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3 True Stalker Horror Stories That Will Make You Question Your Safety · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: This happened on Valentine's Day last year. My husband and
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  Speaker 1: I rented a small cabin on the outskirts. There was
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  Speaker 1: a lake at the back of our cabin. We wanted
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  Speaker 1: to have a cozy time on Valentine's Day, as it
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  Speaker 1: was also our first wedding anniversary. I love being in nature,
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  Speaker 1: so the place was like a treat to the eyes.
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  Speaker 1: The deep woods surrounding us like ancient warriors, and the
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  Speaker 1: lake resided in the middle like a patch of mirror.
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  Speaker 1: The water was so crystal clear that everything cast a
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  Speaker 1: perfect shadow on the surface of the lake. We drove
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  Speaker 1: there on the morning of February fourteenth. Upon reaching the place,
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  Speaker 1: my husband took me into his arms and.
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  Speaker 2: Said, we are going to have a great time.
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  Speaker 1: I smiled and hugged him back. The cabin was very clean,
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  Speaker 1: perfect for a couple looking for a romantic stay. The
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  Speaker 1: weather was cloudy, which made the ambiance a bit chilly.
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  Speaker 1: I thought about lighting the fireplace while my husband carried
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  Speaker 1: our luggage to the bedroom. The wood crackled as soon
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  Speaker 1: as it came in touch with the fire. There was
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  Speaker 1: a big glass window beside the fireplace that gave a
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  Speaker 1: perfect view of the lake. I was watching the view
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  Speaker 1: outside when I heard a man coming out from the bushes.
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  Speaker 1: He seemed like a weird guy. He was dressed like
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  Speaker 1: a mime artist. I took fine arts in college, so
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  Speaker 1: I recognized his gestures immediately. His black and white ribbed
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  Speaker 1: shirt had stains on it. I could only see part
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  Speaker 1: of his face, yet I couldn't help but feel creeped
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  Speaker 1: out by it. His eyes were circled out with black
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  Speaker 1: paint to make them look more expressive. The white paint
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  Speaker 1: all over his face didn't look normal at all. He
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  Speaker 1: stared at the lake water like he was looking in
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  Speaker 1: the mirror, then started to make faces. First he smiled,
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  Speaker 1: then laughed, and finally cried. I've seen mime artists practicing
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  Speaker 1: facial expressions before performing on the stage. He was doing
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  Speaker 1: the same thing, But it did seem odd that he
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  Speaker 1: was alone in the middle of the woods practicing mime
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  Speaker 1: while staring into a lake.
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  Speaker 2: What are you looking at that man?
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  Speaker 1: He is so weird. My husband came to the window
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  Speaker 1: as well, and we both kept watching the man.
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  Speaker 2: Why the hell is he dressed like that?
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  Speaker 1: He's a mime artist, and you know that how I
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  Speaker 1: knew some in college nerds He then grabbed me from
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  Speaker 1: behind and said.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I should make your life more interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Smiling at his romantic gesture, I took my eyes off
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  Speaker 1: the window for a second, and the man looked at us.
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  Speaker 1: Before I could get a clear view of his face,
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  Speaker 1: he walked into the woods, just like he came. For
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  Speaker 1: the moment, I ignored the matter. As the sun set, the
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  Speaker 1: sound of the forest started to grow louder. Crickets and
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  Speaker 1: frogs began to sing for us. As we prepared for
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  Speaker 1: a romantic dinner, I lit candles while my husband arranged
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  Speaker 1: the table with flowers. He played some music, and we
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  Speaker 1: opened the first bottle of wine. This vacation was a
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  Speaker 1: long awaited one, so we both wanted to make the
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  Speaker 1: most of it. After two rounds of drinks, he asked
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  Speaker 1: me to dance with him. I blushed and held his hand.
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  Speaker 1: We started dancing, as we did on our wedding day.
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  Speaker 1: I was getting lost in his arms, but when my
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  Speaker 1: eyes went to the glass window behind the fireplace, my
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  Speaker 1: heart skipped a beat. In the darkness, a pair of
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  Speaker 1: wide eyes were glowing like headlights. They were looking at
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  Speaker 1: us directly. The eyes weren't blinking or moving an inch,
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  Speaker 1: fixated on me and my husband as we danced to
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  Speaker 1: the music. I was so choked down with fear that
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  Speaker 1: for a few seconds I couldn't even utter a single word. Suddenly,
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  Speaker 1: the owner of those eyes turned on the flashlight that
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  Speaker 1: he was holding in his hands, and his face illude humanated,
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  Speaker 1: like a bad dream on a cold night. It was
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  Speaker 1: that mime artist who I had seen near the lake
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  Speaker 1: that afternoon. He licked his lips in a filthy way,
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  Speaker 1: like he was looking at food. I couldn't contain myself
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  Speaker 1: anymore and screamed at the top of my lungs.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, what happened, Susie.
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  Speaker 1: He's watching us. As I pointed to the window, my
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  Speaker 1: husband turned around, and to my surprise, the mime guy
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  Speaker 1: didn't even try to escape. He kept standing there, staring
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  Speaker 1: into my eyes and ignoring my husband like he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: even there, you freak. My husband got pretty mad and
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  Speaker 1: ran outside to teach the guy a lesson. I followed him,
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  Speaker 1: and as we came out, the man turned at us
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  Speaker 1: like he was waiting for us to come outside. Realizing
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  Speaker 1: something was completely off about this entire scenario, I tried
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  Speaker 1: to stop my husband, but it was too late. My
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  Speaker 1: husband reached close to the guy and was all set
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  Speaker 1: to throw a punch at his face when he stepped
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  Speaker 1: on something I was hidden in the ground, like a
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  Speaker 1: booby trap. A quick slamming sound took place, and my
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  Speaker 1: husband screamed in pain. I looked at the ground and
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  Speaker 1: saw his legs stuck in a man trap. The sharp
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  Speaker 1: teeth of the iron man trap had pierced his ankle,
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  Speaker 1: and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't free
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  Speaker 1: himself from this death grasp. I understood that it was
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  Speaker 1: all planned and we had stepped into the psycho's trap.
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  Speaker 1: The Mimegui laughed and then took out a crowbar from
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  Speaker 1: his back pocket. He raised his arms high to the
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  Speaker 1: sky and then hit my husband white in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of his head, making blood pour out like a fountain.
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  Speaker 1: I was too horrified to move. I wanted to run
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  Speaker 1: away and call for help, but we were in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the woods. Who was going to save us.
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  Speaker 1: My husband died bleeding to death, and when his trembling
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  Speaker 1: body collapsed on the ground and became lifeless, the Mimegui
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  Speaker 1: did something unthinkable. He sat down near my dead husband's
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  Speaker 1: body and started to cry. He was crying the same
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  Speaker 1: way from the afternoon. A chilled shiver rushed down my
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  Speaker 1: spine as I discovered something far more sinister. First he smiled,
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  Speaker 1: then he laughed, and now he's crying. Holy shit, This
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  Speaker 1: guy wasn't fooling around near the lake in the afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: He was practicing the expressions that he planned to show
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  Speaker 1: during the murder of my husband. I ran to the
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  Speaker 1: cabin and heard chasing footsteps behind me. I was inches
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  Speaker 1: away from the door when the man hit me with
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  Speaker 1: the crowbar. The strike was so hard that I fainted
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  Speaker 1: right away. When I woke up, I found myself lying
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  Speaker 1: on the living room couch. There's no doubt I was
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  Speaker 1: carried into the house. The murderer of my husband stepped
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  Speaker 1: into the living room with a bowl of soup. Please
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  Speaker 1: don't kill me. What wrong have we done to you?
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  Speaker 1: Let me go, please. The mime guy sat beside me
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  Speaker 1: and handed me the soup without saying anything. For the
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  Speaker 1: first time, he spoke.
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  Speaker 2: Don't be afraid. I just wanted to save you.
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  Speaker 1: Save me from what you just killed my husband, You
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  Speaker 1: psycho murderer.
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  Speaker 2: Check your dear husband's bag and you'll know it. Go
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  Speaker 2: go on.
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  Speaker 1: I slowly walked to the bedroom and opened my husband's
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  Speaker 1: duffle bag. The ground beneath my feet swept away. There
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  Speaker 1: was a knife and handcuffs inside it.
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  Speaker 2: When your car pulled into the driveway, I noticed him
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  Speaker 2: put these things inside his backpack that he hid inside
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  Speaker 2: the trunk. I just wanted to help you and let
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  Speaker 2: you know how beautiful you are, Susie. Will you be mine?
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  Speaker 1: My head started to throb in pain. I didn't know
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  Speaker 1: what was more psychotic, knowing that my husband had wanted
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  Speaker 1: to kill me or falling for the psycho who saved
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  Speaker 1: me by murdering him. No matter how twisted it sounded,
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: I didn't want to spend Valentine's Day alone. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: look at me dancing with this mime artist. It's the
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  Speaker 1: same song that my husband and I were dancing too.
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  Speaker 1: At least this time I'm safe. As I hid my
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  Speaker 1: numbed face and betwitched mind in his chest, I heard
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  Speaker 1: him whisper into my ear.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing will harm you, Susy. You are safe now. I
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  Speaker 3: will take care of you forever.
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  Speaker 2: I am one of those people who don't like to
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  Speaker 2: order by phone. My children always criticize me and call
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  Speaker 2: me old fashioned, because no matter how much it rains,
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  Speaker 2: thunders or snows. Whenever we order food, I always go
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  Speaker 2: directly to the restaurant. What they don't know is that
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  Speaker 2: this is not a whim. I was eleven years old
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  Speaker 2: and it was one of the first times I was
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  Speaker 2: allowed to stay home alone. My parents had gone to
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  Speaker 2: a friend's couple's party a few blocks away and decided
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  Speaker 2: I was old enough to take care of myself. Any
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  Speaker 2: other kid would have been paralyzed with fear at the
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  Speaker 2: thought of being home alone all night, but that was
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  Speaker 2: not my case. I was incredibly cheerful since I had
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  Speaker 2: the house all to myself and could fall asleep at
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  Speaker 2: any time I wanted. Neither of my parents felt like
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  Speaker 2: cooking for me that night, so they ordered a pizza.
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  Speaker 2: They waited for the delivery guy to arrive, but he
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  Speaker 2: was taking too long, so they had to leave. I
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  Speaker 2: told him it was okay and I could wait for
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  Speaker 2: the delivery guy. They hesitated for a moment, but when
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  Speaker 2: they saw how happy I was, they ended up leaving
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  Speaker 2: me the exact money and leaving. The moment they left,
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  Speaker 2: I immediately jumped on the TV, turned up the volume,
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  Speaker 2: and put on my jammies. I knew it was going
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  Speaker 2: to be a long night, so I took my dog
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  Speaker 2: out to the backyard in advance. It was almost half
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  Speaker 2: an hour after my parents left that the pizza man arrived.
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  Speaker 2: He was running very late, so I treated him rudely.
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  Speaker 2: I came with the pizza. Are your parents here? I'm
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  Speaker 2: alone and you were late? I said, with an offended
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  Speaker 2: and indifferent tone. What what's wrong with you? You little shit?
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  Speaker 2: Replied the man, clearly enraged. I don't remember much about
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  Speaker 2: that night, only that the man was very tall, although
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  Speaker 2: maybe he had a normal height, and I remember him
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  Speaker 2: that way because I was a kid. What I do
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  Speaker 2: remember is that he was very skinny. He had a
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  Speaker 2: bit of a beard, but it was badly kept. His
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  Speaker 2: hair was quite long, and I noticed that as soon
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  Speaker 2: as I opened the door, he was biting his hair.
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  Speaker 2: But at my answer, his face turned from disinterest to
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  Speaker 2: absolute anger. He looked at me as if he wanted
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  Speaker 2: to hit me, so I started to treat him better.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, take your money. Who the hell do you
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  Speaker 2: think you ought to treat me like that? Did mom
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  Speaker 2: and dad raise you this bad? Or did you watch
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  Speaker 2: too much TV? I should slap you in the face.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, sir, I grabbed the pizza and quickly closed
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  Speaker 2: the door to a surprised man who was still staring
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  Speaker 2: at me behind it. Hey, what are you doing, bratt?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't even count the money, he shouted through the
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  Speaker 2: front door. All the money's in there. I cried, I'm
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  Speaker 2: sorry I treated you badly. Please leave a few seconds
• 11:36
  Speaker 2: of silence, the man shouted again, Oh no, your imbecilec
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  Speaker 2: parents didn't leave me a tip. That's the least they
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  Speaker 2: should have done after letting their stupid son with me.
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  Speaker 2: Open the door and give me my tip. As he screamed,
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  Speaker 2: the man pounded hard on the door with his fists,
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: which quickly turned into kicks when he noticed I wasn't responding.
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  Speaker 2: A few seconds later, as quickly as it started, it ended,
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  Speaker 2: and the man seemed to get bored and leave. My
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  Speaker 2: first reflex was to look out the window, but as
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  Speaker 2: I did, I saw him approaching me again with a
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  Speaker 2: big smile and something in his hand. When I realized
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  Speaker 2: that what he was holding was a baseball bat, I
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  Speaker 2: got out of the window and hid. Where could I hide?
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  Speaker 2: My first choice was inside the closet, but I quickly
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  Speaker 2: discarded it when I saw that there were too many clothes.
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  Speaker 2: Then I went under the bed, although it didn't bring
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  Speaker 2: me much security because it was such an obvious choice. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: the man hit the door with a bat, and after
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  Speaker 2: a few seconds of hitting the lock, the door was
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  Speaker 2: open and he was inside my house. Where are you, brat?
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  Speaker 4: Can't you see you?
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  Speaker 2: Damn? Peter's getting cold. As he said this, he tossed
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  Speaker 2: the pizza I had left by the door and started
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  Speaker 2: banging on the furniture with a bat. You know, I
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: had a bad day, but I have to thank you
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  Speaker 2: for being stupid enough to tell me you were alone.
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  Speaker 2: You better not go out. It's more fun to find you.
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  Speaker 2: With that said, he went to the closet I almost
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  Speaker 2: hid in and started beating it savagely. If I had
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  Speaker 2: been there, the wood would have cut my whole body.
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  Speaker 2: After destroying the furniture, for some reason, he left the
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  Speaker 2: room straight to the backyard, suspecting that I was going
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  Speaker 2: to escape that way. After he entered, my dog immediately
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  Speaker 2: attacked him. There were struggles and blows for a few seconds,
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  Speaker 2: until seconds later someone came into the house and started
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: shouting ruh, ruh. I may have been a child, but
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't stupid. That was the man's voice. At that moment,
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  Speaker 2: I realized that something had happened to my dog, and
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't contain my sadness, and a little crying noise
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  Speaker 2: escaped from me. I thought he hadn't heard me, but
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  Speaker 2: it seemed he had, because a few seconds later, my
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  Speaker 2: dog's corpse was thrown under my bed next to me.
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  Speaker 2: I found you. You know, I always consider myself a
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: dog person, very easier to hit than cats, he said,
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  Speaker 2: while pushing the corpse of my pet with his foot. Please,
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  Speaker 2: what do you want from me? Take the money and
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  Speaker 2: leave me alone. My dog and I didn't do anything
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  Speaker 2: to you, I screamed for the first time in a
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  Speaker 2: long time, crying inconsolably. Hearing me, the man pulled out
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  Speaker 2: the mattress and started hitting the bed with the bat,
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  Speaker 2: as if trying to break the wood and leave me
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  Speaker 2: trapped under its debris. Suddenly, the man stopped and started
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  Speaker 2: talking to me. This has nothing to do with money.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just doing what your stupid parents didn't do. Do
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: you know what that is, your little brat? Please, I've
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  Speaker 2: learned my lesson. I will never treat anyone badly again,
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  Speaker 2: I promise, I said, sobbing softly and shyly. See again,
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  Speaker 2: you are interrupting the adults. Don't worry. I don't trust
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  Speaker 2: your parents. After I'm done with you, I'll make sure
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  Speaker 2: you keep your word. After these words, he hit the
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  Speaker 2: mattress on top of me again. While I curled up
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  Speaker 2: where I was, I felt the wood of the bed
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  Speaker 2: start to cut me, and the only thing I could
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  Speaker 2: do was to scream for help. As if listening to
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  Speaker 2: my prayers, two men rammed into the cycle from behind
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  Speaker 2: and started beating him on the floor. The man quickly
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  Speaker 2: got up and took back his bat, with which he
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: hit one of the people who came to my aid,
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: but the other managed to get the bat away from him,
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  Speaker 2: and when both men were about to attack him again,
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  Speaker 2: my assailant ran out of the house. Stay calm, We
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: heard the noises and we came. We already called your
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: parents before coming. Everything will be fine. Are you hurt?
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: The voice of a man I identified as my neighbor
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  Speaker 2: kept talking to me, but I could hear it farther
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  Speaker 2: and farther away, and suddenly everything went white and I
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: fell asleep. When I woke up in the hospital, my
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  Speaker 2: parents were in front of me, in tears. They hugged
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  Speaker 2: me and told me that I had faceted. I had
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: only superficial wounds, but I was fine. After returning home
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: a short time later, my parents told me that they
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  Speaker 2: did not find the criminal and that if I saw
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  Speaker 2: him again near the house, I had to use the
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  Speaker 2: phone and call them quickly, but that from now on
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  Speaker 2: they would not let me be alone, to which I nodded.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: I secretly listened several times as my parents talked about
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  Speaker 2: how this man was an ex convict with a long
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: history of violence and assaults. Earlier that night, he had
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: gotten into a fight with a couple and had argued
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  Speaker 2: with his boss. Apparently he was a man who avoided
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: confrontation but got very violent with people he considered weaker
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: than him. After that, I never ordered a delivery again.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: In the years following what happened to me, every motorcycle
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: I heard near my house sounded like his, and I
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: couldn't help but panic, and if the motorcycle stopped too close,
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  Speaker 2: I cried. There was a time when I could go
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: to any extent just to get laid. Yeah, I was
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  Speaker 2: a completely stupid dude with no self respect, with a
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  Speaker 2: ginormous amount of desperation. My hopeless nature was beyond repair
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: until I stumbled on a big rock named life Lessons.
