5 True Scary Gas Station Stories to Fuel Your Nightmares

[Music] [Music] my name's Laura I'm from leads in the north of England now I heard you take submissions from viewers so I'd like to send mine in I used to work morning shifts in a petrol station when I was at lboro Uni any day I had afternoon lectures i' get up at 5:00 in the morning work from 6:00 till 12:00 then I'd get the bus to UNI in time for my 1:00 lectures it was quite a good gig really after the morning Rush the last 3 hours or so were usually quite quiet and if the

boss wasn't around I could sometimes get away with just chilling in the office and reading a book in between serving customers one morning a Tuesday it was a man walked into the petrol station who had to be in maybe his 40s or 50s his appearance grabbed my attention right away because when I looked up from my book I saw that he was the spitting image of Mark bllen from the cover of T-Rex's album unicorn my dad God Rest his soul was a big T-Rex fan and I used to flick through all of his old LPs

when I was a kid I always found myself transfixed by Mark bolan's face he was such a beautiful man when he was alive but the guy that walked into the petrol station looked like his evil twin or something he had the same mop of dark curly hair the same dark tired looking eyes but he had much sharper features and looked extremely gaunt like a skeleton that someone had papier-mâché a thin layer of wet tissue paper on he was dressed that part too with a sheep skin coat on a bright pink T-shirt and what looked like

blue bell bottom jeans on it would have been a solid outfit too if it wasn't for the sorry state of his clothes that they were in instead of them making him look good he even if it was a very vintage kind of good they just made him look weird smelly and creepy I usually didn't concern myself with people's appearances much it was a petrol station not a nightclub so even Dracula could walk in fangs all bloody with his cape blowing in the wind and I wouldn't say a word if he just paid for his Fuel

and left and then under the circumstances I think I'd rather it was Dracula who walked in that day as opposed to Mark bullen's evil twin he grabbed a pint of milk from the fridge section walked up to the counter and asked for x amount of fuel on whatever pump it was I took his money gave him his change and then thanked him for his custom 99 times out of 10 a bloke would just say cheers love and then off they'd go but evil bllen stayed by the counter looked at me and then said you're a

pretty young lady aren't you and to say my skin crawled would have been the understatement of the century I'm not great at taking compliments as it is which I know is a big me problem but when the compliments come as greasy and creepily spoken as evil Bing it knocks me pretty sick and I do mean creepily spoken too it wasn't just some throwaway compliments as he was walking out he drew out the very before pretty like you're a very pretty young lady are you and the aren you was all squeaky like he was talking to

a kid or something and I get that we had a big generation gap between us but I was a grown woman not a child now even back then I knew better than to talk back to a stranger like that and it's not worth the risk so instead of being Lippy with him I said Thank you in a polite but very reserved way and then stepped away from the counter to make it look like I had work to do in the stock room it was a trick that I'd used once or twice a gesture that said

I'd love to stop and chat but duty calls and for the most part the men attempting to flirt with me took the hint and made their way back to their cars but an evil bullen's case I turned my back on him and immediately asked where you going and with as pleasant A Smile as I could manage I turned back and I was about to tell him I was off into the storage room to carry on my stock count always a solid excuse when he said don't walk away from me trying to talk to you there

was just a hint of aggression creeping into his voice when he said it too just enough to get me thinking uh-oh this guy's going to be a problem isn't he I started explaining that as much as I'd like to stop and chat I had to work to do my exact words were on on the clock to which he replied well I'm a customer and then started telling me how he didn't often get to talk to a girl as pretty as me so he wanted to make the most of it I tried telling him that as

much as I appreciated the compliment I'd get into trouble with my boss if I didn't complete my assigned workload evil Bolan just waved away my concerns and then told me I'll deal with you boss if he complains then just as I was about to reply he told me I wish I was as pretty as you I know some of you might be thinking I'm a bit full of myself dropping the word pretty a lot but it was verba him what he was saying to me I'm not just using this whole thing to drop a not

so subtle humble brag and also I'm bad at handling compliments as it is but for a grown man to say I wish I was as pretty as you in the slimy Lous way was just this whole new level of cringe for me and in response the only thing that came to mind for me was to say something about how inappropriate that was in a professional setting and while I was sure his intentions were pure self-preservative flattery by the way I didn't appreciate him commenting on my appearance and the guy just just laughed like this short

