Episode 106

Summary

Radio Rental – Episode 106 (Released May 15, 2026)

Podcast: Radio Rental
Host: Jeremy (Chris Redd), with stories curated by Payne Lindsey
Theme: Real-life horror and paranormal tales, set against the quirky backdrop of a fictional '80s video rental store.

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Episode Overview

This episode of Radio Rental delves into two chilling firsthand experiences: a haunted California cave with a disturbing history and eerie encounters bordering the infamous Skinwalker Ranch in Utah. True to the show's brand, unsettling mysteries are blended with dark humor from the character Jeremy, who guides listeners through each "tape."

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Key Stories and Discussion Points

1. The Haunted Cave of Munet ([04:13] – [15:34])

Setting & Atmosphere

• Storyteller recounts his time in the mid-2000s exploring the desert landscape of Southern California’s San Fernando Valley, especially the El Scorpion State Park.
• Describes a "beautiful cave" likened to a cathedral due to its natural sunlight and peacefulness during the day.

The Incident

• The storyteller and his friends decide to light up the cave at night with leftover Halloween tea lights, creating a magical atmosphere.
• As dusk falls, "strange sounds" start emanating from inside the cave—“growls,” “pained moans”—that escalate in intensity.
  • Quote: “I don't know if you ever heard what a pig being slaughtered sounds like. It sounded sort of like that, these screeches of pain.” ([09:47])
• The group becomes aware of an oppressive, hostile presence: “It wasn’t dying down... it was getting louder.”
• While leaving, a “shadowy outline of a man” appears on the ridgeline above the cave, impossibly moving (or teleporting) between spots with no flashlight, not displaying any motion like walking or running.
  • Quote: “We would see it. We'd walk down a bit, look around, and it was in a different position. That was way too far to get to that quickly, especially in the dark in a rock field...” ([12:48])

The Legend

• Later research reveals the cave’s violent Native legend: the Shaman Munet, who dismembered a chief’s son and was himself brutally killed—both said to have occurred in the cave and on the ridgeline.
  • Quote: “The legend goes that while he was asleep on top of the cave... they ripped his stomach open, pulled out his entrails, and he died there.” ([14:22])
• The storyteller links the horrifying noises and the spectral figure to these stories of betrayal and violent death.

Aftermath & Reflection

• The daytime ambiance remains peaceful, but nighttime “just had a different feeling altogether. It’s almost like you shouldn’t be there at night.”
• The storyteller never again visits the cave after dark.

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2. Skinwalker Ranch Neighbor: Voices and Shapeshifters ([19:22] – [28:44])

Setting & Paranormal Context

• Utah Uinta Basin Witness shares experiences from eight months living next to Skinwalker Ranch, an area renowned for paranormal activity and government-sponsored studies.

Incident 1: The Mimic Voice

• On a serene spring day, the witness and her boyfriend Ray hear repeated cries for “help” coming from the pond—disturbingly off, “flat,” and “inorganic.”
  • Quote: “The words ‘help’ themselves were drawn out, slowed down, very inorganic sounding, unnatural way of speaking.” ([21:00])
• The effect is chilling; instead of provoking rescue, it creates intense dread.
  • Quote: “My normal instinct would be to run down... But in this case, I had fear of whatever was out there yelling. I didn’t have any fear of what it was calling out for help from.” ([21:13])
• The voice changes pitch, now calling “Mom, Mom,” in a childlike tone, which the witness refuses to respond to:
  • Quote: “Nope, you’re on your own. I’ve already raised two kids to adulthood.” ([22:52])
• The calls immediately stop.

Incident 2: The Deer-Man

• A few months later, at dusk, the witness sees a “six-foot man” by a tree, presumed to be a curious passerby—until, in a blink, he becomes a deer.
  • Quote: “There wasn’t any shifting of faces or limbs. A man was just suddenly a deer.” ([24:19])
• No transition is observed. The witness is frozen in shock. Eventually, the deer also vanishes.
• Security cameras corroborate the time/movement triggers, but catch no images of a man or deer—only nothingness.
  • Quote: “The cameras had been triggered exactly when I said the event happened... but the footage showed nothing.” ([26:00])

Coping with the Unknown

• The area is described as trickster-like: “You have to go out there knowing that things will happen... and you have to be able to deal with it.”
• The witness concludes: “There are no answers. We don’t know what’s going on out there. I don’t think anybody ever will.” ([26:48])

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Notable Host/Jeremy Moments & Tone

• Comic Interludes & Reactions:
  • Jeremy’s comic asides provide relief and meta-commentary:
    • “See me, I would never go check that shit out... That might make me a bad Samaritan, but it keeps me an alive person, thank you very much.” ([28:12])
    • “I don’t like being out in raw nature just like... exposed, you know what I’m saying?” ([15:40])
• Recurring Store Gags:
  • Jeremy laments his vest not teleporting home with him, jokes about interdimensional travel as a pick-up line, and interacts with a co-worker named Vince at the end ([31:02]).