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  Speaker 2: I met this girl on Facebook who recently moved from
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  Speaker 2: New Jersey. We talked for hours into the next few
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  Speaker 2: days and soon decided to meet. I have been to
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: dates where I barely knew the girl, so it wasn't
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: my first time going out with a total stranger. She
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  Speaker 2: said there is a Starbucks near the Highway which is
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  Speaker 2: always less crowded. Realizing if she wants privacy, I was
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  Speaker 2: quite sure that I will get lucky that night. I
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  Speaker 2: agreed and we planned to meet for a coffee date
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: on a Wednesday evening. I tossed on a fresh T
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  Speaker 2: shirt and sprayed so much deal to it that my
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  Speaker 2: cat whinded irritation and ran away from my room. I
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: just wanted to create a good impression, that's all. I
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: reached the Starbucks around seven o'clock, and as I entered,
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  Speaker 2: I understood Wendy was right. There was no one at
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: the coffee shop. Being located on the isolated highway, it
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  Speaker 2: hardly attracted customers on week days. A woman in her
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  Speaker 2: late forties was sitting behind the counter wearing the Starbucks
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  Speaker 2: employee costume. She was wearing so much make up, which
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  Speaker 2: made her look kind of freaky. Her red lips were
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: so blood red that when she smiled at me, I
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  Speaker 2: felt awkward. I smiled back at her, not having any
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  Speaker 2: other option, and sat down at the table in the corner.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: I wanted to text Wendy and ask how long she
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: was going to take, but then I thought it would
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: sound very desperate, so I patiently waited. I was scrolling
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  Speaker 2: down my Facebook feed when the woman behind the counter
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: walked up to me. The woman was wearing a pair
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  Speaker 2: of blue jeans with a black T shirt over which
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  Speaker 2: she had a Starbucks green apron.
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  Speaker 1: On Can I get something for you? Darling?
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Being addressed by Darling by a woman who was probably
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: about my mom's age, I couldn't help but feel uncomfortable.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: I collected my awkward self and replied, no thanks, I'm
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: just waiting for my date.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Well, seems like she's late. I'll be at the counter
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: in case you need some company.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Saying this, she started to walk back while swinging her
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: hips in a very flirtatious manner. I smelled my T shirt,
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: thinking I might have sprayed too much perfume. To attract
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: such unexpected attention. For the next few seconds, I could
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: feel this woman watching me and smiling back at me
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: whenever our eyes met. When fifteen minutes went by and
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: there was no sign of Wendy, I decided to head home.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: I was getting ready to get up when Wendy stormed
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: inside the Starbucks like a bolt of lightning. She was
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: a bit overweight than she looked in her pictures. I
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: might be a jerk, but I had enough decency not
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: to judge a person on her appearance. Honestly, she looked
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: cute to me, so I smiled and waved at her.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Wendy smiled too, and came to sit with me.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Sorry, I got into car trouble. How long have you
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: been waiting?
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Not long? I just came in. I lied to make
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: her feel comfortable. I was happy that now the woman
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: behind the counter will stop bugging me. Wendy and I
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: exchanged basic greetings, and I asked her if she would
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: like something to eat. I didn't want to tell her
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: to go and give the order, as it would have
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: seemed very rude on a first date, so I got
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: up to walk to the counter. I was completely cringing
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: with the fact that I have to face this weird
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: woman again.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Excuse me, you are always excused, my darling. So what
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: can I do for you?
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Uh? We would like two tall caramel java chip frappucino
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: with one pumpkin cream cheese muffin and one blueberry muffin.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: She took my order while giving me a cold look
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: for not receiving any reciprocation from me. I stood there
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: as she made the bills, when all of a sudden,
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: she asked me an out of a line question, what
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: do you see.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: In that girl?
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Sorry?
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I said, what the hell do you see in that girl?
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: That's none of your bis business.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I just don't get men these days. You guys are
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: so frustrating.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Saying this, she slammed the bill on the counter and
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: went inside the room behind the counter. I came back
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: with a totally confused mind, and Wendy asked me if
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: everything was all right. I didn't want to drag her
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: into it all, so I lied again and said everything
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: is fine. As we waited for the order, Wendy went
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: on talking about herself. One thing I noticed was that
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: she was fond of her mother. I liked her caring
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: nature and so far The date was going well when
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: I heard footsteps coming at us. The woman came with
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: our order and put her on the table without saying
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: a single word. I ignored her for good and invested
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: all my attention in Wendy. But the woman didn't leave
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: the table. She stood there, and surprisingly Wendy seemed completely
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: fine about that. I looked up at the woman and said,
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: why can't you just leave us alone?
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Hey, don't talk to her like that.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: I know how looks Wendy, but she is bugging me
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: from the moment I stepped in. I didn't tell you
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: all this time because.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Mom, did you freak him out?
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Mom?
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Look, Matt, we like you. I mean, you're the first
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: guy who's managed to impress both me and my mom.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: It's very important to us that we both like the guy.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: You know. So maybe we can go home now and
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: the three of us can enjoy the night. What do
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: you say?
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: I was completely shocked hearing the words coming out of Wendy.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: This lady is her mom, and they both want to
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: date the same guy. I realize I have stepped into
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: some unknown trouble and there was no one else to
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: get me out of that. This sick mother in law
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: duo was planning to do god knows what with me,
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: and I didn't even see that coming. So this is
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: why she asked me to meet her at this deserted
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Starbucks where we will not be interrupted.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: I'll kiss this pumpkin first, then you can go ahead. Wendy,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: what no way, I was the one he came to
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: this date for. I'm your mom. All decide what to
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: do with this sweet candy bar ha ha. Enough, I
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: have put up with your crap for a long time.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Leave my boyfriend alone. Your boyfriend, look at yourself. You're
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: nothing but a fat, ugly girl who no one wants
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: to sleep with. Now get lost. I have unfinished business
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: with this guy, you bitch.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Saying this, Wendy picked up the hot coffee and splashed
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: it on her mom's face. The woman screamed in terrible
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: pain as the coffee burned her skin like grilled chicken. Soon,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: their few turns into a big fight, and they started
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: hitting each other like a pair of crazy psychopaths. Wendy's
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: mom punched her in the face and then shoved her
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: fingers into her eyes until she bled from her eyeballs.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: He is mine, don't try to outsmart your own mother,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: You're a piece of shit, and you ruin me.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Wendy's mom sat on her and kept piercing her sharp
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: nails inside Wendy's eyes while saying the most bizarre thing
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: one mother can say to her daughter. Not being or
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: to take this anymore, Wendy grabbed her mom's hair and
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: pulled out a huge chunk, tearing a patch of bloody
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: skin from her skull. I was completely shocked to see
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: them react this way, and for a few minutes didn't
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: know what to do. They were fighting like wild animals,
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: with no mercy whatsoever. As the woman collapsed on the
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: ground holding her head, Wendy got up and grabbed the
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: chair from the table. She then started to bash her
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: mom's brains out while screaming, he.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Is mine and I'm not fat, I'm not ugly. You
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: are ugly. You are ugly. Just die, you freak.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: She beat her mom to death right in front of
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: my eyes, and I was dumb struck to move or act.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: When she was done, her entire face was smeared in blood.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: There was blood in her hands as well. She then
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: turns toward me and said.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Finally, now we can have our date. In peace. She
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: will never disturb us again.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: I called the cops, and until they came, Wendy just
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: kept laughing and repeating these lines.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: She will never disturb us again. I'm free now.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: When the cops took her away, she turned at me
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: for one last time and blew me a kiss, saying.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: I'll see you soon, my love. We won't be disturbed.
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: Then.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: I have left my old address, moved to a new block.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: I've blocked her from my Facebook and hope I never
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: get to see her again. I don't know if I
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: will ever be able to trust another girl again.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Last year, my friend Dorothy and I went camping in
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: the woods. Both of us loved exploring nature. We drove
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: to the nearest hiking trail in my old blue truck
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: and parked it under a big oak tree. We planned
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: to camp the night in the woods and then hike
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: back to our car and drive home. Isn't it wonderful here? Yeah?
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: The sun rays feels so great. Even though the woods
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: were deep and filled with tall trees whose tops could
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: barely be seen, the sunlight reached the ground quite well.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: It must have been ten or twelve minutes when we
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: heard a loud gunshot. I grew up in the countryside,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: so I guessed it was the sound of a hunting rifle.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: What was that someone's hunting in the woods, I guess.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Dorothy and I stopped and looked around. We were expecting
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: to see the one who was responsible for the gunshot,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: but there was no one. We didn't hear any footsteps,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: so ignoring the matter, we started to walk again. This
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: small incident didn't startle me. Like I said, it wasn't
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: our first time camping in the woods. The woods were
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: becoming denser with passing time, so we thought to find
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: a common ground and settle for the night. After walking
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: for half an hour or more, we came near a
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: two way. Two small trails headed into the woods on
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: the left, the other on the right. We were discussing
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: which path we should take when we heard the crunching
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: sounds of dry leaves. Someone's coming here. Let's wait and see.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Maybe we can ask them for directions. Okay. We kept
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: staring at the hiking trails, confused, but we didn't have
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: to wait long. A man came out from the right
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: hiking trail, holding a big hunting rifle in one hand
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: and a dead wild boar in the other, Dorothy said,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: in a low voice, now we know who shot what.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: The man didn't notice us at first as he was
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: walking while keeping his head down, But when he lifted
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: his head and saw us standing in the middle of
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: the jungle, he was shocked. He stopped and stared at
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: us for a while. We stood there like before, waiting
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: for him to walk up to us. Once he moved
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: in front of me, I was finally able to see
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: his face. He had messy hair that hadn't been combed
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: in a long time. A foul body odor was coming
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: from him that made the air around us heavy. In
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: a second, fresh bl blood was splattered all over his
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: trousers from the dead boar. He smiled, flashing his dirty
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: yellow teeth, and licked his rough black lips without breaking
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: eye contact with me. That very moment, a voice inside
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: my head whispered, this guy is bad news. But without
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: getting freaked out, I tried to handle the situation as
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: calmly as possible. Hello, can you tell us which way
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: we should take?
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: That depends on how deep you want to go?
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Dorothy and I exchanged a look, understanding the dirty pun
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: in his joke. Anyway, never mind, we'll find our own way.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: We walked past him, being pissed off, but the man
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: just stood there, holding that same filthy smile. I even
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: turned back to see if he was following us, but
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: he didn't move an inch from the previous spot, standing
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: tall and watching us walk away. After some time, we
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: finally found a spot to care. It was a small
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: barren patch of land amidst the woods. Dorothy got busy
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: putting up the tent while I sat down to make
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: a fire. As the night fell, the ambiance of the
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: woods started to change drastically. Crickets were chirping from every bush.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: The echoing howl of coyotes made the environment chilling. I
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: barbecued a whole chicken and Dorothy got out some beers.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: After the long walk and a bizarre encounter with a
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: creepy stranger, my mind was too tired to enjoy the
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: true camping vibe. Are you still thinking about that guy? Yeah?
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: What a weird dude. Don't worry. He's probably just not
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: used to seeing two girls hiking in the woods. I
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: don't think he's used to seeing any girls at all.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Bloody jerk. Somehow I managed to let the matter go
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: from my mind and started drinking myself to sleep. We
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: laughed and cherished the night life in the woods for
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: a few hours, then decided to go to sleep. The
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: plan was to wake up early and hike back, so
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: we needed to restore our energy. I don't exactly rem
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: remember the time, but I woke up hearing scratching noises.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: I was drunk, so at first I ignored it and
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: tried to sleep. But suddenly my eyes went to the
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: end of my feet. The entrance of the tent was
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: closed with a zipper, and I could see the zipper
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: being pulled slowly. Someone was unzipping our tent from the outside.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: I got up immediately in fear and woke up, Dorothy, Dorothy,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: there's someone outside our tent. What before we knew it.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: A familiar foul smell choked my nostrils, and that same
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: man from the morning slowly peeked his head inside our tent.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: I will never be able to forget the scene. There
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: was something in his eyes that made me feel disgusting.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: He didn't say anything, just watched us and smiled. He
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: didn't even get in, he just stayed there. We were
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: so shocked and spellbound that for a moment, none of
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: us made a single move. The man then let out
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: a spy chilling laugh and said.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: Girls like you shouldn't be in these woods at night.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: What do you want? Do you want money? Just take
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: our bags and leave, or you'll be in huge trouble.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: I will be in trouble. You girls are funny. Who
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: are you gonna call the cops? I highly doubt it.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Saying this, he suddenly grabbed my leg and started to
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: pull me out of the tent. I screamed at the
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: top of my lungs for help, but except Dorothy, no
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: one heard me. Dorothy grabbed my hand, trying to pull
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: me back, but the man had enormous strength. He pulled
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: me out of the tent and kicked me in the
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: stomach with his boots while I lay frozen on the
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: muddy ground. His one kick blurred my vision as I
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: could barely take the pain. I then heard him going
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: for Dorothy, and she screamed just like me. Then I
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: remembered I kept a hunting knife on my pillow just
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: in case. I yelled, gathering all my strength, Dorothy, my
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: knife under my pillow, Use it, use it. The man
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: didn't expect us to carry any kind of weapon, so
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: before he could prepare himself for a counter attack, I
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: heard Dorothy let out a vengeful scream, followed by another
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: excruciating scream from the man. He fell on his back,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: holding his face, and Dorothy came out of the tent.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: She helped me get up, and I saw she had
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: stabbed that freak in the eye with my hunting knife.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: The man was sobbing and pain and cursing us at
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: the same time. Taking advantage of his downfall, We grabbed
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: our bags and started to run in our pajamas, but
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: the man didn't stop there. He too got up, and,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: growling in pain, took out the knife from his eye.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Dorothy and I watched as he pulled the entire hunting
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: knife from his eye, dripping blood like a fountain.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: You two skinny bitches, you think you could defeat me,
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: so cut your skin and hang them dry. I will
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: hunt you down like the wild boars in these woods.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: We ran for our lives, but the psycho chased us,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: bleeding from his eye, yet holding the knife in his hand.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: We didn't stop, didn't look back, just ran and ran.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: When we finally reached the truck, we immediately hopped in.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: I closed the driver's side door, and the man came
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: rushing at me full speed, trying to get in, but
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: I didn't give him a single chance. Filled with anger
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: and hatred, he walked to the front of our truck
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: and peed on the bonnet while laughing like a crazy lunatic.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: I wanted to run him over with my truck, but
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: as soon as I started the engine, he stepped back
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: and said.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: Be careful. Girls like you don't get lucky every.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Time, and disappeared into the woods. We filed a complaint
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: about this guy, but I don't think the cops will
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: find him. I just hope no other girl ever comes
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: across such a devil like he said. Not everyone gets lucky.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: But dude, it's Valentine's Day week. You can't dump her now.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: That will be awful. Don't you think I know that?
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: Keep your voice low. I was talking to my friend
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: Daniel sitting in my living room while my girlfriend Kesha
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: was busy in the kitchen. Kesha and I met a
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: few months back through mutual friends. I work at this
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: IT company where she is a freelance copywriter. Honestly, she
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: is a nice girl, but for the last few weeks
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: it has come to my understanding that things aren't going
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: to work between us. I am not ready for a
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: serious relationship yet, and she doesn't understand that. I don't
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: exactly blame her for falling for me. Kesha has had
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: a troubled childhood. She never got along with her mother,
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: and her father abandoned them long back, so she kind
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: of raised herself. But it is not rational to be
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: with someone because you feel pity for them. I've decided
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: to break the ice after Valentine's Day because it'll be
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: good for both of us in the long run.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: What will be good for both of us?
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: Kesha came in with a big bowl of popcorn while
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: I said the last sentence to Daniel. Nothing just some
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: talk about.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Work, Oh, I see.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: We three watched the game that night and this matter
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: took a back seat. The next morning, I was taking
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: the trash out when I found something bizarre on my porch.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: There was a small, weird looking doll lying on the
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: door mat. It was made of cotton and linen and
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: looked pretty disturbing. A red liquid was smeared on its
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: body that seemed like blood. Thinking someone was playing a
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: prank on me, I got rid of the doll along
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: with the trash. I didn't tell Kesha about it, but
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: since that day, my life turned upside down. A few
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: days later, a scary looking woman started to loiter around
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: my house in the middle of the night. Whenever I
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: woke up and peeked through the curtain, I could see
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: her standing near the lamp post and looking directly at
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: my window. Her eyes had a mysterious glare that made
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: me feel disgusted. Her skin was pale and had puss
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: filled pimples that could pop at any moment. I started
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: to have horrible nightmare since the day I saw her.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: One recurrent nightmare would be where I'm standing in a
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: dark forest. Mists and smog hovered in the air as
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: I stood completely alone and clueless. All of a sudden,
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: a spine chilling scream echoed and the skies cracked up,
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: showering a rainfall of blood. I'm drowning in the blood.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: All of a sudden, I see Kesha reaching her arms
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: at me, trying to save me from drowning. After a point,
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: I started to feel scared to live alone, so I
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: asked Kesha to move in with me for a while.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: Not having a single clue on what the hell was
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: wrong with her boyfriend. Kasha agreed happily. I couldn't tell
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: her all this, thinking she will leave me if I
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: freaked her out. But one night she did find out,
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: and she got scared to death too. It was two am.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: I was watching TV in the living room to avoid
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: falling asleep for the nightmares. Kesha was sleeping upstairs. I
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: might have dozed off too when I heard her scream
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: from the washroom. I quickly ran to the bathroom and
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: saw her sobbing seated on the bathroom floor. What happened?
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: Are you all right? She couldn't speak, just raised her
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: trembling hand and pointed to the bathtub. A headless crow
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: was floating in the bathtub. The clogged water was red
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: with its blood. Someone threw it from the open bathroom window,
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: and I knew who it was. Hearing the laughter from
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: our backyard, I ran outside, grabbing my baseball bat. Kesha
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: came along. We both searched our entire backyard but saw
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: no one. Suddenly, Kesha said, in an agitated voice, who
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: is that? I followed her eyes and saw the same
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: creepy woman standing on the other side of the road.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: And laughing at us. The woman said, in a shrill,
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: yet calm.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Voice, submit yourself, Andrew. Stop fighting it. Leaving love because
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: it's not working is a statement for cowards. What what
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: the hell is she talking about?
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: The creepy woman disappeared in the darkness, and I was
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: left with Kesha's frowned, eyebrow face. I had no idea
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: how this woman knew about my plans of breaking up
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: with my girlfriend. I stood there silently, then said, I'm
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: going to call the cops. This woman is insane. I
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: walked inside the house and Kesha followed me, saying.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Answer my question, Andrew, are you planning to break up
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: with me?
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: A psycho woman is leaving creepy dolls and a headless
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: crow at my house and this is what you're concerned about?