chuckle and snort and then asked me don't you like being pretty and for the first time in our conversation I couldn't think of a response either professional or heartfelt I just wanted to run into the stock room slam the door and kick the crap out of a few cardboard boxes while pretending that they were evil bullen's ball sack but I was scared that if I did he might follow me so instead I tried my best to Stand My Ground and repeated that I didn't appreciate his tone or his question and I then told him that

if he didn't leave the premises I'd call the police a little bit more of that aggression crept into his voice and he asked me what you really going to call the bloody police just cuz someone called you pretty are you taking the piss I didn't even want to engage with him so I just asked him to leave and added some preemptive thanks to make my point there was a bit more to and fro with him saying how he was a customer and wasn't going to leave and then when I pulled out my the phone as

if to say I really am about to call 999 he says this you know if I look like you I just stay at home all day without a stitch of clothing on just staring at myself in the mirror and to this day that's still one of the most skin crawling creepy things a man has ever said to me and at the time I was so angry I could have screamed but I tried my very best to keep my cool and just asked him to leave again bolan's evil twin started going off on one about how

I needed to learn to take compliments and then said he wish she got half the amount of attention that I did which was just a bizarre thing to say because he didn't even know me I just kept asking him to leave on repeat assuming it was just a matter of time before he ran out of steam and did leave but he kept going and going and going he started saying something about how depressed I'd be when I got older and lost my looks how once they'd been taken away from me I'd be nothing but a

pathetic undesirable waste of oxygen and I'd end up sticking my head in an oven this guy was off his rocker and that comment really pushed me close to the edge in terms of just snapping and screaming at him but I just gripped my teeth and repeated myself for the eenth time that he needed to leave and that's when he said if you don't want the attention if you don't like being pretty then I can make you not so pretty if you want and the threat immediately silenced me but it didn't paralyze me and the second

after he said that I brought up on my phone that I had dialed the police and then I asked for them the guy did like a sort of fake outraged laugh but then his voice changed almost completely it went from a sort of sneer to a very deep guttural growl he said if I had such a big effort problem being pretty he could come over the counter and smash my face in until I didn't look like a person anymore he said my friends and family wouldn't recognize me when he was done and I could forget

about any kind strangers calling me pretty because I'd be as ugly on the outside as I was on the inside and by the time I'd been connected to the police there was a Tremor in my voice as I started telling the operator what was happening it was probably one of the more stressful experiences of my entire life to be honest because while I was watching bolan's evil twin to make sure he didn't jump over the counter and while I couldn't help but hear all the horrific stuff he was saying I had to concentrate on giving

all the necessary info to the police it was like total cerebral overload and the more stressed I got the more upset I got I remember how the bloke said something like I'd love to cut your face off and wear it I'd stare at myself in the mirror and bang on wearing your F Nikas well I pretend that I'm you I heard that then the operator said police are on their way and then I just lost it I started screaming at that guy telling him how the police were on their way how he was going to

get nicked if he didn't screw off while he still had the chance and only then did he start making his way towards the door but while he did he had a load of stuff about how he'd be back the next day to teach me a lesson in manners and all this other stuff he never follow it up on thank God the police were there in minutes I showed them the CCTV footage and as soon as I did one of the officers instantly recognized the man who had been harassing me he said his name was Charles

or Chaz but then he sometimes told people his name was Alexi Bowie and I said that he hadn't told me his name he just gone off one one after I didn't Giggle and curtsy when he gave me a compliment and apparently this was something Chaz did a lot according to one of the coppers lerare police had already received several complaints regarding chaz's habit of harassing lone women especially ones that were working and couldn't otherwise just walk away from him it was like his thing and according to one of the officers he was just weeks away

from being arrested and charged they were still waiting to get the go-ahead from the CPS but when they did Chaz was probably going to prison for a few months at the very least I couldn't have asked for better outcome and I think they actually went through with what they said because I never saw that Chaz again not around the petrol station and not around town anywhere I don't know the guy's actual full name so I've never been able to look it up to find out how much time he actually got if any but the fact

that I never saw him around the garage again was a good indicator that he'd finally got what he deserved [Music] last November I turned off the highway into a two pump gas station in the middle of nowhere at around 1:30 in the morning I guess I was kind of zonked from how tired it was because as I drove my car up to the pump everything seemed as normal as could be my eyes were locked on the pump display as I filled my car up trying my best to not go a penny over 30 bucks so

it was only when I walked walked over to the kiosk to pay that I noticed something was off the first thing that got my attention was how there was no one Manning this kiosk at first I just waited thinking the employee was just taking a quick bathroom break or something of that nature but then as I started to look around I realized the driver of the car at the pump in front of me was nowhere to be seen either they weren't in their car and they weren't inside the convenience store so my first thought was

