Latest / Crime and Horror / You Can't Go To Cemeteries Anymore
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- 0:50Speaker 2: Sickly put.
- 0:51Speaker 1: A goth is someone who finds beauty in things that
- 0:54Speaker 1: most other people consider to be pretty dark. But most
- 0:56Speaker 1: Americans tend to associate the term goth with the teenagers
- 1:00Speaker 1: of the late nineties and early two thousands that wore
- 1:03Speaker 1: all black and wore heavy black boots and would hang
- 1:06Speaker 1: out in cemeteries. And while that representation of goth culture
- 1:10Speaker 1: is of course limited, It is a good representation of
- 1:14Speaker 1: the two protagonists in today's story, best friends Rachel and Molly.
- 1:18Speaker 1: In the nineteen nineties, Rachel and Molly were full blown goths.
- 1:22Speaker 1: They had black hair, black makeup, black clothes, they had
- 1:26Speaker 1: the black heavy combat boots, and at one point they
- 1:29Speaker 1: and their other goth friends started hanging out in a
- 1:31Speaker 1: cemetery to be kind.
- 1:32Speaker 2: Of ironic and funny, like, look at us, we're goth.
- 1:34Speaker 1: We hang out in cemeteries, And then they actually enjoyed
- 1:37Speaker 1: it and began hanging out in a cemetery like every weekend.
- 1:40Speaker 1: One Friday night, Molly calls Rachel to go hang out
- 1:43Speaker 1: in the cemetery, and as it happened, Rachel was just
- 1:45Speaker 1: sitting at home and she was bored out of her mind,
- 1:47Speaker 1: and so the call came at a perfect.
- 1:49Speaker 2: Time, and so Rachel's like, yeah, I'd love to go.
- 1:51Speaker 1: So she flies downstairs and she sits on a front
- 1:53Speaker 1: step and she's waiting for Molly to show up. And
- 1:55Speaker 1: eventually Molly's car rolls down the street and Rachel immediately
- 1:59Speaker 1: recognized that Molly is the only one in the car.
- 2:02Speaker 1: And Rachel whenever she would go to the cemetery at
- 2:05Speaker 1: night with Mollie. They were always there with a group
- 2:07Speaker 1: of at least four people. Even though they liked hanging
- 2:10Speaker 1: out in the cemetery, they did recognize that it was
- 2:13Speaker 1: a little bit creepy at night to be out there,
- 2:15Speaker 1: and so they liked kind of rolling in a fairly
- 2:17Speaker 1: big group. And so Rachel hops in the car and
- 2:19Speaker 1: her first question of Mollie.
- 2:21Speaker 2: Is where is everybody meeting us there?
- 2:23Speaker 1: And Molly said, oh, no, everybody else is either working
- 2:26Speaker 1: or they're kind of hung over from the party from
- 2:28Speaker 1: last night.
- 2:28Speaker 2: So it's just us too. I hope that's okay. And
- 2:31Speaker 2: at the time Rachel actually in her head was like, no, I.
- 2:34Speaker 1: Don't really want to do this anymore, but she was like, oh, yeah,
- 2:37Speaker 1: that's fine. Yeah, we'll just go just the two of us.
- 2:39Speaker 1: It'll be fine.
- 2:40Speaker 2: Mollie takes off from Rachel's house and.
- 2:41Speaker 1: She makes the familiar kind of winding commute to the
- 2:44Speaker 1: front gate of this enormous cemetery that sits right in
- 2:47Speaker 1: the center of town.
- 2:48Speaker 2: They drive underneath this massive.
- 2:50Speaker 1: Wrought iron gate that looks very medieval, very foreboding.
- 2:54Speaker 2: It looks like it's out of a cheesy horror movie.
