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8 DRIVING AT NIGHT Horror Stories Animated · Martin Animations

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  Speaker 1: Years ago, I was on a cross-country road trip solo
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  Speaker 1: to a family reunion. I was supposed to make it
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  Speaker 1: to a friend's house, but the weather ended up being
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  Speaker 1: horrible and it was slow moving. Then a terrible accident
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  Speaker 1: happened just ahead of me. I was stuck in traffic
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  Speaker 1: for a while and I ended up being five hours
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  Speaker 1: behind schedule. At this point, I was exhausted and in
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  Speaker 1: need of a bathroom and a shower, so I pulled
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  Speaker 1: into a little strip motel off of some back roads
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  Speaker 1: It was obviously small and dirty, but it would work
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  Speaker 1: in a pinch. There was a window to the outside
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  Speaker 1: where the check-in was. The guy that worked there eyeballed me.
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  Speaker 1: Back then, I was a young girl attending college. He
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  Speaker 1: then asked me if I was traveling alone. When I
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  Speaker 1: went to hand him my ID and credit card, he
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  Speaker 1: insisted on cash only. Red flags were going off at
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  Speaker 1: this point, but I managed to gather just enough cash
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  Speaker 1: and he tossed me the key. The room was dirty
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  Speaker 1: and barely bigger than the bed. The first thing I
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  Speaker 1: did was go to the bathroom. Then I flipped the
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  Speaker 1: mattress as there were signs of bed bugs and a
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  Speaker 1: moment later I spied a roach. That was it.
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  Speaker 2: I was out.
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  Speaker 1: I decided to use the parking space instead and sleep
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  Speaker 1: in the back hatch of my SUV. I curled up
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  Speaker 1: using a suitcase for a pillow and some random clothes
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  Speaker 1: for a blanket and fell asleep for about an hour.
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  Speaker 1: I woke up aware of someone talking on a phone outside.
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  Speaker 1: I glanced out to see the guy from the check-in
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  Speaker 1: standing outside. It was now around 3 a.m. He finished
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  Speaker 1: up his call and walked quietly over to my room,
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  Speaker 1: unlocked the door, and walked in. The lights didn't turn on,
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  Speaker 1: and a minute or two later he came back out,
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  Speaker 1: slamming the door behind him and cursing with another guy
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  Speaker 1: I hadn't seen two guys enter, so I still don't
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  Speaker 1: know where he came from. They angrily talked for a moment,
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  Speaker 1: then the check-in guy walked over to my SUV. I
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  Speaker 1: covered up my head quickly with a shirt. After he
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  Speaker 1: tried the locked door, he peered in the back seat,
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  Speaker 1: but between my tinted windows and blending into the general mess,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't notice me in the hatch. The two guys
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  Speaker 1: walked away to the far side of the parking lot,
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  Speaker 1: talking more. one of them gesturing across the street to
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  Speaker 1: where a diner was. While they were distracted, I climbed
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  Speaker 1: up to the front seat and started up the SUV.
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  Speaker 1: They turned around in surprise as I pulled away. I
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  Speaker 1: called my friends back home and told them, but I
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  Speaker 1: didn't want my family to worry, so I said nothing
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  Speaker 1: to them when I arrived. When I got back home
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  Speaker 1: about three weeks later, we figured out the name of
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  Speaker 1: the hotel thanks to Google Maps and called the local police.
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  Speaker 1: They told me the place had been closed down only
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  Speaker 1: days before I called. When I was younger, each and
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  Speaker 1: almost every new year, my family would pack the car
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  Speaker 1: and go on a road trip to visit family in Mexico.
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  Speaker 1: We never had any problems until one particular trip when
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  Speaker 1: I was eight. Like every road trip before, we left
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  Speaker 1: our home in North Texas around 6 p.m. in order
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  Speaker 1: to reach our destination the next morning, around 2 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: We crossed into Mexico. And this is where things got weird.
