Two men who asked about a missing gate vanish on a rural gas road
A caller the host introduces as [quote withheld] says that when they were 15, in eastern Kentucky, they met two men on a dirt gas road. The men asked how the caller had gotten past a gate that the caller says had been removed years earlier. When the caller turned around a few steps later, the men were gone. The caller says they ran home and told their mother that two men were trying to kill them. The caller says they never told the story because they did not know whether it was a ghost story. The host suggests the men may have gone back to a time when the gate still existed, calling it “just a guess.”
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The story as told
[name withheld], whom the host introduces as [quote withheld] says they are calling to tell one more story they had not told on air before. [name withheld] says they grew up in eastern Kentucky on a hill they call haunted. It was near a dirt gas road with gas wells, used locally for dirt bikes and four-wheelers. One day when they had no gas for their dirt bike, they say, they walked out along the road at about age 15, carrying a machete and looking for snakes and deer. On a straight stretch they estimate at two or three hundred yards, they say, two men suddenly appeared about twenty feet in front of them. [name withheld] told the men they had scared [name withheld], and one of them said “well I'm sorry.” The men walked up and asked how [name withheld] had gotten out there. [name withheld] said they lived half a mile away. The men said they were very confused and asked how [name withheld] had gotten past the gate. [name withheld] told them there was no gate. One had been ripped out a couple of years earlier. [name withheld] told them the road has one way in and one way out, with another entrance without a gate miles the other way. [name withheld] says they became “really creeped out” because both men stared directly at [name withheld]’s eyes and never looked away, even when [name withheld] mentioned the machete. Only one man spoke. [name withheld] began walking home, and when they turned around a few steps later, the men were gone. [name withheld] says there was nowhere for the men to hide. [name withheld] walked fast and turned back again, and the men were still gone. Convinced something bad was about to happen, [name withheld] ran home. [name withheld] found no work truck at the road. [name withheld] ran inside, locked the doors, and told their mother two men were trying to kill them. [name withheld] stayed frightened for the rest of the day. [name withheld] says they had not told the story before because they did not know whether it was a ghost story. The host guesses the men went back to a time when the gate still stood, saying [quote withheld]
Reported events, in order
- 0:36
The caller says they grew up in eastern Kentucky on a hill they call haunted, near a dirt gas road with gas wells where local people rode dirt bikes and four-wheelers.
- 0:57
With no gas for their dirt bike, the caller says, they walked out along the road at about age 15, carrying a machete and looking for snakes and deer.
- 1:13
On a straight stretch they estimate at two or three hundred yards, the caller says, two men suddenly appeared about twenty feet in front of them.
- 1:31
The caller told the men they had scared the caller. One of the men said “well i'm sorry,” and they walked up and asked how the caller had gotten out there. The caller said they lived half a mile away.
- 1:50
The caller says the men said they were very confused and asked how the caller had gotten past the gate. The caller told the men there was no gate, that one had been ripped out a couple of years earlier, and that the road has one way in and one way out.
- 2:38
The caller says they were “really creeped out” because both men stared directly at the caller’s eyes and did not look at the machete. Only one of them spoke.
- 3:26
The caller started walking back toward their house. After a few steps they turned around, and they say the men were gone.
- 4:09
The caller says they walked fast and turned back again, and the men were still not there. The caller says there was nowhere for the men to hide.
- 4:17
Convinced something bad was about to happen, the caller says, they ran home. They found no work truck at the road. They ran inside, slammed and locked the doors, and told their mother that two men were trying to kill them. They stayed frightened for the rest of the day.
- 4:39
The caller says they had not told the story before because they did not know whether it was a ghost story.
- 5:04
The host guesses the men went back to a time when the gate still existed, and says it is just a guess.
Claims
Each claim is labeled as something the person telling the story noticed (observation), what they made of it (interpretation), something others told them (hearsay), or something the host said (host statement).
- observation· 1:13
Two men appeared suddenly about twenty feet in front of the caller on a straight stretch of the road.
- observation· 1:55
The men asked how the caller had gotten past the gate, which the caller says had been removed about two years earlier.
- observation· 2:38
Both men stared fixedly at the caller’s eyes and did not look at the machete. Only one of them spoke.
- observation· 3:35
When the caller turned around a few steps later, the two men were gone.
- interpretation· 4:12
The caller concludes the men could not simply have walked out of sight.
- interpretation· 4:17
The caller read the encounter as threatening and feared the men meant them harm.
- interpretation· 0:36
The caller describes the hill where they grew up as haunted.