- 2:56Speaker 1: This like cliche entrance to a cemetery, and so they
- 2:59Speaker 1: go through there and they're on this road that stretches
- 3:02Speaker 1: all the way down through the cemetery and basically splits
- 3:05Speaker 1: it in two. On the left side as you're driving
- 3:08Speaker 1: in was an area closest to town, and also it
- 3:11Speaker 1: butted up against a major public university. And then on
- 3:14Speaker 1: this side of the cemetery you had a bunch of
- 3:17Speaker 1: residential houses that butt it up against the side of
- 3:19Speaker 1: the cemetery. And where Molly and Rachel and their crew
- 3:22Speaker 1: liked to go was on the right side, all the
- 3:25Speaker 1: way back in the corner, because there was a section
- 3:27Speaker 1: that was kind of situated between these two hills where
- 3:30Speaker 1: not only were they obscured from the cemetery road and
- 3:33Speaker 1: the main road once they were down in this little depression,
- 3:36Speaker 1: there was also no houses that happened to look over
- 3:39Speaker 1: that spot, so it was kind of like the hidden
- 3:41Speaker 1: section of the cemetery.
- 3:43Speaker 2: And there was also this.
- 3:44Speaker 1: Big boulder that people sat on and a big tree
- 3:46Speaker 1: you could lean up against.
- 3:47Speaker 2: So that was their spot.
- 3:49Speaker 1: So Molly drives in the gates, she heads down that
- 3:51Speaker 1: road and she turns right onto a dead end road.
- 3:54Speaker 1: She takes that down about a couple hundred meters till
- 3:56Speaker 1: at dead ends, and they park and then the girls
- 3:58Speaker 1: get out of the car. They light up cigarettes, and
- 4:00Speaker 1: they walk down this hill that's just beyond where this
- 4:04Speaker 1: dead end comes to an end. And so they walk
- 4:06Speaker 1: down this hill and it brings them to this clearing
- 4:09Speaker 1: where this big rock and tree is. Rachel hops up
- 4:12Speaker 1: on the rock and she turns around so she's facing
- 4:14Speaker 1: back up the hill. They just walk down and Mollie
- 4:17Speaker 1: is right next to her on her right, leaning up
- 4:19Speaker 1: against the tree. And for the next hour or so,
- 4:21Speaker 1: they just crushed cigarettes and talked about their various boyfriend
- 4:25Speaker 1: drama and life drama and.
- 4:27Speaker 2: Whatever else they wanted to talk about.
- 4:28Speaker 1: After a while, the girls started to smell a bonfire,
- 4:31Speaker 1: and from where they were sitting, they could see a
- 4:33Speaker 1: hill in front of them, and there was actually another
- 4:35Speaker 1: hill over here, and so their views pretty obscured out
- 4:38Speaker 1: of this little valley they're in, so they can't see
- 4:41Speaker 1: any fires anywhere, and so they assumed that what they're
- 4:44Speaker 1: smelling was a fire coming from the other side of
- 4:47Speaker 1: the cemetery because there's that huge university over there, and
- 4:50Speaker 1: they knew sometimes the college kids would come on to
- 4:52Speaker 1: the cemetery and they would light fires over there, and
- 4:55Speaker 1: inevitably the police would get called and they would break
- 4:58Speaker 1: up the fire because you're not allowed to have fire
- 5:00Speaker 1: on the cemetery, and whenever they did that, the police
- 5:02Speaker 1: would actually make rounds around the entire cemetery and historically, basically,
- 5:07Speaker 1: if you were there hanging out, they would tell you
- 5:09Speaker 1: to leave. And so they think, Okay, this is probably
- 5:11Speaker 1: a good time to leave, because probably in the next
- 5:13Speaker 1: thirty minutes to an.
- 5:14Speaker 2: Hour, the police are going to be here.
- 5:16Speaker 1: They're gonna come over here see our car, and they're
- 5:18Speaker 1: going to ask what we're doing, and we're gonna have
- 5:20Speaker 1: to leave. So just let's just leave now. So Rachel
- 5:22Speaker 1: hops off the rock and the two of them begin
- 5:24Speaker 1: meandering their way back up the hill towards the car.
- 5:27Speaker 1: When they get about halfway up the hill, they notice
- 5:29Speaker 1: to the right something bright. Now, because they were higher up,
- 5:33Speaker 1: they could actually see over the hill to their right,
- 5:36Speaker 1: and what they were seeing was the top of a bonfire.
- 5:39Speaker 1: So the girls take a couple more steps up the
- 5:41Speaker 1: hill to gain some elevation to hopefully be able to
- 5:44Speaker 1: see better down into where this fire is. But even
- 5:47Speaker 1: when they're up almost at the top of the hill.