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  Speaker 1: When you're on the only stretch of freeway in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the desert, you don't tend to freak out
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  Speaker 1: about having the same car behind you for miles. It
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  Speaker 1: was practically pitch black outside of our car windows, the
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  Speaker 1: only visible shapes being the dotted stars and the eerie
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  Speaker 1: silhouettes of cacti. We had been in Mexico for about
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  Speaker 1: an hour and still had a few more to drive.
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  Speaker 1: I remember sleeping but still being semi-conscious of what was
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  Speaker 1: going on around me. because I really don't have the
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  Speaker 1: skill to really fall asleep in a car. So when
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  Speaker 1: my mother suddenly spoke my dad's name, I heard her. Miguel,
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  Speaker 1: that car behind us. It's been behind us since we
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  Speaker 1: left Laredo. My dad peeked at the car and shrugged
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  Speaker 1: off my mother's tension. Lots of cars use this road.
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  Speaker 1: He's probably going to Reynosa or another city. And he
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  Speaker 1: left it at that. Despite his reassurance... My mom kept
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  Speaker 1: a weary eye on the car behind us. By this time,
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  Speaker 1: my siblings and I were hyper-aware of the car and
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  Speaker 1: entertained ourselves by watching the car through the gaps in
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  Speaker 1: the luggage that was blocking the rear window. We got
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  Speaker 1: tired of that pretty quick. He's getting closer, my mother noted,
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  Speaker 1: and we all turned to watch the car inch closer
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  Speaker 1: and closer to ours. He's too close, Miguel. And she
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  Speaker 1: was right. By this time, the car was practically pressed
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  Speaker 1: against the rear of our car. On a lonely stretch
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  Speaker 1: of highway, in the middle of nowhere, with a few
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  Speaker 1: hours until daylight, it was downright scary. We couldn't do much.
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  Speaker 1: My dad didn't slow down, didn't stop, and he didn't
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  Speaker 1: speed away either. He just drove, and the car followed.
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  Speaker 1: The next 30 minutes were the most tense we had
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  Speaker 1: ever experienced. The car would ease off sometimes, only to
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  Speaker 1: press its blinding headlights against our rear once more, like
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  Speaker 1: he knew he was freaking us out. and enjoying it.
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  Speaker 1: It was during one of the periods that the car
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  Speaker 1: had pulled away that Mom spotted a police car up ahead,
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  Speaker 1: parked on the side of the road, and she didn't
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  Speaker 1: miss a beat. Miguel, pull over right now in front
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  Speaker 1: of the police. And he did. The car kept driving.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder how confused the policeman must have been as
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  Speaker 1: he watched my dad park the car right in front
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  Speaker 1: of him. The policeman came over and asked what was wrong.
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  Speaker 1: and my mother urgently told him everything. The car, the
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  Speaker 1: way it followed us, and taunted us. The policeman took
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  Speaker 1: her claims very seriously, and told us how people were
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  Speaker 1: victimized and had their car stolen on these empty highways
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  Speaker 1: by thugs and criminals. He then offered to drive behind
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  Speaker 1: us for a while to make us feel safe. We
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  Speaker 1: drove off with the police cruiser behind us, relieved, until
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  Speaker 1: about ten minutes later, when we saw something that confirmed
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  Speaker 1: the policeman's words. and my mother's worst fears. We saw
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  Speaker 1: the car that had followed us pulled over on the
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  Speaker 1: side of the road, waiting. I was on a cross-country
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  Speaker 1: road trip with a colleague. We were driving through West
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  Speaker 1: Texas on a major highway. In the area we were in,
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  Speaker 1: even the major highway was pretty desolate. There had been
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  Speaker 1: a truck stop or gas station about every hundred miles,
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  Speaker 1: and every one of them was solitary with no other
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  Speaker 1: buildings in sight. There weren't really any towns. The exits
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  Speaker 1: were places to get more gas to get to the
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  Speaker 1: next gas station, and my colleague had been driving for
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  Speaker 1: about four hours. I can usually drive about eight before
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  Speaker 1: I get tired. I go on frequent road trips, but
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  Speaker 1: she could only manage about four or five before it
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  Speaker 1: was my turn again. We were also getting low on
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  Speaker 1: gas at about a quarter tank, and you learn from
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  Speaker 1: road travel to fill up when you get the chance.