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Memorable Quotes & Timestamps

• On the cave noises:
  “It sounded sort of like that, these screeches of pain. And it just kind of came in waves, just kind of keep going. And then it would be silenced and it would start up again.” — [Storyteller, 09:47]

• Seeing the shadow:
  “It was just appearing and reappearing in different spots. The same silhouette never swayed its arms. It never looked like it was running, moving, walking, anything. It was just standing still...” — [Storyteller, 12:48]

• On Skinwalker territory:
  “The words ‘help’ themselves were drawn out, slowed down, very inorganic sounding, unnatural way of speaking.” — [Utah Uinta Basin Witness, 21:00]

  “There wasn’t any shifting of faces or limbs. A man was just suddenly a deer.” — [Utah Uinta Basin Witness, 24:19]

• Jeremy’s take:
  “That might make me a bad Samaritan, but it keeps me an alive person, thank you very much.” — [Jeremy, 28:12]

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Important Segments & Timestamps

• [02:29] – Introduction to the "tapes" by Jeremy.
• [04:13] – Start of The Haunted Cave story.
• [15:34] – Jeremy's humorous reaction after the haunted cave story.
• [19:22] – Introduction and beginning of Skinwalker Ranch neighboring story.
• [24:19] – Deer-Man transformation.
• [28:12] – Jeremy sums up lessons learned (“don’t go down there!”).
• [30:48] – Jeremy wraps up after the stories, meets "Vince" the tape organizer.

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Episode Tone & Style

• Atmospheric storytelling: Eerie, suspenseful, and grounded in real, personal experiences.
• Blunt, quirky humor: Jeremy’s asides and self-aware commentary keep the episode from getting too heavy.
• Blurring reality and fiction: The show's video-store conceit and host banter frame the abnormal as “normal” for Radio Rental visitors.

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Conclusion

This episode stands out for its blend of supernatural folklore and hard-to-explain 21st-century phenomena, capturing both the timelessness of horror and the ongoing mysteries on the edges of modern life. Listeners are left unsettled, curious, and a bit amused—just as Radio Rental promises.

Transcript

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[Jeremy]

Look who it is. Hey, welcome to Radio Rental. Yeah, it's me, Jeremy. See, it's written on my vest. Hey, how come I don't get to take the vest home with me when I get teleported home? I'm just in my normal shirt. Feel like at least you can do is give me some merch for all the trouble. Just a suggestion, you know, in case you don't remember. Ever since I first stepped foot in the Radio Rental, this store has been messing with me. It's like infected my brain or something. I know, I know it sounds crazy, but it just kidnaps me whenever it feels like it. Well, I say kidnapped, but it's really like I'm just spontaneously teleported like. Like that. Anyway, at first I was scared, then I was kind of pissed, which I'm sure you can understand. But now, I don't know. I think it makes me kind of distinguished. I'm an interdimensional traveler. Hey, Jeremy, what do you like to do for fun? I like to travel interdimensionally. Feel like that's gotta get some women, you know what I mean? Well, sure, I wish I was getting teleported to, like, an alien planet or, like, Miami. Not like five miles down the road. But, hey, free travel is free travel. All right, now let's pop in one of these scary tapes.

[Storyteller]

Scary tapes.

[Jeremy]

Hey, is it just me, or is there a bit of an echo in here?