- 5:49Speaker 1: That fire is too far down on the other side
- 5:52Speaker 1: of that hill that they can't see any people, and
- 5:55Speaker 1: they can't really tell how big the fire is. They're
- 5:57Speaker 1: just basically seeing the top flickers of it. Even though
- 5:59Speaker 1: they don't know anything about the people over there at
- 6:01Speaker 1: this fire, what they do know is when they showed up,
- 6:04Speaker 1: there was no fire over there, they would have recognized it.
- 6:07Speaker 1: So whoever's over there had to have shown up and
- 6:09Speaker 1: built this spire while Rachel and Molly were down at
- 6:12Speaker 1: the rock and tree, which means there is a pretty
- 6:15Speaker 1: good chance they didn't see Rachel and Molly.
- 6:18Speaker 2: This is a pretty private area.
- 6:19Speaker 1: Their car was parked a little bit off to the
- 6:21Speaker 1: side of the trail, and so Molly picks up on
- 6:23Speaker 1: this and she says to Rachel, Hey, let's sneak back
- 6:26Speaker 1: down and walk up their hill and look down and
- 6:28Speaker 1: see who's here. I bet it's a bunch of college kids.
- 6:30Speaker 1: It'll be funny to see what they're doing. But Rachel
- 6:32Speaker 1: had a weird feeling about it. She's thinking to herself,
- 6:35Speaker 1: if this is college kids, why would they have their
- 6:37Speaker 1: bonfire this far away from campus. I mean, this is
- 6:41Speaker 1: literally the farthest point away from the side of the cemetery.
- 6:45Speaker 2: That's close to their campus.
- 6:46Speaker 1: If they're having a party over here, there's a good
- 6:49Speaker 1: chance that anybody going to it is going to need
- 6:51Speaker 1: to drive, and that just doesn't make sense if you
- 6:53Speaker 1: can just walk to the other side of the campus
- 6:55Speaker 1: and have a bonfire over there. And so Rachel is
- 6:59Speaker 1: logically deduced that this is probably not college kids, but
- 7:03Speaker 1: who else is having a bonfire in the secret section
- 7:06Speaker 1: of the cemetery in the middle of the night. And
- 7:08Speaker 1: Rachel's thinking that now, if the police come here, they're
- 7:11Speaker 1: definitely going to see us because we're so close to
- 7:14Speaker 1: this bonfire, and so it's probably not a good idea.
- 7:16Speaker 2: To stick around much longer.
- 7:18Speaker 1: But despite Rachel's hesitations, she is intrigued and she does
- 7:21Speaker 1: want to see what's going on over there. So the
- 7:23Speaker 1: two girls walk down the hill. They make it down
- 7:25Speaker 1: to the rock and the tree. Then they turn left
- 7:27Speaker 1: and they begin walking up this other hill, the hill
- 7:30Speaker 1: that's going to bring them up to this fire. And
- 7:32Speaker 1: so they only get a few steps up this hill
- 7:34Speaker 1: when they are suddenly hit with this disgusting, putrid smell
- 7:39Speaker 1: that just encompasses them and it makes them gag and
- 7:41Speaker 1: they're covering their mouth and their nose, and Rachel exclaims,
- 7:45Speaker 1: Oh my god, what is that?
- 7:47Speaker 2: And then as soon as she says it, she realizes
- 7:48Speaker 2: she was really.
- 7:49Speaker 1: Loud, and she's like, and Molly's like, and they both freeze,
- 7:55Speaker 1: wondering if the people on the other side of the
- 7:57Speaker 1: hill have heard them.
- 7:58Speaker 2: And after a little bit of silence, Mollie's like, let
- 8:02Speaker 2: me keep going.