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Now? Just answer the damn question.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I want to break up. This is not
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: working out and I'm tired of pretending. Kesher, you happy now?
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: Then, why didn't you say anything?
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: Because Valentine's Day is coming and I didn't want to
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: break up with you at this time, so you thought it.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: Would be less trouble if you broke my heart After
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: celebrating Valentine's.
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: Day with me.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: My God, women are insane. I was about to dial
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: nine point one when the doorbell rang.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: You might want to get that.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: I swear, if this is the cycle woman, I will
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: break her jaw right now. I stormed towards the door
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: and opened it just one jilt. But before I could
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: see who it was, someone blew powdery stuff on my
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: face and everything went blurry. My head began to feel heavy,
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: and with my blurry vision, I saw that creepy woman
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: standing on my doorstep and laughing like a maniac. The
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: sound of boiling water, accompanied by a rancid smell, woke
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: me up from my drowsy state. It took me a
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: few seconds to realize I was tied to a chair.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: I looked around and saw that creepy woman cooking something
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: in my kitchen while chanting some weird spells. How dare
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: you step inside my house?
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: Why do you even care?
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: Where's Kesha? What did you do to her? Kesha walked
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: in and she looked perfectly fine. She came close to
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: my face and something was odd about her. She gave
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: me a cold stare and then smiled big. There was
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: something in her smile that intended evil.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: Sorry, Andrew. I had to put up this act, but
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: you deserved it.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: What the hell is this woman doing in my house?
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: And what are you talking about?
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: This woman is my mother. I had to reconnect with
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: her because you left me no choice. I heard you
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: and Daniel the other night. You can't break up with me.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: That's why I told my mom to help me. She
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: is quite accomplished in voodoo. You know. We've been casting
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: spells on you. That's why you had those bad dreams.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: But don't worry. Tonight we'll do the last spell, the
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: obsession spell, and you'll never think of leaving me again.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: What are you crazy?
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: Mom?
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: How long is it gonna take? I'm running out of
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: patience now, relax, the potion is almost done.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: Potion? What potion?
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: The love spell? Potion made with bat wings, crow head,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: my fingernails, your hair and pig blood. Sounds delicious?
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: Huh, This isn't gonna work on me. How put you
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: freaks behind bars? I'll never love you. Kesha, you are
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: a psycho. She slapped me hard, and her witch of
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: a mother laughed, seeing that I couldn't believe. All this time,
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: Kesha remained a part of this voodoo stuff, and I
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: had no idea The woman poured that disgusting liquid into
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: a glass and handed it over to Kesha. I sealed
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: my lips in disgust, but Kesha poured the rancid blood
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: potion inside my mouth. The hot, gooey drink burnt my tongue.
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: I couldn't hold back and vomited on my clothes. I
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: slowly fell asleep after that. Today is my wedding day. Yes,
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: Kasha and I are getting married. I still want to
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: break up with her, but whenever I think of doing that,
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: my mind gets all messed up and I forget to
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: speak for an hour. Something inside me prevents me from
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: uttering the words. I don't know if I will ever
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: be able to free myself from the grasp of this
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: evil woman.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: Honey, the guests are waiting. Come here.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: Now, she's calling me. I have to go now.
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: There was a time when I ate with the dogs Yesterly,
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: the dogs. I lived in the streets after running away
• 43:04
  Speaker 5: from abusive foster care. I was fourteen years old with
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: no one to call my own. There were days when
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: I ate from the dumpster along with the stray dogs.
• 43:14
  Speaker 5: I remember one time I spotted this big, half eaten burger.
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: I was about to grab it. When a stray dog
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: attacked me. It tried to bite me, but I snatched
• 43:24
  Speaker 5: the burger and ran for my life. Those years were
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: the worst. So it was a really cold night and
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: I could barely sleep on the park bench. I was
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: trying my best to keep my body warm, but failing horribly.
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: I only had one pair of jeans and a hoodie
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: that was proving to be useless. I get up and
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: started to walk to raise my body temperature. It was
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: two am in the morning and the park was stranded.
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: I preferred sleeping here than in those dingy alleys.
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: Tough night, huh.
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: I turned around and saw a skinny, average heidy man
• 43:59
  Speaker 5: standing behind me. I had no idea he was walking
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: behind me until now. He seemed homeless, just like me.
• 44:06
  Speaker 5: His clothes were in worse conditions than mine. He was shaking.
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: I looked around and said, let's start a fire. The
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: man started to walk with me. We collected twigs and
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: woods and stopped under a tree. I dug a hole
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: with my hands and he put those branches into it.
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: Once the flame started to rise, I felt alive again.
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: The man crouched down near the fire and started to
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: warm his skinny hands. How long have you been living
• 44:33
  Speaker 5: on the street?
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: I can't remember.
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: His answer made me sad and worried at the same time.
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: I have to do something with my life or else
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: I will end up like him. Suddenly, the man looked
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: right into my eyes and asked, are you feeling sorry
• 44:49
  Speaker 5: for me?
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: Um?
• 44:50
  Speaker 5: No, I was, Oh, you're worried you will end up
• 44:56
  Speaker 5: like me. Well, I do earn from time to time.
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: You know what do you mean? From time to time?
• 45:03
  Speaker 5: I sell, Then I earn money and spend it until
• 45:06
  Speaker 5: I have to sell again. I realized he is a
• 45:10
  Speaker 5: drug dealer and trying to talk me into it, but
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: I wasn't interested, so I kept quiet. The man then
• 45:16
  Speaker 5: took out a small flask and offered it to me.
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: Here, take a few SIPs. It will help you.
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: I couldn't say no because I was feeling very hungry
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: At that point. Alcohol seemed like the only same option
• 45:29
  Speaker 5: to get me through the night. I took a big
• 45:31
  Speaker 5: gope and immediately regretted my decision. Whatever was inside that
• 45:36
  Speaker 5: flask tasted disgusting. My throat burnt up, and my head
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: began to feel heavy. As I fainted slowly, I saw
• 45:45
  Speaker 5: that sketchy man smirking at me real big. I don't
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: remember anything after that. When I woke up in the morning,
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: I found myself lying under that same tree. The homeless
• 45:57
  Speaker 5: man was nowhere to be seen. I tried to get
• 46:00
  Speaker 5: up when I felt excruciating pain in my stomach. Blood
• 46:04
  Speaker 5: stains were all over my clothes. I thought I had
• 46:07
  Speaker 5: been stabbed, but as I lifted my jacket, I made
• 46:10
  Speaker 5: a shocking discovery. There were big stitches at the side
• 46:14
  Speaker 5: of my stomach. It has been cut open and then
• 46:17
  Speaker 5: stitched back quite roughly. There was a ten dollar bill
• 46:20
  Speaker 5: attached with a small piece of paper that read, sorry,
• 46:24
  Speaker 5: but you can still live with one kidney. I had
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: to take this deal, be happy knowing you are going
• 46:31
  Speaker 5: to save someone's life. So that scoundrel took one of
• 46:35
  Speaker 5: my kidneys after drugging me last night. I was beyond words.
• 46:40
  Speaker 5: I had no money or insurance to a vail of
• 46:42
  Speaker 5: medical attention.
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: Tears rolled down my eyes. This world is too cruel
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: to survive on your own.
• 46:50
  Speaker 5: I looked up at the sky and started to scream
• 46:52
  Speaker 5: and sob and pain. Seeing me behave like this, A
• 46:56
  Speaker 5: few people gathered around me, but instead of helping me,
• 47:00
  Speaker 5: they were just watching me like an animal in the zoo.
• 47:03
  Speaker 5: One of them brought a cop who was patrolling nearby,
• 47:06
  Speaker 5: and the cop took me to the station. I was
• 47:08
  Speaker 5: interrogated and sent for medical care. Being minor and a
• 47:12
  Speaker 5: runaway from a foster home made me noticeable that day.
• 47:15
  Speaker 5: The doctors told me whoever operated on me wasn't a
• 47:18
  Speaker 5: medical professional, hence my kidney was chopped off like chicken meat.
• 47:23
  Speaker 5: I had severe internal bleeding and danger of infection as well.
• 47:27
  Speaker 5: Even though I was traumatized, at least I had a
• 47:29
  Speaker 5: bed to sleep in and food to eat during my
• 47:32
  Speaker 5: stay at the hospital. When I got discharged from there,
• 47:36
  Speaker 5: the cops decided to take me back to the same
• 47:38
  Speaker 5: foster house the night they dropped me off in that
• 47:41
  Speaker 5: abusive environment, I escaped again, not to run away from
• 47:46
  Speaker 5: the foster home, but rather to find that prick who
• 47:49
  Speaker 5: ruined my life that night. My only mission was to
• 47:53
  Speaker 5: find him and make him pay for his sins. I
• 47:56
  Speaker 5: was pretty sure he drugged many young homeless kids and
• 47:59
  Speaker 5: later saw their organs at cheap rates to sustain his
• 48:02
  Speaker 5: pathetic life. I knew all the spots where homeless people
• 48:05
  Speaker 5: lived during winter nights. After a tiresome search and hours
• 48:10
  Speaker 5: of waiting, the opportunity finally arrived. I was peeking behind
• 48:15
  Speaker 5: a bush one night when I heard a familiar voice.
• 48:18
  Speaker 5: It's hard to sleep here on cold nights like this. Huh,
• 48:22
  Speaker 5: my heart beat goat faster. He is trapping his new target.
• 48:26
  Speaker 5: But this time I won't let him do that. I
• 48:29
  Speaker 5: peeked behind the bush and saw a young boy similar
• 48:31
  Speaker 5: to my age sitting next to that psycho skinny dude.
• 48:35
  Speaker 5: But this time his health seemed a bit better. He
• 48:38
  Speaker 5: gained a couple of pounds, probably feeding yourself from the
• 48:42
  Speaker 5: money you got from selling my kidney. I saw the
• 48:45
  Speaker 5: man make a few useless conversations with the boy. He
• 48:48
  Speaker 5: then inserted his hand inside his jacket and took out
• 48:51
  Speaker 5: that flask.
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: He offered the boy to drink from it.
• 48:54
  Speaker 5: But before the boy grabbed it, I jumped from the
• 48:56
  Speaker 5: bushes with a heavy tree brunch and hit the man
• 48:59
  Speaker 5: on his head real hard. In the unexpected swift moment,
• 49:03
  Speaker 5: I saw his eyes get wide seeing the wooden log
• 49:06
  Speaker 5: coming at him. The homeless boy ran away in fear,
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: thinking it was just another street fight. I then dragged
• 49:13
  Speaker 5: his senseless body behind it the bushes before anyone else
• 49:16
  Speaker 5: saw us. I have found this abandoned cabin in the woods.
• 49:21
  Speaker 5: The man is still unconscious and chained to the rusty,
• 49:24
  Speaker 5: broken bed inside that room. It's only a matter of time.
• 49:29
  Speaker 5: Soon he will wake up and notice one big stitch
• 49:32
  Speaker 5: in his stomach. I am going to buy a sweater
• 49:36
  Speaker 5: for myself with the easy money I just made selling
• 49:39
  Speaker 5: his one kidney, and then I will buy a pair
• 49:42
  Speaker 5: of shoes with his heart, a sleeping bag with his lungs,
• 49:46
  Speaker 5: and save the cash by selling his eyes, liver, and
• 49:50
  Speaker 5: brain to some medical students. It's funny how I ran
• 49:53
  Speaker 5: into them through a drug dealer friend of mine. These
• 49:56
  Speaker 5: students buy human organs for their research and experiments, sometimes
• 50:01
  Speaker 5: sell them to big hospitals or donors in need. I
• 50:05
  Speaker 5: can't wait to see the look on this man's face
• 50:08
  Speaker 5: once he wakes up and realizes someone else is the
• 50:11
  Speaker 5: predator now and he has become his victim.
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: The story I'm about to tell is one hundred percent true.
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: I just hope to share this so it will caution
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: other people. I was nineteen when this incident happened. My
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: parents lived in Ohio, and I was flying home to
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: stay with him for a while. Being sure on cash.
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: I had to take the cheapest flight that was scheduled
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: late night. Many flights got delayed that night. I was
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: watching the runway getting drenched in rain when someone spoke
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: from behind, Do you have a lie there? I turned
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: around and saw an old, chubby man standing beside me.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: He had an uneven, roughly grown beard and a pointy
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: knows that could poke your eye out from a mild distance.
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: Seeing me staring at him cluelessly, he snapped his fingers
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: at my face and asked the same question once again, Hey,
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: do you have a lier?
• 51:09
  Speaker 4: No?
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: Sorry, I don't smoke. What happened to.
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: The world these days?
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: When I was your age, I used to smoke two
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: packs a day. Such a waste of your lungs. Shouldn't
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: you be discouraging young people from smoking as an adult? Well,
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: I am the cool one.
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: That's rare to fine.
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: As he talked, I couldn't help but study him from
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: top to bottom. He was wearing an expensive suit and
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: had a gold watch on his left wrist that was
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: shining every time he moved his hand. His teeth were
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: very bad, which justified he wasn't lying about the smoking habit. Earlier,
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: he asked me where I was heading, and some basic questions.
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: I didn't share too much because I'm pretty reserved by nature.
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: Even though he realized I wasn't interested in him, I
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: stood there and watched me. I just ignored him and
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: came back to my seat. There was a hell of
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: a lot of time for boarding, and I didn't want
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: to fall asleep. Thinking a coffee would be a good
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: idea to remain awake, it, took my backpack and decided
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: to head to the Starbucks outlet at the end of
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: the premises. There was a female employee at the counter.
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: I ordered a cappuccino and two chocolate chip cookies. I
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: sat at a table in the corner, and at that
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: point I was the only one in the Starbucks. I
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: was scrolling through my phone when I heard a familiar voice.
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: Again, So you drink coffee?
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: Huh?
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: Looking up, I met with that old dude again. Generally
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: I am a polite person, but if irritated, I can
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: turn into hulk really quickly. A rush of anger pierced
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: my brain as soon as he spoke to me. Surprisingly,
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: he didn't even care to intervene shamelessly and sat right
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: next to me at my table. I could have a
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: coffee with you, then wherever you have ordered will be paid.
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: Don't worry, there's a lot of time for off flights.
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: So why don't we hang out and get to know
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: each other. I enjoy the company of a young mind
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: very much. I was stunned to see his audacity. He
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: was going on even though I wasn't replying to him. Finally,
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: when I couldn't take it anymore, I unleashed my demons. Look,
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: old man, I can pay for my food, So why
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: don't you just fuck off and mind your own business.
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: Do whatever other old people do your age, Sit somewhere
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: quiet and wait for death.
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: I see, Is this how your parents taught you?
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: No, they taught me how to punch it abnoxious guy
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: like you in the nuts? Do you want that? This
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: is not how you should behave when someone's trying to
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: be nice to you. Dude, just fuck off leave me alone.
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: Hearing me scream at him, he got up and left
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: my table, but he didn't leave the Starbucks. Instead, he
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: went to the counter and ordered himself up a cup
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: of coffee. Then he sat at the same exact opposite
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: table of mind. I was beyond annoy to see his
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: impudent behavior, but now I couldn't say anything. I calmed
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: myself down and waited for my coffee to arrive. The
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: man sat there and kept watching my every single move
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: with a freaky face. I could see burning anger in
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: his eyes after I insulted him, but I didn't give
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: a damn anymore. A few seconds later, my order got
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: served and I was about to take a sip of
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: my coffee when the man started to pull off a
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: disgusting stunt. He smiled at me, flashing his yellow teeth,
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: then picked up a napkin from the table. He unfolded
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: the napkin and placed it on the table. Then he
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: inserted his fingers into his big nostrils and started to
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: pull out his dirty nose hair. Each hair he pulled out,
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: he placed it with the utmost care on his napkin
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: and then smiled at me like filthy vermin. He was
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: deriving pleasure from my discomfort, and I also couldn't walk
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: out of the coffee shop. I knew that's what he
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: wants me to do, and if I walk out, it
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: will signify that he won. I'm very adamant when it
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: comes to my dignity and self respect. So I kept
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: sitting there while this freak went on preserving his nose
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: hair on the napkin. I stopped looking at him. After
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: a while, I felt the urge to pee, but I
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: wasn't done with my coffee. The airport was completely stranded
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: by then, and the girl behind the Starbucks counter was
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: also dozing off at her late night shift. I couldn't
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: hold back anymore, but also I didn't want to leave
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: my luggage unattended, because I was sure this man will
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: steal my things or even go through my luggage if
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: he had a chance. I walked up to the Starbucks
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: employee and told her to watch over my table till
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: I come back from the washroom. I then rushed to
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: the washroom to quickly do my business. When I came back,
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: the man was still sitting there and sipping his coffee.
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: He turned his face from me with a don't care attitude,
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: and I felt relieved that finally this weirdo was getting
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: off my back. I sat down and grabbed my coffee
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: cup to take a few more SIPs and then go
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: back to the waiting area. I chomped on the last
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: piece of my cookie and swiftly drank my cappuccino. When
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: I felt something on my tongue. It didn't taste like
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: content belonging to a coffee. Rather, it felt stringy. I
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: quickly let out whatever was in my mouth to my napkin.
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: It was tiny strands of thick hair which looked similar
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: to pubic hairs. But then I realized what they were,
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: and as soon as I did, I started vomiting on
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: the floor of Starbucks. The girl at the counter came
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: running seeing me let out my stomach like this, and
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: small chaos took place. Security came too, and at the
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: corner of my eyes, I watched that evil man smiling
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: like a dirty dog. When I went to the washroom,
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: he slipped his nose hairs into my coffee, taking advantage
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: of the drowsy employee of Starbucks. I got so sick
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: that I couldn't even tell security what exactly was wrong
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: with me. They asked go to me out of the
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: airport and then called the paramedics. I was fine after
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: an hour, but for almost a year I couldn't drink
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: any hot beverage. Every time I looked at a cup
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: of coffee, it reminded me how I almost drank someone's
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: nose hair at Starbucks. I never saw that man again,
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: but wherever he is, I wish he dies a horrific
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: death and maggots eat him alive, burn and hell, you freak.
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: Working at Hooters isn't anyone's dream job, and that's true
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: if you ask any Hooter girl. Knowing that you have
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: to tolerate sketchy individuals throughout your shift doesn't make the
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: task better. The slow and weary movement of time had
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: me praying that no customer would enter for the last
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: remaining five minutes before closing. I observed as Martha wiped
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: the tables and our manager, mister Gunner, counted the cash
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: sitting behind the counter. Lily, Martha, and I all leave
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: the outlet together, and we three girls take that quite seriously.
