'.
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All.
Ricky Lee Bagley
You may have picked up on a little bit of a different vibe around here today. Do you like it? You know you do, don't you? I like it. I did a little redecorating while the shop was closed and wasn't in the budget. But hell, y', all, it was musty in here. I wanted to spice it up a little bit. So I got a couple of bang bag chairs over there in the corner, of course, the Himalayan salt lamp, and added this little beaded curtain to kind of break up the open floor plan that they had in here. This didn't feel intimate enough, in my opinion. All right, well, that's enough of the HGTV tour. Love it or list it? I love it myself. All right, let's get into some tapes. I'm going to grab a special box from the back. Oh, Lord, look like Malachi missed y' all too. All right. Oh. Ooh, this is a good one. I cheated and watched this one a couple of times during the hiatus.
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And.
Ricky Lee Bagley
And here's the verdict on it. It gave me chronic nightmares for weeks. Weeks.
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If anybody knows northern Ontario and Canada, it's some of the deepest back bush in the world. It's very isolated. So we have hundreds of miles of what we call logging roads in northern Ontario. And these logging roads are prime for hunting and fishing and camping and off roading and doing whatever you want. There's literally hundreds of miles to go anywhere. I had found a logging road that in my time going there for about a year, nobody's used. Was one Friday night at the end of COVID and nobody is out there. And that's why I love going out there, Emma Solitude kind of guy. I went out there and it was after work, and it takes me a bit to get out there. You can go 40, 50, 60, 100 miles down some of these logging roads. I got in there around nine at night. It's already dark in northern Ontario at this point. I'm driving down the logging road and the weather turned on me. And the reason I'm there is I know a great grouse hole. I go grouse hunting up there. And I was going to set up camp for the weekend. But anyone from northern Ontario will tell you the weather can turn, especially in September, and it did. So as I'm driving down the logging road, it's freezing rain. It's turning to muck. The skitter trails are pretty much a wash. And as I get to my campsite, it is just totally mucked out. I can't even get my truck in. It's freezing rain. And at this point, it's pitch dark. I'm not setting up camp. I'm not doing anything. I said, you know what? It was a fun trip coming in. I'll call it for the weekend and go back to town knowing that I've got a couple more hours ahead of me on my way out. On my way out, I'm driving slow down a skidder trail. I notice a pair of headlights, truck lights. Me being a kid Canadian, the first thing in my mind is maybe this guy needs help. Because I've been stuck down a skitter trail in muddy weather in my truck before and I had a family of people on ATVs drive right by me, ignore me completely. And it sucked. You know, you're out in the middle of the bush and you see someone, you think maybe this guy can help. There's no cell phone service, there's no. There's basically not even radio out in some of these places in northern Canada. So I figured, hey man, it would be a pretty dick move if I just drove by this guy. Didn't ask if needed any help. So I parked my truck at the mouth of the skitter trail on the logging road. So I'm not blocking the trail if he's coming out. And I start walking down and the truck is about, I don't know, a good 25, 50 yards, maybe more facing towards the road. So I thought he was trying to come out down the trail and maybe he got stuck in all the muck. So I go down the trail, I notice that the truck is running and it's a big generation two black Dodge Cummings diesel. And all the interior lights are on but there's nobody there. So I keep walking around behind the truck. There's a clearing somewhere even farther behind the clearing, I see another light on a flashlight or a headlamp and I see it moving around the bush. At this point I thought maybe he saw me and maybe he's creeped out. So I'll announce myself and I'll say, hey man, I'm just here checking you out if you need any help. And that's what I yelled in the bush. I hollered into the bush, hey buddy, I'm just here to help you out if you need any help. I'm just parked down the road. That's when the movement stopped completely. The headlamp went out and nobody responded. In the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere, that's when I got a little concerned for my well being and my heart sank. I kind of just got that bad feeling right off the bat. I didn't hear anybody respond to me because usually a normal person would just be like, oh, no problem man, or hold on, stay there, let me come talk to you. And then I started to Observe the truck a little bit more. And that's when I realized the truck had no license plate. The truck had pickaxes and shovels, and it looked like it was running for a quick getaway towards the road. I thought, oh, this is getting weirder. And as I observed that, I heard someone come running towards the truck and me through the bush without the light on. My first reaction was to run. I panicked and got completely disoriented. Right off the bat. It's pitch dark, it's raining, it's mucky trail, it's the middle of the woods. You kind of lose your breath. You don't know which way is up, you don't know your left from your right. And everything is going so fast, your skin's buzzing. You're just panicking. Luckily, I saw my headlights at the end of the road and just started running in that direction. Of course, I tripped in the mud face first. And then I got up and kept running. As soon as I made it to my truck, I jump in. I slammed it in reverse because I had looked back and the truck was ripping down the trail towards me. He came ripping out of the trail and almost took my entire front end of the truck off. And then he parked right in front of me. As he does that, he completely blocks the road in front of me on a 45 degree angle, making it impossible for me to go anywhere. And that's when I reached in the back, stumbling for my shotgun. And as I got my shotgun, I raised it and displayed it to him. I don't know if he saw it or not, but that's when his truck just took off. He burned rubber, kicking gravel and rocks all across my front grill, cracking my windshield. And I just sat there in complete disbelief. I sat there for about an hour, running through every possibility through my head. What just happened? Why did he react this way? What was he doing out there? Should I call the police or should I go to a wildlife conservation trooper immediately on the way home? Before I do anything, what's out there? Should I get out of my truck