how the driver and the gas station attendant must have and both in the back of the store I guess I got this momentary chill thinking I might have interrupted a robbery or something and I was suddenly very hesitant to knock on the glass or call for service I remember turning to check out the car parked in front of me and thinking if it's Honda then I'm getting out of here but it looked to me like it was a 2011 3 Series now if you don't know cars Hondas are easy to steal BMWs on the other

hand not so much and while that didn't completely preclude the possibility that there was a robbery in progress it reassured me enough that I started knocking on the glass and asking if there was anyone there I knocked once and then twice and then after the third time I knocked in the glass in as many minutes and it hit me that something highly unusual was clearly going on my first thought was to try the door to the convenience store I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be locked but when I pushed the door swung right open

for me me I walked up to the counter calling out hello the whole time and then thinking there might have been some kind of medical emergency I jumped the counter and took a look around the back of the store there was a bathroom in a storage room in a small office but all three were unlocked and empty then and only then did I realize that the entire gas station was completely deserted I checked around the back just to be sure but I figured that there'd be no one there and then once I was 100% sure

something seriously weird was going on I pulled out my phone and got ready to dial 911 I wasn't still 100% sure what to do so I called out hello again but much louder and when that got no response I called the cops I could tell that at first anyway that the dispatcher thought that I was just some jerk customer who was angry my gas station attendant wasn't there when I needed them but once I properly explained that there was literally no one to be found anywhere on the premises or elsewhere she started to take my

call a little more seriously she asked where I was and when I told her she asked if it looked like there had been a robbery I remember asking how the hell would I know but she explained that if there had been a robbery recently an employee might still be hiding somewhere and I felt this sort of twinge of frustration because like I said I looked probably everywhere except the dumpster around the side of the G gas station and as I'm walking back from checking out the highway for signs of life I just so happened to

be passing it as the thought to open it popped into my head I wanted to be able to say to the dispatcher there I even checked the station's dumpster there's definitely nobody here ma'am but when I opened the dumpster there they were I only caught a glimpse of what was inside before I dropped the lid of that dumpster and backed off like the thing was radioactive but a glimpse was enough for me there were two bodies in there all bent out of shape with dark stains all over their clothes and one of them was almost

certainly wearing a gas station uniform I remember saying something like oh Jesus oh my God pacing away from the dumpster in a state of total shock with the dispatcher in my ear sir sir tell me what's going on sir and I told her they're in the dumpster Jesus Christ they're in the godamn dump dumpster the cops arrived in about 10 to 15 minutes and by then I'd run off near to the highway to puke up all the contents of my stomach and I'd remembered that thing about preserving the Integrity of crime scenes so in a

wild Panic I'd actually puked as I was running then had to whole puke in my mouth for a few seconds before I puked even more out near the highway and after that I just walked back and forth hitting my vape until I saw a cop car heading towards me down the highway and then after talking to one of the officers for a few minutes he told me I was free to leave I looked the whole thing up online the first chance that I got later but although I found a bunch of stories about a member

of the public Yours Truly finding some bodies at a gas station there was nothing that explained how or why those two people had been killed never since I've always been extra careful while driving at night both in the sense that I keep a very close eye on my fuel gauge and try to avoid any nocturnal pit stops but also if a gas station looks a little too quiet I'll avoid it all together and just head to the next one I used to work nights at a gas station called North Star Mar out near a place

called Foster in rural Virginia I used to drive up from Gloucester get there at around 10: p.m. and then work all through the night until 6:00 a.m. when my boss a dude named Jud came over to relieve me Jud lived right next door to the gas station in a big old house that he claimed that he built himself there was no way that he built that whole thing on his own but he was far too nice for me to call him out on it so I just let it be he was a great boss too