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: This fast food chain is a small one that has
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: recently opened, so right now we're the only employees working here,
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: along with our chef Burton. Lily went to the washroom
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: and I was passing time reading the menu. The sound
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: of approaching footsteps snapped me away from reading, only for
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: my eyes to meet a disturbing looking man. He smiled
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: so big that I frowned, feeling uncomfortable. It took a
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: while before I could utter a welcome and ask for
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: his order. His ocean eyes scanned the top menu while
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: biting his lower lip, and the sight alone made me
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: consider hating the night shift. Welcome to Hooters. May I
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: take your order? His attention returned to me, still sporting
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: about smile, but what he said next made my stomach drop.
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: I'd like the jumbo burger please, but instead of the
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: usual beef, I'd like your meat instead.
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: What he said those words in such a friendly manner,
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: as if it was the most normal thing in the world,
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: while I couldn't even breathe. I waited for a haha,
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: just kidding, but it never came.
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: Hello, are you listening?
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: He asked as he waved a hand right in front
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: of me, trying to snap me out of shock. As
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: if his first comment wasn't terrifying enough, he went on
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: saying even more bizarre things.
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: Ah, sorry, you clows. In five minutes, right, that's not
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: enough time to cook your meat. I prefer areas down
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: the waist meatious part for me, he chuckled.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: As he sent a wink my way. My tongue felt
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: nonexistent as fear took over my system. The ringing in
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: my ears managed to muffle his voice and the horror
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: that left his mouth. I started to sweat like a dog.
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: Okay, you look scared. I guess I'll just have the
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: large fries and large cook please, thank you, thank you
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: so much.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: His last request was said with such a polite tone
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: that I felt like my mind was ready to lose it.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: I watched as he took the table near the door,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: right next to where Martha was cleaning. I felt cursed,
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: like I was hext to stand in that spot forever,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: with only the nightmare to keep me company. Martha noticed
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: me standing there like a statue and called out my name.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: I came back to my senses and with trembling feet,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: walked back to the kitchen. Chef Burton was cleaning the kitchen.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: Seeing me walk in like a scaredy cat, he asked.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: Are you all right? You look horrified?
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: That man, he said, he wanted before I could finish
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: our manager, mister Gunner screamed at me.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: Saying, stop the chit chat and finish the last order. Burton,
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: I'm leaving. Make sure you lock up after everyone.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: Chef Burton nodded his head and got back to his
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: work with a reluctant face. I, on the other hand,
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: couldn't tell anyone about the spine chilling experience. I had
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: just had a few moments ago, telling Burton to prepare
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: that psycho's order. I headed straight to the bathroom looking
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: for Lily. Coming out, I saw Martha standing there with
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: a pale face. She grabbed my hand and said, in
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: a nervous voice, you won't believe what just happened. That
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: man out there showed me a cut on top of
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: his finger that had sliced through the skin, and before
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: I could even offer a band aid, he deliberately pulled
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: that skin back with his teeth, pulled it off, and
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: chewed it as he kept smiling at me. What the
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: fuck is this shit? I felt every tension in Martha's
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: body as she paced back and forth trying not to heave.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: Martha turned ghostly white. When I recounted what the man
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: had said to me. We decided to call the cops.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: The signal was bad inside, so Martha walked out from
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: the back door to call the cops, and I went
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: to get Lily before she encountered this crazy man. I
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: knocked on the washroom door and called out to her, Lilly,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: come out, but no answer came. I twisted the door
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: knock and found it unlocked. Lily wasn't there inside the washroom.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: I quickly walked to the dining area. A cold rush
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: went down my spine. Lily wasn't in the restaurant, and
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: neither was that man. I don't know why, but an
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: invisible alarm bell kept ringing in my ear. I rushed
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: to the exit and looked outside. A small, rusty car
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: was parked outside, and I saw Lily getting in it
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: with that psycho. Lily don't go with him, but before
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: she could hear me, the man locked the car doors
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: and hit hard on the paddle. The car took up
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: sudden speed. I ran to stop the car, and Lily
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: noticed me. Her face changed as soon as she saw me.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: She yelled to the man, but you said they were
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: waiting for me down the road. Oh my god, shut up.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: The man punched her in the face right away, and
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: Lily passed out on the pass your seat beside him.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: He drove away, abducting my friend, while letting out a
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: vicious smile of joy. Martha heard me scream, and I
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: told her what had just happened. She immediately got into
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: her car and I hopped in the cops won't be
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: able to catch him if he escapes. We have to
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: follow that freak. Yes, we have to save Lily. We
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: started to drive like crazy. After five minutes of reckless driving,
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: we finally saw that man's car driving away. Let's get
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: this asshole, Martha said in a charged up voice, and
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: the fear in me vanished too. She increased the car
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: speed and we caught up to him. We started honking
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: our horns like crazy, and the man realized that we
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: were following him. He increased speed too, but we were
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: on fire. We drove and came parallel to his car.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: Our eyes met and I screamed, you won't get far,
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: you jerk. The cops are on their way and we
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: aren't going to leave you alone wherever you go. Oh,
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: we're coming with you. Upon realizing that he wouldn't be
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: able to dodge us, he did something dangerous. He suddenly
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: unlocked the car door and pushed open the door on
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: Lily's side. He then smiled even bigger and said, in
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: a psychotic voice, you're right here.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: Take your friend. I'll need something else.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: Tonight, and pushed our unconscious friend out of the speeding car.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: Lily hit the hard road and started to roll in friction.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: Before we knew it, she came right in front of
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: our car and I screamed at the top of my lungs, Martha, Martha,
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: watch out. Martha hit the brakes, but as our car
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: was at maximum speed, the tires creaked loudly and the
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: crushing of bones echoed in the middle of nowhere. The
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: car stopped after a few meters. Neither of us got out.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: It was as if we had forgotten how to move.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: We didn't even look at each other, just stared at
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: the long highway ahead and kept breathing. Every breath was
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: hinting toward the nightmare we were too afraid to encounter.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: But finally we came out of our car and walked
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: back with shivering footsteps. Lily was lying dead on the ground.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: Our speeding car ran her over. She was beyond recognition
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: at that point. We waited there, shattered, broken and guilty
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: for life. To save our friend, we had killed her.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: The police arrived after a short time, but upon inspection,
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: the man was nowhere to be found. His car had
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: no number plate. Statements were taken and even the authorities
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: couldn't hide the disgust that was etched in their faces
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: as our story unfolded. Sleep never came to me that night,
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: and neither to Martha. We are still a part of
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: this ongoing investigation. I just hope the man gets arrested soon.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: That will be the only relief for us. Walking the
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: streets had become something so difficult now as I had
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: developed a fear of strangers smiling. Whatever happened that night
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: ruined me. To those working in outlets like Hooters, please
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: always be careful. Deception is a mask that fits everyone.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: Today is Valentine's Day, and unlike everyone else, I'm happy
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: not to have a partner to be with. More than happy,
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: actually relaxed, calm, at peace. Some friends tell me that
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: this is not normal, that I cannot be alone forever.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: But after what happened two years ago, I wish I
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: was always single. I just can't trust. It all started
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: one day like any other in college. I was walking
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: to my apartment when a girl bumped into me.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: Ouch.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: No, No, it's okay. It was my fault. I was distracted.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: It's just that I don't know where my next class is.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: I'm new around here.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: On the other hand, I wasn't new here at all.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: I had been here a few years since I had
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: started college. So I helped her get where she needed
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: to be. Before she walked into her class, I stopped her.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: Do you want my cell phone number? I could help
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: you if you ever need it. I lived close by.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: She smiled. At the time, I wasn't able to notice it,
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: but there was something strange about the way she smiled,
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: And besides, her face looked familiar to me, but I
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: wasn't sure. I didn't know her.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: Sure. By the way, my name is Abby.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: Nice to meet you, Abby. I'm Jaden right. It didn't
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: bother me to see her again at all. Her dark hair,
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: those radiant eyes, and her cute freckles. She was just
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: the kind of girl I like. In fact, I was
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: hoping she would call me sometime. It didn't take long
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: for her to do it. The next time I helped her,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: she insisted on taking me out to dinner one day.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: That's how we started to get to know each other better.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: So you're studying nursing. You must like it a.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: Lot, yes, something like that.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: So what do you like to do. Over time, I
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: began to realize how compatible we were. Our tastes were
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: very similar, and her personality, even if she acted a
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: little weird sometimes, was just perfect. That's why we continue
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: going out together. Abby always chose the place we would
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: go to, but surprisingly each time it was a place
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: that I liked. We had a great time together. In fact,
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: I was convinced that we were the perfect match. So
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: I decided to ask her to be my girl friend
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: a few weeks before Valentine's Day. She said yes. Everything
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: was going perfect as the days passed until Valentine's Day.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: To celebrate, Abby invited me to her apartment. She said
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 2: we would have dinner together in the evening. I arrived
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: at her apartment with a bouquet of roses.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 3: In my hand.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: Ah, thank you very much, my love.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: I kissed her before she put the roses in a
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: vase of water. For some reason, there was something about
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: her that seemed different.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry, but I haven't finished dinner yet. You
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: came earlier than you should have. You seem thirsty. Do
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: you want to drink while you wait? My love?
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: I had no problem accepting the offer. Once I sat
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: down on the couch. She brought me a drink. Thanks, honey.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: She nodded slowly, looking at me expectantly. As I took
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: the first sip of my drink, her eyes were wide open.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: She didn't blink at any moment. I swallowed, Um, are you?
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: Before I could ask if she was okay, she blinked.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: Her expression turned into one of concern.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: Oh, I forgot something in my car. Please wait here,
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: my love, and don't go to my room. I'm warning you.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: I didn't mean to peek into her room, but while
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: she was outside, I heard not coming from there. It
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: sounded as if something had fallen. Abby was taking so
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: long that I decided to see if everything was okay
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: in her room. I thought that there would be no problem,
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: since I was sure that she didn't want me to
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: go in her room because she had a surprise for
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 2: me there. When I walked in, the place was in
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: complete darkness except for a light coming from what looked
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: like her closet. The light was orange. It seemed like
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: candle light. I had no idea why she would have
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: a candle in her closet, but I had to put
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: it out or there could be a fire, so I
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: opened it. What I saw there in that supposed closet
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: left me frozen like a statue. My heart was beating
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: fast due to surprise and perhaps fear. There were no
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: clothes there. What was there was a table with several
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: lit candles surrounding a pickure of the two of us together,
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: But that was the only part that could be considered normal.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: On the wall, there were many photos of me, photos
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: that had been taken from Afar. Some of them were
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: from when I was still in high school. In each
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: of them, my head was surrounded by a red heart
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: that had been painted by hand. And besides, what had
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: fallen was a doll which looked a lot like me.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: It was a voodoo doll.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: You weren't supposed to see that.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: You you you were stalking me since high school? The
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: hell is wrong with you? And what's with that? Were
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: you voodooing me? You're crazy?
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: I told you you weren't supposed to see that, But
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: never mind. It's sad that you still don't recognize me.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: Jaden what Suddenly she pulled hard on her hair. In
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: this way, she revealed that she was wearing a wig.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: Her real hair was blonde. Then she rubbed her cheeks
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: gradually making the freckles disappear. At that moment, I recognized her.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 2: Abby was a girl who went to the same high.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 3: School as me.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: She was a few years younger, but she always seemed
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: to be at the places I went back then. Even so,
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: we never speak.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: Do you recognize me now, Jaden?
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: I stayed where I was, listening to her creepy laugh,
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: not knowing what to do or say. Then suddenly she stopped.
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: You ruined everything, Jaden, everything we were supposed to be
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: together forever.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: She was completely crazy. I needed to get out of there,
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 2: so I walked towards her and tried to push her
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: away from the door. But at that moment I felt
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: a huge dizziness that prevented me from doing so.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: Ah, are you trying to escape? You can't, You will
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: never do it.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 3: Did you?
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: Did you poison me? You? You are great. When I
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: came back to consciousness after passing out, she had tied
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: my hands and feet to the ends of her bed.
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: Welcome back, Jaden. I didn't mean to poison you for this.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: You know I have something that can make you feel
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: better what I went to look for in the car.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: I poisoned you so I could take care of you.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: I was going to take care of you forever, Jaden,
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: and I will, but now now I just want to
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: do this with you. Jaden. Take me.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: No, wait, I don't stop, Please stop, Abby stop. She
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: didn't stop, and I passed out at some point during
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: the night. When I woke up in the morning, she
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: was sleeping next to me, which I found more than gross.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: It wasn't too difficult to untie the knots on my wrist,
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: apparently doing them wasn't one of her skills. I was
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: untying one with my feet when she started to wake up.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: Jane quickly I finished untying myself, and before she could
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: do anything, I pushed her off the bed, which would
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: hopefully buy me some more time. I left the room
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: and went to the front door, but when I noticed
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: that it was closed, I broke the window next to
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: it and went out. Jaden, I didn't mind being only
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 2: in my underwear. I had to escape from her. I
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: hadn't even taken my cell phone with me, but luckily
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 2: some students offered to help me. After that day, I
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: made sure she got what she deserved for what she
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: had done to me. Poisoned me, kidnapped me, and used
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: my body against my will. We had to go through
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: a trial, which was a difficult process for me. But
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: the worst part was when they were taking her away
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: after it was over, because she looked right at me
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 2: and said, I love.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: You, Jaden, I will always love you.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: She was love sick, truly love sick. Without a doubt.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: Justice will never restore of my trust in others. I
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: honestly do not know how to handle the events that
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: have transpired over the past several months. I wake up
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: in a cold sweat in the middle of the night
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: and look out into the darkness of my room, afraid
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: of something that isn't even there. I was working as
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: a pizza delivery board for some local pizza shop near
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: where I live. The money was awful, of course, but
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: I was just trying to make a few bucks before
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: cortege started back up again in the spring. One Saturday night,
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: a call came in around eleven forty five and ask
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 2: for delivery. I typed the address into my phone and
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: saw that it was an almost thirty minute drive just
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: to get to this person's house. Since cooking eight large
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: pizzas takes a while to make, I was probably going
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: to arrive at this person's house around one in the morning.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: I was a little annoyed that I had to stay
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: so late, but I tried to look on the bright
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: side of things and told myself that I was probably
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: going to receive a general tip given the lateness of
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: the hour, the number of pizzas that were ordered, and
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: the distance from the shop. After about thirty five minutes,
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: the pizzas were finally done, so I put them in
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: my car and set off toward the address. I arrived
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: about one o'clock, just like I predicted, and drove my
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 2: car up this steep driveway to an impressively big house.
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: I sat in my car for a while and took
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: in everything around me before getting out. Even though the
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: house looked very nice, the front yard was in horrible condition.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: We don't get any snow from where I'm from, so
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: the grass continues growing all year round, and this grass
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: looked like it hadn't been cut for several months. That
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: was the first thing that I noticed. The second thing
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 2: was the fact that this gigantic house was located out
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 2: in the middle of nowhere, up on this hill, and
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: from where I was sitting in my car, it looked
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 2: like nobody was home. There were no cars in the
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 2: driveway and the lights in the house were not on yet.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 2: This house ordered eight large pizzas to be delivered. I
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 2: was hesitant about getting out of my car, but I
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: finally did and walked up to the front door in
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: hopes that this would all be over soon. As I
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: was walking up the sidewalk to the door, I noticed
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: that the grass around me was even higher than I
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: originally thought. It must have been neglected for some time,
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: because it went well past my knees and covered this
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 2: person's entire yard. That takes some time to do. I
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: was about to ring the doorbell when I saw a
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 2: piece of paper taped to the door. Dear pizza boy,
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: please come in. Do not ring the doorbell.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: I disobeyed the note and rang the doorbell anyway. I
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: waited a few minutes, but no one answered. I knocked
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: on the door, then placed my ear closer to the
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: wood to try and listen for any noises coming from
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 2: inside the house. Hearing nothing, I just stood there on
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 2: this person's porch in the middle of the night, with
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: eight pizzas and no idea what to do next. I
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: stood there a little while longer, not moving until I
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: finally reached up for the handle to go inside. But
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: then I remembered something. A couple of weeks earlier, a
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 2: young kid named Billy Holmes was abducted in broad daylight,
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: not even three miles from where this house was. Like
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: I said before, I don't live in a bad neighborhood,
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 2: so when Billy got kidnapped, it was pretty big news
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: in our town because we are not used to such events.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: I took my hand away from the handle, convincing myself
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: that delivering these pizzas wasn't worth my life. I turned
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 2: around and was about to walk back to my car
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: when I heard someone say something from inside the house.
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: Come in.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: The voice came from a woman, but she sounded far away,
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: like she was on the opposite side of the house
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: or something. I went back to the door and knocked again,
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: Come in, please, I'm upstairs. I slowly opened the door,
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 2: making sure that the canister of pepper spray around my
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: key chain was within reach. The inside of the house
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: was very similar to the condition of the yard, unkempt.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: There were piles of garbage everywhere, and most of the
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 2: house just looked like it hadn't been cleaned in a
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: long time. Most of the lights in the house were off,
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: except for the one in the room I was currently
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 2: standing in and the one located at the top of
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: the large staircase that was to my right. I heard
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: the voice again. It was coming from the top of
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 2: the steps, but I couldn't see anybody. I'll be down
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 2: in a minute, she spoke. Only this time it didn't
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 2: sound right. Something was off about her voice. I hadn't
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: noticed it when I was standing outside, but now, since
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: it was much clearer, I could tell that it wasn't
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: a woman's voice. Well it was, but it didn't sound natural.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: It sounded like a man imitating.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 3: A woman's voice.
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: Fuck this, I said to myself. I'm out o here.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: Right as I was exiting the house, the woman again said,
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: can you please come up? I am feeding my child.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 2: I have your money it just come up and take it.
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: I know I should have left by then, but returning
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 2: with no money and eight pizzas will make my boss frantic.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: So I walked up stairs. I opened the door and
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: met with a mind boggling sight. Several candles were burning
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: throughout the room. A pentagram was scrawled on the floor,
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: and what I could only imagine was blood, and there
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 2: was a visceral smell throughout the room that burned my
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: nose and caused my eyes to water. A chair was
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 2: set in the middle of the pentagram with a pile
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 2: of human intestines lying in the seat, leaking blood all
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 2: over the ground. A man dressed like a woman with
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: piles of make up on his face was sitting in
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: a rocking chair holding a corpse of a little kid.
