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The Left/Right Game: She Vanished Mid-Sentence A journalist known for her meticulous fact-checking disappeared mid-sentence while documenting a mysterious road ritual called the Left/Right Game. What happened to Alice Sharma after she embarked on this strange journey in Phoenix, Arizona, and what secrets did the enigmatic "Ferryman" hold about the game's true nature? In this episode, we delve into the chilling logs of Alice Sharma, a National Public Radio journalist, who set out to investigate the Left/Right Game, a road ritual documented on a paranormal forum. Her last known records, received in a compressed archive, detail her encounter with Robert J. Guthard, a Vietnam veteran and former private detective, who claimed to have run "pieces" of the game before. Person: Alice Sharma Location: Phoenix, Arizona Date: February 7-9, 2017 Status: Missing Event: The Left/Right Game - Alice Sharma, a journalist for National Public Radio, documented her experience with the Left/Right Game in three text files. - The logs are dated February 7th, 8th, and 9th of 2017. - Robert J. Guthard, approximately 65 years old, drove a dark green Jeep Wrangler Unlimited and used the call sign Ferryman. - The Left/Right Game involves driving a grid city, alternating left and right turns at every intersection without deviation. - The convoy consisted of five vehicles and seven people, in addition to Alice and Rob. 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].