I mean that from the bottom of my heart not many folks can say that they had a boss who had done almost anything to keep him safe but I can and it makes me feel a little guilty sometimes that I don't head up there to visit them more but I don't like driving around Foster anymore I don't like going anywhere near the place and by the end of this story I think you're going to understand why I worked at the North Star for 9 months and 3 weeks working anything from 2 to 5 nights a

week depending on how busy I was at school not a single customer in all the time I work there ever gave me a single ounce of trouble it was one of the best jobs I ever had in that respect it was always a little busier on weekends but during week nights I'd sometimes serve only two or three customers a night and spend the rest of my time watching movies on my iPod back when that was like a revolutionary thing to do Jud was really chill like that he didn't give me a bunch of cleaning tasks

and he didn't give me any busy work at all actually and he only ever had one rule if anyone ever showed up late at night acting weird in any way I was to call him right away it didn't matter if the call woke him and his wife up from the sweetest dreams they'd ever had if anyone was acting sketch Jud wanted to know about it I figured that was fair enough the gas station was jud's whole life it was his retirement plan so if it went up in Flames well you see where I'm going with

this so even though it felt slightly emasculating as in I felt like I could take care of the station myself I agreed to give Jud a call every time there was any disturbances when he first told me about his little Golden Rule I'd be lying if I said that it didn't make me a little nervous I guess it suggested that there were a lot of weird people who came by the gas station at night but that couldn't have been further from the truth like I said n whole months and not a single instance of weird

or Disturbing Behavior and then one night it happened I was in the back office one night splitting my attention between security monitors and a copy of The Dark Knight Rises when I suddenly saw a lone figure approaching the gas station we had three cameras one facing the pumps one facing the approach to the store and a third which allowed me to watch the inside of the store from the back office I can see the guy walking towards the store past the pumps and then into the view of the second camera but then instead of walking

into the store like literally everybody else he stops dead outside the door he's right in the view of the second camera so him looking at this guy fairly close up and he looked like a perfectly regular rural Virginia dad type he looked like he had work boots on some faded jeans and a baseball cap with some kind of hunting or fishing logo on it literally the most unremarkable looking guy that could ever walk through our door but his behavior most definitely got my attention I guess it's not entirely true that nothing weird ever happened because

there was one previous occasion where I called Jud and the middle of the night some crazy lady was screaming like a demon out near the pumps it was a Saturday and had to be maybe 4: to 4:30 in the morning but just like Jud said I gave him a call at his house I told him about the lady and how her screaming was freaking me out he asks for a description I gave him one and then he tells me let's just Ronda lick it up on payday she'll head home once she's tired herself out and

then you know what she did she eventually stopped screaming and then just kind of walked off like she was done with that night's performance anyway the guy in the Sporting Goods cap stopped dead and just stood there in front of the camera not moving a muscle not nearly as freaky as screaming like a banshee but still weird nonetheless I figured he was I don't know taking a moment to think or something but then as I'm watching him his head starts slowly moving turning his neck until he's staring into the camera lens I know it was

just an illusion but it felt like it was staring directly at me and that was easily one of the most unnerving Sensations I've ever experienced once the guy's Behavior reached a concerning level of weird I grabbed the phone and called Jud I didn't even feel emasculated doing it either whatever that guy's problem was it wasn't meth it was something way scarier than that Jud picked up the phone then once again he asked me to describe the person acting weird I started describing the guy and then the next thing Jud slams the phone down I look

back at the screen and the guy's disappeared from view but he's not in the store either something I'm where the hell is he gone but at the same time I'm also thinking why did Judge just slam that phone down on me he told me to call him if something weird started to happen and the first time he sounded sleepy but pretty calm so I was wondering what was so different about that time when I suddenly see him on the monitors Jud was running towards the gas station and nothing but his box or shorts and a

wife beater and he was carrying a shotgun in his hands he burst into the store and asked me where he is then when I say the guy just disappeared and then I think he just walked off Jud runs past me into the office to check the monitors I'm freaking out too because what the hell is he carrying that shotgun for but no matter how many times I asked him what's going on he kept silencing me and telling me that I needed to concentrate as he ran back to the security footage to get a look at

the guy's face I watched him rewinding the footage until he finally found what he was looking for and when he did I watched Jud turned completely pale whoever it was Jud was terrified of him so terrified that he felt the need to come running over with a shotgun to protect me and then that scared the hell out of me too Jud sent me home that night after calling the cops and the next day he called to say that he'd understand if I didn't want to come back to work I asked just one time if he

could tell me who the man was and Jud paused and then repeated the part about understanding if I didn't want to come back I thanked him for the job wished him luck and then just hung up like I said earlier I still feel guilty about not going up to see him more he was a great guy and a great boss but without knowing who that guy was without knowing why Jud was so scared of him I couldn't put myself in the position of working for him anymore I didn't want to die for some stupid gas

station job no matter how cool my boss was and if there was a guy out there who scared the hell out of one of the toughest sons of I'd ever known then what chance in hell did I have back when I was in my senior year of high school I used to work weekends at a rural gas station here in my home state of Nebraska I work second shift every Saturday and Sunday so 2:00 p.m. to around 9:00 p.m. and early one Summer's afternoon I set off to work with nothing but a few wispy clouds