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 2: He was staring at me with a sinister smile and said,
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 2: my son and I are having a small party. Isn't
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 2: he cute? What the hell? Please take your money from
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 2: the table. He loves pizza, you know, don't you? My
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 2: little boornie. Saying this, he started kissing the corpse, ignoring
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: the maggots crawling all over it. Some even stuck to
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 2: his lips, but without freaking out a single bit, he
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 2: chewed those maggots like snacks. I couldn't stand the sight. Suddenly,
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 2: the man got up and said, in a cold gaze,
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 2: my son needs a father. Will you be my husband?
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 2: We can be a happy family. Are you insane? You're
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 2: one freaky dude. Who is this dead kid? How dare
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 2: you call my son dead. You need to learn how
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 2: to be a good father and a good husband. I'm
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 2: not gonna be your fucking husband. Saying this, I turned
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 2: around to leave when I heard foot steps rushing at me.
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 2: I looked back and saw that crazy man stretching his
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 2: arms and making a pouted face, running towards me. He screamed,
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 2: my son needs a dad and I need a husband.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 2: Come to me, darling. I ran for my life. I
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 2: jumped out the main door and got inside my car,
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 2: locking the doors right away. The man came to the
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 2: porch and watched me drive away, but shockingly, he didn't
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 2: chase me anymore. He slowly went inside. I called the
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 2: cops on my way and told them about this house,
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 2: this man, and that dead kid. I don't remember how
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 2: I reached home that night. It later came out that
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 2: this man was a pretty sick individual. He not only
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 2: killed the poor kid, but also performed black magic on him,
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 2: thinking he was resurrecting him to be his son. The
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 2: cop shared his investigating footage where he was saying, I
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 2: just wanted to be a mommy, and my son loves me.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 2: All I needed was to find him a father and
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 2: a husband.
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 4: For myself.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 2: I did nothing wrong. I will leave this cell and
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 2: complete my family one day. Tell my husband I will
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 2: find him and make him mine. I just hope he
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 2: stays behind bars for the rest of his life. If
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 2: he ever escapes, I know he will come for me.
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 2: It's awfully disturbing to think that a full grown man
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 2: wants me to be his husband and the father of
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 2: a dead kid.
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: Sometimes I remember how a quiet sunny Thursday turned into
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: one of the worst days of my life. It may
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: have happened many years ago, but every day I relive
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: that man's voice in my head, and I'm thankful to
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: be alive. At the time, I worked at Hooters. It
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: was my first job, and despite what everyone says about
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: the place, I had a good time. When that strange
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: man came in at the beginning of my shift, I
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: knew something was wrong. He was harmless in appearance, quite short,
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: and despite being no more than fifty years old, he
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: was quite stooped over. The man was bald and had
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: a blank stare as if he had ended up in
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: the restaurant by mistake, and given the profile of customers
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: we had, that was a strong possibility. The man sat
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: down at a table for two and raised his head
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: as a sign that he expected to be served. I
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: preferred not to wait on him, but I was the
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: only girl available, and I saw out of the corner
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: of my eye my manager who was watching me, so
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: I decided to approach the customer as soon as possible.
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: Good morning, sir, Welcome to Hooters. My name is Rebecca,
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: and I'll be serving you this afternoon. How can I
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: help you?
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 2: Rebecca?
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 3: What a nice name, he.
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: Said, whispering in a very slow and calculated voice. Thank you,
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: that's very sweet, I said, trying to hide my discomfort.
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: Have you thought about what you want to eat?
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 2: Orange juice and French fries without salt? Bring me condiments
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 2: and sit with me.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: I would like some company, he said, with an authoritarian
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: and macabre tone. Of course, thank you very much. Those
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: words still echo in my head. At that moment, I
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: felt very uncomfortable and disgusted. We usually have customers who
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: treat us badly or are simply very sexist, but there
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: was something in that man's demanding and hateful voice that
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: made me feel very bad. Anyway, I took his order
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: and went to greet other customers.
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 2: Hello, cuty, you come here.
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: Often said a young man in a joking tone, causing
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: his friends to laugh for my salary much more than
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: I should. I laughed falsely, but even still the young
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: men laughed with me.
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 2: Well, you must be doing something right. You seem to
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 2: have admirers.
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: Looking at the other man's table, turning around, I saw
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: the man just looking at me. He didn't look angry, sad,
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: or even jealous. He was just watching me. In response
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: to this, I quickly went to get his fries and drink.
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: I just wanted to finish with this customer and get
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: him to leave as quickly as possible. As I sat
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: down with him and set the food down, he almost
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: snatched the orange juice out of my hands, drinking it
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: all with hardly a breath or pause. I see you
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: were thirsty, sir.
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 2: Tell me a little bit about your life, Rebecca.
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: He said, ignoring what I had just told him. Well,
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: I don't have much to say. I've been working here
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: for a few months now, and I'm having a great time.
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: I'm here while I study to be a nurse. I
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: plan to dedicate myself to that starting next year. At
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: that moment, I didn't know what motivated me to tell
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: him about my life. I guess I wanted him to
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: empathize with me.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 2: What a beautiful career.
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 2: Sometimes I'm a nurse.
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: What do you mean? Sometimes I like.
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 2: To be a nurse, but sometimes I have to be
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 2: a police officer, a builder, but a lot of times
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 2: I'm a mechanic. It depends on what my dolls need.
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: Do you have dolls?
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 2: Of course, dear, I have lots and lots of dolls
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 2: in my house. When I find them, they always move
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 2: a lot, are very noisy, but after a while they
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 2: just stop talking. I think I broke them.
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: You mean plastic dolls like toys, right, Maybe they don't
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: have batteries. My voice showed fear, and I knew I
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: shouldn't ask that question, but I was very nervous, and
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: I just asked it.
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 2: What happens is that sometimes I feel the need to
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 2: be bad. If my mom saw me, she would be
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 2: very angry. But sometimes I just want to be bad.
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: He kept talking as if nothing was happening, but his
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: gaze was lost. At that moment, I wondered if he
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: was still talking to me, Sir, I don't understand what
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: Suddenly he interrupted me, looking at me with his eyes
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: wide open and a look that felt like it went
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: through my whole body.
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 2: Rebecca, would you be so kind as to bring me
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 2: an orange juice and fries?
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 4: Please?
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 1: Without speaking a word, I ran off to get his order,
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: not realizing that he still hadn't touched the fries I
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: had left for him earlier.
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 2: Rebecca, is everything okay?
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: I'm really not okay. That man scares the hell out
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: of me.
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 2: Did he say or do anything?
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: Do you no? But I know he will.
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 2: You're old enough to know how things work here. We
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 2: can't turn away clients just because we don't.
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: Like them, I understand. My voice broke and I almost
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: started to cry.
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 2: Stay calm, I'm going to be watching closely, and if
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 2: that man makes'll move, we'll throw him.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: Out without answering him. I just left with the fries
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: and the drink. When I returned to my seat, the
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: man didn't even look back, but reacted to my arrival
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: by taking a deep breath. Here is your order.
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 3: Sit down, my dear, I feel very lonely these days.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 3: My dolls don't talk to me anymore.
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: He said. It was such a sad tone that in
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: any other context I would have felt sorry for him.
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: Of course, but only for a moment. I have to
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: wait on other tables, I said, with a strong and
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: determined tone, while the man ignored the fries again and
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: drank the juice as if he hadn't had anything to
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: drink for days.
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 3: Rebecca, I must tell you the truth. I hate orange juice.
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry to hear that. You want me to get
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: you something else, I said in a confused voice, looking
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: for a chance to leave.
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 2: But I have to drink it, you know, otherwise the
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 2: itching it comes back, itches so much and I can't
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 2: control it.
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: His voice had changed. It sounded shaky and uncontrollable, as
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: if he was about to have a breakdown. Do you
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: want me to turn up the air, sir? I couldn't
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: control myself. I was almost crying from fear. The man
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: didn't even look at me, but it seemed like he
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: could do something to me at any moment.
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 3: I don't want to get itchy.
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 2: It just so much. When I get itchy, I feel
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 2: the need to do something bad.
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: I understand. Let me pick up your glasses of juice.
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: I'll be right back, Okay. At that moment, I just
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: wanted to leave, but I was afraid he wouldn't let
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: me if I managed to leave, I knew I wouldn't
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: go back to that table. In response to my question,
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: the man looked at me for the first time in
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: a while. His eyes were wide open, meeting mine in
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: a way that was only possible in horror movies. In
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: an evil, cold voice, almost whispering to me, he said
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: a few last words.
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 3: Rebecca, do you ever wonder what you look like on
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 3: the inside?
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: Terrified, I grabbed his glasses and left, crying. I couldn't
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: even answer him. Reaching the bar, I heard many hurried
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: footsteps behind me. As I turned around, I saw the
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: man on the floor being restrained by two hooter security men.
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: As I got a better look at the situation, a
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: chill ran through my entire body, and terrified, I dropped
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: the glasses in shock. The man, who until a few
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: seconds ago was talking to me had a syringe in
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: his hand. One of the security men noticed this and
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: quickly pulled it out while the manager called the police.
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: A few minutes later, the police had arrived and my
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: manager was apologizing to me. It seems that the security
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: men were on the lookout for this man, so they
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: reacted in time and saved me. A few months later,
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: I learned that this man had escaped from an insane
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: asylum in a power outage a few months earlier. Within months,
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 1: I left Hooters, and my parents supported me until I
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: started working as a nurse. I still go to therapy
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: because of this, and since that day, I have never
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: been able to go back into a Hooters.
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 2: A long time ago, my friend Jason and I decided
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 2: to throw the biggest part of our school had ever seen.
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 2: It was our senior year and we were ready to
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 2: leave for college, so we decided to send everyone off
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 2: with a huge bang. I arrived at Jason's house a
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 2: bit early to help set everything out. It was a
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 2: huge mansion in the hills, a few minutes from the
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 2: town center. Derek, you're finally here. Tell me you got it. Yeah,
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 2: my uncle hooked us up. We'll have enough for everyone.
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 2: We were talking about beer. We couldn't buy it, so
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 2: we needed someone to do it for us. My uncle
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 2: ran a company that distributed all kinds of stuff, so
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 2: he got us beer and lots of other drinks.
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: Hey, Derek, come over. I want to introduce you to
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 1: a friend.
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 2: That was my best friend, Luna. We grew up together
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 2: in the same street, and now she was going to
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 2: college thousands of miles away from us. That would be
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 2: our last time hanging out. We went inside and she
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 2: introduced me to a girl. She was cute and really nice,
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 2: but I forgot her immediately. I actually wanted to be
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 2: with Luna. I had a massive cross on her ever
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 2: since we were in the eighth grade, but I never
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 2: did anything about it. I wish I had all.
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: Right, Think, you can call up your uncle's company or whatever.
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: People are coming in and we don't have anything to drink.
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 1: If we don't get that soon, they'll bail.
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 2: Damn, you're right, I said, let me go call them.
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 2: I went outside with my phone and I called the
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 2: number my uncle gave me. Soon after, a truck appeared
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 2: and it carried everything we needed. Now it was a party. However,
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 2: we were still missing food, so I went inside and
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 2: asked Jason what to do. Oh, you're right, let's get
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 2: some food here. I'm going to door dash some pizzas here.
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 2: Think twenty will be enough? Aha, are you crazy? That's
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 2: way too much, I said. We both had drinks on
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 2: our hands. Now music was loud and more people were arriving,
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 2: so Jason left the house and made the call. About
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 2: half an hour later, a small car was parked outside.
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 2: It was the pizza place, so I went out with
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 2: the money to pay for everything. When I saw the driver,
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 2: I could not believe my eyes. Delivery for four fifty
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 2: six Park Road. He must have recognized the address because
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 2: he was looking at the bill, but stopped when he
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 2: realized where he was us, and then he stared at me.
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 2: His name was Pierce Donovan. He was in our class
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 2: many years ago, and to be honest, me and Jason
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 2: used to make his life hell. I never knew what
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 2: we were doing was so bad. I thought we were
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 2: having fun, But that night I'd learned that Pierce never
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 2: found it funny. Last year, Pierce had a nervous breakdown
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 2: in school and his parents took him away to be homeschooled.
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 2: We had never seen him again. He always had this
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 2: sickly appearance, way too skinny, almost skinning bones, and his
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 2: eyes seemed to be too big for his face. He
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 2: had sharp features in big, mousy years. I remember we
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 2: used to call him ratface. M Hey, Pierce, A long
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 2: time no see, I said, nervously, But his face was
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 2: dead serious. He looked at me in the eye, and
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 2: I could feel his anger. Derek anders, long time, This
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 2: is Jason's home, isn't it looks like a nice, big party.
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 2: He spoke in this whispery tone, really creepy. Yeah, we're
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 2: graduating soon, so well, don't let me keep you from it.
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 2: Here's the bill. It's a total of He trailed off
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 2: for a second. Hey, finally the food is there. Took
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 2: you long enough, pizza guy. Jason came out of the
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 2: house and he saw the pizza guy, so he decided
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 2: to come in and help me bring the boxes in.
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 2: But as soon as he came close enough, he recognized Peers,
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 2: and that's when things went downhill. Whoa, whoa, Wait a minute,
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 2: is that rat face?
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 3: Peers?
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 2: What are you doing here? Oh? Wait, no way, don't
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 2: tell me you're our delivery guy. Jason was slurring his
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 2: words already and losing his balance drunk. Yes, Jason, I
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 2: am your delivery guy tonight. It's called work. People like
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 2: me have to work and can't mooch off our parents'
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 2: money like you. Jason tried to rush him and throw
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 2: a punch, but surprisingly Pierce ducked. The blow missed him
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 2: entirely by a few inches. I grabbed Jason and told
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 2: him to get back inside, and he argued with me,
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 2: insulted Pierce again, but finally some people from the party
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 2: grabbed him and pulled him inside. Hey Pierce, I'm so
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 2: sorry about that man, and uh, sorry for how we
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 2: treated you back in the day. I'm glad you have
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 2: a job, and uh but he cut me off. Just
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 2: pay for the pieces, Derek, have a lot of deliveries tonight.
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 2: I did as he asked, and he got in the
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 2: car and left a few people helped me bring the
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 2: boxes inside and everyone ate, drank and had fun for
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 2: a while. Close to midnight, all the lights in the
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 2: house went out. Jason had passed out, but we managed
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 2: to wake him up. It was his house, so he
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 2: had to check things out and get the power back.
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 2: He was feeling better with a clear head, so we
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 2: went outside check it out. Those are the Davidsons down
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 2: the road. They had power a house in the distance.
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 2: Another mansion surrounded by trees had lights coming from it.
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 2: Let's go check the fuses and what the do you
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 2: see that In the house's driveway There was a small
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 2: car with its driver's seat door open. It was the
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 2: car of the pizza place we'd called earlier. Yeah, I
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 2: see it. What is that car doing here? I asked, I,
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 2: All right, let's check it out. If that rat faced
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 2: idiot came back and he's messing with us, I'm gonna
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 2: make him pay. We got to the car and started
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 2: inspecting it, lighting everything up with our phones flashlights. That's
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 2: when we heard a terrible scream coming from inside the house.
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 2: Jason and I ran inside. Everyone turn on the lights
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 2: on your phone. Who screamed, what's happening? I asked, Oh no, oh,
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 2: god no. Jason was flashing his light at a spot
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 2: behind the kitchen counter when he saw me approach. He
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 2: tried to push me back, but I forced myself and
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 2: approached the spot. It was Luna. She had been stabbed
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 2: in the neck and had bled to death on the floor.
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 2: Everyone around us screamed and panicked. They started running toward
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 2: the door, but it was now locked and they couldn't
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 2: open it. As everyone panicked, we heard a voice. I
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 2: missed the last two years of high school because of you.
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 2: I can't go to college and had to deliver pizzas
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 2: because of you. We looked around and at the foot
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 2: of the stairs, Pearce was sitting down with a huge
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 2: knife in his hand. He was looking right at us.
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 2: You're not lee here alive. At that moment, Jason rushed
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 2: Pierce again, but Pierce was ready. He dodged, and in
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 2: a swift move, he stabbed Jason in the stomach. Jason
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 2: let out a cry and fell on the floor. People
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 2: kept running around, but I grabbed one of the bottles
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 2: and threw it at Peers. I'd got him right in
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 2: the face. He fell backward, grabbing his nose, and I
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 2: got Jason up, dragged him outside the room and locked
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 2: us in one of the bathrooms. I felt the banging
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 2: outside as Peers tried to get inside. Derek called I
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 2: what one I did, and when the operator picked up,
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 2: I told them everything. Pierce had stopped banging on the door,
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 2: but we were too afraid to leave. A few minutes later,
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 2: the police broke through the door. Paramedics were able to
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 2: get to us in time, and they took Jason to
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 2: the hospital. He nearly died. He had lost a lot
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 2: of blood, but with the emergency it's his surgery and
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 2: transfusions he lived. They caught Pierce and sentenced him to
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 2: twenty five years According to the police. Pierce had been
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 2: in and out of medical institutions. He was very sick
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 2: in the head, and he blamed us for everything bad
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 2: in his life. So when he found us, all of
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 2: his repressed anger came out and he decided to hurt us.
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 2: He only killed Luna because he knew how much it
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 2: would affect me, as everyone knew I loved her, and
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 2: he tried to kill Jason because he was Pierce's biggest bully.
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 2: Years have gone by and Jason has become an anti
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 2: bullying advocate, and I finally graduated from college. I'm starting
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 2: my life in the city, but I'll never forget that
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 2: terrible night when I lost the love of my life
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 2: and nearly lost my best friend. We only hired a
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 2: thin and pretty girl.
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 1: That's what he said to me as I sat down
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 1: in front of him to begin my interview.
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 2: Luckily for you, you meet all those standards, so you
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 2: start Monday.
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: I had a smile on my face as he began
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 1: to get out some documents for me to fill out.