[Storyteller]

This is probably around 2006, 2007, time I was living in Southern California in the San Fernando Valley. It's kind of a desert landscape. Naturally, in the outskirts of it, it's still desert landscape and a lot of rocks and hiking trails, and it's really pretty. Actually. It kind of looks the same as it did about 100 years ago in a spaghetti western backdrop. Around that time, there wasn't really much to do a lot of the time, so I'd go on hikes and explore. In one of the hikes that I went on, I found this cave in a state park called El Scorpion State Park. There's a big, giant rock cliff face and a giant slit of rock in the middle of it. And it's just this beautiful cave to explore. It was always very pretty. Had a large opening at the very top of the cave, let in a lot of natural sunlight. It looked like a giant cathedral. It's just really peaceful. I'd always only explored it in the daytime. Never really went there at night. I think to try to do it at nighttime would have been too dangerous. There were just too many rocks. It was very steep, and the terrain was really rough. I mean, you really had to kind of watch where you're going. Even in the daytime, you had to climb over things. It was like a giant obstacle course, Essentially. At the time, I was living with a bunch of roommates and my girlfriend. One night we were just kind of sitting around trying to figure out what we were going to do for the evening. I just kind of threw out this cave that I'd come across in this park. They all got really excited and they wanted to go see this cave that I was talking about and explaining this was maybe a week or so after Halloween. So we had a big bag of those little tea lights that you put inside of Jack o' Lanterns to light them. Up, and one of my friends suggested that we just take a couple of these leftover bags and we light up the entire cave on the inside to make it look nice. So we're like, okay, let's go do that. We all jump in the car and we drive and we get to the cave. We're hiking up this trail, and usually you see somebody on the trail walking, going for a run, walking their dog. But this time there was just nothing. We were the only ones on the trail, which was really peaceful and it was really nice. As we're getting there, the sun's starting to go down. And I remembered I should have probably brought a flashlight. But I figured, well, we're not really climbing to the top ridge or anything. We're not going to be above the cave. We're just going to be inside of it. Should be fine. We hike up into the cave, we start setting up all the tea light, candles everywhere. We light them up, and it's really nice. The whole cave lights up. It looks like a giant cathedral. We're the only ones in the cave. There's only one way, one way out. Just one giant chamber, essentially, maybe 10, 15 minutes go by, and we're just talking, laughing, cracking jokes. And then the mood started to shift. We started hearing these strange sounds kind of coming from inside the cave. It came in low. At first we thought maybe it was an owl or a hawk or something, but then it kept going and getting louder and louder. It would cut between growls to kind of these pained moans. At first we thought maybe it was coming from above the cave, but we kept looking up and there was nothing there. The entire time we had hiked into the cave, we never saw another person. We never heard anything. The sound started getting louder, and they were coming from seemed like inside the cave, not from outside. It was really disturbing because I don't know if you ever heard what a pig being slaughtered sounds like. It sounded sort of like that, these screeches of pain. And it just kind of came in waves, just kind of keep going. And then it would be silenced and it would start up again. It just kind of kept going in waves. Once it became apparent that it wasn't dying down, that it was getting louder, we tried to rationalize it in my French. Oh, it's probably some high school kids messing with us, kind of hiding in the rocks somewhere. But we never saw a flashlight above the cave. We never heard anyone. We never saw anything. Thought maybe a pack of coyotes maybe had gotten something outside the cave because of the pained kind of squeals and groans that were coming from. And they were just getting louder, but they were coming from inside the cave, it seemed. And we kept kind of looking around. We couldn't see anything in there at all. And it just kept getting louder and louder. There's only one way in and one way out of the cave. And we never saw anyone or heard anyone else on the trail. We never saw flashlights. I mean, it was pitch black. I don't know how anybody could walk around up there. And if they were trying to scare us, they would have had to lean into the cave from the opening, from the top, to kind of scream down. We would have seen or heard them at that point. I've only heard an animal being cut up once in my life. And it sounded like what we heard that night, like something being ripped apart and dying in pain and just anger. Eventually, we all got kind of creeped out, and we said, well, let's just leave. This sounds kind of intense. We blow out the candles and we gather them all up and we head down the trail. By now it's pretty dark and it's nighttime, so we have to be really careful climbing out of this cave. And it's a rock, essentially, so you're grabbing rocks and you're climbing over boulders to get down. We get down to the main trail, and we're walking back to our car in the dark. We can barely see, but