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The Ghostly Masquerade: Unmasking the Halloween Horror · Shallow Nights: Scary Bedtime Stories

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  Hi, if you're a lover of all things spooky and eerie, then
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  Untold True Crime Horror is the perfect storytelling podcast for
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  a spine tingling experience. As you tune into this petrifying
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  horror experience, do not forget to subscribe as your nightmares
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  are about to get a whole lot scarier.
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  It was Halloween night of 2007, freshman year in high school,
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  and I was with my friends Ivan, Ryan, and Jesse.
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  We were all dressed as the Super Mario characters.
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  I was Luigi since I was the second tallest.
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  Ivan was Mario since he's short and buff, not that Mario was
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  buff. Jesse was while Luigi because
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  he's freakishly tall and skinny, and Ryan was Wario because he's
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  just really fat. So they were the perfect group
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  costumes for us. We live in a very non congested
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  suburban neighborhood with a decent amount of space in
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  between houses on Halloween. That's the worst thing ever.
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  Less bang for your buck. We were trick or treating for
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  hours way past dark and eventually came the time when
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  most trick or treaters were heading home.
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  My feet started to hurt and I had to constantly switch arms
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  for holding the now 10 LB pillow sack of candy.
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  But we planned on going until our bags were completely full.
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  A lot of the houses by now weren't answering anymore.
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  It was probably past their cut off time for giving candy to
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  trick or treaters. Approaching our next house, we
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  saw a purple bucket on the stoop, which was the best
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  feeling ever. I was the one to get close
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  enough to realize it was empty, which was the worst feeling
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  ever. I turned around when I heard a
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  knock at the window of the house.
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  We all looked at the window, couldn't see anyone, but heard
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  someone call out. Wait.
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  The door opened and an older man, late 40s, already bolding,
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  stepped outside. He told us to come inside so he
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  can get us some more candy. I said we could just wait out
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  here. He responded, saying something
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  along the lines of nonsense. Come on in, we'll get you your
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  candy. Ivan stepped in and said it's
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  all right Come on Dan let's go. I told the guy to take care and
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  apologized. He just stood there watching as
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  we walked off not saying anything.
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  I felt dead but at the same time that guy seemed like a creeper
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  and I figured I just dodged a bullet not going in there.
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  If the story ended there it wouldn't be scary.
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  So of course it didn't end there.
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  We skipped a few of the guys neighboring houses just to get
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  further away and continued on with our business.
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  We were walking down close to the nature preserve now so there
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  weren't many houses around us at this point.
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  We were now walking back closer to Jesse's house.
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  I noticed Ryan had stopped walking and I turned around to
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  see what's up. He said he heard someone moving
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  from behind the trees in the preserve.
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  Now this was before everyone's phones had flashlights so we
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  couldn't just go searching in the woods for someone.
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  Besides, we were just telling Ryan that it must have been a
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  raccoon or something. You may think this is a bit of a
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  cliche, but when things like this happen in real life, you
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  always assume the more logical possibility.
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  It's just natural. Why would we assume we were
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  being followed? I had to put my arm around
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  Ryan's shoulder and nudge him forward a little ways down the
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  street. Me and I've been picked up on
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  the sound as well. When we all stopped, the sounds
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  of the footsteps from beyond the trees stopped as well.
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  Ivan yelled at the obvious stalker to go away or we would
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  beat the shit out of them. I knew he was just bluffing,
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  though I could hear the nervousness in his voice.
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  The snap of a twig from beyond the trees triggered a fight or
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  flight response in all of us. Me, Jesse, and Ryan all ran for
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  it. Ivan was at first charging to
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  attack, but he quickly followed after realizing we had all taken
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  off. We ran down the dark St. and we
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  all noticed the sounds of at least two or three pairs of
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  footsteps crushing the twigs and leaves in the woods.
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  We banked it hard right down Jesse Street when it finally
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  came up and ran straight for his backyard, entering his house
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  through the back door. The first thing we did was peek
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  out through his living room window.
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  We couldn't see anyone. We all had to gather our
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  thoughts and discuss what the hell just went down in his
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  living room when all of a sudden we heard Jesse's backyard gate
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  slam shut. Jesse dope to turn off the
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  lights. There was a click and a bang
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  from down in the den. It was more than likely Jesse's
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  back door. We all agreed to go down armed
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  with knives and face them. Jesse turned on his back door
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  light, but there was nobody out there.
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  Just then the front door opened and we all screamed like
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  animals. Jesse's mom and sisters came
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  rushing downstairs. They had just gotten home from
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  their friend's little house party.
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  We all rested assured, knowing it was just them.
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  Jesse explained what happened but made it seem a lot less
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  dramatic. Me and Ivan went home after that
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  and called it a night. At 12:30 AMI got a disturbing
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  text message. It was from Jesse.
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  It said it wasn't my mom. I texted back saying what?
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  He responded back quickly saying it wasn't my mom in the
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  backyard. My finger slammed the buttons on
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  my phone responding back. What do you mean?
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  There was a long pause before he finally told me that his mom and
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  sisters said they never went in the backyard.
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  I told him to immediately check the backyard from his upper
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  deck. He had already done just that.
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  He also told his mom everything and she had already called the
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  police. They didn't find anyone back
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  there, but Jesse did mention the guy who invited us in while
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  trick or treating. Nothing ever became of that, and
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  nothing ever happened at Jesses House again after that one
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  Halloween night.