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: I knew I had the job in the bag before
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 1: I walked in here, because I knew that applying to
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 1: be a Hooters girl was one of the few jobs
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: that only required my looks, and thanks to some great genes,
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: I was a very pretty girl. The job was also
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 1: a way for me to get some side cash as
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 1: I got through college. On the day that I started,
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 1: I was asked to report in with the manager, and
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: upon seeing the woman, I was shocked. The manager, who
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 1: was called Mackenzie Jones, could only be described in two
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 1: words hideously horrifying, as her face was unhuman looking. At
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 1: her I could tell she had done a lot of
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 1: plastic surgery to boost her appearance, but it seemed like
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: her efforts made everything worse, as her blotched skin looked
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 1: like decaying plastic and the increased size of her lips
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 1: made her look animal like. What are you called? She
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 1: said to me, and I replied to her with Hannah,
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 1: ma'am Hannah Garrett. As she spoke to me, I noticed
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 1: that her slit eyes carried envy and her voice was
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 1: filled with hate. I didn't know why, as this was
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 1: the first time that I had ever met her, but
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: even in all this I didn't say a word about it,
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: as I was warned not to react to or make
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 1: comments about the boss's appearance or character, as that would
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 1: lead to an immediate firing, so I kept quiet and
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 1: smiled on throughout the briefing. When it was done, I
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 1: was given my uniform and I went off to start
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 1: my first day. After a few weeks of working at
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: my Hooters joint, I realized a few things For starters.
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 1: Everyone hated the manager, Miss Mackenzie. She was a very
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 1: odd and mean woman, as she constantly looked at all
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 1: of us with hate. She would say things like I'm
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 1: not paying you useless bitches to sit there and look pretty.
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 1: Now do something before I kick you out. At first,
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: I thought it was just me, but I soon realized
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 1: that she treated all of the waitresses like this. It
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 1: was as if she hated our existence. To be honest,
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 1: I didn't know why she was the manager, as I
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 1: thought Hooters prided themselves on hiring beautiful women, but I
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 1: guess that only applied to the waitresses, as it didn't
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 1: matter what you look like if you worked behind the scenes.
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: Apart from my mean boss, I loved working there as
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 1: I had found a sisterhood with the other waitresses. We
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 1: loved and looked out for each other during work, and
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 1: we talked and ate leftovers together when we were off duty.
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 1: I remember telling them, if only we had a normal boss,
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 1: everything would be perfect. I knew something was seriously wrong
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 1: with Miss Mackenzie, and unfortunately for me, I found doubt
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 1: what In the following week. It was on a Friday
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 1: and I was working the evening shift. It had been
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 1: a hectic week as most of the girls had been
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 1: falling sick. It was strange because it was just out
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 1: of the blue, so the rest of us who were
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 1: healthy had to increase our workload. Luckily for me, it
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: was a bit late and work was slow, so I
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 1: decided to go throw away the trash. As I walked
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 1: back to the restaurant, I noticed that our manager, Miss Mackenzie,
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 1: had walked into the kitchen. I didn't want to run
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 1: into her, as I actively avoided her, so I decided
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 1: to wait outside for her to leave. From where I
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 1: was standing, I could clearly see into the kitchen from
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: the window, so I became confused when Miss Mackenzie began
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 1: to do some very odd things. I watched her bring
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 1: out a small grinder, a nail clipper, and some other
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 1: little containers. I then watched as she carefully cut her nails.
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 1: I was appalled as I wondered why she would do
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 1: something so unhygienic in the kitchen, but I wasn't ready
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 1: for what she did next. She gathered all her dirty
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 1: cut nails and put them in the grinder. She ground
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: them down till it became powder like, and then I
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: watched her sprinkle it on to the leftover food that
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: was normally eaten or taken home by the waitresses. I
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 1: had no words as my mind struggled to understand why
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 1: she would do something so horrible. When she was done,
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 1: I watched her take it up a notch as she
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: cut pieces of her hair and she mixed it up
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 1: with the food. I couldn't take it anymore, so I
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: rushed to confront her. When I walked into the kitchen,
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: I said the only word on my mind, why, Without
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 1: looking up from what she was doing, she replied with,
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 1: because you all deserve it. The feeling of disgust and
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 1: anger welled up in me as I asked, do you
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 1: hate us that much? What did we ever do to you?
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 1: That's when she screamed, you were born, you were chosen,
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: And I wasn't. I too wanted to become a Hooters girl,
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: but apparently I wasn't pretty enough, I wasn't thin enough,
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 1: I wasn't good enough. They even told me that while
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 1: I couldn't work as a waitress, I could work as
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 1: a cleaner in the back. I went home, asking myself
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 1: why I wasn't chosen. I told myself that I was
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: beautiful too, but apparently I wasn't. I tried to change myself,
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: but everything I did just made it worse. People made
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: me feel like I was the embodiment of ugliness. I
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 1: see how you all look at me. You try to
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: hide it, but I see the disgust in your eyes.
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: As she spoke, I saw tears fill up her eyes,
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 1: and I almost felt sorry for her, But then she
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 1: continued her long rant with That day shattered me. But
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 1: I wasn't going to give up, so I worked my
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 1: way up. I went to school, and after many years,
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 1: I finally became the manager. I knew I could never
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 1: reach the standard of beauty, so I decided to bring
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 1: you guys down with me. Every day for the past
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 1: six months, I've been cutting pieces of me into the
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 1: leftover food that you girls eat. My fingers, toenails, pieces
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 1: of my hair, even a bit of my feces. Rest assured.
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 1: I made sure to add them in little, untraceable quantities.
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 1: So no matter how pretty you girls look on the outside,
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 1: I comfort myself with the fact that pieces of me
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 1: are inside all of you, and even if it's just
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 1: a little in a messed up way, you all have
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 1: a piece of ugliness in you two. I felt bile
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: instantly rise up in my throat as I began to
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 1: throw up. My mind couldn't wrap around what I had
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 1: just heard. As I started to have a mini mental breakdown,
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 1: I finally realized why most of us were getting sick,
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: and I wondered what kind of sick to ranged person
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 1: would do that to people. I looked up to see
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 1: Miss Mackenzie with a huge grin on her face as
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 1: she said, it makes me happy to see you like this.
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 1: I started to scream I'll tell everyone, before she cut
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: me off, saying you're fired and you can tell anyone
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 1: you like. But it's your word against mine, and I'm
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 1: the fucking manager, she laughed as she began to walk away.
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 1: But I knew something like this would happen, so I said,
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 1: I saw everything you did from outside, and I knew
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 1: you would deny it, so I took pictures just in
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 1: case and to make sure no one could doubt me.
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 1: I've also been recording this whole conversation. Enraged, I watched
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 1: as she lunged at me, trying to take my phone.
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 1: I wasn't going to give in, so I fought back.
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 1: The noise attracted the few customers and staff that we had,
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 1: so we were separated in no time. I had some bruises,
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 1: but I was happy and I had a smile on
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: my face as I knew everything was over for the
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 1: disgustingly vile woman called Mackenzie Jones. The case had caused
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 1: a huge scandal around my town. As the Hooters organization
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 1: tried to calm the storm, they called each and every
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 1: one of us and apologized while giving us fat checks
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: and compensation as they hoped that we wouldn't sue. They
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 1: also offered medical services to check and flush out any
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 1: remaining residue in our system. As for Mackenzie, she was
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: put in a mental health asylum as her lawyer pled
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 1: insanity with a check. I quit working there and I
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 1: put myself through school. And while it all ended in
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 1: a happy way, I find myself thinking back to that
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 1: day most of the time as I came to realize
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 1: that it was due to this misogynistic world that Mackenzie
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 1: Jones had turned out this way. She was a woman
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 1: whose worth was judged by her appearance, and she was
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 1: told that she wasn't good enough. Hearing that broke her
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 1: and turned her into a disturbing psychopath. I could never
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 1: justify what she did, as she did it out of
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 1: envy and spite. And while I blame myself for being
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 1: one of the many people who judged her by her looks,
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 1: I also blame the society that we live in, and
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 1: I hope that maybe one day we will all be
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 1: able to change.
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 2: It was our yearly tradition every July after the fourth
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 2: we pack our bags, jump on Mike's old truck, and
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 2: we go camping for about a week. This time there
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 2: were six of us instead of the regular five. We've
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 2: been doing this since our junior college year, and it
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 2: was always the five of us, Mike, Jason, Carl, Patrise
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 2: and me. However, this time around, Mike decided to bring
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 2: his new girlfriend, Samantha. We couldn't say no. Mike owns
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 2: the truck, and apparently Samantha had just been through a
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 2: really tough time with her family. Her father had gone
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 2: to jail for taxivis and she needed a break, so
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 2: we decided to be nice about it, even though none
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 2: of us had ever met her or even seen a
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 2: picture of her. She'd only been dating Mike for a month.
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 2: The second we saw her, I got a very bad
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 2: feeling about that trip. I should have listened to my gut.
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 2: She was very skinny, almost like a skeleton, and her
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 2: skin was extremely pale. She looked sickly. Her eyes had
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 2: this emptiness to them. It's really hard to describe. Everyone
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 2: meets Samantha Hello. Mike was energetic and happy for us
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 2: to meet his girl, but she spoke in a dim voice,
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 2: in very hush tones. It was almost as if she
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 2: was asleep, no emotion whatsoever. The other guys introduced themselves
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 2: and we were on our way. Having a girl over
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 2: changed our entire group's dynamic. We couldn't talk about the
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 2: things we wanted to talk about, and it was very annoying.
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 2: Something weird was that she seemed to realize this, giving
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 2: each of us weird looks through the rear view mirror.
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 2: A few hours later, we made it to camp. It
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 2: was a beautiful, clearing in the Californian Redwoods. It was
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 2: the height of summer, the hottest day of the year,
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 2: so we got plenty of sunscreen and got to work
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 2: setting up our tents. There was one for each of us.
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 2: All Right, i'mount to get some firewoods so we can
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 2: get that fire started. Cool, I'm heading to the river.
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 2: Let's see if I can catch some fish. Cool.
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 1: Cool, I can help you with the fish, Carl, I'm
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 1: a really good fisher.
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 2: Everyone kind of froze when they heard her. She had
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 2: been quiet for most of the trip upstate, and now
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 2: she wanted to help with fishing. We'd be surprised if
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 2: she even had the strength to lift the fishing rod.
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 2: But Mike smiled at us nervously, and Carl said, sure,
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 2: let's go. I helped the other set up camp and
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 2: we went about our day. Patrese, Mike and me stayed behind. Hey, guys,
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 2: thank you for being cool about Samantha being here. It's
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 2: been difficult for her family, losing their father like that.
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 2: What is it that you did. Did I hear something
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 2: about taxes? Yeah, his company had been messing around with
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 2: that and they caught them. They lived in Florida, but
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 2: they moved out here to California.
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 4: That's weird.
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 2: Why would they leave him? They won't even visit. I
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 2: don't know. She doesn't want to talk about it, and
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 2: I respect that she'll open up when she's ready. He
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 2: sounded defensive, so we dropped it. The sun started going
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 2: down when Patrice asked, where are they? Guys? Sure are
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 2: taking their time to get some wood and some fish. Yeah,
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 2: that's weird. Let's go, Dave. Hey, pat you mind standing here.
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 2: We'll follow the river and see if we can find
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 2: Carl before it gets dark. For sure. We started walking
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 2: toward the nearby river. It was Carl's favorite fishing spot.
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 2: We were walking along the shore when we saw a
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 2: small bundle of yellow and green clothes. It was between
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 2: the rocks. What the hell, Mike, is that Carl's jacket? Damn,
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 2: I think it is. Let's go. When we came close enough,
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 2: we saw it was Karl, lying face down. The water
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 2: around him was red. He was partially submerged in the river.
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 2: Next to him the fishing rod and a bucket full
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 2: of fish. No sign of Samantha. No, God, damn it. No.
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 2: We ran at him and turned him around. To our horror,
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 2: his eyes were open, and he had a huge cut
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 2: on his throat. He had bled to death. No, Carl,
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 2: no please. I was horrified, but we had to go.
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 2: Ourselves were back at camp, and we needed to alert
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 2: the others. Mike, Mike, let's go. We have to let
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 2: the others know someone just killed Karl. Let's go. I
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 2: had to use all my strength to physically pull Mike
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 2: away from Karl's body, but eventually I managed to do it.
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 2: He was crying so much. Karl was his best friend.
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 2: They had grown up in the same street, same school,
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 2: same college. We started running back to camp. When we arrived,
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 2: I explained everything to Patrese. He was horrified. We immediately
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 2: grabbed our phones and called nine one one. We explained
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 2: what we found to the dispatcher and they told us
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 2: they'd send the rangers to check it out. A moment later,
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 2: we heard a rumble in the bushes and Jason emerged
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 2: with horror in his eyes. His face was covered in
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 2: cuts and he was holding his arm, which was bleeding profusely.
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, Jason, what the hell happened to you?
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 2: Jason looked at him, enraged. Oh you won't know what happened.
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 2: Your psycho girlfriend did this to me. When I was
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 2: chopping wood, I heard some noise, turned around and there
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 2: she was hold the knife. She attacked me. What no,
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 2: no way, It had made so much sense. She'd attacked
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 2: Karl when he was distracted fishing, and tried to kill
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 2: Jason too. Patrice got back on the phone with nine
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 2: one one, but before any of us could react, we
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 2: heard another noise coming from the bushes, and suddenly Jason
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 2: was very still. His eyes were open wide, and his
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 2: whole body seemed stiffened. A moment later, he fell to
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 2: the ground, face forward. There was an axe, his favorite axe,
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 2: buried in his back. We all screamed in terror. It
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 2: had gone dark completely and we had no fire, so
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 2: we grabbed our flashlights and pointed them at the bushes.
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 2: No sign of her. Samantha had just killed Jason. Oh God.
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 2: We ran to the truck and got it started. We
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 2: sped down the road, leaving everything behind. Then Mike's phone rang.
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 2: It was Samantha. He answered and put her on speaker.
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 1: Baby, come back. I miss you and I miss your friends.
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 2: You're sick. You're so sick, Samantha.
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 1: I guess like father, like daughter, right, what do you mean?
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 1: You're so innocent, you really we believed it. The whole
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 1: tax of Asian thing.
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 2: A chill ran down my spine.
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 1: My father didn't have a company. He was a normal guy,
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 1: but he killed my little sister and he beat me
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 1: most of my life. I guess I turned out like him.
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 1: Karl never saw it coming. Jason was silly. Jason fought,
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 1: I hate you.
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 2: I'll get every cop in the state to chase after you.
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 2: We already called them, and we're driving back to the
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 2: city right now.
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I assumed you would. I bet you're going really fast,
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 1: aren't you. Have you tried slowing down.
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 2: We were going at more than one hundred and ten
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 2: miles an hour down a highway. Mike stepped on the brakes.
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 2: Nothing happened. Oh my god, Oh god.
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 1: What's wrong? Sweetheart? Can't stop?
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 2: She had cut our brakes. We were doomed. We heard
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 2: her laughter on the phone. There was a curve coming
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 2: up and we had no way of stopping. Lost control
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 2: of the wheel and everything went black. I woke up
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 2: at the hospital. The doctor's explained to me that I
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 2: had severe fractures, but I'd be okay with therapy. But
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 2: Terce was dead. It was the crash. He died on impact.
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 2: As for Mike, the paramedics found him with its throat slashed.
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 2: The doctor also told me there was a police officer outside.
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 2: When he came in. He explained that they identified Samantha
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 2: as Jessica Smith and she had a warrant for her
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 2: arrest in three states. This was the first time she
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 2: killed someone. The cop told me she probably thought I
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 2: was dead, and so she let me go. I went
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 2: home after a few days, all my friends were gone.
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 2: A few months later, I got a text from an
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 2: unknown number. The area code was the same as mine.
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 2: It read, I loved going camping with you all, but
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 2: don't think for a second that I forgot about you.
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 3: See you soon.
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 4: My life is that of an ordinary man.
• 2:00:05
  Speaker 5: I work in a boring office, work my hours as
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 5: quietly as possible, and then go home. I always take
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 5: the same train, go the same way, buy myself a
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 5: candy in between, and arrive home tired, getting ready to
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 5: repeat the same routine the next day. I have no
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 5: great aspirations in life, only to see my children grow
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 5: up and live as relaxed as possible without bothering anyone.
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 5: For as long as I can remember, it has always
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 5: been this way, and no matter what I have lived through.
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 4: None of us has changed.
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 5: Still people question my lifestyle, telling me that I will
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 5: never know what life is really like, that I am
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 5: doomed to a boring and a relevant life. They think
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 5: that nothing interesting can happen to an ordinary man. I
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 5: wish they were right, but unfortunately they are wrong. It
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 5: was a warm summer afternoon last year. I left my
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 5: house on the regular schedule, and it looked like it
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 5: was going to be another routine day. I took the
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 5: train home and by the time I left the station
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 5: it was already dark. As usual, I walked home, even
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 5: though it was fifteen blocks. It went by pretty fast
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 5: since I enjoyed some air after being at work all day.
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 5: Everything seemed normal until ten blocks from my house, I
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 5: noticed a man walking half a block behind me. Normally,
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 5: this would not attract my attention. Everyone has the right
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 5: to walk, but there was something about this man that
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 5: I did not like.
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 4: His gaze was on me, as if frozen.
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 5: I was trying not to turn around to make it
• 2:01:42
  Speaker 5: too obvious that I was looking at him, but I
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 5: couldn't help it. The man was homeless, I could tell
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 5: by the clothes he was wearing. His pace was getting
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 5: faster and faster. As we got closer and closer to
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 5: my house. The streets were completely empty. They seemed to
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 5: be made just for the two of us. After walking
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 5: two blocks and seeing that he was still following me,
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 5: I decided to speed up my pace. After walking fast,
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 5: almost running down the street, I took advantage of a
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 5: passing car to turn around with the excuse of looking
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 5: at him. And when I saw him, I was terrified.
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 5: Not only had I lost the man, but he was
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 5: even closer than before. My first impulse was to run,
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 5: but it would be too obvious. I decided to keep
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 5: walking around the corner, and as I came around a curve,
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 5: I turned and accelerated my pace. While the man had
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 5: lost sight of me. A few seconds later, he was
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 5: already turning in my direction. We were getting closer and
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 5: closer to my house, and I wasn't going to let
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 5: this man know where I lived, so I just stood there,
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 5: leaning against the wall with a big rock in my hand,
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 5: waiting for him. The man walked naturally past me. I
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 5: noticed some hesitation in his walk if he wanted to
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 5: do something to me. He had lost his chance. I
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 5: stayed leaning against the wall and til the man turned again,
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 5: walking slowly away. Calmer, I returned to my house, taking
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 5: another route, still waiting to meet this person again. Arriving home,
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 5: everything went on like an ordinary day. My wife got
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 5: off early, so she decided to make dinner on her own,
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 5: which suited me fine.
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 4: Since I was.
