Safe House (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
6/22/202636 min
On a chilly February night in 2005, a young woman in Chicago was sitting down for dinner when her phone rang. It was her mom, who lived a few blocks away, and she told her daughter to come home... now. The young woman asked what was wrong, but her mom wouldn’t explain. She just said, RUN. And that’s when the young woman realized – the thing her family had been afraid of for so long… might have finally happened.
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First 90 secondsJohn Allen· Host0:00
On a cold February night in two thousand and five, a woman in Chicago was sitting down for dinner when her phone rang. She looked over and saw it was her mom, so she answered it. And her mom, who lived only a few blocks away, she seemed really upset about something. And she told her daughter that she needed to come to her mother's house right now. And the daughter was like, "Why? What's going on?" But her mom cut her off and said, "No, you need to come here, like, right now. You need to run." And that's when the woman realized that the very thing her whole family had been so afraid of for so long might have finally happened. But before we get into today's story, if you're a fan of the strange, dark, and mysterious delivered in story format, then you've come to the right place because that's all we do. So if that's of interest to you, please tell the follow button that you wanna bring them out on an amazing, fun night out. But when it's time to go pick them up, don't show up. Okay? Let's get into today's story. [mysterious music] On the morning of February 28th, two thousand and five, a sixty-four-year-old man named Michael Lefkow limped down the stairs inside of his home in Chicago, Illinois. He'd injured his Achilles tendon playing tennis the week before, so now he had a cast on his leg and