in a clear blue sky now call me sentimental but I love driving around Nebraska I don't think there's any place quite like it you hit the highway from some small town and it's like the whole world stretches out out in front of you for as far as the eye can see there's an almost unbroken Skyline only occasionally interrupted by a windmill a barn or a cluster of trees it can look pretty as a picture on a sunny day and up until that point may had brought only sunshine and showers but as I drove along the

highway that afternoon and looked off into the distance I saw some really scary looking storm clouds rolling in the general rule is that most storm clouds look much scarier than they actually are especially when there's that big wall of angryl looking clouds facing you down like something straight out of the Bible but most of the time you get a little rain you get a little wind and nothing much else to worry about however on this occasion something told me it was going to be a bad one and by the time I got to the gas

station the storm warnings were being sounded over by local radio stations my coworker and I normally did a quick hand hand over but since we got the storm warnings we both had a hell of a lot more work on our hands we had to lock all the windows then either secure all of our outdoor fixtures or drag them inside and then we had to inspect the pumps and all that kind of stuff before shutting off the fuel completely my coworker went off to fuel up the generator just in case we lost power as I went

off to assemble a bunch of flashlights and batteries and we obviously can't use candles with it being gas station so it's a major priority we already had our designated shelter lined up the station's office so after ensuring the first aid kit was fully stocked we kept the radio tuned up and our ears wide open for weather alerts and other announcements we figured people would stay home and we'd be in for a pretty turbulent but relatively lonely shift but we were wrong one by one three cars rolled into the front over the course of about an

hour two driven by single people and the other containing a mom and her two young daughters wherever they'd been the path home led directly through the storm so instead of risking their lives they came to us and begged for shelter and we couldn't say no to them we weren't exactly equipped to shelter that many people especially not overnight but there was just no turning them away under these circumstances we let everybody help themselves to drinks and snacks if they were hungry mainly to try and calm their nerves as as the incoming storm got worse and

worse and boy oh boy did it get worse we all stayed relatively calm until we heard the tornado sirens going off I'm pretty sure all the grown-ups there had heard the sound before but it scared the hell out of the younger woman's two daughters who started screaming and crying and begging their mom to take them home then when stuff started flying off of our roof a piece of debris hit one of their cars and the sound of the alarm made the kids cry even harder and the poor things just didn't understand what was happening it

only took a few more moments of stuff falling off of our roof before we knew that we had to find shelter in the station's office there was just enough room to fit everyone and thankfully with the office shielding us from the sound of the sirens and the howling winds the two little girls started to calm down a little but when something flew across the parking lot and smashed through the big plate glass window and made a sound like a freaking bomb exploding and the sound scared the hell out of me and a coworker and by

that point we were kind of expecting it but the two little girls nearly lost their minds they must have thought the whole building was coming down and so did one of the single drivers because as the girl started shrieking she had some kind of panic attack and tried to run back to her car once we realized what she was trying to do my cooworker lunged at her telling her how going outside meant Absolute death and she wouldn't listen she tried to fight my coworker screaming and flailing and it took me and the other single driver

to subdue her the little girls were screeching so hard they could barely breathe watching as she struggled a little more and then just burst into tears then and only then did she stopped struggling as she cried and told us over and over again that she was sorry we rode out the storm together for the next few hours and I remember how the thing that really United us and kept us from getting too frightened was the goal of keeping those two little girls from screaming themselves unconscious I worked so hard at keeping them calm and reassuring

them that we were all going to be just fine but sometimes when I think about it I think we were all trying to reassure ourselves too and talking to them little girls like we were was sort of projecting I think eventually the sounds of the Winds died down and after about an hour or so it looked like it was safe for everyone to make a move we walked into the store to find it absolutely trashed and so much stuff had blown in that it was impossible to determine what exactly had smashed the window and made

that explosion sound glass snacks magazines and debris were just everywhere and we had to tread very carefully over it all to keep from falling on the carpet of shards the folks thanked us before they got into their cars especially the young mom who thanked the other two drivers for helping keep her daughters calm when she she too was almost losing her mind after that everyone except me and my coworker went their separate ways leaving me and him like what in the hell did we just go [Music] through on Thursday April 16th of 1987 4-year-old Marina

