{"id":3835,"date":"2025-04-13T20:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T20:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=3835"},"modified":"2025-04-13T20:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T20:03:06","slug":"get-off-at-the-next-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/?p=3835","title":{"rendered":"Get Off at the Next Stop\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"173\" data-end=\"265\">It started with a text from an unknown number:<br data-start=\"219\" data-end=\"222\" \/><strong data-start=\"222\" data-end=\"265\">\u201cDon\u2019t trust the man in the gray coat.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"267\" data-end=\"412\">I was boarding a train from Prague to Berlin. I looked around, heart racing \u2014 and there he was. A man in a gray trench coat, staring right at me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"414\" data-end=\"457\">I tried to ignore it. Probably spam, right?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"459\" data-end=\"623\">Ten minutes into the ride, the train suddenly stopped in the middle of nowhere. The lights flickered. Then someone knocked on the window beside me \u2014 from <em data-start=\"613\" data-end=\"622\">outside<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"625\" data-end=\"726\"><strong data-start=\"625\" data-end=\"726\">It was a woman. She held up a handwritten sign: \u201cHe knows who you are. Get off at the next stop.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"728\" data-end=\"829\">The man in the gray coat stood up and began walking down the aisle\u2026 slowly. His eyes never left mine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"831\" data-end=\"881\">I didn\u2019t wait. As soon as the doors opened, I ran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"883\" data-end=\"981\">I still don\u2019t know who they were. Or how they knew me. But I haven\u2019t taken public transport since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"983\" data-end=\"1057\"><strong data-start=\"983\" data-end=\"1057\">Sometimes, warnings don\u2019t come with explanations. Just trust your gut.<\/strong>Get Off at the Next Stop\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It started with a text from an unknown number:\u201cDon\u2019t trust the man in the gray coat.\u201d I was boarding a train from Prague to Berlin. I looked around, heart racing \u2014 and there he was. A man in a gray trench coat, staring right at me. I tried to ignore it. Probably spam, right? Ten &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3838,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835\/revisions\/3838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}