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The original was posted on /r/nosleep by /u/ShinyMills on 2024-10-13 22:34:37+00:00.

I’m still trying to figure out how to start this off, I’ve never done this before and I’m not in any way, shape, or form some kinda great storyteller. What I am, is a woman with a fairly boring job, with the occasional burst of fucking weirdness.

I ‘work’ for a company that does transcriptions. Work is in quotations because technically we’re just freelancers - honestly, I doubt any of ya’ll give a single, solitary fuck about the ins and outs of my job, so yeah. I’m just gonna jump to the chase here!

So, most days the audio we get is fairly mundane. Interviews, surveys, just random marketting or legal things people want to have transcribed for whatever reason. Sometimes though, sometimes we get surprisingly interesting things, like maybe a police interrogation - I’ve got one of those twice so far - or, once, an interview between a lawyer and a potential client. I’ve heard of other people getting, like, private audio. By private I mean apparently, some weird ass mother fucker recorded himself having phone sex with someone, multiple times. Also, the audio was of the shittiest quality, so I’m glad I never got any of those.

Then there are the days when something truly weird pops up. Weirder than the phone sex thing, I mean. Like spooky weird. I’d never gotten one myself, just read about them from other transcribers in our group discord - the discord is absolutely not company approved, the company doesn’t really like us speaking with each other beyond anything work related really, but fuck that. As I was saying, though, I’d never personally gotten one of those types, just heard about them from others who had stumbled across them. I have to say, some of the audio logs people have talked about, had to listen to, left us all feeling pretty fucking unnerved.

One person ended up quitting entirely after they had the supreme misfortune of taking on a particularly disturbing audio. They refused to give too much detail, claimed they were, and I quote ‘sparing you all from having nightmares infecting you, too’. The way they had worded that had left a lot of us creeped out enough and left more than a few of us worried when they fell out of contact without a word. Not just on discord, a few of us had their socials, and there hasn’t been a peep from them since that last message, a message that was left over a year ago.

Back on the topic at hand, though. My personal winning streak of not having to deal with any of that bullshit came to an exceptionally dramatic end a few days ago. I’ll admit, in the past, when I first heard about them, I was a little curious about those types of audios, in a very morbid way. Any curiosity I had usually had been its death throes after reading about an especially gruesome audio. Everything that happened with the acquaintance I mentioned earlier, that one that completely fucking vanished - yeah, any ounce of curiosity I had left was practically beaten to death with a shovel. What I’m saying is I’d come to the conclusion that they were something I’d really rather not have to listen to.

Enough of my rambling, I’m going to post a copy of the transcription below. Yes, that is insanely illegal, which is why I’m not naming the company, myself, or the discord group. and it is very much why I abandoned the thing even after I finished. I don’t think it’ll be linked back to my account if someone else picks it up. They’re only ever marked as previously abandoned when we pick up a dropped audio, so whoever takes credit for doing it, hopefully, shouldn’t face anything. I got points docked for dropping it after the allotted grace time, but I’d rather have as little tying me to this as possible, you know? Anyway, enjoy, I guess.

Transcription Begins:

Male Interviewer 1: “I know you’ve been here for several hours now, Mrs. Smith, but we need you to go over this just one more time for us. It will help our investigation immensely, and could potentially save lives. Are you ready?”

Mrs. Smith: “I…yeah, I guess. Why [Inaudible]. Can I get some water or something?”

Male Interviewer 2: “That won’t be possible at the moment, Mrs. Smith.”

Mrs. Smith “You can’t just take a moment to get me some fucking water?”

Male Interviewer 1: “I apologize, ma’am, I know you must be thirsty but we do need to get this done as fast as possible. The sooner it’s done, the sooner it can be used to aid us. I give you my word, once we’re finished I can make sure you get some water.”

Mrs. Smith: “Fine. Yeah…okay. So, like I said already, multiple times in fact -”

Male Interviewer 1: “We do apologize for that, but it’s important, Mrs. Smith.”

Mrs. Smith: “Right, right. So, um, right. I’d had this entire camping trip planned out for a few months now, it was going to be my sister, our cousin, and myself. At the last moment though [Inaudible] that had my sister dropping out at the last minute. So it wound up just being me and my cousin. We weren’t, um, the closest, but we got on pretty well, well enough that it would still be a fun trip. She…um, she-she was closer to my sister.”

Male Interviewer 2: “So you weren’t by yourself on this trip?”