it's a clear night, so we can see that there's stars, and that's sort of the only light source we have. And as we're going down the trail back to the car, about a mile or so, my girlfriend at the time grabbed my arm. She's really freaking out. She's kind of hyperventilating and breathing really heavily. And she's pointing behind us and she says, whatever it is doesn't want us here. Just take a look. Take a look. And she's kind of bearing her head down into my chest and kind of looking down, and I wanted to look back, look, look. And she keeps pointing. And I look around, and at the very top of the cave, at the very edge of the ridgeland, where all the boulders were, there is an outline of a man, a shadowy kind of outline of a person standing atop the cave. We could see the outline of it because of the moonlight and the starlight. So we could see the sh. The outline of a person. And it was just surprising. I remember thinking, like, oh, that's a person that's up there. How did they get up there without a flashlight? How Are they moving around? That seems really dangerous. That was my first thought. My friends kind of looked around at the same time, and they're like, oh, that does look like a person. That's really weird. We kept walking down the trail, and every couple steps, we would kind of turn around and look over again, and we would see that it was in a different spot. It would just shift from position from one spot above the cave to another. Like, it was just sort of phasing and reappearing in different spots. The same silhouette never swayed its arms. It never looked like it was running, moving, walking, anything. It was just standing still, sort of keeping watch, like just looking out at us. It was just appearing and reappearing in different spots. We never saw a flashlight. We never saw anything. These were stretches that were. That would take quite a bit of time to get from one point to another. But to be doing it in the dark with no flashlight, with nothing, we didn't really have an explanation for that. We never saw the movement of somebody moving from one point to another. We would see it. We'd walk down a bit, look around, and it was in a different position. That was way too far to get to that quickly, to be moving that fast in the dark in a rock field between boulders. I don't know how anybody could move that fast without having a way to see clearly without falling into the cave or falling down this cliff face. My girlfriend was really scared. She was kind of shaking, grabbing onto my arm, and I said, oh, it's just the breeze maybe rustling some bushes, and the starlight is playing Turks in her eyes, and that's what we're seeing. I had a genuine curiosity of what it was. I think at one point I even suggested, like, oh, let's go back and just see if we can get a better idea or picture of what this is. But my friends, the group that I was with, they wanted no part in that. They just wanted to leave. They didn't want to face whatever it was and agitate it. We walked back to our car and we made it home, and we never really talked about it anymore. I even went back to the cave a couple times after that, but only in the daytime. And it was never like that. It was completely peaceful. You could hike in. You could clearly see where you were going. And I think I even climbed to the very top of the ridge above the cave after that. And I was trying to stand in the boulders of where I'd seen the shadow. And getting from one point to another in the daylight was even a struggle they're pretty big, and they're placed pretty far apart from each other. And I kind of just thought to myself, there's no way somebody could have ran from one point to another in the dark, in the rocks. Like, I'm having a hard time clearly seeing where I'm stepping. But in the daytime, it was a peaceful vibe. It never felt weird or scary at all. It was beautiful, actually. But at nighttime, the whole mood, the atmosphere just changed and shifted. It's almost like you shouldn't be there at night. It just had a different feeling altogether. Years later, out of curiosity, I kind of looked up the history of that area in that park, and there's a little tad bit of information that made it all come together. There's a legend that in that cave, which is called the Cave of Munit, there was a shaman that lived back in the day who had ordered the death of his son and ordered this shaman named Munet, who lived in the cave to do the task to kill his son. And that he did. He captured him, took him back to the cave, tied him up and dismembered him alive in the cave, and then threw his body parts at the cave to the search party that was looking for him. The tribespeople turned against the sheaf who ordered his son's death and ordered the death of Munit, too. The legend goes that while he was asleep on top of the cave in the ridgeline, that he was essentially murdered. They ripped his stomach open, pulled out his entrails, and he died there. Those two gruesome deaths happen in that cave and are tied to was surprising to me to read the history of it and find out that this legend exists in direct connection to this cave. I think if anybody was to be killed and have their stomach ripped open and their limbs ripped off, it would have sounded very much like what we had heard that night. And I'm sure our presence was not welcomed at that point. Whatever it was sounded angry and sounded like it was in pain. And then whatever or whoever was at the very top of the cave definitely kept an eye on us the entire time until we left.

