Hello, this is Dr Malcolm Ryder, parapsycologist. I'm currently not in the studio.

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This is Mike from Kansas.

I like to go for night drives.

Alone.

Helps me clear my head, you know? I don't know, you live in the city, right?

You probably don't know. Don't get it. But that's how I relax, just me.

My truck, huh? Backcountry road.

Sometimes in silence, sometimes with radio blasting.

I think that's how I found your show driving out alone one night.

Good thing I did, I guess.

Otherwise, I wouldn't know who to call about this.

I haven't gone out on a night drive in almost two weeks.

I saw something then that, well, I'm hoping you can help me make sense of what happened.

So I was out driving. My girlfriend and I had been arguing about something stupid, no doubt.

It's probably just after 9 p.m. or so not too late. I just

had to get out of the house. Like I said going out alone helps me clear my head.

It was raining. I didn't have any music on. I just wanted to hear each

wander drop as it hit the roof of my truck or the ground. I had my lights on, so I saw her way before I got close.

She's the reason why I'm calling. There's this little girl in the middle of the road,

her back to me, her back to my truck facing away from the

light. I slowed as I approached her, pulled off to the side, didn't hesitate to get

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