we're here in a spooky field with a a car on fire and a full moon in a weird house over the far side yeah have you got any stories that fit this environment I do I do I have a really good one uh from uh out in Utah in the 1970s um this is actually one of the earliest stories that I covered actually this is one of the first ones so um we don't have the names of the people involved I'm going to call them a man and a woman but you know they this is
every bit their story we just don't use their names I think they didn't want their names used that's what I recall so back in the 1970s there was this this young guy and young girl who the main characters of the story and they I think they met in college and they go out on this first date uh they go to a restaurant a diner and they got along fine but there wasn't any magic it was you know kind of a nothing date that they both kind of instinctively knew that this was likely not going to
go anywhere Beyond this first date there's no chemistry however they both both kind of intuitively noticed it and the the guy towards the end of the date when it's kind of like okay time to wrap things up now he decided to take a chance he figured what's what's what's the worst that can happen I already can tell this isn't going anywhere and he says to the to a date he says you know do you want to do something kind of unexpected you want to like go do something kind of crazy with me right now and
the girl was actually like kind of taking a back she okay wait what what do you want to do and he's like well I I often times go for walks out in Provo Canyon this beautiful Canyon that's not near that's nearby it's got this amazing Trail it brings you out to this Overlook with this incredible view of the Stars like it's a really cool spot and I go there you know later in the day and no one's there and it's it's pretty cool but it's you know we're hiking in the woods in the middle of
the night you know what I mean and she's like okay let's do it you know it's like suddenly the date went from going nowhere to it's kind of exciting and so now there's there's chemistry that's like they're going into the unknown together and so they they quickly leave the diner they hop in his car and it's a short drive over to the parking lot where provoc Canyon is you know he pulls into the spot there's nobody there they get out and and now they really is they're they're getting along they're kind of laughing telling jokes
they're holding hands and they walk right from the parking lot onto this paved trail that goes right into the forest and so it's it's nighttime you know just a very it's a this is a this is a well this is a well-used trail this is not some Goat Trail in the middle of nowhere this is a well-used trail and so they start walking into the forest and uh after a while and this is something they would say after the fact but we know this is what was happening as they were walking their the the the
feel the vibe of the night really changed as soon as they got into the woods you know they're excited the states suddenly become exciting and then they get into the forest they're on the trail they're holding hands they're walking and both of them began feeling this really intense dread as they're walking in but they don't know each other they just this is their first date they don't have the the background of a relationship to begin touching on something that's hard to point out you know neither of them turned to the other and Saidi feel uncomfortable
instead they just kept their mouth shut and and thought okay I'll just keep on going so they stopped talking they begin walking faster out of this kind of nervous energy they have now they're holding hands and and they're just walking through this Trail because they're trying to get to this Overlook basically get it out of the way and come on back but it's all unspoken they haven't said boy this is anxious they just they're feeling that way and so they're walking on this Trail again surrounded by trees there's nobody else out there and it's pretty
dark they don't have a flashlight and as they're basically speed walking at this point in silence at some point they hear a rustling sound kind of off to the side and at the exact same time the guy steps on something that he described as being soft and he stepped on it and he has no idea what he's stepping on no clue it's something soft and he's heard this rustling sound and they're feeling anxious and he immediately stops because he stepped on something and the girl she's sensing okay what's going on here and without any communication
they turned and walked out didn't even look down they didn't they have no idea what's going on it was like they both knew let's get the [ __ ] out of here I don't know what's going on out here and they practically ran back to their car totally safe they get in their car and now that they're in the safety of their car they kind of began laughing about it like yeah I wonder what that was I stepped on something out there I don't know something moving around maybe there's a big animal I don't know
but that was it it was just that was the whole date and actually they wound up getting married because this date was like this kind of amazing thing where they bonded over the fear of being in this this forest and so they get married and 10 years later they're at home and the TV is on it's it's tuned to to like a date line type of show like a a true crime show and neither of them are really watching but an an interview comes on and it's it's a journalist talking to a death row inmate
it's a very famous death row inmate and he's very near his execution date and he's giving this kind of full-blown interview about you know what he did and at some point the journalist asked him was there ever a time that you almost got caught before you got caught and the serial killer is like yeah there was a time I was out in Provo Canyon and I just killed a girl and I was trying to dispose of her body and I dragged her across the trail and this young couple comes turning around the corner and they
stepped on the body and I was maybe a foot away holding her looking up at them in the darkness waiting to see what they were going to do but for some reason the couple didn't look down they didn't look around they just turned and left and so that was it that was the that was the time I was got caught and so it turn out the guy or they had come in contact with Ted Bundy like one of the most infamous serial killers of all time who effectively said had he investigated he would have had
to kill the couple it's crazy so they got their first date was running into Ted Bundy wow yeah oh my God and actually I there if if you're interested there's several other close calls with Ted Bundy that if you Google close calls with Ted Bundy he he came close to killing people several times and it's like I I don't have the vwb it was something with the vwb I forget what it was unfortunately I don't remember all the anecdotes but there's quite a few that are that one is the most startling because it's so like
visceral what happened but the others were you know this girl who almost went on a date with Ted Bundy but then got a bad feeling about it and cancelled and it like the day later he gets arrested for being Ted Bundy um stuff like or one person who Ted Bundy randomly befriended this this woman and I think they were dating for a while and he was very close with her child and it was I mean he's like in their family while he's killing other people at the same time and then he just broke up with
her and moved on like he didn't do anything to her or her family while he's actively killing all these women but there for some reason he just had this normal family happy wholesome relationship with this girl for like a year and she would find out after he was executed that she was actively dating a serial killer so it's just Ted Bundy had all these weird interactions with people that have been documented but that one to me is the most startling in other news this episode is brought to you by momentus if you've been struggling to
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