- 8:03Speaker 1: And Rachel's like, no, we got to go. Between the
- 8:07Speaker 1: horrible smell that's obviously coming from this weird fire and
- 8:11Speaker 1: the fact that Rachel basically just gave them away, and so,
- 8:13Speaker 1: for all we know, these people on the other side
- 8:15Speaker 1: of this hill have hurt us, and now they're waiting
- 8:17Speaker 1: for us to come over the edge, and it's gonna
- 8:19Speaker 1: be really awkward if we suddenly crash their bonfire. Rachel,
- 8:23Speaker 1: she's thinking about these things, and so she's like, let's go,
- 8:25Speaker 1: we gotta go. Molly's disappointed, but she gets it, and
- 8:28Speaker 1: the two girls turn around and begin walking back. And
- 8:31Speaker 1: so they walk past the tree and the rock on
- 8:33Speaker 1: their left, they turn right, and they're about to walk
- 8:36Speaker 1: up the hill that's going to bring them to their
- 8:37Speaker 1: car when Rachel just turns around to look at the
- 8:41Speaker 1: hill towards the fire where they were headed before, and
- 8:44Speaker 1: standing at the top of that hill is a man
- 8:46Speaker 1: just looking down at them, and the fire is illuminating
- 8:49Speaker 1: him from behind, and they can clearly tell it's a
- 8:52Speaker 1: man standing there looking at them, and immediately the girls
- 8:54Speaker 1: felt really uncomfortable. It was almost like they had just
- 8:57Speaker 1: been caught spying. Even though they didn't actually get caught spying,
- 9:01Speaker 1: it was what they were going to go do, and
- 9:03Speaker 1: so they felt like they had almost been caught red handed.
- 9:05Speaker 1: And so Molly and Rachel just turn and begin walking
- 9:08Speaker 1: up the hill kind of with their heads down. They
- 9:10Speaker 1: just felt kind of awkward, and so they move a
- 9:12Speaker 1: few more steps up this hill and Rachel looks again
- 9:15Speaker 1: at where this guy was standing and he's now gone,
- 9:17Speaker 1: and Rachel's relieved, but then she realizes he's gone because
- 9:21Speaker 1: he's walking power walking down the hill towards them, and
- 9:26Speaker 1: Rachel gasps and she grabs Mollie and.
- 9:28Speaker 2: Pushes her and says, go, go, go, go go, and they.
- 9:30Speaker 1: Start running up the hill and Rachel looks around and
- 9:33Speaker 1: now the sky is running towards them.
- 9:35Speaker 2: He's down now, at the rock and the tree. He's
- 9:37Speaker 2: gaining on them. They sprint up over the top.
- 9:40Speaker 1: They run to Molly's car, and Molly's fumbling with her
- 9:43Speaker 1: keys to get the car open, and Rachel's yelling.
- 9:45Speaker 2: Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up.
- 9:46Speaker 1: Finally she gets it open and they both jump inside.
- 9:49Speaker 1: Rachel locks the car doors, and as Mollie is turning
- 9:52Speaker 1: the key over, Rachel's looking out the back and she's
- 9:54Speaker 1: waiting to see this guy, And sure enough, as they
- 9:56Speaker 1: pull off, she sees his head come up over the
- 9:59Speaker 1: ridge line that he can clearly see them leaving, and
- 10:02Speaker 1: then he ducks back down and he disappears, and the
- 10:04Speaker 1: two of them speed down the road. They make a
- 10:06Speaker 1: left onto that main drive and they speed out of
- 10:08Speaker 1: the cemetery. For the first few minutes of their drive,
- 10:11Speaker 1: neither of them say anything. This was just a very
- 10:13Speaker 1: traumatic experience, and it was also very confusing because they
- 10:17Speaker 1: thought they were going over to spy on college kids
- 10:21Speaker 1: having a bonfire, and then they're hit with that.
- 10:23Speaker 2: Horrible smell, like what was that horrible smell?
- 10:26Speaker 1: And then they leave and there's this guy who did
- 10:29Speaker 1: not look like he was a college kid. He looked
- 10:31Speaker 1: like he was probably in his forties and then he's
- 10:33Speaker 1: chasing them, you know what was that? And when they
- 10:36Speaker 1: did start talking about it, they couldn't really come to
- 10:38Speaker 1: any sort of rational conclusion of what had just happened,
- 10:41Speaker 1: and so they were both very spooked and they decide,
- 10:44Speaker 1: let's just go home and talk about this tomorrow. And
- 10:47Speaker 1: so Molly drops Rachel off at her house and Molly
- 10:49Speaker 1: goes home and both girls go to bed. The next morning,
- 10:52Speaker 1: Rachel gets up and she heads down to the kitchen
- 10:54Speaker 1: where her mom is already there having her morning coffee.