Mrs. Smith: “I literally said my cousin was with me, it was myself and my cousin. So, logically, I wasn’t by myself!”

Male Interviewer 2: “I understand your frustration, ma’am, but there’s no need for yelling. Please try to calm down.”

Mrs. Smith: “Calm down? Calm down?! Have you not been listening-”

Male Interviewer 1: “Mrs. Smith, my colleague misspoke. We’re aware this situation has been [Inaudible] for you, but we have to ascertain that we’re understanding everything perfectly. Do you need a break?”

Mrs. Smith: [Audible sobbing]

Male Interviewer 1: “Alright, we’re going to take a short break.”

Audio Resumes:

Male Interviewer 2: “Are you ready to resume, ma’am?”

Mrs. Smith: “Yeah, um, yes. Okay, okay. So, um, as I said earlier…it was just my cousin and I [Inaudible] and it was only supposed to be a-a weekend thing, so we, um, we didn’t bring much with us. There’s this diner that she…that she loved, and we-we were just going to go there for breakfast and dinner. We brought some hotdogs because, uh, what’s a camping trip without hotdogs, right? Yeah, so, we left my place Friday around, I want to say noon? Noonish? We got to the campsite around four or so.”

Male Interviewer 1: “Four pm?”

Mrs. Smith: “Yeah, um, yes. Four pm.”

Male Interviewer 2: “Please, continue.”

Mrs. Smith: “Right, okay. So. We got to the campsite around four, and the first thing we [Inaudible] getting our tents set up.”

Male Interviewer 1: “You had separate tents?”

Mrs. Smith: “Yeah. You, um, you saw them, right? At our campsite? They’re these-”

Male Interviewer 2: “There wasn’t much left of either of your tents, Mrs. Smith. Which is why we needed clarification.”

Mrs. Smith: “Oh…okay. I, um, I didn’t…I hadn’t been back to the campsite. I didn’t know…”

Male Interviewer 1: “We understand, Mrs. Smith. [Inaudible] please continue.”

Mrs. Smith “Okay, we had separate tents, like I said. And, [Inaudible] had taken us, um, my sister and I, I mean, camping all the time when we were younger. So, um, getting them set up was easy. After that we went to the diner for dinner. That would have, um, I think it was around eight? We made it back close to ten, it was dark out.”

Male Interviewer 2: "What did you do once you’d [Inaudible]?

Mrs. Smith: “We started a campfire. We, um, we wanted to roast some marshmallows before going to bed. Make some s’mores. It was-”

At this point, the audio became severely distorted for several minutes, before resuming:

Mrs. Smith: “I’m, um, I don’t know what time it was, exactly. When I checked my phone the battery was-was dead. I remember thinking that was weird, because, um, it had been a little over fifty percent when I went to sleep. But, um, yeah. It was dead. So, yeah, it’s hard to say the exact time it had been.”

Interviewer 2: “If you had to guess, though? What would you say, ma’am?”

Mrs. Smith: “I thought you needed to be perfectly clear about everything? Isn’t that what you said?”

Interviewer 1: “We do need to be as precise as we can, Mrs. Smith. However, having the beginnings of a timeline would prove immensely helpful to us.”

Mrs. Smith: “Right, yeah…sorry. If I had to guess, maybe somewhere around six? Maybe a little before that? It wasn’t dawn yet, but it wasn’t completely dark, either.”

Interviewer 2: “Perfect, thank you, Mrs. Smith. Continue, please.”

Mrs. Smith: “Yeah, um, sure. It-it was before dawn, and-and my cousin wasn’t an early riser. She’d normally never get out of bed before ten on the weekends. But, um, it was hearing her that woke me up.”

Interviewer 1: “Hearing her? What do you mean?”

Mrs. Smith: “I-I heard her talking. I thought at first that [Inaudible] she-she did that sometimes but, um, I realized pretty fast that her voice…her voice was, um, coming from somewhere in front of my tent. Her tent had been beside mine.”

Interviewer 1: “I see. Could you hear what she was saying?”

Mrs. Smith: “Not-not really, no. I, um, I heard the tone though. It was the-the same tone she used to use on stray cats and dogs when we were kids. Just, um, really gentle, do you know what I mean? I heard her talking like that, and I, um, I immediately though she was doing something stupid like-like trying to pet a raccoon or something.”

Interviewer 2: “Was that what she was doing, Mrs. Smith?”

Mrs. Smith: "You fucking know it was…

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