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The Gas Station Hole: Tom Isn't Tom Anymore A person sits at the bottom of a seven-foot hole they dug in their sleep, uploading a story on a laptop with 2% battery. They haven't slept since high school, a detail that becomes terrifyingly relevant when they realize the person they know as Tom might not be a person at all. What happened on Halloween that changed everything? In this episode, we delve into a chilling account transcribed from notes found on gas station receipt paper, written by a narrator who has no memory of creating them. The story unfolds around a night shift worker plagued by dissociative episodes, strange occurrences, and the unsettling disappearance of a local commune. Person: Narrator Location: Gas station on the edge of a small town Condition: Genetic insomnia Event: Halloween incident Object: Red ink note - The narrator has not slept a single day since high school due to a rare genetic condition. - Twelve ceramic lawn gnomes appeared across a locked gas station over eight hours. - A note in red ink, smelling of oranges and plumeria, read "I'm in the walls." - The narrator has been digging a hole behind the gas station, more than seven feet deep by November sixth, during dissociative episodes. - The Mathmetists, a commune preparing a bomb to end all life, vanished, leaving everything behind. Tired of ads? Listen to this podcast and 200+ more ad-free on OBOMEDIA. Try it free for 7 days, cancel anytime: OBOMEDIA presents real horror stories a scary story podcast for the late night hours. Every episode is horror narration done right: true scary stories and horror stories based on true events, told from the first chilling minute. Expect disturbing true stories, disturbing horror stories and dark true horror stories drawn from real testimonies. Some nights bring camping horror stories, forest horror stories and road horror stories; others bring home alone horror stories, haunted stories, eerie stories, strange stories and unsettling tales true creepy stories and creepy encounters that never made the news. Press play on our late night horror stories and late night scary stories, from storytime horror to a full horror stories compilation or scary stories compilation real scary stories, scary stories based on true events, and dark stories to keep the lights on. © 2026 Created by an independent creator of the OBOMEDIA Network, who owns and is solely responsible for this content. All rights reserved. Reproduction or commercial use without the creator's written permission is prohibited. Business: [redacted].