and go explore this area right now? Is there somebody out there that needs my help or something? I just sat there for about an hour contemplating everything. Basically had the best cigarette of my entire life. And I don't think I left until about an hour. I might have even had a couple more cigarettes after that. But I didn't leave for an entire hour after that. At least I just sat there. At the time I'm thinking, someone's getting rid of a body 100% this is Northern Ontario. There's 1 million places to deposit a body that will never be discovered. There will never be a town built there. There will never be any excavation. Some of this land is like untouched frontier still. Us northern boys, we know all about the shadiness that happens in the bush once in a while. We hear the stories. We have bikers up in Northern Ontario. So my mind, you know, big black Dodge, middle of the night, no plates. I'm thinking there's bikers out here getting rid of someone. Or maybe drug addicts. That's what I thought. Drug addicts just got a body. Or the bikers were getting rid of one. On my way home that night, I contacted what we call the Ministry of Natural Resources. That's our wildlife conservation troopers. They're the exact same as the United States. They're the police of the woods for hunting, fishing, camping, everything related to outdoors. And I told them exactly what happened. They instructed me also to call the Ontario Provincial Police, which are state troopers or provincial troopers. I called them as well. They coordinated. And I said, will I ever hear back from you? And they said, well, if we need you as a witness or we make some sort of arrest, we'll obviously hear back from you. But if all you have to work on is a black truck in the middle of the night, I don't know what we're going to be able to tell you. Especially there's no cameras out there. There's nothing. We can't ping a cell phone. Doesn't look like we're gonna have any answers for you. Why?
Ricky Lee Bagley
Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? All right, we're gonna take a quick break for some ads, but don't go away. We be right back.
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Let's go get ready for a new case.
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You can watch the record breaking phenomenon at home.
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Rated PG. All right, well, we're back from the adverts. Y' all think we should do another tape? I mean, it's cheap, it's easy. You're here anyway. Let's do it.
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When I was a little girl, I was trying to learn how to whistle. I would sit on the back porch of our house, which backed up to woods. I would just sit on the back porch and just practice different melodies trying to whistle. One day I actually got a melody and it was Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. I tried different melodies, you know, Happy Birthday, the classics. I wasn't perfect at it, but I feel like I really mastered Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. That one I would whistle over and over again. One night I was sitting on the back porch whistling and I whistled the entire melody of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Except this time the woods whistled back at me. It wasn't like an echo. It wasn't like anything I'd ever heard before. It was my entire full melody whistled back at me. I didn't understand it, but I thought it was really cool. And so I would be like, hello. And I would hear my voice repeated back to me. Not like an echo, but like in my own voice just a beat later. And so I would like hum melodies. I would sing songs that I made
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the woods would repeat it back to me. They'd sing back to me, my whole melody in my own voice. I thought it was just something fun I could do. I thought it was just a way to pass the time. I thought I had like a new friend. That was the woods, I guess I want to say. It went on for a few weeks. I would go out back pretty much every day and practice my whistling with my new friend the woods. The woods would whistle with me, back at me. I wanted to show my parents this cool trick I did. And so I took them out back to the woods on our back porch and I whistled. And the woods whistled back. And they were very scared, didn't really understand what was going on. So they did the same thing. They whistled also for them. The woods whistled back. This freaked them out naturally. I definitely thought it was just pure fun. And it wasn't until I noticed my parents reaction that I thought maybe I was in trouble or that something more sinister was happening. But when they explained to me that they thought there was, you know, a bad man or a creepy person back there watching me, I did start to feel more afraid. They called the police to see if maybe there was a man in the woods watching me or some creepy person back there. The police came and just like me and my parents, they whistled. They hummed a melody and the woods whistled back. It hummed the same melody in their own voice back at them. They didn't think it was a cool trick like I did. They were taking it very seriously. And they scoured the woods looking for any evidence of a person living back there. They didn't find anything. Not anything like a campsite, just nothing. My parents just told me to forget about it, not whistle back there anymore. We couldn't really understand what was happening. Just in case it was a creepy person. They told me, just don't go out there by myself and whistle. My parents have always been like spiritual people who believe in like paranormal stuff. So I don't really know if that's what they were thinking was happening. But the conversation with me was, you know, just don't go back there anymore. We're not going to do that anymore. Eventually we forgot about it. Life went on. It's the summer now. I'm at this point really good at whistling. One day we were just walking around the neighborhood. I'm whistling a new melody. I've expanded beyond Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, making up my own tunes. At this point I hear my. That melody whistled back at me just like it was whistled back to me from the woods. But we weren't near the woods at all. We were just in our neighborhood. We look up and on the neighbor's porch was a parrot in a cage. I whistled again and it repeated my melody back at me. I said hello. It said hello back at me in my voice. My mom did the same thing. We come to find out that the parrot had escaped for a few weeks and that's why we heard it coming from the woods. Finally solving the mystery of the whistling from the woods. I still find it very strange that the parrot could repeat back to us in our exact voice. I feel like that's pretty advanced for a parrot. Still confuses me.