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  Speaker 1: So she was looking for a gas station as we
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  Speaker 1: drove along. It's really corny, but we were talking about
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  Speaker 1: fate and destiny, and how the weird did at the time.
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  Speaker 1: That kind of conversation gets me keyed up and worried,
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  Speaker 1: so I was trying to change the subject. She took
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  Speaker 1: an exit while we were talking, and I got out
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  Speaker 1: my coffee mug so I could fill it up, as
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  Speaker 1: it was my turn to drive. We pulled into a
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  Speaker 1: typical Nowhereville gas station. It had a trailer out back.
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  Speaker 1: I assumed thinking back, it was probably where the people
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  Speaker 1: who owned it lived. There was another car parked in
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  Speaker 1: front of the doors off to one side. We got out,
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  Speaker 1: still talking, and walked up to the double doors, each
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  Speaker 1: of us grabbing a door handle. The doors were locked.
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  Speaker 1: I turned and looked around to see if there was
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  Speaker 1: a sign. Sometimes places will put up, back in five minutes,
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  Speaker 1: and I noticed several things in succession. The coffee pot
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  Speaker 1: inside was halfway done, brewing a fresh pot of coffee.
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  Speaker 1: The monitors that showed the store were were visible from
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  Speaker 1: the outside, where we were, but all of them were
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  Speaker 1: showing static. There was a splash of bright red on
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  Speaker 1: the door in the back of the place, which was closed.
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  Speaker 1: I suddenly realized that I was looking at a huge
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  Speaker 1: streak of blood with handprints in it. Every hair on
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  Speaker 1: the back of my neck stood up. My friend began
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  Speaker 1: shaking the door and yelling, We need to get gas!
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  Speaker 1: But I had already turned and walked away from the doors.
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  Speaker 1: I then said, We have to leave, now. I grabbed
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  Speaker 1: her by the arm and started propelling her back to
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  Speaker 1: the car. Now I noticed the other car in the
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  Speaker 1: lot had no plates. It was dingy and had dents.
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  Speaker 1: There was an empty gun rack in the window of it.
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  Speaker 1: I ran to the car, dragging her with me. She
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  Speaker 1: seemed to take forever to open the doors. The whole
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  Speaker 1: time she kept saying, But we need gas. While I
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  Speaker 1: tried to explain to her, There's blood in there.
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  Speaker 2: Blood.
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  Speaker 1: After what seemed like a year, she pulled the car out.
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  Speaker 1: When we were backing up, I saw through the windows
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  Speaker 1: that the back door to the gas station was opening,
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  Speaker 1: but we had pulled away before anyone came out, thankfully.
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  Speaker 1: I was freaking out until we were about 20 miles
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  Speaker 1: down the highway. I tried to call the police, but
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  Speaker 1: I had no signal, and I didn't get one until
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  Speaker 1: we had driven about 40 miles and got to a
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  Speaker 1: truck stop. I called the cops. They thanked me, and
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  Speaker 1: I never heard anything more about it. To this day,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like if I hadn't have freaked out, we
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  Speaker 1: might have met the robber, or whoever was in the
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  Speaker 1: back room of that place. I also wish I would
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  Speaker 1: have been able to find out what the hell happened there.
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  Speaker 1: It was a Chevron station, somewhere in the western part
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  Speaker 1: of Texas.
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  Speaker 2: Last year, I was traveling back from college to go home.
