She’s Still Replaying One Suspicious Afternoon She Had At A Rest Stop Years Ago, And She Thinks She May Have Seen The “Aftermath” Of A Kidnapping
A woman is still replaying in her head one suspicious afternoon she had at a rest stop in the south years ago.
She was on a road trip to Nashville, Tennessee, with her mom, and they had just crossed over the Kentucky state line. They decided to pull over into a rest stop to use the bathroom and grab some drinks.
While she and her mom were in their own bathroom stalls, they heard someone else enter the restroom. It was an older woman and a little girl.
“They went into the handicap stall together, and though the child never said a word, the woman never stopped talking,” she recalled.
The woman kept saying things to the kid that were super sketchy. She said things like, “You’re a beautiful little girl, do you know that?” and “I’m your mama. Can you say, mama?”
The way the woman was talking and the lack of response from the little girl did not sound like a mother trying to teach her kid how to speak but a stranger trying to convince someone else’s kid that she was her mother.
However, the little girl didn’t necessarily seem scared. It was just strange how quiet she was.
Once the two of them finished up and left, she exited the stalls with her mom. They both agreed that what they heard sounded weird. They went into the rest stop store to get a few things and noted that there weren’t any people in there frantically searching for their kid.
Then, as they walked back to their car, they saw the woman and the girl outside. They were parked right next to each other.
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The woman was with the kid and a man this time, who she remembers looking unkempt and being aggressive, barking orders at them. Then, they noticed their car, which was full of stuff and garbage. There was hardly any room for the little girl in the backseat, yet they forced her in there.
“The couple ushered her into the car and then quickly hung a blanket in the other window, effectively blocking her from view,” she explained. “Nobody from the outside could see into the backseat where the child was sitting.”
Watching this go down gave them a bad feeling, so her mom wrote down the car’s license plate and called the police. The police took down all of the information but didn’t ask any further questions.
“They acted a little put out over the call,” she said. “After telling them the story, we felt like the weird ones. I was embarrassed, but it still felt right.”
Once they got to Nashville, they turned on the news to see if they saw any stories about a missing child or an abduction. They didn’t hear or see anything. Since then, she’s done the occasional search to see if that child popped up as missing, but she hasn’t found anything.
Although it may have just been a misunderstanding or a weird family acting in the strange way they always do, she still wonders if she witnessed a possible child abduction.
What would you do if you saw that kind of behavior?
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