[Jeremy]

Do that was wild. I think they saw that shaman moon.

[Storyteller]

It's.

[Jeremy]

Oh, that's spooky. This is why I don't go camping. And I also don't hear things in caves. And then I also don't go see what it is. And then I also. That's it. All those things I don't do. So this story would have been so short for me. I don't like Being out in raw nature just like. Just like exposed. You know what I'm saying? All right, let's take a little break for ads and we'll be right back.

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[Jeremy]

Okay, and we're back from ads. Next tape.

[Meredith Stedman]

Okay, we're back from ads. Next tea.

[Jeremy]

Whoa. What the fuck the was that? Did you just hear that? Yo, this place is haunted. Hey, yo, teleport me home after this. I'm done for the day. Store. All right, here we go.

[Storyteller]

Here we go.

[Utah Uinta Basin Witness]

In 2023, I spent eight months living in Utah's Uinta Basin. It's a place that feels like it's caught between the real world and something else entirely. My boyfriend at the time, my now friend Ray, has 15 acres of land sitting right next to Skinwalker Ranch. And for decades, this remote desert badland area has been one of the most scientifically studied paranormal hotspots in the world. There's a whole show on the History channel about all the scientific studies going on over there, the special access government programs your tax dollars went to paying for it. So. One of my first encounters there happened on a warm spring day not long after Ray and I arrived from our apartment the next town over. I was standing on the hill, just looking out onto, you know, the mesas, just enjoying the beautiful scenery. Just a beautiful, beautiful day. All of a sudden, my peace was interrupted by a cry calling out from little area down below where there's a pond and a small grouping of trees. The voice said, help. I looked at Ray, who wasn't too far away, and he looked back at me. We were supposed to be the only ones there on the land that day. We just stared at each other, waiting to hear if the sound would come again. It was very jarring and alarming. And it did come again a few moments later. A woman's crying out, how.

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[Utah Uinta Basin Witness]

The voice itself was off. It didn't sound human. It was very flat sounding. And the words helped help themselves were drawn out, slowed down, very inorganic sounding, unnatural way of speaking.

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Help.

[Utah Uinta Basin Witness]

Kind of like an audio recording that's been slowed down. My normal instinct would be to run down and go, help somebody who was calling out for help. But in this case, I had fear of whatever was out there yelling. I didn't have any fear of what it was calling out for help. From knowing the history of the area, I knew I just had to keep my wits about me, especially after hearing the calls continue.

[Jeremy]

Help.

[Utah Uinta Basin Witness]

I just froze and didn't know what to do next. The calls came out probably about five or six times, first once and then more consistently after a few moments. And I feel like it knew that it had our attention. So I looked over at Ray and he looked back at me and kind of shrugged his shoulders like, this is what happens out here. And it kept yelling. And I knew it was waiting for some type of response. I just called back out to it and said, yeah, that's not gonna work on me.

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Mom.

[Jeremy]

Mom.

[Utah Uinta Basin Witness]

That's when the voice changed.

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Mom.

[Jeremy]

Mom.

[Utah Uinta Basin Witness]

The pitch rose in the voice and it sounded like it was a child's voice calling out, mom, Mom. I froze again and it continued calling out another three or four times, mom, Mom.

[Jeremy]

Mom.

[Utah Uinta Basin Witness]

