14x02: Don't Take Candy From a Kidnapper
Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast
Cryptic County
4.6 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Christmas Eve Lyft Ride Nightmare | Ges613 (0:40)
New Year's Eve Close Call... | NeverMindTheCarrots (6:16)
Ren Groupies Are Scary | Shenko-wolf (14:34)
Creepy guy at LARP | Terrible_Kraken (20:59)
Some Dude Tried to Rob Me on Christmas Eve | trippyhippydmt (28:48)
Followed By A Brown Truck While Holiday Shopping | Morrgan (34:05)
Don't Take Candy From a Kidnapper | Stitch (38:18)
Terrifying Temple Experience | Tiayaisha (44:27)
Extended Patreon Content:
The Drunk Friend | Purea
Gigs Gone Wrong | Musicgirl22
The Man Outside Our Gate | Jaz Kid
Appalachain Trail Murder | Barely
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast contains adult language and content. |
| 0:03.3 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:05.3 | If you have a story to share, send it to Let's Not Meet Stories at gmail.com. |
| 0:09.9 | Enjoy the show. For context, I'm a 26-year-old male, and I live in a large city in the Midwest. |
| 0:46.4 | I drove for Lyft while putting myself through trade school. |
| 0:49.9 | I drove for similar companies as well, but that's beside the point. |
| 0:54.0 | I have many horror stories about the other companies that I've driven for as well, |
| 0:58.3 | but I'll leave those for another time. |
| 1:01.0 | This happened on Christmas Eve in 2020. |
| 1:04.3 | I was out driving for a lift for a few hours before heading to my moms with my new baby and my wife. |
| 1:11.7 | There wasn't anything out of the ordinary going on that night. |
| 1:15.6 | Everything seemed like business as usual. |
| 1:18.6 | I then received a ride request for a pickup |
| 1:21.3 | from this lower-income apartment complex. |
| 1:24.8 | I didn't see this as a big deal, |
| 1:26.5 | and I accepted the ride to pick this person up. |
| 1:29.7 | When I arrived, I found my passenger, and he had what seemed to be all of his belongings with him. |
| 1:35.7 | He had several boxes of stuff. Now my car is a 2006 Chevy Impala, so even though it's not too big, |
| 1:49.4 | we managed to get all of the stuff loaded up, albeit barely, and we were on our way. |
| 1:58.9 | During the ride, he was crying and saying that his girlfriend was cheating on him, and that he had even walked in on them earlier that night. |
| 2:02.0 | He couldn't ask her to leave since her name was on the lease, so he just had to get out of there. The destination address for his ride was a motel that |
| 2:08.7 | happened to be on a pretty notorious street. In my city, this particular street is well known to |
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