childis was playing with her toys out in their family's front yard Mar Ena lived in Union City Tennessee with her 22-year-old mother Pamela Bailey along with her stepfather Johnny and her 4-month-old half brother Damon also attending the house that day was Marina's 7-year-old stepbrother Jerry who was present until he was picked up by his mother at around 3:00 in the afternoon at around 3:30 p.m. with Marina still playing in the front yard her mother washed dishes while watching her daughter through the large double hung kitchen window Pam looked down for mere moments scrubbing and rinsing

a few dishes until she heard the Screech and skidding of car tires coming from the street outside she looked up and saw a red vehicle with Kentucky license plates speeding down the street and away from her home at first Pam simply shook her head and returned to her work yet seconds later she was hit with a terrifying realization she peered through the window again then as a CH choking Panic erupted in her chest she rushed outside into her front yard to find that little Marina was nowhere to be seen following a frenzied search of the

surrounding area Pamela rushed to contact the police she strongly suspected that her four-year-old daughter had just been abducted by someone driving a red car with Kentucky License Plate specific to McCracken County in the state's Far West not just because it was seen speeding down the street but because someone driving the exact same vehicle had approached her daughter at a nearby gas station just hours before she went missing after surrendering to the kids demands Pam had taken Marina and her brother Jerry to a nearby gas station to pick up some candy after obtaining her sweet treats

and in her excitement to return home little Marina had run out of the store following her mother's purchases with the goal of being the first back to the car Pamela quickly followed her daughter out into the gas station's parking lot calling out to her as she went only to find her staring up at a man she didn't recognize the man leaned forward towering over the frightened child and began talking to her but when confronted by Pamela he excused himself and walked away Pamela gently scolded little Marina and told her not to go rushing off like

that in public places then as her tearful daughter apologized Pam traced the strange man's path and saw him climbing into the driver's seat of a red car with mck Kraken County plates officers from the Union City Police Department rushed to apprehend their suspect and tracked him down to his Old Kentucky Home he seemed surprised by their arrival admitted to having talked to the little girl at the gas station back in Tennessee and even consented to a brief search of his home to confirm Marina wasn't there police all but ruled him out as a suspect and

after extensive interviews with Marina's stepfather as well as her biological father they too were cleared to suspicion the investigation continued for another 6 weeks with police becoming more and more exasperated with the lack of progress until one day a deeply shocking confession rocked the local community on June 8th of 1987 Pam was talking with a private investigator named Stan caves caves had been hired at the Beet of Pam's family who were frustrated with the tepid progress of investigating police and one day he and Pamela were conducting a tape recorded interview Pamela began talking about the

day Marina went missing and how her misbehavior was becoming increasingly unmanageable Marina's Behavior got worse and worse while Pam got more and more stressed then finally after a about of near riotous misconduct Pamela snapped spun around and struck her daughter on the back of the head she hit with such force that little Marina wobbled took a tumble then struck her head on the corner of a nearby table as she fell Pamela rushed to her daughter's aid but was horrified to discover that smashing her Temple against a pointed wooden Corner had suddenly and quite definitely killed

her Pamela continued her confession fully aware that she was being recorded telling cabis that once she realized marlina was dead she'd hidden her body in the trunk of her car she then drove said vehicle to the nearby town of Martin where she contacted a family friend named PL Summers and arranged to meet him at a bridge on Campground road There They Carried the dead girl's corpse from the trunk of Pam's car and then tossed it into obayan River investigator Stan cabis was stunned he asked Pamela to confirm that what she was saying was the truth

then when she nodded he informed her of his obligation to inform the police on the tape a tearful Pamela states that she understands then cabis pushed a button and the recording ends cavis immediately contacted the Union City Police Department with whom he'd already been working closely with and informed them of Pamela's shocking confession she was subsequently arrested on charges of second deegree murder and a team of highly trained police divers were sent to troll the oion for any trace of Marina's remains but this is where the case becomes as vexing as it is chilling Tennessee's

obayan river is a relatively slow moving and Meandering water course heavy rains can temporarily increase its speed and water level particularly in the winter and spring when rainfall increases but in its natural state much of the obayan consists of slow moving Waters especially in the lower stretches where it flows at a much more leely Pace as it approaches the great Mississippi according to Pamela she and her friends had tossed her late daughter's body into the water during the small hours of April 17th a time when most of the spring rains had come and gone this