Ricky Lee Bagley
That's like a broken perfume dispenser that don't make sense. All right, let's do some ads.
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Ricky Lee Bagley
Alrighty folks. Well that's it for us today. You know what they say, Dip your toes in slowly. Ease yourself back into things. Don't gorge yourself on horror after giving up cold turkey. You'll cramp up. You will cramp up. But don't worry. Come back to Radio Rental. This time next week, we gonna have some more scary stories for you. Oh, look at this. Vince is offering y' all some Goobers for the ride home. Isn't that sweet, that boy? He's just sweet, Vince. I will say this though, it's a little bit creepy. You don't use your words.
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Don't mind if I do.
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Radio Rental is created by Payne Lindsay and brought to you by Tenderfoot tv. Showrunner is Meredith Stedman. Lead producers are Eric Quintana and Steven Perez. Executive producers are Payne Lindsay and Donald Albright. This episode is hosted by Jeff Foxworthy and features Tony Cavallaro writing by Meredith Stedman. Original score by Makeup and vanity set with additional score by Jay Ragsdale. Sound design, mix and master by Stephen Perez and Cooper Skinner. Editing by Eric Quintana, Sean Nurney, Steven Perez, Meredith Stedman and Cooper Skinner. Our production manager is Jordan Foxworthy. Cover artwork by Trevor Iler and Rob Sheridan. Radio Rental merchandise by Byron McCoy to shop radio rental merch, visit shop Tenderfoot TV special thanks to Oren Rosenbaum and the team at UTA, as well as the Nord Group and the team at Odyssey. If you have a Radio Rental story that you'd like to share, please email us at yourscarystorygmail.com or contact us via the form on our website, radiorentalusa.com follow us on Instagram @radiorental. On behalf of the Radiorental store, we'd love it if you'd subscribe, rate and review. As always, thanks for listening.
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In this return episode, Radio Rental dives into chilling real-life horror stories with its signature blend of 80s nostalgia, documentary storytelling, and a touch of dark humor. Hosted from the fictional video store by Ricky Lee Bagley (voiced by Rainn Wilson as Terry Carnation), the show delivers two standout tales: a harrowing encounter in the remote Northern Ontario wilderness and a creepy whistling mystery with a surprise twist. The world of Radio Rental is as immersive and quirky as ever, with memorable asides and unsettling ambiguity throughout.
[04:37–13:47] Caller’s Story
A seasoned outdoorsman recounts a terrifying experience on a remote, muddy logging road in Northern Ontario during a freezing rain late at night. Hoping to camp and hunt grouse, his plans are foiled by bad weather. On his way home, he encounters an abandoned, running black Dodge truck with no license plate, pickaxes, shovels, and suspicious lights. The attempted good deed (“Hey, buddy, I’m just here to help…”) quickly devolves into panic when someone sprints toward him in the darkness. The caller narrowly escapes as the other truck tries to block his way; only wielding his shotgun seems to deter the stranger. Shaken, convinced he’d stumbled upon something criminal – possibly a body dump or biker activity – he contacts local authorities but receives little reassurance.
[16:28–23:58] Caller’s Story
A woman recalls, as a young girl, developing the ability to whistle melodies while sitting on her back porch, which borders deep woods. She experiences an uncanny phenomenon—the woods whistle back the exact same melody, in her own voice. At first, she’s delighted, believing she’s made a “friend” in the woods. Alarm spreads when her parents hear it too, fearing a stalker or dangerous person is lurking unseen. Police are called, and even they experience the mimicry. Despite an exhaustive search, nothing is found. The mystery is eventually solved months later when, walking through her neighborhood, the family discovers a neighbor’s escaped parrot—capable of echoing the exact voices and songs they’d sung to the woods.
[26:03–26:59] Ricky Lee Bagley:
“You know what they say, dip your toes in slowly. Ease yourself back into things. Don’t gorge yourself on horror after giving up cold turkey. You’ll cramp up. You will cramp up.” [26:03, Ricky Lee Bagley]
This episode of Radio Rental delivers two tightly told, atmospheric tales that exemplify the show’s appeal: unsettling true stories that skirt the border between reality, the supernatural, and dark comedy. The immersive sound design and the playful, eerie store framing remain highlights, making it a compelling listen for horror and true crime fans alike.