- 10:57Speaker 1: And Rachel sits down, and you know, she's not a
- 10:58Speaker 1: big talker. She's not a bit to start by saying, Hey,
- 11:01Speaker 1: guess what happened to me last night at the cemetery. Instead,
- 11:04Speaker 1: she just sits there and for a little bit her
- 11:06Speaker 1: mom just kind of rambles about work and what she's
- 11:09Speaker 1: doing that day, and then all of a sudden, her
- 11:11Speaker 1: mom it's like she has this epiphany and she goes Rachel, Rachel,
- 11:15Speaker 1: did you hear what.
- 11:15Speaker 2: Happened last night?
- 11:16Speaker 1: And Rachel's like, no, what, And her mom's like someone
- 11:19Speaker 1: I work with. I don't know her personally, but she
- 11:21Speaker 1: works in the same building as me, she got kidnapped
- 11:24Speaker 1: from the parking garage where I parked my car. I
- 11:26Speaker 1: have seen her park her car in this lot and
- 11:29Speaker 1: she got kidnapped. And Rachel's like, oh my god, really,
- 11:32Speaker 1: like what happened to her? Did they find her?
- 11:35Speaker 2: And her mom was like, yeah, but it was too late.
- 11:37Speaker 1: The person who had kidnapped her had killed her and
- 11:40Speaker 1: then tried to dispose of her body the cemetery by
- 11:42Speaker 1: burning her in a bonfire. Rachel suddenly felt sick because
- 11:46Speaker 1: now she knew what was happening last night, and she
- 11:49Speaker 1: knows what that smell was. Rachel immediately pours her heart
- 11:52Speaker 1: out about everything that happened the night before, and her
- 11:55Speaker 1: mom is totally horrified, but she's in particular horrified that
- 11:59Speaker 1: they they clearly had been there when the killer had
- 12:03Speaker 1: arrived and set up shop and began burning this body.
- 12:06Speaker 1: They were just literally fifty meters away the whole time.
- 12:09Speaker 1: And so her mom tells her, you and Molly have
- 12:12Speaker 1: to go to the police station and make a statement.
- 12:14Speaker 1: They have not caught this person yet. You've seen this person.
- 12:17Speaker 1: You got to tell them. And so Rachel calls Molly
- 12:20Speaker 1: and breaks the news about what was actually happening the
- 12:22Speaker 1: night before, and who was actually chasing them to their
- 12:25Speaker 1: car and says, we have to go to the police station,
- 12:28Speaker 1: and so they agreed. They go down to the police
- 12:30Speaker 1: station and they tell them what happened, but they didn't
- 12:33Speaker 1: get a great look at him. They could only say
- 12:34Speaker 1: that he was maybe in his forties and maybe average height,
- 12:37Speaker 1: and so the police wrote it all down, but they
- 12:39Speaker 1: basically said, look, if you can think of more details,
- 12:41Speaker 1: we would love to hear those, because this isn't really
- 12:43Speaker 1: enough to go on. And so the girls go back
- 12:45Speaker 1: home and they're thinking to themselves, did he see us?
- 12:48Speaker 1: Does he know that we saw him? Do you think
- 12:50Speaker 1: he knows that we know? He's a killer now? And
- 12:53Speaker 1: so they're freaking out. But luckily, within forty eight hours,
- 12:56Speaker 1: the police actually caught this guy because he was driving
- 12:58Speaker 1: around in the murder victim car and someone spotted him.
- 13:01Speaker 1: They pulled him over and he confessed and so he
- 13:04Speaker 1: went to jail. Needless to say, Rachel and Molly thanked
- 13:06Speaker 1: their lucky stars that when they started ascending that hill
- 13:10Speaker 1: and they were hit with that smell that Rachel said
- 13:13Speaker 1: let's not go any farther, let's leave, because had they
- 13:16Speaker 1: continued and gone to the other side.
- 13:19Speaker 2: They could have wound up in the bonfire too, So
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