I couldn't take it anymore. It was very disturbing. I yelled out back to it and said, nope, you're on your own. I've already raised two kids to adulthood. And the voices stopped. I knew it wasn't a child. There was no reason it would have been a child. There's no reason child would have been out there in the badlands around mountains of red ants, cacti, these cockle burr plants. There's no children running willy nilly out there. I was afraid that something was trying to trick me and lure me down there. And I had no idea what I would find if I walked down to that pond. Once it stopped, Ray and I looked at each other, just wondering if it was going to continue. We waited for a few minutes and it didn't. And we just kind of carried on with the rest of our day. That's all you can do out there. I certainly didn't go down by that pond for a very long time. We just carried on. There's nothing else to do. It stuck in my mind for quite a while. It was definitely on my mind the rest of the day. And I was on high alert the rest of the day, just waiting for something else to happen. A couple of months later, in June, another incident took place that really did shake me to my core. Ray and I were setting up for a night of stargazing with a campfire already crackling. It was around 6 or 6:30pm, still light out, and it was just the two of us. We had been temporarily leasing space on a neighboring property that had a trailer that we would sometimes stay in. And I at that point was walking over there to grab some supplies for the evening. As I stepped through a break in the fence that divided the two property lines, I noticed someone standing by a tree on the neighbor's side, more towards the road. It was a man. He was 6ft tall, dressed in jeans and a white tank top. And at first I wasn't alarmed. We had people stop often along the road, you know, hoping to catch a glimpse of the ranch itself. And I figured he'd probably seen the campfire smoke and wandered closer for a look. We would occasionally invite curious folks into the property if they seemed cool. So I was about to call out and say hey, and moved to continue walking towards him. But before the word fully left my mouth, in a single moment, the man transformed into a deer. One Second there was a human figure standing in front of me. The next it was a deer staring back at me. There wasn't any shifting of faces or limbs. A man was just suddenly a deer. I lost my breath. I lost the words I was going to shout out to him in greeting. I was absolutely frozen in place. Probably for a good five minutes. I was standing there. It was a long time, just trying to figure out what I could have possibly seen when the shift occurred. It happened without any type of visual shift that I could see. It was a six foot man who was standing there. And now it was just a deer. The deer held my gaze for a few seconds before bolting across the property. I could hear its hooves pounding the ground as it ran up a small slope and then paused. I whipped my head back to where the man had been standing. He was definitely gone. I turned back to the deer, but it had vanished too. There was no sound of retreating steps, no rustle of brush. It was just gone. The next day I told the story to the property owner who had motion activated cameras set up in the area. I asked him to check the footage from the time of the incident. He called me back later that day confirming the cameras had been triggered exactly when I said the event happened and in the sequence that matched the path the deer man had taken. But the footage showed nothing. No man, no deer, no movement at all. When things happen, you have to move on. You have to keep going and you can't dwell on things or else it'll eat you up. Especially out there. There are no answers. We don't know what's going on out there. I don't think anybody ever will since the phenomena is very trickster like you have to go out there knowing that things will happen and you have to be able to to deal with it. And I kind of knew that going in. I had to have my big girl pants on. If I was going to go in a place next to Skinwalker ranch,

[Jeremy]

See me, I would never go check that shit out. Stop going down there. You knew you shouldn't have been going down there. Half the time. People that be down there fell down there. Or someone told him, don't go down there. And they were like, I'm gonna go down there. That's what you get. You're down there now. That might make me a bad Samaritan, but it keeps me an alive person, thank you very much.

[Utah Uinta Basin Witness]

What they did to your family, you're lucky to make it out alive.

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[Storyteller]

These men are going to come after me, taking Them out is my only chance.

[Jeremy]

Put a bullet in her head.

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[Utah Uinta Basin Witness]

Looks like a family was running drugs.

[Storyteller]

Execution style killing. It's rare for the Keys. Any leads on who they might have been running for?

[Meredith Stedman]

The cartel killed my family.

[Storyteller]

I'm gonna kill them.

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[Jeremy]

Well, this has been fun and. Okay. Whoa. Hey. Damn. Hey. Sorry, man. You scared me. Have you been back there this whole time? Yeah. Oh, hey. Yeah, you.

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[Jeremy]

You got a vest on too, Vince. What do you do here, Vince? I organize the tapes. It's all above board. Uh huh. All right. Nice to meet you, I guess. Okay, that's it for me, Jeremy. Maybe I'll see you again. I have no idea. Apparently I don't get to know my own schedule. All right, I'm just gonna squeeze my eyes real tight and see if that works. Okay. Send me home.

[Storyteller]

Wait, whoa.

[Jeremy]

I'm trying to get a ride home. All right, I'm ready.

[Meredith Stedman]

Three minutes.

[Jeremy]

Whoa. Malachi. I think that was an angel. Whoa.

[Meredith Stedman]

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 Chris Redd 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 Steven 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 at 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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[Payne Lindsay]

Is the government hiding proof of intelligent life beyond our planet? A new season of High Strange is here. The explanation keeps changing, but the stories don't go away.

[Jeremy]

Videos appearing to show UFOs flying through the air are real.

[Payne Lindsay]

My name is Payne Lindsay and my new season of High Strange goes deeper into real encounters, first hand accounts and the explanations that never seem to stick.

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Images of that rotating thing captured by US Navy aircraft.

[Payne Lindsay]

I talk to scientists, military witnesses, pilots and people who saw something they can't unsee.

[Storyteller]

There is no other explanation for what we saw that day.

[Jeremy]

I remembered those faces and they weren't human.

[Payne Lindsay]

High strange seasons one and two are available now. Listen for free on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Season three of High Strange is coming June 26th. For ad free listening, subscribe to Tenderfoot [e-mail].