- host statement· 3:43
The host suggests the men may have gone back to a time when the gate still existed.
- host statement· 5:22
The host says his idea of a slip in time is only a guess.
Scores, with reasons
An AI model gave these scores using a fixed set of scoring rules (scoring-v1). They are editorial judgments and rough guides, not the odds that anything paranormal happened. How scoring works.
This is a clear, sequential firsthand story with concrete details about the setting and consistent answers to the host’s questions. No one backs it up, and the key part, the disappearance, rests on the caller’s own judgment of what they could see.
Evidence for and against
- The caller is a firsthand participant throughout, with a sequence of dialogue and movement.
- The details are concrete and hold together: distances, the history of the gate, the single entrance, the machete.
- The caller explicitly declines to classify it: [quote withheld]
- The disappearance is supported only by the caller’s own statement that there was nowhere to hide.
- An ordinary reading fits the encounter easily: two men on a rural road who walked off or were picked up by a vehicle. The caller says they were looking for a work truck at the road.
- The single word “Roswell” and the host’s [quote withheld] do not match the eastern Kentucky setting, and the automatic transcript is heavily broken into short lines.
- 1:04
- 1:13
- 1:57
- 3:41
What the model inferred (not said on air): Parts: source proximity 20, specificity 13, internal consistency 16, alternative explanations 9, calibration 10 = 68.
This is the caller’s assertion only: no names, dates, records, or physical evidence, and no second witness speaks on air.
Evidence for and against
- Specifics that could be checked are absent: no names for the men, no date, only “eastern Kentucky” and a gas road.
- No documentation is claimed and none was examined. The mother who was told afterward is not reported as a witness and does not speak.
- There is no second witness on air, no document, and no outside check. The hard cap of 50 is not approached.
- 3:41
- 4:39
What the model inferred (not said on air): Nothing in this part of the broadcast can be independently verified. The story rests entirely on the caller’s memory.
This is truly unsettling: fixed staring, an impossible question, and two men gone with nowhere to hide. It ends unresolved, with the caller’s fear of being followed.
Evidence for and against
- Both men fixed on the caller’s eyes and not on the machete ([quote withheld]). The caller says they were convinced something bad was about to happen.
- The encounter itself is conversational and no violence occurs. The men speak politely (“well i'm sorry”).
- No physical harm, threat, or follow-up is reported. The unsettling quality rests on the staring and the disappearance.
- 2:38
- 4:12
- 4:27
What the model inferred (not said on air): The fear comes from the unexplained disappearance in a place the caller knows well, plus the caller’s own frightened reaction afterward.
This is a familiar [quote withheld] setup, given one unusual detail: the question about a gate that no longer exists.
Evidence for and against
- An unusual detail: the men’s only pressing question concerns a gate removed a couple of years earlier ([quote withheld]; [quote withheld]).
- The sudden appearance and disappearance of figures on a rural road is a recurring ghost-story pattern ([quote withheld]; “They're not there.”).
- The comparison with the rest of the archive cannot be assessed here. The published value is computed automatically and is provisional.
- 1:55
- 3:35
What the model inferred (not said on air): The setup, strangers met on a lonely road who then disappear, is a familiar one. The unusual element is the question about a gate the caller says was removed years earlier.
Scoring confidence 0.70 · analysis confidence 0.80 · checked against outside sources: no · evidence available: The caller’s firsthand story only; No documentation or physical evidence claimed; No second witness on air. The originality score blends the model's score (55) with how rare the story's details are across the archive. This method is still provisional.
Ordinary explanations to consider
These are possibilities only. None is a finding about what happened.
- The two men were ordinary people on the road, perhaps connected with the gas wells, who left by vehicle or on foot while the caller was turned away. · The caller says they expected a work truck at the road ([quote withheld]) and describes turning around before looking back.
- The men simply moved out of the caller’s line of sight during the seconds the caller was walking away. The caller’s statement that there was nowhere to hide is their own judgment, not a checked fact. · [quote withheld] is the caller’s own inference, not a separately reported observation.
- The men’s question about a gate refers to a different gate or a different entrance, not the one that was removed. · The caller says the road runs for miles and that another entrance, also without a gate, is a few miles the other way.
What stands out
Two men who seem solid, and who speak, ask how the caller got past a gate that had been removed years earlier. Then they are gone within a few steps, on a straight rural road where the caller says there was nowhere to hide. The host, not the caller, offers the idea of a slip in time. The caller says they do not know what it was.
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