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  Speaker 2: My college was about a 10-hour drive, and I had
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  Speaker 2: initially planned to drive through the night, but at about
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  Speaker 2: 2 in the morning, I was overcome with sleepiness, and
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  Speaker 2: knowing I still had about 4 hours to drive, I
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  Speaker 2: decided I needed to stop. I saw a sign for
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  Speaker 2: a rest stop, and I pulled off. The rest stop
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  Speaker 2: was fairly quiet, and I parked in the corner. I
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  Speaker 2: extended my seat back and closed my eyes. I was
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  Speaker 2: so tired that I fell right asleep. Sometime later, though,
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  Speaker 2: I woke up. I looked out my windshield to see
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  Speaker 2: it was still dark out. Then I turned my head
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  Speaker 2: to my driver's side window to see a man standing
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  Speaker 2: at the window looking in. He had a beard and
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  Speaker 2: as soon as he saw me looking at him he
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  Speaker 2: started to smile. I freaked out and started scrambling to
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  Speaker 2: find my keys. He then tried opening my door. It
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  Speaker 2: was locked of course and then the man began knocking
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  Speaker 2: at the window. I found my keys that were in
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  Speaker 2: the cup holder and started my car as fast as
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  Speaker 2: I could. I pulled out of there and drove all
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  Speaker 2: the way home. I arrived home safely at 7 a.m.
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  Speaker 2: I never plan on sleeping at a rest stop again.
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  Speaker 2: A couple years ago, my wife and I were doing
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  Speaker 2: a cross-country road trip. We were heading west, and somewhere
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  Speaker 2: along the way, we stopped for the night at a
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  Speaker 2: rest stop. We didn't mind sleeping in our car, and
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  Speaker 2: we wanted to save money on hotels. This rest stop
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  Speaker 2: had a little building with bathrooms and some vending machines
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  Speaker 2: in it. At about 11.30 p.m., I went in it
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  Speaker 2: to brush my teeth. It had a pretty decent-sized bathroom,
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  Speaker 2: and it looked well taken care of. There was about
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  Speaker 2: five stalls and five sinks as well, and it had
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  Speaker 2: good lighting. I got out my toothbrush and started brushing.
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  Speaker 2: I noticed that someone was in the far stall on
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  Speaker 2: the end because I saw feet on the floor, but
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  Speaker 2: other than that there was no one else in there.
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  Speaker 2: When I finished brushing my teeth, I left the bathroom
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  Speaker 2: and started walking back down the hall of the rest
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  Speaker 2: stop when I heard a stall door slam shut very
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  Speaker 2: loudly from the bathroom. Then it happened again and again.
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  Speaker 2: There was a stall door being repeatedly opened and shut.
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  Speaker 2: The man that was in there must have been slamming
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  Speaker 2: it over and over again. It kind of creeped me out,
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  Speaker 2: and I walked faster to get back to our car.
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  Speaker 2: Once I got back to the car, I was very
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  Speaker 2: tired and we went right to sleep. I woke up
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  Speaker 2: in the night, and I really had to pee. I
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  Speaker 2: got out of our car quietly so I didn't wake
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  Speaker 2: up my wife. When I got out, I looked at
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  Speaker 2: my phone to see that it was 2.42 a.m. I
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  Speaker 2: walked back into the rest stop and into the bathroom.
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  Speaker 2: As soon as I stepped in, I remembered the man
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  Speaker 2: and I saw someone was in the far stall again.
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  Speaker 2: The shoes appeared to be the same as the man's before.
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  Speaker 2: The bathroom only had stalls, so I went in the
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  Speaker 2: closest one to the door. As soon as I shut
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  Speaker 2: the stall, I heard the one on the far end open.
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  Speaker 2: I heard the man walk from the end and then
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  Speaker 2: stop directly in front of my stall. I turned around
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  Speaker 2: to see through the cracks. that he was looking right
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  Speaker 2: at me. He then tried opening it. I said, what
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  Speaker 2: do you want, in a nervous voice. There was no answer.
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  Speaker 2: I had to think quickly of how I could get
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  Speaker 2: out of there. The man seemed to be insane. I
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  Speaker 2: stuck my foot under the side of the stall, as
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  Speaker 2: if I was going to go under the stalls to
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  Speaker 2: the one next to me. The man moved a little
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  Speaker 2: to his left. At that moment, I pushed the stall
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  Speaker 2: open as fast as I could and into the man,
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  Speaker 2: pushing him back. I took off and sprinted to the
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  Speaker 2: door and ran out of the bathroom. He began chasing
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  Speaker 2: after me and I could hear him about ten feet
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  Speaker 2: behind me. I didn't bother to look back at all,
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  Speaker 2: I just ran as fast as I could. I ran
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  Speaker 2: all the way to my car, jumped inside and locked
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  Speaker 2: the doors literally two or three seconds before the man
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  Speaker 2: got to the car and started trying the doors before
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: he started banging on my window. My wife woke up
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  Speaker 2: and started freaking out. She was very confused. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: have time to explain. I started the engine and drove
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  Speaker 2: off faster than I ever have before in my life.