meant that by early June a team of divers would most certainly have been able to recover any human remains that were tossed into the Obion just two months prior but strangely despite an intense search that spanned multiple days not a single trace of Marina's body could be found curious regarding the inconsistency in her story h homicide detectives visited Pamela whilst in custody and asked her to confirm the location of The Dumping site it was here that Pamela once again shocked investigators by recanting her entire confession Pamela explained that just days prior to the tape confession

with Stan cavnes she'd been released from a psychiatric hospital the stress of losing her daughter had been too much to bear so after a brief stay under the care of medical professionals she was released having been prescribed a cocktail of anti-depressants Pam then claimed that not only had she been high as a kite during the taped conversation with cavus but he' heavily intimidated her prior to its recording having used the threat of the electric chair to coers a confession police then asked her what involvement if any her friend PL Summers had in her daughter's disappearance

and Pam made yet another astonishing claim Summers wasn't her friend he'd been her lifelong abuser and it was he that had abducted and murdered little Marina according to Pamela Summer's interest in her would wax and Wayne sometimes he'd be a constant Menace demanding satisfaction whenever the mood took him other times he'd leave her in peace for months on end but he always came back for more then one day after Summers called to arrange a date she decided that enough was enough Summer stopped by but instead of giving into to him Pamela fought off his advances

and then threatened to call the police Summer's response was to threaten Marina's life and then a few weeks later there's a screech of tires while she's washing dishes and her little girl was gone a decidedly puzzled pair of homicide detectives then paid a visit to PL summers at his home there they informed him of the accusations and his reaction was incredulous Summers categorically denied Pam P's shocking claim and retorted by painting her as a liar of pathological proportions he stated he and Pamela had shared a brief diance many years ago and that he didn't even

know that she had a daughter let alone kidnapped and murdered her police then asked Summers if he had an alibi for the day of Marina's abduction he responded by listing several all of which proved credible when cross referenced by detectives police had no choice but to Rule summer out as a potential suspect but here's where the story takes another unexpected turn just months later PL Summers was arrested on charges of molesting a 9-year-old boy an article from the Kentucky based Paduka son dated September 30th of 1987 states that a 65-year-old named PL Summers was arrested

the previous afternoon on charges of aggravated battery and what's more Summers was arrested Ed after a traumatized child approached their parents it wasn't caught at the scene it wasn't some kind of Sting Summers was visited at his home at around 4 hours after the attack unless the 99-year-old he was accused of molesting had a photographic memory and a talent for articulating the finer details of a person's appearance it's safe to say that the police considered him a suspect due to his history of child abuse as it turns out there was some degree of Truth to

Pamela's frightful claim but the fate of her daughter remained a deeply troubling mystery many police officers doubted Pam's story and others doubted her sanity but all agreed that without a body or any other kind of solid evidence the chance of getting a conviction was highly improbable free to move on with their life Pamela Bailey found that she couldn't continue living in Union City and relocated to Mayfield Kentucky around 40 Mi Northeast of her childhood home 2 years later sometime in early 1990 Pamela gave birth to a son that she named Casey and for 12 long

years they lived in peace and Harmony then on April 22nd of 2002 just a few months after Casey's 12th birthday Pamela told her young son that she had a surprise for him and asked him to put on a blindfold Casey did as she was told before his mother led him out to the car and helped her son into the passenger seat 6 days prior marked the 15th anniversary of Marina's disappearance she would have been 19 years old had she been alive Pamela drove her son all the way to the mystery destination she' picked out then

carefully helped him from the passenger seat and led him off into the unknown Casey kept asking if he could take off the blindfold yet his mother told him no that he had to wait until the right moment he felt grass soft and spongy under the soles of his sneakers and then suddenly his mother brought him to an abrupt Halt and told him to take off his blindfold when Casey did so his first reaction was utter confusion he believed his mother was taking him somewhere exciting or fun potentially as a belated birthday present instead she'd taken

him to a cemetery Casey looked around wondering what in the world his mother was thinking when he suddenly spotted a clue to the purpose of their visit before him a single word was etched into a small child-sized gravestone son it said Casey turned to see his mother brandishing a knife he tried to run but she grabbed his shirt stabbing him once in the back of the neck and twice through the flesh at top his shoulder thankfully Casey's Quick thinking and decisive action saved his life his Dynamic movement meant the stab wounds inflicted by his own

mother were only relatively minor he escaped sought help and then fully recovered following a brief stay in a hospital Pamela was once again arrested on charges of harming one of her own children but when questioned claimed that she had no memory of the event and must have blacked out for the duration she was subsequently charged with attempted murder but after a period of legal wrangling ended up pleading no contest to charges of second degree assault she she received a 10-year prison sentence but was released after serving just 2third of her time and while she was

