A Terrifying First Date Story You’ll Want to Tell Your Friends MrBallen ~ Chris Williamson

spooky field with a car on fire and a full moon and a weird house over the far side. Have you got any stories that

fit this environment? I do. I do. I have a really good one from out in Utah in the 1970s. This is actually one of the earliest stories that I covered. Actually, this is one of the first ones. So we don't have the names of the people involved. So I'm gonna call them a man and a woman, but this is every bit their story. We just don't use their names. I think they actually didn't want their names used. That's what I recall. So back in the 1970s, there was this young guy and young girl who were the main characters of the story. And I think they met in college and they go out on this first date. They go to a restaurant, a diner, and they got along fine, but there wasn't any magic. It was 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 kind of intuitively noticed it. And 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 the worst that can happen? I already can tell this isn't going anywhere. And he says to his date, he says, you know, do you want to do something kind of unexpected? Do you want to go do something kind of crazy with me right now? And the girl was actually like, kind of taken aback. Okay. What, what do you want to do? And he's like, well, I, I oftentimes go for walks out in Provo Canyon, this beautiful Canyon. That's not near it. It'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 chemistry that's like they're going into the unknown together. And so they quickly leave the diner, they hop in his car and it's a short drive over to the parking lot where Provo Canyon is. You know, he pulls into the spot, there's nobody there, they get out. And now there really is, 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 nighttime, just a very, 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 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, 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