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  Speaker 2: As I drove away, I saw the man just stand
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  Speaker 2: there and stare at me. My wife was in shock
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  Speaker 2: and I tried to explain everything to her. Eventually, we
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: stopped at another rest stop about 20 miles down the
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  Speaker 2: road to sleep the rest of the night. But after that,
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  Speaker 2: we haven't been to a rest stop since. Every year,
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  Speaker 2: a couple of friends and I take a road trip
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  Speaker 2: out west. Last time, we were about halfway through the
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  Speaker 2: trip when we decided to stop at a rest stop
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  Speaker 2: in Colorado. It was about 11pm. We weren't going to
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  Speaker 2: spend the night there, but we just needed to stop
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  Speaker 2: to use the restroom and stretch our legs. The rest
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  Speaker 2: stop was very unique. It was rather large and near
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  Speaker 2: some mountains. However, not very many people were there. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't see any other cars in the parking lot
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  Speaker 2: at all. My friends went in to use the bathrooms.
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  Speaker 2: I stayed back to check the oil on the car,
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  Speaker 2: and once they got back, I went in. The rest
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  Speaker 2: stop had several displays of local attractions and things like that,
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  Speaker 2: as well as the typical bathrooms and vending machines. As
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  Speaker 2: I went in the bathroom, I heard someone walk in
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  Speaker 2: the rest stop and walk towards the bathroom, but nobody
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  Speaker 2: went in. It sounded like they were just standing outside.
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  Speaker 2: Once I left the bathroom, nobody was there. I heard
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  Speaker 2: footsteps walking around the corner, but once I got around
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  Speaker 2: the corner, no one was there. Then I heard them
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  Speaker 2: from back near the bathrooms where I just was. This
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  Speaker 2: confused me a lot and I walked back around the
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  Speaker 2: corner to see nobody was there again. I guess maybe
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  Speaker 2: my friends were somehow pulling a prank on me. I
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  Speaker 2: started to walk back and then I heard someone shaking
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  Speaker 2: the vending machine near the door. Now I knew it
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  Speaker 2: had to be my friends. and I walked over to
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  Speaker 2: see the vending machines, and of course, nobody was there.
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  Speaker 2: I just shook my head and walked back out to
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  Speaker 2: the car to see all my friends inside waiting for me.
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  Speaker 2: I asked them if they were inside at all, but
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  Speaker 2: they all told me no. I suddenly got the creeps
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  Speaker 2: and said we should get out of there. We drove
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  Speaker 2: away and got to our hotel. I still don't know
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  Speaker 2: who or what was making those noises. Last year, my
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  Speaker 2: parents and I drove to New York. I was 14
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  Speaker 2: at the time. On the last day before arriving, we
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  Speaker 2: were in upstate New York and stopped at a rest
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  Speaker 2: stop to get food. The rest stop was rather large
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  Speaker 2: and busy. It had about five restaurants in it. There
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  Speaker 2: must have been at least 100 people inside. We went
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  Speaker 2: in and saw there was lines for every restaurant. My
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  Speaker 2: parents wanted tacos, but I wanted pizza. So I got
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: in the line for pizza, and they went around the corner.
