Salvage Title – Paranormal Nightshift Story – Episode 99

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Welcome to Paranormal Night.
Shift your home for all things

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that go bump in the dark and
your fan story is told here.

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Today’s story comes from Scott
and is entitled Salvage Title.

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My mom left shortly after I was
born and it was just my dad and

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me and he was a great dad.
Sure, he got in his fair share

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of trouble, but he did
everything he possibly could.

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I was living with my grandma
here and there.

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Dad got locked up a couple of
times.

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Needless to say, it it was not a
wonderful childhood, but I’m

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definitely not trying to throw
my dad under the bus.

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But when I was 16 years old, it
was time for me to have a car.

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See, school wasn’t really
working out for me, and I wanted

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to make as much money as I
could.

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But in order to do that, I
needed to get back and forth to

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work.
But that’s the thing.

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School doesn’t tell you how much
cars cost.

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School doesn’t tell you how to
come across credit.

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School doesn’t tell you that you
need money to make money.

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So I found myself in a position
with $500.00 and I needed a car.

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After getting laughed out of a
couple dealerships, I went to a

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local junkyard with $500 is what
I got.

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I just need to be able to get
back and forth to work.

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Man.
Tell you what, there’s nothing I

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can do for you.
But there’s a police auction

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that they have.
Maybe you can have some luck

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there.
So I took my $500 down to the

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police auction and that’s when I
found Betsy.

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That’s what I named my car.
I know it’s a cliche thing to

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do, but it was Betsy Little 2
door Honda Civic.

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The police said that the driver
of the car totaled it in a

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police chase.
The thing was beat up to

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everything, but the interior was
good.

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The motor was still good.
Just the exterior needed some

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work and that was something I
could do.

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I drove that car around for
months and any extra money I

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made I put into trying to fix
some of the exterior things.

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She was a great car.
She had great bones.

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She had just been totaled on the
outside because of the police

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crash and it led me down a
rabbit hole one night.

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You know this is a pretty newer
car like this would have been

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recent.
Who was driving this car and and

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what were they running away from
so much?

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So to total the car out, I
became kind of obsessed about

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trying to find out who was in
the car, and that’s when weird

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things started happening.
While I was in the car, I did

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not smoke myself, but I started
to smell a very strong smell of

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cigarette smoke in the car.
No matter what I did, I couldn’t

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get the smell out the radio.
I’d never had a problem with the

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radio, but now all of a sudden
it would turn on.

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It would stay on, It would drain
the battery.

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You guys know that your seats,
the thing in the car that you

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just messed with, right?
It’s yours.

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You don’t, you don’t adjust it.
But I’d get out of the car, go

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to work and come back in.
And the seat was all the way

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back.
It was like things weren’t

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working the way they were
supposed to be working.

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But what could I do?
It was the salvage title.

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I finally got information about
the crash.

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The guy had robbed a bank and
unalived a couple people.

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Cops chased him down and he
totaled the car.

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And actually didn’t make it out
of the car crash.

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The more work I put on to making
the car look like it used to

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look, the more I noticed
paranormal and weird stuff

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happening to the car.
I was at a point to where all I

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needed to do was replace the
hood.

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That was it.
That was the last thing that

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needed to happen.
Like putting together a jigsaw

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puzzle.
I bought the hood and I put the

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hood on.
That’s when I started to see him

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driving back and forth to work.
I’d look in my rear view mirror

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and there he was sitting in the
back of the car.

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I don’t know if it was some sort
of residual energy, if it was

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some sort of haunted car.
It wasn’t like a Christine thing

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where the car was doing weird
things.

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It was like his energy was stuck
in the car and the more I

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completed the car the more his
energy became stronger.

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One morning I was driving the
car to work and the cigarette

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smell just was overwhelming.
I could see him in and out of

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the corner of my eye.
Sitting in the back of the car

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again.
I didn’t smoke.

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I got to work and I pulled over
and there it was, a halflit

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cigarette smoldering in the back
seat.

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That was enough for me to get
rid of the car.

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The next day I took it to the
salvage yard and said look, I I

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got to get my money back.
They wouldn’t give me my money

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back at all, so I bartered.
My car looked great now and it

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was a salvage title.
It was worth a lot more than the

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$500 I had.
I hate to say what happened to

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the car because I don’t know.
We made an even trade and I

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drove around and something else
that needed a little bit of

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work.
Hopefully its energy is far

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different.