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People often consider foreign travel as the most beautiful and exciting experience of their life. The joy of meeting new places, new culture and new people is clearly visible on the face of every traveler. But many times a small carelessness at an unknown place turns the entire journey into a dreadful accident. One such extremely scary and hair-raising incident happened with Stephanie, a 36-year-old woman from Australia, in Italy, where she was traveling alone.
Stephanie had gone on a Europe tour with her friends. After his friends returned, he decided to stay for a few more days and travel around Italy alone. His biggest dream was to buy an old house there under Italy’s famous ‘1 Euro House Scheme’ (house for about ₹90) and enjoy kiteboarding in the beautiful ‘Lo Stagnone’ area of Sicily. But he had no idea that his dream was going to prove to be the biggest mistake of his life. Stephanie shared her ordeal on an Australian media website. news.com.au Where she shared how she narrowly escaped being kidnapped and attacked twice within a matter of hours.
An unknown lift and the whole journey changed in a moment
After the kiteboarding event in Sicily was over, some other tourists and local people present there were preparing to go to another place. Meanwhile, an unknown person in a car of European origin offered to drop Stephanie to her destination (give her a lift). Stephanie felt that the man was also moving in the same direction as the rest of the group, so she thought it best to sit in his car without worrying about safety. But within a few minutes of sitting in the car, he realized that the car was going on a completely different and deserted route from the other people’s route.
Speed of 160 KM, strange actions and support of live location
According to Stephanie, as soon as he started the car, the driver showed his eccentricity and said that he wanted to see whether his car could reach a top speed of 160 kilometers per hour or not. After this he suddenly started driving at a very dangerous speed. Stephanie became nervous and kept pleading to stop the car, but the driver did not listen to her.
Sensing the danger, Stephanie immediately showed her presence of mind and secretly shared her ‘Live Location’ with the kiteboarding instructor through her mobile. Meanwhile, another suspicious person sitting on the front seat of the car asked the driver if other people were also coming to his house, to which the driver replied, ‘No, no one is coming there.’ On hearing this, the ground slipped under Stephanie’s feet that something very wrong was going to happen to her.
As soon as the gate of the house opened, Stephanie ran away to save her life.
After driving the car for about 12 kilometers, the driver parked the car inside a deserted house with a big iron gate. As soon as the car stopped, Stephanie noticed that the child lock on the car was not on. Without wasting a second he immediately opened the door and ran outside with all his might.
Such was the state of terror that they did not even dare to look back. She kept running until she was sure no one was following her. After running for several kilometers barefoot and distraught, she reached a small unknown town, where she thought that maybe she would get some help.
Second hunter came as help, dirty message written in the car
After reaching the town, Stephanie saw a security guard in uniform. Due to major language problem, Stephanie explained the entire ordeal to the guard with the help of her mobile’s ‘Translation App’. The guard showed great sympathy and assured that he would drop them safely to their hotel in his car.
Stephanie breathed a sigh of relief that she was finally safe. But after covering some distance, that guard also showed his true colors. He stopped the car in a dark and very deserted street. After this he snatched Stephanie’s mobile and typed a translated message in it. Stephanie was shocked as soon as she read the message, it was written in it – ‘I am dropping you at your home… but what will you do for me in return?’
Saved his life by hiding in the bushes of the vineyard, spent the night in shock
As soon as she saw this disgusting message, Stephanie understood that she had fallen into the trap of a big predator for the second time in a single day. Without fear, she immediately opened the car door and again ran to save her life. This time, to save her life, she hid herself in the bushes of a dense vineyard on the way.
She remained crouched there in the dark for a long time and when she felt that the path was completely safe, she somehow reached her hotel after walking several kilometres. As evidence on the way, she also bought a drink from a vending machine so that there would be a digital record that she was present there at that time. After reaching the hotel, she kept crying the whole night in shock.
After this horrific incident, Stephanie has postponed forever her years-old dream of buying a house in Italy and living there. He says that this story is a lesson for solo travelers around the world to never blindly trust any unknown person while traveling abroad, because one small mistake of yours can lead you to death.