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 5: Particularly stressed that night, I decided not to tell them
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 5: about my incident with the homeless man, as it would
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 5: only worry my family. By nightfall, I fell into bed devastated,
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 5: and as quickly as I lay down, I had already
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 5: fallen asleep. I consider myself a very deep sleeper, so
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 5: I rarely wake up in the wee hours of the morning.
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 5: When I woke up, I didn't have time to check
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 5: the time or try to continue sleeping, since I had
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 5: cold metal resting on my neck. You move one centimeter
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 5: and I'll slitch your neck open like a fish. That
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 5: raspy voice was not from anyone I knew. My eyes
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 5: were still trying to adjust.
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 2: What who who are you?
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 5: I answered, still confused and scared, in a sleepy voice.
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 5: When I realized what was happening, I remembered that face
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 5: that was the homeless man who had followed me a
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 5: few blocks before arriving at my house. He probably followed
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 5: me from behind without me seeing him, and he surely
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 5: saw where my house was. I opened my eyes wide
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 5: and froze, preventing this man from reacting in a bad
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 5: way and stabbing me with the rusty knife that was
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 5: caressing my throat. Now you are going to get up
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 5: very slowly with me and to give me all your money,
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 5: he said carefully as he spoke. His putrid breath almost
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 5: made me vomit. His voice was trying to convey confidence,
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 5: but he was clearly very hyped up. Those eyes were
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 5: not normal. He had consumed some kind of drug before
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 5: entering my house. This man was dangerous. Any false move
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 5: and I could end up dead. The man slowly walked
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 5: me to where we kept the money in a box
• 2:05:03
  Speaker 5: in the closet. I didn't really have any money hidden.
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 5: I just needed to make time for my wife, who
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 5: was faking being frozen in fear, to finish taking the
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 5: revolver from under the bed.
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 4: Hey, you woman, stay still. I'm watching you. One false
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 4: move and not only will you be left without a husband,
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 4: but I'll kill you and your children.
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 1: I'm standing still. Please don't do anything to him, Just
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 1: take the things and leave.
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 5: We don't want this to end badly. We're not trying
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 5: to do anything strange. When the man got distracted listening
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 5: to my voice, my wife took out the gun and
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 5: tried to shoot, but because of her nerves, she forgot
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 5: to take the safety off, so the gun didn't work.
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 5: Taking advantage of the situation, I pushed the man and
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 5: ran in the direction of my children, but the man
• 2:05:51
  Speaker 5: stopped me and stuck the knife in my feet.
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 4: Furious, he started punching me savagely in the face.
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 5: Several of my teeth began to fly out as the
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 5: man continued to beat me. My wife was witnessing the
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 5: whole thing, but she couldn't shoot as she would hit
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 5: me too. In a moment of sobriety, my wife shoots
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 5: near the man and scares him off, stopping his blows
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 5: that if they continued for a few more seconds, were
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 5: going to kill me. The man ran off to another room,
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 5: and when we chased him, we saw the homeless man
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 5: standing in front of the stairs, knife in hand, pointing
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 5: at our daughter's head. You shouldn't have done that, you
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 5: stupid fools. You shouldn't have provoked me. I was just
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 5: going to take the money and leave. Calm down, let
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 5: the girl go. This is not going to end well
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 5: for you if you don't, I said, with the little
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 5: strength I had left.
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 1: Think about it. What's left for you? If you heard her,
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 1: you won't be able to protect yourself, and I assure
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 1: you that I will kill you.
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 4: I don't care if you kill me.
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 5: This little girl will go with me, and it's only
• 2:06:59
  Speaker 5: because of you. While he was saying that, he caressed
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 5: our little girl's head, and my wife could not stand it.
• 2:07:07
  Speaker 5: She tried to shoot him in the head. The bullet missed,
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 5: but in shock, the men fell down the stairs, grabbing
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 5: my daughter. My wife went running with the gun, but
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 5: worried about my daughter while I crawled in pain, summoning
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 5: superhuman strength just to find out if my daughter and
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 5: wife were okay. When I arrived, I saw my wife
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 5: crying under the stairs, my daughter crying with her arm
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 5: out of place, and the dead man with a pool
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 5: of blood around his head. After that day, I kept
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 5: doing the same routine and going back the same way,
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 5: but something had changed. From now on, I look around
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 5: obsessively and I am much more trained. It cost me
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 5: to get out of the routine to add a new
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 5: activity to my life. But every time I think about
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 5: that night, I feel like I have to do it,
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 5: because the only thing that caused that pool of blood
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 5: to be the homeless man's and not my daughter.
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 4: Was that she was lucky.
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 2: This happened a few years ago. My girlfriend Jenna, and
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 2: I were celebrating our one year anniversary with a trip
• 2:08:16
  Speaker 2: to the woods. We were supposed to camp there for
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 2: a few days and get back home. I am so
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 2: sorry I chose that spot, but anyway, here's what happened.
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 2: We arrived early in the morning with our backpacks. There
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 2: was a clearing between the trees, and the forest was
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 2: so beautiful. We set up camp, got a fire started,
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 2: and roasted marshmallows. When it was finally time to go
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 2: to sleep, Jenna said, did you.
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 1: Know that there's an abandoned prison just half a mile
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 1: from here.
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 2: I did know that, but I could already see where
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 2: this was going. Jenna was a city bug. I have
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 2: always loved the outdoors, and I had to convince her
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 2: to come with me, but she was obsessed with abandoned places, malls, hospitals,
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 2: you name it, had her own crew and used to
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 2: do urban explorations with them. I wanted none of it.
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 2: I had no idea. But before you get any ideas,
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 2: we should go back to sleep, I said.
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 1: But I've never done a prison. Come on, it'd be
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 1: so fun.
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 2: Listen, it's just the two of us tonight, right. You
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 2: usually work with the crew. We'd need a whole team
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 2: to be safe. You and your friends can come back sometime.
• 2:09:26
  Speaker 2: She got upset with me and rolled her back to me,
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 2: pretending she'd gone to sleep. The following day, she'd gotten
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 2: up early and was making breakfast by the fire.
• 2:09:35
  Speaker 1: Morning. Babe, have some breakfast.
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 2: She gave me a mug of coffee and some bacon
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 2: and eggs.
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 1: So now that it's daytime, would you come with me
• 2:09:44
  Speaker 1: to the abandoned prison.
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 2: Sure, but let's not linger there. We should go back
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 2: before noon, and we are both taking our hunting knives.
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 2: We got our backpacks and we went on our way.
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 2: I had my flare gun with me in case something happened.
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 2: After walking for a while, we found it. The building
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 2: looked like it had survived a hurricane. Some walls were
• 2:10:06
  Speaker 2: run down, and there were vines growing and bursting through
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 2: small cell windows.
• 2:10:11
  Speaker 1: Wow, so cool. It looks like it was built in
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 1: the thirties. I'm sure we can go in.
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 2: She was so excited. We approached the gates. They had
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 2: all rusted away and gave out easily. We went inside.
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 2: The place was deserted, and strangely enough, the room's doors
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 2: were all open. The walls were blackened as if there
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 2: had been a fire, but there was no fire damage. Outside.
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 2: We went sell to cell taking pictures. Jenna was speaking
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 2: into a voice recorder. That's when we heard a loud
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 2: bang behind us, like metal against metal. When we looked back,
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 2: the door we'd come through was closed.
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 1: What was that?
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 2: She grabbed her bag and pulled the knife from it.
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 2: It was a long blade with a very sharp edge.
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 2: It was heavy, but you knew how to handle it.
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 2: I held onto my flare gun in one hand and
• 2:11:02
  Speaker 2: my knife in the other. My knife was longer, but
• 2:11:05
  Speaker 2: it was thinner, made for piercing rather than cutting. If
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 2: someone came through, I would be able to at least
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 2: temporarily blind them with the flares, but nothing came. We
• 2:11:17
  Speaker 2: need to get out of here, I said. She nodded,
• 2:11:19
  Speaker 2: and we started walking slowly.
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 4: The other way.
• 2:11:22
  Speaker 2: We couldn't risk going through the door we just used.
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 2: We reached the end of the hallway. There were paths
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 2: left and right. We should stick together.
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 1: I'm starting to get scared. That may have been an animal.
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 2: Right, don't know many animals who can shut a door
• 2:11:38
  Speaker 2: behind them, But I said sure. I was so mad
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 2: at her for dragging us here where we could be
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 2: having some alone time at the camp. The deeper we
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 2: went into the prison, the worst things got. We started
• 2:11:51
  Speaker 2: finding bodies. They were skeletons. They'd been left inside their
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 2: cells to rot. Something terrible happened here. Maybe there was
• 2:11:59
  Speaker 2: a riot, I.
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 1: Said, Probably there's fire damage. I'm surprised the structure still stands.
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 2: We had been going up using staircases to try to
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 2: reach the roof. Maybe if we got the lay of
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 2: the land, we could orient ourselves and I could use
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 2: the flares to signal for help. There was something wrong here.
• 2:12:20
  Speaker 2: One of the cells had several skeletons inside, as if
• 2:12:24
  Speaker 2: they'd been thrown there. The smell was terrible. It felt
• 2:12:29
  Speaker 2: as if not a living soul had set foot in
• 2:12:31
  Speaker 2: the building for at least fifty years. And then we
• 2:12:34
  Speaker 2: heard it again, the same loud bang another door had
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 2: closed behind us in one of the lower levels. We
• 2:12:41
  Speaker 2: started running up the stairs. The sound we heard then
• 2:12:45
  Speaker 2: was terrible. It was the sound of pipe makes when
• 2:12:48
  Speaker 2: it's being banged against the bars of a cell.
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 3: Clank, clank.
• 2:12:53
  Speaker 2: Someone was walking very slowly between the hallways, chasing us.
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 1: Oh God, run, the door's right there.
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 2: We made it to the other door, and after hitting
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 2: it as hard as we could, it burst open and
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 2: we were on the roof. We got out and shut
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 2: the door behind us. We found a few metal bars
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 2: in the ground and we used them to lock the
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 2: door down. It would buy us some time. There was
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 2: a loud bangath door, someone hitting it from inside. The
• 2:13:21
  Speaker 2: bars we put on the handle may give up at
• 2:13:23
  Speaker 2: any moment.
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 1: I'll go hide next to the door. When whoever is
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 1: there breaks through it, I want you to shoot a
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 1: flare at him, shoot one of the sky. Now.
• 2:13:31
  Speaker 2: I did as he suggested, shooting a flare at the sky,
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 2: hoping someone will see it. Then she got into position.
• 2:13:39
  Speaker 2: When the door finally gave in, a man ran at me.
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 2: He was tall, bald, and his face was covered in scars.
• 2:13:46
  Speaker 2: Jenna was by the door now behind him, grasping the
• 2:13:49
  Speaker 2: knife firmly. I took aim and shot. The flare hit
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 2: the man in the eye, blinding him. He let out
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 2: a harrowing scream, hey ugly. When he turned around, Jennah
• 2:14:01
  Speaker 2: slashed his face with her knife. He grabbed his face,
• 2:14:05
  Speaker 2: tripped on some debris, and fell flat on his ass.
• 2:14:08
  Speaker 2: Good job, babe, I yelled. But it was a short
• 2:14:12
  Speaker 2: lived triumph. The man grabbed Jenna by the ankle and
• 2:14:15
  Speaker 2: got up quickly, throwing her to the ground. He took
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 2: the knife from her hand, and before I knew it,
• 2:14:21
  Speaker 2: he had thrown them at me. I raised my arm
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 2: to cover myself, but the knife caught my arm, sending
• 2:14:27
  Speaker 2: a shock wave of pain through my body. I fell
• 2:14:30
  Speaker 2: to the floor and I nearly passed out from the pan.
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 2: But now he was moving toward Jenna.
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 1: No, get away from me, Get the hell away from me.
• 2:14:41
  Speaker 2: He grabbed her neck and lifted her up with his
• 2:14:44
  Speaker 2: free hand. He grabbed a knife he had in his
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 2: belt and stabbed Jenna in the stomach with it. He
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 2: stabbed her over and over again until she stopped fighting back. No,
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 2: you monster. I was so scared and so hurt by
• 2:14:58
  Speaker 2: losing Jenna, but I knew I had to escape. The
• 2:15:01
  Speaker 2: man turned to me with a smile and began to
• 2:15:04
  Speaker 2: run in my direction. I jumped to the side, avoiding
• 2:15:07
  Speaker 2: the knife as he tried to stab me, and I
• 2:15:09
  Speaker 2: replied with a stab at his torso. But I missed
• 2:15:13
  Speaker 2: and my knife was buried on the side of his stomach.
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 2: He yelled but he'd live. Jenna was gone and I
• 2:15:20
  Speaker 2: had to live. I ran down the staircase. He was
• 2:15:24
  Speaker 2: having trouble following me, so I had that advantage. I
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 2: nearly lost myself in the corridors and cells, but tracing
• 2:15:31
  Speaker 2: back my steps, I managed to find my way out.
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 2: It's been years since that day. I immediately went to
• 2:15:38
  Speaker 2: the police and they did a search of the place.
• 2:15:41
  Speaker 2: They found Jenna and signs of our fight with the monster.
• 2:15:45
  Speaker 2: The cops tell me that his DNA matched one of
• 2:15:48
  Speaker 2: the long dead serial killers. Apparently he had faked his
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 2: own death and was living under the radar in that
• 2:15:54
  Speaker 2: abandoned prison. There's a man hunt for him now because
• 2:15:59
  Speaker 2: when the police did a search of the nearby area, no
• 2:16:02
  Speaker 2: one could find him. The state claims they will demolish
• 2:16:05
  Speaker 2: the prison, and a new investigation promises to find the
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 2: man and bring him to justice. But I will help.
• 2:16:12
  Speaker 2: I am going to find him and make him pay.
• 2:16:18
  Speaker 1: At the beginning of last winter, a series of financial
• 2:16:22
  Speaker 1: problems led me to be homeless. The first days in
• 2:16:26
  Speaker 1: that situation were the hardest, but even so I managed
• 2:16:30
  Speaker 1: to live for a while in those conditions until another
• 2:16:33
  Speaker 1: problem arose. The cold winter was beginning to show as
• 2:16:39
  Speaker 1: temperatures were dropping, and I barely had a sweater to
• 2:16:42
  Speaker 1: keep me warm. During one of those difficult days, I
• 2:16:46
  Speaker 1: met Dinah, a homeless woman like me. She helped me
• 2:16:50
  Speaker 1: in every way she could, but still the cold was
• 2:16:53
  Speaker 1: slowly killing me. One afternoon, some cop saw me and
• 2:16:58
  Speaker 1: said there was a homeless shelter nearby. I didn't have
• 2:17:01
  Speaker 1: to think much about it. I decided I would go
• 2:17:03
  Speaker 1: there because anything was better than living outside in the cold.
• 2:17:08
  Speaker 1: But Dinah thought otherwise, since she told me not to
• 2:17:11
  Speaker 1: go because I was better off here. We're gonna freeze
• 2:17:14
  Speaker 1: to death. Dinah, It's okay if you don't want to go,
• 2:17:17
  Speaker 1: but I will. Despite Dinah's warnings, the next day, I
• 2:17:21
  Speaker 1: headed to the shelter. To my surprise, the place looked
• 2:17:24
  Speaker 1: nice from the outside, which was more than I expected. There,
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 1: I was kindly received by a man named Axel, who
• 2:17:31
  Speaker 1: was one of the people in charge of the shelter.
• 2:17:33
  Speaker 4: What is your name, young lady Jenna.
• 2:17:36
  Speaker 1: Nice to meet you, Yeah, really nice. After that comment,
• 2:17:44
  Speaker 1: the man carefully looked me up and down. At that moment,
• 2:17:48
  Speaker 1: Axel's attitude seemed strange to me, but when he took
• 2:17:52
  Speaker 1: me to what would be my bed, I completely forgot
• 2:17:54
  Speaker 1: about it. The place was a clean and spacious room
• 2:17:58
  Speaker 1: in which there were several beds, but no one else
• 2:18:00
  Speaker 1: was there.
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 5: You're lucky, you've got a room where you will be
• 2:18:04
  Speaker 5: alone for the moment, enjoy it.
• 2:18:07
  Speaker 1: I was so pleased by the kindness that I convinced
• 2:18:10
  Speaker 1: myself I had misunderstood Axel's strange attitude. The man was
• 2:18:14
  Speaker 1: nice and polite, which was also shown in his neat
• 2:18:17
  Speaker 1: and well groomed appearance. In his big, dark eyes and
• 2:18:21
  Speaker 1: sincere smile, you could see that he was a good person,
• 2:18:25
  Speaker 1: and those dark circles under his eyes just indicated how
• 2:18:29
  Speaker 1: hard working he was. The next few days I spent
• 2:18:32
  Speaker 1: in the shelter were fantastic. I had food, I was
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 1: protected from the cold, and they treated me well. Besides,
• 2:18:39
  Speaker 1: Axel would come up to me from time to time
• 2:18:42
  Speaker 1: to see how I was doing. I even had the
• 2:18:44
  Speaker 1: opportunity to meet and talk with other homeless people, which
• 2:18:47
  Speaker 1: made me feel understood and supported. But the more I
• 2:18:51
  Speaker 1: talked to them, the more I realized that something strange
• 2:18:55
  Speaker 1: was going on. Many of them complained about how dirty
• 2:18:58
  Speaker 1: the shelter was, about how crowded they were in the rooms,
• 2:19:02
  Speaker 1: about the rats and insects that walked near them, and
• 2:19:05
  Speaker 1: about the treatment they received from those in charge. I
• 2:19:09
  Speaker 1: I don't get it. At that very moment, I saw
• 2:19:12
  Speaker 1: how Axel was staring at me from afar, which scared me.
• 2:19:17
  Speaker 1: What is happening? Why am I getting special treatment? I
• 2:19:21
  Speaker 1: didn't have an answer to these questions, but at least
• 2:19:24
  Speaker 1: they helped me to be more alert. That was how
• 2:19:27
  Speaker 1: I realized that throughout the day, Axel followed me and
• 2:19:31
  Speaker 1: kept his eyes on me. At first, I thought it
• 2:19:34
  Speaker 1: was a coincidence, but it wasn't. Every time I moved
• 2:19:37
  Speaker 1: out of his field of vision, within minutes he was
• 2:19:40
  Speaker 1: back close enough to keep an eye on me. As
• 2:19:43
  Speaker 1: with most days, At some point he approached me. I
• 2:19:46
  Speaker 1: tried to make the fear inside of me not noticeable.
