12x07: The Creepy Hotel Owner

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[00:00:09] Enjoy the area. So we went. When we got there she revealed, Hey, I met this guy online. He goes by Joey Krak. Then she showed his pictures to me and her aunt. Joey Krak was a wide set man with a red goofy face,

[00:01:44] face tattoos, cornrows told her I was tired. I also told her that I thought Joey was weird and's about to come get me. As he was texting, Karen was right behind him, watching him. Her eyes grew wide and she looked at me, which was our silent girl code for what the fuck. Karen broke the silence and asked, Hey, can you come help me get this thing that's inside?

[00:04:23] I followed her inside and she then said,

[00:04:26] I'm calling my uncle so that he can was on his way home. Her uncle pulled in just moments later and I breathed a sigh of relief. Karen's uncle briefly spoke to Joey, then Joey departed into the darkness before his ride even showed up. Karen and I got a ride from her uncle to my house and on the ride we noted how weird Joey

[00:05:42] was.

[00:05:43] Well, later that night as I was going to bed, I on my own for the first time. As a freshman in college, my days consisted of going to class in the mornings, then getting Chipotle and going back to my apartment to smoke weed for the rest of the day.

[00:07:01] I did this nearly every single day.

[00:07:04] Me and my roommate, who we'll call James invited two guys into our apartment to smoke with us despite our discontent. So, the two guys came into our apartment, we smoked, and the whole time, they were being weird. One of the guys kept making jokes about being an undercover cop. He said, be raided. By this point it was probably 1.30am. So we sat off on our journey into the woods to hide the weed. As we were walking, we identified a few landmarks to ensure that we could find it again.

[00:09:40] Because god forbid, we lose that ounce of weed.

[00:09:44] We felt a lot better after hiding the evidence and setting back towards the apartment. our cell phones and empty wallets. The man became increasingly angry and told us to get up and face away from him. Now, this was already scary enough, but this is when it got extremely terrifying for both of us. Just a couple of days before that, two teens had been brutally murdered in our area in

[00:11:02] the same fashion. to the woods first thing the next morning and picked that backpack up to continue our era of stoner degeneracy. ["Dramatic Music"]

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[00:16:21] that he had left on the trail.

[00:16:23] It had been sharpened into a spear.

[00:17:27] found a tree with, I see you, written in chalk. I immediately got this weird feeling so I turned back and finally reported it with the

[00:17:31] park rangers and the police.

[00:17:35] I'm currently working with the park rangers to keep an eye out.

[00:17:39] After sharing my story and hiking groups on social media, several women have come forward

[00:17:44] with similar experiences at the same place. for sharing this so publicly. But that's fine with me. Everyone has a right to know and everyone should know. In my continued correspondence with women who have messaged me about this man, I have found out that he is unstable and spends most days at this park. Apparently, he's an old park ranger himself.

[00:19:00] He has a secret spot in the woods

[00:19:02] where he has a chainsaw and gasoline.

[00:19:05] Even his cousin has reported him to park rangers.

[00:20:03] was appointed as executor of the will. He had retired and moved on and he said that he was too busy to perform the duties.

[00:20:09] I knew that I could not do it as my brain was reeling from the loss and I just couldn't

[00:20:15] focus.

[00:20:16] My sister, Kate, is not good with money or numbers so we decided on a somewhat neutral

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