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a glitch in the Matrix true story - "The Cop Who Came From Nowhere"

OK fine I'm going to post my other Mortis Media stories because what the hell? They're interesting and TRUE. Yes, these things happened. This story and the one I will post later are true events that I cannot explain from my childhood. Make of it what you will. I do think we all have strange events happen to us in life that simply have no explanation... If you are willing, I'd love to hear yours (and I'll post it!)

For now, here is the true story from my childhood: "The Cop Who Came From Nowhere" 

When I was a kid, my family and I planned a trip to New York. We were going to take the train all the way to New York from Oklahoma. At that time the nearest train station that had the route we needed was in Kansas, so we had to drive there first. We left our house in the early morning with plenty of time to make our train, which left at nine or ten that night. After driving all day, we made it to Kansas but somehow got completely and hopelessly lost looking for the train station.

For hours, we drove on empty country roads that seemed endless. This was the 90's and well before the average person had a cellphone, so we couldn't call for help, use a GPS or access the internet. All we had was a useless paper map. When I say these roads were empty, I mean there was NOTHING. No gas stations, no houses, no stores. Absolutely endless flat grassland as far as the eye could see. Creepy in a Children of the Corn type of way. It was night now and pitch black due to the lack of street lamps, other cars or buildings. The whole area seemed completely dead and abandoned.

With about twenty minutes to spare before our train left, we stumbled across an old building with a payphone outside. The building was rundown and looked like it had been abandoned but may have been a gas station at one point. My mom got out of the car to call the police for help.

By now, all of us kids were crying and freaking out, afraid that we would miss our train. We had never been on a train before and we had been so excited about this trip for months. My dad was in a horrible mood because we had driven all day long to make it on time, and we should have arrived at the station hours ago with time to eat dinner and all that. Now we only had minutes to get help and then find the station. It seemed absolutely hopeless that we would make it there on time. It would take the police forever to get to us in the middle of nowhere.

That's when things got weird.

My mom hung up the phone and came back to the car, and the second she got in and closed the door, I looked to the left where the road was and saw a cop car slowly driving up and then turning into the parking lot. My stomach flipped. There was no possible way the police on the phone could have sent someone in the time it took for my mom to hang up the phone and walk a few feet back to our car. We hadn't even had time to ask her what she had said! Even if the cop had been right there, in the area, it still would have taken 30 seconds to a minute at the very quickest for him to get the call on his radio. Imagine: she clicked the phone back on the stand, turned, walked about eight feet, got in, and closed the door. And now there was this car pulling up.

"There's a cop!" I exclaimed, flabbergasted.

"They can't possibly be here for us," my dad mumbled, cranking down the window. 

"There is no way-" my mom started to say, but she stopped because we all saw the cop get out of his car and walk over to ours.

"I hope he doesn't give us a ticket for being parked here," my sister said, ever the level-headed one. The rest of us just sat there wide-eyed, wondering what the hell was happening.

The officer looked like Ken from Ken and Barbie. He had a very kind face and laughing eyes, and he seemed to be in a great mood. Before any of us could open our mouths to explain our situation, he started telling US about our situation.

He knew we had called, that we were lost and looking for the train station. None of us dared to ask how he had gotten here so fast. There seemed to be some kind of aura of mystery surrounding the whole visit that rendered us speechless. The officer told us to follow him and also that if we did the speed limit, we wouldn't make it. I remember that distinctly because it was not something a cop would normally say. The way he spoke, so jovial and friendly, it was almost like he knew us personally. We followed his car out of the deserted parking lot, and within seconds we were at the train station. It seemed to appear out of the darkness like a mirage. There had not been any signs pointing to it and there was nothing else around. We made the train and had about ten minutes to spare waiting for it.

To this day, we still talk about this as a family and wonder how it was possible for the cop to have gotten to us that fast on a dark and deserted country road with nothing around for miles and miles. My mom thinks the cop was an angel, and I don't know what to think. It was one of the weirdest things I have ever experienced. To this day I can't explain what happened or who that cop was or how we got to that train station that night.