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Welcome to true scary story. Most areas have a certain road that is said
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to be haunted, but despite the many stories that we hear, few have
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actual first hand experiences. Today we're going to hear one of them, and
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the bizarre case of a haunted highway. My name is Edwin and here is
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Kayleen. It's true scary story. Back in twenty twelve, I had a
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best friend named Savannah. We used to go to Crumpoint High School. She
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lived in the area. I lived further north, thirty minutes from there,
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in a little community called Lake Valley. She picked me up on her way
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to Farmington, which is another hour and thirty minutes where she lives also north,
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just to hang out. It was a Friday night. I told her
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that I would go. I went with her. We ended up staying pretty
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late in town. We didn't leave town until ten o'clock. We started heading
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back on Highway three seventy one is what we call it. There's a junction
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called in five Junction and Highway three seventy one is the little tea area.
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We were driving past there after midnight. I was sitting in the back seat,
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Savannah was in the passenger side. Her dad was driving out of nowhere.
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We saw the police lights behind us. We were confused. We didn't
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see anything on the road or any Savanna's dad pulled over. He told us
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everything would be okay. I'd probably have missing towel light. We waited for
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a good ten minutes, which I thought was also odd for the police officer
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to come to the window. Ten minutes later, the police officer showed up
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knocked on the window. He didn't even make eye contact. He just knocked
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on the window. All we could see was his stomach. That's it.
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We couldn't see his chest, his head or would he look like he knocks
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on the window. Savannah's dad rolls down the window. He said to Savannah's
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dad, Hey, hello, have you been drinking? You've been drinking?
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Her dad said, no, sir, I haven't. The police officer said,
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are you sure? Who are you with? We thought it was pretty
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odd a police officer would introduce himself and be like, do you know why
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I pulled you over? But this was just a simple, straightforward have you
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been drinking? It was on five minutes. Six minutes later, he finally
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asked do you have your driver's license? He didn't ask for a registration,
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just the driver's license. When Savannah's dad was looking for his driver's license in
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his wallet, I tried to look through the window, trying to peek up
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at him. With his fash light, he shined it at my face.
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I couldn't see. I only saw his police uniform. Where we're at,
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it's usually Navajo Nation police officers. They patrolled that area. He just took
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the driver's license and told Savannah's dad I'll be back. Went back to his
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squad car. Savannah's dad tried to look in the Reavery mirroor or on the
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side marrow. I saw him do that. All he said was what the
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heck? I wanted to ask him what was wrong, but I didn't.
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I didn't say anything because I got the chills. At the same time.
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I finally had the courage to turn around, but the lights from the squad
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car was so bright I couldn't see anything. All Savannah's dad said was we
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need to hurry and go home. The police officer came back and said,
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are you sure you're not drinking, sir? Savannah's dad kind of seemed annoy
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and he said, no, I told you I'm not drinking. I do
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not drink. The police officer said, are you sure. Savanna's dad said,
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am I being charged with anything? If not, we'd like to get
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back. We live pretty far. We do live pretty far. Back then,
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we didn't have self service either, so quite like an hour of no
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self services where we got pulled over. He didn't say anything, just gave
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the driver's license back and said good night, didn't write any paper, didn't
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even tell Savannah's dad this is a warning. Nothing. We buckled our seat
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belts back on and getting ready to go back onto the main highway, Highway
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three seventy one. We saw this vehicle approaching from Afar. When the vehicle
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passed us, I saw Savannah's dad look into the rear view mirro. He
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said, what the hell, we're going home right now? We have to
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go home, That's all he kept saying. He didn't tell us why.
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When I saw his speedometer it was seventy five eighty, I knew something was
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wrong. He told me, whenever we get serviced, call your parents,
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tell them to pick you up. We have to go straight home. I
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did as I was told, still unsure why. I still have an eerie
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feeling. I didn't want to turn around. I didn't even want to be
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in the back seat by myself. The next day came along, I went
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to school. Savannah was there during lunchtime. She told me, I gotta
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tell you what happened and what we found out. When they got home.
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That night, her dad called to the shipwreck Navajo Nation Police Department to complain
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about this officer the ship brought. Police department looked into it and said,
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we had no one patrolling that area last night, but I can call another
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department to see if anyone was there. He came back on the line and
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told Savannah's dad, hey, there was no one around the area. They
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were all on a call towards Gallop, New Mexico. That's where most of
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our police officers were. Savannah's dad said, if it wasn't anyone in your
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department or elsewhere, then who was it The guy he was talking to?
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You said, this is not the first time we have been getting a call
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like this. We've gotten numerous calls like this. They all said the same
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thing, what you're describing. We had a police officer that passed away in
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that area months ago. Back. He went head on with another driver that
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had a female. We don't bury our police officers with their badge or their
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plate number. That's probably why you couldn't get the plate number. He told
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Savannas that I'm just letting you know now to go see what we call in
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our Navajo culture a singing none going to see a medicine man. In our
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culture, if someone's not laid to rest properly, they have a hard time
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crossing over. We would call them in our Navajo language, people that shouldn't
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be there, people that have already passed on, that shouldn't be there.
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They can take shape into someone you know. They usually choose someone that's really
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close to you. They'll mimic their voice, look like them. They'll turn
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into any animals. They can just about anything. If they're not laid to
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rest properly, or in their lifetime, something wasn't going right. The after
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life comes, it usually means they're bad. In Anglo language, they would
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call it skin walkers. He went to the medicine man that same night.
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He didn't want to wait. That same medicine man told him what the ship
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brought to police department had told them. But the medicine man added that when
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that police officer took his driver's license, he had put something on there and
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gave it back to him like that. The medicine man added that he's just
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a lost spirit. He was mad that he didn't get to live his full
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life. That is why he has been trying to look for this girl that
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he had a collision with. He goes around that area looking for any girls
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that were the same age as me and Savannah at that time. It was
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really odd. But every time I would try to look through the window at
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him to see his face or even to get the badge number, he would
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always shine the flash light in my eyes, so I couldn't see anything.
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I was pretty freaked out about it. If you know anyone on the Nave
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Nation, there's stories that would go around. We had mentioned it to one
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of our teachers at the time in high school. She told us her her
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daughter in law had experienced the same thing in that area. When you drive
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in that area at night, either he would see someone walking onside the road,
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Vehicles come out of nowhere. When another vehicle passes, you look in
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the rearview, mirl there's nothing. If you're driving by yourself, you would
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see someone sitting in the backseat with you. There's a lot of accidents that
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much for listening. Keep it scary everyone. See you soon.