in prison police took the opportunity to reopen the investigation Into The Disappearance of Marina childis but despite their best efforts they were unable to make any solid progress in their investigation some detectives remained firm in their position that Pam who had already admitted to harming one of her children was responsible for Marina's death others weren't so sure according to one former homicide detective there was a potentially credible sighting Marina at a Memphis Hair Salon just 6 days after she went missing two hair stylists claimed that a girl with a strong resemblance to Marina was brought

into their salon by two grown women who also appear to be the guardian of a similarly aged boy the women asked for the little girl's hair to be styled but during the cut the little girl kept sobbing and saying that she wanted her mother the stylists claimed the women referred to the girl as Marina but thought very little of the encounter until they saw the girl's picture in a local newspaper at which point they seemed convinced that little Marina and the sobbing child were one and the same following the reported sighting Marina's maternal grandfather drove

all the way to Memphis to personally verify the story leade Strickland tracked down one of the women that had reportedly brought Marina for a haircut but after after she was questioned by police it was determined the little girl had not been his missing granddaughter yet in their haste to pursue more recent leads investigators appear to have neglected what is arguably their strongest Avenue of Investigation the man in the red car despite having his name stricken from the list of potential suspects the involvement of the mysterious driver with McCracken County plates has never been fully explored

Not only was his vehicle spotted speeding away from the scene of Marina's abduction but they just so happened to bump into one another in a gas station parking lot just hours before police seemed to have assumed that since Marina was sitting on the man's couch or at his kitchen table she couldn't possibly have been present in the home yet their search appears to have been skinned deep the driver could have drugged Marina to keep her quiet before secreting her away in a very discreet Hiding Place alternatively he could have handed Marina off to an accomplice

in the hours between speeding away from her home and arriving back in McCracken County on the other side of the Kentucky Tennessee State Line it's entirely possible that Pamela was in cahoots with this mystery driver and made a calculated decision to confuse and frustrate any subsequent investigation by claiming that she had been her daughter's killer but if that was the case why arrang for her daughter to be abducted in the first place if 22-year-old Pam believed that she was too young to be a full-time mother she could have easily placed her daughter into adoptive care

but that would have come with a degree of stigma a sense that she'd given up however arranged for Marina to go missing especially if it happened during a brief lapse in her otherwise attentive care that would leave Pam blameless but what if Pam had a little more to gain than just her Freedom what if she lied about her daughter's fate in order to mask an immense personal gain what if Pamela Bailey sold her child between 1924 and 1960 a woman from Memphis named Georgia Tan stole and sold up to 5,000 different children operating under the

cover of her position at the Tennessee Children's Home Society tan arranged for the children to be adopted in exchange for vast sums of cash she performed no background checks on the people she sold children to meaning there's a good chance that she deliberately sold children to people who would exploit their labor or exploit their innocence tan charged anywhere from $700 to $110,000 and during a speech in 1944 had the audacity to accuse other adoption agencies of trafficking vulnerable children for profit incredibly one child stolen and sold by Georgia Tan grew up to be a household

name born as Fred Phillips the infant boy was sold to Kathleen and Richard Fleer sometime in early 1949 or 1950 who went on to settle in the state of Minnesota before renaming the boy Richard the boy grew up an athlete and by the early 1970s was well on his way to becoming the styling profiling limousine riding jet flying kiss stealing wheeling and dealing son of a gun Rick the Nature Boy Flair the point is that even some of America's most beloved public Figures were once bought and sold as children sadly Georgia Tan died of uterine

cancer 3 days before the state filed charges against her and thus escaped justice but there's no evidence that the network she operated was effectively dismantled it's estimated that Georgia Tan had made somewhere in the region of $120,000 from the sale of Orphan children which in today's money is almost $1.2 million an industry that profit doesn't just disappear overnight and it seems far too much of a coincidence that Tan's trafficking operation and Marina's mysterious disappearance occurred in the exact same state it makes very little sense that Pam Bailey would be working in cahoots with the driver

of the red car only to then swiftly report him to the police but what if the driver was a well-placed decoy employed as part of a vast historic human trafficking Network that's existed for a hundred years what if she felt so so guilty and was so acutely aware of the evil that lurks in the shadows of our society that her Ultimate gift to her 12-year-old son was eternal dreamless sleep hey friends thanks for listening click that notification Bell to be alerted of all future narrations I release new videos every Monday and Thursday at 9:00 p.m.

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