Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast - Wednesday One-Shot: Saran Wrap Man
Episode Date: August 23, 2023Welcome to Wednesday One-Shots. Enjoy this bonus story to help get you through that midweek slump. This week we have a story by Cecilly. The story you've heard this week was narrated and produced ...with the permission of its respective author. Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast is not associated with Reddit or any other message boards online. To submit your story to the show, send it to letsnotmeetstories@gmail.com. Get access to extended, ad-free episodes of Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast with bonus stories every week at a higher bitrate along with a bunch of other great exclusive material and merch at patreon.com/letsnotmeetpodcast. This podcast would not be possible to continue at this rate without the help of the support of the legendary LNM Patrons. Come join the family! Check out the other Cryptic County podcasts like Odd Trails, Welcome to Paradise (It Sucks), and the Old Time Radiocast at CrypticCountyPodcasts.com or wherever you get your podcasts! - Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/433173970399259/ - Website - https://letsnotmeetpodcast.com/ - Patreon - https://patreon.com/letsnotmeetpodcast - Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/letsnotmeetcast/ - Twitch - https://twitch.tv/andytatelive
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Welcome to Wednesday One Chots, the series where we share a bonus story with you all to help
you get through the week.
This time around we have a story by a listener named Cecil.
I've been listening to Let's Not Meet for about a year, on a suggestion from a friend.
I'm glad she told me about it because it's now one of my favorites.
I don't have a scary story to share, at least not of my own.
But one of my teachers does, and she allowed me to submit this story.
I'm a religious person, and one day, in Sunday school, we were sharing stories from our lives
that we thought to be miracles.
Everyone had some cool stories about getting a bad feeling and leaving a party early or
getting a feeling about what could have been a somewhat dangerous situation.
But my teacher will call her Sarah, then stunned all of us with this story.
Sarah has been a teacher for most of her life.
One of her students had grown up and was getting married in Flagstaff, Arizona.
So to go support her student, Sarah took her husband and her kids on a four hour road
trip to go watch her get married.
She left right after work so it was in the evening time when the sun was going down. It was also an incredibly rainy day. The weather reports said it was going to
rain all night. As they drove through the rain, her children in the back seat started to
get agitated, crying and whining. You know, like little kids do when they were uncomfortable.
Sarah and her husband decided to pull over soon to rearrange their luggage and their children so that everybody would be comfortable.
They planned on camping as well while in Flagstaff.
So logically, they brought camping gear.
They were in a pretty wooded area around Muns Park, so they decided to keep driving until they reached a rest stop or a gas station of some kind. Soon they found a shell or a sin
clear of some kind and pulled into an empty well lit parking lot. Right away, Sarah had this
terrible feeling that something was about to go wrong. She informed her husband, who had the
exact same feeling. They decided to quickly move things around just enough so that the kids wouldn't
be uncomfortable
for the remainder of the drive. They hopped out and opened the trunk, then began unloading and
reloading their luggage. Keep in mind, it was still raining. It wasn't raining heavily, but it also
wasn't sprinkling. What my teacher told us next made the hairs on the back of her neck stand up.
She said that she looked around, then emerging from the back of the
store near the garbage cans, was a man. He was covered in what looked like some kind
of plastic. She thought that maybe it was a raincoat. The man looked kind of disheveled.
Maybe he was unhoused, maybe on drugs who knows. All Sarah knew was that they did need to
get out of there. The man started walking towards them slowly at first.
He was getting closer.
They could see a very creepy smile across his face.
He was holding something.
Sarah and her husband did not want to find out what it was, but unfortunately, they did.
It was a knife.
And he wasn't wearing a raincoat. The creepy knife-wielding man was
covered in Saranwrap. Sarah's husband told her to get back into the car, which she did.
There was only one sleeping bag left that needed to be put in the trunk, but every time her
husband shoved it in, it fell out. Saranwrap man was getting closer and he started speed-walking, almost jogging.
Finally, her husband threw the sleeping bag in the car so hard it hit the front windshield
from the inside.
He slammed the trunk closed and then turned just in time to see So ran, Ratman, several
feet away from him, still with the knife in his hand, and still just smiling.
He stopped, and Sarah's husband called out to him.
Hi there, can we help you?
The Serran rap man said nothing, but he continued to smile as he just stared, walking towards
him.
Sarah's husband turned and ran for the car door.
As soon as he was inside, Sarah locked all of the doors, just as Saran wrapped man reached
the trunk door and tried to open it.
He was jerking the handle violently.
Sarah's husband started the car and peeled out of there as fast as he could.
They didn't stop driving for a long time.
My teacher told us that she had watched a movie where a man hid underneath a vehicle
recently and held on for several miles, and that's exactly what she was afraid that
Saranwrap man might have done. Luckily, he had it, and they made it away safely. But this
story is such a critical reminder to me that there is something out there looking for
us, giving us these gut
wrenching feelings to get out of dangerous situations. I believe everyone at some point has experienced
it. And you can believe it's divine intervention of some kind or not. That's up to you. But I know
that miracles can happen and that miracle saved my teacher's life. Many weeks later, Sarah watched the news and heard reports of people saying and being attacked
by a man near Muns Park area. This man was never caught, but hopefully, he will be, or hopefully,
he won't be around anymore to terrorize people. So to the creepy knife-ing, smiling, Saran rap-covered man, let's not meet ever.
Thanks to Cecil for submitting that story,
and if you have a story you'd like to share,
send it over to Let's Not Meet Stories at gmail.com.
We'll see you all next week for a full episode of Let's Not Meet.
Everyone, stay safe. Thank you.