• 2:19:50
  Speaker 4: Are you okay, jidda, You look nervous.
• 2:19:55
  Speaker 1: I tried to act as natural as possible, but I
• 2:19:58
  Speaker 1: could see something different in his big, dark eyes. They
• 2:20:02
  Speaker 1: seemed expressionless, without that kindness that they had shown in
• 2:20:06
  Speaker 1: the beginning. That's when I decided that I would leave.
• 2:20:09
  Speaker 1: The next morning, when it was time to sleep, I
• 2:20:12
  Speaker 1: went to my room, trying to mislead Axel to take
• 2:20:16
  Speaker 1: his eyes off me. Apparently it worked, because there was
• 2:20:19
  Speaker 1: no sign of him by the time I entered the
• 2:20:21
  Speaker 1: room and closed the door. Since I felt threatened, I
• 2:20:24
  Speaker 1: placed one of the beds in front of the door
• 2:20:27
  Speaker 1: to prevent anyone from entering. Despite being as protected as possible,
• 2:20:32
  Speaker 1: I forced myself not to sleep, at least for this
• 2:20:35
  Speaker 1: last night that I would be in the shelter. Hours
• 2:20:38
  Speaker 1: passed with no sign of anyone wanting to break in,
• 2:20:42
  Speaker 1: so inevitably, I let my guard down and fell asleep.
• 2:20:46
  Speaker 4: Stupid bitch, did you really think you'd escape?
• 2:20:49
  Speaker 1: I didn't even have enough time to fully wake up
• 2:20:52
  Speaker 1: and react, because a few seconds after he had spoken,
• 2:20:55
  Speaker 1: I was hit on the head and passed out. My
• 2:20:58
  Speaker 1: hands were tied and my eyes and mouth were covered.
• 2:21:02
  Speaker 1: That was the next thing I knew once I regained consciousness.
• 2:21:06
  Speaker 5: I can't believe this bitch wanted to run away already. Yeah,
• 2:21:10
  Speaker 5: Elsa was very upset. She didn't want to do this suddenly.
• 2:21:14
  Speaker 5: You know, she likes to prepare everything shit. Of course,
• 2:21:18
  Speaker 5: I know, Jonathan, So I hope this girl is as
• 2:21:21
  Speaker 5: good as you think.
• 2:21:22
  Speaker 1: I panicked. After hearing the conversation between the men, I
• 2:21:26
  Speaker 1: recognized one of them by voice. It was Axel. Due
• 2:21:30
  Speaker 1: to the movement around me, I knew I was in
• 2:21:32
  Speaker 1: a vehicle. I had no idea where they were taking
• 2:21:35
  Speaker 1: me or what for. But the worst thing was that
• 2:21:39
  Speaker 1: I couldn't do anything. After some time, the vehicle stopped.
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 4: Hey, little bitch, wake up.
• 2:21:47
  Speaker 1: One of the men took my arm and made me
• 2:21:49
  Speaker 1: get up. It was really cold outside. Still unable to see,
• 2:21:54
  Speaker 1: I was led into some kind of building. Due to
• 2:21:57
  Speaker 1: the voices, I could tell that there were several people inside. Axel, Jonathan,
• 2:22:03
  Speaker 1: I hope it's worth bringing us all here at this hour, definitely.
• 2:22:10
  Speaker 1: When the blindfold was removed, I could see a large
• 2:22:13
  Speaker 1: group of people. Each of them looked well dressed and groomed.
• 2:22:18
  Speaker 1: But the thing they had the most in common was
• 2:22:20
  Speaker 1: the way they saw me. It was like everyone wanted
• 2:22:24
  Speaker 1: me in a sick way. It was clear in their
• 2:22:27
  Speaker 1: eyes how much they wanted to possess me. She seems perfect.
• 2:22:38
  Speaker 1: The woman in front of me must have seen the
• 2:22:40
  Speaker 1: fear on my face, because she soon looked at me
• 2:22:43
  Speaker 1: with concern. Oh, darling, don't be afraid. We're not going
• 2:22:49
  Speaker 1: to do anything inappropriate to you.
• 2:22:52
  Speaker 5: You see, Jinna, today, you will be our fool, our fool.
• 2:23:00
  Speaker 1: You must taste so good, darling, too good, I remained still.
• 2:23:08
  Speaker 1: It couldn't be true, but it was a group of
• 2:23:12
  Speaker 1: sick people was planning to eat me. Don't worry, we
• 2:23:17
  Speaker 1: will enjoy you a lot. Axel. Take her to the room,
• 2:23:21
  Speaker 1: don't forget to take good care of her. This time,
• 2:23:25
  Speaker 1: I definitely had to escape, so I started thinking about
• 2:23:28
  Speaker 1: how to do it. I found the answer in those people.
• 2:23:33
  Speaker 1: They looked very decent and had treated me with care.
• 2:23:36
  Speaker 1: So I was sure that what they wanted was good
• 2:23:39
  Speaker 1: food without dense or dirt. That's why they had given
• 2:23:43
  Speaker 1: me such special treatment at the shelter. Maybe my only
• 2:23:47
  Speaker 1: chance was to stop looking so perfect.
• 2:23:50
  Speaker 4: I can't wait to taste you. Your type, young, pretty
• 2:23:54
  Speaker 4: and healthy are the ones who taste the best. I
• 2:23:58
  Speaker 4: picked you will come on. It's time, Jenna.
• 2:24:07
  Speaker 1: When the man started to lean toward me. I struggled
• 2:24:10
  Speaker 1: and pushed him as hard as I could. Then I
• 2:24:13
  Speaker 1: went to the window and with my two hands tied,
• 2:24:16
  Speaker 1: I managed to open it. Suddenly I was outside in
• 2:24:20
  Speaker 1: the cold of night. I realized that I was on
• 2:24:23
  Speaker 1: private property in the middle of the woods, so I
• 2:24:26
  Speaker 1: started to follow the cement path to reach a highway. Unfortunately,
• 2:24:30
  Speaker 1: before I made it, I began to hear how I
• 2:24:33
  Speaker 1: was being persecuted. So I continued with my plan. I
• 2:24:37
  Speaker 1: walked up to a tree and started hitting myself against it.
• 2:24:41
  Speaker 1: Even though it hurt a lot, give it up. It's
• 2:24:45
  Speaker 1: not a perfect meal anymore. I don't know when I
• 2:24:48
  Speaker 1: passed out, but I did realize that the plan had worked.
• 2:24:52
  Speaker 1: They had left me to die there. The next morning,
• 2:24:55
  Speaker 1: some people found me unconscious and took me to the hospital,
• 2:24:58
  Speaker 1: where the doctors told me it was a miracle that
• 2:25:01
  Speaker 1: I had survived. When I told them what had happened,
• 2:25:04
  Speaker 1: the police came, it seemed like a strange story to them,
• 2:25:08
  Speaker 1: but they still decided to investigate. They informed me that
• 2:25:12
  Speaker 1: there was no one named Axel in the shelter.
• 2:25:19
  Speaker 2: My girlfriend and I used to love visiting the Starbucks
• 2:25:22
  Speaker 2: around the block from our house. We had just moved
• 2:25:25
  Speaker 2: in together after four years of dating, and I was
• 2:25:28
  Speaker 2: even thinking about asking her to marry me. She had
• 2:25:31
  Speaker 2: just graduated college with a medical degree, and I was
• 2:25:33
  Speaker 2: busy working on my own company. But with our busy schedule,
• 2:25:38
  Speaker 2: having some time to have breakfast together was the highlight
• 2:25:41
  Speaker 2: of our day. One day, the Starbucks we used to
• 2:25:44
  Speaker 2: go to every day shut down. We showed up and
• 2:25:48
  Speaker 2: it was completely closed. There was police tape around the
• 2:25:51
  Speaker 2: store's front and many officers were at the scene. I
• 2:25:55
  Speaker 2: walked up to the nearest cup and asked, what was happening. Sorry, kid,
• 2:26:00
  Speaker 2: this is an active crime scene. You can't come.
• 2:26:02
  Speaker 1: Through a crime scene. Oh my god, we come here
• 2:26:05
  Speaker 1: all the time. What happened?
• 2:26:07
  Speaker 2: I can't say? Move along?
• 2:26:09
  Speaker 4: Please?
• 2:26:10
  Speaker 2: The cop looked disgusted, like he had seen something awful. Okay, Stacy,
• 2:26:15
  Speaker 2: let's go, I said to my girlfriend. We went for
• 2:26:18
  Speaker 2: a walk instead, and we ended up at a different Starbucks,
• 2:26:22
  Speaker 2: six blocks away from our usual location but close to
• 2:26:25
  Speaker 2: the train station. We sat down and she took out
• 2:26:29
  Speaker 2: her phone.
• 2:26:30
  Speaker 1: Here check it out. Apparently they found a girl dead
• 2:26:33
  Speaker 1: inside the cafe. She had disappeared two weeks ago, and
• 2:26:36
  Speaker 1: now they found her body held by a metal rod,
• 2:26:39
  Speaker 1: standing behind the countertop and dressed as one of the baristas. God,
• 2:26:44
  Speaker 1: that's grizzly. Apparently that's the third girl in six months.
• 2:26:48
  Speaker 1: All of them found a different Starbucks across the state.
• 2:26:51
  Speaker 2: There was a tinge of excitement in Stacy's voice. One
• 2:26:54
  Speaker 2: of the odd things about her was that she's a
• 2:26:57
  Speaker 2: true crime fan. She follows real and is fascinated by
• 2:27:01
  Speaker 2: serial killers. I was terribly uncomfortable with the whole thing.
• 2:27:06
  Speaker 2: One of the baristas called our names, so I went
• 2:27:09
  Speaker 2: to get our drinks. When I was making my way
• 2:27:12
  Speaker 2: back to our seats, I saw something that kind of
• 2:27:14
  Speaker 2: freaked me out. A man in his fifties with a
• 2:27:18
  Speaker 2: scraggly beard and dirty clothes was standing outside the cafe
• 2:27:23
  Speaker 2: looking through the window, looking at Stacy. When he noticed me.
• 2:27:28
  Speaker 4: He quickly ran away.
• 2:27:30
  Speaker 2: After a while, Stacy and I went our separate ways.
• 2:27:33
  Speaker 2: She had rounds at the hospital and I had to
• 2:27:36
  Speaker 2: go to the office. When I came home that evening,
• 2:27:39
  Speaker 2: she wasn't there. I waited up until late at night,
• 2:27:42
  Speaker 2: no signs of her. I started calling her and didn't
• 2:27:45
  Speaker 2: get a response. I call the cops, but they don't
• 2:27:49
  Speaker 2: start looking for a missing person until twenty four hours
• 2:27:52
  Speaker 2: after their disappearance. Luckily, I have my phone set to
• 2:27:55
  Speaker 2: track hers, so I found the signal. She was twenty
• 2:27:59
  Speaker 2: miles outside Sigh the city. I grabbed my knife, got
• 2:28:02
  Speaker 2: to my bike and rode to the dot on the map.
• 2:28:05
  Speaker 2: When I got to the place, it was a cabin
• 2:28:08
  Speaker 2: in the middle of nowhere. I had turned off my
• 2:28:10
  Speaker 2: bike to approach the place. Quietly, Be quiet, be quiet,
• 2:28:15
  Speaker 2: I'll kill you. I could hear the shouting from a distance,
• 2:28:18
  Speaker 2: and I could hear what sounded like the muffled voice
• 2:28:20
  Speaker 2: of a woman that had to be Stacy. I approached
• 2:28:24
  Speaker 2: the cabin and stood next to the door. No, I said,
• 2:28:28
  Speaker 2: shut up, that was her. I kicked down the door.
• 2:28:33
  Speaker 2: I had my knife drawn get away from her. He
• 2:28:36
  Speaker 2: turned and faced me. He was unarmed, but I realized
• 2:28:40
  Speaker 2: then that he was bigger than me. He rushed me,
• 2:28:43
  Speaker 2: but I dodged him and tripped him with my leg.
• 2:28:46
  Speaker 2: He fell face down on the floor. So before he
• 2:28:49
  Speaker 2: could get up, I ran to Stacy, cutting the duct
• 2:28:52
  Speaker 2: tape that kept her tied to the chair.
• 2:28:54
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, Jack, quick, let's go.
• 2:28:57
  Speaker 2: The man was getting up and now was covering the door,
• 2:29:00
  Speaker 2: our only exit. There was an oil lamp next to
• 2:29:03
  Speaker 2: the door frame. He ran at me, trying to grab it,
• 2:29:06
  Speaker 2: but this time when I dodged, I sliced upward, catching
• 2:29:10
  Speaker 2: his face. I heard him badly, and when he fell
• 2:29:14
  Speaker 2: backwards grabbing his face, Stacy and I made it to
• 2:29:17
  Speaker 2: the door. We were about to escape. She stopped for
• 2:29:21
  Speaker 2: a second and grabbed the lamp. She smashed it against
• 2:29:24
  Speaker 2: the floor. The cabin, which was made of wood, started
• 2:29:27
  Speaker 2: to catch fire. We had to get out. We made
• 2:29:30
  Speaker 2: it to the woods when we heard the man yell
• 2:29:32
  Speaker 2: for Tricia. They're running away. The forest was suddenly illuminated
• 2:29:37
  Speaker 2: by the headlights of a truck flashing straight at us.
• 2:29:40
  Speaker 2: We heard a woman's voice screaming.
• 2:29:43
  Speaker 1: Oh, get back here, piggies.
• 2:29:45
  Speaker 2: Shots were fired from the truck. One of them merely
• 2:29:48
  Speaker 2: hit me, but Stacy and I were moving so fast
• 2:29:51
  Speaker 2: that they lost track of us. In the woods, I
• 2:29:53
  Speaker 2: was trying to find my bike. We heard gunshots and
• 2:29:56
  Speaker 2: the bullets were hitting trees close to us. The woman,
• 2:30:00
  Speaker 2: Patricia was hunting us down. Lucky for us, she had
• 2:30:04
  Speaker 2: a flashlight on her, which allowed me to see her
• 2:30:06
  Speaker 2: location in the darkness of the forest. She was far
• 2:30:10
  Speaker 2: enough for us to escape, so we got on the
• 2:30:12
  Speaker 2: bike and I accelerated as fast as possible, leaving the
• 2:30:16
  Speaker 2: burning cabin behind.
• 2:30:17
  Speaker 1: Oh you son of us.
• 2:30:21
  Speaker 2: We lost her and we drove all the way to
• 2:30:23
  Speaker 2: the police station. The following day, the cops gave us
• 2:30:27
  Speaker 2: a call. So it turns out the man who kidnapped
• 2:30:30
  Speaker 2: your girlfriend, sir, it was the Starbucks killer and his wife.
• 2:30:35
  Speaker 2: Their names are Henry and Patricia Adams. We checked a
• 2:30:40
  Speaker 2: different property they had under the man's name, and we
• 2:30:43
  Speaker 2: found pictures of him with all the missing girls. You
• 2:30:46
  Speaker 2: just save your girl from being another victim. I hung
• 2:30:50
  Speaker 2: up a while later and explained everything to Stacy. Apparently,
• 2:30:54
  Speaker 2: when they found him, he had bled out, but his
• 2:30:56
  Speaker 2: wife is still out there. Don't worry, they'll catch her.
• 2:31:00
  Speaker 1: Thank God. Can we go stay at a hotel somewhere else.
• 2:31:03
  Speaker 2: We were unarmed and the psychos probably knew where we lived,
• 2:31:07
  Speaker 2: so I agreed. We left that afternoon. I got the
• 2:31:11
  Speaker 2: weird feeling that someone was following us. When we got
• 2:31:14
  Speaker 2: to the hotel and we were given the keys to
• 2:31:17
  Speaker 2: our room, we felt safer. That was until we were
• 2:31:20
  Speaker 2: woken up in the middle of the night. Something had
• 2:31:23
  Speaker 2: smashed against the floor.
• 2:31:25
  Speaker 1: You thought you had escaped. Huh.
• 2:31:28
  Speaker 2: The woman was standing there. She looked younger than her
• 2:31:31
  Speaker 2: picture suggested, and she was wearing a green apron like
• 2:31:34
  Speaker 2: the ones the baristas used at Starbucks. What do you want,
• 2:31:38
  Speaker 2: I shouted. Stacy was next to me, grabbing my arm, terrified.
• 2:31:44
  Speaker 1: I want her to step out of the bed. That's right, love,
• 2:31:47
  Speaker 1: stand over there.
• 2:31:48
  Speaker 2: Stacy did not move, so Patricia ran at her side,
• 2:31:52
  Speaker 2: pulled her by her hair, and dragged her away. I
• 2:31:55
  Speaker 2: got out of bed and went to get my knife
• 2:31:57
  Speaker 2: from the drawer, but Patricia yelled.
• 2:31:59
  Speaker 1: Out, you burned my house.
• 2:32:03
  Speaker 2: That's when she shot me in the leg. I fell
• 2:32:05
  Speaker 2: to the floor. I could not move at that moment. However,
• 2:32:09
  Speaker 2: Stacy elbowed her in the face. I had never expected
• 2:32:13
  Speaker 2: something like that from my girl. While Patricia grabbed her face,
• 2:32:17
  Speaker 2: bleeding from her nose, Stacy jumped over the bed and
• 2:32:20
  Speaker 2: took cover next to me. Then she went to the
• 2:32:23
  Speaker 2: drawer and gave me the knife. When Patricia got up,
• 2:32:26
  Speaker 2: we were gone. We were running down the hallway, and
• 2:32:29
  Speaker 2: when we made it to the front desk we called
• 2:32:31
  Speaker 2: the police. They came and helped us. That night, we
• 2:32:35
  Speaker 2: ended up at the police station. It turns out these
• 2:32:39
  Speaker 2: two had been stalking Stacy for weeks. They knew everything
• 2:32:43
  Speaker 2: about us, where we lived, worked, everything they tell us.
• 2:32:48
  Speaker 2: They arrested the man, who was still at the cabin
• 2:32:51
  Speaker 2: when the police arrived, but the woman had escaped. They
• 2:32:55
  Speaker 2: couldn't find her even after what happened at the hotel.
• 2:32:59
  Speaker 2: I'd love to go out to have coffee in the
• 2:33:01
  Speaker 2: mornings with Stacy, who is now my wife, but we've
• 2:33:04
  Speaker 2: become more scared of the outside world. You never know
• 2:33:08
  Speaker 2: what's out there. For now, we'll be having our breakfast
• 2:33:12
  Speaker 2: at home.