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  Speaker 2: I got in the end of the line. There was
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  Speaker 2: maybe five people in front of me. I stood there
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  Speaker 2: and waited. After about a minute, I felt two arms
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  Speaker 2: grab my shoulders. I thought it was my dad, but
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  Speaker 2: when I looked, it was some guy who looked like
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: he was 50 or 60. He had on a leather
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  Speaker 2: jacket and grayish hair. He was smiling and asked me
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  Speaker 2: what kind of pizza I was buying. I told him cheese,
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  Speaker 2: and he said he would buy it for me. I
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: said no thanks, but he insisted. I figured free pizza
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: is free pizza, so I said alright. He talked to
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  Speaker 2: me the entire time we were in line, just asking
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  Speaker 2: me lots of basic questions about myself. I was hoping
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  Speaker 2: my parents would come over. I couldn't see them because
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: the taco place was around the corner. Eventually, he got
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  Speaker 2: the pizza for me, and I told him I needed
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: to get back to my parents. He told me he
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: saw them go outside and they were waiting for me
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  Speaker 2: and started to lead me outside. Looking back, I can't
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  Speaker 2: believe I was so stupid, but I actually believed him.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: We walked outside and we got towards the parking lot,
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  Speaker 2: but I could see my car and my parents were
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: not there. I started to turn around, but the man
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  Speaker 2: put his arm around my shoulder and kept walking. I
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: asked him where we were going. He started to walk
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  Speaker 2: faster and his grip got tighter. He just kept smiling
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  Speaker 2: and told me to shut up. I then told the
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: man to let me go. He said shut up again.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: We reached his car which was parked in the far corner.
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  Speaker 2: I was not going to get in his car. I
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: yelled at him to let me go as loud as
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: I could before he covered my mouth. I was able
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: to get some people's attention. A woman came over to us.
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  Speaker 2: The man said I was just being difficult and everything
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  Speaker 2: was fine. I told her no it wasn't. and I
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: used this opportunity to run to the woman. The man
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: continued to try to pretend that I was with him
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: but I could tell the woman wasn't buying it and
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: I told her to call the police. At this moment
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: the man got into his car and drove off. I
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: am disappointed to say I didn't get the license plate,
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: but I did get back to my parents, who called
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  Speaker 2: the police, and they questioned me. I don't believe the
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: man was ever caught, but I'm sure glad I wasn't abducted.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: I am a 23-year-old female. This story took place last summer.
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  Speaker 2: I had just recently gotten a new car. Well, actually
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: it was used, but it was only 8 years old
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  Speaker 2: and was much better than the 2003 car I had
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  Speaker 2: been driving. The car had no problems, but did need
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: to get its tires rotated. So about a week after
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  Speaker 2: I bought it, I took it to a local mechanic.
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  Speaker 2: I had never been to the guy before, but his
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  Speaker 2: prices seemed pretty low. I drove the car to the
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: shop which was located on a quiet end of town
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  Speaker 2: and not really next to anything else. I went inside
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  Speaker 2: and gave the mechanic the keys. I had made the
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: appointment online and when I got there he said it
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: would be about 30 minutes or less and told me
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: I could wait in the waiting room while the work
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: was done. I went in and sat down in a
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: chair in the waiting room. There was nobody else at
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: the shop and it was rather old. The place looked
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: like it hadn't been updated at all since the 1980s.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: They even had a big box TV that was on,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: and it played the Weather Channel on it. I sat
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: down and went on my phone for this time. When
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: about 20 minutes had passed, the mechanic came back in
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  Speaker 2: and said that my car was done. After that, I
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: drove back home and everything was normal. But about a
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: week later, I was driving home from work one night,
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  Speaker 2: and I heard what sounded like a faint buzzing noise.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: thought it was a bug in the car at first,
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: so I rolled down a few windows and hoped it
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: would fly out. But the sound kept going, and after
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: I put the windows back up and listened closer, I
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: could hear it wasn't exactly the sound of a bug.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: I drove the rest of the way home, and then
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: turned my car off and listened. I didn't hear anything
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: for a few seconds, but then I heard it again.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: I looked around my car and saw something behind the mirror.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: It was a little black thing that was mounted, and
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: when I examined it, it appeared to be a camera.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: It was very well hidden, and I hadn't noticed it
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: until looking extremely close. I ended up looking very closely
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: around the rest of my car, and I ended up
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: finding two more cameras. I took them inside and later
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: brought them to the police. It turned out the mechanic
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: put them in my car to spy on me. It
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: was extremely creepy. And I never should have took my
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: car to him in the first place.